Poor Jamie, she has been teething on and off for weeks and this week has been particularly painful for her. Currently she has 4 top teeth and 4 bottom teeth and she is skipping the eye teeth to work on those molars that come next. One has just broken through but its moving slowly and [...]
I got this idea years ago from something I saw on a Martha Stewart show. I originally made a paper version but it was so cute I had to make one that would last. I bought some black Halloween fabric the size of my window (its all black but has a Halloween print), some plain [...]
I’m having trouble getting good pictures of hockey. I thought my new camera would be the answer but I need to learn more about the camera and maybe get a big flash? The rink is not lit enough for good pictures and I feel like a bad guy using the flash all the time. The [...]
I made these bats last year after seeing the Boa Bats in Family Fun magazine. Mine are basically the same but I made a few improvements: I used black craft foam sheets instead of cardstock so they will not fade and will hold up over the years. I used googly eyes instead of making them [...]
Jamie likes to paint and to eat paint and to get messy with paint. I like letting her paint in the highchair where I know she can’t touch the walls or suddenly dash into the living room with her paintbrush in tow. Sometimes I give her a tiny muffin tin with paint and other times [...]
I’ve noticed that my cake and cupcake posts are pretty popular so I am going to post about all the interesting ones I’ve made so far. This snake is not the best of my creations (and I got the idea from a book) but I had just had a baby 11 days before Ben turned [...]
Ones I watch now that keep me from ditching the satellite dish (at least until John gets a new computer that we can watch these shows on): Monk- I love Monk and didn’t start watching until last year so I got to see a lot of him while catching up with reruns. So funny and [...]
Ethan made a great drawing of the whole family last night. I just love how everyone is so smiley in his pictures. Heather is holding Jamie on the left. Ben and his curly hair are in the middle. The BIG guy in the back with me…no hair (!) but what must be a goatee and [...]
Well we might need to change the name of the blog! YES I am pregnant with our 4th baby! This baby was planned BUT the plan was to get pregnant in January or February. Obviously our plans were unintentionally moved up and the baby will be born the end of May instead of next Fall. [...]
Follow this winter’s rink design and construction on my Backyard Ice Rink page. Update 12/19/2007 – I make it sound easy so it’s only fair to tell the story of my first rink Update 12/9/2007 – Find out how to build your own rink rake for under $20 Update 12/6/2007 – Here’s a tip for [...]
