OMG....i has been a month

i can't believe that it has been a month now since my last post. life has just been busy and i haven't taken the time to sit down and write on my blog. tons of things have happened in the past month i guess that i will try and update on some of them.

1. this sweet baby girl turned 12 on me. where did the time go. she is now in young womens and is so happy to be there. i have a friend who just had a baby girl and i was holding her on kay's birthday and feeling very sad that my baby girl is growing up. i guess this just means new experiances but i think i miss the sweet little girl.

2. phill is enjoying the new job. he went for training this last week and was even more excited about word when he got back.

3. kids have been back to school for a week now. i'm so happy. now i don't have to listen to "mom, i'm bored" all day. they have friends so i don't see why they just don't go and play. it's not like i never let them leave the house or anything. and it has been really nice up here this last week or so. it makes me think that spring will be here soon and i know in my head that winter is not over and that we will be getting more snow but i look out the window and it makes me think that spring is here.

4. i made a really cute blanket and soft blocks for my friend's new baby but i forgot to get pictures of them so that i could post and share but everyone there said that they where really cute and they couldn't believe that i had made them they were really super easy. the quilt was similar to the one that i made for kay earlier. and the blocks i found on the internet here i use pinks and greens and some of the material had ladybugs on them they were really cute now i'm kicking myself for not getting a picture.

5. planning kay's birthday party. she is having a sleepover party. for her invites we make little pillow cases from material and them we sewed two pieces of cardstock together with stuffing in the middle so that they looked like pillows and put all of the information on there. slid them into the little pillow cases and that is the invite. really easy and kay did most of the sewing on them. she is getting in to sewing alot lately. she is always raiding the material in my room and making barbie clothes. back to the planning, not to sure exactly what we are going to do but i do know that she had invited 12 girls over. what am i thinking? all the boys have opted to leave for the night so it will just be me here with them all night. fun, huh?

6. thought that maybe i would share a couple of new sites that i found that have been inpiring lately. here is the first one love her pictures. i really need to start working on my photography more i think. and here is the other one i love her pictures too and i love the lettering projects too. i thought that both of these sites have some great eye candy and since i'm not eating any more candy i need to get it from somewhere right?

7. we have decided to go on this clean eating diet. we make everything now and are only eating whole foods. we will eat lean meat, like chicken and fish, lots of tofu, and veggies. it means that i need to go shopping a lot more now because we need the fresh stuff and you can't stock up for a month on that. and we need to plan a head more so that we don't waste a lot of food. it has been really hard at first but i'm hoping that as we get into it that it will get easier. we are only doing it for a year but you never know we made decide that we like it and keep it up. that won't be such a bad thing i guess. here is the book that we are going from it really is interesting and the food had been really good so far. the kids don't seem to mind it even except for jeh but it is hard to get him to eat anything anyways.

i think that is pretty much all that is happening around here right now. one of my goals for the year is to stay more on top of writing on here. well i haven't been doing so well so far but i'm hoping to do better from here on out.