Catching up

Well I have been busy latetly sewing, rescreening our screened porch, installing a new ceiling fan and light in Mallory's room so I have not been able to post. I sewed two fabric trash cans for my car. My car is a trash pit for my kids. I have to feed them, mostly breakfast bars and snacks, in the car since we are always on the go and it is easy to give them something to eat in the car and it helps with cranky behavior. Anyway so my car is always a wreak. So I made fabric trash bags so that they can throw their own trash away. I got the idea from this great blog, Make it and Love it. I do not have pictures but I love them and they turned out great.

I also made a dress, well actually it truned out to be a shirt for my newest neice Lexee. It was really cute and also really easy to make also. I go the pattern from this website and I hope to make her another one soon.

This is the front

This is the back with the cute little buttons

There she is. It fit really well so I am glad that I did not have to do any alterations.

What a cutie pie.

This weekend our friends came over on Saturday night for dinner and my friend's husband is a professional photograhper. He owns Open Image Studio which is a professional photography studio in our town. He brought his camera which has an amazing lens on it and he let me shoot some pictures with it. It was really fun but it weighed about 10 poulds, at least if felt that way. So it was fun and the pictures did turn out a lot more crisper and the lens enables portrait pictures to be taken with the subject in focus and the background blurry. So here are some of my unedited pictures.









Monty took this picture

Mother's Day was very nice and relaxing. D and the girls made me waffles and D bought two great outfits for this summer and spring. The girls made me very cute cards and Nathan loved laying in bed with me. I worked out and then came home for lunch. D took the kids to his moms in the afternoon and I started sewing Mallory's bedskirt and tried to get my computer's internet working. So it was nice to have a couple hours to myself to think and to do things around the house without interruption and not having to do it after the kids go to bed. My husband always does a great job taking care of me on Mother's Day. He picks out the best outfits and he makes sure I get to take it easy. Thanks for a great day D.

I feel better now that I got to catch up on things I wanted to post. I will be busy this week and this weekend. We are having D's mom take the kids on Friday night and we are going to paint Mallory's room and get it all ready with her new bedspread/sheets/etc and surprise her when she gets home. For our kids 5th birthday we get them new bedroom furniture and bedding. Mallory does not really need new furniture so we are getting her a new rug, sheets, comforter and new paint. She picked out this bedding set from Pottery Barn Kids. On Saturday evening we are haivng her friends party. She is having only a few friends over for crafts, games, cake and food. Then on Sunday we are having her family party. So we have a busy weekend with lots of fun and excitment.

Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-seeing Nathan's face while he was running away from a chipmunk. He was running really fast and the expression on his face was priceless
-having fantastic weather
-a great Mothers Day