Christmas-yep I am on the ball.

Well I said that this christmas I was going to do an all homemade christmas, I made itr about 90% of the way then me and my sewing machine had a messy break-up and it almost got thrown into oncoming traffic. The kids were excited though and loved their sock monkeys as did my niece Harper that I made one for. We also ended up making a kitchen out of an entertainment center for Tenley and I love how it turned out, the felt food that I made her is a different story cute but not holding up the best. I also have to show a christmas carnage picture because they are my favorite.

The hay ride from hell!

If your parents ever call you and ask you to go on a hay ride in December to see the lights-just say no! I am still nursing windburn from 2 weeks ago-Merry Christmas.

What my kids do for fun Vol. 2

Everytime JBJ goes out to clean the driveway when it snows my kids are tearing the contents of my closet out to go and play. Last week JBJ helped them to make an adorable snow man they were sad the next day when they woke up to a decapitated snow man but I like to call those "life experiences".

What my kids do for fun.

I have been busy the last two weeks making stuff for a boutique (don't ask me why I am doing this because it is making me crazy-but whatever). Tenley and Pacey have been way more than helpful in all of my efforts, Tenley was being an awesome daughter and was babysitting all of the dolls that I had made, and this is what I saw when I walked into my front room.

Ignore the mess in the back that is my crafting area-it may look like a dining room but it is not.

Sushi Sushi Sushi

A new fish market opened in Layton that is awesome, on Saturday me and JBJ dcecided that we were in the mood for sushi but not in the mood to spend $70 so we were gonna make it ourselves. When we got to the fish market the guy sold us sushi grade tuna for $10 a pound-a freaking steal-so we got that and some shrimp and headed home to give it a go. I made spicy tuna and we did some tempura batter for the shrimp-Umm yah it was amazing I ate so much that I got sick and we only spent like 25 dollars. We may now have to designate saturday as sushi days! Anyone want to come?

First real haircut.

Tenleys hair has been a hot mess since birth from baldness, to mullet-esque, and to as my brother called it "The Crypt Keeper" hair. I have trimmed it a couple of times but this was the first real haircut, hopefully the front will grow I pray.

Happy Halloween

Time for the obligatory halloween post. I am too cheap to buy a $40 costume from the costume store so I decided to torture myself and sew them there costumes-a couple pull apart times later-we ended up with a Tinkerbell and Toad from Mario Bros. We had an awesome and cold Utah Halloween like always.(Awesome pics courtesy of JBJ)