Christmas sewing

I've had a week of sick kids. All of them on different days and each of them something different. Emmy had pink eye, Nate was throwing up, Katie had a headache, fever, queasy tummy and is just starting to get over her horrible cough 5 days later, and Boo Boo (aka Brinley) has a runny nose with watery goopy eyes. At least Brinley's resulted in her two bottom teeth popping up! She is getting SO big SO fast! :-( And right now I should be packing to go to Boise tomorrow for the Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers State Convetion. Doug (and me by default) is the District 2 Chairman, so he is over 6 counties. But I am tired of thinking about posting and just wanted to do it. I mentioned on facebook that I was making my girls some Christmas skirts and they turned out so cute. I also made them matching necklaces and barettes. I love them! So here they are:

And here's a close up.


I also made my kids these superhero/royalty capes for Christmas. They turned out pretty cute. I wondered if Katie would want one, but she saw something like them in a Christmas catalog and wanted it. I'm so glad she still likes to play dress-up, makes me feel like maybe she isn't growing up quite so fast. I had some other projects I wanted to make for Christmas. It just didn't happen.



And for those of you who aren't local, I am sorry you haven't received your Xmas cards yet. Yikes! Did I really just admit that? I didn't get them out before Christmas and we spent the week after Christmas in West Yellowstone and after we got home I just forgot! There are my excuses, and I will get them sent next week. We'll just pretend that I wanted to send them for Valentines day, right? :-P

Still

Still, still, still
One can hear the falling snow.

For all is hushed,

The world is sleeping,
Holy star its vigil keeping.
Still, still, still,

One can hear the falling snow.

Sleep, sleep, sleep,
'Tis the eve of our Savior's birth.
The night is peaceful all around you,
Close your eyes,

Let sleep surround you.
Sleep, sleep, sleep,
'Tis the eve of our Savior's birth.

Dream, dream, dream,

Of the joyous day to come.

While guardian angels without number,

Watch you while you sweetly slumber.

Dream, dream, dream,

Of the joyous day to come.

To all who check on my little blog and our family I wish you a warm and wonderful Christmas. May Heavenly Father's spirit surround you. Merry Christmas!

The last month has flown by!

I can't believe that today marks one month that the kids have been in school! Where has the last month gone? I never look forward to sending the kids back, I like having them at home. This year I was just really excited for them to have a great year. And so far they have. And so have I. Amazing how a couple less kids at home makes for a calmer mommy. ;-) Katie is loving school like always and doing great. I was a little worried about Nathan. With his late birthday he had 2 years of Kindergarten and didn't enjoy last year much. However he is doing great this year! And loving it! He is actually enjoying doing his school work and getting good grades. I am so proud of him. If the rest of the year goes by as fast as the first of it has, which I'm sure it will, YIKES!!

I SO want to cry!

My mother in law and I were doing peaches today. Brinley wasn't really allowing me to help much, so she and I went to get some dinner. I had a "feeling" I should take Emi with me, but she said she wanted to stay. When I got back I found this:

I've waited nearly 4 years for her hair to get to any length at all. She was completely bald until about 2. I had just decided to cut it to her shoulders now that a spot Katie and Nathan "trimmed" had grown out. All the wispy ends would be gone. It was going to be so cute! Now what!?! An ear length bob just won't be so cute. I just hope it doesn't take another four years to grow out again!

Goodbyes Stink!

My mother called me this morning and told me my blog was really boring. I know! So I am going to attempt at catching up. I'll start recent and go backwards, so you'll have to scroll through if you want to catch up on all of our "happenings". Which you do, of course! ;-)

WARNING! SAD SAPPY POST AHEAD!

On Tuesday we had to say goodbye to some dear friends. My friend Hollie moved to Arizona! Her husband has been working there for a year so it will be so good for them to be together, but we will miss them dearly. Especially Katie. Lauren is one of Katie's very best in the universe friends. One of those friends that you only find a few times in a lifetime. Before they left I got some pictures of Katie, Lauren, and Oakley. These are the sweetest most wonderful girls! I am so glad that these are Katie's best ever friends. When they left and Katie and Lauren hugged I heard Katie say "I'm sad" and Lauren said "I'm sad too" and every time I think about it I start to bawl, like right now. Excuse me while I go get a tissue... The thing that makes it tolerable is that nearly all of Hollie's family live right around our area. Hence, lots of visits! And Hollie, I better know about every one of them. We wish you all the luck in Arizona! Don't melt and we'll see you soon. Love you! (And yes I will be sending you these darling pictures!)

Party Time 2

I wanted to post some pics from the baby shower of the ladies having fun, so here's an additional baby shower post.

Party Time!

Today we held a baby shower for Hailey and Jaxon at the Firth City Hall building. Not to toot my own horn, but it was SO FUN! My mother and I have been planning it forever it seems, so it feels really good to have it over, but it turned out great. The decorations were so cute and the food was yummy! We started out with a candy bar game: match the candy bar name to the pregnancy term. Conception = Skor, Delivery = PayDay, Hospital Bill = 100 Grand and so on. Then we had a Relay Race. #1 had to fold a pile of baby clothes, #2 found a pacifier in a bucket of packing peanuts with their feet, #3 had to run with a balloon between their ankles, and #4 drank apple juice out of a baby bottle. We were all laughing so hard! And Grandma Skillings - you cheat!! She took the nipple off after a couple of sucks and just drank it! Our last game was to get a plastic baby out of an ice cube. Without sucking on it or crushing it. Most of the ice cubes instantly were placed in the cleavage, I won't mention where Briannie put hers!! Bad girl! Then we opened presents and had a light lunch. We served Italian pasta salad, my 12 layer jello - in coordinating colors with the party, rolls and a yummy punch. Dessert was cupcakes that looked like rattles and the ladies got to fill little containers with candy from the centerpieces to take home as a thank you. We filled canning jars with assorted blue, green, and yellow candies. I told the ladies that they could fill their containers after they ate and as soon as I went to help with food there was a "rush" to the candy. Girls like candy, what do you do! We had a blast! Love you Hailey and Jaxon!