The Wallisers

I’ve been in a creative mood lately. But haven’t had time to actually work on much.

I want to sew, and do it well – planning to work on a shirt with Mom this weekend, hoping it turns out well.

Last weekend I found a cute simple peasant shirt tutorial for kids.  I really want to make one for each of the girls.

My recent obsession has been fabric flowers.  I want to make a ton of them and use them on hair clips, headbands, pins for my cardigans and other tops.  I also want to make a bib necklace with them.

Paper flowers are only a short distance behind fabric ones.

I have fallen in love with Amy Butler fabrics, and patterns.  Her fabric patterns are bold, bright and fun.  Her patterns classic and almost with a vintage feel to them.

Bought some coordinating Amy Butler fabrics on Etsy and plan to order some patterns once I finish making the other stuff that I just bought patterns for.

Bought a really cute elephant softie pattern on Etsy last night.  Want to make these for the girls for Christmas probably.

I’d love to be able to do a “mostly” handmade Christmas this year.  I’ll be lucky if I can do a few projects, but hopefully I can plan a bit better for next year.

Found a cute kit for a pear pin cushion by the same person I bought the elephant softie pattern from… thinking this might be a cute gift.

The girls started Mother’s Day Out (or in our case, Grandmother’s Day Out) this week.  They will be going one day a week for now.  Nora had a great time and only fussed when it was time to leave.  Sarah did OK, but had a harder time with it – as expected.

Went to the Dr. myself yesterday, my blood pressure is kinda borderline so I’m working on fixing that… thinking that my hair appointment tomorrow and possibly a pedicure after that will help with the process.

I went to the fabric store after work yesterday, and Jeremy picked up the girls.  He called and told me that Sarah was walking!!!  Yes, my 9 month old had taken her first steps… and I missed it.  She was too tired to walk for me when I got home last night – hoping I’ll be able to see it today (and capture on video soon).

This is cute…

I guess that’s it for now… maybe more cool stuff later

Finally got inspired and got the chance to throw together a few new digital scrapbook pages… I’ll have to look back through everything to put together the credits for the supplies I used as keeping track of that stuff was the least of my worries as I was putting them together (it’s much faster when you don’t worry about that stuff).

Again… I’m behind on blogging, posting photos, etc. Eh… get over it I’m back now with more!

I’ve mostly got photos and a few little stories to go with it all. I’ve been really trying to keep up with my December Daily album for this year… there’s nothing really to show you all just yet but I’ll get there… I promise. Mainly, I’ve just been taking photos and getting them ready to have a whole batch printed at once… and also going ahead and writing down what I want to say for each day because well, if I don’t write it down now then I’ll surely forget it. I am hoping to get the first batch of photos printed one day this week… then hopefully I’ll have some finished pages to show you all here. Hang in there!

Let’s see… what else have we been up to?

Ummm… well, we gave up on trying to put both girls in the same bedroom… Sarah’s crib got moved back into the original nursery last night and we’ll be working on getting the rest of the room set up in the next several days or so. Nora’s room will need a bit of re-arranging due to the extra space that is there now… I think it’ll probably be filled with toys before we realize it. Maybe once I can get the rooms straightened out I’ll share a few photos of the outcome.

Last week we went out to the mall and met up with Julie, Phyllis and the boys. Nora and Aydan got to play in the little play area in the food court and they had a blast!! Nora isn’t so used to playing with other kids so I was a little worried about how it would go, but turns out she did great and she had a wonderful time! Tomorrow I’m taking Nora up to the library for toddler story time where we are going to meet up with Julie and Aydan again. It’ll be lots of fun!

oh and I finally got the chance to try out our new stroller… love it!

I am so ready for today to be over with!

This morning started off by dropping Nora off at Grandma Judy’s (I got to hang out until around 8! yeah!).  I had an appointment for an NST (non-stress test) downtown near the hospital at 8:45… that went well.  The little one was super active and everything looked great.  She probably enjoyed the BK breakfast that I got (croissanwich, OJ, and a Mocha Joe)… hehe

I then headed in to work where I had to park way out in the far parking lot and walk in carefully in the rain… Not fun!  But, when you get here late like that it’s highly unlikely that you’ll find a close parking spot.  Oh well.  I spent most of the day working on finalizing the data in this database that has to be ready ASAP so that it can be reviewed – meaning… I spent the day looking at the computer screen and doing tedious busy work.  Oh well.  It must be done.

Saw a message that Whitney had posted on Twitter that they (her and Mom) had taken Nora to this new park somewhere in Madison.  Apparently the kiddo had a great time and Whit got tons of pictures.  I can’t wait to see them… I just wish I could have gone and hung out at the park with them too.  Oh well.  I’ll have to find out where this park is too I suppose.

Anyway… after work I’m headed over to Mom & Dad’s for dinner.  Jeremy has to work a little late but he’ll eventually make it over there too.  Maybe I can even find a little time to work on some quick scrapbooking project or something while I’m there.  We’ll see.

Once I get my hands on these park photos, I’ll be sure to share them here.

Looking forward to relaxing at home tomorrow, watching Alabama beat Tennessee (hehe – Roll Tide) and then heading out for our Anniversary date night – dinner at Melting Pot.  We’ve never been there before… I’m quite interested to try it though.  I’ll review the experience later

Believe it or not… I had 5 days off of work in a row! It was absolutely wonderful to be able to hang out with Nora so much and also get to spend time with family and friends!

Originally, I had requested two days off of work (in conjunction with a 3 day weekend) so that we could go to the beach with Jeremy’s family.  Well, the plans for the beach got changed and so the family isn’t going until Thanksgiving so needless to say, we didn’t go to the beach – but I figured that I’d still keep the vacation days and get to spend some time with Nora before her little sister makes an appearance.

I must say, I definitely had it easy – we spent a good bit of time hanging out with each Grandma so I did have some help (Thanks Grandmas!!).  We spent some time shopping on Thursday and Monday – got some ideas for Birthday and Christmas gifts for Nora. Jeremy and I just need to figure out a time and actually do some of that Birthday/Christmas shopping.   Oh, and I seriously MUST start getting some plans for that birthday party together!  Time is running out!

On Friday, I met up with an old friend from High School and we spent several hours on the square in Athens eating, shopping, and just general catching up.  Not a bad way to spend the afternoon.

There’s not a whole lot in the way of photos from my 5 days… except I did get some great ones that will be perfect for scrapping about my days off.  I’ll share those once the pages are done – I’m thinking that a digital page is in order as it’s been awhile since I’ve done any digital scrapbook pages.  Anyway, check back in a day or two and hopefully I’ll have those pages to share.

Oh, Sunday night I tried my 2nd attempt at making my own baby food.  The first time, Jeremy didn’t think that the peas were pureed enough so he wouldn’t let me feed them to Nora… this time, no argument.  We had some flank steak with fresh yellow squash and zucchini – so I decided that Nora could eat some pureed veggies with us   Honestly, if I had just peeled the veggies then she would have likely done just fine without them being pureed – but whatever.  Here’s what I did…

Steamed the veggies

Dished several of each type of squash into the chopper (I only have a chopper, not a food processor… but it worked just fine).  Then blended it all up…

It’s nice and neon green colored… haha – almost looks a little scary, but she ate some of it.  I don’t think that the taste was an issue for her – she didn’t really want to eat anything that I tried to give her.  I’m blaming her teething on that one, but I saved the jar and we’ll try it again tonight.