x with his bike

hendrix loves to walk with this bike right now. he's gotten good at switching sides all by himself. it's nice that we don't have to turn him around ALL the time. don't mind his heavy breathing... ha. he was working hard and excited about it :)

dresser before/after

check out this beauty that my in-laws gave us....

after:

randoms from the weekend

we have a cat. no, not really. She's a stray. well, maybe she's not a stray, but we have lots of cats that come in our backyard because of the huge empty field behind our house. the kids LOVED seeing the cat, so we fed her a few times... so she wants to be fed every day. Hendrix squeals with delight whenever he sees her, it's kind of cute. and maybe since i would never agree to have a cat in the house, this is a safe way to go. we lovingly call her "Eloise." yes--- my dear friend, Katie Louise--kind of after you. Except that Quinn had a book with an Eloise in it, so Louise turned into Eloise. And Eloise can often be found by our sliding door waiting for some leftovers :)

we had a huge windstorm that knocked down a big chunk of our fence. darn.

she wore the dress today. and looked cute as a button

the kids looked cute sharing some pretend food in the playhouse today. hendrix was embarrassingly wearing a GIRL drool bib. i'm anti-drool bibs anyway, but he had a girl one on?? what was i thinking??? only that he soaks at least 5 a day lately, and i'm finally sick of changing his shirt all the time, so i've been putting drool bibs on while we are home. and i got one on camera... forgive me :)

Dave the rocker

I finally got to go one of Dave's shows last night. Since we've had Hendrix it's been tough for me to go (how to figure out picking up a sitter without dave home etc.).
His band (Blind Arrows Set Sail) played at the Flying M last night. They were awesome! There is actually another guitar player too, but he was so far off to the right that I didn't catch him in any pictures or the video. Here's Dave and Teri rockin' out

Proof that I was there :)

a little video of their soft song. This was the only one that the audio would have worked on my camera-- since they are loud in all their other songs. This one Teri is actually singing and Dave is on the guitar. The homeless looking man at the drums is Shane. But he doesn't play in this song....

What do you think of that?

Quinn agreed to do something if i took a video of her. she chose to sing the dinosaur song from the music class she's in at the library. The song goes
"We are the dinosaurs marching, marching. we are the dinosaurs, what do you think of that?" She sings a version of that :)

hold still....

Here's the TUTORIAL for the sundress. I wasn't kidding when I said it was easy-- no buttons, zippers, or even arm pit holes..the hardest part would be getting your little girl to let you measure her waist, since that's the only measurement you need. :)

new dress

I have about a billion things I should have sewn today. but instead I came across a blog post that had this dress and decided to sew it instead. (I can't find it now... sorry. if you really want the tutorial, let me know and I'll find it.) it was SO FAST and easy. seriously... 45 minutes tops to make this.

who is this HUGE girl that used to be my baby???

probably my favorite picture I've took of Quinn lately. I love her :)

bed room and memory foam

just been working on our bedroom still. made these velvet pillow shams last night

and this bedskirt. the bed skirt was FREE by the way. i just cut off the red part of my old one and sewed on some sheer cream fabric that i already had. super easy and CHEAP :)

I decided that for the kid's birthdays I am going to make them THESE BEAN BAG CHAIRS.. i was going to cut up some memory foam to mix with batting to make them super squishy and soft. I found this memory foam for cheap and the kids were in heaven when i got it out yesterday. Hendrix literally couldn't keep his face out of it...

haha.... yeah, he loved it :)

Leo the Lion

don't mind me in this video. Hendrix will growl EVERY time I sing this song.

bonus room

we've been rearranging our bonus room a little bit. Here's the kids new little play corner.

our bookshelves. obviously not quite organized yet. my father-in-law made the bench!

sunday

Grandma Cheryl gave Hendrix a new church outfit. He looks SO handsome in it... such a big boy!!

Quinn is teaching Hendrix how to use a sippy cup


So much drool. He played with this ladle and pot for a LONG time. He plays with the pots and pans from Quinn's kitchen a lot. I think he likes to make noise.

I think Quinn has maybe felt a little left out of the picture taking lately. I've heard "Take my picture mom!!!" a lot the last couple days.

randoms from the weekend

I bought this shelf off craigslist this week. It's for the bonus room by quinn's kitchen-- for all of her food/dishes. This is before:

and after:

My mom was saying that she hadn't seen quinn's face for a while. Here is the cute girl today.... actually agreeing to stand there while I snapped her picture.

a picture of me, dave, and jason on our date last night. Christy was there too, but she was obviously taking the picture. we went to Bonefish Grill.... since 3 of the 4 of us hate seafood. ha... but our beef was good... and Christy thoroughly enjoyed her fish :)