Easter 2011

 

 

This is how much they have changed in just 1 year!!! 

Ironing Board Makeover

Let me start with this….I HATE ironing!!!  I pretty much never iron my own clothes.  If it’s wrinkled it goes in the dryer for a few minutes.  That’s it.  Well I married a man that works at a bank.  He has to wear dress shirts everyday.  A place that if he wears a dryer ‘ironed’ shirt they might actually call him out on it.  So my job as a ‘good’ wife is to keep his closet full of nicely pressed shirts. 

We have had our ironing for for only 6 years, but it was in a bad condition.  The padding beneath the cover was pretty much gone.  It was like ironing on the thinnest fabric and metal with tiny little holes it.  Who wants those tiny little holes to show up in your ironed shirt?  I would usually put a towel under the shirt so it would be thicker and run smoother.  As usual, I was looking at blogs and saw that someone got a new ironing board cover.  Why did I not thing of that????  I have to iron all the time! Why not have a pretty area to do it on?? :)   I also recently went to a friends house to help out because she had a new baby, while I was there I ironed shirts for her and she had an amazing new iron.  I realized how terrible my iron was and that I needed a new one. My iron ended up breaking the very next time I used it, so it was the perfect opportunity.  All new ironing stuff!!!

Ok, so first, I got non flammable ironing board fabric.  I cut it to size.  The original plan was to use elastic around the edges to secure it on to the frame.  That ended up not being an option for me.  Actually it would have been an option if I had been willing to go get a different needle.  I was too excited. 

Enter hot glue gun….

I know this is ghetto, but I am totally okay with that.  It worked fine for me.  At least so far it has.  I just pulled it tight and glued around the edges.  Now I have a nice padded ironing board!

 

Next up, a new cover.   I used my old cover.  I ironed and flattened it out,  cutting the new fabric 2 inches bigger than old cover.  So,  since nothing ever goes right for me, I somehow ended up cutting it too small.   To make a long story short.  I cut out an extra ring to go around the outside.  This new ring will just be added to the edges and will have the draw string sewn in it.   I recommend cutting the fabric the correct size the first time.  This was a nightmare:)

  

Finished product!  I am very pleased with it.  I haven’t used it yet, but my mom has and she says it works great!  and she LOVES my new iron:)

Next step is to spray paint the metal frame black.

Tiny Light Box

I will probably say this 1,000 times, I LOVE looking at blogs.  I LOVE getting ideas from other people! So,  I found a blog where a woman made a light box out of a diaper box.  It looked easy enough.  I am not really sure I need a light box, but I have most of the supplies, why not give it a shot?   I planned to link the blog I used, but when it came down to it, I couldn’t even remember which blog it was, so I had to wing it.  Hopefully I did it right:)

1. I only had a very small box that wasn’t being used already.  Maybe I will make a bigger one later.  So, you cut squares in the box.  One on top and on each of the 2 sides.

2.  Cut poster board to size and tape it in.  You want to cut it so it covers the entire back and bottom of the box.  The poster board doesn’t need to fit snug, it needs to curve slightly.

3.  Take a sheet of paper and cover each hole.

This is a picture I took using the box.  It is unedited, so I imagine it could look better slightly edited.

This is my set up

This is another shot I tried with a book.  The book took up most of the box so it was slightly awkward.  This box may be really fun though:)

Little Helper

Ty learning to sort silverware.

Birds nests and Mud pies

I took Ty & Micah out to play today.  It is VERY stressful to me to take them outside to play.  We are working on following direction.  Anyway, their favorite thing to do it throw balls down the sloped drive way where they end up in the road.  They do this over and over and over.  They are only allowed to go so far down the yard, so I am having to run to catch the balls before they go in the road.  It is a pretty busy road.

So, today when I took them out, it only took 1 ball going down the drive & one car seeing me running like a crazy trying to catch it for me to take them to the back yard.  The backyard isn’t terrible, but there are a few muddy spots from the rain. 

I promise as I was taking this picture I didn’t realize he had mud on his fingers. It all happened so fast!  As I snapped the photo, I realized he had something on his fingers and he was putting it in his mouth.  My first thought was that it was poop, I was relieved to see it was only mud!!  I did panic for a second though!   This is what ended our time outside however.  I could hear him munching on tiny rocks so we had to go in to get the mud off.  Silly boy!

 

Teeny Tiny Baby

My nephew Dexter likes to play tiny baby after bath time.  My sister wraps him up in his towel and he pretends to be a baby.  It’s pretty cute if you ask me:) 

Ty & Micah have both recently started noticing babies.  About 2 weeks ago some of our close friends had a baby.  We went over for a visit and took the boys also.  The older brother of the baby got to hold the baby while we were there.  After that, Micah kept reaching to hold the baby too.  I wouldn’t let him, but he seemed okay with that. 

Now when we go out and we see a baby, Ty especially will point it out and say ‘be be’

So, today I gave the boys a bath.  Micah is always the first to want out.  I have to save hair washing till last because the second Micah gets water poured over his face he is ready to get out of the water.  Today was no different.  I do have to say, he is getting somewhat better about this though.  Today instead of trying to stand up in the middle of it to get away from me, he just started frantically wiping his face.  Then I let him get out.  I wrapped in him in the towel and just to be silly I started rocking him and said he was my baby.  He loved it!  He let me rock him for a while, well, until Ty wanted out to be a baby too. haha. Ty usually wants to do what Micah is doing.

I wrapped Ty up and held him for a while. Rocking and talking to him.  He kept saying ‘be be’ over and over.  I started to put his clothes on him but Micah came over and started reaching like he wanted to hold the ‘be be’.  Now this is a baby I WILL let him hold:)  I was thinking, there is NO WAY Micah will really want to hold Ty.  But he did! haha It was SO funny.  He held him and even tried to rock him like I was doing.  He didn’t even want to give him up when I tried to take Ty back.  Ty loved it too! He kept smiling at Micah and saying ‘be be’ over and over.  I really wish I could have captured it, but I know as soon as I moved away to get the camera or even pulled the camera out, the moment would be over.  It was so sweet. Hopefully they will do this again for Ian later, I know he will want to see this too:)  Just thought I would share my cute little story!

Ian’s Birthday Weekend

Ian is pretty funny about his birthday.  It’s one of the many reasons I love him:)  Our marriage started out with a birthday weekend devoted to Ian and someone how over the years managed to turn into birthday week.  Nothing really special happens that week, but Ian does get his way on a lot of things.  I will admit it, he is just down right spoiled:)  Anyways, we always go to his parents for his birthday weekend and both of his brothers and their wives come over too.  I think most of you know that me and my sis married brothers, so my sis is always here too.  She wasn’t able to come this year though:( Poor Dex was sick. 

Here are some pictures from the trip…

Ian & Ty

Micah Ty Ty & IanMicah & Uncle Sean card from Rebekah and Alex (Rebekah made it) Family Photo Sean & Alisha