Lots of pictures

I took some pictures at my parents house on Sunday of the cousins playing, and told my nieces and nephew that I'd post the pictures on there, so they could see their pictures on the computer. So here you go, Grant, Paige and Lauren. :-)

I went out of town with my parents this last weekend. It was nice to get away for a few days. My Uncle showed Abby some of his tractors, so she wanted me to take her picture with some of them. She had fun.

I'm getting excited for the Holidays. Justin is going to have some time off..He'll actually have Thanskgiving and Christmas off this year. Micron announced that everyone has to take like 3 weeks of vacation time. Luckily, Justin has most of the hours saved up, so we won't be loosing any money...well expect the night deferintial...but he should be able to pick up some overtime still to make up for it. I have been making little tutu skirts for my nieces.. I saw some at a store than thought that I could make those. :-) They are turning out pretty cute. :-) I just hope that they enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them.

This last picture was too cute. We had to use an extra carseat on Sunday to go to church..The straps weren't adjusted on it right, and on the way home, Daphne was having some problems. It was too funny to see her squrimming out, and I just had to take a picture of it.

Halloween

We ended up going to Vale for Halloween. Justin's youngest brother, ended up getting his mission call and we went over to see him open it. He was called to San Antonio, TX. I have to laugh, because I had 3 guesses...I was guessing California, Mexico or Texas.. Guess I was right. :-) This is a picture of Justin's brother Shane, just before opening his call.

Abby dressed up as Abby Cadabby from Seasme Street. And Daphne was a very cute skunk. I was hoping to make their costumes this year...but some things got put on the shelf, trying to get other stuff done so we could make it to Vale to watch his brother open his mission call. Daphne had tons of comments on how she was the cutest skunk they'd ever seen, and Abby had just as many comments, but most of them were saying "who is Abby Cadabby???" The girls had fun trick or treating. We went with Justin's brother's family to the stores in Vale, for the town trick or treat. They ended up with some pretty good candy. Even with Daphne falling asleep after store 3, and sleeping the rest of the way.

Here are some pictures :-)

I've started into making some of the Christmas presents for this year...I was hoping to be able to save some money by making a lot of them..We'll see if that actually happens or not. I got my machine back, finally...only now, it seems to be having a bit of a problem with the automatic threading part...so I'm probably going to have to take it in, once again.. argh..Every time I've taken it in to get it fixed, another problem has arisen as soon as I've been trying it out again.. It's getting a little old. I love the machine...but is it the machine? or the people fixing it, that are causing all the problems?

Here you can kind of see the little tutu I made for Daphne. It turned out pretty cute, as did Abby's. I'm working on white one's now, that will work well for a dressy Christmas outfit.

Thunder Mountain train ride

Justin's brother and wife called us up on Saturday and asked us if we wanted to go with them on the train ride. It was a lot of fun. Abby thought it was SOOOOO cool that she got to not only see a train, but ride one as well. :-) The train ride was about 30 minutes to the pumpkin patch, 30 minutes to pick a pumpkin, then 30 minutes back. Abby had a hard time deciding which pumpkin she wanted at first..then settled for a small green one. Go figure. :-) There is supposed to be a ride at christmas time where they take you to the "north pole" and you get to meet santa. We might have to do that...Abby would absolutely love that, I'm sure. :-)

abby got some water in her eye when she was washing her hands...so she "had to" squint for each picture of that... until we got back on the train.

trip to the zoo

My sister was in town with her family this last week. We took the kids to the zoo and the discovery center. Abby had a ton of fun, and Daphne did as well. She really like the big "doggie" aka tiger. :-) it was so cute to watch her. Here are some pictures of their fun.

Daphne and her cousin Emma

Abby and her cousins Paige and Lauren, and Adam

Braden and Grant. Jon-Jon

Abby and Emma and Paige

Abby pushing her cousin Lauren. Abby, paige, Braden and Emma being birds.

Adam

Our stake had a 50's harvest dance for the adults friday night. Justin took the night off so he could take me, and my sister and her husband came with us

as well. It ended up being pretty fun. It was nice having an evening away. :-)

Sickness all around

We've been having the run around with illness lately. We all come down with a pretty nasty cold last weekend. That wasn't fun...we are still seeing the booger monster lingerying with the little ones, well and with Justin too. I seemed to have picked up the flu or whatever it is that my dad had earlier this week. Unless things get worse tonight, it seems to be only a 24 hour type thing, and I'm feeling better now. I'm hoping that tonight won't be like last night.

Micron announced that they are letting go another 1,500 employees. It appears that Justin's job is safe for now. So that gives us a little bit of relief...but I think that there is always a worry of "well, what happens next time? and when will the next time happen?" I'm just grateful that his job is safe for now. I've really been worried/focusing on getting more food storage lately, and trying to pay our debt down. I was really hoping to be able to help out by making some things and selling them, and making a few bucks...but no luck with that yet. But I'm gonna keep trying, for now at least.

I was able to get some free white seedless grapes off of freecycle on wednesday. With my mom's help, I was able to make several jars of jelly and 7 quarts of juice. Tomorrow, if I'm feeling up to it, I'm going to pick some of my parents concord grapes and more some more jelly. Now, if only I could actually have grape stuff, then I could really enjoy it...but oh well, at least Justin and Abby can it enjoy it for now.

We went to Vale twice last week. Abby sure enjoyed herself. Especially on Sunday, because she got to play with her cousin Lilli. She absolutely loves her older girl cousins. (the two of them that she has)

Here are a few more pictures of the last few projects that I've done. I've done several other bibs and aprons for the cousins...it's been kind of fun. And I wanted a little bit bigger diaper bag, so I made a new one. Justin wanted the elephants on it. It turned out pretty cute I must say. :-)

I had to take my sewing maching in a couple of weeks ago. Whenever I was emobroidering, it started making this kind of loud clunking noise. The repair man said it was actually a flaw in the machine that has since been fixed. But he was able to fix it. I tried it out that next day, and it was embroidering great. I went to do some normal sewing, and the needle wouldn't move, when I was selecting different stitches.. So I took it in again...this time the repair man said he coudln't figure out what was wrong with it, so he had to send it to the manufacturer. It's been almost 2 weeks now...and I'm still waiting to hear what's wrong with my machine...so in the mean time, i've stolen my mom's machine (which is identical to mine). Luckily, my machine still is well under the warranty.

Well, I'm gonna go head off to bed, and hopefully get some sleep tonight.