Sew Fun!

These are my two newest projects! Last night we had an unofficial relief society sewing class. It was a blast. I learned how to use an easy pattern. I made these pajama shorts for paisley last night. Then this morning I went to my friend's house and she taught me how to make this super cute skirt!! It took about 2 and a half hours to make the skirt today. We also wanted to add pockets but ran out of time. I'm really excited to fill paisley's closet with lots of cute new skirts!!

The Reviews are in!!

My etsy store The Purse Place is currently being feature on a blog called Take It From Me.
This blog has done a review on my I Spy Bags and is now doing a giveaway with them. I was really excited to approached about doing this review! So if you are interested in seeing their opinion of my I Spy Bags or want to enter the giveaway to have a change to win an I Spy Bag check out my review!

Jarom's New Trick

Cute Sesame Street

Did you just say that?

(Disclaimer: We look really tired because we are really tired. Jarom did NOT like sleeping in the pack and play so we are really sleep deprived!)

A couple weekends ago we drove to Denver to see my sister and to go to a Brian Regan show. It was HILARIOUS! One of his skits was about since he became a parents he has been saying sentences he never thought would come out of his mouth. One of his examples were (and I'm paraphrasing) "Charlie please don't hold the juice box between your chest and the table" So lately we have had a couple of these things going something like this:
"Please don't lick the grocery cart!"

"Try not to poop in your pants" "why not?" "Because you just shouldn't"

HA!! Kids! I'm sure we all have lots of funny sentences you never thought would be coming out of your mouth! Please, share them with me! :)

Retro Night at the Rink!

Saturday night we had a date night out with some friends. We went roller skating in a nearby town. It was retro night at the rink, but apparently we were the only ones that knew it! :) We had a good time and looked great doing it! :)

Projects!

We have decided to make 2010 the year of improvements. I know we are a month behind on making new year's resolutions, but we have received the inspiration and motivation we need to make some changes around here.

First! We were inspired by a story we saw on the news about a lady who plans her families meals for a year.s That way she know exactly what is coming and can prepare for it. She knows exactly how to shop the sales at the grocery store because she knows the exact amounts of everything she needs. We are going to try it out. We wrote down the meals that everyone likes and side dishes to go with most of them. We will put them in order and rotate through. I am gathering all the recipes for these meals and putting them all in one place so when it is time to cook I have everything in one place!! I am also going through all the food magazine we have to find some additional recipes and copying them into my new recipe notebook. I am pretty excited about this new plan! Figuring out what to have is half the battle, so we're already partial winners in that sense!


Second! Being inspired by a Martha Stewart magazine to try a new project, I have completed my first scarf. Needle felting is a lot of fun!! I can't wait to make another scarf for me (Jason claimed this one) and one for Paisley. I'm really excited to think of other fun needle felting projects I can do!

Third! Our fifth Sunday lesson was all about the family finance section of providentliving.org. We have decided to crack down and make a better attempt at budgeting. Our current budget is sad and needs a makeover. This also relates to our first project of planning our meals ahead of time.
We are really excited to crunch some numbers and figure out a better system!

Fourth! Fixing things!! Our water softener hasn't work in about 2 years (shocking it lasted that long, can you tell how old this thing is?? hint: older than me!)) The water here is HARD!!! We all are very dried out thanks to our hard water. We were preparing ourselves to have to buy a new one, but the wonderful repair man came today and was able to fix it!! That really made our budget happy! We look forward to losing the itchy feeling that came from our super hard water.

There are a few other projects we have going on and perhaps they will be a different post. We look forward to improving ourselves and our household. It feel refreshing to make improvements!! We know we are behind but welcome 2010 we can't wait for more of you to come!!