Blue Lake Ward-Super Saturday Crafts

TO FAMILY & FRIENDS NOT IN THE AREA: Ignore this post....it's for a church craft day we are having (unless you really like something, in which you could let me know).

Blue Lake Ladies~
Our Super Saturday is just around the corner on Saturday, November 5th. It will go from 9:30 am to 3 pm...you do not have to come at any specific time, but make sure you leave enough time to do all you signed up for.

There will be a FREE Class @ 10 am! Regina Hardy & her Mom will be teaching how to make Caramel Popcorn and other goodies. We would like to know how many to prepare for, so please let us know if you would like to attend, but come even if you forget to sign up!
~Family Frame $25~ (See email attachment for different color options. If you want to do more than one and have no time, the instructor will do them @ her home another time.)


A Lunch will be served around Noon, so even if you don't want to do a craft, come for the class and hang out for Lunch after!

Payment is due by October 30th (next Sunday), but if you know what you want, please pre-order this week to my email with the order form. Some crafts take longer for the instructor to prepare. Hope to see you there!

Vanilla Brown Sugar Body Scrub or Pumpkin Spice Sugar Body Scrub

$2.50 each

Temple Picture Board/block

$3.00 each
8x10 Canvas Jewelry Holder
$7.50 each
(You will need to bring your own fabric of choice, JoAnn's has "Fat Quarter" for $.99-1.99 depending on if they are on sale)
"HOME" hanging sign
$8.00 each
(Pick either BROWN or BLACK vinyl lettering-need to specify in order)
Block Christmas Tree
$3.00

Christmas Tree Paper Cone

$3.00

Stamped Christmas Ornaments

$3.00

(There will be a variety of stamps and shapes to choose from at the activity)

Ball Paper Ornament

$1.00 each

Ribbon/Paper Ornament

$0.50 each

Friendship/Thinking of you card

$1.00 each

Happy Birthday Card

$1.00

Green Snowman Card

$1.00 each

Star Christmas Card

$1.00 each

Merry Christmas "Holly" Card

$1.00 each

Red Snowman Card

$1.00 each

Life moves on...fast!

See what I mean? Life is too fast. My baby is growing too fast...
And holding her own cup to drink her smoothie!
Can barely get the girl to eat fruit, but make her a smoothie and she's all over it.

This room was half pink/half lavender with a girly border around it. We've officially moved the girls together and now I have a guest/craft room again!!! Jeremy didn't want to paint the room (not sure why-I'm hoping for a boy next), so I took the project on all by myself! And made him watch the kids, ha. I really like the color, it was the 3rd one I chose, thankfully only bought 2 sample containers before choosing. First guests arrive Wednesday night...my Dad and Stepmom.

Baby Daniel entered the world! He is our good friends, the Dovers' little man, and he's a cutie!

And this is Daniel's Big Sister KaeLynn! She spent the day with us to give her Mommy and baby bro a break. We had a little girl time and did some nails.

This little lady is just sooooo cute! Love that face.

My Blue-eyed babe! She can't sit still for 5 seconds in the bath tub, always trying to stand up.

My other blue-eyed babe! Or I should say Santa Claus.

This lady started Preschool/Daycare 2 weeks ago and is loving it. She loves all the crafts and swimming on Wednesday. She even told me she has a boyfriend, but doesn't know his name. Glad she's having fun! And lately she's been wanting to write her letters and our names, without us nagging her about trying. And she LOVES to paint, which is awesome because she'll actually sit and do it for up to an hour sometimes. With her SHORT attention span, this is a good thing.

Mya is slowly starting to take more steps. The other day we witnessed her take about 5 or 6 steps from an end table to the wall. She's on her way. And she's a climber! She likes to climb up the stool in the bathroom and hang on the sink, so now we have to keep the door shut, I'm afraid she's going to fall and crack her head open. She's been getting a little more cranky lately, hopefully it's a teething thing. But I think she's got a pretty strong-willed personality like her Sister...not good.

As for me....I finally joined Weight Watchers online in August. And in the last 5 weeks have lost 12.4 lbs!! I'm already seeing the results and feel really good. If the hubby was a little more supportive, that would be nice, but I'm not doing it for him anyways. This is looonnnggg overdue and I'm sick of being unhappy about myself. And my Sister-in-law is doing it with me and I know she's going to rock it too! It's also helping me realize how much healthier I should be feeding my kids, I don't want them to turn out like me and have low self-esteem, I hope to be a good example in all I do. Thanks for all the support...it keeps me motivated!!!

(Now last time I committed to getting healthy, I got pregnant.....praying that doesn't happen for awhile!)

I have a ONE Year Old! (And my hubby is another year older)

It's about time I blogged about the Birthdays we celebrated in August!

Jeremy got older on August 18th! Guess how old?
Oh wait, there it is. He didn't want a cake this year, only Oreo Truffles.
And he wouldn't let me buy him any gifts, how lame is that? I did find him a new t-shirt, but wish I could have thought of something more. Oh well, his choice.

And this Little Princess turned ONE on August 31st!!!

We celebrated the weekend before in WA at my Mom's house. I attempted to make some cute Cake Pops, but didn't freeze the cake long enough and they were falling off the sticks...and it was late at night, so I gave up. Instead she got a yummy Baskin Robins Ice Cream Cake.

She loved her balloon!

Ava eating up her cake!

Ava got to stay the previous week with her Grandma and played with her cousins alot.

