"Staow Waows" Light Sabors

Star Wars is Egan's new favorite thing. He likes to say "I'm doawf bettow!" My good friend Natalie in my ward here showed me the coolest thing to do to pool toys and ducked tape. We made light sabors! And hit each other with them all the time. All I did was cut them in half covered an end with black electrical tape, then three stripes of ducked tape, two thick black stripes and two thin stripes with a band of black on the top. Don't forget the grey button. Only took a few minutes to make, and about 50cents each. These sabors hold together so well and we're having a blast. I made green blue and red ones. Evelyn is the new sith, she will only play with red. =) We'll be making more for friends to play with at Egan's Star Wars themed birthday in July. Not too bad in comparison.

Summer Sunglasses

Every morning the kids and I go out on a walk and the sun is so bright so I got some cheapo sunglasses for the kids at the store the other day. The kids loved them, even mommy and daddy tried Egan's on, aren't we silly. Of course same day Evelyn breaks hers, that's life =)

"I can't say Cheese!"

While running frantically from their insane tickling mother these two sad siblings bonked heads and each got a "boo boo" on their lip. Some smart person suggested band aids, so the guilty parent complied. Sweet silence swept through the house, and all were happy. "A picture must be taken" said their Daddy with a grin. When pointing the camera at the poor injured people the oldest said, "I can't say Cheese!"

Another one!

Ok, so every time I went out with the kids, I have people commenting on the backpack leashes I have on them, Egan was still wearing the wal-mart monkey he's just about outgrown, so for marketing (but mostly just for fun) I made Egan one with his new favorite thing, Spacey Aliens! I made up the pattern for the alien crossing my fingers, I think it turned out all right. There is a hidden pocket behind the alien, and a drawstring to close the main pocket, its re-sizeable so it'll fit him for a long while. I've got tons of material left over for anyone who wants one. =)

Evelyn's Birthday!

Evelyn's most recent obsession is The Little Mermaid, so we decided that we would have an Under the sea party for her. I made a banner, had streamers and pink and purple balloons. I spent weeks and weeks planning Evelyn's cake. (In my opinion the most important thing in a party =)) I went in a bidding war on E-bay for the little mermaid figurines you see in the pics, at the last second I was able to outbid the other obnoxious bidder by a few cents. Her cake was made with the confetti cake mix. I used matching confetti frosting on the sides, with white colored blue frosting on the top. I used blue decorating gel to make the frosting look like water, and colored more frosting green for the a seaweed effect on along the outer edges and the writing "Evelyn's 3!" For the mound, I used more cake (cut off the top mound before placing on tinfoil covered pan)I frosted the mound with just white and colored regular white sugar with food coloring to make it look like sand. I used Pink plastic beads from JoAnns along the bottom and Blue sprinkles covered the cake when I was all finished. The figurines fit perfect in the scene.


Evelyn got a Little Mermaid Barbie, Bride Barbie, Mermaid Movies and Dress shoes and so much more from all the wonderful friends and family here.


Evelyn was tickled to be sung to. I'm so glad Aaron got it on tape! She's so cute!

After cake and icecream and presents we went to the park with everyone to play.
Then, after everyone went home, our neighbors had a plastic pool outside and invited Egan and Evelyn to play. At around 7, we put the kids in PJs, and left the room for a few minutes (normally it takes a while for the kids to calm and go to sleep) Within five minutes there were no sounds, we went back in to check, both completely out with Evelyn clutching her new barbies. Happy day. And believe it or not, they were great at church the next day (today)too. Crazy!

More Backpacks!

My sister Loved the idea of the backpacks I'm making for my website and ordered 3 now that her family had doubled since her wedding earlier this month. Here are pictures of the finished products. I hope they keep the kids safe as well as make them look adorable.
This first one I made for Breeze a sweet 3 year old girlie. A home made butterfly hides a pocket for treasures.



This one is for Elias, Made strong and large for his Monster Samoan form.. though he is only 3, was made with a patchwork of lizards, dinosaurs and jungle frogs.

Little almost 2 Jackson will be wearing this denim fun froggie.


All these backpack leashes have reinforced attachments and extra button holes to re size as they grow. They can also just be a backpack by rolling up the leash and putting it in the backpack pocket. Lots of fun! I can make one for only $10. I found a great pattern to make elephants, lambs and horses too. (Awesome JoAnns sales!) Feel free to email me with suggestions, and ideas.

Ladies Man

I was watching a little girl from our ward today. I overheard Egan turn to her and say suddenly. "Ashlyn... you are soooo Cute!"
Adorable.. 'nuf said.