Move over Martha Stewart....but dont go to far cause you have some great ideas

alright I am finished! Heres the projects I have been working on in November and December. And all sarcasm aside, I really have begun to like sewing! Its been fun! (up until now sewing has pretty much been non existent in my life) The quilts were probably a once in a lifetime-never-again thing..but at least their done. :) Whahoo!

Ah Seth!

Quick post cause aparently November/Thanksgiving was just like any old month/day and I have done nothing to documenting its actually taking place. But because it is now December and almost Christmas, I know it took place and will hence sum up my November as being full of average days with a side of JUMBO projects. Most of which have consumed sewing (yes, SEWING) scripture bags, and TWO QUEEN size levi blankets which are supposed to be given to my children for Christmas but because of the literal blood, cursing, time, hand cramps, quilting frame catastrophe, pin poking and shoe marks across my fabric incidents that have occurred in the creation of these blankets, I am seriously considering not giving them to them until they would fully be able to appreciate them; like when they are 80 and trying to crochet a comforter with arthritis hands and hemorrhoids or something, but by then they'll probably have crocheting machines that do it all for them, so they still wouldn't appreciate my determined hard work. Ah well. Pictures to come.

And here's something I just wanted to remember so I am including it here on the blog.

Seth: Mom you are such a good girl.
Me: Thanks Seth
Seth: You are such a good mom too.
Me: That is so nice Seth, thank you.
Seth: You are so pretty..... (and then a pause while he stares at me)... "See, you have hair."

Ah how nice it would be to think like a 3 year old and have the only requirement for being pretty be, having hair. :) Love that kid.

Oh yea, I forgot about Halloween

So here's my kids at Halloween. Sorry for the low quality pics but I had to take them from my not-so-wonderful camera phone. I love this holiday, its so much fun. And besides Seth forgets he has candy after a couple of days so by default I get to eat it all. That and since he's allergic to peanuts, I get all the best, "poisonous" candybars anyways. :)


AAAARG!! A happy Halloween.

And a not so happy halloween.

My graveyard treat!

Family Pictures

So its Fall which means we get new family pictures. So I thought I'd post some of my favorites. (All pictures were taken by Abbey Kyhl)

GOING PRIVATE -please contact

Guess we all have our reasons....anyways I think I want to go private on the blog. So if you could get me your email addresses please, that would be awesome. If you dont want to send them over the blog, just email me at sneakrz22@yahoo.com

Thanks!!