She had a great time and I had a relaxing week with just Ava & I (Jeremy was in training in Seattle). Thanks Mom!!!

And she LOVED her Ice Cream Cake!

She picked up her first piece by the cake end and ate the ice cream off, it was cute.

Jeremy thought her piece was too big, but she devoured the whole thing and would have liked her tray if she could reach it.

Yep, I'm a cute mess!!!

Gift time! But she really didn't care to help open them. She wanted to play the piano and some wood pieces under the piano legs.

Mya & Daddy on her Birthday!

We have a pic of Ava on her birthday wearing the same dress in the same position, Jeremy had to re-enact the whole picture with Mya.

My sweet, happy Mya! Oh how I love you and how you've made my life so much brighter!

I'm so grateful that God saw fit to add her to our family, she is truly a blessing!!!

Mya facts:

Standing up for a few seconds at a time and can take 2 to 3 steps before falling. Loves playing by herself and exploring the whole house. Hates her sister picking her up and moving her all the time, that's the only time she gets mad. Loves to venture outside and get in the play car and wait for us to push her (today she got in the wagon by herself and waited for Daddy). Loves to babble, but started saying 'Hi' and 'Up' and kind of says Daddy. LOVES her Daddy! Started giving kisses, or at least leaning in for one. Has the cutest little curls in the back of her head, LOVE them! Currently has 5 teeth with 2 more about to pop.

Weighs 21.5 lbs=53%

Height 31 1/2 inches=98%

Jeremy thinks we need to fatten her up more, not used to seeing our kids in the "average" range for anything. But of course her Doctor said she's just fine! And to me she's perfect!!!

Happy Birthday Mya!!!!

Part 4: Last leg of the trip: UTAH!

Time to finish our trip, we've only been home from it for 3 weeks now!

Last leg=Utah!

We arrived on Wed. the 10th, my sister Melissa's BIRTHDAY!!!

We joined her and her hubby Andy for dinner at Olive Garden. I think we provided the entertainment with Mya screaming for food and Ava just being Ava. Good birth control for those that don't have kids yet!!! Then she opened gifts (except I hadn't gotten her one yet, so I took her shopping!) and we had yummy Cold Stone Ice Cream cake.
Happy #29 Aunt Lissa!!!

The next day we hit up In and Out....Jeremy's favorite! Man that place is busy, we had to watch for people leaving their table and make a mad dash to get it, crazy. Then us girls went shopping and Jeremy & Ava went to some Dinosaur museums.

Then we had some bubble & squirt gun play. I like this pic of Ava shooting the bubble. My sisters yard has LOTS of grass to run around in, kind of nice.

Aunt Lissa and the girls. Why couldn't Ava have smiled as cute as the other two?

Then there was craft time. Melissa bought a kit of sun catchers for Ava to paint, I think she spent a whole hour occupied with it. That's amazing for Ava's attention span, note to self: lots more painting projects in the future!

The next day (Friday) Jeremy & Ava went for a walk and got followed all around by this cute kittie. But then we couldn't get it to go away. Ava had a great time playing with it though, she loves cats. Thank heavens I'm allergic though. :)

We also went to Lindon Aquatic center, which we have been to before when Ava was younger. It is so much fun and cheap! Ava could have played in the Lazy River all day. Our friend Heather Crozier and her son Gabe met us there for a little bit. She used to live in OR and go to church with us, but then they moved about 3 or so years ago. Fun to see them.

Me & my Sis (and Mya sleeping under the towel)

And now she's awake and happy! Cute girl.

Thanks to my Sis & Andy for putting up with us and all the good times we had! So wish they were closer, miss that girl.

Saturday morning we packed up, headed to La Grande, OR and stayed with my Mom's cousin Sarah. Then drove the last 4 hours home on Sunday. Now I need to catch up with the rest, like Jeremy & Mya's Birthdays!!!!!

Vegas Baby!!!!

Part 3 of our Road Trip: Vegas!

For those that don't know, I grew up in Vegas. Or at least spent about 14 years of my life there.

We moved because it's hotter than Hell there, which is dumb to choose to visit in the middle of August...but that's how it had to work out. Thankfully my Dad hooked us up in one of his Timeshares and the place had a fabulous pool and lazy river, so nice. Did I take pics of it, of course not, was having too much fun instead.

My baby brother Mark and his girlfriend Tray, aren't the cute together?

Glad he is finally dating someone tall, she's 5'10 (or 5'11) and he's 6'10, not too bad.

My Dad (or as Ava calls him "the Grandpa with the big belly") and Mya

Sorry Dad, had to add that in!Ready to go swimming! Could barely peel her away from the pools there.

Mya kept throwing her head back and giving me this goofy smile, that kid cracks me up!

My friend Korrie & baby Macaylah
Korrie was my BFF in Middle School and HS, but then she moved to Oregon. Then when I moved to Oregon she moved back to Vegas, weird. It was good to see her and her FOUR kids, they are sure cuties.

Mya was all over her, she just wanted to bonk heads and poke out eyes.

Take notice of Jeremy's belly burn, that happened in Cali after taking off his water shirt and not sunscreening!

I'm totally bummed I didn't take pics of my friend Megan and her fiance Bryan, they came to visit us at the hotel for a BBQ with my Dad and others. It was a quick trip, arrived Monday afternoon and left Wednesday morning. It was fun to see how much Vegas has changed and see the ones I love, but I sure don't miss the heat (112 on Tuesday!).