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!)

The past two weeks...

Well, I didn't take very many pictures over the Christmas holiday, I wish I had... I don't know what my deal was! We went to my parents house for Christmas this year, we try not to travel at Christmas, cause of the roads and stuff. But this year we decided we wanted to go to Washington. So we had a candle light dinner Christmas eve, followed by a reenactment of the Christmas Story. Each of us had a part... I was the Angel Gabriel, Darick was King Herod, and Jayne was a Wise Man. Also in the play was Courtney and family, Rebekah and Family, Nancy, Dad (mom was the narrator) Ian, Karissa (Ian's girlfriend), and Yaseen (Ian's roomie). This is pretty much the only picture I did get, but I think if I could choose one picture to post, this would be it!

Then we went to my sister Shavonne's house, and spent a few days there. Darick played Xbox with her husband Derek pretty much every night. Had a birthday bash, with dad's beef stew (my favorite thing dad cooks) and other soup, cake and rolls. We went and saw Avatar at the Imax in 3D, and it was awesome! And we watched animal planet, and the history channel during our free time (we don't have those channels, and love them!) there was a really cool show called Cats101, and it made me really wish I could have a kitty (Darick even wants one!) but alas, my allergies. Maybe someday I'll get a sphynx (too bad they're kinda ugly!)

Then we drove down to the Tri-cities and stayed with Darick's parents for New years. We stayed up eating candy and playing games every night. I won all the games we played, it was awesome! Including phase 10, after coming back from being 4 phases behind! and winning by a whole phase. It was awesome. We hung out with Darick's sister Lisa who was at the parents house too.

So now we're back home, and I need to take the Christmas decorations down, finish unpacking our life we brought with us, and put my house back into it's normal furniture arrangement (right now it's in the Christmas set -up to make room for our tree) but all I want to do is knit. That's right knit (normally I stick to Crocheting). While at Shavonne's house she showed me all her cool new knitting books she just got, which inspired me to pick up knitting and refine my skills. I know how to knit and read patterns, now I just need practice. I'm working on a knitted hat for our little man right now, so I'll do a post on it when I finish (and I WILL finish it!) oh, and I start my new class, Fitting and Alterations, tomorrow, and am super excited. I love going to school for fun classes!

Chistmas Stockings

I've been sewing this weekend, but most of it is top secret and can't be posted on the good ol' blog...
My mom has 10 kids, she's pretty much amazing. And she made each of us 10 kids a Christmas stocking out of felt. Several of us kids want those same kind of stockings for our families.... and I am one of them, our stockings can be seen here. I also made stockings for Darick's sister's family last year (check them out here) and helped Courtney make her family some, and her brother in law's family. They're fun to make, but time consuming! And it's hard to come up with new ideas. When I get asked to make them for others, I don't really know what to say (I always say yes- but I'm not making any promises here). I think part of the reason my mom's stockings are so cool, is because we all know she made them for us, and that's why we all love them so much. So when I make a stocking for someone, I always make sure I put that same love and thought my mom put into ours. So here's the stockings I started working on for my sister Rebekah's family, they still need some work, but the basic foundation is finished...