Busy House

I know I haven't been blogging much lately, but I am doing crafts for the coming church bazaar. I pale in comparison to the stuff found on Grosgrain's blog though. I want so many of the things she makes so here is another give away that I would like to win for Ruthie.
GROSGRAIN MINI STORE OPENING NOVEMBER 6!!!!! AND BIG PREVIEW GIVEAWAY!!!!
I love the bird prints and the pocket to keep seed in. We are all into birds, in one way or another (it is duck and goose hunting season right now, we ate Matt's goose last night!)

So there is crafting to do, hunting for Elk, and Water Foul, and Matt has begun wrestling season. He is the local junior high coach and will be high school assistant coach to his brother. This is all on top of him working at the church, doing a couple bible college classes there and teaching jr high bible study. With all these things we actually will get to see more of Daddy, since he leaves work early to get to practice and then gets home about an hour before usual. Some day I will start putting up more pictures again. I still need to figure out what the girls will be for Harvest!

Wink School

Here is a fun little video we did a while ago. It was inspired by Ruthie coming up to me unprompted saying "look mommy." I assumed it was for the funny face she was making and I responded, "oooh scary." So she then told me she was closing one eye, it was this strenuous act that made a "scary face"! The reenactment below is not quite as funny as the original, but still may make you giggle, enjoy.

Red Riding Hood Jacket GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!

Here is a really cute jacket that would look wonderful on Ruthie, I am a sucker for red, I think it looks so good with my brown little girls. The gal that makes these things is so talented, she inspires me to try making things I think up in my head even though they often don't work out I have fun. Check out the jacket and her blog here: Red Riding Hood Jacket GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!

I still haven't gotten pictures up from Ruthie's party but I will get to it soon, so check back!

Goodbye Summer

It has been a while since I updated and I finally put pictures on my computer after about two months! We have been busy. We had youth camp with our church and Ruthie's birthday. Now we are getting ready for Ruthie's birthday party this weekend. Here are some pictures from the last month or so to catch up on:

We made this fun canopy from adding grommits on a thrift store sheet.
I saw it on Sew Mama Sew.

This was a genuine hug I was able to capture, they were hangin' out on the couch together reading while I vacuumed.

Here is a very beautiful bad fishing hole we tried and all we caught were a bunch of mosquito bites all over us.

We made a makeshift fort in the back yard under our maple tree.
So fun!!!

I love it when they make each other laugh

Feeling very proud of her new hideout

I found this table and chairs at my local thrift store and I decided to refinish it top secret for Ruthie's birthday:

Before

After
The girls' first time seeing it here
Happy Birthday Ruthie!
We love you so much big four year old

I also got this dollhouse kit at the thrift store! Score!And I just love this fabric on the sheet we got.

So, I love thrift store shopping and my daughter got thrift store gifts for her birthday but she was happy with them.
There is a very cold chill in the air already and we barely even had summer yet. I usually love having four seasons but even I will admit we didn't get much of a summer this year. So this means it is time to hunker down and start more crafting or sewing projects right?

Garden Party Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Here is a really cute dress I like and can have a chance to win it for blogging about it! It would look so cute on Ruthie. I wish I could make one like it. Wouldn't it be a nice birthday present. Maybe someday I will learn to sew well enough to make this type of thing.

Check out the dress here:
Garden Party Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Oh please God...

GUESS WHO???

Here are some silly Ruthie antics:

• She found a stick out in the back yard and has been using it lately as a shepherds cane. She pretends that Tucker and Buddy are her lambs, and she shoos them where she wants them to go. Then she takes a hand full of sand and sprinkles it about saying she is feeding her hens. I was going to mow the lawn as she yells out "watch out for my hens!"

• Then today she was in her swimsuit cause she had been playing in our kiddie pool and was cold. She came in and told me she prayed and asked God to make the sunshine on her so she could get warm, and then it did, and she prayed that the "dogs would stop just drinking the pool water", and they did. A while later I was out there and she was standing just inside the shadow of our big maple tree when I heard her praying, "Oh please God, make the sunshine on me now, so I can be warm, oh please, God" then she stepped out into the sun. I didn't know how to respond so I went in the house and snickered quietly.

• Earlier I got to see her throw a little temper tantrum just like Mommy did the day before. I heard her yelling and banging something outside, so I went to see. She was throwing her swing around. I told her to cool it and to come here and have a seat. When I asked what was going on she said, (exactly the words I said) "I hate these dogs!" Woops, I knew then I had to explain how wrong I was and those were not good words to use. She continued telling me how mad they were making her for drinking the pool water, and how they were wasting it!

Oh my Ruthie, she is so sweet. She keeps me on my toes. I pray God would help me to teach her to be better than myself. These are some silly things that I just wanted to record so I can remember them for a long time and tell her later on.

I'm Back!

Lizzie loves the puppies, but she is NOT gentle. She was pulling flesh and hair the other day and to scold her I showed her how it feels and I pulled her hair a bit. This would have sent Ruthie bawling and upset that she hurt the puppy, but Lizzie is different, she had a funny little smirk the whole time and never felt any remorse, she has done it several times and each time I scold her I pull a little harder hoping for some reaction, but just a smirk, then I have to hide my face because I am laughing!

Matt was able to splice our cord and now I can use the computer again. I put a bunch of pictures on Flick r, some of the 4th of July Kiddie Parade in Coeur d' Alene. We went with Jean, Kathy, Asia, Maya, Josh and Jessica. We got to walk with our good friends Stephanie, Isaac and Havilah too. It was a fun day!
The girls got a little cold last week and it is still tagging on a tiny bit. Hopefully this will be all we get for the summer. Lizzie is getting better with her words. I can tell many of her words even if others have no idea. The funniest is "uh uh" like how we would say for "no" but hers means "yes." I think she is either trying to say "uh huh" or "yes please" like the same inflections and stuff. It is fine with me cause I understand it without even thinking about it, but when we visit other people it throws them for a loop that she is saying one thing and meaning something totally different. She also says "baby," "buh" for bottle, "puppy," "Buddy," "Tucker," "Te tee" for Ruthie, "Go!," "nyo nyo" is no no, "ni ni" -nigh night, "boom" when a car goes by, and I particularly like when she says "have some" which means hungry, or wants a particular food we have. She says "mmbuh" which I am not sure what this says but it is very randomly said but lately I am thinking it is Grandpa, because she says it on the toy phone and after talking about Daddy often. She say what sounds like "why" for slide, and "wee" for swing. She is a dare devil too, she climbs the ladder to the slide and sits there until I come to catch her coming down, sometimes yelling at the top of her lungs "Maaamaaaa."
Ruthie likes to tell stories, she has a very active imagination and is always talking to me, it wears me out sometimes. She likes to say scenarios, "if I ..." and they are so far fetched I don't even know what to say back but "hmmm."

Here is Ruthie at our friend Charis' birthday tea party, she made them each a tutu and it was very cute. All the little girls drinking tea and wearing tutu's, except Lizzie she squealed once when another girl's tutu touched her. Doesn't Ruthie look beautiful here, she is getting so big.