Pumpkin making...

This weekend I wanted to get a lot of craft things done. Ryan and his dad have been planning to go to Lake Powell this weekend since the spring. I knew with him gone I could craft all weekend and may be albe to get some things done. Yesterday after I got Aniston from school, my grandma and I went to Gunnison. They have the Cutest quilting shop on Main Street and we went to check it out. There were so many things that I wanted to get, but decided that one project at a time was more than enough. I bought fabric to make some pumpkins and then I bought a pattern for a bag. I finished the pumpkins last night... See... aren't they cute. I made 2 sets of them and I think that I am going to make a few more. They were super easy and would be cute anywhere. I am thinking about posting the instructions, anyone interested??

Second, I have decided to put a booth in the Misltoe Mall and I now have got to get busy. I was thinking about making these hats, but I am making up my own pattern and they are really frustrating me right now, so I am taking a break from them, but have had a few cute ideas for other hair things, besides the flowers. I am kind of excited, but also way nervous, not really knowing what to expect. Oh well it will be a learning experience.

Sweetness...

I have been struggling this last week. This Life is full of ups and downs, triumphs and let downs, and just plain sad things. Things have been happening around me that are totally out of my control, but still have left me feeling so sad and so blue. I feel like I am losing faith in Humanity. I think that my family is thinking that I am going crazy, but they are the only thing that keeps me on track. I was setting here today thinking "what am I going to make for dinner?" and in walks this...I can't help but laughing. Really, why am I so upset...

and I have to be thankful for these 3. They really are the most beautiful and most precious things to me...

and "my man" loves me and only me... (I really am so lucky)

and I think that Taylor Swift has got to be the cutest girl...and I love her new song (wait...can you hear it...yup, thats it...cute isn't it?)

So really I can't control all of this madness, but I do know that I am loved, and I am able to love, and I get to do things that I love. So, it really isn't that bad...I really am lucky and I really do know it!

This week

I have been waiting for this week all summer long. I can not wait for Thursday (GREY'S ANATOMY), it is going to be soooo good...


and Desperate Housewives on Sunday...GOOD STUFF


And I needed a good laugh... This is funny. Ben Stiller cracks... me... up...

THE pink tutu ROCKS...

I just love this girl. Isn't she the cutest??
I was totally feeling ambitious today. After finding the floor in my sewing/craft room, I felt rejuvinated.

I decided to finish a project that I have been wanting to for a lOOONG time. The pink "out of control" tutu.
OOOOHHHH...I am in love with it. So Emerson and I sent Aniston off to dance class and we hit the town for a "mini-photo shoot". I got a few good ones and I love the tutu. (if it were okay for 28 year old women to wear one, I would soooo be sporting a pink tutu to the grocery store) My baby was semi-cooperative and I am fairly happy with how the photos turned out. I have sat here, after putting the girls to bed, and edited them to death...

and last, but not least, I tried something new...

What do ya think???

10 things i am lovin' right now...

10. My new fall centerpiece. I just love fall, the colors, the way that the air feels different, and the thought of all of the fun holidays on the horizon.
9. My newly painted room and my new brown bedspread. I don't love painting, but I love the finished product. (and even more so, when I can get the furniture back in place and stuff on the walls=) )
8. The internet. I have 3 fabric stores to choose from, but on the internet, I can get all of the cute fabrics from awesome designers, that these small towns just aren't ready for.
7. My sewing machine. It is a hand-me-down from my grandma and I love it. I love to sit and sew. It is soo relaxing and so rewarding to create stuff.
6. I am in love with Emersons squeeky shoes. I admit the first time I saw someone with these shoes, I thought they were the worst thing invented. I got Emerson some for her birthday and I love them. They are so cute and even cuter that she runs around to hear the squeek.
5. Fire wood. This weekend we went into the mountains to cut fire wood. Ohh how much different a real fire makes those cold winter nights feel. I can't wait!!
4. My craft room. I only wish that the "good organizer fairy" would come and well, organize it for me.
3. Sleepless nights without my husband...(only because he was gone, I couldn't sleep therefore layed awake and had so many creative ideas ranging from how to decorate my bedroom wall to the dresses that I want to make for the girls.)
2. My sweet little girls, who are more than willing to sleep with me while Ryan is gone.
1. Telephones...I can't see my husband for a week, but at least we can talk several times a day. (it still doesn't make it okay, but it makes it a little more tolerable)

Things I don't love right now...
Vernal, Utah...I hate that your Wheelers store is so busy and that I have to give up my husband to you for another week. 5 days is really long.
Honey we miss you and can't wait for you to come home...

