Home Made Christmas Presents

This year with a tight wallet I decided to make the kids home made Christmas presents. I was going to do allot of different things but our family received and over whelming amount of help this Christmas that only one was necessary. First I made Jedrek a Sock monkey!

When I was all done with that project I made Corben a sock elephant.

Alex wanted me to make him a color pencil roll up like his brother got from his aunt for his birthday but I found a cool pattern that hold color pencils and a small drawing pad.Can't forget Grandma & Grandpa! I made them a shirt with the kids hand prints on them. Instead of the same old panted hands I cut out the kids hands and taped them on to the shirt and sprayed it with bleach water. I love the effect and it good to know that the hand print won't come off after excessive washings! I have to give a BIG THANK YOU to my AWESOME sister in law who helped me embroider the wording on the shirts!I had a ton of fun doing all my projects and look forward to making more bleach water shirts!

Christmas

I'm getting excited for Christmas! I've made a few things for my family since we do not have any extra cash and I can't wait till I can post them! See ya in a few more days!

Oh on another note I have a few cute little kids say the darndest things.
Awhile back we had an incident and we were trying to figure out exactly what happened and the explanation was I didn't kick him his head just hit my foot.
Nice huh!

Corben's teacher related this to me. She was having the student that was in charge of finding out the weather look outside to see what it was and as they were coming back a little voice suddenly started to sing "I can see clearly now the rain is gone."
He is so silly like that all the time. I thought I would share a few cute little things since it has been awhile since I last posted anything, I have a bit to do it's just getting on the right computer so I can post the picture for it!

Till after Christmas!

More Pict's from our Midnight Party!

So my good friend Audra was smart and brought her camra. Here is a link to her blog about our fun night!

Last friday night!

We wanted to go camping but we have to save all our money since Jed is still out of work, so we decided to finally use our fire pit that we have in our back yard, and then the boys slept in the tent in the back yard! Here are the pictures I took on my phone! Enjoy!

All Things Twilight!

Last night Me and 9 other Twilight freaks decided that sleep was overrated and decided to go wait in line and watch the midnight showing of Twilight! I loved it! It was wonderful, I can't wait to see it again! There are a few diffrences but it all worked great to keep the story almost perfect! I highly recomend it! Check out these pics I took of the movie!

Edwards first wiff of Bella!

Amanda's Creations

I'm trying to make some extra cash and I love to create cards and thought I would start a sight with my homemade cards for sell. Check it out Amanda's Creations here.

Garden Update

I thought I would take some Picts of my garden and share what we have growing! Our Garden (I know it needs a good weeding)

My Tomatoes, We grew this from a seed its a huge plant now and has tons of tomatoes growing on it!

Cilantro or Coriander which ever you prefer!

Broccoli and a watermelon, I don't think the watermelon will make it though its getting to cold.

Sunflowers

Corn and I'm not sure what else, maybe peppers?

Zucchini I believe Just for Rebecca!

Spinach! Yumm!

Our Grape Vine, still yet to be planted.

Hope you enjoyed your tour of my garden! I'll share when I'm able to harvest!

Jedrek's Birthday Party

We waited till after Jedrek's baptism to have his party, here are a few pictures!
Jedrek Blowing out his candles!Enjoying his cake with his cousin Mason and best friend Carter.His Aunt Amy made this cool towel for him! She has her own blog where she sells her stuff it's called Signed with Stitches check it out!What would be a more cooler gift than a Halo 3 action figuar!His first set of Scriptures!

Jedrek's BIG Day!

October 11, 2008 Jedrek became a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints!We are so proud of him for making the choice to become of member of this great church!

Our Garden

At the beginning of summer we started a garden. We planted Watermelon, pumpkins, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Well we had great luck with the watermelons, pumpkins, and one tomato plant (we started everything from seeds). We had a few watermelons and our pumpkin vines were going crazy, then we had a TON of rain and our pumpkins got some kind of fungus or something and we lost all our vines and the watermelons we had tasted awful. I heard watermelons do not like a lot of water. Oh well we thought we'll try again next year, but then our watermelon vines went crazy again and we had more watermelons growing and we got this form it!

We had to try it to see if it was any good, Dad was the first to make sure it was safe!
Dad said it was Yummy and Sweet and so of course the boys had to try some too!


We still have a little left, if your quick enough to come for a visit maybe you can try some too!

Elders Quarm Shooting Trip

A while back our ward's Elders Quarm had a shooting trip. I was so excited since it has been awhile since I have been able to shoot my .22 pistol. Here are some Pict from that morning!

This is our Elders Quarm President I thought it would be a nice motivation if I made a sign that read...

What do you mean you didn't do your home teaching this month!
Do you think that would be effective? I bet the Bishop would love it! Don't you!?!?

I hate Quail the first weekend in October.

Every year when quail season starts my husband goes out hunting with Dan Pennell, and most of the boys who were in the priest quorm while I was a teen, along with some of the great leaders of that time. Well as you can see it's the first weekend of October and I am playing the role of the single mother. I only have 2 boys this year as Alex is now a priesthood holder and that is the main requirement to go on to this trip.

