Easter Skirts

Since last October when a friend (Lori Woodbury) from our ward posted a tutorial on how to make patternless skirts I've wanted to make them. Finally I was able to set up the sewing machine and make these skirts for Easter. For the tutorial click HERE.


On Abi's I put pocket, but for some reason it was rather difficult so I made a much easier fabric flower for Katie's skirt.

Katie's skirt
Abi's skirtAll dressed up for Easter, and being uncooperative for pictures.

Crafting.

I am not a very original crafter, I love to copy or try to copy others crafts. I have been wanting to craft and sew for a long time but it's hard with two little girls running around and without much space to it. Recently I've been able to do a few things and want to share them with you. I am not a writer so I won't be doing tutorials but if I followed a tutorial I will link you to it.

So today I share two of my most recent crafts...

Since the girls got their own room last year I've been wanting to put up the letters of their first names. I finally was able to get letters, I painted them white and added flowers. I think they turned out pretty cute!


I have been blog surfing lately and found some really fun craft ideas. Here is one of them... You use an egg carton to make a spring wreath. I found the tutorial on the blog Krafty Kat just click on the name and you can see the tutorial too!

Katie helped paint the egg carton flowers.

She got distracted and started mixing colors, we had a lot of fun.

Here is our finished wreath. I wish we had some brighter colors but used what we had. I think Katie and I will enjoy crafting together as she grows up, hopefully Abi will like to join us too!

Church History Musesm

If you are looking for some free fun to do with your kids I highly recomend heading downtown to the Church History Museum. We met my sister and her family one morning and had a good time.

Katie steering the boat.

Abi through a window in the boat. I love that cute silly smile!

Katie fishing.

Abi and daddy had fun building with gigantic blocks.

Another Abi smile!

Katie and Abi feeding the Missionaries.

(If you look on the wall there are missionaries at the table. )

Katie put on a skirt and was dacing. What a beautiful girl she is!

A couple pictures of the temple.
The trees were in full blossom.

Down town is changing with the city creek center project. It seems so different from when I was working down town every day five years ago. It was a lot of fun to head down town for a morning.

General Conference

I always have loved General Conference weekend. It was like a holiday, we would spend the two days of conference with the TVs and radio's tuned in. My dad and brothers always attended Priesthood Session on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning we always had a big breakfast that included Conference Cake. I hope that we can raise our girls to know it's important to listen to the Prophet and Apostles. To try and keep the girls occupied I went to Sugardoodle.net (they have lots of cute and fun church idea's) and printed off their General Conference packets for little kids. These two pictures were a couple of our favorite activities from the packets.

Its a First Presidency and 12 Apostle mobile.

Katie loved putting different members of the First Presidency at the podium.

Katie got a bit board during a session and John had fallen asleep. This is what happened.

Despite two busy little ones that made it hard to listen we still enjoyed conference weekend!

Cavities

Katie had her first few cavities and we decided it was best to take her to Primary Children's in Riverton and put her under anesthesia while they filled and capped her teeth. Her appointement was on April 1st, to bad it wasn't an April Fools joke that she needed this done. She was a little nervous before going but was such a good girl and did great. Daddy went with her while I stayed home with the Abi.

She liked her hospital pj's and thought it was funny that they went on backwards.

She enjoyed the waiting room with lots of toys.

Here she is in the wagon they used to take her to the operating room. She loved it.

John sent me this picture after they took her back.

She had a quick recovery, and was a happy girl afterwards despite her mouth being a bit achy for a few days. She has a silver tooth and thinks its pretty cool.

One last March Post

Katie gave her first primary talk on Sunday March 27th. The topic given was "Heavenly Father Speaks to us through his prophets". Although Katie didn't really write her talk she enjoyed practicing it and did a wonderful job of giving her talk with daddy's help. She did get a little close to the microphone but only for a second. What a big girl Katie is getting to be!

Here is what her talk said:

Heavenly Father called special men, known as prophets, to teach and guide His people according to His plan. In Amos 3:7 it says:“Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” We have a living prophet today, Thomas S. Monson. He is the President of the Church, and he speaks to us for the Lord. Next week we can listen to the prophet during General Conference. He will teach us more about how to follow God’s plan so we can be happy. In Jesus Name Amen

Pictures from March

We were out for a walk in the neighborhood and saw these kites being flown at Eisenhower Jr. High. We decided to go take a look, they were HUGE and fun to watch for a little while.

John and Abi with Lilly(John's sister's dog)

Abi and Papa Hughes

The girls on our new couch

Tired Abi.

Silly Katie

The girls watching a movie on mom and dads bed.

Katie asleep in a shopping cart at REI. She fell asleep in the car on the way and we just moved her from the car seat to the cart.

Abi eating toast for breakfast. Yes, she has awesome hair.

A snuggle with mommy after Abi's 18 month check up and immunizations.

The newest "now legal" addition to our family.

Libbie!!! My brother Chris met his second half Katie just over four years ago. Three and a half years ago they got married and sealed in the temple, I love seeing them together. Katie has a beautiful daughter Libbie from a previous marriage, Libbie has been calling Chris "dad" since he and Katie were dating. Chris was able to adopt Libbie on March 31st it was an exciting day for my family. Chris is a great dad to his daughter. I love him and his little family!

Here's sassy miss Libbie!

Waiting in the hallway at the David Courthouse.

Pictured are my mom, sister Mary, sister in law Lawon, nephew Luc, and of course Libbie.

My dad, Abi, Luc, and Austin (Katie's brother son).

Chris, Katie, and their attorney.

I'm pretty sure they are getting Libbie's last name changed.

Libbie and my little Katie peeking in on them.

Out side for some pictures.

Libbie, Genevieve, Rebecca's head, Lawon, Mary, Mitch, and Jack.

Luc, Libbie, Genevieve, Rebecca, my little Katie.

There were lots of hugs! Here is one between My brother Chris and sister Mary who has Jack in tow. Also pictured are Mitch, Katie, my mom, and Katie's Brother and sister in law in the very back.

Mitch, John, and Abi. Luc and Rebecca in the background.

Libbie was sick of having her picture taken! A bunch of family that attended.

Mary, Mitch, and Jack.

The "Legal" family! Yay!

Cousins! Genevieve, Libbie, and Katie.

We are all looking forward to Libbie being sealed to Chris and Katie. They are planning to be sealed at the end of the year after Katie's parents return home from their mission.