Spring Break in Utah

The boys had their Spring Break last week. Tyson went to California last Wednesday to help his dad with some projects, so on his way their he dropped us off at my Sister's house in Utah for the rest of the week. We had such a fun time. We went to this really really cool park called Neptune Park. It was so different from your average park, lots of twirling and spinning things, and everything was very geometrical. The kids rode their bikes all over and to the park in her housing track too. We also went to a place called Trafalgas it's a family fun center that my sister had passes to. Wyatt loved the hopper ride, Hunter had fun playing lazer tag, and riding the go cart with his Aunt Tiffy. They played a round of miniature golf and rode the airplane ride. Ryker climbed to the very top of the rock climbing wall. On Saturday Uncle Jeff and Aunt Maria came over for dinner and we played croquet, Maria won, then Hunter, then Jeff, then me. Tyson picked us back up on his way home Sunday afternoon. We had a great time! Thanks Hunter Family!

Hunter climbed all the way to the top

So did his really cool Aunt Tiffany

Cool Mom's play with their kids, not just watch them.

You can really get going in a circle on this, to where they needed help to stop it.

This is a fun merry-go-round. This is the one I flew off of with baby Briggs (we weren't going fast) but soooo much fun!

This is not the typical baby swing, it is really for older children with special needs. It's awesome that the park has things for them too.

All 5 kids Ryker, Hunter, Wyatt, Kendyl, and Briggs. The only one we're missing is cousin Owen in Mississippi.

Having fun on the springy, bouncy, teeter totter.

Some crazy pendulum swing.

My little cheater

My serious player who player by THE RULES

Briggs played too!

Latest Sewing Projects

I have been in a sewing mood and am almost out of different things to sew to get ready for baby number 3. These are my projects I have done this past week: a hooter hider, nursing strap clips, burp cloths, a big baby blanket, and a diaper clutch,

A hooter hider for nursing

clip onto any blanket for a nursing cover

One side of the burp cloths

The other side of the burp cloths

Burp cloths

Snuggle blanket

The back side of so soft, I love it, I know baby 3 will too.

Diaper and wipe clutch

The inside is lined with the polka dot material, It can hold about 3 diapers and a small package of wipes.

Car Seat Blanket

I had to make a matching car seat blanket to cover and protect baby boy #3 from weather and even more important, to keep people and their germs away from him. When I made the blanket with the brown minky trim around the edges it really makes me even more so want to make bedding out of this material.

Polka Dots underneath

Velcro straps to attach to car seat

Car Seat Project

So this was my latest project that took me 2 days. I started with the original car seat cover and stitched the whole thing, including the batting from the material. I took the material pieces and used them as a pattern and traced them on the fabric I wanted to use. I then sewed the original batting to the new fabric pieces. Then I sewed all the pieces back together again (like humpty dumpty). The bias tape was the hardest part for me, I have never used it before. The other hard part was making button holes, I've never done that either and let's just say the sewing machine I am using is so old that it is mustard yellow and I could barely get it to do a zig zag. The canopy was a challenge but turned out great. I then made matching shoulder pads that are reversible. I've spent about $28 in all the supplies and still have tons of material left over so I am now making a car seat blanket. I'll post that next. I love this material and I love how it turned out.

The Original Car Seat Cover

New and improved car seat for Boy #3

Car Seat from the side

Under side of the canopy I used polka dot fabric

Shoulder pads that are reversible (brown minky)



Saturday Naps

While I took Hunter to a birthday party last Saturday I left Wyatt with Tyson watching a movie. This is what I come home to. Yes, Wyatt is wearing his bathing suit and had flip flops on and Yes it was snowing that day.

Boy #3

Thought I would post a few ultrasound pictures. Tyson and I both are not a fan of these type of pictures (to claymation for me). Anyways here's a picture of Baby Boy #3's face, legs and arm with his hand in a fist.

Father's Day Banner

Got this one done early. I laminated the ties so they wouldn't rip (that's why it looks a little shiny).

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Valentine Stacker

So before I finish putting away my valentine decor I took a picture of the Valentine stacker I made. So here it is. My only Valentine craft this year :(
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St. Patrick's Day Banner

So I have been slacking in the crafting department. This is the only St. Patrick's Day craft that I have made so far this year besides a FHE kit (which was a big hit with the kids yesterday for family night). Thanks again mom for my circut, I LOVE IT! And for Valentines craft I only made a stacker (which I didn't even take a picture of, when I do I'll post it). Hopefully I'm start getting in the mood to craft some more, just need to find that motivation.

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Wyatt's Drawing

Wyatt loves "W's" and practices tracing his name every day. Well, last week he drew a picture of himself on the paper. He has probably drawn over a hundred people now. I love these drawings where the arms and legs come out of the head.

2nd Wrestling Meet

Hunter did an awesome job wrestling today. He pinned 2 of the guys that he wrestled against. I love to watch him and cheer him on. This sport being an individual sport have I believed helped boost Hunter self confidence, even if he doesn't win the match he is still out there giving it a try. Last night I told him to not stop wrestling until the referee tells them to stop (last weekend he kept letting a kid up after he would take him down). And he told me, "But mom, I don't want to hurt him and he kept having a sad look on his face like I was hurting him." He is to tender hearted we have to explain to him that all the kids know that they can get pinned and there is a chance of getting hurt. I just love this sweet boy!

Waiting for the match to start

They always shake hands before the start the match.

The first kid he pinned.

This is a kid in his class named Carson

His second pin.

Hunter, the winner.

First Idaho Caucus

Tonight was the first Idaho Caucus. There were over 2,000 voters in the gym plus the teens and others there that could not vote. I liked how it started with a prayer and then the pledge of allegiance. Then we listened to a few speakers and then we voted and they passed around cans that we put our vote in. Then the longest part was waiting an hour for them to manually count the votes. If a candidate had more than 50% of the votes then we are done, if not then we would vote again with the candidates that got less then 15% vote eliminated. Thank goodness Mitt Romney won by 59%. It was a long 3 hours but fun experience.
 

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I had already put in my ballot for round 1.

The results