Squishy bath

So my Noah is the perfect mark. Whenever he sees something on TV he HAS to have it. Doesn't matter what it is; oxy clean, ninjagos(? some kind of Lego looking ninja), hot wheels that go on the walls, today he was asking me if we had CLR and if we didn't we could go to Walgreen's and get some.

So when he saw squishy bath he knew that he would love it! So he has been begging me for months to get it and being the awful mom that I am, i refused. Finally he talked Grandma Wendy into getting him some, and it turned out NOT as cool as on TV.

Noah not too sure...

Pretty much you are adding the little diaper jelly absorber things to your bathtub. So all I could think about is that my boys are bathing in diapers. 

GROSS!

They were so excited to get out and rinse off in a shower! 

Now what to do with the other squishy boxes Grandma bought...

Campbell Soup Boys

So over at  CampbellShop.com they are holding a contest for the REAL Campbell Soup Kids Picture.
Of Course I had to submit my boys.
So Lauren (Collin's awesome cousin who came to stay with me this weekend) and I cleaned up my kitchen and took some pic of my cute monsters. Nick of course started crying. He hates people telling him he has to sit and eat ice cream. Okay he just hates people telling him what to do.

Don't you love pics of little kids crying??

The make the funniest faces sometimes, unlike adults who just look gross

Noah was a little HAM! He loves the camera!

He warmed up eventually...

practicing

Since FB isn't working right now I just wanted to upload this photo to my blog.

My good friend Erin took family pictures for us about a month or so ago and gave me all

the raw images that she didn't touch up (I love that girl)

So i decided I wanted to practice my photoshop skills. I LOVE how this one came out

and here is the original.

I just touched up the grass so you couldn't see I made the boys stand on sprinkler boxes and

then turned the photo Black and white and added the color retouch

Original

And here I lost 5 pounds :-)

My good friend Erin Adams took our family pictures a couple weeks ago and I love how they came out!

And these aren't even the best ones!! I have to keep those to myself, you know christmas cards

and presents and all :-)

Go check her out on FB, and if your in the SouthWest area of AZ give her a call

Erin Adams Photography

Recent Crochet Items

Owl hat for my baby sister- I got the pattern from Daisy Cottage Designs

So cute and very easy to do.

I didn't make the eyes as big (only did 2 rounds instead of 3)

The ears as long (6 rounds instead of 8) and

around the beak I did a single crochet around the entire beak once I finished with her beak pattern

and added about 3 extra pieces of yard to each braid.

Such a sweet and easy little pumpkin hat! I go this pattern from FavCrafts.com

You have to sign up to get free patterns but so far totally worth it.

This one is a simple HDC in BL making a rectangle- sew the edged together

then a SC around the top and then after the first row Sc2tog till you have about 6-8 stitches in your circle. and sc going up about 1 -1 1/2 inches high.

For the vine chained about 20 the 2sc in same stitch going across.

This hat was so easy took me about and hour. Think I am going to have to make some bigger ones for my boys to wear this Halloween!

Mel's Baby Shower

My baby sister Mel is about to have a baby. It is so strange to say that- even stranger to think that by the end of the month she will be a mom. This past weekend Devin, Kayla (Mel's friend since pee wee soccer) and I threw her a baby shower.
She is decorating the baby's room in owls so the theme was owls naturally.

Our wonderful friend Molly designed the invites if you need invites check her stuff out. This girl has some mad skills!

We ate, played games and opened gifts. Mel put togeather this booklet of games for everyone to have (that way you only pass out one paper) She came up with the most original baby shower games ever.

First one was match the celebrity baby name to its parent, then guess how many weeks she was. She had like 8 pics of belly shots from through out her pregnancy and people had to guess how far along she was in the pics, of course there was gift bingo, then pick out of her and Justin which one was almost named Brittney, who has dropped on their head, who won a baby beauty pagent and who walked at the same time as their sister (Justin, Mel, Justin and Mel)

It was so much fun to see my family and some old friends. And get to spend some time with my sisters. Since we all live so far from eachother it is hard to get togeather.

Owl Tree

Part of the food and the name banner

Diaper Cake

Owl for Landons room with name

Water Bottles

Zobrist Girls (the Alan Z Family)

Zobrist Cousins and Aunts

Grandma's

Sister Shot

Fish is a Fish

At the beginning of the summer Noah saw a fishing pole at a garage sale. He just had to have it. The pole was a $1 so I couldn't really refuse to much. The only problem; neither Collin or I fish. Collins hates fish, the smell the look the taste- so no fishing for him. I LOVE fish, sushi all that I'll take it. Plus cleaning out a fish doesn't really disgust me like it does him (Thanks dad!) But i don't have a fishing pole, or have ever really been fishing.
So when Fernando and Lauren came in to town Noah talked Fernando into taking him fishing. Now in Noah's mind if he was going to go fishing with Fernando they had to have matching shirts. So Lauren picked them up Bass Pro Shirts and Monday morning off they went!



Helping get the poles fixed and ready





Showing Noah what to do





His first cast





Just being a goober!



Lauren and I stayed while they got started and then later joined them again a little late with Nicklaus.



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Walking to a new spot

Then Fernando caught a fish! Noah was so excited! Both boys got to touch it and see how slimy the fish felt,

but only Noah was brave enough to give the fish a kiss

(side story) when I was his age my Hurst family went fishing and when they got back- they talked me into kissing the fish because he would turn into a handsome prince- bunch of liars I grew up with!)

About 10 min later Noah decided that we should put the fish back (due to Aunt Lauren talking about me eating it for lunch- THANKS LAUREN!)
And of course the fish had already moved on to little fishy heaven so Noah for about 15 min said he never wanted to go fishing again.
Now he can't wait to go again and told Fernando that when we see him at Christmas time he had better take him fishing again!