Catching Up!

Sorry that it has been a bit since I posted. I have been sooooo busy! Wednesday was a huge day for me, I got up early and started right in on sewing diapers. Brad and Holly came over with their family. Brian and Heather came over to see baby Josh. Brad and Holly cut out diaper liners and I threaded up the serger so they could finish the edges. We also had the Elder's over for dinner. It was a very busy day.
Here is Heather Wallace (soon to be Walker and then my posts will really be confusing) holding sweet baby Josh.

This is Brain holding the baby. He said that he hasn't held a baby since he dropped his sister Heather on her head when she was a baby. Heather still gets dropped on her head and her bum and her back. She just became so accustomed to it.

Here is our Hee Bee Jee Bee holding her new cousin. She would have held him the whole time if she could have. I was sure to take my turn. Both Heather and I got to give him his bottle and he burped for me!

Uncle Bob's arms are big enough to hold all of the kids. Josh is sleeping through it all!
Last night Bob and I went to the Outback Steakhouse to celebrate our fourth anniversary. The food there is soooooo good! I had a blooming onion for the first time, I really liked it. We brought the left overs home and I am going to make blooming onion soup for dinner tomorrow. I also had their potato soup and then the filet tenderloins with crab stuffed shrimp and garlic mashed potatos. It was all so good! Bob had the rack of lamb with veggies and garlic mashed potatos. We ended our meal with the Chocolate Thunder for down under! Wow was that ever good.


Heather made us this cake for our anivirary. She was in a hurry to get the banner done and didn't catch the error! The cake tasted delicious. I was too full last night so I had some for breakfast. Bob teased that it was the breakfast of champions. Whatever!

Hooray they are finally finished. Here are the last of the diapers for my sister-in-law Holly. I worked at them all day yesterday (I got a cramp in may hand), then finished the last of them this morning.

Now it's time to go full swing into wedding projects. It's just a little over 4 weeks until we make our trip west. This is the pattern that I got to make a dress for me to wear. It will be something in brown and champagne.


This is the pattern and fabric for Heathers flower girl dress. It's hard to tell from the picture but the dress has a sash and it will be champagne for the wedding and baby blue for if she decides to get asked to prom or the spring fling.

Here is the ribbon station. Pretty soon we will be full swing into making the ribbon flowers. I have reserved the church building for next Saturday and anyone who would like ot can come and help sew the flowers together. Hee Bee has a basketball tournament that day so she thinks she is off the hook, little does she know that she will be helping with the prepwork before that Saturday. Ha Ha Ha!

These are the flowers for decorating the pavilion. I think that everything is going to turn out beautifully and they will have a wonderful wedding celebration!

Well I think that pretty much catches everuthing up! Whew!

Good News!

I had a friend who lives near by test out the diaper on her little baby and the diaper passed with flying colors! Whew! That is a relief, if the fabric wasn't the problem then it was me and my sewing. I will be making more diapers in the near future. I also learned that they have diapering down to a science now, I didn't know that diapers could get a build up from laundry detergent and fabric softener. My sister in law told me that she uses Dawn dish soap on her diapers and does multiple rinse cycles to get all of the soap out. Wow! You learn something new every day!

Problems With My First Diaper :-(

Here is my first diaper being put to the test. I have two cotton poly terry burp cloths inside, I think that the liners are supposed to be 100% poly which is surprising to me but the problem here is that the diaper inner fabric isn't absorbing the liquid at all. It beads up, in this case it became a pool and leaked out the leg of the diaper. Heather was a suburb assistant, through the whole experiment. I dried the diaper and this time I used a 100% cotton insert, it absorbed somewhat better but the diaper inner material seems to be water resistant. Its been washed in hot water to seal the holes from the needles and I thought to remove any residues. My next test involves and actual test subject (not a water balloon), luckily my neighbor has a six month old and she uses cloth diapers so she has some experience. I just don't want to make 23 more diapers if this diaper inner fabric won't do the job it's supposed to. I will let you know how the next leg of my adventures in diaper making goes.

I Have Completed My First KCK One Diaper!

Now I just need to finish 23 more! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. There are a couple of things that I will do to tweak my technique but other than that I was really surprised.






I was able to put in a welt pocket no problems, then I added the velcro.












I pinned the layers together. I was concerned about how easily the white inner fabric stretched.












I had to use tissue paper to keep my foot from sticking to the waterproof PUL fabric.












This went together really well on the first try too!


I was worried about how the elastic would go on, I was pleasantly surprised.














I put the last velcro pieces on then I top stitched around the entire diaper.



Devon was over for dinner and he demonstrated how to use the diaper. Wow! On the first try too. But then Devon is exceptional!

We Have a Computer Again!

Its hard to believe how are lives are sometimes so dependent on technology. I have really felt out of touch with my family this whole week while we waited for our new computer to come. Its like a blessing and a curse, a blessing because it allows me to keep in contact with family who are far away from me and a curse because I sometimes waste time doing nothing of value on it. That said I'd like to catch up on a few things that happened last week.

On Tuesday Ashton and I made cupcakes. Cherry chip cupcakes to be exact. He took his job of licking the bowl very seriously. At one point he had his head completely in the bowl, he got batter all over his hair, so he had to get in the bath to wash it out.

Here he is waiting patiently for the cupcakes to come out of the oven.

Later in the week on Friday we went to the mall to play at the tree house. There were a lot of kids there. We stopped by the scrapbook store before coming home. We found Scooby-Doo stickers 75% off, wow! Then we picked a page of paper that we liked and some cool frog brads too. To finish off this artistic wonder he put his own thumbprints all around (some of them got on Aunt Dani's counter too). He thought it was funny to wear the crocheted ball bag on his head, like Santa he said.


On Thursday I finished another project, hooray. I had wanted this sweater to be a present for Heather for Christmas, but I didn't have time. I had to make the sleeve three times to get two that matched. What a relief to finally complete it. I hope that it will be the first of many that I create.


Yesterday I started my next big project. KCK One diapers for my sister-in-law Holly. Her baby will be born in 4 1/2 weeks so I really need to bust a move on this project. I practiced the welt pocket that goes in the front of the diaper so that the lining can go in, I feel pretty good about it so I began the task of cutting out all of the diaper outers. I hope that later today I can get the inners cut out. I'll have to let you know how it goes.