Family Fun

So Eliza and Huck have both been talking about what they are going to be for Halloween this year. More Eliza than Huck but, I decided that I needed a break from hearing about when I was going to make her Word Girl costume and Huckleberry’s Captain Huggy Face costume.
After some help with Ira on drawing the Word Girl symbol and me finding the perfect lighting bolt I put the craft robo to work. I bought some material called Siser at Regional Supply and here is what I came up with. They can now be Word Girl and Captain Huggy Face anytime the shirts are clean. They have already been washed twice.
The front of the shirts

The back of the shirts.

Word up it’s Word Girl.

and her sidekick monkey Captain Huggy Face, almost renamed as Captain Hucky Face

I feel that I owe a friend of mine an apology about how silly I thought she was for liking Word Girl. So to Lori I say I am sorry and your are right there is nothing quite like a good episode of Word Girl, especially with Lady Redundant Woman. We love Word Girl. For those of you that have no idea what I am talking about you can find Word Girl on PBS.

During the spring I signed the kiddos up for TaeKwonDo taught by Mr. Jeff. Eliza was so excited because Mr. Jeff used to teach every Monday instead of Mr. D. She likes Mr. D but, I think that she really liked Mr. Jeff and was sad when he could not teach every week anymore. The kids had a lot of fun and I think did rather well considering it was there first time and class was only 30 minutes.
I would pick them up get them changed into their gis. I was lucky enough to be able to sit through the classes and watch them progress. On June 2nd they held a demonstration for parents and grandparents. Here are a few pictures of the demonstration.




They were sure excited to get their metals. They wore them for about 2 days.

We had a great memorial day weekend this year. We went to the movie SHREK 4 on Saturday afternoon. It was pretty good, the story is really great. Sunday was church and then an afternoon of making cookies. Monday we had a BBQ at Grandma Lou’s house. She has had a stroke and is trying really hard to talk to you but, most of the time you just have to give the answer you think best fits the situation.
We had a great time with friends and family.

Macy Sue with her big blue eyes.

Kennedy and her parasol.

Archie - aka Quiche!

Huckleberry helping pick out a spot for the sunflowers to grow.

Eliza walking on the cans.
There is nothing quite like enjoying a BBQ with friends and family.

Here is one project that I wanted to do ever since we moved in. The craft robo made it simple.

Before - Huck was helping.

After for the hooks.

After for the shoe bins!
I love it and I am so glad that I put it off this long so that I could use vinyl lettering instead of painting it on with stencils.

Here is another thing that I have wanted to do for a while. I was talking with someone about wanting to make curtains for Eliza’s room. I went to the fabric store to see if they had any material that would work. No real intention of purchasing but I found the perfect material. It took me a couple of months to finally make the curtains because my sewing machine was in the shop for about 3 weeks.
Here are the before and after of her window. I love the material and I love the curtain rod Ira found.
I did not even use a pattern. I am sou proud.

Before

After

For those of you who have not seen Eliza’s Room here is a picture from the builders website. (our house was a model house.)
I am looking forward to many more projects. I am excited about our garden boxes but I will share those another day.

So for my birthday Ira gave me a craft robo. (Google it)

I was a little hesitant at first and was afraid I was not going to be able to use it without his help. It is a glorified cricut that you hook up to your computer and cut out just about anything you want. It is amazing. I have a whole new need for vinyl stickers. Here is a picture story of my first solo project. I was determined to do it by myself and I did. Ira was busy installing a new fountain with the kids.

Here is the image after weeding. Weeding in the process of getting the little pieces out of the picture so you can put you sticker up. The best tool for this is the dental pick I bought at Smith and Edwards. I knew I needed one!

This is a picture of it on the box. We have a green cable box in our front yard and I thought I would girly it up.
I did it. I finished the project with no help. I am so proud.

I was fine with my baby girl turning 5 until the day before her birthday.

