So Cozy!

I thought I should see what Sadie would do in her new bed today at nap time. I tucked her in with her blankie and "Mazy" the singing seahorse (thank you Grandma Lynne) and I closed the door.

I half expected her to be playing the next time I checked on her but was in for a pleasant surprise.

We love you Sadie! Thanks for being a good girl!

Hopefully she doesn't fall off...we should probably invest in a guardrail if this is going to happen more often. :)

New Blankets for the Twin Beds

This summer Wes and I painted the girl's bunkbeds purple. I love them! I love how great they look with the purple curtains and the girls cute purple chair.

But Novalee's blanket was pink which is great. I think pink and purple are lovely colors. However I can't really stand them together.

Anyways, I decided to make matching blankets for the girls that matched better with the bunkbeds.

So I took the girls to the store and I told Novalee she could choose any fabric she wanted. OF COURSE she picked out (what I thought was) the ugliest colored fabric and OF COURSE it had to be blue, NOT purple.

Try as I may she didn't budge and what can you do after you already said she could pick out ANY fabric?

Well after thinking about it for a while...couple of months (but who's counting) I finally decided to sneak in the color I was really looking for.

I used this pattern.

The progress went amazingly fast even with this little helper.

Yep she's pretty proud of herself.

I did try and distract her with markers.

It might have worked out better if the markers were washable.

Here's how the blankets turned out. The two blues were Novalee's fabric choices. :)

I needed a way to tell them apart, so Novalee's has two butterflies on the corner.

She was so excited about the blanket! But of course was disappointed that she couldn't use her pink one at the same time.

This is Sadie's.

And here they are together.

I love how clean and put together the room looks with the matching blankets! Now we just need to convince Sadie that the big girl bed would be more cozy for her than her crib...

Things Redneck Crocketts Do For Valentines Day

I realize it's not yet Valentine's Day. But we celebrated it this weekend.

What did we do, you ask?

Well it didn't include roses

or cards

or dinner out

or a nice limo ride

or dancing (not that we are really capable of that anyways) :)

or a hot air balloon ride

or a weekend getaway to the beach

or even a kid free night...

Us Crockett's(The Oregon ones) tend to either fall into one of two categories when we do anything. Either redneck or hippy. (Not saying that we don't branch out sometimes. :) I think we've done classy a few times too and maybe even adventurous.)

Anyways I would like to think all the redneck activities come from Wesley and all the hippy, tree huggin' ones come from me. :)

For our Valentine's celebration we got tickets to MONSTER JAM!

Oh yeah baby! :)

This was Jared's favorite truck there, he happens to own a Hot Wheels Version of it so naturally it must be a favorite. :)

The truck I was rooting for to win of course won...right after it burst into flames! Totally didn't expect that to happen.

Novalee was excited to find out the Tasmanian Devil was driven by a girl.

Both kids had so much fun and couldn't help but quiz us the next morning over breakfast.

Jared's question: "How long has the Grave Digger been driving?"

Novalee's: "Did you know that the Tasmanian Devil beat all the boys this morning (yesterday afternoon)? " :)

I know, we're cool and you wish you could be like us. ;)

(One more thing I can check off my life list of things I want to do.)

Happy Valentines!

Dressed Up or Dressed Down, Still Cute

About a week ago Sadie went upstairs to play when it was just the two of us at home. She was being really quiet and I was just about to go up and check on her when she came down looking like this.




Can you tell she wants to be just like her big sister when she grows up? She does. Besides saying Mommy and Daddy, she now says Nona, which is Novalee. :) Novalee is one of her favorite people to see and when Novalee is playing nicely with her, it just makes her day.

(And no we didn't already have baby #4. The swing was recently given to me by my sister and both girls have enjoyed putting their dolls in the swing and swinging them.) :)

Well that's Sadie dressed up.

This is how she looked last night. :)

Is the heart tacky? I thought she would appreciate when she was older not having her whole bum posted on a public blog. :)

Let's just say she really LOVES her rocking horse too. :)

As a side note did you know picnik.com is not going to be available after April 19th? I'm not sure how I'm going to edit my photos after that for free... I guess all good things have to come to an end. :(

Belly Bump Timeline Pictures

Well only two:

13 weeks 3 days.


24 weeks 3 days.

Novalee "Future Missionary"

Novalee bought a mini bible the other day.

She wanted this picture taken of her.



And Jared wanted to get in to take a picture too. :)


They are so cute!

Tired Sadie

Sadie was teething about two weeks ago. Molars. She really doesn't even show any symptoms of teething (lucky us) but she does seem more tired and generally wants to be held more.

After a long nap one evening I woke her up so she wouldn't be up all night but she wasn't too interested.

Here are the results of waking her up and putting her on the couch.




Poor thing.

As a only slightly related note...connected only by the thought of Sadie growing up.

We finally got ALL her hair pulled back into one hair tie the other day! :)

We couldn't get over how much she reminded us of Novalee at her age.


Here's Novalee the same age.

It's so fun to watch them change and grow!