Month: March 2009

Alyssa always looks like I haven’t dressed her or done her hair, so I took a picture of her this morning to show everyone that she does get cleaned up everyday. At nap time she removes her hair thing, why I don’t know, and with her being potty trained she often takes herself potty and sometimes finds other clothes to put back on. Because she is being independent I try and let her have a little control over her clothing. She’s also discovered how to dress and undress herself so if you ever venture into our home you might find her naked. I’m hoping it’s a phase.

Soccer practice are on Monday nights for the next couple of months, so F.H.E. has been moved to Tuesday nights. Tonight being St. Patrick’s Day I decide to do a little craft with the kids. We got the kids all dressed in one of Dad’s big t-shirts and they had a blast. Alyssa cried and cried when her pot was all finished, she wasn’t ready to be done. Anyway, some pictures of the evening.

I’m having so much fun with online tutorials. I found an online tutorial here to make a cute blanket for the baby. Since we don’t know what the baby is I had to go neutral with my colors, but it was amazingly easy, and cheap, Joann’s sent me a bunch of coupons in my email this morning. They couldn’t have come at a better time. We weren’t planning on another baby so everything is gone for this new baby, but being my 5th baby I know what I really need, next on my list of online tutorials is going to be some burp cloths and bibs. I think I’m actually starting to get excited.

This morning a talented lady in our ward had a bag sewing class. This was really easy, and fun too, I think I’ll have to make one for each of my girls. I asked Danny if I made one with really masculine fabric if I could make one for Tanner, he said probably not, I just don’t want him to feel left out. Maybe he’d like a new pillow case. Anyway, right after this class, I drove down to a local bar to meet up with my family. Yep you read that correctly, a bar. These nice people were holding a fund raiser for our friends the Hamblins. It was actually pretty fun, they had some large trees (that were burned in a recent fire up at Tahoe) hauled to the parking lot and they held a chainsaw cutting contest. Nothing like mixing alcohol and power tools. It was all for a good cause. It was an interesting day though, starting out with Relief Society and ending at a bar.

Just had to show the lining on the inside.

I have noticed that our Family Home Evenings have been geared to our older kids, it seems like they naturally get more out of it. I was talking the other day about Nephi to my younger kids, and they weren’t familiar with the story that I was talking about and I realized that I have neglected to teach my little kids what I have taught my older kids. So back to basics for a little while for us. On Monday we had a lesson on Lehi’s dream and then we ran a string from one end of the house to the living room. We had done this with our older kids but not with Aubrey and Alyssa. Emma and Tanner enjoyed the review of the lesson and the little kids loved it. Alyssa is a little bit of a chicken and wouldn’t let us blind fold her or turn out the lights, so she just followed the string but the other kids loved trying to follow it in the dark and blind folded. It was a reminder to me to keep things simple.