My latest Project

K will be so proud of me...this is my first time adding something to our blog! I have just finished a project inspired by my friend Heather and her new baby. As a gift for her own baby girl, Heather received a car set cover that is just absolutely adorable!! Of course I asked if she knew where the gift giver had gotten the cover and she told me the giver had made it. It inspired me to make one for my own baby girl coming. I have been needing a project to do. The idea of the cover is very simple and the pattern easy to create without an actual pattern. It took me a few days, but I just love the result. For those of you interested in making your own or making one to give away here are the basic instructions for it.

Choose two coresponding fabrics (you could pick any theme in the world: simple and pretty with no dominating theme, flowers, animals, baseball, dogs, princess, or gender neutral). Cut each peice into rectangles big enough to cover the car seat from the top of the seat, up to the handle and back down to the bottom. Sew them together creating the basic outline. Pick one of the fabrics to be the "top" fabric that will show when you have the seat covered. For the handles, take two long strips of fabric and sew them together. Place them on the "top" fabric in logical spots according to where the handles should be located. Sew them into place by stitching in a square pattern to make sure the handles won't rip off. Velcro is what closes the straps. Sew them on so the handles close in a cirlce around the car seat handle. Heather's bow's on top of the handles were hot glued on. I tried sewing them and gave up...I ended up hot glueing them on as well. The button is hot glued as well. you could get really creative and do large flowers, large buttons, or anything that would fit your theme. Around the edge of the fabric I sewed ribbon about two inches in from the edge. The created a pocket that I ran elastic with ribbon sewed onto the ends. The allows you to pull on the ribbons and pull the cover tight over the car seat so the wind doesn't blow the fabric open.

I had a ton of fun making it!! As mom's, I think we all enjoy making and doing things for our kids. I am excited to use it coming up soon! If you want to make one of these yourself and need more specific instructions, let me know!

Great News

As of today I now work for Far West Bank.. We are very excited about this new opportunity to further my career. I will get a base salary plus commission along with benefits, 401k and 2 weeks of paid vacation. We are grateful for this wonderful blessing. I will still be doing mortgages at the bank, my assigned location will be in Utah county. This is great because most of my business comes from down there anyway.

Gas Prices

I can't believe it GAS prices are below $2. I thought it would never come. I had to text Emilee yesterday when I filled up her car and it only cost me $30. Anyway I hope that it stays like this for a while and maybe even keep dropping!!!!

Hospital Visit

Today was a very long day and a little stressful at first but in the end things are a bit better. For the last two days E has been complaining about getting light headed and feeling like she is running a fever but isn’t. She has also felt nauseated and tingling in her arms like they are falling a sleep. So this morning she felt these things again while she was giving D a bath. She asked for a blessing and I gave her one. After the blessing we called her doctor and he said to go to the hospital for some tests. We got to the hospital around 11:45 and didn’t leave till after 4. When they took E’s blood pressure it was 129/86 by the time we left it was 106/72 so it had come down a lot. They also drew some blood and ran test. When the test came back he potassium was a little low and so was her sodium so our doctor told her to drink a Gatorade once a day for the next few days to help with the sodium level and hopefully that will fix the problems.

Since we have been home E has been really tired and went to bed shortly after 8 tonight. I am glad that every thing is fine so far with her and the baby and we pray that these problems will be solved and we won’t have to deal with them any more. It is nice having her parents living with us so I could leave D with her Dad this morning as I took her to the doctor. I will keep you posted on how she is feeling in the next few days.

Halloween

We started the night off a little rough. After dinner D was running around the house because he was excited about going tick or treating. Well as he was running around he slipped and face planted on the tile and gave him self a bloody nose. He cried for a while and I think he was more upset about me holding the tissue to his nose then his nose actually bleeding. So that is how we started the night.

As you can see from the pictures D's costume was Mickey Mouse. D loves to watch Mickey in the morning and drags around his stuffed Mickey all day. As we started the night trick or treating D was a little apprehensive at first but after the second door he had it down and was saying trick or treat at every door. D decided that he needed to hurry the process along and that the people we

re taking to long to answer the door so he would ring the bell and then try to open the door before they would get to it. We

keep having to stop him and tell him to wait for the people so they could open the door. After we were done trick or treating we took him to the famous Halloween house for one last look at this great display. It has been so fun seeing him get so excited over all of the Halloween decorations. We can't wait to see how he reacts to the Chris

tmas decor. Over all Halloween was a great hit this year and lots of fun.