Two is Better then One

This page is an oven that will open and there are cookies that you can put inside the oven, and next to this page will be a pan to put the cookies on. I am also going to number the cookies so that counting and number recognition are used. I remember loving to bake Christmas cookies with my mom, we would spend all day in the kitchen talking and baking.   Time to Pray, is a clock that I cam going to add hands to that move so that kids can work on telling time. There is a quote on the bottom that I am debating changing to "Anytime is a good time to pray" For family work I did this washing machine that will open up and I will have some laundry that can be sorted and loaded. I am thinking of doing different colored shirts or socks and had a matching game next to it to, maybe matching them on a clothes line. This project is taking a lot of time but I cant wait to see how it looks when I am done, and it is going to be the perfect present for my kids.

The last few weeks I have taken the time to think out and design my next set of pages but I haven't actually embroidered them. I am not too concerned with falling behind because once all the designing is done, actually doing the pages is easy. Here are my pictures of my next pages   Now my last pages is tricky and I havent found a way to design it on the embroidery machine so I may freehand sew it. But it is intended to be eternal marriage and a temple. I was going to do a bride and groom but I think i want to do a family in white to represent adopted children. 

For one of my classes this semester I have a project that I am going to be working on all semester. We were given a wide variety of options of how we wanted to present it and what was our targeted audience. I decided that since I have a 2, 4 and 5 year old, that I wanted to make something that was for Preschool to Kindergarten range. At first I thought I would compile family home evening lessons. Then I saw the suggestion of a children's book and thought that could be fun. And in my mind when you combine a children's book and lessons, you get an activity book. So I decided that that is what I was going to do. I also got to use my creativity, and my sewing and embroidery machine which is a huge hobby of mine. So far I have completed 3 pages. I am liking the way they turned out. The one thing that I want to add to them is, putting a quote from "The Family Proclamation" on the bottom of each page so that the book will still be educational as my kids are older.  This f

Keegan got to meet Kira, he loved her and she was unsure about him, especially since he picked up a pipe and hit her with it to say hello.  I dont know how well you can read that sign but it was just notifying you that Disneyland causes Cancer, so now we know the world is ending, when the happiest place on earth causes cancer.  Last month we went to California for a week, and we decided to brave the car ride down with Keegan and he did get till the last 3 hours turned into 6 because of traffic. And then he hated his caar seat for a few weeks after. The first full day we had in California we took Keegan to his first trip to Disneyland. Everyone said we were crazy for taking him but we have gone the last two years so it isnt something super special for us. And Keegan loved, he tried so hard not to sleep the whole time we were there. This is a picture of him on the tram ride to Disneyland he was so excited, squealing the whole ride, and yet he had no idea what was to com

So once again it has been two months without posting and Keegan is growing fast. For 4th of July he was 7 month, crawling as fast as possible and starting to pull up on things. Here is a picture of him in his 4th of July outfit waving his flag that he took from Sears.  Instead of braving the 4th of July traffic this year, we decided to bike. We recently got Keegan a bike trailer and he loves it, but he does hate his helmet, but what kid doesn't. We parked about a half a mile away and then packed up the trailer with Keegan, toys, a picnic dinner, and blankets. We biked around for a while and Keegan ended up falling asleep. We got a perfect spot to watch the fireworks, right next to the temple and directly across the river is where they light them off. Here is a picture of Keegan in the bike trailer, trying to figure out how to take off his helmet. Keegan was really excited to eat a lunchable, until he saw mommy and daddy had candy. He started to get antsy right before th

So I finally feel like I have the time and energy to workout, and lose the extra weight I put on with Keegan. We had bought P90X a few weeks back and have just not had the time to do and. And this week I decided that I can keep making excuses or I can buckle down and do it. So I have told myself that I cannot shower until I have down my P90X workout. Well if I am leaving the house I really want to shower so that is motivation alone. Today was day 3 and I am sore but not so sore I cant move, it makes me want to work even harder tomorrow, cuz if I am not sore I feel like I am not working hard enough. I will be able to do 3 weeks of workouts before going to California and I hope to be down 7 pounds. I dont know if that is aiming too high, but mostly I want to lose some inches and fit into my cute capris. It is suppose to be a 20 day program and I would love to lose 25 pounds but if I dont I will just do another 90 days and so on till I meet my goal. I was going to share pictures and my w