Halloween

Halloween was successful again. Morgen used my fairy costume, Jolly used Morgen's gypsie costume, and I used McKay's banana costume (and earned myself a breakfast at Kneaders with Uncle Rick in the process). Caleb switched his costume every day, Nate was some scary thing that I still don't know, and mom and dad were Harley dudes. We had sweet costumes this year.

At the YWs party, my dad came to help out so our whole family ended up being there, and we had to find a piece of gum at the bottom of a whipped cream pile without using our hands.

The harley dudes.

Lots and lots of candy. 6 pounds each.

This was before the stake dance on Friday. It was soooo much fun! Except I think the guys were scared to ask a banana to dance because I only got asked once and it was a 17 year old in my ward.

Trading our candy.

Finally Finished...

This is the quilt that Satan really did not want me to finish. It took FOREVER. But I finally got it done and I am sooooo happy!!! It was definitely longer than 10 hours. It was probably longer than all my other projects put together. My grandma and I spent 6 hours alone just drawing out the design and cutting the scraps of fabric from her closet.

The scraps are probably my favorite part. I have pieces of fabric from my blessing dress, and a quilt that my mom made, and my grandma's trek dress, and a bunch of other things. My other favorite part was that she wrote part of the Young Women's theme in the border. Oma Kim is amazing.

This is what it started out as... just a big piece of paper in a drawing.


Then I sewed the blocks together and that took FOREVER, especially because I sewed the first six squares and then found out that I was sewing a 1/2 inch seam instead of 1/4 inch, and the squares were way too small. By an inch. So I unpicked all but two of them and resewed them. Then, when I was stuck at home while the rest of my family was in Lake Powell, I finished all the squares and left them laid out on the basement floor like this... and Zoee had a little accident on them. Actually, a big accident. Zoee's babysitters washed the squares but it didn't help. So I resewed six more squares. I was so mad.

This is what it looked like before the border was on. I was sick of it and ready to be done with it at this point. Until I found the border, which I am IN LOVE WITH.

Ironing the binding.

The border that I am IN LOVE WITH and the theme in the brown.

I decided that I am really grateful to have such awesome Omas. They are all amazing. I love them a ton. And my mom is really awesome for keeping me sane while I was resewing the whole quilt. Plus she passed on her sewing skills to me. I am related to some pretty awesome people. :)

Baby Champ :)

From this itty bitty string bean...

... to this handsome chubba bubba...

Champ is so adorable (but what baby isn't?)! Aunt Melissa asked me to take some pictures of him at FHE at Oma Kim and Opa Brent's house a few weeks ago. I did it with a fancy camera from my dad's work, but then the memory card got fried and some guy recovered it and they have been on my dad's computer forever. So I'm finally blogging them! I didn't get a ton of good ones because he is soooo squirmy and he won't smile but there are some cute ones. I love his huge blue eyes.

Church Stuff

A few Sundays ago we got to go up to Temple Square to listen to Music and the Spoken Word and it was awesome! Jolly couldn't believe how many people there are in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. And I found out the other day that only half of the choir sings at once, so it is really twice as big. Crazy. But it was so beautiful. We had the German missionaries show us around Temple Square and that was cool, too. And the cutest part are the boys!!! They are going to be chick magnets when they are older. I'm in the process of convincing Nate to be a chick magnet for Halloween this year. Its going to be great.

PPP PARTY

Tonight was the awesomest start to the awesomest four day weekend! We had a Personal Progress Party! And a contest to see who could have the best outfit that started with P... so...


Me and Jenessa were A Pink and Purple Pregnant Ping Pong Playing Pair. It was amazing. We had socks, footwear, pajama pants, shirts, pretend ping pong paddles, fingernails, hair, and makeup that was purple. And we were preggo. And we put sticker Ps on our nerd glasses because we can't dress up without nerd glasses.