pirate party part 2

and just because i'm mean...i love photos like these! my favorite one of myself is when i was about 2 wearing my grannys bra, a wig and footie jammies.

Pirate party part 1

mom... she was good but i was better isn't this the cutest jack sparrow you have ever seen!
ready to walk the plank...eli doesn't seem to mind, all he cares about is putting things in his mouth
my oldest pirate

As previously mentioned before, every thanksgiving my Granny Sue and Grampy John throw a pirate party. Each year Grandma comes up with ever better and more exciting pirate games and festivities. Well this year Granny got super crazy on us! The whole day was filled with fun nonstop from the $50 pirate bingo game ( that I won!) the pirate clothespin bottle drop ( that I also won, not to brag or anything but I was on a roll this year) down to the dicing for booty game. You all have probably played a version of this sometime in your life but never like this. There are 4 dice sets that are passed around in a circle, if you get doubles you get to pick a prize from the middle or steal one from your neighbor. Well that is how the game normally goes... this year there were so many presents that we couldn't even fit them all in the room with all of us in there too. It was so fun to see the kids carrying in load after load of presents as the free space in the room quickly disappeared! We got so many neat and wonderful things.. some favorites included the sinking ship book ends, the huge knife, the trader joe bag of goodies, pirate ornaments, fun toys for the boys, not to mention the skull and crossbones paper weight, cookbooks, lantern and candle. A great big huge thanks to my favorite grandparents for treating us to a wonderful and piratey vacation.

my little minnie

This year I decided to make as many Christmas gifts as I could. I thought it would be fun for margo to get a dress up bag with some new fun things. Next up...a crown, tutu and cape. Even though ezra is modeling the minnie skirt for you all, he will soon be giving it up to margo. This could be a disaster...last time I made something for margo ( a pink tutu) he got attached to it and was not very happy when I hid it from him.

making me happy

I found these pictures from a few months ago and they made me laugh. We found this wig at my mom's, hunter grace ( our yellow lab) also tried it on and i must say she looked stunning! Eli loved it, Ezra hated it.

thank you

i decided to delete my pain killler, hormone induced post because it was bumming me out... thank you all for the kind words and support, i really really needed to feel the love.

Pirate Addie

Welcome to the family Addie Rose! To truly be a member of this messed up ( but fun!) family, one must receive a pirate blanket. You see every thanksgiving my dear granny has a pirate party... We did this way before all this hype about pirates. Anyways our family has a bit of a pirate obsession, anything and everything pirate goes. All the babies even have numerous pirate get ups. Being the pirate and crafty nerd that i am, I am always on the lookout for cute fabric and other crafty pirate swag. Well I have had my eye out for this lovely Michael Miller fabric for some time but have not seen it anywhere, lucky me some fabric store in bountiful had a whole bunch of it. Hooray- matching blankets for Eli and Addie, our newest pirates!

Halloween

Ezra was a chicken. We were a little worried because up until right before trick or treating he refused to try on or wear any of his costumes. Then all of a sudden he thought the chicken was cool ( probably the red high tops helped a bit). He kept running around going pretending to fly and going " Bach Bach". Eli was a punk rocker, we were going to paint his face like a misfit but his face is to cute to ruin with paint. Ezra loved running up to everybodies door, then he would put his head down and act shy when they gave him candy, then he would drag his bucket on the ground with his head down until we moved onto the next house. It was so weird but funny. We had alot of fun.