First Day of School

The boys(except for Ryder) have been in school for almost a week already. Summer went by SO fast, too fast this year! We had some fun times and none of us were ready for school to start! Now that it has started the boys are enjoying it, especially the kindergartner.

Zac was SO excited to start school and looks forward to it everyday.
They started on a Thursday and he was SO sad when I told him Friday afternoon that he would have 2 days off until he went back to school. I hope he keeps that excitement:)

Zac (K), Hunter (3rd), Ryder, Jake (6th)

Of course Ryder wanted in on the picture!! I told Ryan that we should wash his fruit shake mustache off of his face before pictures and he said no way...looks cute. Ryan went into work late on the 1st day of school so that we could take Zac to class together.

The boys are happy to be back to school and seeing their friends everyday. Jake, Hunter and Zac all have some of their very best friends in their classes, which adds to the enjoyment.

Love for Mom

Yesterday this sweet little thing(see below) asked me if he could play the computer. I told him he could and I turned a game on for him.

He said, "Thanks Mom, I love you more than anyone. Well, just barely less than Dad."

I said, "Really?"

He said, "I love you more than Amber(my sister). Wait, Do I love Amber?"


Kids say the funniest things and this kids is definitely full of it!! Haha and yes Zac, you do LOVE Amber:) Amber, you know that right?

A valentine

I just finished making some homemade oreos for my kids to take to school for their teachers tomorrow. I colored the cream cheese frosting pink, made a cute tag(my opinion), and put them in a clear Chinese take out container. I thought about making some soft sour cream sugar cookies(seriously the BEST sugar cookies EVER!), but remembered I sent those at Christmas time:)

This is also posted at The Sisters Dish.

crocheted boots and booties

Awhile ago my sister asked me...if she bought me a crochet pattern I could use it and make her some booties for her little girl.

Actually this is what she said..."haha let me know if these look too difficult and I will not purchase them, but if they look like something you could do...... i am totally going to make you make me some :)"

I am always up for a challenge...so here they are. Not too bad for my first attempt at booties. I'm sure she will change out the buttons when I mail these to her. I just put these on to get a picture. The patterns are from Mon Petite Violon'S etsy shop. Mine are not as cute as hers, so go check out all of her patterns. SO cute!!

Can't wait to get some more yarn and make some more. Hopefully they will get better with every pair I make. Don't look too closely. I just started crocheting this past year and am not very good.

Below is the sweetie that will be receiving the boots and booties soon. She is wearing the hat that I crocheted for her awhile ago.

something is up with my pictures...I hope I just fixed it, but not sure. If not, I'll fix in a few minutes.

zig-zag quilt

This is the quilt that I made for Jake for Christmas. I used the tutorial here. Jake picked out the fabric he wanted to use and I think it turned out pretty good. As I look more closely at the pictures I see that I still have some threads to cut.

I'm not sure if I will post a picture of Zac's quilt here. I started making him a wonky star quilt, but only finished about 5 blocks and decided I'd better get something else done to have it by Christmas. I started his the Friday before Christmas and he LOVES it, but I'm not too proud of it:) Maybe I'll finish the wonky star quilt for him and then show it here:)

OOPS...somehow I got the picture of the back on the top. I have just started using photobucket and am still trying to figure it out. Any advice would be GREAT!! My computer has become SO slow since I have started blogging that I think it might be because I was just loading photos from my hard drive. Anyone know? Also, my pictures are SO big now. Are they too big? Can you see them without scrolling? When I have time I am going to try to take my blog back to 2 columns instead of three.

Anyway...here is Jake's zig-zag quilt.

Projects to do:

I have found SO many projects that I want to do....I have decided to create a post that I can add the links of projects. I usually see them and then lose the link...hopefully this will help. The list will grow, when I have more time.

messenger bag from cargo pants

No Sew Roman Shades

buckeyes

Ballard Designs Knock-off CREATE

ABC Wall...LOVE THIS!!

Coat Hanger Shelf

Bead Board Ceiling

Land of Nod Floor Cushion

shaggy denim quilt

This is the second quilt that I have finished for Christmas. Two to go...Jake's quilt is almost finished(working on the binding). Zac's quilt has 4 or 5 blocks done. I'll share those when they are finished.

Ryder enjoying his brothers left-over oatmeal - I sure hope he uses that napkin:)

For Ryder's quilt I cut my denim into pieces that were the same width, but different lengths. I sewed the pieces right side together to make long strips and then sewed the long strips wrong sides together. SO...the quilt will have shaggy stripes. Make sense? Doesn't make much sense to me either. Anyway, I backed it with some fun shaggy minky and sewed the top, batting and back together along each side of the shaggy stripe. It is a nice warm rugged quilt. Perfect for the 18 month old who will be destroying..I mean loving it!