today was valentines day. lame. but ike is in public school, so we get to participate. we decided on fun dip valentines. and isaac got to work addressing them. today, he came home with a box of standard valentines, little pieces of cardboard with a single piece of candy taped on. and then THIS. from […]
small things
not much happening on the sewing front lately. i’ve been getting up at 430 to go to the gym. and i have so many kids running around all day. so, when we get our knuckleheads settled in for the night, i am usually too tired to accomplish anything and i watch mindless tv and go […]
ike writes
our big kindergartener has been coming home with lots (millions, really) of classwork everyday. my favorite things are the sentences and occasional accompanying illustration. he had to write a weather report one day. this is very scientific. playing with john. “never gonna catch me!” a full report about his birthday sleepover. ixiding. he loves penelope […]
charlotte family saturday.
with no pressing engagements or cakes or other such things to suck up our time this weekend, we decided to head south the the queen city of charlotte north carolina to check out the discovery place museum and possibly ikea. we’ve never been with our own kids, but i went with jake about 7 or […]
challenge quilt
so, our quilt guild participated in the big modern quilt guild’s michael miller challenge. we received some madrona road fabrics in the blue/yellow/black colors and we were allowed to use any solid or any other madrona road fabric. furthermore, to kick off our guild’s new relationship with senior services, we decided to make wheelchair quilts […]
20 pictures.
i think all of our chickens are finally laying. including the easter eggers (americaunas), who lay greenish-blue eggs. anna still loves yo gabba gabba. mostly brobee. as evidenced by this picture. heather and her girls came over to play the other day. livy loves our chickens. anna is pretty crabby lately. we see this face […]
bulldog cake #3 for z.
my crazy week of cakery ends with this pirate bulldog cake. it’s the third bulldog cake that i’ve made for my friend kim’s youngest little guy, who is 4 today. he likes bulldogs. and pirates. and yellow. that equals this cake. last year, i made him this cake: and the year before, this one: so, […]
ike’s cakery v. 6.0
here are the various cake items i made for ike’s bday. superhero cupcakes for his class. (he thinks it’s funny that the girls had to eat boy superhero logos). and his star wars angry birds cake. he wanted star wars angry birds and there was no moving him on that. i think it came out […]
#ikes6thbdaysleepover
so, rather than have a big expensive blowout party for ike, we decided to let him invite three of his best pals over for a sleepover. after a lot of careful thought (and me nixing girls, mixing school and church friends, and way older kids), he came up with alden, william and josiah. which works […]
six.
yesterday was this guy’s birthday: i made him pose for various pictures in front of the chalkboard. i woke up early (well not really. i skipped the gym and actually woke up later. but i digress.) and made him bacon and pancakes. his favorite. and i made him eat in his underwear because i didn’t […]