"Kid Flick" Girl's Purse Tutorial

Another great idea.

Kimono Shoe Pattern

I was looking for ideas online last night for another project, when I came across this web page. It gives you the pattern for the Kimono style shoes. I printed mine off this morning and really looking forward to trying it out. But I thought some of you guys would like to try it out as well. She is giving away lots of other patterns also. In order to get the kimono patter you will have to add it to you basket and everything, and do a complete check out, long in, but don't worry they don't ask for your credit card, you just get to the end and you click download. Let me know how it works out for you guys.

Fabric Flower

Fabric Flower Tutorial found here. I want to make this flower, and since I was afraid of not finding the page again I thought I would post it here for me and for you. I will post photos just as soon as I make one. Let me know if any of you guys try it out.

Meet Baby Jane

These are my Janes. I love making them! They are Felt, Cotton, Button & Clasp.

My new found Joy!

I bought a book awhile back that had some really great patterns. Here are just a couple. The first two found a wonderful home with my friend Stephanie.


These other pairs I am still holding on to, trying to find them a good home. I am learning a lot about sewing, and feel pretty confident with most patterns, But I have learned one thing about myself, I'm getting really crafty, but NOT at all creative. So that is my next goal. I need to think out side the box a little bit more. As you can see from all the shoes photoed above, they are well put together, but they lack that personal flair.

Potty Time

I love it! he grabbed the magazine all on his own and started to flip through it. Some day he will hate me for taking this picture, but right now all i can do is laugh.

Birthday Photos

Still no Photos!!!

Well I think I might know what the problem is, why my computer won't upload photos. We recently installed an Internet filter call K9. Does anyone else have that one? Well we installed it about a month and a half ago, but it has been that long since I put any photos on here. The program wont let me put photos on the Internet, and I can't seem to figure out how to get around it. So I might have to take my computer to a Mac Dr. to have them show me how to work it. BYU-I sells the Mac's and K9, so I guess I will have Preston take it back up there, they seem to know what they are talking about. So until then no photos, sorry.

But in other news. Kellen started Pre-School this week. It is 2 days a week for 2 hours, with a class size of 6. He is doing really good!! and loves the time with the other kids. All the kids are either on the spectrum (Autistic etc.) or like Kellen have some form of a Sensory Processing Disorder. This class will go for 6 weeks then Kellen will be moved into a main stream class and take his shadow teacher with him. So in other words he will get one teacher just to himself.

Potty time is going really good. I am still not sure if Kellen's ready for full time potty training, but he might be closer then I think. We still have a really BIG communication barrier, so it's not like he can tell me that he needs to pee. He loves to sit on the potty, and will pee every time I put him on, so about 3-5 times a day. I think he might like it because he gets to be naked. Today he refused to get off the potty because I have a diaper in hand, waiting for him. He really did not want to put that diaper back on. so then he signed bath, more or less just to prolong his nakedness. I'm fine with him taking a bath in the middle of the day, so whatever. But he wouldn't get in, instead he runs to his bedroom. So I grab a pull up for one hand and a diaper in the other. "Kellen, do you want this one, or this one?" "dis on". he chose the pull up, and was more then willing to put it on, and continued to run around the house. So, we are close. It will be a great day to have a diaper free boy. If you guys have helpful tips let me know.

Born to Run

Sorry no Birthday Photos, they just won't load. Hopefully the problem will fix it's self. In the mean time, check this out. Preston and I just read this book, and when I say read, I mean more like listen to on CD. Which I was really glad to do, because of all the Spanish in there. Before I tell you about the book, I feel like I need to clarify something, I am not a runner! It's hard, and it hurts. I am a much better runner then I ever have been, but I still have not found the joy in it...yet. This book, Born to Run, is about a bunch of Ultra Marathoners called the Tarahumara Indians. But the book is about so much more then just them. It talks about food & diet, running & ultra marathons, The Tarahumara and there amazing cultural. Born to Run falls under a fairly new category... Creative non-fiction. Extremely captivating book. Preston busted it out in about 3 to 4 days, I think I took about a week. (ultra-runners do 50-100 mile runs, all at once. They run all day and into the night.)

Excerpt from the Book:

For days, I'd been searching Mexico's Sierra Madre for the phantom known as Caballo Blanco- the White horse. I'd finally arrived at the end of the trail, in the last place I expected to find him- not deep in the wilderness he was said to haunt, but in the dim lobby of an old hotel on the edge of a dusty desert town.

When it comes to ultadistances, nothing can beat a Tarahumara runner- not a racehorse, not a cheetah, not a an olympic marathoner. Very few outsiders have ever seen the Tarahumara in action, but amazing stories of their superhuman toughness and tranquility have drifted out of the canyons for centuries. One explorer swore he saw a Tarahumara catch a deer with his bare hands, chasing the bounding animal until it finally dropped dead from exhaustion, "its hoofs falling off." Another adventurer spent ten hours climbing up and over a Copper Canyon mountain by mule; a Tarahumara runner made a the same trip in ninety minutes.

Very good, and exciting read.

Happy Birthday Kellen #3

Ok so I tried to upload photos, but it just wouldn't work. sorry. Today Kellen turned 3!!! We had a lot of fun, and Kellen really seemed to understand that today was a special day. We opened presents first thing this morning, and played most of the day with Clone Wars stuff. We didn't have a party or any friends over, because I didn't want Kellen to get overwhelmed, but we did do a small play date yesterday. For dinner we had a yummy Gluten Free Pizza (it really was yummy) and Kellen LOVED it. For Kellen's Birth Day cake we did Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Waffles. So so good!! All you do, is mix up a cake mix (any cake mix) and make waffles out of them. Top with ice cream and chocolate syrup. We left out the Chocolate syrup. But I highly recommend you try them. The best part, is we don't have a bunch of left over cake and frosting. I froze the rest of the waffles, so we can just grab one out as needed. Kellen loved having us sing him the birthday song, and this was the first time he blew out his candles. On his second birthday, he still didn't know what do do really, so this one was a lot more fun for all of us.

We also started to introduce Kellen to the big boy potty today. Not quit potty training yet, just starting to create a routine. I am so proud of him, he peed in the potty 3 times today!!! he really likes the excitement I give him when he goes. I am not entirely sure if he is ready for potty training, because i am not sure he understands to only go, in the potty. And he just barely started to come to me, last week, to tell me he was messy (if you know what I mean, when I say messy) So we are going to take it nice and slow, and see how he does.

And in other news... Kellen is starting to talk a little. Just a few basic words, I would have to say though that Sign Language is still his primary language. He will say Momma, if I ask him to, Da (Dad), mo (more), no, OK, pood (food) along with a few others. Sorry it has been forever since I have posted anything, but nothing new is going on really. We are all just hanging out, and enjoying the stage of life we are in. I will try to be a better blogger. I think I might blog more about things that I find interesting.