Boy or Girl????

Friday is the big day!! We have our ultrasound and will hopefully find out what we are having. I don't have a clue. Sometimes I think it's a boy because this pregnancy has been different than with the girls, but I think they all are. Other times, I think it's a girl. I call the sweet thing a girl all the time-- I guess that's probably because I haven't been pregnant with a boy for almost 7 years! So, what do you all think?

Singin' and Dancin'

Kate had a ballet recital last Saturday. She danced to "Let's Go Fly a Kite." She was such a beautiful ballerina. She loves everything about ballet!!! She is soooo girl, and we love it!!! This recital was super special because she got a medal at the end!! I tried to upload a video of her cute dance, but couldn't get it to work. Does anyone have any advice for uploading videos?
Karson had his kindergarten "Spring Sing" last Friday!! He was so cute. They sang tons of songs they'd learned throughout the school year! I can't believe the year is almost over and my little boy is going to be all done with Kindergarten!! They only have 2 weeks left of school. Karson is not excited though--he loves school. Mostly the social aspect. He loves seeing all his friends every day.

The Rumors are True...

Baby number 4 will make it's debut.
November 5th is the day he/she is due!!!

We're expecting!!! I am currently 14 weeks along. And, just in case you were wondering (because it seems like everyone asks :0)) this was planned!! We are very excited for our little bundle of joy to arrive and complete (yes, that's right) our family!! Karson is hoping for a boy, he says every day, "oh mom I just hope it's a boy.'' I hope so too, for his sake. I think he will have a little crying fest if it's a girl. Kate doesn't really care, but reminds me every day that my belly is in fact getting fat!! Gotta love kids honesty!!

Let's go fly a kite!!!

The wind has not stopped blowing for a few weeks now-- we are so sick of it. The other day we went to the store and bought two cheap little kites. On Sunday after a good nap and a yummy dinner (yes, it was a wonderful day!) we walked down by the river to fly them. It was so much fun and for the first time in weeks I actually enjoyed the wind. Here is Claire with the Barbie Kite she is getting so big and funny!!

Jason showing Kate how it's done!
Karson was quite the kite flying pro!!
Kate and Rudy! That's our house in the background-- still needs a nice coat of paint and the deck finished.

Happy Easter--super late!!

We had a wonderful Easter this year--it got off to a crazy start. Jason and I decided to go down to UT for his mission reunion. We left town about 4:00pm drove to the reunion, went to dinner with some friends, and turned around to drive home. We hit the worst snow storm EVER in Ogden and decided to stay for a few hours in Tremonton. By this time it was midnight--we checked into a hotel--slept for 4 hours and woke up and SLOWLY drove into Burley. Luckily the kids were over with Chad and Bonnie, so they stayed the night there.

Saturday morning we went to a fun Easter Breakfast with Chad and Bonnie's ward. It was freezing, so we hunted eggs inside-- the kids had fun though!! We spent the rest of the day watching General Conference-- it was so wonderful!! Sunday we opened Easter baskets, ate a yummy Easter breakfast, watched Conference and headed over to Chad and Bonnie's for dinner, more Conference, and our annual Easter egg scavenger hunt and egg hunt--- so fun!!! I made the girls Easter dresses this year and matching ones for their babies--it was a lot of fun!
The best picture of all 3 kiddos-- so funny they will never all look at the camera at once!
Cute Kate!!!
Claire hunting for eggs--she was so funny walking around finding the "balls."
Claire and her new baby with matching dresses!!

Tagged

My sister in law, Abby, tagged me. It is the tag of FOURS...

FOUR shows I like to watch...
1. The Office
2. Thirty Rock
3. Chuck
4. 24-- but only in the box set--we like to watch them in bulk :0)

FOUR things I am passionate about...
1. Being a good mommy
2. Health
3. Jason
4. Pretty much everything--I'm a very passionate person

FOUR phrases I say a lot...
1. We'll see....
2. Pick up your toys
3. Be nice!!
4. I love you!

FOUR things I have learned from the past...
1. Every day is only as good as we make it.
2. Being consistent with your kids really does pay off.
3. Exercising everyday really does make me feel better.
4. There's nothing wrong with eating ice cream every day as long as you enjoy it!

FOUR places I want to go...
1. Europe again mostly Italy, France, England, and of course Germany but I would be happy to go anywhere in Europe-- I think I could go there every year!!
2. On a Caribbean cruise
3. China
4.Greece

FOUR things I did yesterday...
1. Talked to my sister-- I do this everyday
2. Ate mini cadbury eggs--my favorite Easter treat
3. Listened while Karson read to me.
4.Took Karson to guitar lessons and tried to stop the girls from terrorizing the place.

FOUR things I am looking forward to...
1. Finally using our Anniversary Inn gift card (this coming weekend yeah!!)
2. Going to the elite 8 game in SLC
3. Summer!!
4. Easter scavenger and egg hunts

FOUR things I love about spring...
1. Conference weekend
2. tulips and daffodils-- I really need to plant some this fall, so I can enjoy them at my own house.
3. Easter dresses
4. Warmer weather

FOUR things on my wish list...
1. to have our house and yard done-- that's pretty much all I can think of right now, but it is quite the wish-- definitely worth 4 things :0)!!

Sewing projects part 2

Here are a few of my latest... Skirt dress. I made this dress with Megi on Friday. We used one of her old skirts for the skirt part of the dress. I just free cut a bodice, but you could use a pattern for this-- just any sundress pattern that has a bodice you like. My favorite part of this dress is the gathered red ribbon around the middle--I'm so into gathering right now!!
This is a little skirt made of corduroy. I used an Amy butler green dot fabric for the waist band--just folded it over and sewed it to a tube of corduroy. Then hemmed it using fat ric-rac. This makes hemming fabrics that are hard to hem like corduroy so much easier. I made this skirt to match Kate's little apple shirt and headband in the previous post.
This is a little skirt I started over Christmas. It is so easy to make-- just a tube with an elastic waist band. The hem is made my folding over fabric and sewing the right sides together. then top stitch for a finished look. I added the ruffle and buttons the other day and love how it turned out.
Patchy jeans. Claire is still crawling--I know---obviously from this picture you can see that she can walk and stand, but she still prefers to crawl, because she's been crawling for FOREVER all of her pants are getting very thin if not holey in the knees. I appliqued these little flowers over the holes using pink corduroy-- it was a little tricky not to catch the back of the jeans, so I don't know if I would try it on bigger pants-- but so cute for a little crawler!!


Sundress-- I made this dress the other day. I started out making a pillowcase dress (you can find tutorials for these all over the internet). I just wasn't happy with how it looked on Kate, so I gathered the front bodice and took in the back.


I love to sew and have been thinking of starting a sewing blog with step by step instructions on how to make cute little clothes and home decor. What do you think?