Stylin'

This girl has some serious style!  I love to see the outfits she picks out in the mornings. They are usually rocker-ish.  I've tried to teach her about matching and show her what shirts and pants go together.  Sometimes I'm just happy to see her be so carefree because I know it won't last forever.

This is the face of someone who just got caught drawing in the living room.

 We quickly fixed that problem and got situated at the table.

 Her new favorite thing is to do faces while I take pictures so she can look at them after. So although it looks like she is sticking her tongue out at me, it is just a silly face.

But check out the leopard pants, jammy shirt, church shoes, one glove (my guess is she couldn't get the other one on), and baby headband. 

We are very proud parents!

Canning

This was one of those super duper proud of myself moments.  I actually followed through with something that I'd been saying I was wanting to do for a couple of years.  Mostly it just took a couple years to get the courage up and a neighbor letting me borrow all of her stuff, but I finally taught myself how to can spaghetti sauce.

I kinda forgot to take a picture of all the tomatoes in the bags and the pile of skinned/cored tomatoes. So here they are after being pureed.  Aren't they so pretty?

 Here is the sauce after I'd added all the seasonings and such.  It smelled and tasted soooo good. This is the recipe I used.

This was the scariest part for me.  I had no idea how to use a pressure cooker and I was so worried that it was going to explode because it really sounds like it might.  My neighbor may have gotten just a few random silly questions. Like how do I keep the pressure from getting too high?  Duh...turn the heat down.  But I learned so I won't have to be afraid for next year. Just as a side note, it really is okay to wear your jammies and totally not be ready for the day when you are canning because it makes a real big mess and who wants to get spaghetti stains all over your nice clothes.

And for those of you wondering what Addy was doing in the midst of all this chaos. Well she was outside playing with a roll of tape that she'd found.  I guess the swing set needed a little fixing up. 

My finished product. 

Yes it is beautiful and I let it sit on my counter for quite awhile so I could admire all my hard work.

I know what I am asking Santa for this Christmas.

(hint, hint)

Mitch's Birthday

We celebrated another birthday a few weeks ago! It wasn't nearly as planned or as fun as last year. I guess turning 31 just isn't as cool as turning 30. Oh well. He did get a great cake made specially by me.

I took it down to where he works and we had a surprise party with family.

After the party, Addy went and played with her cousins while we went shopping for a suit which turned into suits. Now when he gets ready for church he always asks if he can wear his birthday suit. Hehe...I'm sure you are laughing just as hard as I was...or wasn't. Gotta love that man of mine.

Snow

Yep, that is right.

We've already had snow this year.

I really shouldn't be surprised because it happens every year.

But I was.

Just like every year.

So we stayed in our jammies all day because there really was no need to get ready. Then once it stopped I pulled out the winter coat and gloves and let Addy out to play.

At least someone in our house was having fun. Maybe next time I'll be a better mom and go out and play with her instead of just standing in the doorway. Just maybe,

the BIG girl bed

You know how when you first get married you think you know everything about each other. Then it really doesn't take long before you realize that was not the case. Well, probably about a year ago Mitch told me he has always let me say that again always wanted to have a wood shop. This was news to me. In the 6 years we'd been married I'd never heard anything about wanting to build things. Being the great wife that I am (hehe) I said something along the lines of 'keep dreaming'.

Then just last month, we realized that we were going to need to move our twin mattress into Addy's room to make room for another bed in the guest room. I started looking online for a bed frame that we could get but I just wasn't finding anything that I liked for the amount of money I was willing to spend.

In my searching, I came across this website ana-white.com. It is a wood working site that has tons of different plans and projects of things to build around the house. I started looking at the beds and found a couple I liked so I had Mitch check it out and it was like a dream come true. Next thing I know we are at Home Depot buying wood and then he came home from work with a new saw and the project was officially started.

Seriously, he was in heaven.

While we sanded and painted, this little lady ran around playing and having a great time.

The almost finished bed. Just letting the last coat of paint dry.

The finished product.

We absolutely love it. Now I am just waiting for my new bar stools!! I guess the garage has turned into our new wood shop!

Our trip to Utah

Addy and I went down to Utah last week so we could meet Katelynn. She is my new little niece and we just love her to pieces. I couldn't believe how tiny she still was at 4 weeks and how good of a baby she is. I swear she never cries...even when you try to make her cry, she still doesn't...not that I tried or anything!

Addy even thought she was pretty cute. Although she would start saying something about her and then stop and say, "what'n her name again?"

Let's be honest though, I think she was most excited about playing with Gracie.

We had a really fun visit, as you will see in the next few posts, and were able to spend lots of time visiting with the family.

Swimming

One of the afternoons we went over to the Clearfield pool and swam around. It was such a fun pool because they had a big area for the kids to swim around and I didn't get any pictures of the actual play toy part but it was pretty neat. They also had a small little lazy river to float around and a big slide that we found out the kids could sit on our laps and go down. Plus a hot tub so my mom was able to run back and forth between swimming with the kids and keeping herself warm. The kids weren't allowed in it so I would occasionally take Addy into the warm shower to keep her from freezing. Anyways we didn't stay long because we forgot to bring snacks for the girls so when dinner time came around we had to leave.

These girls sure loved the big slide!

Back up they go for another round of sliding.

And little miss Katelynn was an angel baby and just slept the whole time we were swimming.