{Nick loves Nora}

Sweet Birds Mobile

My friends and family loved Nora's mobile so much that I decided to make more! My aunt has a booth at a flea market in Shreveport, so I'm trying to get lots made to take to her at Thanksgiving. Here's the latest one.

On my day off from projects...

I wore myself out doing projects getting the house ready for a little party on Thursday, so I decided to take Friday off. I made it until 4:30 pm.

Lampshade: free from Aunt Paula
Scrapbook paper: 12 sheets for $2.99 on sale (double sided though)
Fabric: scraps from my stash

More to come...

New house, new projects...

What's taking so long?

 Well, I guess I'll have to finish the boys' week later.  Something very exciting happened between last November and now...

Owen got that sister he's been wanting!  And Jack?  Well, Jack got a sister, but he's not sure it's what he wanted.  He keeps asking when she's going to grow up.

 This is Nora.  Nora May, actually.  And this is Nora meeting her Great-grandma May.  Special, right?

She's three weeks old today.  Nick and I have happily lost many hours of sleep in the last few weeks taking care of Baby Nora.  This is Nora snoozing on her Daddy's shoulder in the middle of the night.

Oh, Baby Nora.  You are just so sweet, and we are so happy we get to be your family.

A Wednesday in the Life of Jack and Owen

Bet you thought I'd given up and you'd never know what the boys did the rest of the week! Like I said before, I'm determined! They might be in 3rd and 1st grades when I finish this week, but I will finish! "This is where my gum went....down down down to my tummy!" On Wednesdays, I sometimes take Jack to the library for story time. On our way there, Jack reminded me why we have a "No Gum Until You Are Four" Rule.Before the story... Jack's craft. The theme of story time was The Farm, so we made a horse hat.

"What's for lunch?"Working on our centerpiece for dinner.

Our centerpiece.

Leaving for church, Owen got hurt getting into the car and needed an ice pack. I think he hit his hand on the basketball post, but I'm not sure.At Wednesday night church.At Chick-fila after church. Milkshakes! Time to get ready for bed! Owen made that crown in Bible class. He said that he was never going to take it off except for school, baths, and sleeping...he forgot by the next morning.

A Tuesday in the Life of Owen and Jack

I'm determined to finish the week in the life of these boys! Our computer got a virus the week I decided to document, so I'm way behind! But I'm not giving up! After breakfast and getting dressed, I took Owen to school. And Jack built a row of sharks!Jack played on the computer while I worked on organizing the meal for the college students for the next Monday.The weather was so nice we decided to open up the windows. Jack had fun talking to Jovie from inside the kitchen.Then it was naptime.After naptime, I picked up Owen from school.While I fixed his snack, Owen checked on his sea monkeys. He started out with about six - Pokey, Harry, Baba, Rico, Liner (who has braces), and Pinecone. Then we woke up to about a hundred sea monkeys. We are now down to 6 again (and three new babies). We are sure that the 6 older remaining are the 6 originals...Because Owen stayed on green at school the week before (mostly), he was rewarded with a family picnic at the park for dinner. While eating our pb&j's, we were interviewed for a news piece on school something or other. It was pretty random and funny. We were very unprepared, as you can see by Jack's Margaritaville shirt. It is an awesome shirt - my dad got it for him on a cruise - I just think it's funny that the campus minister's kid was on the news in a shirt like that!After our moment of fame (really, Nick did all the talking), we got to play!

Jack's favorite outdoor activity: dirt anything.