Collective Soul is coming to Green River!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I am so excited I can hardly even type!! I was checking the tour dates for my most favorite band Collective Soul just in case they might be playing in Ut or Colorado or somewhere close and as I was scanning the venues Green River, Wy popped out. That's right they are coming here. To my town. Where I can see them. Here. Green River. They are going to be performing at Flaming Gorge Days ( or Herpecin days as Christin calls it) Finally I know why I was supposed to move to this town!!! I am so excited-- its like Christmas!!!!!

Cannon's Birthday and Crafty Stuff

We celebrated Cannon's first birthday on the the 23rd (a day late so Daddy could be here). He was so cute eating his chocolate cake, he made a huge mess. He got some cute toys, including a wooden shape set, the kind you hammer the shapes through. He loves to hammer on that thing and it already looks like its a year old.

The shape set-he loves it.

This week I decided to get going on some of my sewing projects that have just been sitting around waiting ,its hard to push the sewing pedals with braces on your ankles. The weather has been sunny and it started me thinking about spring so I thought I would make Lillie a dress for when the weather warms up. Hey, hope springs eternal here in Wyoming. I had purchased some cotton gauze on clearance for just such a purpose and she really loves the way it twirls.

I've also been wanting to try to make some reusable lunch things so we can cut down on our Ziploc wasting, I finally figured out a good material to line it with so that it is waterproof, but not totally full of chemicals and BPA's like most vinyl. I played around with a few patterns and then made this bag. You can't see it very well, but the top closes with velcro. It's not watertight but it is easy to pull out the lining to wash off any goo.

I also made a sandwich wrap with some instructions from this cool blog:

http://www.towards-sustainability.com/2008/03/homemade-sandwich-wrap.html

Lillie is excited to take lunch to school in them. I'm going to make some more with the kids' names embroidered on them as soon as I get around to it.

Every once in a while the kids like to go through my ginormous fabric scrap pile and pull out the ones they like- apparently Whip is making a bikini.

Finally, this is a really cute picture of Cannon that Whip took all on his own with no help from me. Seriously!!

Mi Blankie Su Blankie-Just don't Touch my Binky

I actually took these a while ago but I never got around to posting, they were being so cute-until Cannon dropped his binky and Calvin decided he wanted it.

This last weekend we were able to go to the Salt Lake Temple to see Calvin be sealed to Joe and Lila. It was a very sweet experience and we are so happy to have been there. It was nice to see all of the family and friends that came to be with them. Calvin was very cute and well behaved in the sealing room and there was a wonderful feeling to see them become an eternal family. (The only bummer was I forgot my camera so I missed out on some really cute photo ops!)
Cannon is officially a walker now, okay he's not a professional but he can take up to six steps so far without falling down. He still prefers to crawl because it is faster, but I think he will be running soon!!

Whip just finished his indoor soccer games and it always makes me laugh to watch how excited he is to play. Lillie is doing very well in school and she loves to come home and play with Sophie and Cannon.

I am posting some pictures that I have taken over the past couple of weeks.

Whip loves jumping on the Trampoline-even in two feet of snow.

This is an icicle that was hanging off of our back porch. It was about 3 feet long-before we broke it.

Cannon and Calvin bonding over drinks.

Cannon and Mo enjoying some Baby Einstein.