Sierra wants to learn to sew

So we are starting on something pretty easy – a block quilt!  And I am making her do almost everything (with my help, of course).  The only thing I am doing is threading the machine.  Here are some pictures so far.

 

We went to Joann’s and she picked out some fat quarters, then we found some fabric on a bolt that matched for some of the front squares and backing.  When we got home, we realized the blanket wasn’t proportional, so we added the purple and white gingham check (it was the closest thing that matched).  Which incidentally is left over from Grandma Patty making Sierra’s baby quilt!

We cut the squares out one night.  A few days later we laid them out to decide what design she wanted.  Here is a picture of her pinning the layers together to sew.

Learning to sew a straight a line – its harder than it looks!

Time to pin the next row…

And that is as far as we’ve gotten so far – I told her we can only work on it when Maddie is resting.  So she keeps asking me… is the baby ready for another nap yet? Lol – um, no, she just woke up 30 minutes ago!

 

But we will keep you updated! I’m just going to add a later of batting and have her tie the squares.  She is so excited to make her very own blanket and told me that now she knows how to sew she can help me with the flower girl dresses for Aunt Jessy’s wedding! LOL!

NAKED BABY!!!

LOL! Here are some pics of the naked baby crawling across the floor before she got a diaper on! I thought it was too cute, so of course I had to get the camera out.  Other than that, we are just enjoying Daddy!

 

And then, of course we had to put a diaper on her butt! 

My Recipe blog

Okay, I have officially started a recipe blog – yeah, I know, ANOTHER blog – its addicting!

But I am forever getting requests for recipes so I decided to get them down all in one place!

Stop on over and be sure to follow me if you want some yummy recipes!

Feeding My Family

He’s Home!

This was us last night at 11:45 at the airport

See the man in the back left, that would be Brigadier General Graper – the Commander of the base here.  He was also meeting someone and his wife was nice enough to take a picture of us waiting.  Of course, we were too busy hugging and kissing Daddy when he got to us that this is the only picture I have!! LOL!

The girls were wound up!!! And Maddie was way off her schedule – she didn’t go to sleep until close to 3am! UGH! But Ruby and Karis slept in until a little after 10 am this  morning.

Dustin is off to work checking in, and then we have him home for two weeks.

 

So the girls didn’t know that we were picking up Daddy last night.  When we got home from Girl Scouts I told them to get warm jama pants and a long sleeve shirt for jamas.  They were complaining that they were hot, but I told them tough!

Then I let them watch a movie, which was over about 10pm… they thought it was cool they got to sleep together on a school night! Hehehehe!

Of course they were playing around, and annoying each other… so about 10:30 I told them, ALL THREE OF YOU GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!!!  They all lined up for a scolding… I heard “Ruby was sticking her tongue out”, “Karis is kicking me”, “I’m trying to be quiet but they keep annoying me!”

So I start the ‘scolding’

You girls need to be NICE to each other, quit annoying each other, no more kicking, AND GET YOUR SHOES AND SOCKS ON!!!!

They all looked at me confused!!! I told them, get your shoes and socks on, we’re going to pick up Daddy!  Ruby got all excited and ran off to find her shoes and socks.  Karis just kind of stood there not knowing what to do, and Sierra said, Whatever Mommy, you’re just teasing.

I told her, No baby… we are really going to get Daddy, get your shoes and socks on.  She said, nuh huh… I don’t believe you.  I tried to convince her again, so she said – well, PROVE IT!  LOL! So I got on the AlaskaAir site and looked up his flight number… I said, when does that say ETA?  11:38, what time is it now 10:35 – so we are going to pick up Daddy because he’ll be here in an hour!!!!

She got all excited and they were all trying to find their shoes and socks quickly!!!  All got in the car, Ruby and Karis fell asleep on the way in – the ONLY time my kids sleep in the car – sheesh!  Maddie was just chilling out, and Sierra probably asked me about 10 times were we there yet!

When we got home they wanted to show Daddy EVERYTHING they got for Christmas (and birthday), and tell him EVERYTHING that had happened – lol – like we didn’t talk to him once a week!  Sierra told him, I got my hair cut (in OCT!) and donated it.  Ruby told him, I lost two teeth!!  And he just smiled and nodded, because of course, he had already heard it, but its different when they actually have him in front of them!

So we are having a lazy day as we didn’t get settled down and in bed until way after 1am!  The girls are waiting for Daddy to get home from work so they can play barbies, make-over, and peoples – I’m sure he missed barbies these last few months!