Month: October 2019

I have been invited to a baby shower. For a little girl. Hmm…What do make? I haven’t made anything girly, I only have boys in our house 🙂

I made several bandana bibs for Eli, so why not make one for a girl? It just needs to be pink instead of blue. And flowers instead of trucks. 🙂

I have Roger modeling the finished bandana bib 🙂 Roger looks a little rough, but he is clean. He just came out of the dryer. Roger is loved. 🙂

Modeling the front.

The back.

This is a very simple project. It took me an hour to complete.

Cut two different colored fabrics into 12 inch squares. I made two bibs. One with the hot pink and the other with the lighter pink.

Sew the right sides together leaving an inch or two gap to turn the square inside out. Then sew the hole closed by sewing around the outer edge, about 1/4 inch or so.

Fold the corner of the bib over leaving about an inch to show off the bottom color.

Fold over one more time. This lip is about an inch.

I used pins to hold the rolled edge down. The pin marks is also where I will sew .

I sewed a vertical line down. Just a stitch or two.

I used small snap fasteners.

One for each side.

I didn’t take pictures of putting the fasteners on, but I used a spool of thread inbetween the fabric and the hammer 🙂

As you can see the two fasteners.

Make sure you when you fold over the ends of the bib, you have the two different fasteners facing the right direction so they snap together.

Completed.

Thanks, Roger!

#1 favorite: Eli’s second birthday party. We loved the bouncy house. We are going to definitely do this again next year.

#2 favorite: Family. With all the 5 year old parties, we have seen a lot of family this week. I love them all!

#3 favorite: Fall. I love the cooler temperatures in the day. I could live in 70′ year round! And the colors of fall? I can’t get enough. Love the browns and oranges!

#4 favorite: I love that my little boy leaves his toys around the house. Everywhere I look there are cars. Cars in my cupboards, on tables, on the Island…Everywhere. I love it!

#5 favorite: Eli took Paul for show and tell at school this week. He loves his dad!

If you ask my son how old he is, he will say he is 44.

For the entire 4th year of his life, he was 44.

See. 44 years old.

In a few days this little boy will be 5.

I think he had a good 4th year.

I will love my 5 year old, but will dearly miss my 44 year old!

I wasn’t going to run today, because of getting ready for Eli’s second party. So I talked myself into running 1 mile.

Ended with 9.26 miles.

I don’t normally run this route, but I’m glad I did. There were a dozen antelope, out here just grazing in the field. I didn’t take the above picture, but this is what they would have looked like if I went running with my telephoto lens camera. 🙂

And the balloon blowing begins. Last year we did two balloon arches. 240 balloons 🙂 With Eli’s party last Friday, we decided we only had the energy for one arch. So we only blew up 120 balloons.

We started the day with breakfast. Waffles and ice cream with strawberry sauce.

Dinner was vegetable tortellini soup with homemade crusty bread and honey from our hives.

After dinner, we ALL bounced in the bouncy house. There was a basketball hoop in the house so we all played a game.

I even got my parents in the house!

Eli had so much fun!

I had a lot of fun bouncing with my boy!

Eli opened gifts.

Eli requested an ice cream cake. Again, to make things easier, Dairy Queen made the delicious peanut butter cup blizzard ice cream cake. I have never had one of these, and it was REALLY good. Yes, I cut the cake before taking the picture 🙂

After cake, we brought out the virtual reality game. Yes, this is my brother and this is how he acts ALL the time! This is why our Monday lunches are such fun and I look forward to the first of the week!

We are always entertained with these two!

Remember him??

Between the two birthdays, he received a lot of legos. He couldn’t wait to put them together. He is getting pretty good at following the instructions!

Eli really enjoyed his two days of partying! Happy birthday little Pea!!