Christian waving

Fireworks

Today when I went to pick Nicholas up from nursery he saw me and shouted "Mama! I made fireworks and they're Beautiful!" I thought so too, and so I am sharing Nicholas' beautiful fireworks with everyone else. Happy 4th of July!

SAM THE JAM MAN

June and July are our favorite months here in north carolina. Not because of the heat and incredible humidity, those I could do without. The reason is the u-pick farms. Fresh produce that you pick yourself, and since you do the work of picking it, it is a lot cheaper. our favorites are strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. Not only is it cheap, but vine ripened fruit is incredible. Imagine blueberries as big as grapes! Nicholas loves to find the ripe blueberries and eat them, he goes around and finds the bushes that are full and says " look mama here's a good one!" then he starts picking and eating. Today he was trying to reach a nice ripe one that was just out of his reach and when he finally got it he said "I caught it mama, and it's a good one!" after we have picked a few buckets full we go home and wash them and freeze them or make jam, and eat them of course- even christian loves blueberries. Sam has become quite the jam maker. He's gone a little wild if you ask me, but it makes him happy, and I think it is kind of cute to see him all domestic. we have 24 jars of jam in our freezer! I have decided to call him sam the jam man.

My Life's Work Is Complete!

Or at least my life for the last 7 months that is. last august my friend emily and i went to a relief society class about making quiet books, and everyone in my ward can testify that if there ever was a child in need of assistance in being quiet, it's nicholas, so we decided to make the quiet books for our kids. the lady teaching the class said it took her about 60 hours to make it. Emily and i both though that was ridiculous. There was no way on earth it would take us that long. considering that neither of us are really experienced sewers, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. everything took longer than we thought. first there was finding all the materials-a story all it's own, then the cutting, tracing, reinforcing, sewing, coloring, and then the zipper case, neither of us had ever made a zipper case before, and the was on of the few things there wasn't a pattern for. well, 7 long months and 2 babies later(one for me and one for her)we finished. It's not perfect, but i have to say, I am dang proud of it.

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quick update

so we moved to a bigger apartment down the street, but we haven't switched our internet over yet, so i can't really blog right now, but i have lots of things i want to post, so hopefully i can do it before we go to utah in 2 weeks. for those of you who don't know we are going to utah for a month and half, so my blog might die a little while i'm gone, but i'll try to update it as much as i can. anyway i would add some pictures now, but i can't find the usb cable to download the pictures from my camera, so hopefully in a few days!

Christian trying to crawl

Christain really wants to crawl. he does really well when it comes to getting up on his hands and knees and then he rocks to work up to it, but then when he tries to go somewhere, he always falls over, poor kid. i think he is really close though.