The next page in Des' quiet book

It's kind of simple but way fun still. The flowers are removable and have pipe cleaners in the stems so they're bendy. We took this to church last Sunday and the little girls behind us LOVED the flowers so we shared.

Sewing the "vase" was tricky but after unpicking the sides a few times I employed my walking foot on my sewing machine and the problem was solved. The fabric was too slippery for the normal foot. I did the top of the vase a little bigger so it hangs out a bit for easy flower-sticking/access.

A service Auction

Last night my Relief Society held a service auction. What's a service auction, you might ask? Well, they passed around a sign-up where you could donate items or service to be auctioned off. I donated Baby Windsor ties but other popular ones were cookies, hair bows, books (I won these!!) , baby sitting, house cleaning, etc... It. Was. So. Fun. !. yes the "!" even gets a period. We all got bidding points for doing stuff like reading our scriptures for the past two months, cleaning out a closet, if we went on a mission, saying hello to a neighbor, stuff like that. We tallied up our points and that's what we got to bid with.

I was a little skeptical at first and a little worried no one would bid on my ties. Oh was I wrong. People were jumping out of their seats, bidding cards waving, prices being screamed out. There were even some harsh words being thrown out during the bidding--"She doesn't even have a baby!!" was heard amongst the crowd. And there were three ties. It happened all three times. Crazy. At the end I had to announce that you could buy a tie if you wanted. That seemed to make people happy. (this makes it seem like people were unhappy but they weren't. Just some friendly competition and we all just went on to the next thing we wanted. It was just funny.)

Other hot items were home made cards, scrapbook stuff, cinnamon rolls, éclairs, a baby tutu, and five hours of babysitting, the use of a cricut machine.

So, for those who are in a planning position for RS, I TOTALLY recommend hosting your own Service Auction. Have the bishop be the auctioneer (unless he's soft spoken, because it gets pretty loud. Our bishop has a big booming voice so it was perfect). It was really fun and cool to see everyone's talents

Under the sea

I tried saving this and posting it after a few days and it wouldn't publish it at the top of my blog...so sorry if it's messed up for you.

But here's another installment for the quiet book. The creatures have magnets and I have to make a fishing pole so Des can go fishing. Hopefully it doesn't end up being a catapult in the middle of church...but even then my ward is pretty awesome and would just laugh. There are BILLIONS of babies. Billions. in my ward. And who ever has the best toys during sunday school gets them all! haha it's awesome. ANYWAY! The critters were ok to make, the octopus was a pain and still didn't turn out how I wanted. But I figured Des wouldn't care. The boot was my favorite and the easiest too!

Early Easter pictures

Easter is next week along with a certain someone's birthday party...So I decided it would be alright to take some pics of Des in his Easter outfit a week early. He wore it to church today, anyway, since next week is General Conference. Next week he has a super cool T-shirt to wear to his party so it really was today or nothing.

Des never stays still these days. He's always on the move. So I never really got him to sit still for a single pic. But it was fun and they turned out cute.

you can see his two teeth in this one!

I love the tongue sticking on in this one...

Consider this your invite

Obviously I've left off some sensitive information like my phone number or address so if you wanna come, just post a comment and I'll get in touch with you (leave your email if you want). I mailed out invites to addresses (these are on their way now) I have but that didn't cover everyone. So! If you are reading this, and want to come but not sure if you're invited...YOU ARE!! Promise. I'll have enough cake and hopefully the weather cooperates since its outside and we'll have enough room for everyone. If not, well...we'll figure it out. Ha! That should be exciting.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure no creepy person is reading my blog since I track who comes on and I use Google Analytics so I can see where people are coming from...but if you are that creepy person, I'm sorry. You are not invited. Everyone else, let me know! Should be fun!!

A page in progress

The classic Apple Tree page. It's missing the basket to put the apples in when you pick them but I'm still happy with how it turned out. The leaves don't come off, they're just cute. Des even stole it when I was scanning it in and started trying to pull off the apples! That's a success in my book. And the trunk is some cool felt I found at Joann's that had a pattern on it like wood. Neat, huh?

Takes takes a bite

My favorite thing these days is to let Des use his new teeth. He figured out he could bite stuff the other day and its funny to watch him discover this new talent. (as long as he doesn't turn that talent on me...) But so far his victims have only been fruits. (because a tomato is a fruit, right?? I never really understood that whole fruit/veggie argument. And then the manwich commercial pointed out that corn was a grain and now I'm all sorts of confused!)

Here's des selecting a victim from the pile...

And the result? He started coughing and was pretty confused why it didn't taste like he thought it should. Kinda funny.

Today he wanted the tomato I was rinsing off for his lunch. So I gave it to him.

He actually did pretty good at biting through the skin to get the gooshy insides. Then I took it and cut it up for him because I'm still kinda mess-aphobic. There's plenty of time for him to get dirty when he actually cares. Now is not that time.