If anything photo worthy happened in March I must have missed it…

April

red velvet cake and ice cream… need I say more?

just some spring time hopping

have you ever played reverse hide and seek? me either, but I watched them and it looked fun!

Oh! I did paint some onesies for a friends baby shower

this adorable little bird paid us a visit

May

Caiden’s 2nd birthday

nothing fancy just some cupcakes and dinner with Nani and Papa

see how much he enjoyed them?

Arianna’s end of the year play. she was Goldilocks’s mother

June

Arianna too excited to wait for the pool to fill up (it was her birthday present)

every time someone let go of the helmet he stumbled and fell over

barn swallow nestlings! nesting on my parents porch

my gorgeous little girl

30 minutes later. Nothing broke. A towel got soaked a baby got clean and the house filled up with teenagers! I’m over at my Mom’s. I’m supposed to be making dinner, but since she brought home 5 teenagers I opted just to help.

I have been a slacker this week. Very little sewing got done in my home even though I set 3 days aside for it I probably sewed less than 30 minutes in 3 days. I did however vacuum my apartment (move the fridge and stove vacuuming) scrub my bathroom, scrub my stove and pick up the clutter. That was day 1. Day 3 you can’t tell I did anything. So sad. But life.

Now you are wondering what that 30 minutes of sewing amounted to. Don’t be shy it’s okay to be curious. I patched some holes in a friends purse. I made a quickie shawl (for that same friend) to go with her dress for Echoes (a dance at the high school). And then I made some uber simple ties for Caiden! Wanna see? Of course you do!

It went great! The baked goods and the kids sold really really well! Yes I said the kids sold… We auctioned off our youth to the people in the church. (No one was forced. It was on a volunteer basis.) But they have an 8 hour day to spend with whoever won them and they will be doing everything from fishing to hanging campaign signs and yard work. I even bid on one of the girls. It was so much fun! There was a bidding war for her. I wasn’t going to bid on her because she comes over pretty regularly and she’ll help with anything I ask anyway. But it was either that or an 8 hour day playing barbies and dress up with a little girl she didn’t even know and well the guy was being ‘smart’ so I had to outbid him! She was grateful and we are going to split up her day into a 2 and she’s gonna help me with the kids birthday parties which are just around the corner!

Anyway it was a rather nice birthday. I spent a few hours hanging out with a very good friend while our kiddos played together AND she made me a cake! Technically she made me two cakes, but she refused to give the first one because it wasn’t her best work. In fact initially she wouldn’t even let me see it! After our play-date I had dinner with Mom and Dad, green pepper steak one of my favorite dishes. Then it was just a quiet evening in with my monkeys. It was nice.

Thursday another lovely friend came out and made me dinner! And again the kids played while we chatted and I watched her cook

Friday night Danielle and I went to a Dance aerobics class that I guess is kind of like Zumba. I dunno what zumba is though so ya… I was terrified. TERRIFIED. Why? Because I only dance in front of my children and I never exercise in front of anyone else. NEVER. The class was great! I have terrible coordination! But we laughed a lot worked up a sweat and I felt GREAT afterwards and that’s the important thing. Right? Right. The instructor was awesome too. Please forgive me for not remembering your name. I was too busy being nervous to catch it. Sorry.

Oh and I stocked the shop! Go have a look around! Who knows you might like something you see! (And don’t forget I love to do custom work and I’ll special order fabric!)

Caiden got his first real hair cut! Not a trim to keep it out of his eyes but a REAL haircut and now I miss my baby! Oh well it’ll grow back!

Have you ever heard of the toy society?

Company Overview:

The Toy Society is a small street art project spreading the love throughout the streets. Nothing to it really just a bunch of handmade toys looking for a nice home.

What started as a small street art project in Australia is slowly spreading around the world.

Should you come across a member of The Toy Society on your travels collect them up and take them home with you! But don’t forget to let The Toy Society know your toy is safe and sound by emailing thetoysociety@gmail.com!

Mission:

Sharing the love

Products:

No ‘products’ here, just handmade toys made with love and traveling the world looking for a new home.

*Taken from their site

These are my current contributions… I thought that they had a really neat idea and it’s a good excuse to practice some of my softies (and other people’s too!) Why don’t you give it a try?

Snowman assembly line

Slackers

Rocky… being Rocky

Arianna rolling in the snow…

The perfectionist a.k.a Papa

The snowman

This is what happens when you don’t hold on to the sled and Papa turns…

This too…

Fun at the Herrick’s

Hanging birdfeeders

Sunrise… (okay so it was a school day… but half days don’t count right?)

Okay so the one above is what I have now (or what I had before it grew out)

This and the one below are the two I’m leaning towards the most

I don’t want these bangs. They would not work for me. but I like the bulk of the style.

She was so excited and I had a hard time keeping her inside long enough to eat and get dressed!

We had a lovely Christmas Eve yesterday. Today has been mainly spent watching the kids in the snow and huddled under blankets on the couch. Best way to spend Christmas if you ask me! Here are a few photos and hopefully I’ll get my lazy butt in gear and start blogging regularly again!

Have a wonderful and

blessed Christmas!

Comment #22 Gwen!

Congratulations and I can’t wait to make you some new bibs!

]]> http://monkeyseemonkeydocb.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=145 0 http://monkeyseemonkeydocb.com/blog/?p=141 http://monkeyseemonkeydocb.com/blog/?p=141#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:13 +0000 Tiffany http://monkeyseemonkeydocb.com/blog/?p=141 I know Thanksgiving hasn’t even gotten here yet, but things like making gifts for people take time!

We have a pretty small church 90 people on a good day. But we have a lot of kids that attend and their parents don’t. A lot of kids that come from very poor homes and every year they (meaning the Angels in Training) put up a tree with the kids names and a mini Christmas list on it.

This year I want to make the kids some gifts. Why? Because I think it will mean a lot more than someone going out and just buying them something. Of course the kids love and appreciate anything they get. But I think they’d really like some gifts that people really put some time and thought into also. So I’m starting this week on dolls and such. I haven’t decided what to do for the boys yet though.

I thought that I’d see if any of you crafty mama’s out there wanted to donate anything?

Or maybe you’d like to do this for some of the kids in your life! If so tell me about it! Write a blog post and comment here or just tell me in a comment. I love when people do stuff like this for kids!