The Newest Tradition~ Girls Crafty Day

We have a new "tradition" in my house~

Girls Craft Day..

Once a month the girls of my family

(that live close enough~

sorry Kira :( but in May

we'll have a super duper one

for you!)

anyway we get together and get 

crafty!

We've held a few now and made

fabric banners with painted lettering.

Fun and easy!

to see more go to Lisa's site~

Stubbornly Crafty

We've made paper flowers~

Clem Bertaux taught us how to make

these cute flowers!

Clem is awesome~ she's Grams VT partner

and thinks she's a teenager. She's got more

energy than any kid I know! She's in the 

red shirt.

Sarai taught us how to make cake and

cookie pops. Sorry I don't have a picture 

of the finished product~ they were too 

good to last long :) 

We also made candy corn flowers~

Mag's and Mal had as much fun

making them as eating them :)

We used all the crafts that day and

made Valentines with them.

Don't judge my house!

We were crafting. Get your priorities straight 

people.

Our last project were aprons.

Ashley came up with an

original pattern for us

to use. She's pretty darned amazing.

Sarai made one for herself and one for each

girl. So cute and extra useful since her

fabric is vinyl so therefore wipe offable :)

She got her fabric at IKEA, I never would

have thought of shopping there!

Sophie's adorable.

And her apron is too!

Here's Lisa.

Cutie patootie.

Here's the finished products.

So much fun!

(wish I were as photogenic as these

girls are :( oh well, I have sweet spirit.)

The fabric I used was Eddie's Grandmas.

I got a stash of her fabric and love the vintage

look. On the selvage edge was the year

(that's why the close up picture)

It says 1961. I really love that about it!

Don't know if I'll wear it a lot or just display it,

either way they were quick and fun to make!

Can't wait for next month. Not sure

what we're making, but I don't even care;

just so fun to be together.

Guess I better show that Sierra

is usually with us too. She's one

of my girls too *heart heart*

Halloween 2011

I can't believe it's Halloween time ( and past )

Where did the summer go?

Thought I'd post what Halloween is like around our house~

Here we have our carved pumpkins~

They look better in the dark.

Yes, that's the John Deere logos and

Conan's logo.

Normal Jack-O-Lantern designs :)

These are the two crazies that carved the pumpkins~

a ditzy zombie

and Rex Kwan Do

We had the cutest fisherman come to visit

(his grandpa LOVED his costume~

a future fishing buddy)

and no that's not Tommy's costume, just

his everyday clothes :)

We had Belle come a calling.

What a cutie~ she loved being

all princessed up

We had Shaggy, Daphne and a 

frustrated sugared up dragon drop by.

I think Halloween is hard on us younger and 

older trick or treaters. Too much of a good 

thing you know.

I had to add this awesome group that showed 

up at our door! What dedication Bert and Ernie

showed ~ both shaved their heads for this night.

And crafty mom made their stripped shirts

with duct tape :) The Pepsi can, Tinkerbell,

and Draco Malfoy were too cute also.

Gram had to get into the spirit of the evening!

She let her facial hair grow out and came

as the bearded lady!

(Don't tell her, but I think she might be

related to Hagrid some where back in

the family line)

I stole this picture from Lisa~ 

just to show you how we answered every 

knock on the door~

running Gram in the wheelchair with

the candy to yell 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

If you missed our house on your

trick or treating rounds~

hopefully next year you'll 

come join in the fun

Strawberry Days and Reunions (finally)

I don't want to hear about it-

how I'm so slow in getting

Strawberry Days stuff posted.

I realize I'm the last one to get this done,

but I've been busy- really :)

Every year our family sits in the same

place to watch the Strawberry Days

parade ~ the one SD event I never miss.

I'm not so good anymore with the carnival

or rodeo- can you imagine dragging

Gram around those places?

SD festivities for Eddie and Wendy

amount to getting up early (or going

at midnight) to set up chairs to 

mark our spot. We sit right in front of the 

antique store on Main. Next door is the

printing shop~ look! Sophie and Tommy's

announcement was on the front window!

 I set up 3 nasty old chairs and six nice

newer green chairs- when we arrived, two

nice chairs were missing! Amazingly enough,

on the corner were two chairs just like mine

but on the back in big black sharpie marker

was written "GRANDPA'S SO-IN-SO'S CHAIR"

and "GRANDMA'S......" on the other. 

What a coincidence! 

The people who had them were too

creepy to approach, and I really couldn't

prove they were mine or theirs, so

what the heck. I hope they enjoy them chairs :)

Gracie and Andy started the day

out right with the world's biggest donuts!

Gracie admitted to me later

that she had a tummy ache :)

Livvy enjoyed from her stroller

Grammy had a blast! 

