Becky's Quilt

I made Becky a 9 and 25 patch scrap quilt for her birthday. I have had everything done except the quilting for about 6 months. I picked lime green as the main color of course! Beckys bedroom back home is lime green. All of the scraps for this quilt were from Mom's stash. It was fun to go through and pick out the fabrics I would use. I love the randomness of the quilt. It was a little stressful to make because there is no way to tell how it will look! There is no rhyme or reason! I cut out 930 2 inch squares for this quilt! Quilting it at Christine's was fun. I had set aside about 3 hours for the job but it only took me 1.5 hours! I was shocked! If I had known how quick it would have been I would have done more detail, like 5 wavy lines instead of 3 in each rectangle. I was having issues with the machine to. It kept jerking and freezing up on me. Not cool. At one point it completely ruined a heart! I had to go over the entire thing again. So I apologize becky for some of the shaky quilting... the machine was in a mood! :Then, there were a few scraps of fabric that bled in the wash. Even with a color catcher! I was so bummed about that! Thank goodness I didn't use more of it! I bound the quilt in a cute purple polka dot fabric. I wanted this quilt to be happy and bubbly, just like Becky and I think it turned out just the way I had in mind. Love you, Becky!

Jackson can read!

We started Hooked on Phonics kindergarten level this week. Jackson has done the lesson about 3 different days. He picked it right up! I was so happy because I was struggling with how to get him to understand it all... just reading on our own! Thanks heavens for hooked on phonics! They did it for me! He watches a little 2 minute video and then reads from the workbook and then a few other books. He loves it. I think he really feels smart! Here is proof! At one point I put my finger over the microphone... sorry, I eventually take it off :)

Black Friday Deals... already!

I went Black Friday Shopping for the first time ever tonight! By myself! And I loved it! I got everything I went for! Our boys love the Vreader we got them last year for Christmas, so they had them on sale at Walmart for $20. So I showed up about 45 minutes early tongiht and got my place right in front of the pallet with the vreaders. I had fun chatting with the other moms. About 5 minutes to 8 employees said go and I grabbed that vreader and slowly (but faster than some people with carts) made my way over to the jammies, where I got one pair for each of the boys. Then I saw hot wheels... not on my list but always a good idea... so I grabbed a pack of those. 9 cars for $5! Yeah. I had also wanted to get a bike for Jake's birthday in Jan but I had given up hope because the bikes were swarmed even before I got there! But I figured I would check just to be safe! I'm glad I did because I found one Jake's size! So I grabbed that! A nice man let me take his cart so I didn't have to carry all that. I made my way to check out and called Luis and asked if I got 2 hot wheels packs. I said no they can share and I checked out. But then I felt bad and asked if I could take my cart of paid for items with me to get one more pack. They said yes so I made my way through the mess of people to get one more hot wheels pack :) It was fun. So I paid for that and was out of there before 8:30! Amazing and really fun! I might have to do this again next year. Luis went over to Sports Authority to get in line. They give gift cards to the first 80 people in line, but apparently sports are bigger here than in the valley, because he has gone every year so far and never has much competition... when he got there tonight there were already more than 80 people! So he is on his way home now. Good, he needs his sleep! He has to work tomorrow! We enjoyed a nice dinner, just the four of us. I am stuffed! We didn't have turkey. We had pulled pork! Yum! But we had traditional sides! Funeral potatoes, stuffing, green beans, rolls, jello, cranberry! And I made apple crisp! I am thankful for so many things! My wonderful, hard-working husband! My beautiful and challenging children! Our health! My home and material blessings! My Savior and the gospel! Supportive and loving family! Too much to mention! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! ******It's officially the Christmas season! Yeah!!! Bring on the Christmas carols!!!****** Here are a couple of random pics.

This is Jackson very excited about a $5 bill from Liz for his bday! He spent it on... drumroll.... CARS!

