Crayon Pucks

The kids had a great time making these super crayons. I put them to work peeling of the paper of crayon rejects and then they chose their own colors for their puck. Great way to recycle!

Clogging Camp

I did it! I taught a clogging camp almost seven months pregnant. I had eight beautiful girls in the class and they really clogged their hearts out. I was so proud of them - they learned an over three minute routine in 4 days. They danced to Michael Jackson's PYT. Madison had a great time and every morning was excited to get on her shoes and dance! It was a lot of fun! (Excuse my messy garage - I was going to organize it before the camp, but my motivation for the cleaning was never there.)

Baby Boom

You would not believe the baby rush that is going on all around me. I have been busy making hoody towels for all my friends and family - and afghan's for cousins. (The picture above went to my cousin, Kristen, who is having her first baby very soon!) I have counted 14 pregnant ladies in my life - it includes sister-in-law, cousins, good out of state friends, and good friends here. In my church alone 12 ladies with child! (I am third in line to give birth.)

Dish Cloths

Our Church's Humanitarian group needs about 300 dish CLOTHS (I was reminded by one of the gals that they are not dish rags, but cloths - we gave her a hard time about it!) So I started a crochet/knitting group and we started making some. There are a lot of women out there that crochet/knit and it was really fun finding out projects that they were working on, and I found some more stuff for me to do - just what I needed right!

Chores!

This summer I came down on the kids and gave them chore charts. They love it! I always feel that summer gets so busy and we never have time to do a little school work, and I feel that it was time to teach Madison and Dawson how to clean a few places in the house. Well, let me tell you it worked! The other day I was cleaning my house for a ladies knit/crochet night and my wonderful daughter saw me on my hands and knees (heavy with child) scrubbing the kitchen floor and she asks "mom can I do that?" Without hesitation I handed her the sponge! She also helped with a few other big jobs. She is getting so big and helpful. She is excited for the baby but she also is still a little disappointed that she isn't getting a sister. She asked me the other day "when do I get a sister? Does Heavenly Father just want me mad?" I had to explain to her that "daddy never had a sister and Uncle Jack never had a brother - when Dawson, Jackson, and this baby get married then you will have your sisters".

Big Buddy!

We found this guy in our garden! He looked a little familiar.
Heimlich!

Purse Pool Party!

O.K. so my new calling in my church is the Enrichment Leader (I am in charge of planning activities and mini - lessons for the women in our ward), I have a great committee! So my first big activity was the Summer Pool Social and we decided to do a "Purse" Theme. We had a purse fashion show "The Purses of our Lives" and we played a purse game. And of course we had yummy salads and root beer floats. It went very well and the turn out was great - about 40 women! I of course forgot my camera for the evening, I really wish I had for the game we played.