Camping

Okay I know I have not updated my blog forever! Life is crazy busy with 4 kids...do I need to say more? So here is what I am going to do, the thought of catching up, well it just isn't going to happen, so I am going to just start now and here and there I will flashback to some important events ( like Crew being born) later when I have time. The most recent event was going camping. Yep camping with 4 kiddos was not at all relaxing, it was work! We had a lot of fun, and the kids had a great time so what if I came home exhausted. We took the kids out of school for a couple of days and met our friends Greg and Annie and there 3 kids.










Shelby(7), River(6), Sean(5), June & Bree(3), Crew(7months), Kaylee(3months)

Updated Pictures!

We had such a fun Easter, earth quake and all! I even got some family pictures and there was no yelling and no one was crying, that never happens! So since it has been forever again since I posted any recent pictures I thought I would share.

Shelby loves school, friends, and boys! There is a boy in her class with a crush on her and calls her sweety pie, she comes home giggling almost everyday about it! She describes there little crush like this:" mom we just L-I-K-E eachother, we are to young to L-O-V-E eachother, I won't love a boy until I'm like 16!" Oh please keep turning 16 a long time away!!!! Also half of her conversations are her spelling out the words, it makes me laugh every time.


River is totally boy! He keeps challenging himself on jumping from any thing high, he clears our stairs completly, makes me nerves every time. He is my pickiest dresser, he knows what style clothes he likes and wont wear anything he does not think is cool! I gave away like 5 brand new "paul frank" shirts because he does not like that "stupid monkey!" His words not mine, I have just learned to take things back if he says he wont wear them, because he wont.


June Lily! She makes me laugh all the time! She has started to potty train herself, I guess I should just go with it. She is sweet but has a mean bite. She keeps up with her brother and sister just fine, and sometimes she is the one beating them up. She has finally started to like other people, she usually wont leave mine or her daddy's side, but she is growing up and giving others a chance! She will be turning 2 in about a month, why does time go by so fast when they are little?

Happy Halloween!

I know it has been forever since I last bloged! We have had alot of fun during this fall season, although it feels more like summer than autumn! We have been to the pumpkin patch, decorated pumpkins, made pumpkin muffins, had fun at school halloween shows... like I said alot of fun.

June is almost out of the baby stage... it has gone by so fast. She keeps up with her older brother and sister no matter what they are doing. She is truely a red head, stubborn personality and everything! Did I mention she is a total climber, she started climbing out of her crib a few weeks ago so already my baby is in a big kid bed.

River is funny, anything you ask him his usual response is "shake a boom-boom"!" River what do you want to eat"..."ummm... shake a boom-boom." "River what do you want to get for your birthday"..."a new sword and shake a boom-boom!" He thinks he is so funny, so do I.

What happend to my little girl? She seems so old to me all of a sudden. Shelby is in first grade and already her and her friends are planning to move out together when they go to college... I'm not sure I even knew what college was when I was five. She tells me all the time that she is going to go to college and when she grows up she wants to be a illustrater, she love to draw pictures to go with her stories. Her knew thing is to answer me with spelling, and usually it has a very sassy tone to it... " do you understand what I said Shelby?" " Y-E-S- M-O-M!" She says this while rolling her eyes at me! Let me tell you I pick my battles, and I totally ignore her last word because at any cost she will get in the last word... kinda reminds me of her Aunt Autumn.

Halloween was so much fun. I love my kids ages, Shelby keeps up with her older boy cousins, and if she falls behind she loves being the leader for the younger cousins. River keeps up but after awhile he does fall back and that is my favorite part because it reminds me he is still little. When he got tired trick or treating he wanted to walk slower by me and hold my hand. June... she caught on to the go to someones door, hold out your bucket and get a candy bit real quick! She could have out lasted her older brother and sister, she sometimes even walked into peoples homes to help her self to their candy bowl!

I had alot of fun this year making all their costums. Shelby was a "vampire fairy".



River was a cowboy, not just any he said he only wanted to be a "bad guy cowboy!" The black rope was a special request by him because he said bad cowboys need rope to tie people up... what has he been watching? Thanks dad for running out last minute to get the black rope.


June, my true "red headed devil!" I saw these clip on devil horns and just loved the idea of her being a devil. She is truely a girl because she loves wearing tutus and any other full girly skirts so this costum was alot of fun for me.

i heart tutus

I started making these tutus for a friend who sales tutus at a dance studio around here. So far they are pretty popular so I decided to start selling them in my very own etsy store. I'm really excited, I have a couple listed in my store now with the headbands, these are some of the pictures I took of June for the shop!

My wrap dress

So much has been going on that I have not found time to blog. I will update what has happened in the past month and a half hopefully this weekend, but I did want to share what has been keeping me busy. I started making and selling bathing suit wraps. I make a wrap dress that can be worn several ways.

You can tie it around your neck for a halter look.


This is my favorite, the empire dress. You wrap it around you and cross the trim in the back and then tie in front. I love it because it covers you and still shows that you have a figure. It has been fun making them, I love picking out all the different material, and they have been selling really well which just adds to the fun, for me anyway!

Shelby's talent show, KIDS!

My Garden

I started a garden!!! And yes I know I look totally stupid with the big hat on but I did decide to plant this afternoon in 96 degree weather. I am totally excited about what I will be growing, and if all goes well, I am excited about what we will be eating. This garden was fun to plan, build, and plant, although there were times it was a little emotional because it reminded me of my dad. He had a green thumb and his gardens were amazing.


I made three boxes, two 4x4 and one 2x2. The 2x2 was made just for herbs and the 4x4's have a little bit of everything.

This garden has watermelon, I started from seed so you can't see it yet, roma tomato, jalapeno, hierloom tomato, red onion, chives, marigolds, sunflowers, yellow squash, rosemary, bush style green beans, & gerber daises. The other garden has cucumber, cantaloupe, beef steak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, green bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, marigolds, pole green beans, sunflowers, & gerber daises. And the herb garden has basil, cilantro, parsley, and thyme.