No pictures but still a lively update

Camera status: still broken from a lively shove off of the top of the stairs by a child who shall not be named....who rhymes with Meth.
Alright an update for you....(who am I kidding with my sparse and sporadic posts I fear my audience are few and hard to come by)...so an update for posterity.
2 weeks ago we were all miserable around here. All of us were sick at the same time. And not just "cough, sneeze, snot coming out of your nose, but still go to church and pretend your not sick" sick. I am talking about miserable sick. Jaq's eyes were goopying out horrid amounts of...what only can be known as "gunk." To the point that she would literally scare Seth and I when she'd wake up first thing in the morning cause her one eye would be half glued shut like Quazimoto and the rest of her looked like she'd gotten in a terrible fight with some sandpaper-like tissue. Poor girl. To top it all off I we think she has some sort of problem digesting whole milk cause she'd be up 2-3 hours a night with really bad stomach pains until we stopped giving her the stuff...and finally when we'd get her to sleep, Seth's hacking cough would wake him up to delight us with a mid-night (rather early EARLY morning) rendition of 20 questions...only they werent questions....more like demands. Yes, 20 demands. I need a drink. I need medicine. I need to go to the hospital (which we finally had to tell him that unless your DYING you cant go to the hospital....but that was dumb cause soon he was now "dying"). I need to watch Super Why, I need to pee, I need to sleep in your bed...the list goes on. Dont you love the age when everything becomes, "but I NEED that?" Well anyways on top of miserable sick kids, both Cordelle and I got some weird flu bug and were achy and tired and cranky and tired and tired.....and...yes well you get the point. Lucky for me we tag teamed for about 4-5 days naps, sleeps, rotating movies for Seth (who after a couple of days miraculously recovered and became ULTRA SUPER SETH with incredible amounts of energy and enthusiasm and spunk and he wouldnt stop humming, or singing, or running, or bouncing, or jumping or yelling). In retrospect I suppose he was normal and it was I who was over-proportionalizing (totally not a word) things to a whole new level because of the previously mentioned lack of sleep and illness.
Alright needless to say, we recovered and got better (how redundant). And we have pretty much done nothing UNTIL Saturday. Okay, this is one of those days you really want a camera. Go figure. We went into town (how "Little House on the Prarie" huh?) for Cedar City's annual pumpkin festival. We just missed the sheep parade so we were bumbed about that. What? Never heard of a sheep parade? Get this. Its a parade full of tractors and farmers and then a grand finale of hundreds of sheep walking down the street from the mountain. I'd be more specific, but we WERENT there. But truly disappointed to miss such a spectacle. But the pumpkin festival was so fun...IF I was to have a kid who liked that kind of thing. No, it was really cute, but Seth is so painfully shy that getting him to play any kind of game is torture. He did decorate a cookie, paint a pumpkingand go down the blow up slides so I guess it wasnt a complete failure. And then what to our astonishing surprise? Another parade had begun. So we stayed and watched SUU's homecoming parade. Glad I'm out of college.
Then that evening we met up with some friends from the first apartment we lived in as a married couple. We all are oldies now with kids and morgages....but it was fun to see everyone all into real life and such.
We topped our day off with watching the BYU vs. TCU game which we had THANKFULLY recorded while we were out partying. "Thankfully" not because it was a game of epic proportions that I want to one day pass on to my children and my children's children, but "thankfully" because if I had to watch that onslaught of a game with all the commercials, TCU touchdowns and real time BYU beating I would have withdrawn shamelessly into my couch and simply waved a white (and blue) flag of surrender.
Well thats us for now. Hopefully I'll find a camera to use before this weekend (Halloween) otherwise I'll be posting VERY amateur drawings of my kids' costumes on the blog.

Pictures from Jaquelle's first birthday

All I can say is that we were picking apples all morning, had a late lunch and as a result her naptime had been put on hold....needless to say it wasnt a very "Happy" birthday party. But it was funny to watch her.

She kind of went ballistic when we showed her the cake....so tired.

You want me to do what with that cake? Just give me my blankie please....

Eventually we did get her to play in it....still not too keen on actually eating it.

I made her this tutu which also was NOT a hit. She would not put her arms down to touch it. Also it turned out kind of big (more for a 2-3 yr. old) oh well maybe I'll save it for another year.

However she made out with some fun toys and a cute Britney Spears outfit from Grannie Annie.

And this is the closest thing to a smile we got out of her all day. Ah well, cant win them all.
Happy Birthday Princess!!

Really liked this....thought I'd share

http://www.anothertestamentofchrist.com/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAQUELLE

Well my little girl has turned one! Can you believe how fast that year flew? Crazy! She is the sweetest thing in the world and I seriously cannot stop kissing and cuddling her chubby little body. Jaq's been crawling for only a couple of weeks (yes, a "slow" one) but she is into everything; correction, she is into everything Seth is doing....and driving him nuts. But she really is so much fun. And for as much as she terrorizes him already, no one can make her laugh like he can, and her laugh is priceless. I'd share the pics from the birthday party but Seth threw my camera off of our banister/wall thing down the stairs and busted it up pretty good. Got to love them kids. (I'll get some from my mom and post those later :)

I'm so proud of myself.

The other day I strapped Seth and Jaq in the bike trailer for a bike ride. I got no further than across the street when Seth said, "Mom, good pedaling." Pleased with myself I told him thanks and gloated all the way home.

The next day I was helping him retrieve a soccer ball out of the widow well with a rake and once the trickier-than-it-seems-like-task was completed, he looked beamingly into my eyes and said, "Thanks mom, you're such a good helper!"

Finally some recognition for all my hard work. :)