bustin' out the skills...

So this is what I started with...

and thanks to a few dear friends...I made these outfits for the girls in just 5 hours!

So glad to hear that my girls LOVE them as much as I do!!

Thanks gals for a great evening!!

Maybe I'll get back into it a little more often...?

In what spare time...right!!

and then again the more I think about it for sure it will be another 6 years until I sew again!

Catch up...past 6 weeks!!

So the past few weeks have been absolutely CRAZY! With both Dustin and I gone working full time and then trying to get to all the fun stuff has made it crazy in my book! With a trip to UT to visit my mom after she had her hysterectomy to remove all the cancer, I cleaned her house and helped out in many ways! I sneak away for a mountain bike ride with my little brother Lee and out to dinner with a few friends!
The weekend before that we planted queen palms in out back yard...what a steel they were on $20. each at home Depot. Chloe had a field trip to build a bear workshop with pre-school, mason finished up his season of basketball and to top it off Titan is doing a few corky things that are worth writing home about. Like painting with finger nail polish all over the kitchen floor, he has a new fetish with smashing his face up against anything glass, like the washing machine door, back patio door so I've given up on cleaning them for awhile!! He is also found a love for his bike. Surprisingly he wears his helmet and loves it!
Just last weekend we had Dustin's brother Keal and family came down for a visit. They came at a perfect time of year and really had a great time. Brotherly love is always the best! We made bread and printed vinyl and the men played the wii. I think Dustin won in the boxing tournament for sure! We even snuck in trip to Out of Africa. I'll post those pictures soon too!

Finger nail polish i thought i was going to die...It only took over an hour to clean up!!
Finger painting mom...Do you like it???


Mason thought I had bought him a new pair of capri's...so really Ryya's
pants got put into his drawer!

Brotherly LOVE...Go, fight, Win!
The kids were getting into it as well.

Mountain biking in UTAH with my little brother Lee...I showed him what was up.

Thanks lee i had a great time!!

Best basketball buddies EVER and their cheer team...the sisters below! Way to go boys... it for sure was a learning experience!



Ryya, Ellie and Chloe

Planting our Queen Palms!! Yeah... some landscaping in the back yard!


Pre-School field trip to Build a Bear...

Titan and Ryya smashing faces and having a great time HELPING MOM!!

Titan and his favorite bike...Wouldn't you say that helmet is pretty cute!

Grandparents and great grandparents were down for a visit in Feb just thought I would share

such a great picture of posterity!! we miss you all already and wished we lived closer!

So much to post...

I feel that I'm slacking in this department!!! I have so much that I want to share about my mom and her cancer, my trip to Utah last weekend, visit from family and Out of Africa...so my picture were being stupid and not letting me upload them so I post them as soon as i can!!

Laters,
April

p.s. I'm NOT giving up on blogging I promise!!!

can you answer this?

Can you answer this riddle?
Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul Harvey. See if you can guess the riddle at the end.

Paul Harvey Writes:
We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.
I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.
I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated. I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.
And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.
I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.
When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.
If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head. I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like. May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it.. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend. I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle. May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand. These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life. Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you. We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.
Paul Harvey RIDDLE: When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors. What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?