On May 18, 2010 I woke up thinking about May 18, 2005. I was 9 months pregnant with Eliza. I was monitoring my blood pressure because it had become high at my last few appointments. I took my blood pressure and was sure that it was a miss read. I took it again about 5 minutes later and it was high. I finished getting ready for work and called the doctors office once I knew they were open. They told me to come in later that afternoon for a non-stress test. Ira and I headed off to the office where they proceeded to hook me up to some sort of monitors and made me drink a soda. I was not a very willing participant in drinking the soda because of the massive heart burn it was giving me. Well after what seemed forever and lots of questions and probing and noise making to the baby the doctor asked how I felt about having a baby tonight. I remember feeling very overwhelmed by the statement and very happy at the same time. Ira and I went back to work so I could tie up the loose ends and so we could finish our work day. On the way home I had to make a phone call to Katie making sure she was willing to share her birthday with her niece or nephew. (We did not know that Eliza was a girl until she was born.) Katie was more than willing, thank goodness. We went home gathered the few things that were still at home and headed to the hospital. We got all checked in hooked up and waited until 10:18 the next morning to meet our Eliza.
Eliza you changed my world forever. I will never forget the moment that I first saw you. It seemed as though I was looking into a mirror. I have watched you grow into such a smart and beautiful little girl. I love that you are learning how to read and that you want to be the best at everything you do. I love that you sing songs and love to go to primary. I love the outfits you pick out for yourself and enjoy watching you play with Huck. I am excited to see you grow but I don’t know where the time went. I love you and wanted you to know that on your 5th birthday!
Eliza turns 1!

Eliza turns 2!

Eliza turns 3!

Eliza turns 4!

Eliza turns 5!

For a beginning martial artist, check out this student karate uniform which is $14.95 - $24.95.

So I was looking for some Karate Gis for my kiddos and ordered them from www.karatedepot.com. When I got confirmation email they said that if I post about them they will send me a free t-shirt. So Here you go Karate Depot. I will post a picture of the kiddos in the gis when I receive them with another link to your site.

Here is a picture of the free tee.

So tonight as I was giving the kiddos a bath I overheard this conversation.

Eliza: Huck someday I will die but, don’t worry I will rise again.

Huck: Yeah, with living breath.

I love having small kids around to remind me that we do get to live again and that there is not a wrong time to share the gospel with each other.  I love it that Eliza wants to teach her friends at school all her primary songs.  I tell her that she has to teach them to her friends during recess so that she does not disturb her teachers.  Thank goodness they get to sing Popcorn popping on the apricot tree at school.

I sure hope that this puts a smile on your face.

So this morning I was already to go to work on time.  So then I relized that I had no idea where my car keys were.  Usually I find them hanging on the hook ot in the bottom of my purse or in the pocket of the pants I last wore.  So when Ira and I had looked in all these places and more asking the kids everytime one of us went past one of them “Do you know where mommies keys are” I had given up.  So finally I just said okay guys do either of you know where my keys are?  All of a sudden Huck pipes in and says In the trunk I wanted them to be safe.  So I go out and check the trunk and sure enough there are the keys safe and sound.  So next time you are running around thinking you have gone mad, befoe you tear the cushions off each and every chair and/or couch just check the trunk because it is a pretty safe place for those pesky car keys.

So a couple of days before Halloween I took the kiddos to the craft store.  We needed to kill some time before heading out for a birthday party.  We had spent a good hour in the store getting finishing touches to the costumes and such.  We were in the check out line and Eliza decides to hollar “Mom I’m having a heart attack”.  I start laughing and the lady in front of me in line starts chuckling and then turns around just to make sure everything is alright.  I know that it made my day I sure do hope that the other people who heard got a good chuckle also.

I have been crowned the meanest/worstest mom in the world.  That is right ladies I am Queen of the meanest mom for now.  Someone can take it away if they wish but, just know that for the next couple of months (maybe longer) I am crowned with this wonderful title about once a day.  Huck took the opportunity to crown me this in the parking lot of the school the other day in front of witnessess.  Now so that you don’t fell too bad about my sweet baby boy calling me the worstest mom ever, later that day when I picked him up he let me know that I was the nicest mom ever.  Being crowned the nicest mom ever makes it bearable to wear the crown of the meanest mom.

Reason number one for not having road rage:  I was cut off my some dumb a** the other day and took it upon my self to let everyone in the car know including my kids.  That is right everyone I will admit it only because you need to know that the next thing that I heard from the back seat was Huck saying dumb ash over and over and over again.  If he says it feel free to let him know that it is not right and that his mom has a potty mouth.  I really need to get over yelling at people in the car.

Just a cool little note about this morning.  In our house we have some big windows that face north.  As I was preparing food for today a big flock of birds were doing there bird things and flying all over the place.  They flew right up to our house and the windows.  I think that they landed on the roof for about 10 seconds and then they all flew off at the same time.  There were like a hundred birds.  It was like the movie birds but instead of being locked in a phone booth I was safe inside my house.