I'm happy that my husband gets to go and have a great time with his friends, but did anyone ever say I had to like it? I love my husband very much and cherish EVERY moment spent together. So with that said, I HATE QUAIL for this weekend.

Corben's First School performance

Thursday was Corben's first performance for Kindergarden. They just finished their nursery rhyme unit and wanted to share with us what they learned. It was so cute. Jed recorded it CLICK here to watch it!!!

A few cute quizes

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Free-spirited and wise. You have a strong passionate spirit that touches and changes all who know you. The wisdom and common sense that you have is really what guides you through life. Even so, you also have a very playful side that loves adventure and excitement.

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I'm a Ford Mustang!

You're an American classic -- fast, strong, and bold. You're not snobby or pretentious, but you have what it takes to give anyone a run for their money.

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What a day!

Today my little Alex isn't little any more. Today he graduated Primary and was given the presthood. Next week he'll pass the sacrement and then before I know it he'll be getting ready to serve his mission. It was a wonderful day my oldest brother and his family were able to come to our ward and my dad and step mom were there too. After church we had a lunchen and my other brother met us at our house. It was a nice day shared with cousins and family and our good friends the Jarman's. I wish I would have taken some pictures but it sliped my mind as I was enjoying our wonderful company. Hope you all had a wonderful sunday any way you may have spent it.

Just a little update...

I've been working for 3 weeks now and I like it. I miss being home when my kids get home but at least dad is there. As for him, he still hasn't found a job yet. He has 45 resumes out and keeps putting more in everyday. He's got a good lead with a company that is just starting here and it sounds good, but I won't hold my breath just yet. Oh as for me I work for Toni & Guy Hair Salon. I get free hair cuts and only have to pay $18 to get my hair died. I love those benefits. The boys are doing great in school and Alex and Jedrek's birthdays are just around the corner. Hope that I can get pics up of my bathroom remodel up soon. Its finally done except for finishing work and I've been enjoying my tub!

Job Update...

So the job hunt continues for Jed. It's been 3 weeks and its starting to get very tight. But I found a job. Its not much but it's better then nothing. Hope this all get worked out soon. I know it's all for a reason but I don't have to like it. Blaa Job market sucks right now!

Cool site!

My sister in law has a blog Signed with Stitches (click on the name it has her link) She makes the cutes purses and emborders what ever you want on them. She also does some cute thing for babys. Also she is willing to make anything you request. Go check her out!!

First day of school 2008

So Monday my baby started kindergarten!

When we dropped him off he found his teacher and gave her a big hug and a kiss! Man is he a smoosher!

This year Jedrek is a big 3rd grader!

He said yeah mom you can walk me to class, we got close to his class and he was gone, no bye mom or even a hug :o(

And then my big baby Alex started 7th grade!

He didn't need his mom, he got up took a shower and was ready, he leaves an hour after his brothers. He doesn't get home till almost 4! Oh I can not believe he only has 6 more years of school, time flys so fast! Just about a month left till he gets to start to pass the sacrament! Oh boy I'm feeling old!

It Finaly happened...

So Wednesday Jed had to go into the office cuz his boss was in town and he came home and I asked if he talked to his boss as it is review time and he said yep and Friday is the last day for the phoenix office. Blah! We were kinda warned but they had just gotten a new job for our office and it will be alot of work so we thought we were in the clear, but I guess it's just to much to keep open so it's done. Jed is unemployed. For the first time in our 12 years of marriage, we have been blessed with not having to worry about that.
I am very hopeful he has a ton of leads and his bosses are talking him up to everyone they know and there are a few BIG companies that are looking to hire. We'll just keep praying and doing the things we need to do and I know everything will work out.

Breaking Dawn

Ok I now have my life back! I finished Breaking Dawn this morning and now the kids have there mom back! I wasn't that bad with this book, I got the book at midnight at B&N (I WON A SHIRT!) Crazy me going all by myself cuz no one elses was going but I ran into some old friends it was nice to catch up with others who are as crazy as me! I took 4 days to read it so I got some stuff done! If you haven't read the twilight series yet do because they are the best books around! (well at least to me they are) If you live close to me you can barow mine I have them all (4). Any who as you can see by my blog now I'm counting down for the Twilight movie! Only 4 more months! I DON'T THINK I CAN STAND IT! LOL

Rain!

I love rain it is the best! But not when it comes inside the house! Thankfully my husband can take care of things like that and we were able to fix the problem till it dryes out. We had water leaking in through one of our windows so we put a huge tarp over it for the moment. Its doing the job so woo hoo! Now I hope we can fix the problem cheaply. New windows are not in our budget right now. Blah the joy's of owning an older home!

Yo Ho Yo Ho A Pirate's Life's For Me!

On June 28th we had a pirate take over. Cap'n Corben comendered our home to find new crew for his boat the S.S. Raven.

He taught his new crew how to sword fight

How to get sea legs And they found their first treasure!

And here is Cap'n Corben's Biggest treasure of the day!