Shadow boxes

Top is Landon's shadow box with his blessing outfit and part of a knitted blanket.
Bottom one is some of my old medals. I told Will I would make him one for his Alaska things, but he didn't seem too interested. Maybe someday...

More Shadow Boxes

Dylan's shadow box with his Preemie clothes, mold of fist, and picture.

Super Shopper

I just got 9 shirts for Dylan (polos for school), 2 shirts for Will, one shirt for me, running pants for me, a new bag/purse, one Cars pillow, one Thomas the Train pillow, and a Thomas the train rug for the toy room. PLUS, I got 6 baby onesies, and two baby girl outfits (for shower gifts), and a shirt for my niece. All of that, for less than $100. Amazing! All good quality stuff, too. I am psyched!

You did WHAT??

My kids are so crazy. Last week I had to take a locked door off the hinges to get inside, and also retrieve a cell phone from inside a wall. That one was tricky! Next stop...potty-training!

Must Read!!!

I just finished reading a book called "One Tattered Angel" by Blaine Yorgason. It is SO good. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with it! It is a true story about a little girl baby who spent time off and on at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake, and since Dylan spent some time there when he was a new baby, it really got me. It is so good! So inspiring! It really made me greatful for my kids and everything I have been blessed with. It will make me think twice about ever having 'a bad day.' And, it has a good surprise ending! You gotta read it! Check it out at the library, order it online, locals can borrow my copy... JUST READ IT!

Bizarro dream

This is a strange one...First I dreamed I was on a date with some guy, but Will was with me too (We were still married.) So the three of us were on this date and then when I started to like the guy Will got jealous. Then the guy was weird and started fighting some other guy so me and Will left. Go figure. Then, all of a sudden I was in this big building with my friend Britney and I was trying to find a bathroom. I found one that was for 'High School Teachers Only' but I really had to go so I went in anyway. It had shallow metal tubs that had blue water in them instead of toilets. So I sat down in the tub and started to go, with my friend looking on (there were no doors or stalls, just a room full of people and blue water tubs.) Then, all of a sudden I am in a church (still in my potty tub) and I am in a pew with people I don't know singing and dancing and going all crazy. Then they start passing communion around (I think it was supposed to be Baptist church) and instead of bread they had oyster crackers and instead of water they had M&M's. I took them anyway, figuring it was like sacrament at our church. Then, I was walking down the hall of the church -finally free of the potty/tub - and there was a statue of Joseph Smith but they had taken off his face and put on some other guy's face. It was crazy. That is about when I woke up.

Stars and Stripes

I just made a ZILLION paper red, white, and blue stars to decorate for tomorrow.(We are having a family BBQ at my house.) They are really cute, but they take forever to make because each star is made of 4 cut out stars that you color or decorate and glue together and then hang up. I am going to keep them to decorate the boys' room after the 4th is over. I spent way too much time on them to throw them away. At least it kept my mind off my sore throat though! It gave us something to do today besides TV. Sick days are no fun. I always get sick on holidays! I am cursed! Maybe I will feel better tomorrow...

Domestic Me

We got some big, red, yummy tomatoes through someone at church and so me and my mom decided to bottle our own salsa. It came out pretty good! We made a hot kind and a milder one. Yum-o. The down side is that it took us 5 hours and we only made 19 jars. Next year we will do a double batch.
With it being hurricane season here we are really trying to get our food storage up to par. We have tons of huge buckets of rice, beans, wheat, etc. This week we got some really hard plastic 5 gallon water bottles and I ordered a camp stove and heat cells for that. We are getting there. We already have the tent, sleeping bags, 72-hour kits, diapers, powdered milk, canned food, 55 gallon water barrel, propane heater, lantern, wheat grinder, etc. Anything else we need?