fun with fondue

once james and i got married all desire to go out and do things vanished. for the most part our weekends consist of going to costco, reading, watching tv and going to bed by 10:00 at the very latest ( at least on my part) the past few new years we just had a bunch of appetizers for dinner and called it a night. james suggested this year that we have fondue, so we did.... and it was so yummy and fun. we had a mexican style fondue and a blue cheese fondue, pesto beef skewers, veggies, breads, apples and pears for dipppers and prosciutto wrapped asparagus. it was seriously one of my favorite meals of all time, though i'm not sure what i like the most, it's a toss up between the pesto beef skewers dipped into the blue cheese fondue and the asparagus. yum...

bad bad blogger

sorry to have been such a bad blogger this last month. things were really busy. i made alot of my gifts which always takes much longer than expected. i have also been very busy the last 5 or so days reading all 3 of the twilight books in a row, more of this topic to come... back to making things, i made a promise to myself that i would start now on next years gifts. i really have the goal of being done with christmas by next thanksgiving.

here are some pictures from christmas. the kids had alot of fun and so did we. it was really fun this year now that ezra is old enough to understand everything. we got alot of really fun gifts, and had so much fun with our families.

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oops- forgot the bird , baby tees and hooter hiders

My first order!

awhile back I did a harvest boutique with whitney and her sister abbey, marta and some other crafty ladies who i didn't yet know. my main item that i was selling was applique baby clothing. i sold most of my clothing but had alot of people asking me to do things in adult and bigger kids sizes. here is my first order for a lovely lady names andrea. i'm so thrilled she loved everything and has already begun another order. i just applied for an official buisness license so that i can get wholesale pricing on american apparel clothing. i will be offically opening up shop in january. stay posted for details!

sorry for the horrible pictures. the lighting was horrible that time of night and things just weren't working out...

part 3

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.