Cayden pictures

playing Angry Birds in his undies on the arm of the couch

"I'm a rock star!"

obsessed with Legos

good brother :)

"Mom I'm a pirate.. arrrghh"

found a girlfriend at the park

horrible allergic reaction to too much cat hair and seasonal allergies in one day

"I mustache you a question"

signing "bird"

posing.. too cute

ice cream!

"mom.. stop taking pictures of me"

cowboy cayden

free creamie

gorgeous blue eyes

finally a hair cut!

my silly Tank

Recent pictures of my TANK! who will be TWO on Saturday

Tank and I went to a Parenting class every Thursday (minus a few weeks we were sick)

And Creighton's favorite part was this:

 And if there was a ball out of it, he would get it and put it back.

this was right after he ran full force and fell in.

camera was too slow for my fast man! 

free creamie at Costco!
what a mess!!

li'l dare devil going head first down

then lay in the wood chips

 he's really into texture.. so the wood chips didn't bug him at all.

loved having water thrown at him

bit completely through it. 

locked himself back in after pushing it to the back door

sewing again..

I'm really not trying to show off or anything like that.  I just am in shock when things come out looking good.  Trust me there are many projects in between those ties and bow ties and these I'm sharing that have gone horribly horribly wrong.  {Funny how I say many projects when its only been since Friday when I made those.}

So here we go.

 I saw this shirt at the DI a long time ago and got it because 1. it was only 3 bucks and 2. I thought it would make REALLY cute ties and bowties. Well it sat around on my bedroom floor for at least 4-5 months. Then I finally decided to do something with it, especially after making the other tie and bowtie.

the other picture wouldn't work

Then I decided to make a diaper pouch for my purse. I usually just take that with us on errands and such. But all the patterns I found were for the hard white case but I shop at Costco and get their wipes. So I needed a bigger one. I found two different patterns/directions but I couldn't make out what they meant.  Their directions were majorly confusing. So I kinda winged it. I think it looks good.

empty

full

in the purse

cute purse with it sticking out

Then with our trip coming in FIVE DAYS!!!!!! I decided we needed a book holding thingy. So scoured the internet and pinterest. Couldn't find one I liked. So I winged it again.

It is super long.  I am just hoping it'll fit in the back sit in between the boys. Might even put toys in some of them. Especially for Cayden. I'm excited to see how well it does with my crazy boys.

Adam just got home and told me I need to put my sewing machine away.... haha!! I've gone a little crazy.

One of my many recent mess ups:

front

red & orange

yellow & green

blue & purple

pink & brown

black & white

back

I did this for Creighton... and he hates it.  I thought I did all the squares the same sizes.. Apparently not.

there are somethings I should just stick to... ties, bowties and diaper pouches.

Tie & Bowtie

Found this AMAZING fabric in a bag of scraps given to me by my sister in law Amber.

I mean gorgeous right?? I love me some paisleys! and teal.. and brown.. and pink.. Makes me swoon! :)

So decided to make THIS tie and THIS bowtie.  Spent about 3 hours total to finish it, while trying to deal with the crazies!

And here is how they came out:

those {blues} are going to break some hearts

like how I use my sewing machine to show off the tie?

I've been in a sewing/crafty mood. I have some scraps of this scrap and I'm going to make me a flower and hopefully attach it to a headband of some sort. We will see.

feelings.

There are so many feelings and thoughts racing through my head. Where to start?

On Mother's Day, I got this overwhelming feeling that I need to be a stay at home mother. I have never really gotten a feeling like that. {Except the feeling that our family isn't complete.} I am also not as spiritual as I should be. I couldn't believe the feeling. At first I thought it was just a thought and a hope that I've always had and wanted. But I just bawled, right there in the middle of struggling with my boys during the Sacrament talks.  Even now as I write about it, I am tearing up.  I know its what I need to do. It is just hard to have faith knowing how much debt we have. So I am trying to come up with a plan to get out of as much debt as possible in the next few months because I know I should be done working by the end of the year, if not before that. Faith is a tricky thing. I wish I could just have faith that we'd be fine.  But its hard.  And even thought I've worked maybe 10 or 12 days in the last month and we've been okay.. but where would that extra 200 dollars a paycheck come from?  We'd actually need at least 400-500 a paycheck to truly make it.

I love to blog hop. I happened upon this blog- Angels for Atticus.  This little boy has cancer. And his brave mom and dad write about what's going on. I don't know if I could do this. It must be theraputic. In reading this, I've gained more appreciation for my sons' health. Not to make light of what they are going through. I'm not sure if I could go through a trial this big.  I've always known that everyone has trials in their life.  People will have a really big trial. I always wonder what my big trial will be. I just pray that when there is a big trial that I will turn to the Lord and my Heavenly Father.  That is what this dear family has done.  They have put their trust in the Lord and know that Him and Heavenly Father have a plan for Atticus.  I know They have a plan for all of us. I pray for this family that they will continually turn to Jesus and Heavenly Father and that they will find comfort and peace in this time of need. I know that They are the only ones that can do that for them.

Plans. Timing. I know Heavenly father And Jesus have a plan for me.  They also have Their timing. We have been trying to get pregnant for a while. I would date it back 10 months or so. Actually now thinking about it, I think its closer to 5 or 6 months. Either way, I know it takes a while especially after birth control.  It takes a while for your body to get back on track with ovulating and all that.  If I can be a little too informative.. I haven't had a normal period in a while.  I haven't had anything for at least 2 months. So when nothing comes lately, I get all excited and think I'm preggers. But I'm not. I have read that this happens.  But its taking longer than expected. Longer than I want it to.  But I have to believe the feeling I get almost every day, that our family isn't completed. We have another little spirit just waiting patiently to come join us down here. I just need to be patient and wait for the Lord's timing and trust in that.

New obsession

I decided to finally try my hand at fabric rosettes. And after the first 3 turned out actually pretty cute, I couldn't stop! Then I remembered I had elastic and decided to make headbands for my sister in Law Lyndsi's baby Mercedes and one for my niece's baby Zoey (the red one).

I have a lot left over.. (As seen in one picture..) and I need more elastic or clothes for them. Or I need a baby girl...... Haha