Christmas Festivities

Christmas Eve we had my sister Courtney and her family over for dinner.  Then we watched the nativity, and had dessert and opened a couple presents.  We also had my neighbor Casey over.  He was fun to hang with. 

We always have to take a picture with our babies…. Max is 2 mo. older than Jordyn exactly! Yesterday was their 9 and 7 mo. birthdays.

Here’s a family picture by the Christmas tree

Jayne- all tucked in and ready for bed, so Santa can come!

Here’s Jayne Christmas morning opening up her stocking (she’s wearing her new Woody jammies)

Darick got a tiny frying pan (perfect for eggs!) in his stocking

 

Max was a real pro, being a first timer

Jayne was excited about everything she got, and wanted to play with is immediately

I got a Silhouette machine, I’m super excited about it! Watch out world, I’m feeling crafty!

You be the mom…

Jayne really loves to play house, like REALLY loves it.  She has a doll house that she usually pretends with- which she loves.  However, when we travel, the doll house can’t come with us.  I was thinking about this dilemma back during September Sewing Month, and came up with a pretty sweet idea, but I haven’t had time to create it until now.  I give you a quiet book.  But not just any quiet book, because I have a feeling it won’t keep Jayne quiet, but pretty vocal(she has a loud imagination).  Its a house, to go.  Shall we have a tour?

Knock on the front door…

Bake something in the oven- and while you’re at it, can you get me a can of corn out of the cupboard?

 

These chairs are just right!

Time for bed, can you get the light?

 

Oops, we forgot to go potty!  How about a bath while we in here?

Our clothes are stinky! we need to wash them! (Darick has promised me a laundry room exactly like this someday :) Including the pink shag rug)

 

We’ve been cooped up inside for to long- time for a road trip!

 

The back page had a pocket with a zipper for the family to be stored.  (they still need to be sewn, but they’re gonna be great!)

Rubba Dub Dub

During Thanksgiving, Max got to play with his cousin Kimble.  That’s the great thing about having family around, there are always plenty of friends (what Jayne calls her cousins) to play with, doesn’t matter what age you are.  And who can resist  a couple of cute tubbin’ boys. (Max- 8mo. Kimble- 1yr.)

Dangerously Cute

I’m starting to sew recklessly adorable baby clothes.  I can’t help it!  There are some seriously cute fabrics out there, and they are just begging for me to use them.  I just need to use this power I have for good- like when a friend has a baby.  I helped host a baby shower last night and here is a couple things a made for the baby (mom?)

This little dress…. I love pink and brown and pastels as much as the next person, but there is something about this fabric that demanded baby love…

The front…

And the back….

 

I embellished this onsie first, and thought “dang that’s cute!”  Then I made that dress, and the Onsie is now second best… but still adorable .  Man I love to sew!

Scrappy Gentleman Robot

I LOVE robots, and I’ve been thinking about making one for a while now. Then I decided that a robot would be perfect for Max for Christmas. The Robot I envisioned had cute buttons and knobs and stuff, but those things aren’t very baby friendly (In Jayne’s words “so dangerous!”(dane-drus) ) So I decided that different colors and textures would be almost as good. With my sister’s help I started to sketch and came up with the scrappy gentleman robot. He has a pocket, a bowtie and is very dashing.

His hands and wheel crinkle. His heart can be displayed or hidden in his pocket (but is attached to a ribbon so we don’t loose it)

And he has a friend (cause who can make just ONE robot?!) I don’t think he’ll ever grow old and rusty.

(the Robo-friend is for Max’s cousin Kimble)

Sitting Up

Max will be 8 mo. old on the 24th (oh how time flies!). He only just barely started sitting up on his own, without assistance or the need for pillows to be placed all around him. Sure he has times where he falls over reaching for toys, but that's what crawling is for! Oh, crawling?! Max isn't anywhere near it... he just whimpers a little, and Jayne takes pity on him and brings him a toy and gives him a little kiss. Other interesting facts.... Max will eat "puffs" and Cheerios... but wants NOTHING to do with baby food or bottles. So he's still pretty dependent on me. But I don't really mind, it just keeps him my baby longer. Also he sleeps through the night (since he was 2 mo.), takes 2-3 naps a day, loves to watch Jayne, loves any blanket (no favorites yet) gets really giggly at night, yells if he thinks he's being ignored, and is a cuddle muffin. He doesn't have any teeth (yay!) He loves to sit in his high chair and watch everything. He loves to look out the window. He loves to cuddle, but won't sleep unless he's in his bed. He also loves bathes and gets super excited anytime you look at him. We call him Max, Mr. and brother...we love our little (big!) boy!

Family Pictures 2010

We had our pictures taken at the end of October, by Sarah Turner.  She is so amazing and patient.  I love her!  I love how she just captures moments.  Life isn’t always “look at the camera and smile!”  Sarah is pretty much amazing!  She’s a great photographer, but she’s also a great friend!     

Time...

When did this

and this

Turn into this?

Halloween Fun

This month has been fast and fun. There are so many great things to do in the month of October. In these parts there is a fun little thing called The Pumpkin Walk. Its pretty much some really awesome scenes that are made out of pumpkins and other fall squash. They also have boards painted with fun characters. Jayne, max and I went with some of our friends

Here is the Count Jayne

Here’s some of the other kids that came with us

Here I am with some of my other princess friends (Cat, Emily, me and Shannon)

I really love the Tinkerbelle Movies, I mean REALLY love. I can’t help it, they just draw me in. I watched previews and wasn’t really impressed.. but man, now I almost can’t get enough of them. Its kinda a problem, I’ll be walking though the room and just stop whatever I’m doing to watch Tinkerbelle and her fairy friends. So I had to get a picture of the fairies in the pumpkin walk

A couple days after the Pumpkin walk, the whole family went to a corn maze with some of our other friends. Here’s Jayne with Kendall. They have this love/hate relationship. They’ve known each other since birth and I’ve babysat Kendall a lot. Some days they are friends, and some days they’re not. Kinda like brother and sister.

Here are the Cahoons, pretty much out best friends here

It was such a pretty skyline, I wanted a picture without kiddos (I am wearing Max though, which is why I am at an awkward angle)

The whole Carpenter Family

The next night after the corn maze, we got together with the Cahoons’ again and carved pumpkins. This is our 4th year carving pumpkins with them

Eldon puts his heart and soul into his pumpkin carving

Kendall with his pumpkin

All of out pumpkins

(Darick’s, Jayne’s, Kendall’s, Eldon’s, Jessica’s, and mine)

All lit up!

The next night, we got into costume to go to a Halloween party….

“Superman, save my baby!”

A Hamburger, Superman, Sabrina (from Hell’s kitchen) and a baby shark

Me as Sabrina

The Real Sabrina

That’s a [candy] wrap[per]