Blogging from a cell phone...

...is a learned skill. :-P

Hootie!

Hootie is doing great. After we got home she explored the house and made herself at home. She's spent lots of time sleeping in my lap or on my footstool with her head propped on my leg. She spent about an hour in her crate today and didn't seem to mind too much after a little while. To top it off, Tristan is having no allergy problems whatsoever!

The easiest useful craft I've ever done...

At the Southeast Homeschool Expo, there was a lady from JoAnn was demonstrating the Knifty Knitter 2 from Provo Craft.

This is the coolest thing. Jasmine is making a green hat. She is having no trouble whatsoever. I've already made about five or so, from scrap yarn.

If making hats isn't your "thing" you can go back & forth instead of making circles and you'll have rectangles of all sizes. Make several long strips, sew them together, and make a blanket!

Jazzie is modeling NaNa's hat, and Tristan is very unhappy about modeling a hat that doesn't meet his specifications.


Next, Jazzie models her blue, sparkly hat that I made to match a scarf that I made a few weeks ago, and Tristan models *my* giant hat. The last picture is of my hat, over the laptop, showing (but not very well) the detail of the stitches. NaNa's, Jazzie's, and mine all have a band. Tristan's has a little roll at the bottom instead of a band. It's really cute, even if he doesn't like it.


Anyway, it's good, easy fun. Pick up a set!

KwikSewFreeSewingPattern-Purse.pdf (application/pdf Object)

KwikSewFreeSewingPattern-Purse.pdf (application/pdf Object)
I want to make this. It's really cute, and may use up some scraps.

First Day of School

We started school today, and I'm sure that I'd be killed if I didn't take pictures and post them immediately :D

School went great. Jasmine is helping me teach Tristan the basics of phonics which they both think is wonderful. Tristan's school day is a lot shorter than Jasmine's (1 hour vs. 4) so most of the time Jasmine and I are still one-on-one.


















Now, everyone who knows these two understands that they get pretty furious and/or silly after about the millionth picture. That's when I snapped the last two pictures. Jazzie made faces and Tristan had a complete fit... imagine that!

WHERE'S MY CABLE???

I will be posting another blog as soon as I find my camera cable. Grrr...

Two blogs in one day!!! Yaaay!!!

This is going to have a *lot* of pictures!
Tristan's birthday... he wanted his big train set up around the living room, other toys set up inside it, and to eat hamburgers in the middle of all of it. That's *exactly* what we did!











Jasmine, with her roses after her dancing recital.



















Jazzie, with her 5.5 pound bass.


















Tristan, the dirtiest boy ever, next to a picture of the dirtiest PawPaw ever.
















Me, and my almost-6-pound bass.














PawPaw, in a really good picture taken by Tristan.













A sorta cool picture of the cemetery, but not as cool as I had hoped...