Easter 2011

On Friday we colored eggs.

On Saturday the Easter Bunny brought baskets... and we hunted for eggs in the living room.

Later that day we enjoyed a gorgeous sunny afternoon and a trip to Jenkins Estate.

On Sunday we got dressed up in our Easter Sunday best... and went to church.

Later on Sunday we went down to Grandma and Grandpa Comptons and had a delicious Easter feast and did another fun egg hunt... in the rain!

Happy Easter!

La Blogotheque does it again

And this one was long overdue...

My Baby is Walking!

Here is my little Coley.  He is now 15 months old... and walking!

The first video is from about 2 weeks ago when he first started walking on his own.

This second video I took last week, and he gets a bit steadier everyday, though he still does a fair amount of crawling.

When we took Cole to his 15 month dr. checkup, he measured in the 4th percentile for his weight, the 50th percentile for his head circumference, and the 75th percentile for his height.  Tall and skinny... just like his dad and brother.

Christmas Crafts

In December I decided to take every Friday off, and then I took the whole week before Christmas off.  Among lots of other things, I was able to get some Christmas crafts finished.

For the third time, I participated in an online handmade ornament swap.  It's so fun to get 10 or so different handmade ornaments in the mail from all over the country in the days leading up to Christmas.  Here are the ones that I made for the swap:

These are made from some nice wool felt.  On one side I made one flower and on the flip side... the other.

I really like the way they turned out.

I got the idea for doing the flowers while making this wreath:

It's actually not finished yet, but it's been on my list of Christmas "to dos" FOR-like-EVER!

It's from the The Purl Bee.  Click on that link to check out the real deal.

I'm hoping mine will look as pretty once I get it all stitched up.

In addition to all that, I also made a festive snowflake pillow.

I found an XL men's flannel shirt in this lovely charcoal color at Goodwill.  And then I used some leftover fabric from the wreath to cut out the snowflake.  I should've taken a picture of the back because I just used the buttons from the front of the shirt to button the pillow inside!  Super simple.

This is actually the second pillow I've made like this.  I also made one in the fall from an XL Men's plaid cotton shirt.

I had a small swatch of flannel gray fabric hanging around (from Cash's elephant costume, if you remember that) and made the leaf.  It also buttons up the back.

Finally, I also got around to finishing up some stockings.  These have been sitting around naked since last year.  I finished them on Christmas Eve.  Wheh!

These were really fun to make.



So that's it!  All my Christmas crafts for 2010.

I still have some cross stitched ornaments to finish.  They've been sitting around for 3 years now!  Yipes.  Maybe I'll get them done in time for Christmas 2011!

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Happy New Year!

I am writing this post from my brand new laptop that I got for Christmas!

Hi!  Here I am in my jammies!

Not the greatest picture, but it's more than I could do with my last laptop.  You see... my last laptop was slowly dying.  A very slow, very painful death.  Take a look:

I bought that Mac Powebook in 2003.  And I LOVED it.  I LOVED it to death.  Literally.  I loaded it up with so much stuff... that it just couldn't hold any more.  I couldn't load any more pictures onto it.  Even with my external drive, it just couldn't take any more.  And I had no word processor.  So it had basically turned into a glorified web surfing tool.  And then the boys got to it.  Cash stuck a penny into the disk drive... so I could no longer burn or rip disks.  Then, when I wasn't looking Cole ripped off all those keys.  Not all at once, mind you.  No, one by one, he ripped them off... it took weeks.  That's what I mean by a slow painful death.

I won't blame my entire lack of blogging in 2010 on my poor Mac... but I am going to blame a portion of my dearth of posts on it.  I mean, really.  It was painful to try to get pictures loaded.  And those two above... took just seconds.  Woot woot!

So, here's to more posts in 2011.  I hope to get back into the groove.  And I might even try to do some back dated posts... because we really did have a great 2010... and I'd hate for it to go undocumented!

Feeling Christmasy

Winter Songs from Crush Creative on Vimeo.

This is cool

I am testing the new blogger publisher.  If this works, I may start blogging again! Oh, and I love this photo.