Tea Towel Tour

I finished another towel today. I did Bluesparkie's towel and her theme was fallen women and mushrooms. So this is what I came up with.

Also, I'm very happy to announce that a secret has been unveiled. Jenny of Sublime Stitching had begun the Tea Towel Tour in an attempt to received feedback on a new towel she was developing. Well the original disappeared during the tour and hasn't been found. So a few of us on Craftster.org got together to make her a replacement. Well, it is finally competed and it has been delivered to Jenny. So we are not keeping it a secret any longer. Here's a link to pictures of the towel being given to Jenny. Here's a picture of just the thing I embroidered.

SPRING

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SPRING!!!

Happy International Waffle Day!

Yep, that's right! It's International Waffle Day!
I unfortunately don't have a waffle iron, or even frozen waffles, so the boys and I are trudging in the freshly falling snow (yep, more snow) across the street to enjoy a waffle cone ice cream!

Easter

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend, and those who celebrate had a wonderful Easter. My boys were absolutely spoiled. We had 4 Easter celebrations to go to which unfortunately means that my family's really misses out. We had a little bunny search at 6 in the morning on Easter Sunday. I make my husband and children hop around the house looking for their things. It's quite entertaining, and they don't bug me while I finish getting ready for church.


I teased this in the last post, I made my nieces "Snuggle bunnies" for easter. I then also gave them 2 Smencils each. The boys are selling them for a fundraiser at school, and I thought they'd be fun. I gave Clover a hat instead of the Smencils as she's a bit young for writting. The girls all loved the bunnies and the Smencils. Clover especially loved the bunny, she definitely got the point of them being called "Snuggle bunnies". I wish I would have had my camera that day. She was just loving it up! Here they are all finished.


And because my niece Jo insists on getting her picture taken, and posing in this exact pose. I figured I'd induldge. So here's Jo after she suckered Grandpa into buying her every Easter accessory possible.

Spring?

I don't know about you, but this doesn't look like "Happy Spring" to me.

This is the view out the front of my house. We hardly had any snow left. Now we're supposed to get up to 9 inches!

The kids are excited because they think it will be much easier to find footprints and brightly colored eggs tomorrow and Sunday. I think they may be right.

I know I haven't been posting many projects, it's been busy, but don't worry, I'm taking advantage of the yucky weather. Can you tell what I'm making?

I'm hoping I'll have a chance to finish these, and start on an Easter skirt for me.

The boys and I were supposed to decorate eggs today. (Tim really dislikes this,) but they decided to go with Daddy to work (seriously the most boring place in the world to me, but they love it.) So we'll have to do that tonight. We have an early Easter breakfast in the morning, another Easter celebration at noontime. Then we have 2 more on Sunday. So it's a go-go-go weekend again for us. I hope you all have a wonderful Easter if you celebrate, and I certainly hope it looks more like spring for you than it does for me!

Liam's 9th Birthday Cake

I wasn't sure I was going to post this as it ended up being a bit of a disaster. The cake was delicious. A lovely chocolate cake with a cheesecake type center. And it even looked cute, until something fell on it. Right before singing and pictures and everything. I was bummed, but Liam I could tell was too. He was dreaming of a dragon cake. So I told him I'll make him another one sometime soon. Anyway, here's the cake in all it's broken glory!

We fixed it up a bit, and I guess it doesn't look horrible. But not what was intended. Oh well, like I said it was delicious, and another reason to make another cake in the near future!

Liam is 9!!

Ok, this is a bit late, his birthday was on Saturday, but we've been busy! So this is his birthday post!



LIAM IS 9!!


BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH was right!
28 hours of induced labor......... absolutely worth it!


Liam is the funniest, most creative, "expert at every-nothing"! He is a story teller. Thoughtful, sensitive, shy at times, bold at others, he is my "Lemur".






I think Liam has had more nicknames than anyone else I know.



When he was born he was far more portly than Levi had been, (which in all honesty isn't portly at all.) So we called him Bubba, boy if there was ever a name that didn't fit a child!


(Ok, maybe in this picture it does.)




He tells people that he's named after the Lemurs (kinda monkey-like creatures, total bull by the way!)

If you need to feel happy, here's the kid to talk to. He can make you smile with nothing but a look.





This man loves origami, yet doesn't care to follow the directions (no idea where he gets that from,) so my house is filled with random papers that are folded and "look" like stuff.



He certainly keeps us going!


Can't wait to see what the next year brings! Love you Liam!