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Bradley is rockin the face band aid.

Bradley was trying to pull scissors away from Alex and stabbed himself in the face.  It is barely a scratch and didn't even bleed but we put some antibiotic cream on it and a band aid.  He just happened to be wearing the sweatshirt today that Bryan and I brought him back from San Fransisco, so it was pretty appropriate.

Recent Projects

A friend from church had a baby a couple of weeks ago and the baby was early so they haven't had a shower yet so I made a few things to take over to her. 

 A Valentine's day onesie.

A car seat tent with a ruffle on the bottom and her name in the corner.

Here are a few dresses I have made for Alex. This is pink corduroy.

 This one is a little to big so it will be for when she gets bigger.

Christmas

Christmas was really good this year.  We started a new family tradition and stayed home.  It was very nice and relaxing.  We had the missionaries over for Christmas dinner and it was very yummy.  Our power went out for over an hour just as I was getting ready to put all of my side dishes in the oven, but I improvised and put my cheesy potatoes in individual ramicans and they cooked fast and dinner was only about 15 min late to the table.  

Bradley made out this Christmas.  Santa brought him the World of Warcraft expansion  which he can play on his laptop he got from mom and dad.  He also got a lot of accessories from it and a desk from Grandma Karen and Papa Nick, so he is ready for kindergarten.  He also got his very own IPod touch.  I realize this all seems extreme but the laptop was Bryan's old laptop from school that Bryan reformatted and only put on it Bradley's games and the IPod was Bryan's old IPod that we reset and erased everything off of so we really didn't spend much money. 

Alex got the Little Peoples Noah's Ark set with the extra animals from Santa and lots of fun girly things from mom and dad.  She was more interested in watching Bradley open and throwing away the paper than opening her own presents. 

I didn't get many pictures but here are a few.

Beginning of 2011

Here are my goals for 2011, some are the same as 2010 and some are different.  I accomplished all of my 2010 goals to some degree. 
1. Loose more weight.  Last year I lost 20 pounds, even with having the pregnancy and miscarriage, so in 2011 my goal is 40 more. 

2. Stick to my cash budget.  So if anyone sees me on my way to Jo Ann's please stop me.  Friends don't friends go to Jo Ann's.

3. Sew more.  I get great satisfaction when I finish a project and I have several planned.  I also like making things for the kids and have some great patterns and fabric.

4.  Read more.  My 2010 goal was to watch less TV and I have done that so now I want to read more.

5.  Run more.  In 2010 Bryan and I had decided to do a marathon.  Bryan did it, but with getting pregnant and then having the miscarriage my training had to stop.  So I am hoping to get back to running.  I am hoping to run a half marathon this year if not a full marathon.

6.  Meal plan and stick to it.  I started doing weekly meal plans last year and it worked great.  So I am hoping to stick to it even more this year.

7.  Take the kids to fun places.  I have found several jumping places near us and plan on doing more with them outside the house.

Another thing to

waste spend to much time on.  I have recently gotten the photoshop CS5 program and am in love with it.  I can edit our photos, create custom photo cards and I am playing with creating custom blogs.  I created all the stuff on this blog.  It is really fun and I am getting better at it.  It is really fun to edit pictures. 

Mom always told me

Never go to someones house for dinner empty handed.  So with that in mind I am bringing these treats to Bryan's Aunt's house tomorrow night.  She said I didn't need to bring anything, but there should be many people there and someone will eat them.  I also have a little something for the ladies, but am not going to post pictures yet, because there is one person that still reads the blog.

These are Marshmallow Pops!

Peanut Butter Balls, Avalanche Bark and Peanut Butter Fudge

Side By Side

A couple up close.

All wrapped up!

Update

We just got back from our Thanksgiving trip to Cali and it was very eventful.  Here are a few highlights.

There was a party for Bryan's Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary.  As a gift for them, all of the siblings in Bryan's family with children got together and had a picture taken of the kids.  I made the shirts and took the picture.  I am definitely a rookie with this whole photography thing, but this is a good picture because it shows all the kids personalities.

We were able to attend Bryan's company work party and I made this dress for Alex to wear, when it was done, it had a second ruffle on the bottom.  She wears a brown sweater with it.

We also went to Knotts Berry Farm with my sister, her husband, and their kiddos.  Bradley and Alex had a good time.  They had a station where you could spend $2.50 for a big cookie and they had had red, green and white frosting and lots of sprinkles to decorate with.  Bradley loved it and I let him go nuts.  He was loving it.  There isn't a lot of rides he could ride so he spent at least 30 minutes icing this cookie.  There was so much icing on it.  A man made a comment about how much icing Bradley was using and I looked at him and smiled and said you only live once, and he is having a blast.  The man then went on to tell his WIFE how many buttons the gingerbread man needed and how she wasn't doing it right.  We also got his face painted.  He loved it.

 

I have been doing a good day amount of sewing lately and made Alex this coat.

I made chocolate covered marshmallows for Bradley's teachers and the gal I visit teach.  I used the super jumbo marshmallows and white and milk chocolate.  The white chocolate ones have either crushed candy cane or red sugar sprinkles on them and the milk chocolate ones have crushed graham crackers or flaked coconut on them. 

I made a Christmas Tree this year for our house.  Ther is no way I would be able to put a big one up with ornaments witht all the little hands we have around.

 

I ordered a BYU Scentsy Warmer and LOVE IT!

While in Bakersfield I took Bradley, Little Bryan, and Darek shopping with me.  We went to Target, Walmart and Hancock Fabrics.  People looked at me like I was nuts.  They were pretty good.

We had our annual family picture taken for our Christmas cards.  Here are a couple good ones.