Gwen's Baptism

The Whole Crew

I'm grateful to have so much family and friends that came and supported Gwen. We love you all!

Gwen's Baptism

Gwen's confirmation dress from Grandma Cheney.

Gwen was soooo excited to get baptized. She's been talking about it for months and I think she invited her whole school.

The white dress was just borrowed from the stake, (a lot more feminine than the jumpers, I think), but I made the white bow, which actually fell out when she got dunked and she had to go back in and dive for it.

Shirt Dress

I found this beautiful man's shirt at the d.I. and tyler refuses to wear it ;) The checker at the counter even noted that he knew why the shirt was donated. Guess he didn't think it was that hansome either So -I decided to make a dress out of it for Sammy. I started cutting it apart and sewing it back together so it fits her. I made the ruffle sleaves and a fabric flower with a blue button to match. The Front of the shirt actually turned out to be the back of the dress, where I used the same buttons and holes.

Hopefully it'll be a fun little play dress for her this summer. It was easy to make too, only took me about an hour start to finish. Gwen wants me to make her one now. I don't know if I can find that same shirt though, it was one of a kind. We'll see.

Maegan

Here's Maegan just giggling while eating an ice-cream cone. What a cute little bug... Can't she just stay little like this forever

Gwen's 8th birthday

Gwen was SOOO excited when she opened her present.

The look on her face says it all. ha ha

Journal from Grandma Warren

Kacie was sooo sweet and purchased a gift for gwen with her own money.

lost tooth

Alex lost his first tooth!!!!

home projects

Here is the finished dresser. what do you think?

It's painted black and the drawers were stained a cherry

with a coating of laquer to finish it. & spray painted the handles black.

Tyler made the little shelf for the tv too.
It just brings the tv up just a little bit higher

and also gives us some storage underneath it.

We painted the bed frame... Looks much better don't ya think?

Both the dresser and the bed were origionally a really light wood color.

This is the dresser while we were working on it... it's almost finished here.

Just a few more coats of stain and laquer and it'll be done.

tree house field trip

Alex's field trip to the TreeHouse. I was crazy enough to volunteer to help take over 100 kindergarteners. It was crazy, but fun. The play the kids put on was soooo adorable. I was laughing the whole time.