Dressing up the Christmas Stockings.

Last year when Christmas was over I bought some plain stockings that looked something like this one.

I decided that it was a little too plain, and I wanted to do something with it.  I just couldn't figure out what.

So I came across this blog entry at Pleasant Home.  The creator of this blog had taken a stocking and added some decoration to it so I decided to give it a try.

Here is my version.

Here is the version that I looked off of.

A simple store stocking.

Now looks like this.

I took a couple prints of Christmas material, and a glass.

I traced a little more than half of the circle of the glass, and then cut them out.  I made about 11 of them to go all the way around the stocking, but probably should have made 12.

(I didn't really do any measuring, I just guessed about how many I would need.)

Taking right sides together I stitched around the outside of the circle, leaving the flat part open for turning.

After turning, I used the iron the flatten it out.

Then I started pinning them all together.

The part that I didn't get a picture of was actually sewing it to the stocking.  I was so caught up in what I was doing that I forgot to take a picture.  I pretty much just pulled the white part up so that I was seeing the back side of it, and stitched the two together.  I was worried that I would see the stitch line, but it is hidden in the fur pretty well.

The final result.

And here are the five finished products.  One for each of us.  If you look closely you will see that there are three different patterns of material, and I added our names to one of the half circles on the left side so that we would be able to tell whose was whose.

They were fun to make and a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Thanks to Pleasant Home for the idea.

Brooklyn's Blessing

Brock and Monique had Brooklyn blessed on Thanksgiving so that all of the family could be there.

In the picture is: Clint, Jay, Brother Garfield (Tub), Brooklyn, Brock, and Kelly.

Brooklyn looked really cute in her blessing dress.

Brooklyn's binkie was left sitting on the couch and Zach was really fascinated by it.

He kept reaching out to touch it, until someone would tell him no.  It was basically a game for him.

Ovard Christmas Party

On Thanksgiving this year, we also decided to do the Ovard Christmas party.

This year we tried something a little different and the oldest grandchild in attendance (Whitney) helped the little ones act out the Birth of Christ.

Trista was Mary, with little baby Brooklyn being the baby Jesus.  Joseph is missing from most of the shots as this was Zach's part.

The three wise men came bearing their gifts.

While the angel of the lord spread the word of the birth of the baby.

Here is a picture of the whole group including the missing Joseph, who was trying to get away again.

Zach opening his little cars.

Kylie got clay animals that she can sculpt.

It was a great day spent with the Ovard family and we all had a lot of fun spending time together.

Kinsey's 2nd Birthday

We went to Roosevelt for Kinsey's 2nd Birthday party.

Here the kids are enjoying eating some cupcakes.

What a bunch of little cuties we have in our family.

I think Zach was loving the cupcake a little too much.

Kylie and Nathan

I think that Kylie is somewhere at the bottom of this picture.  

Zach and Kinsey kept crawling all over her.

And rolling off the bed was fun too!

Or hanging upside down.

Thanks for inviting us to your party Kinsey, and letting us stay at your house.

We are glad that the snow stayed away so that we were able to make it.

Big shoes to fill!

The other day when Zach was sick, I came home for lunch to see him walking around the house in Kylie's shoes.

He was doing such a good job at getting around too.

When I asked him how he put them on, he looked at me, took them off and proceeded to put them back on again so that he could show me how he put them on.  It was just too cute.  

What a smartie!

New Church clothes for Christmas

Kylie wanted to wear her new dress for the primary program, so we decided Zach should wear his too.  Zach even got to participate in the program this year.  The nursery went up when they sang the song "Follow the Prophet"  of course his binkie was in the whole time and he was leading the music instead of singing it.  Kylie did a great job in saying her part too!

Halloween 2009

So Halloween seems like a long time ago, so I decided I had better sit down and post some pictures.

My little Hannah Montana, and my spider.  Zach did not want to have his picture taken.  He was just going to get off the porch and run.

Kelly even dressed up for the occasion this year.  Kylie and I told him that he looked like Indiana Jones, even though Kylie had no clue who that was.

Zach after realizing that people were giving candy to him had no problems going from door to door.  I tried to do trick or treating with out the binkie, but as soon as I took it out the candy started to go in.  So I put the binkie back in and had no problems.  

We didn't quite get to as many homes as we usually did as Zach started throwing a fit.  But we ended up with plenty to go around.

Brailie Ann

Greg and Heather had there baby girl this morning (Halloween) at 7:30.

Brailie Ann

6 lbs. 13 oz.

20 inches

We love you Greg, Heather, Allie, and Brailie

Halloween Parade 2009

Here is Miss Hannah Montana (Kylie) as she is getting ready to parade through my classroom at school.

Another one of Hannah!

Here Zach is with his sitter Tammy watching the parade.  

I was wearing a witch hat, so the funny look on his face is because I kept saying hi to him and he must of been thinking something like, "Who is THat?"

Miss Kylie on the parade route walking with one of her really good friends Jaide.

Spooky Reading Night

Last night I took the kids to the PTA Spooky Reading Night.

The reader was dressed up as one of the characters from Star Wars and she read some fun stories for the kids and had some great voices to go with it.

You can see Kylie in the bottom right corner of the picture in her bright blue wig.

Now the wig is starting to fall off.  It was actually a wig for an adult, but she wanted to wear it.

Zachary of course was more interested in finding a ball and trying to shoot it in the basketball hoop.  Luckily I stopped him in time as right under the basket was a table full of doughnuts and cups of applejuice.

Here the reader was trying to get the kids to dance to a halloween song.  Kylie didn't look too thrilled at this part.

Each of the kids at the story night was given a sword so they could fight off evil aliens. They made a vow that they could not hit their mothers, but that they could hit anyone else that they wanted.  Zach did not want to stand in front of the star wars characters.

Just Goofin!~

Here is a couple of pics from a while back.  The kids were just having fun with the camera.

Zach kept giving funny faces so we were trying to catch them.

Kylie's super cheese smile.

Playing with the light up pumpkin.

Cheese!

Oh what cuties I have!

18 months old

I can not believe that my little guy is 18 months old.

What a ride it has been.

And, YEA!  He is finally trying to start saying some words.  We can not understand everything that he says, but at least he is trying.

A much needed update!

I can not believe how long it has been since I last posted something on the blog.  What a total slacker I am.  I found these pictures of Kylie on the camera and decided I had better share.

This was the night that she danced at the North Summit Football game.  We thought we had missed it when we went to Brock and Blayr's reception, and she was so excited when she found out that she didn't miss it after all.

We had Zach all bundled up for the big night.  It actually started snowing while the girls were out dancing.

They all took their coats off just before they went out on the field, but you will notice that Kylie left her styling, and matching gloves on so that her hands would stay warm.

She really had a lot of fun and I am glad that she didn't have to miss the opportunity again this year.  Good Job Kylie, you were GREAT!