No...Maybe...Definitely No

Something new Sadie started doing about a month ago. Enjoy!

Not Even a Mother Could Kiss

I love this face! It's so Sadie. But I definitely won't be kissing it like this. :)

A Whole Lotta Firsts

Today is Wesley's First day of work!

I can only imagine that he will experience many firsts today.

We have been excited for this day to come for a long time and now it is finally here!

The kids and I couldn't be prouder of him.

Good Luck Dr. Crockett! :)

Some Craft Stuff

After St. Patrick's day this year, JoAnns Fabric was selling headbands for 70% off!

Of course they were green.



So I covered them with fabric and now they look like this.




Of course Novalee doesn't want them and Sadie just takes them off. :)

Last weekend very last minute I was asked to go with my dad to Mary Poppins! I was so excited! I love going to see musicals and Mary Poppins from what I had heard promised to be amazing!

My step-mom told me that I didn't need to wear anything formal but if I had something nice and summer-ish I should wear that.

Well I didn't really have anything. And I only had about 40 minutes to get ready and go.

So I pulled out this shirt from the closet.



I bought it about four years ago and I don't think I've ever worn it. I don't know what I was thinking when I got it. With the long puffy sleeves and long tight cuffs and the deep v-neck that tightens around the waist I felt more like a pirate than a lady every time I tried it on.



Not exactly a look I was trying for. :)

But after looking at the shirt this last time trying to figure out if it would ever work, I thought maybe it would be just the thing if I altered it a bit.

It turned out just right.



And we had lots of fun! :)

Okay last project.

Here is a skirt that I rarely wore because it reminded me more of a slip than a skirt.

(Can you tell I already cut it? :) I always forget to take pre-project photos.) :)

So I turned it into a skirt for Novalee.


Now it doesn't have to take up residence in the local landfill and Novalee has a new skirt. :)

Big Mistake!

So we bought this dining room table at the DI.

We needed a bigger one, since the four of us bigger people (Sadie's not included) barely fit around the old one.

Here's the "NEW to us" table.

It has been such a blessing to be able to fit things on the table other than just our plates.

But it was a little beat up.

So we decided once we moved back to Oregon we would sand it down and restain it.

Here Wesley is working on "his" project. (In our new backyard! However small we have a fully fenced in backyard and we LOVE IT!)


But after sanding it down and hitting particle board we realized our table wasn't solid wood and our dreams of staining it were dashed to pieces.

So then we debated over what the best color would be to paint the table.

I was fine with anything but black.

So we decided to buy the darkest blue that we could find.

What a laughable mistake! We were too embarrassed to even bring it inside and "try it out."

Through laughter and a little fear we discussed having our new landlords come by only to see the table and immediately decide that perhaps they rented to the wrong sorts of people.

I mean really. Would you want this in your dining room?



The sad thing is that it took the whole three cans of blue spray paint for us to realize that perhaps blue wasn't truly the best idea.

It looks like an over-sized children's art table. (Which we did briefly, very briefly, consider letting the children just go hog wild and paint it anyway they wanted.)

After some thinking we realized that we could have probably stained it a really dark espresso stain and the part where the particle board was showing through would have hardly been noticeable.

So Wesley declared we could just sand off the new paint and then stain it. So in a last ditch effort he started sanding it only to discover that the paint was too tacky and was actually ruining the sandpaper and that he would need A LOT more sandpaper to do the job.

By this time we were both just so disgusted with how poorly the whole thing turned out.

So we gave in.

Here it is in it's full glory.



Black.

Being A Winner: Part II (Update)

So do you remember when I posted that I've never won anything from a drawing or a sweepstakes. No? That's okay but if you wanted a refresher click here.

Anyways, in that post I wrote,

"This year I will WIN something! :)

I will even settle for a donut in the supermarket. :)"

Well lucky me!



Perhaps I should have aimed higher for what I was willing to "settle" for.
:)

At The Cabin

Before we left Utah one thing Wesley really wanted us all to do was to go to his grandmother's cabin in Kolob. So the Friday before we moved we drove to Kolob and spent the weekend there.

We had so much fun!

We pretended to be ninjas.

And fierce hunters.

Wesley declared his love for me in writing.


We rode ATVs.


Fished.


Swung from trees.


Hung out with family.

Saw gorgeous vistas.

Canoed.

Discovered Land.

Discovered the extremely rare Kolob Monkey.

And his close relative the wild Kolob Mountain Cat.

Sadie Got her first taste of a Coke product. Naughty grandpa!


I'm pretty sure we couldn't have fit more into our weekend if we tried.

We had a really great time!