Mother's Day Aprons

I decided (a little too late for it to be sane) to help Jordyn and Kaitlin do aprons for their mom's for mother's day this year. I, of course would be doing aprons for my girls without daughters old enough to master one on their own. I had lots of fun sewing with the girls. They were very good students and together we made some pretty cute aprons for their Mom's to don while cooking. Kaitlin had two to make as she has two wonderful Moms. I would pin and sew on one, and she would duplicate it on the other. I traded back and forth like that so she worked equally on each apron and still only had to do the actual sewing of 1. (My lack of planning made the time short.) I have the girls modeling what they made below.

Jordyn with Summer's cute cupcake apron…



Kaitlin wearing Taya's Cherries below and Christy's stripes in the second pic.





I spent the weekend we had Taylor and Daron at the cabin cutting and sewing aprons for the rest of my girls. I really wanted to do one for all the grandgirls too, but I never start early enough. I will post about the boys weekend with us, but I have to admit I was grateful for Grumpy's gift of games and keeping them busy so I could get my sewing done. I tried to put a little bit of Nana in each apron. I know how much she liked Cherry fabric, all things Betty Boop, polka dots, funny buttons, cupcakes, farm animal fabric (on Jade's apron was actually Nana's fabric bought for who knows what?) and jungle animal prints. Taya had a BBQ at her home for all our Mother's and to say goodbye to some of the family she may not see before moving. I gave the girls their aprons as they came in and had so much fun just doing that. R.B. and Stacie had made plans to be with her family, so I delivered her apron the next day. I made one for Megan as she is Stacie's assistant for the Pampered Chef parties Stacie does. (See her blog for her website if you are interested in Pampered Chef products). I will get some more aprons done for all the other grand girls sometime this summer. Maybe they can help me. Madison wants to do one for her other mother too.

Tawna's cute Betty Boop apron…



Jade's cows and pigs with a little zebra mixed in for fun…



Stacie and Megan's fun french chickens with some wild stripes…



Wear them in good cooking fun ladies, I love you all.

Bring On the Boys!

Boys, Boys, Boys. What a weekend with Taylor and Daron. Grumpy was on it for me this weekend as I was cutting and sewing aprons for our girls. I wasn't completely MIA, but ruefully was not good at taking pics of all the things they did. Grumpy flew up Friday afternoon with Taylor as his co-pilot and I drove up with Daron. Grumpy made his famous Yuckka burros for dinner that night. The boys have them as regular fare for hunting, dune trips, father and sons outings, etc. Traditions are the best, right? Then there were movies (for which Daron dropped off fairly early. He does like his sleep!) We watched The Blind Side as Taylor had not seen it yet. Good movie. One of my favs. Grumpy was up early Saturday…but Daron was even earlier. I made him promise to sleep in for Sunday. (I like my sleep too!) Grumpy made the boys pancakes for breakfast and then went to the club house to play pool etc. for awhile. When they came back, you guessed it, the Monopoly game was on. Daron had not really played before, so Grumpy tried to help him get the hang of it. Taylor knew how to play though and he and Grumpy battled it out for the upper hand. Grumpy is still undefeated, and Taylor still loves his Grumpy. Daron will get better as he plays more, but I think he had fun with the whole thing. They decided to play Yahtze (?) after that had had lots of fun with that one. There were card games, more Yahtze and Slap Jack through the day.



Lunch was PB&J for Daron as he does not really like Chicken Salad. Taylor and Grumpy however love their Chicken Salad sandwiches. It was all good and they ate it up. They all went for a walk around the airpark and came back to see what was up here. I was boring so they went and found some fun at the Dairy Queen.




I had planned to have stacked enchiladas for dinner Saturday night as that is one of Daron's favs. Grumpy was again his wonderful self and made a delicious dinner us complete with all the trimmings. Enchiladas are one of my favorites too and love it when I can just sit back and watch him cook. Did I say how much I love this man? There were 'smores after dark and more movies to watch. We watched Avatar as I finally got a good copy from Costco. I love the special effects and the imagination it took to do that movie. Oh yes, and there was popcorn. How can one watch a movie without popcorn? Good Stuff.




I got the aprons done about 2 am Sunday morning. Daron did indeed sleep in (bless his heart) and we had a great breakfast together. Grumpy had to teach his lesson for the High Priests Group, so he was going to fly home after church with Daron. I took Taylor and we headed out for the valley. It was a pleasant trip home and it was nice to talk to Taylor. He is growing up so fast.

I love these boys.

Weekend with Kaitlin and Jordyn

I better get some posts done, or I am in danger of forgetting what we did. I know the weekend with Kaitlin and Jordyn was too fun and hope I can remember it all. Our Friday nite was just a movie night as we usually don't get to the cabin very early. I'm sure it was probably a New Moon night since we can never get enough Twilight entertainment. Saturday brought Grumpy in the kitchen (allowing me to sleep in) making chocolate chip pancakes for his lovely granddaughters. I don't have pics of that as I was sleeping. Then it was bringing on the inevitable Monopoly Marathon with Grumpy (now rested with a good night's sleep as he doesn't subscribe to the Twilight nonsense). This time there were no tears, but sadly Jordyn's winning streak was broken. She took it well though and the girls had fun playing.



After Monopoly came lunch. Jordyn's favorite is Chicken Salad Sandwiches. She and Kaitlin mixed some up as I watched and made us a great lunch. Grumpy took them to the little country store here to get some necessities for dinner, etc. and ended up getting some yummy doughnuts. By then I was among the living and had sorted out some fabrics from the disorderly mess in the extra bedroom. My intention was to teach the girls how to make yoyo's for their hair, and wherever else they wanted to put them. Out came all the fabrics, some buttons, needle and thread and the yoyo templates in 3 different sizes.





I think they really liked the yoyo thing. They made yoyo's all afternoon. There were a few breaks now and then, but they would come back for the needle and thread and start up again. I thought the results were fantastic. Such cute and funny girls.





Other favorite pastimes of the girls away from home (so no chores or any real have to's). My favorites too. Sleeping and reading.




After dinner Grumpy made a fire outside in the firepit and got ready for the smore fest. These girls were crazy, crazy and ended up throwing marshmallows all over the forest. I hope the little critters out there like marshmallow. Back inside we tried to watch Avatar, but the disk was a bummer and I had to pack it up to return to Costco. We watched several movies that day and into the night. We woke up to a surprise dusting of snow Sunday morning, (this was the second of May) so I took a pic to remember it on our way to church. The girls looked so pretty. Grumpy and I look forward to "showing off" our cute grandkids whenever we get the opportunity to take them to church with us. They are a joy to us. All of them.




Thanks for coming up to the cabin with us Girls. We love you so very much.