A Couple of Thing About Wingnut

Wingnut sleeps with two or three blankets.  He usually sleeps on top of them.  Lately when I get him out of bed in the morning he reaches back into his crib to get his blanket.  And his other blanket.  And his other blanket.  He has to take all of them downstairs for breakfast.  He sits [...]

Red Butte Garden with Em

Yesterday Em and I met up at Red Butte Gardens to visit and let our kids play.  I’d never been and Em hadn’t explored much on her previous visits so there was a lot for us to see.  We spent most of our time in the Children’s Garden.  We brought swimsuits for our kids and [...]

Silver Lake Hike

I have about eleventy million photos to upload from the last week but I think I’m going to do it in batches as I write the posts to go with so here’s the first.

ODD had the day off Monday because it was Labor Day and we wanted to spend it doing something fun.  ODD [...]

Neighborhood Party

This weekend was the annual neighborhood party my family and a few friends throw.  ODD couldn’t make it because he had to drain some guys puss and could have been called in later in the day but the kids and I went.  We went in the morning so I could practice some songs with my [...]

Fall Jacket #2

I’ve been debating about what kind of fabric I wanted to use for Peanut’s fall jacket.  I bought this Oliver + S pattern in June while at the quilting shop hop but couldn’t decide if I wanted to use a laminate and have it be sort of a raincoat, or use a wool and have [...]