Kellen update

Just a quick Kellen update. It has been a full week since he knocked his tooth out. To start off he is doing great!! His gums are healing up nicely, and it looks like he will be keeping his other front tooth...HOORAY!!!

He was starting to get an infection, so the Dr. called in a prescription, and that seems to have worked. To give you an idea of how hard he hit his mount, He got a concussion!

I want to thank everyone for there prays, The Lord has truly been blessing Kellen and our family. It has been a really hard week of soft foods, spoon feedings, Meds 3 times a day, sleepless nights, and exhaustion that I haven't felt in a long long time.

I am warming up to the idea of Kellen being toothless for a few years, It brings out his personality sooo much. If you know Kellen you know what I'm talking about. In short Kellen is a handful. I will take some photos tomorrow so that you can see the new smile, it really is kind of cute.

Good news, Then the bad.

OK, so as you know last Friday Kellen went under Anastasia to have his cavity filled. We decided to let them do X-rays and a full cleaning to check for more cavities. He did find 2 more on some back molars, which he was able to take care of as well. We arrived at the surgical center and 7am. Kellen was full of energy running all over the place.

He got pretty nerves once it was time for him to go back, so they let us walk with him up to the door of the Operating Room. So here you can see him fighting with them about the mask.

Everything went great! Nice clean teeth. I wasn't so happy that they waited to long to take us back to recovery. By the time we got back to him, he was wide awake, white as a ghost, wrestling with the nurse, trying to pull his IV out. She gave him to me and he clamed right down, poor guy I thought he was going to throw up or pass out or something.

Not even 3 hours after coming out of Anastasia Kellen was running all over the house, and here I thought I was going to get a nice relaxing day.

BAD NEW!

Kellen fell today, hit his mouth on the night stand and Knocked out one of his front teeth. It was pretty traumatic for all of us. Preston wasn't here and I couldn't get a hold of him. so I ran next door, because I didn't know what to do. Lauren drove Kellen and I to the Dentist where Preston meet us ( I finally got a hold of him) (side note; there is still blood all over the bath room, I haven't had time to clean it up and now I am to tired to clean it up)

So Kellen's gums look like hamburger, but that will heal up. Right now we are a little worried about his other front tooth, it's pretty loose, but there is a good chance that it will be ok, and he won't loose that one too. We are just watching it, for infection and discoloration.

So It would be great if you all could keep Kellen in your prays.

We'll see

I have decided to sale a few baby booties. Here is the blog address where you can go to view the ones I will be selling. I just love to make booties, and now I have more then what I know what to do with. Let me know what you think.

How to make Baby Booties

Making a tutorial was not as much fun as I thought it would be, so I don't plan on doing another one. I might change my mind later thought.

First you need to gather all your materials. 2 complementary fabrics, leather or felt, fusible interfacing (Heavy or Medium) Ribbon and your pattern. Be sure to have stuff to decorate them when they are done, such as, Buttons, pearls, lace, felt etc. The pattern that I use I got from a book, and then modified it. If you live here in Rexburg I would be more then happy to make you a copy, other wise, I would recommend finding on online or you can get one from Simplicity Patterns.

Step 1: Cut out your fabric. 2 of the outside fabric, 2 of you inside fabric, and 4 soles (2 of fabric 2 of leather or felt)

Step 2: Place your top (out side) fabric on the Fusible Interfacing and Iron them together. Then cut them out.

Step 3: Place Ribbon and pin. I pin about 2.5 inches from the heel. Place your other fabric on top and pin. Right side will face each other. Depending on your ribbon, I like to melt the ends of mine so that there is no fraying. Ribbon should be about 9inches or more.

Step 4: Sew along the inside hem, starting at the heel and working your way to the other end of the heel. Maintain the same width all the way around.

Step 5: turn your fabric so that right sides are facing out. You will need to iron it to make it turn. So in other words this is the hard part. If you are having a hard time getting it all the lay flat, trim up the inside hem a little, it will help.

Step 6: Lay the heels flat, matching up the top and the bottom ends. Sew along edge.

Step 7: Iron them hem line flat, everything will lay better this way. Then Iron the top of the Heel down.

Step 8: The sole. I like to sew the leather to the fabric to make it easier to sew to the shoe part. Sew with right sides facing out, all the way around, there is no turning the fabric.

Step 9: Pin the sole to the shoe starting at the heel and working your way to the toe. When you are ready to sew start at the toe, going all the way around. After I have done the hole thing I like to reinforce the toe and the heel. Before you turn right side out check the integrity of the stitch to make sure you get it right the first time.

Introducing your finished product.

I made the Booties to go with this Dress/ Shirt that I made. This will fit about a 6 month old.

How cute is he!!

Man I love this kid so much!! Just look at that cute face!

Random Photos

Here are just a few random photos from the Fall.

Kellen loves to go hiking

This is a very small train that Kellen insisted that we ride on with him. We ran into our bishop and he took this photo for us. Really random.

This is a trip we took to Yellow Stone National Park.

And this was a drive we took up to the Mesa Falls, so beautiful.

Welcome 2010

I know what a surprise I am posting something new. And sorry in advance there are no family photos, they are still on my camera, I'll get them some time.

One of my goals for this year is to save more money. So I am going to share with all of you one of the best Finance trackers I have every used. We have been using it for about 6 or 8 months now. Small Spend is a Web Page, and an App for I-Phone or I-pod.

Track your spending by category, customize your categories, Create a Budget, & watch how you spend with 2 different Charts.

I like to be able to see how much we spend in each category and be able to compare it with the previous month. It's so so easy to use, I have the App on my I-pod and Preston has it on his I-phone, so when he enters something in, it will update to mine as well. So there is never any questions or confusion, we can both look at the exact same information.

I just thought I would share that, just in case any of you were looking to better your finances. Good luck to all of you and your New Years Resolutions.

P.S. We had a wonderful Christmas, I will post photos soon..... I think.

PUJ

Hey to all you mommies to be, I saw this on another girls blog and thought I would pass it on to you guys. It looks cool, so if any of you guys end up buying one let me know how you like it.

PUJ Tub.

My new Church Bag.

This is my new Church bag. I have made this bag twice before, for friends, but never for myself. So I am really excited to have one for myself now. The Pattern that I used was Simplicity 2658. The pockets are not part of the pattern, I just put them on because I new I would need them. This bag holds all of Kellen's toys and food for Church. I wanted it to be girly because I am the one that carries it around for the next two hours. And let's be honest Kellen's doesn't really care what kind of bag his toys come in, he just cares that he has them.

My first Flower

I love making these flowers! they are so easy, and fun to make. I made this one for my new church bag. Well, I guess it's Kellen's new church bag, but I carry it around for the next 2 hours after sacrament, so I figured it was ok to make it girly.