'Tis the season....... to be crazy

This has been my life for the last week. Making stuff for a local boutique. I always tell myself I will not go crazy over holiday shows, and every year I repeat this vicious cycle of all-nighters right before the boutique.
What better way to take a 4am break than to post a little something on the blog? :)

This is a shot of my table, one of the ongoing project stations. This is the lampwork "station" where I am making glass beads for the bookmarks and jewelry.
This is a picture of all three "work stations". Soldering glass charms for jewelry, making glass beads, and good-old-trusty beaded bookmarks. This is why I LOVE having my own art room. Never again will I destroy kitchen tables. And the best part, Bill can close the door and not look at the mess! :)

Sunday, Enos and Lindsay came over so Lindsay could start a project for baby Lucas. Jade and Josh wanted to help as well. They are making a really cute "pom-pom ball" rug. Lucas is going to have a monster theme baby room. (think "ugly doll meets hairy monster". I love my sister-in-law!)

Cute prego Lindsay. And two very excited cousins for Lucas.

facebook

I'm on facebook now. Bill has an account, so broke down and got one too. If you know my last name or maiden name, come find me.....we can be friends! :)

*also, Bill has some great old pics of us on his facebook, so you should add him too....... if you know him.

Eddie's first snow

Snow came!
It was quite a storm we had. I was not prepared, I have not trimmed back ANY plants in the yard, or completed any winter preparations. Thank goodness I will have a few days of sunshine before the next storm hits. :)

We bundled him up, and he was quite excited about the new experience, including the snow-eating tips from big sister.

She tried to show him how much fun it is to fall in the snow.

For some reason, it didn't seem as easy as she made it look..........."heop peas!"

mommy/daughter morning date

Jade had friday off. So after we dropped Eddie off at the babysitter, we took a drive up the canyon to the ski resorts just to look around.

The next three pictures are Jade's handywork. I let her take the camera down to the stream so she could take some pictures. I think she did a great job.

It was so beautiful up there. I don't think these pictures show it, but normal people like me are rarely able to capture natures beauty with our automatic cameras. Ski season is definitely on.

It was a nice little drive. We just kept saying over and over how grateful we are that we live here. This is such a beautiful part of Utah.

Right before the snow came, we hurried to pick up leaves. Then the "kids" has a little fun.

A hopeful future.......

I am proud to be the wife of a Veteran, proud to be an American, proud to be a Christian, and proud to be a woman who voted today for change. I am grateful for a new president who will lead this country forward, while I continue to have the freedom to raise my family with the values I feel are right. This is a historic day and I am grateful to be a part of it!

Halloween night!!!

Here is a better shot of Jade's hat. I love making hats now, and I had a few ladies ask me to make one for next year. Maybe that will be my Halloween business? Jade's hat had specific requests from her. I might post my hat sometime, it was a lot of fun to do.

My little monster and my Ben Ten. The shiny things on his head are his reflective teeth, then he also had 3 eyes, 2 horns, and ears on the hood. Josh had the exact same costume when he was 3 and I specifically looked for this one again on ebay. I will look for the same one in blue for next year, just like Josh had when he was 4.

Right after fighting.....Josh was able to pull off a smile a little better than Jade.

My happy little monster! He LOVED taking his bag up and getting candy. He mostly liked to pick it out himself, so he could grab a handful. But he looked so cute, no one seemed to care that he would take 1 or 2 handfuls of candy. It helped that he "sounded" cute, with his little squeeky shoes.

Mica came to help me out, and she dressed up WAY cute! She took Jade and Josh around for me, while Eddie and I went snail-pace around the block.

As my siblings will confirm, we have an INSANE amount of candy. (like 4 grocery bags full total, so we gave a lot away to siblings and cousins) I guess that's what you get when you have super cute kids and you go "candy-hunting" 3 times! (our ward trunk-or-treat, Bill's office of 400 ppl giving out candy in groups, and Halloween night)
Jade was totally wiped out afterward.....we all were.
They sorted all their candy, the stuff they love that will go into their candy drawer, (I let them take one piece of candy a day in their lunches, but this will save me lots of money for the rest of the year), then the pile of candy they do not want, that I will take and add to my "library candy fund". ( pass out candy in the library at church, just a fun little thing to do to get people to come say hi to me)

We do not have pictures of the rest of the night, but Enos and Lindsay came over and we stayed up till midnight watching old black and white horror films from the 50's. It was really fun. I think we will have to make that a tradition. "Attack of the killer leeches" had us all rolling, even the kids!