halloween fun!

i don't know why but halloween is my favorite time for decorating so i went to the library and checked out some books on decorations. in one of the books they had these witches that were really cute but they made them out of styrofoam cones and i have no way to get to a store to get me some i decided to make them out of material. this is my first one and my trial one.

she needs work on the face as im not really very good with the whole facial feature thing. but i think that she is really cute.

crazy sports parents?

well last night was jeh's first football game. and it wasn't very good. the teams tied and everyone played well except for jeh. every time the poor kid went out on the field the coach turned him around and sent him back to the side line. the poor thing only got to play for a total of 20 seconds the whole game. well phill and i were fuming he came over to us twice crying and saying that he didn't want to play because they weren't putting him in. finally phill got up and went out on the field and yelled at one of the coaches. well not really yelling mean but he did let him know that we weren't happy about what was happening on the field. part of the problem was that jeh regular coach wasn't there he had a family emergency at the last minute and jeh is really shy around people he doesn't know so he wouldn't stick up for himself with the coach. so does phill going out there to make a stink make us those crazy sports parents that everyone hates or just a concerned parent? i am hoping for the later one. we did get a few pics of him practicing last night before the game but the camera got left in the van and phill took it to work this morning. so pics will have to come later.

the corpse bride and waking up

so this is what kay wants to be for halloween this year i think that it will be cute if we can get it done. the one thing that i wasn't really sure about was what to do with the arm and leg so i googled for pictures and found a bunch of pictures here is a costume that has the one arm a lighter color and the bones over the top that is the idea that i had too.

so maybe we just won't worry about the leg it will be under a dress most of the time anyway. it should be fun making it now if i can only get the boys to decide on something soon.

we are getting rain today and lots of it. i've been so used to the light coming in the bedroom in the morning that when the alarm didn't go off (because someone turned down the volume) we way over slept so it was a crazy rushed morning. i hate those!! it just means that everyone will come home grumpy because they were forced to wake up quickly and get moving. there was no time for slowness this moring. it really hard when no one in your family is a morning person. we all need to take our time in the morning and relax so that we can wake up. so there will be hovey zombies walking around today.

life is crazy!!!!

i was filling out the calendar with all of the things that we need to do in the coming days and let me tell you my calender is completely full. everyday has something to do for the months of sept and oct so far it is way to crazy. trying to get a new car in all of this as phill drives the van to work and im stuck without a car.. which is just annoying! went in and talked about becoming a foster parent and there are about a trillion forms to fill out and classes that you have to take that only adds to the craziness of life so im not sure if we are going to do it just yet i think that i may just find a part time job or something like that. a little extra money won't hurt any. while in the midst of all the stuff there is to do i did make a really cute baby quilt for phill's cousin's baby she is going to be blessed on sunday so i made her a blanket. i still need to finish the binding but i think that i want to find some bright pink ribbon to finish it off. kay starts dance today she is doing ballet and jazz, jeh's still doing football his first game is on thursday if they get all of the equipment in on time we are hoping, and hy is doing volleyball and his first games are next week. and you still have to fit in young men's and scouts and achievement days. way to much to do but i will still fit in a cute blanket or something now and then. you know with all that there is to do now i should start to have a lot more to write about. oh yeah i need help kay wants to be the corpse bride but im not sure how to make it look like one of her arms and leg are bones any suggestions would be helpful. thanks!

starting the process

well i have contacted the child services up here today and i have an appointment tomorrow to meet with someone and see about getting foster care up and going. i was kind of dragging my feet on doing it thinking that it will take too much of my time and i won't have the freedom that i am now getting used to. but it is that nagging feeling that i have had for quite awhile now and i guess that maybe it is something that the lord wants me to do. i love kids so this should be something that i'm good at and can do well. at least i hope so. i'm thinking that i will only do those who are younger than my own children. i was thinking maybe 5 and younger but we will have to see how things go. my sister in law says that this is the best way to do it then you don't have the influence of the older ones on your children, but she says that even some of the younger ones can have some really scary problems. i would just like to help make a difference in the life of a child that really needs help. i think that my own children are more excited about doing foster care than i am. they are really helpful when ever we help watch karens foster kids but maybe it is because it is something that is new to them and it will probably ware off and they won't be as helpful or excited once we do it full time. anyway just thought that i would let you all know a little more about what is going on here.

look at what i can do...

.. when there is no one at home but me. it is quite and i can actually get the house clean in an hours time and it will stay that way all day, which gives me time to do what i love to do. here is a page i made with pictures of kayla. she is growing up so fast it is hard to believe. i don't think that you can tell in these pictures but she got her ears pierced this year before school started and is hoping to get contacts at the end of the month. there will definitely be a page about the ear piercing although i forgot to take my camera to get pics while it was happening.