This one's for you Jeanee!

I participated in a Pin Cushion Swap over here

My Swap Partner was Jeanee and these are the lovely things she sent us.

She screen printed her logo on the fabric and then made this adorable pin cushion with my fave colour RED!

Just from the e-mails sent back and forth, I think she is one of the sweetest people I've met.(online, but maybe one day we will meet) Check out her site here.

I took a little video of the girls opening their treat from Jeanee.

They couldn't leave the house today without one of these adorable clips in their hair.

(Sorry the pics don't do the goodies any justice, just swamped today but want to make sure that I posted!)

First Post of Many for Today...

Okay there has been lots going on! And I don't know where to start!

Julia and I have built Snow Girls (See Emily, Julia and Becca)

Emily was recognized at School!

We have started running club again this year!

I have participated in a few swaps and also found this awesome swap site!

The girls finished their swimming lessons!

Emily has Glasses now!

We have 4 new very important additions to the family!

Spent some time at the park, because the weather is finally getting nice!

Made Marshmallow Shooters from this great Instructable!

Had a Cousin sleepover!

Julia has found her very own fashion sense!

(I know Julia is a girl and sweet one at that, it's just every time she does her hair like this I think...

Richie Tenenbaum)

And I won a giveaway! Thank you Jenny!

(It came from Australia)

With that said I have also started a new project...yes I know another project. But I love it! So check it out! It's only been 5 days but I'm really having fun with it!

Favorite Things Swap

I've been meaning to blog about my awesome swap partner, but with Mom here, the birthday party and our ward camp out, we've been a tad busy....Well I received an awesome package in the mail. I love getting mail. We have a superbox. It's always so much fun to open our mail and see another key to open the bigger box. Yeah, packages!!! I received fabric, magazines, some pictures and cards of New Mexico and a gorgeous apron my swap partner made! She is so talented! It totally made my day! Enjoy the pics!

Summer Day 10, 11, 12 ,13...and some weekend stuff

Day 10 - We went to the Library and ran some errands.

Rebecca was so alert when we started out, but tuckered out before we got to Costco.

I didn't want to wake the poor girl, but I really needed some groceries.

She did not want to wake up so I laid her in the cart. She is so cute. I couldn't believe she stayed asleep, even while taking the cart through the bumpy parking lot. That night we had Spencer babysit, and Shawn and I went to a movie. We saw the Proposal with Sandra Bullock. We both liked it. It was a Romantic Comedy. I think thats why Shawn liked it, the comedy part. It was also Street Wheelers. Mayor Magrath was pretty busy even though they don't block that off,

but we saw this guy on this bike on our way home.

Craziness.

On Saturday we took Emily's training wheels off.

No success, but we'll try again. I know mine and Shawn's backs are pretty sore from bending over. That afternoon we had some friends come and play on this really cool water slide blow up thing. The girls could have played for hours.

Day 11 - The girls slept over at Grandma's on Sunday night so it was pretty quiet Monday morning. I was able to go for a bike ride, no kids. Kind of fun. The girls went to the dollar store, and came home just before lunch. That afternoon we got thunderstorms. It would not stop pouring. We had Dinner/FHE at Ryan's and Alisha's that night. Alisha made a delicious lasagna. The girls ate every last bite. Even Julia.

Day 12 - Today it rained all day. It felt like it would never stop. We hung out in our PJ's and watched movies. You have to do that every once in awhile. We did finally get dressed, the sun broke through the clouds and we ventured out to the fabric store. Emily picked out some fabric, and we are going to make a skirt together.

The day before when I went to the store and I had gotten some pajamas for Julia. I didn't have time to find any for Emily and she is at this weird stage/size. To big for a 6 to small for a 7. So it's hit and miss when it comes to finding clothes for her. I told her I would take her out. Kind of a Mommy Daughter date, and we would pick out some PJ's. Okay 2 stores and an hour and a half later we FINALLY found some.

She is very happy with her choice!

Day 13 - Today was a blast. The sun is finally out and it actually feels like summer.

We had some friends over this afternoon to do some Tie Dying.

We went to Fabricland and picked out some dye.

Emily and Julia helped label the buckets, while I boiled water,

and got things together.

We wet our shirts and started wrapping rubber bands around them.

Then we got down to the fun part. We got to Dye them.

It was great to see all the kids little personalities come out.

Their color choices and even their patience. It was so much fun.

I couldn't believe how Julia just got right in there.

And even Emily warmed up to the idea and was having fun.

I am so grateful to have such awesome friends, and for their great kids too.

Here is a picture of Julia and her shirt.

I think they all did a great job.

Just a side note here, I got the e-mail today for my favorite things swap.

I have my new friend, I can't wait to send her an e-mail and my 3 favorite things.

I have already done some spying on her blog...

Swap This!

I am so excited to do this. I've heard of these swap things and have always wanted to do one. They look like so much fun. I've already figured out which 3 things I am going to swap. I'll take pics and let you know how it goes. If you want to participate in the swap click on the favorite things swap button.