This song says it all. Perfectly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9cYcMbmbzk

Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Hopefully I can find my camera soon so I can post pics of our awesome retreat last weekend!

Can't stop sewing!!

Mom, I'm finally putting the sewing machine you got me to great use! It took me a while to find someone who could teach me but thanks so much to Gina for the 2 one hour (or less!) lessons! I made quite a few pieces of garbage but I'm finally getting the hang of it! Here are some of my latest!

I love the Fall season!! I realized I can make bows which was exciting!!

I love this cupcake outfit. What you don't see is the two times I sewed part of neck together. So frustrating!This one turned out cute but that flower took a while trying to make all the curves as perfect as possible! I have fallen in love with fabric paint on clothes. The stencil being cut out of freezer paper and ironed on (then peeled off when done). This isn't my favorite as I just wanted to hurry, get it done, wash it, and see how it turned out! It makes a cute soft shirt. The paint stays great and it doesn't leave an itchy inside for babies like appliques tend to do. I will be doing more of these soon!! Thought I'd try making a skirt from scratch! Learned a lot of what to do and not do next time! I also tried fabric paint (owl body) along with sewing and realized you can't sew over paint! It ends up tearing apart where the paint and stitches meet after a few washings! Maybe if I would have sewed first and then painted?Avery liked the owl and wanted one for herself so I did it again but with material! This is a fun retro outfit and I love the way it turned out! I don't have an embroidery machine to monogram so I used fabric paint for the M! I've also enjoyed making hooded towels. First one (pink) I tried making corners and did terrible. So next (green) I just rounded the corners and it was better.

These two were better but still not perfect! The front would look great but the back would shift and wouldn't look as good as the front. I think I should probably spend the extra time pinning every 6 inches and that would help a lot!

Get ready to do Christmas shopping for me at Hobby Lobby!!! Start early so you catch the sales :)

Voted Best Dressed Today!

Avery usually dresses herself. If I make something or during holidays, I may pick it out but other than that she is on her own and does a pretty good job!

Well, yesterday afternoon I started getting a headache. It progressively got worse and medicine wasn't helping like it usually did. I went to after hours but they said it sounded like I needed a CAT scan and didn't even look me over before sending me to the ER. I went to the ER and the scan of course was normal. I was competely ready to hear I had a massive brain tumor, it hurt so bad. After five hours in the ER, I came home (at 3am). I was still drugged and unable to wake up this morning, so my sister came to take Avery and Zane to school! When she got back, this is house I found her...

Still wearing the bow and necklace from yesterday. Poor neglected child! Sorry Avery. This is not one of your best outfits!!

Tur version of the flu...

Wednesday started out like any regular day. Neighbor friend comes over and wants a quick photo shoot before I take them to school! I think I have found where the puckering of lips came from! Zane and I had such a fun day sweeping the back porch, digging leaves out of the fish pond, and raking a trashcan full of leaves from the back yard. He then had "a great idea! Let's have a picnic on a blanket!" Weather was amazing for that!
Wednesday did not end so normally. Avery went to bed and woke up at around 9:30pm fussing. She was mega hot (103.8) and said her tummy hurt so we went straight to after hours. I always wait at least an hour there but we were able to walk in and out within 10 minutes (no one else was there!). She had the oh so popular flu :( We got the medicine in her and thursday morning was spent like this...(yes today is cleaning day!)

She informed me she was no longer sick and wanted to go to school! The whole day her temp was just around 99.3 and she acted normal all day. She was very upset when I told her she had to take a nap. She fought it but fell asleep at 3 (and so did Zane). They didn't wake up until 5:30! So we hurried and got dressed...Avery was tinkerbell this time!

Zane did not want to get out of his jammies so he had "a great idea! I can be SUPER JAMMIES!" I let him! Knowing I'd get bad looks if we were spotted at the OC dorms trick or treating, the kids went to eat and decorate cookies with Brittany!

Z prefers the dumping method while A prefers the perfectly placing method

Arts and crafts time!

Avery woke up this morning with just a 97.3 temp. Once again asking to go to school. Instead we decorated the pumpkin we got from Miss Emily! Of course eyelashes are a must...I see the kids found the camera today during lunch time! I was on the phone with leap frog's customer service (leapster doesn't work). It's naptime/blogging time now and I came across several pictures like these...

I'm very thankful for this version of the flu! Looks like the family retreat this weekend is back on!

Trunk or Treat

At the last minute, Avery decided she wanted to be Snow White and not Tinkerbell. She wants to be Tinkerbell at "Brittany's school." Spidey is my nephew Austen! Such a handsome Prince Charming if I do say so myself!
He was so excited he scored a goal!

He's saying Trick or Treeeeeeeeeeat! E is like do you seriously have to take a picture of me...

We dragged the kids around the circle of activites and were off. It's hard for me to even breathe in this chaos! Very easy to quickly lose children i'm sure? We got enough candy for me to be able to sneak out the good stuff so I would call it a success!

Avery's First Gymnastics Meet

I wonder if Steve Nunno (can't see him) realizes he just put a medal around his next Shannon Miller's neck!!!??

Wow this took way too long to upload. Hour and 15 to be exact. So you are only going to get her floor routine! She was a little flustered and kept getting turned around for some reason! On the headstand, she kept kicking too hard she'd flip over so the coach said do a baby headstand! Well that sure is a quick teeny tiny baby headstand if I do say so myself. She did good on bars beam and vault too! So excited for the next one :)

Some fun kid conversations

I've been sewing a lot again lately, so I'm not blogging as much! However, there has been a few funny things I've heard the kids say lately. I usually forget them but here are some I remembered.

After racing...

Me- Ah man, you beat me. How are you so fast?
Zane- God made me fast. God made you not fast, but it's ok...

When eating...

Zane- Look. My muscles are getting big and strong from eating these green beans and chicken nuggets! I'm getting so big (as he stands up to show us!)
Me- Yes! You are getting so big and strong. Good job buddy!
Zane- Feel my tummy. Can you feel the chicken nuggets?
Me- Oh, I think I do. It's right there...
Zane- I'm a good boy aren't I? (Smiling so cutely and raising his eyebrows looking so proud!)
Me- You are! I'm proud of you. Keep on eating!!!


My kids have sadly already learned about jail and they will often ask questions about it.

Zane- Why do people go to jail?
Wes- Because they were naughty and didn't obey.
Zane- If I say bad words, I will go to jail. Right?
Wes- Well, no...
Me- But that would make God sad. He doesn't like bad words.
Zane- Mommy, is that jail over there?
Avery- No Zane, jail is by daddy's work!


When picking up Zane from school, the first thing he said was...

Zane- Mommy, my milk turned into juice today in my lunch!!
Me- No sweety, I put your milk in the frudge and put juice in your lunch! The cups look the same. Milk can't turn into juice!

Something said almost daily...

Zane- You're the best mommy ever/You're my best buddy ever

Random...

Avery- When are you going to have another baby in your tummy?
Me- Are you wanting another baby to play with!?
Avery- Yea. I want a baby sister!