Eight Months

My sweet baby boy is now eight months old.  He is a crawling speed demon.  He pulls himself up by the furniture and creeps around.  He puts everything in his mouth, and has started to unload all of my baskets and drawers.  He has a ready smile that melts my heart and makes me wonder how we ever got along without him. 

Permanent Marker

Came out of my bedroom the other day to find this on my counter. . .

Hmmmm....  I wonder who the culprit could be?!?!

P.S.  Awesome spray (yup the stuff from the dollar store) works wonders!!!

Seven Months

My baby is now seven months old.  He is teething, and crawling everywhere.    He would not hold still for me for anything.  After many, many, many attempts, these are the best pictures I could get of him. 

We love this little guy!

Six!

Thomas had his sixth birthday last week.  He had a few of his best buds over for a Star Wars party.  He had a great time and scored some awesome gifts that he and his brothers and even his dad have been LOVING!!!  As I was looking through the pictures I took, I realized that I did not get one good one of Thomas.  I guess with all the party craziness, I just did not think of it.  Too late now, but I am pretty mad at myself.  Sorry Tom.  Here are a few pictures of the festivities.

Thomas completing the Jedi agility test.

The light saber training.  This was a big hit.  We got a bubble machine and told the boys they had to pop all the bubbles with their light sabers before they hit the floor.  They did this for a long time and kept saying over and over "This is awesome!!!!!!"

They also destroyed the death star (a pinata).  Their Jedi force powers must have been pretty strong, because they finished it off before I could get out there for a picture.

The Star Wars cupcakes.  I found these Star Wars: The Clone Wars rings online to use as toppers.  The boys loved them and had them on most of their fingers.

I think they had a good time and I know Thomas enjoyed his birthday, even if I was too crazy to snap a good picture of him.

We are so grateful to have Thomas in our family.  He is a great son, brother, and friend with a strong desire to do what is right.  We love him!!

Four

Jack recently had his fourth birthday.  He had a good day full of cake, presents and fun.  He requested a rocket ship cake.  I kept trying to talk him into something easier, but he would not have it.  I ended up being sick on his birthday, so he was lucky to get this sorry excuse for a rocket cake. He didn't seem to notice that it wasn't perfect, so, I guess it is good that I went ahead with it, even if it wasn't my best effort.

He scored some pretty good gifts.  Transformers, Legos, money, leapster games and his very very favorite -  this green machine gun with lights and sounds.  The boys spent days fighting over it.

Jack is sweet, funny and happy.  We are so grateful that he is in our family.  It has been a great four years!

Quilts for my Boys

For Christmas this year I decided to make quilts for all my boys and Jeremy.  Well, actually, I decided not to make one for Tad, since I had already made one for him this year, and I did not make one for Dallin because I have plans to make a special quilt for him for a big day he has coming up in 2012.  Dallin got a minky blanket for Christmas, just so he wouldn't feel left out.  These are some rather poor pictures of the quilts I made for the rest.

This is Jeremy's quilt.  He told me he didn't care if it had flowers all over it as long as it had minky on the back.  I obliged, and there are a few flowers, but I tried to keep them to a minimum.  The minky on the back is cream with brown circles.  You can kind of see it through the bottom part of the quilt.  I had to fold this quilt over quite a bit to get a picture on my clothesline.  It is a good sized quilt and I will never attempt to quilt such a large one on my machine again. It was really tough.

I stayed up until 3 am while Jeremy was on a business trip to Tucson in order to get this pieced without him seeing it.  A few days later while I was quilting it, he walked through the front door at 10 am and spoiled the surprise I had worked so hard to maintain.  I was angry the rest of the day.  I'm glad that he seems to love it so much.  I guess it was worth it after all.

This is the quilt I made for Thomas.  When he unwrapped it he was mad that it didn't have minky on the back.  I think he is still holding a grudge, but, as you can tell the quilt has already gotten plenty of use and needs a wash.

This is Jack's quilt.  I originally started making it for Tad, but Jack loved it so much that I decided to finish it up for him instead.  It is a cute sort of "I spy" quilt and Jack loves looking for the different things in the blocks.

This is the quilt I made for Drake.  He insists on snuggling up with me or his dad under it every night on the couch and then he has to take it to bed.  Drake, of all my boys, appreciates a good quilt.

I'm glad all of these are done and I think I will be taking a break from quilting for a month or two.

Six Months

Six months?!?!?!  I can hardly believe we are halfway to one year with this little guy.    Time - please, please, please slow down!!!