Wedding Dress

A few weeks ago, Stephanie posted about a 

white dress that she had made for her daughter.

For some reason, I had never thought about making

Ruby a white dress. After reading about Mabel's

white dress, however, I decided that it made

perfect sense for Ruby to have one.

After all, she and Milo get married nearly every day.

I used the Audrey dress pattern from Violette Field Threads,

although I made the skirt as long as possible,

per Ruby's request. I used a polyester fabric that I 

thought would wash up well (and often). 

Ruby chose two ribbons to tie around her waist.

Ruby and Milo have had a lot of fun using the dress

for their weddings, but Ruby also likes wearing it to church.

Halloween Crafts - School edition

3rd Grade Ghost by Maxwell

Haunted House by Jonah

Santa Gifts

The boys got these cute shirts in their stockings.

Bookshelf

The four older kids helped me build this bookshelf

while John was working at Brian's house.

So far the books are staying the the bookshelf!

Bow and Arrow

Late one night (he had taken an accidental nap)

Jonah asked for help in making a bow and arrow.

We used a wrapping paper roll,

yarn, card board, and duct tape.

He was REALLY happy. :)

Christmas Ornaments

John and I helped the kids make these foam photo

ornaments with a kit from Hobby Lobby.

They were kind of a pain to glue together,

but turned out pretty cute anyway.

The kids loved them.

Little People Halloween Party 2010

This was the 7th Annual Little People Halloween Party

at our house, and again this year we kinda sorta

went with a pumpkin theme.

I didn't get pictures of the treat bags.

They had finger puppets, kazoos,

Halloween stickers, bubbles,

and stretchy skeletons,in a little pumpkin bag

Temple Blocks

The company that helped us make this,

also sells kits to make temple blocks.
I ordered five everyday temple blocks,

and gave them to the kids for Easter.

It took a lot longer than I expected it to.
Each layer had to fully dry before moving on,
and because I didn't want the kids to see me
working on them, it took about two weeks.

I finished the last coat of texture cream

just before we went to bed the night before Easter.

It was dry when we woke up, thank goodness.

Bentley - Salt Lake City

Maxwell - Logan, Utah

Jonah - Mt. Timpanogos

Ruby - Provo
(Poppyseed didn't have Provo as an option, so I used
this photo from LDS.org, cropped it, and blurred the edges.)

Milo - Idaho Falls

He wanted a train

The day he came home from school with a note about making Valentine boxes, he knew what he wanted - a train. We found this idea, and changed it a little. Last year, Bentley and I spent a couple of weeks making his box, just a little work in the evenings. Maxwell didn't really want to work on his, so it was the Saturday before it was due we put most of it together. He was happy with it, and I guess that's what matters. :)

Valentines

This year, instead of letting the kids pick their favorite

super hero Valentines from the store,

I made them help me with some homemade Valentines.

We got the idea for Bentley's Valentines from Design Mom.

The Mad Libs that we found at the store were

Family Guy, or "Adult" themed,

so we went with these printable Valentine Mad Libs.
We rolled the mad libs around a thing of Smarties,
wrapped pink paper around them, and tied them with ribbon.

Maxwell originally chose some dinosaur valentines,
but we saw these on Tangled and True last week,
and he decided to make them instead.
We got the templates for the lips, mustache,
and the tag from Blonde Designs Blog.

Jonah and Ruby were okay with using the same idea
as Maxwell (they really like suckers), so they made
some for their friends (and keep asking for their own).

Jonah (above)
Ruby (below)

The Space Ship - 2009

Bentley and his amazing Valentine Spaceship.

He made this for his Valentine box last year.

Bentley's Bird House