Happy Birthday Super Boy!!!

 

10 years ago I was starting to have severe labor pains after 30 hours of pitocin (induction medicine) 6 HOURS later (3 of which were PUSHING) we finally had a C-section to deliver our baby boy....the one we thought was a girl...

Tall Boy was SO HAPPY!!! 

Although it was the most painful and difficult thing my body had ever done, we finally had a child to join our family! What a blessing he has been!

 

From a fun and mischievous infant...

 

... to being a great big brother to Super Girl!

He has become so self sufficient...

 

and so willing to serve others...

and respectful and appreciative of his family...

 

 

with his own hopes and beliefs...

 

likes and dislikes...

with so much potential for whatever he wants to be!

Happy Birthday Super Boy! You are loved so much more than you will ever know!

Where has the time gone!

I got an email from my dad requesting some new blog material! So here I am being a good girl and catching you all up! I intended on doing a Christmas/New Year letter for our friends and family, but life happened...so instead I am doing a catch-up blog!
We had a great Christmas.

 
We all got what we really wanted, and I had fun making matching Christmas dresses for Super Girl and her doll!

 
Our stockings were VERY full, and Santa sure did like our treats! He even took the time to write us a response  to our note!
  
  

We had a lot of fun making a delicious gingerbread tree with an awesome cookie cutter set my mom gave us, we made it big enough to eat 1 cookie a day until Christmas!
 

 


Super Boy was also in a production of "A Christmas Carol" with his 4th grade class, he was a grave digger!
 
In January, Tall Boy and I celebrated our 12 year anniversary! Hard to believe it has been that long! In February, we moved Super Boy out of his school, back into our neighborhood school. He wasn't enjoying the Accelerated program any more, and thought it best to go back to a normal 4th grade class. I am really happy we did, and Super Boy seems happier than ever with the switch!

I am still very busy with LIFE!!! I have 2 classes this semester, both online. I am learning about Conservation Biology and Natural Disasters. They are both very interesting classes. I also help out at the kids' school with Home Reading Library and helping in Super Girl's class every Friday with whatever cutting/put together project her teacher is in need of. I also work with Bear Cub Scouts on Mondays! In my "spare time" I have been working on sewing a custom nursery ensemble for a friend and keeping an Etsy shop for all my other baby projects. I recently joined the Pinterest crowd and have done a few of the cool things I found there.

Tall Boy has been with the same company for 7 years,but is now contemplating a job change. He hasn't been too happy with some of the choices his company has been making recently. He is also recovering from a severe toe dislocation that occurred while playing church ball!

Winter finally arrived this past week...I was enjoying our California winter, way to ruin it snow!!! Oh well, I still love winter, I just don't like feeling like I should be hibernating right about now!

As for what is coming, Super Boy will be turning 10 in a month!!! Guess I better start planning for that!

Hope that covers the bases dad! We love all of you and hope you all are doing well! Until next time...

Yeesh! It's October!

Yet another month has flown by! We have been CRAZY BUSY here! Earlier this year,Super Boy and I took Hunter's safety. We put in for some tags, mainly to build up points, but I drew a Bull Elk tag! So we went hunting and I shot an elk,but we never found him! Tall Boy has 2 other tags in the same general area, so he is keeping a look out for our trophy, but no luck so far. He hasn't gotten any animal either yet. He is out on his Spike Elk hunt right now. Over the next few weekends he also has a Buck Deer tag. Here's hoping for some good meat coming our way!

In other news, Super girl and Super Boy are enjoying school and recently took their photos for this year. We have Super Girl's back already, and will be getting Super Boy's back soon too...but for now, here's Super Girl's Kindergarten Photo...




Gotta love that girl! In fact i am doing a project for her for Christmas. I am making her a matching outfit (or two) for her and her Madame Alexander doll she got from Gma K for her bday. I just finished the doll's outfit last night! It is SUPER ADORABLE! Here it is...

It is comprised of a shirt, sundress, shawl and pants

 

Isn't it so cute! And Super Girl's outfit will be almost identical. I couldn't find an exact match to the doll pattern, but it will be close enough. I will be sure to add photos as I finish various projects.Anyway,that's about all for now!

Yeesh! It's September!

Wow, summer seemed to drag on, but it really did fly by! So much to catch up on!

At the end of June my parents, sister, and brother came to visit and brought their families along! We had 14 people in our house for a few days so it was a bit crazy, but WAY fun! We saw the movie 17 miracles together...We went to Temple Square...

 The assembly hall is amazing and so beautiful!

 Especially the glass windows!

 Having fun along the way!

 We went to the visitor's center...

 And the tabernacle...

 Walking around downtown we saw these cool fountains...

 and then we all went to Hatch Family Chocolates together...

 We were all  so amazed by their awesome creations...especially the basketball!

Unfortunately,all good things must come to an end, and all our company left us after the 4th of July.

During July, Gma  and Gpa C took the kiddos for a week. The last day was a service project making blankets. The kids loved helping out!

 

While they were gone I had a chance to make some more baby stuff for an expectant mother in our ward, I really think they all came out so cute! (sorry some are blurry, don't know what happened there!)

 For the month of August we mainly tried to stay cool and visited with friends. I also started a refinishing project on our dining table... This was the color before sanding...

After sanding...

  

After new stain!

 

 And now with the gloss polyurethane on top...

You can still see the original color on the legs and base of the table...now I just need to get it all finished!

Then it was finally time to get back to school at the end of August! Super Boy is in the 4th grade and Super Girl finally gets to go to Kindergarten! I also am in school taking an online class and actually attending a class on campus as well...my first time in 7 years! Here's Super Boy on his 1st day of 4th grade...

 And super girl on her 1st day of Kindergarten!

 Then for this month,Super Girl turned 5! We had our family celebration on her birthday,and had a party on the following Saturday...

 Tall Boy really loved the hair clippies from Gma & Gpa K

 And Super Girl absolutely adores this doll from Gma & Gpa K!

 Gma K even made these cute outfits for the doll...

 For the party on Saturday Super Girl wanted a "Jane and the Dragon" theme. So we learned how to shoot cannonballs at a castle (bean bag toss)...

And played pin the tail on the dragon...

 And I did my best to produce a "Jane and the dragon" cake...

 Super Girl had a great time!

 She even dressed up as a dragon briefly...

 But if you party this hard you have to be prepared for the inevitable crash...Good night birthday girl!

 This month Super Boy has his 1st pinewood derby, he and I made his car the other day...

Super Boy designed it, helped cut it out using a coping saw,sanded it, painted it, and put numbers on...isn't it a beauty!

So that's what we have been up to! Who knows when I will get another post done...so I hope you really enjoyed this one!