Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Made my day.
In the program at church today there was an insert of responses the primary kids gave when asked, "What do you like about your mom?" Connor's response was "Because she is pretty." No joke (i will post proof later.) That made my day. What a little sweetie pie.
We are dorks!
Complete.
It's been a slow process but both kiddos room's are pretty much done. Connor's room still needs pictures hung and I need to sew panels to the bottom of the white curtains, and we need to cut in the blue paint at the ceiling. Sadie's room is complete :).
I had a lot of help in this room. My mom made the bed skirt, and pillows and bought the adorable oval mirror.
I love to just sit in her cute room and rock her!
Ryan's mom made the birth sampler for Sadie, it turned out so cute. My little sister made the "I am a child of God" sign and printed it on canvas! And the Beatrix Potter thing is a box of books that my grandma Carol gave to me when I was a little girl; it has all the little books like Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny in it.
I still haven't decided where and what I am going to hang in Connor's room. But he loves his new big boy room. Unfortunately, because his room faces East he wakes up with the sun! He used to be my sleepy boy who would wake up around 10am and now 7:30 is pretty normal. I need to put black out curtains up. Connor's dresser and night stand were Ryan's when he was a kid. I painted them white and sprayed the knobs silver, pretty cute. My mom made Connor's bedding, there is a comforter with a duvet for his bed but I took the comforter off to take to the cleaners. Ryan's mom made the cute little denim bean bag and had Connor's name embroidered on it too! I love these crafty moms we have!!! I can only dream of having their talents!
(don't mind the cute little boy sporting his Cars undies :) he didn't want to move for the picture).
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
So Grateful!
Mother's Day is coming up and I am so grateful I was able to spend last weekend amongst some really fantastic mothers. Specifically, I am talking about my mom and my grandma Birdie. The reason for my visit home to CA is that my dear grandma Birdie's cancer came back at the beginning of the year and is spreading quickly. I really wanted to see her, and really wanted her to meet miss Sadie Jewel. There is a little family history behind Sadie's name; My grandma's name is Roberta Jewell, and she was named after Auntie Vi (Viola Jewell). It was so neat to see grandma light up when she saw Sadie.
Grandma is always smiling, and the things that made her smile the most were the simple things, flowers, nature, her family. She never fussed much over material things. My dad said grandma Birdie could always make something out of nothing. And a lot of times she had to! My grandma had 6 children, my dad being the youngest. When my dad was just barely 2 his dad Al died, leaving grandma to take care of a family and brand new house they had lived in together only one month.