Ribbon Flowers

Ribbon Bows:

We looked at this site to see how to do it: http://makeitdo.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/peony-clips/

Her flowers are tight and look pretty fancy....mine I wrapped looser and they look more casual, which I like. I also only used 1 yard of wire ribbon, she says to use 2-4 yards, which if you're doing it loose would make your flower pretty big.

And we also found that when you sinch the ribbon/pull the wire...you have to start pulling out wire from both ends of the ribbon, otherwise you'll lose your wire inside your ribbon as you pull.

Enjoy! They look cute even in my hair.

Relief

I have had the worst sinus everything for the past week. It started with an innocent cough the week before then moved into sinuses. I have never had it to where my teeth actually ache before. So, my eyes, cheek bones, bridge of nose, temples, teeth, and jaw ached...and then I had an awful headache to top it off. And when you are woken up 3-4 times during the night and working all day it doesn't get any better. So last night I finally pumped a bottle and went to bed early while Chad did the night routine, which allowed me 5 hours in a row of sleep before the first wake-up call! It was Fabulous!!!! And I finally have relief. I feel so much better! Which is a great blessing, because I was about to break.
So now I can enjoy the Bachelor tonight and get a "how to" on those flowers for Aunt Cindy posted! Yeah!!!

Adorable!

So, I was looking for a pattern for crocheting of something new I could make as a fun relaxing project, and I came across this site: http://www.luv2crochet.com/freepatterns.html. Okay...these are adorable! I'm so excited to try and make some for Emrie! She has some patterns she's made for hats and ponchos and I love them! Here's a little preview:

Aren't they cute! I think I may have to go pick out some yarn this weekend! I'll let you know how it goes!

So, Makenna found these neat bows/flowers to make with wire ribbon. We went to the ribbon store one morning and got some different colors and experimented and I think they turned out really really cute!

With me at work just playing until Grandma comes to pick her up for the day.




In her Christmas Dress. Oma bought it for her...isn't it adorable!

Anyways....today she officially crawled. She went from sitting to hands and knees, which she's been doing but then she usually rocks and falls flat, but she actually lifted hands then knees and moved forward quite a bit. We got a video, so we'll have to put it on this week...but I've got to get to bed while she sleeps :D Time is precious :D

And 2 months later :D

Oops! I know I'm terrible at posting! Well....I guess for an update, we had a great Thanksgiving with the Andersen's and a very fun Christmas with the Kays :D Everyone was here and it was a blast to hang out all together again. We did have our cookie day...

I also made a ham bone soup for the very first time and it was DELICIOUS!!!! YUMMY!

Here's all the grandkids in thier Christmas PJ's Christmas morning. It's so fun to have them all so close in age. They are very cute together!

We also started Emrie on baby food recently. We started with Rice Cereal but she doesn't do well on that....everytime she eats it she goes into a 2 hour vommiting spree, which landed us in the ER one afternoon...needless to say, we have given up on the rice cereal and moved straight to veggies, which she does beautifully with. This is the first time we gave her veggies (Butternut squash) and she pulled some pretty funny faces along with several shivers.

And here's a picture of her today. She actually has quite a bit of hair. It's really long on the sides and thick with thick fuzz on top, you just can't see it cause it's white :D She can now sit up on her own. It's great. She's much more content now when she plays by herself.

Well...sorry I've been bad about pictures. I'll have Chad do a video when he gets home, cause I'm not sure how to do that. And I'll put on a picture of her christmas dress! But I've got to go pre-occupy her right now. Till then :D

The Three Little Pigs

So, Halloween was fun. We started out by going to the pumpkin patch Friday night and took some pictures of our little "pumpkin juice" as daddy has nicknamed her.



We picked a little pumpkin, that was really quite cute. Very happy with our choice and next year Emrie can actually help us choose a pumpkin. We didn't actually get a chance to carve our pumpkin until Saturday afternoon. But it turned out very cute and simple. Sorry the picture is kind of blurred.


Here's a better picture of what the pumpkin looked like on our candy table:D A lot of people said it looked like a plastic pumpkin that plugged in thanks to our expertise :D ha ha jk


And of course we had to dress up. Though we didn't end up getting totally dressed in all the gear I had for us. We were supposed to be the 3 little pigs, but night got too busy and Chad and I didn't dress into our pink outfits...I had even raided some straw from the pumpkin patch to attach to my outfit :D But here's a snap of part of our costumes.

It turned out to be a great night, especially with the Huffs production of Lola and the Coco Cabana. We also made sure we got to see our favorite Halloween film Hocus Pocus which topped off the night perfectly. Can't wait until next year!

Red Robin...ROLLOVER!

We had a fun night last night. It was our second time going out to a sit down restaurant with our addition. She only lasted in the car seat for the first 10 minutes, but she did really well still. Dinner was delicious! We then walked along the outdoor San Tan Mall and browsed. We did get her Halloween Costume :D Well...What we are going to make into her costume:D She is growing up so much, always suprising us with something new and gets cuter everyday....but we are a little biased. -Jaylynn

This morning after we all got up at 6:30am and after Emrie felt that she was well fed she decided to conquer a milestone in her development. Believe it or not she decided that rolling over was the next best thing to help mom and dad understand that she is capable of preforming much more complicated tasks than that of crying, pooping, eating, sleeping, cooing, and laughing. We applauded her accomplishment and hope that her next great milestone is to learn how to sit on the toilet and go to bathroom all by herself...well maybe that's just wishful thinking:) Here is a little snapshot of her great accomplishment. -Chad