I am Creating . . .

So I made this little summer dress completely from one of Shon's old shirts! I found this website with a tutorial, and while there is no way my girls will wear it for real, it was fun and great practice for me. I am almost sewing in a straight line, almost! Here it is, the flower needs some attention, it just made out of extra scraps from the shirt I cut up and I had issues getting it to sit right. Hailey also is less than thrilled to model such a dress.

Sewing

So lately I have had a strong desire to learn more about sewing, but don't have anything except black thread, white thread, and some elastic! (Along with a few other sewing necessities) So today, I found myself cutting up some old stuff, like this old skirt I only wore outside to sit in the sun in. I cut it up, and made a skirt for my Peanut. She loves it, even though I was too lazy to change the thread already in my machine, so it's white and looks horrid. The skirt otherwise is alright and Hailey was begging to wear it to school tomorrow.

My Sweet Addison turned one last week!!!!!

So, this is the first kid to not dive into her very own cake and make a huge mess! My other two were covered in cake and frosting, so were all my nieces and nephews! Addy didn't touch the cake, didn't make a mess, and had to be fed her cake by fork!!

Where on earth has the last year gone. This is maybe the fastest any baby has ever grown! It sucks when it's your last and you realize, this is the last 1st birthday party I will ever throw! I love my sweet Addy more than the air I breathe. She has the best personality already. She gives me the biggest cheesiest smile to where her eyes are so squinted, she can hardly see, then the next minute she growls at me and points with her angry face. Pure joy and love.

Camping weekend!

So, my entire family was supposed to be camping right now, I am missing my campfire because of this rain! My girls were a little sad, so I talked Shon into setting up a tent inside for them to sleep in and have an indoor camp out! They were so excited and played in this all night, too bad it took up the entire family room, from wall to couch, to TV!

Oh Nothing, these are the flannel PJ pants I MADE

Just because Addy is cute, here is one of her. Maybe I will try and make flannel bottoms for her next!

Love these faces.

Seriously, I have some cute girls! These are the flannel PJ Pants I made for my girls. They are far from perfect, but I marveled tonight as they ran around the house in actual pants that I made!! I would do anything for these stinkin kids, including learn to sew, and for you guys that know me, knows that is HUGE!

This kid breaks my heart

So my adorable Addy is just one month from being 1 year!! I cannot wrap my head around how fast she is growing! She developed a cough on Wed. that sounded nasty, but then that night it got way worse. I took her in to the Dr. on Thurs morning and it sounded like Croup! Sucks. So they immediatly gave her a breathing treatment and a steroid shot, and prescribed steroids to clear it up! She was such a different kid for like 3 days! She is started to return to her happy self today. We stopped the steroids though because they kept her up allllllll night long. She was cranky and couldn't sleep, not fun for the parents! This is the breathing machine they left me to put on her alone, she fought me, I only won that battle about half the time.

So Hailey now has a sore throat and ear ache, so she may be headed to the Dr. tomorrow if the ear ache doesn't clear up. Otherwise, the Petersen clan is doing fantastic!

My Newest Obsession . . .

So this is my new toy and I love it. It was supposed to be a Christmas/Anniversary gift, but we are just now getting around to getting it. It's an HP Mini, so it's more the size of a large portable DVD player, but has the functions of a laptop. (at half the price of a laptop)