The Jewelry Box

I found a new hobby... about time! It is a lot of fun and even though I have only sold about 5 pairs I enjoy coming up with new designs and seeing the finished product. Here are a few I have made

All of them are at  https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Jewelry-Box/305030149607069

Christmas

We celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve because David worked from 7am to just after 6pm. The kids were almost ready for bed by the time he got home. It was a great day though. Morgan ran out to David on the couch at 6:30am, taking a moment to realize there was a dollhouse and chair set up. When she saw them she said "Wow! Whas tha?" She proceeded to play with it for 2 hours. But after breakfast, reading "The First Christmas" by my grandpa, and making our gifts to Jesus, she abandoned the dollhouse and chair for better toys under the tree :) Thank you everyone!

Eli LOVED this star wand from Morgan's stocking

In her cute new tutu skirt from my mom - she wore it all day

YUMMY!

After all the hard work opening gifts Eli chilled in his new blanket from Gail - it is SOOO soft!

When it was all said and done Morgan decided she wanted to watch her new Finding Nemo movie. The Elmo toy has blocks that go through the alphabet with the sounds and such, and the "ooh-ee" (it's a monkey) chair is her new favorite place to sit

At the Christmas Eve festivities Morgan was one of the shepherds in the nativity play. She and Adam were great and showed a lot of enthusiasm when the Angel appeared to them - without prompting too!

It has snowed a lot the past few days. Morgan and I made snowmen (our second one was better than this one) and snow angels.

Our Celebrity

David directs BYU International Sports.

BYU International Sports won an Emmy.

Therefore, David won an Emmy

Odds and Ends Pictures

Morgan is not feeling so well today it seems - David was sick the last couple of days so there is no surprise here

lesson learned: don't turn on the wrong burner

I did this a few months back. I took the 1/2 bulletin & 1/2 dry-erase board we had, painted the wood frame (literally running back and forth while having a dance party with Morgan), covered it with scrapbook paper, and glued on the letters I had to cut out individually. But I think it is a nice addition to our bedroom

Morgan and I just made this yesterday. It is our FHE General Conference Tree. Morgan will get to color each leaf during FHE while we discuss a talk. The speaker and topic go on the leaf and after making a goal for that week regarding that topic you put the leaf on the grass when completed.

As a wedding present David and I were given this tray. It was white and after 3 years it got a bit scuffed so I painted it and mogpogged scrapbook paper to the bottom to add some spice.

Happy Halloween

For Halloween we went to the Ward Halloween Party dressed as cows and David was a butcher. Sick, right? I liked the idea of him being a farmer but was out voted. We did however tie for best family costume, even though the Bishop thought we should have been considered for the scariest costume. 

This is the dessert I made for the party. It is a spiffy dirt cup recipe but I spooked it up with a grave and pumpkin patch. It was the only dessert finished off :)

 Morgan was obsessed with this turtle all night. She kept following her around, waving, and getting high-fives. It was quite adorable.

My little cow

Birthday Boy

David turned 26 this month and we tried to celebrate the best I could. I don't have a very good track record for making birthdays, Christmas, or Father's Day exciting so I did my best. David went to class as usual and when he got home Morgan and I attacked him with Marshmallows for a full on battle, until Morgan got upset that David and I were throwing things at each other. His presents were set out and we had a Happy Birthday sign. After dinner Seth, Kira, and the kids came over (David didn't know they were coming) and Kira made this yummy jello cake! We played life-size angry birds and then the new kinect sports David got. All I can do is hope that it was a good start to another year for him.

John and David skiing with the kinect

 Adam and Morgan played with the kitchen set - Adam looking cute and Morgan apparently thinking the jello cake needed something more - although at one point during the festivities I found her at the table digging into the remaining jello with fist and face

In other news, my two older brothers came to visit - one whom I haven't seen since Morgan was born and the other since last summer (2011). Morgan quickly took to them and had a blast playing. Here she is with Tyler. She curled up with him to watch Despicable Me

Day at the Park

David joined us at the park last week which was so nice since it is usually just me and the kids. He brought the camera and took some awesome pictures!

He is in the moby wrap and had just woken up

Our Saturday Morning Conference

Her impression of a fish

Day 83

Eli is 3 months old in 9 days and it has certainly been a life lesson having a newborn and 1-year-old. Trust me when I say on more than one, two, or three occasions I have wished there was a bigger age gap than 19 months between the two. I always hear women say how much they love nursing and that time they have to bond with their baby, but sadly I can't share that sentiment. I think nursing has been the greatest stress of a new baby, no matter what number it is. I wish I could look forward to feedings but instead I look forward to when I don't have to fight my body and try anymore. Thankfully I have been blessed with the ability to bear children but it is so hard to feel inadequate and incapable of feeding that baby. As David so delicately puts it, I'm broken. I can't do what I am meant to do.

Morgan likes Eli, although she is also very cuddly now too. She ALWAYS wants hugs. Who knows if that is because of the 4 molars coming in, she just likes us, or is jealous of all the time I spend holding Eli. Now that it is cooler we are going to the park more often and walk to the library for story time. Thank goodness for the Moby Wrap!

David is busy, busy, busy with school. When he is not in class or at work he is doing homework. It gets pretty lonely. But he seems to like the classes so as least there is that.