"sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart"

Here’s what we’ve been up to since our last blog! Cousin Kady visited for a week and she and Evelyn played quite a bit, which was nice. Although Evelyn tended to hit Kady and Kady spent half her time tattling on her (not hard thank goodness, but I haven’t gotten her to stop this hitting thing….mainly it’s just Jeremiah…oops! :) We did go to the pool one day which was a lot of fun for the kiddos and we set up a kiddie pool at home one day too. Evelyn loved it.

We also spent some time going to some baseball/softball games for the kiddos...Jerica, Ephraim, Abrahm, and Matteo are all playing this year and we have been to multiple games. Here's a couple pics from the twins games.

Evelyn was ready to play!

Matteo pretty much stayed in the same place the whole time.....

And Abrahm chased EVERYTHING! So funny!

Abrahm taking a swing! Nice action

Go tigers!

I took the two girls and met Monie in Columbia after the week was up and we had lunch at Chipotle (YUMMMM!) and did a little shopping. Then I went out to my friend Rori’s house (I went to her wedding last month but don’t think I’ve posted anything about it…oops again! It was a beautiful wedding and wonderful reception, ammaaazing food, and amaaaaaazzzzzing friends! I got to see a lot of people I haven’t in a long time so that was wonderful.) Anywho, I had dinner with her and her new hubby which was fun. Most of the rest of the week was spent with the fam and doing the regular stuff.

This is Rori's redneck booster seat :)

Last Saturday I did do some small photo sessions, one for Sierra and Sean and one for Jeremiah. I posted Sierra and Sean’s on my photography blog but haven’t finished Jeremiah’s yet, well posting it, the editing is done…my internet just hasn’t worked at all this week! Frustrating…..so yeah, those will be up soon. I’m going to be doing some more sessions this week as well so hopefully they go well! I’m excited for them.

Evelyn wanted to get in the trailer part of the tractor so we let her in while we were shooting pics and it totally tipped over! She was ok though... :) Here's one pic of Jeremiah though, I finally remembered to put his pics on my SD card to put online...so they'll all be up on my other blog soon.

Here's my favorite pic from one of my sessions this week...the full session is here. I'm taking her family's pics on Thursday so stay tuned for that!

This past week started off with me driving all the way to St. Louis with Sierra cuz she had to drop her car off to be shipped to Alaska and I got to follow her to drive her back :) Yay me! It was fun though, we did a little shopping and eating at yummy places (Panera being the top fav of course :).

Then the greatest event of the week was getting to see my bestest best friend ever, Sarah, on Thursday! We went to lunch, a movie, and then hung out for the rest of the day. It was wonderful! She got the cutest little hoodie for Evelyn in South Africa (she went there last semester for a study abroad term), although it was a bit too big on her but that made it all the cuter! :) It was wonderful to see her though, it’s always way too long in between the times we see each other but it’s always a great reunion!

My two most favorite people with October 8th birthdays! :)

The only thing happening this past Saturday was my eight year old niece, Jerica, got baptized so the whole fam attended that and went out to lunch afterwards. So that was a great experience except that Evelyn was a bit wild and crazy which made it a little hard to pay attention fully…she was a bit crazy all week…boy does that girl have a lot of energy!!!!

And that brings us to Sunday! Which was of course Father’s Day. We sent Mark a package last week, which he said he enjoyed immensely. Church was wonderful, Sierra gave a great talk on Father’s, and our weekly Sunday Dinner was extra yummy.

I’ve been pretty slow this week on my projects. I did a plastic bag holder thing a while ago. I’ve been wanting one for a while but haven’t found one at the store and a week after looking I found a tutorial on one of my favorite blogs so I whipped it up (it was super easy) and there you have it!

The next thing I did was a little shirt for Evelyn, which fit her just PERFECT but is super hard to get off so I’m gonna have to try again for her. I was trying to work on making my own patterns and trying out things I’ve seen elsewhere. It turned out cute but just not the right size (I have a HARD time getting sizing right… :)

Next I tried a dress, once again trying to work on modifying patterns and getting sizing right…of course this one went way off on the sizing but it still turned out cute! Just a little quirky and off a bit :) I love the skirt but had a heck of a time getting the top right….it was too big but I had already sewn it on the skirt so had to modify it without making it look funky….next time I’ll get it a little more right, or maybe I’ll just focus on skirts for a while. :)

She likes the flower :)

Oh, and here’s a pic of dress I did a while ago but it was a bit too big for Evelyn, it’s still a little big but not as bad so she wore it yesterday to the baptism, so cute a springy!

And my last project for the past two weeks was this cute little “name block” thing for Monie’s lil guy, HOPEFULLY she doesn’t change the name on me! I wanted something new to do that was different so I tried a little mod podging (which I don’t know if I’ve ever done before, except maybe in art class way back in the day). I thought it turned out cute.

So that’s what I’ve been up too! Evelyn is busy being Evelyn….still talking and talking and talking, still loves watching Dora and Shrek and Diego (she added Finding Nemo to her favs as well), she loves playing outside, she loves her Thomas the Train stuff, loves books, loves blocks, loves coloring…she’s so energetic and active and crazy and funny, she’s such a hoot and so fun and SO frustrating sometimes, but that’s life with kids right? :) She’s wonderful though. She’s been missing her daddy more lately though….since our internet isn’t very reliable I usually end up talking to Mark with my iphone propped up on the bathroom window cuz it gets the wireless signal the best there so whenever she walks in the bathroom she says, “daddy!” Very funny, a little odd, but cute :) Silly girl….here's some random pics of the cutie pie....

Enjoying a nice day with popsicles and bubbles!

Sometimes they get along...

and it's super cute when they do!

Snow cones!!!

Just cuteness

Oh, and here's a lightening shot I got the other night, I was messing with my new camera and trying to see what I could get with it. I only took a couple shots before I go this one and then stopped cuz there was a LOT of lightening and I didn't want to stand out there too long...but yeah, I think it's pretty cool.

So yeah…that pretty much sums it all up! Hope everybody has a great week!