Neverending Honey Do List

Poor Husbands. I wonder if they realize their "honey do lists" will never grow shorter.

Justin worked all day Saturday and Monday after work till dark and his list is gone shrunk a little.

He works so hard for this family and I hope he know how much we appreciate him.

We FINALLY got some gravel to finish our driveway! No more mud for us!!

Justin got the grate done Saturday and the driveway prepared and spread Monday!

He also put or new swing set together with his wife and mother-in-laws assistance.

AND he grouted our basement bathroom and it is SOOOO close to being ready for the toilet and shower to be working!!

Thank you to Justin for all your hard work... even when the end is no where in site! Love you!

Party Hearty

80's slang

Wannabe -A person who would like to be like someone else. Usually a pop star or a person in the public eye. There were lots of Madonna wannabe's in the mid-80s.

Tubular-Something that is cool. Something overwhelming. "Tubular, totally tubular."

Take off- A Canadian expression made popular by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas who played "Bob and Doug McKenzie" in the beer guzzling movie Strange Brew. They also did a song with Geddy Lee of Rush named Take Off to the Great White North. They emphasized the Canadian accent in their movies and recordings. Saying 'eh after each sentence.

To the Max- To the extreme. Taking it to the max or maximum level.

Psych- A term meaning "gotcha"! Psych was usually used after telling someone something not true.

Ill-Uncool, unhip. "You be illin'". Sometimes used if someone looks under the weather, unhappy or even if they have suffered a catastrophe.

Lame -Used to describe something or someone who is not cool or acceptable.

Friday night Date night has never been so colorful! Tekarra and Pat had a tubular party! Thanks for the great evening friends, and fond memories of Justin in extremely tight white pants!!

Parade!!

What a FUN Saturday.
The girls and I spend the weekend in High River with my parents. We were trying to decide what to do on Saturday when Mark called and said there was a Parade in Okokots!

We decided to check it out and turns out the girls had a BLAST!
After walking for 25 mins to the parade route and parking in .... (come on you can guess) MUD- we finally found a spot to squeeze it. Although it was perfect timing, we sat down got the girls out of the stroller and TA DA it started! It was so fun ~~ the first time the girls really watched and understood what was going on!

K learned quickly that candy was being handed out...and  all you had to do was pick it up!
A noticed all the horses, the clowns and the dogs.

After this great parade morning I am stoked about the parades happening this summer.

BuckleyBoo

Do you know how HARD it is to find a BuckleyBoo?

I found one... FINALLY that ships to Canada.

A is going to be SO PLEASED!

Wanna DO List

My project list is getting OVERWHELMING...

I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? 
I think you can in Europe.
HA HA HA... hmm. back to the list.
Here's just a FEW of my favourites.

1. My girls LOVE to look at pictures of them with people they love. THIS is a must for my Sunday bag.
2. I am hoping the girls can "camp" with this instead of a real one.
3. Towel dress....what?? A summer must have!
4. Someday in the next house, gonna do a tree of some sort.
5. Easy indoor fun for the girls... just need to be willing to deal with sugar overload later.
6. Love lOve loVe lovE this quilt
7. sigh.... mmmm someday.
8. 2011 look out. Planners I Heart you.
9. Soon someday maybe one day. But its so pretty
10. Possible Christmas pressy for my girl's.
11. Lastly if I was a brave mother I would do MANY of Filth Wizardry. But I'm not.

Acceptable

How long does it take you to get a ACCEPTABLE family photo??

Take 1

Take 2

Take 3!!

Our average is usually 10 or so... this time only 3!!!

Confession

Friday Confession

• I  dislike freaking-adorable pregnant women.
• You know the ones I am talking about.
• The ones that really do look like all they have is a basket ball under their shirts!!
• I am TRULY sorry I feel this way
• cause if I didn't I would be one of you.

Quilting second times a charm!

Long long LONG ago I made my first queen sized quilt.

For my young women 10 hour project I decided to sew a quilt for my grandma. My grandma has made a quilt or two for EVERYONE: from family to friends, and victims of disaster to neighbours. So me and my innocent 14 year old self thought SOMEONE needs to make one for HER!

This is the finished quilt, with everyone in her family (at the time) hand prints.

 Many MANY hours later, way more then 10, I was determined NEVER do it again.

 My poor mother as she sat beside me to assist... I can remember the tears and frustration that went into that quilt! That quilt taught me many lessons starting with the planning it takes to send out for 42 different family members hand prints, long suffering, the measuring and figuring to get it all to fit, love, how much my mother loved me to sit beside me through it all, practicality and the patients it takes to sew! In the last 10 years that quilt has been from England to Majuro and survived a house fire.

Its been almost 10 years, and here I am ready for another go!

A sale was happening at our local quilting store a few months ago, and I scored big when I found Moda Simple Abundance squares 40% off!!

So here I am making my second queen sized quilt. Nothing fancy, just going to see how it goes.

I want to know if it is worth as many tears as I remember!

felt pinwheels

I make something then a feeling comes over me...

is this as ugly as I think it is??

Yup I get that feeling often.

These felt pinwheels looked REALLY cute.

then here are mine.

I am thinking they are just kinda cute. NOT as cute as eighteen25's but cuteish.

This whole mom thing..

This whole mom thing....  some days is harder then others.

Some days it feels like... this.

Messy kitchens, feeding, washing, feeding, washing... ect. ect.

But then- we get moments like this:

and this:

and it reminds me

 "the most important..work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home"

Harold B. Lee (Mothers and Daughter talk by Elder M. Russell Ballard)

AND it makes this mom thing feel

FANTASTIC!