For Mary

Dear Mary,

We are learning to brush our teeth and we like it!  Thought you would be excited that Mommy and Daddy are taking good care of our teeth.

Love,
Charlie and Adella

PS.  Come visit us!

Sunday Fun Version 2.3.13

Sunday began a not so fun week for us, lots of sickies around here!  Adam was sick enough he didn't even go to church on Sunday.  I woke up with a little bit of a sore throat and couldn't imagine wrangling both kids through church by myself so we all decided to stay home and rest.  Too bad that rest didn't fully prepare for the week we were in for!

Since we didn't go to church, we didn't get dressed up either and didn't really do anything out of the ordinary to warrant any great picture taking.  However, I just had to catch these two playing together so sweetly.  I love when they share and play quietly together (ok the toy makes noise, so not THAT quietly!) We are starting to get to the stealing toys stage, so I cherish when they just share and love each other!

Project Life Week 5

Here's week 5!   You'll notice there are no pictures from Charlie and Adella's Birthday party, I plan to add a full 2 pages spread once I get all the pictures.  I tend to do that when we have big or important events.

Instagram - in-it

My camera on my phone isn't great, so I prefer to use my regular camera mostly, but sometimes the phone is closer and I have to get the moment NOW so I grab for it!  Here are the instagrams for the week (I know those that follow me already saw these, but ya know, the grandparents always want more more more!)

A little football

Very blurry, but Charlie was laughing at Grandpa Button's funny faces on skype

So sweet!   He's modeling the new towel bibs mommy made (FYI, easiest project ever and these bibs are AWESOME!   They don't even try to rip them off! I made 10 of them in well under an hour)

Peg Board sewing organizer

I had the genius idea a week or so ago to put a pegboard above my tiny sewing area, the table is already small and once you add a sewing machine, a serger and a project, there is no room for tools.  All my stuff gets lost and I also have to worry about little hands grabbing scissors that I didn't even know where there!   So here was my solution!  LOVE IT!

I have serger threads on hooks on the side (need to get a few more).   The thing in the middle is the long arm quilting table for my machine.  The baskets are cheapy walmart baskets (in the kitchen organization section).  We got the pegboard from lowes and they cut it in half for us.  We got all the hooks at harbor freight in a box, we bought two boxes for 3.40 each!  The whole project was well under $30 and we still have another half of the pegbaord plus lots of hooks to go organizing somewhere else!  I still have tons of hooks we didn't use, but we need more of the longer ones for the serger threads. I also don't like my regular thread on the hooks so I'm gonna change that, but here it is for now!   Now I know where all my tools are and I won't have to buy elastic for every project because I don't know what I have at home!