It was a day for Cavin'

Two weeks ago, (I know that seems like a long time ago) my brother-in-law Jeff came to our house while his wife took a test at USU. Mike and I had promised our kids all week that we would help them build a snowman. Finally Saturday rolled around.....No more days left to promise that we would do it......it had to be the day!!! So, after getting out there, the snow wasn't quite firm enough or there wasn't enough....I don't remember what they said, so they helped the kids build a snowcave. The kids had a blast. There was a slide down the back side, and although I managed to accidentally step through the side of it, the kids were able to walk on it. They had a really good time until it was time to come inside and change. I think Mike and Jeff really enjoyed building the snowcave since Mike had gone with Jeff to their scout camp, and had build snowcaves. I don't think our kids had seen a snowcave before and although it was fun. I am glad to say that at this moment there isn't enough to go outside and build another one....I am so ready for SPRING!!

I think I must be nuts!!

These past few weeks have been crazy around here. My family has undergone some major changes with the house "falling apart" while I have taken off with my latest new hobby. It all started when my sweet sister told me that she was going to have a booth at a boutique. I thought it sounded like a lot of fun, and was able to get up the guts to ask if I could do it with her. Brina is so sweet and seemed even excited to have someone to do it with. We've called eachother quite a bit over the past two weeks to talk about how our items are going and our ideas. It has been so fun. I'm not so sure the members of my household are enjoying it as much as I am though. I've been pretty sewing alot and not cleaning up much. I feel good that I am able to do something that someone else likes, other than cook and clean. I also think it is funny that when my husband first gave me this sewing machine, about 4 years ago....I wasn't excited about it at all. I NEVER enjoyed home ec. in school.....in fact I pretty much flunked the class, and now I am making something that I am going to try to sell at a boutique. Ha, ha ha.... sometimes I just know I'm going nuts. Anyway, since I've worked so hard on these and have found a passion for making them at the moment I thought I would show them off. Let me know what you think! Some of the pictures are kind of hard to see, but they are the little baby jammies that have the elastic at the bottom.

Long time coming....

Things are settling down a little bit. We have been doing some changes to our house and are finally at a stop until warmer weather. We will be siding our house in spring, and I can't wait. We just added hardwood floors and a new front and storm door. We bought some new furniture and are going to be painting soon....Honestly, it's taken this long to convince Mike that painting is a good idea. I'm not sure he still believes me, but this house needs some personality! We had some family pictures taken as well by my sister-in-law Melissa. She did an awesome job! I can imagine it would be hard to get everyone looking...kids and dogs especially. The one on top is my favorite, but alot of them turned out really well. McKenna slipped and fell the minute she stepped out of the truck. ( something had to happen, only because we were trying to keep everyone clean) We were able to hide the dirt on her pants, and finish the photo shoot without too many more issues. I'll have to upload some more pictures of life around here and get them posted soon before my computer decides it's going on vacation again!!