What are you lovin' today?

We are up to our "ears" in corn

So I had all of this corn that I had asked my my mother-in-law for. She had taught me how to freeze it last year and wanted to do it again because
1st of all it is so much better than the canned stuff at the store.
2nd of all because it is not full of preservatives.
3rd of all it is free =)
It really is a yucky job. I HATE to shuck it all, mostly becuse of the bugs that are always present... But is doesn't do itself so...
I told the kids we would go outside to play. They would play, I would shuck.

I went inside to start boiling the water and come out to find all the kids willing to help me. Yeah for me!! They were so funny the whole entire time. A hair would get on them and they would squeal and just around. They were all being "so tough" by pulling the husks off. We sat out there for an hour and they all helped, even my baby.
(the pic below, Aniston's corn just flew out of her hands as she tried to pull of the husk)


And then the work really began. I was a corn boilin' fool. I had 2 pots going at once. I was blanching, cutting, and bagging just as fast as I could. My kitchen was full of corn. Every direction that I turned there was corn. But at 10:30 last night when I was finished and the kitchen was cleaned, it was worth it. I bagged 36 bags of corn for my family to eat all winter. It really is a great feeling to accomplish such a big job...

Putting things in perspective...

Yesterday, I thought that I had the worst day ever!! I woke up to a 6 year old poking me in the face. After a restless night of sleep, I stumbled out of bed knowing that it was going to be a pretty busy day. I had slept horrible, because I was thinking about the fact that my mom wanted to take Aniston to Lake Powell with them this weekend and the fact that I was going to tell her no. I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that I just didn't want her to go! She doesn't swim well and Lake Powell is a BIG body of water. So I knew that my mom wasn't going to be happy with me.
Ryan had to be to work at 6, which I hate. I have grown to love our mornings together and the day never seems to go right when we miss them. So we had our breakfast, was running behind, Aniston wanted to wear a dress and we couldn't find the black shoes to wear with them, so she had to change her clothes. Out the door we all go at 8:10. Which is 10 mintues later than I like to leave. All the kids are in the van and I am following them, press the garage door open button and nothing happens. "What in the heck". I pushed it again, nothing, I pushed the remote in my car, Nothing! So I call Ryan and he tells me to unplug the cord and plug it back in... NOTHING!! Now we are officially late and he can't leave to help me. I had a friend that I was about to call, but I knew she was on the way to Provo. So I call my sweet grandma and she comes to the rescue. Now the girls are 10 mintues late for school. I get them there and on my way home. I drop my grandma off, because she is letting me keep her car so that I can go to my PTO meeting. With a 1/2 an hour to get showered and ready, I hurry. We make it just in time. The meeting turns out to be close to 2 hours and my terrible two year old was just that, TERRIBLE. She screamed out mommy anytime someone was talking to me. She needed to go potty and after going once and getting to use the water foutain in the hall she kept crying wolf. My nerves were frazzled. I came home and put her on her bed. She cried her little naughty self to sleep and I stole a minute to check out blogs. I had came across this blog the day before, but didn't have time to read it, so I checked back to it. Again having only a few minutes I closed it down and started laundry and getting lunch ready. I took Mr. K to school and then got Ryans Lunch ready. I returned calls to Ryans mom and grandma and then was on my way to pick all the kids up from school. I then ran to Centerfield to get corn so that I could freeze it and then back home to change into dance clothes and then off to Aurora we went. I wanted a quite minute, I wanted a Coke, I wanted to relax, I wanted to sew, I wanted to take some "me" time. But at the end of the day I was exhasted. It felt as though I had ran a marathon. The entire time I was making dinner and cleaning it up and bathing kids and reading books I thought about this blog and about this womans family.
Okay so I am totally rambling now. Here it is. Check it out...


Go here to read her story about her accident...http://www.nierecovery.com/
Go to about Nie... She is originally from Provo, Utah and she is LDS. Which made the story even more appealing to me.
This woman writes daily on her blog about being a mother and how much she loves it. She writes about the love she feels about her husband. As I was reading her blog, I could just feel how optimistic this woman is. I laughed, reading her post and I kept going back reading more and more.
I didn't always know that I would love being a mother. I had never really thought about it. But when it happend I instantly fell in love with the idea of motherhood. Since having Emerson and being able to stay home, I have found that I love it even more. I want to do things everyday to make my childrens childhood unforgettable. I always knew that if something happened to one of them I would die, but what if I was the one that wasn't albe to care for them? What would I do?
I am telling all of you mothers, read this blog, see for yourselves, and love every mintue you have with them...