Hand Made Clothes (What I made for Christmas)

Happy New Year!  We are back.

 I hope you all had a great Holiday. Heather and I sure did.  

I was planing on doing this post before Christmas but life got to busy.  So here it is, a bit late.

I made my kids Christmas outfits this year.  It only cost me 19 dollars for all the fabric including the thread for all three kiddos. Not bad, is what I say.  Plus I had fun making them.  For the girls dresses I make my one pattern. For Roberts vest, which is reversible, I used this tutorial, and for the cape I used this tutorial.

First Thanksgiving

There are many moments in my young adult life that serve to remind me
I am a "Grown Up".  Even after having 3 kids, being married for 8 years
and moving all the way across the country, away from my family, I stillam coming across those life experiences that only bring me closer tomaturity, this year it was Thanksgiving.  I normally  love
Thanksgiving because the cooking was left to the parents and grand
parents, the people with the experience and the know how.  I
loved showing up to Grandma's house and smelling all the food and all I had to do was to relax and enjoy, but not this year!!!  Heather and I had to
figure out the Holiday all by ourselves.

We split up the cooking responsibilities between us and the guests who
were coming.  I had the turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, gravy,
salad, and Heather had Ham, cheesy potatoes, mashed potatoes, corn and
the responsibility of hosting the party.

So about 2 weeks before I bought my turkey I did a lot of research
on how to cook turkeys.  I settled on a recipe, I was scared.
All our friends who were coming to Thanksgiving dinner were also away from
their homes and families. I did not want to be the one who brought the bad turkey to
dinner, that would make everyone more homesick on this holiday.

So after much fretting and a interesting day of baking, a call to Mom,
my Mother-in-Law, and my Gramma for advice, recipes, and just to be
calmed down, dinner was finally done.

Here is the results, the turkey was so good, moist and full of flavor
(thanks Food Network).

The first time turkey carver.  My husband.  He did an awesome job!

Heather's ham was the best ham I ever had!  And I don't like ham all that much.

Heather and Andrew





My New Toy

This is so exciting...  I have been begging my husband for this camera (Canon Rebel T2i) since he bought his motorcycle.  Three months a go.  I have all ways had a love of photography.  And knew I would have one of these beautiful things for my own one day.  That day came.  And so with out further a-due I am letting you have a glimpse of the first ever pictures I have taken with this baby.

Watching TV.

This little bug was so fun to take pictures of.