Watch for her in some of the next pictures~

she waved to everyone in the parade and

clapped and cried some.

A successful parade for her :)

We sat by the Naugles' and extended family.

Lance and Amber and their cute kids.

Chantal, Andrew and Pep ~sorry I didn't get AnDee :(

and I'm sorry I didn't get pictures of Andrew

doing some awesome ninja moves

when the Karate school kids went by.

He demo'ed how good he was.

Made me laugh pretty darn hard :D

Sierra and Stevie looking all

paradey.

Brad, Ash and Mags sitting

in anticipation

watching for the horribly

noisy fire engines

(possibly my least favorite part :)

Tommy and Sophie ~

so cute 

(notice gram in the background :)

Lisa and Josh made it! 

possibly the best picture ever taken.

Andy looking a little Nacho Libre to me.

Bank of AF handed out these

pansy masks to the kids ~

Andy managed to get everything

possible that was handed out.

Brad and Will

Mags had a fireman from the Firehouse Carwash

come all the way through the crowd to give him

this super cool fire chief hat!

and a tattoo

(which was still on his arm as

of Saturday when I watched him :)

he loved it.

It was a great day, even with the great chair

heist :) We, along with half of the city

ate at Taco Amigo and felt very

community involved :D

Last Saturday my aunt Faye had a party

to celebrate her 90th birthday.

It was pretty neat that all my mom's surviving

siblings and most of their spouses could be there.

We took tons of pictures of them 

and ate good food.

In this picture is-

back row- Uncle Lynn (NaDeans husband), mom,

Aunt NaDean, Uncle Eldon, Aunt Jeanne and Uncle Neil

Front row- Aunt Vera (who is also 90) and the 

birthday girl herself- Aunt Faye.

Happy summer you all! It feels like it's finally here!

Easter and Birthdays

Let me start off with saying-

Church was a wonderful way to start the day.

Sacrament meeting was spiritual,

RS and Sunday School were both extraordinarily good.

I am truly thankful for my Savior and the sacrifice He made

for me.

Unfortunately Sunday is the only day we can get

together on my side of the family.

so..... 

 Easter Sunday was a hoot.

We celebrated not only Easter (in the heathenistic way-

eggs hunts, food, and games) we also celebrated

Mallory's 4th birthday and Mag's 3rd birthday.

(It's a good thing we had Eddie say the prayer-

he did a great job and got us thinking

of the true reason for the season.)

We played the "bean game" while we

waited for everyone to arrive.

If you've never played the bean game-

you are missing out! (it's real name is Bohnanza-

even Eddie will play. ) It's so fun.

I don't know why my boys can't look

like normal boys!

Sarai and Livvy

Brian, Jenny and Dave

Will showing his findings

 Birthday girl Mal excited to find some eggs :)

Birthday boy Mags picking out the jelly beans

(I found these later right there on the floor.

Smart boy- only going for the chocolate :)

Gracie- sporting new bangs-

showing off her haul :)

Grace and Andy looking for eggs-

Tommy, Sophie and Sierra did 

a great job hiding them all.

The kids had a blast finding them.

This is the birthday cake that Sarai made for the kids.

It was so darn cute! She even put a little skunk

hiding in the bullrushes on the back in honor of

Grandma Pugh.

Sophie reads Mal her new birthday book.

Over all it was a wonderful day, lots

of good food, good candy (Easter candy is the best!)

and good company. 

We are still finding eggs and candy hidden

in the strangest places- Eddie found one in each

of his dirty socks he left on the floor in the basement

family room :)

I have a video of the "older kids" hunting eggs

 and as soon as I can figure out how

to load it, I will :) 

xoxoxox

BYU's Museum of Art

I don't know if you are familiar with the name Carl Bloch

He was a 19th century Danish artist who painted

some of the most familiar and beloved artwork

of the Savior that we use in the LDS church.

The paintings that I grew up with in Primary

and seeing on the walls of the ward buildings 

and on the fronts of the Ensign.

I got to see the originals last night.

They are amazing!

And no I didn't travel to Denmark to see them

(I wish I had!!)

They are on display at BYU's

Museum of Art 

now until May 7th.

Even Sierra's favorite one was there.

The tickets are free- as is the parking.

You go online to 

http://moa.byu.edu/

What a wonderful experience it was.

I got 12 tickets and took as many of my family as I could

get to go. They had a wheel chair there that my mom

used. Her good friend Glenda pushed her around and

read every one of the descriptions to her.

You can rent an I-Pad that has all the info about each painting

on them for 3 bucks. 

I am planning on going back, by myself, renting one and spend

the day with my new friend Carl Bloch.

I could sit and analyze them each for a lot longer

time than my dear family had the desire to :)

If you have the time, go.