Grosgrain: Sarsaparilla Skirt & Vest GIVEAWAY!!!!

Grosgrain: Sarsaparilla Skirt & Vest GIVEAWAY!!!!

Sew Genious

I can't believe the stuff this chick cranks out! Its fabulous, and leaves me wishing I could sew a straight line.http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarsaparilla-skirt-vest-giveaway.html

Don't ya just LOVE it!

So I thought I would post a couple of cute things from Abbi, since I am using this as kindof a journal as well as a show off space :)

Abbi "Mom don't ya just love it"
Me "love what?"
Abbi "Homework, I just love first grade because there is soooo much homework!"

I bet I don't hear that in a few years.
and dropping B off for school this morning

Abbi "I will miss you so much today and tonight"
Me " Well, I will miss you, but only today because I am picking you up at grandmas after I get off work. And I can't wait to see you again."
Abbi "Well don't you think it would be more fun not to see me until in the morning and that way I could have a sleepover and miss you all night!"

I think I will hear that one again!!

Spanglish

One of the things that makes me sad about moving to SLC is moving Abbi out of her duel immersion school. We love it at Dixie Downs and she is learning so much Spanish. She knows way more than me and is catching up with Jeff. I think it's great that she is in a place where there is so much diversity, different languages, accents and cultures. Plus it is so dang cute to hear the kids speaking Spanglish on the playground. :) Even Abbi does it, mixing English and Spanish through her sentances. A few days ago she came home and told me that her friend Nori (who might have been born in Mexico, 6 year olds are often fuzzy on details) can count all the way to 100 in Spanish. "WOW" she told me "That is like the coolest thing ever, and Nori knows all kinds of Spanish words. But its okay because I know all kinds of English words" I wish we were all this accepting of people's differences, the world would be a better place if we could see the world more like our 6 year olds see it.

Fancy Nancy

So the girls and I read a book a few month ago called Fancy Nancy about a very fancy little girl who trys to get her family to be fancier. It was so fun. Well Sydney decided last night that she needed to dress up just like Fancy Nancy and this is what she came up with. SO SO SO cute!!

Butterfly or Moth??

So Abbi's friend Megan invited her over the other day to catch caterpillers. (Oh joy, I thought). But Abigail was all excited, she was going to catch a catterpiller put it in a bottle and create it a habitat. (Where on Earth did she learn that word?) So off she went to explore the wild of her friends back yard. Well, what do you know, she actually caught a catterpiller (I have no idea if I am spelling that right, and I really might not even care :) She is so proud of that little thing, but when I looked in her jar my heart dropped, she didn't have a catterpiller she only had a little worm. Crap! what was I going to do, I couldn't break her little heart, I couldn't tell her so I kept my mouth shut. Well the very next morning she was looking at her jar and started shouting , literally, for joy. Her little bug was growing up!!! Sure enough what I thought was a worm really was a catterpiller and it had quadruppled in size overnight. It has now been almost a week and we have a chrysallis (SP) and soon we will have a beautiful butterfly or moth. We can't wait! Let's just hope we don't kill it. Wish us luck!

Summer Fun!!

So it has been a totally crazy and busy summer, and once again I am wofully behind on my posting. We went to Lake Powell in July and it was so much fun. We had wonderful weather, like 95 degrees and a little breezy. Aunt Oralin always picks the best weeks!!

Abbi was so brave, she jumped off the top of the houseboat with her Daddy and it only cost me $12. Then she went fishing. Now she only had this little butterfly net, some animal crackers and a whole lot of patience. I showed her what to do and she sat there determined to catch a fish! The boys were all very jealous. Even her dad was jealous.

Then over Labor Day we went up to Zion National Park. It was beautiful, and we had a great time. We hiked the River Walk, Weeping Rock, and the Lower Emerald Pool. Sydney thought we were trying to kill her off, She kept telling me that she was "hot, tired, thirsy, hungry, and only a little kid. " But she was a trooper and despite all of that she kept up and had a good time. The only problem we had was that there were a lot of bee's at our camp 6 or 8 flying around us at all times. Carter thought they were great and kept trying to grab them, but the girls screamed and cryed everytime they even thought they saw one. So after 2 spilled dinners, spilled OJ, spilled hot chocolate, and a bevy of bruises from tripping and falling trying to run away, we finally let them sit in the tent. They stayed in the tent almost the entire time we were at the campsite. So much for the great outdoors!

So don't worry about it, my girls are super posers. I don't think we took a normal picture the entire time we were there