Blee’s first sewing project

I have been helping Emily finish her faith in God award for Primary. One of the things she had to do was to make something and display it. So I helped her make an apron for her first ever foray into sewing. She did a great job for her first try.

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Guess Who’s Twelve?

I have always told my girls that they had to wait until they are twelve before they could get their ears pierced. Even though Emily won’t be twelve for a few more days, Saturday is the best day to go because there is no school and Anne can stay home and babysit. Earlier in the… Continue reading Guess Who’s Twelve?

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Snow Day

The kids have been waiting a whole year to play in the snow at our new house. Last year the yard was just dirt, so no way was I going to let them out in the snow to get all muddy and gross. This year however we have a nice yard with grass so no… Continue reading Snow Day

Pie

For our family cherry and apple are the pies of choice. This year however we decided to make pumpkin pie because Sam requested it. At the store this week I bought a couple of pie crusts so I wouldn’t have so much work to do. I thought I would use one for the pumpkin and… Continue reading Pie

Indian Princess

In the past few years I have not been able to spend much time sewing because of such things as taking care of 5 kids, building and moving into a new home etc. Just lately though the sewing bug has come back since I made Sam’s costume for Halloween. BYUFan’s sister Kelly asked me if… Continue reading Indian Princess

The corn maze

My kids still love to go and play with their friends from the old neighborhood. Today my friend Lynette called up and wanted to know if my kids wanted go to the corn maze with her kids. I thought the kids would love it, not for just the maze, but because they could play with… Continue reading The corn maze

First Snow

On the last Saturday of September we got two big surprises. Grandma and grandpa called us up and invited us to go out to lunch with them before they went out of town and we got our first snowfall of the season. The kids got to choose the place we went, so we went to… Continue reading First Snow

Fall Soccer

When a lady from our ward called me a few weeks ago asking if Sam would like to play fall soccer I wasn’t sure if I wanted to spend all my weekends at soccer games. But I thought that Sam would love to play with the kids from the ward instead of kids who he… Continue reading Fall Soccer

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Trip to Grandmas

It has been quite a while since we made the trip to Coalville to visit grandma so we decided to take a final day trip before the kids start school again next week. They love to go up to grandmas and have fun playing in the attic or playing outside. We got to grandma’s house… Continue reading Trip to Grandmas

Chinese Souvenirs

Yesterday grandpa and grandma came over on their way out of town to drop off some souvenirs they got for them in China. Diana looks cute in her little chinese dress. Caroline liked it so much that she wanted to try it on also. Samuel got a t-shirt and the other girls got cute little… Continue reading Chinese Souvenirs