And one more funny... A long time ago Kaylee gave me a book called "Crazy about my sister". Lately the boys have liked reading that book. Just now Jacob was walking to the bathroom and he tripped over the book. I asked if he was ok and he said in a pouty voice, "No, I tripped over my sister!" HAHAHHAHA

A few funnies

We decided to get out of the house today! (Luis gets home tomorrow! yay!) We went to Sams club and Schnucks... which was doubling coupons. I Was searching for Thanksgiving dinner because I don't like turkey and it is just going to be the four of us. I found it! For $1.99. I got the Lloyds bbq tub! It is normally $6.99 on sale for $3.99 and I had a $1 off coupon which they doubled! Yeah! So we will have bbq with all the normal thanksgiving sides! Funeral potatoes, green beans, rolls, jello, stuffing... and apple crisp for dessert. (Because I have gone off sweets... because I am an addict. No joke there! and I figured apple crisp is healthier than pie... not sure if it's true, but I like the sound of it!) A few funny things happened. The boys were riding in the front of one of the truck carts and when we got out to my car, Jackson was complaining about his bum. I looked and it was soaking wet! I was shocked that he would pee his pants! Then I realized it wasn't him! Jake had peed his pants and they were sitting on the same seat. Jackson kept saying "Jake peed on me!" and he was really freaked out by that! When we got home I wanted Jackson to try a golden tomato. They are like cherry tomatoes only golden :) And they are very sweet and delicious. They were selling packs for $1!!! Normally $4! So I bought some. I thought he might like them because they are sweet, but I think he was expecting something truly sweet! After finally convincing him to try it he rolled it around in his mouth for a while, having fun with a little ball sized food... then he bit into it and started bawling and spit it out! Poor kid... I guess he was expecting candy flavor and got tomato :) Jake loved them though, and can't get enough!

Presents

I love Christmas! And I love buying presents for people. I don't like the stress of wondering whether they will like it as much as I hope... (I have been wrong before... Just ask Luis... I got him a kitchenaid when he thought he was getting a PS3! Oops!) But I love the idea of giving someone something they will love. So, 'tis the season to start Christmas shopping and it's so much fun! But until then... It was Jackson's birthday on Tuesday. It was a busy day. We went to the Y in the morning and then went straight to a friends house so I could watch her son while she took a sister we visit teach to the doctor. Well, it lasted about 5 hours instead of the 2 I was anticipating... so we were kind of rushed getting home and getting cupcakes made. (Don't judge me Derek!) I wanted to do red and yellow cupcakes for Jax because we had bought Lightning McQueen candies to go on top of them. Well, like I expected, the red food coloring wasn't turning it red. So we actually had pink and yellow cupcakes... more like a baby shower than a Cars birthday. But Jax didn't care! He love them anyway! My big boy is 5! And the biggest 5 year old I know! No one believes he isn't in school! He wanted quesadillas and chips for dinner, so he got it! Then we opened presents. He and Jacob both opened robes we got them. It's so cold here we just didn't want to wait til Christmas! The boys feel so cool wearing them! He opened a soccer goal from Grandma Weger. I know that will get put to good use! :) Then Jackson opened his helmet. He was excited about that and we began questionning him "Why do you need a helmet?" And he said "to ride a bike". And we said "Do you have a bike?" "No" "Maybe if you look around you can find one!" So Luis led him around the house to look for a bike while I went into the garage to capture the video! It was funny because I could here them talking and Jax ended up sitting on the couch frustrated because he couldn't find it. Luis helped him with the idea to look inthe garage. By the end of the search he began wondering where is Mommy? He was so excited when he saw it. It is such a big bike! We got an 18" because the 16" was pretty much perfect size, almost too small... and we know he is growing fast. His knees were almost to his elbows. So although it's a little big, he can ride it, and he will grow into it fast. Luis was great and stayed up late to put on training wheels. I am going to try and see if I can get the video to upload later. Thanks to everyone who skyped. He had a great birthday!

Let's see if this video works! He doesn't actually find the bike until after 2:00.

Winter Hats

We realized we are unprepared for the cold weather. I think a lot of our gloves and scarves ended up in Virginia with mom... because I can't find them. So we went out and bought hats and gloves. We let the boys choose. Jackson of course chose Lightning McQueen and Jacob chose Scooby Doo!