Pillowcase Dresses

These are two little pillowcase dresses I made today. I love sewing it's so much fun. The picture quality is not that great because I used my iphone camera.

This is Clementine's Birthday present along with the tutu.

Madalyn's Dress

I made a matching onesie for Hayden with left over scraps

Sewing for Hayden

Today I was practicing appliques. I made two little things for Hayden but I really don't have much boy fabric so I will have to get more so I can make things for Jude, Caleb and Field. I also finished my sewing class and here are the pictures of the tote bag I made.

This was my second attempt, the first bib was a cute brown and blue polka dots on white fabric but I couldn't follow the edge because the bib is also white.

Just in time for March Madness, don't worry Caleb yours is in the works.

Sorry Jude no UofL fabric on Fabric.com.

The outside of my tote

The inside, it's actually reversible

4 Years of Marriage

On Thursday we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. Actually we didn't even see each other on Thursday except for a sleepy goodbye at 5 am because Brian was on-call. But on Friday he meet me at work and we had a lot of fun playing in the snow with the kids. Then we went to Grimaldi's Pizza in Brooklyn which is one of the most famous pizzerias in New York and I only work 4 blocks away. It was a great day and tonight we are going to go to a nice dinner out. Brian said "It's been wonderful and his true love was proven to me today when he recovered the 4 dinning room chairs." We have an awesome life together and we are both very blessed to have found a partner, friend, and true love in each other.

Enough Said

Sweet Field is such a good baby

All Clementine really wanted to do was eat the snow

The snow was so deep it was up to Clementine's knees

Baby Jude Is Here!

Megan and Lonnie are now proud parents of a beautiful baby boy. I have the first photo to release to the public and I must say he is beautiful. Megan and Jude are doing well. There will be more photos to come. Megan says he has lots of hair under that little hat. I can't wait to meet him and I am so happy for Megan and Lonnie.

Jude Thomas Gardner

born at 6:08 pm

9.3 lbs and 21 in

Happy Valentine's Day

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentin's Day with the ones they love. I was very luck to get to spend the entire day with Brian since he is still on nights. It really was a perfect day starting from morning to night. When I woke up there were beautiful roses on the table along with a big cookie and my favorite chocolate squares. Then we decided to spend the day together and not even leave the apartment or do any kind of work. So we stayed in pjs, ordered food in, watched a little Olympics and two romantic movies. It was a great lazy day. I'm so glad there is only one week left of nights for Brian.

Valentine's Day Craft

It's almost Valentine's Day. Brian and I usually don't go all out or make a huge ordeal about Valentine's Day, but we do acknowledge the holiday with a small gesture. If you don't want to support the card company or just trying to save money make a homemade Valentine for your Valentine. It means more since you spent time on it and then you can write whatever you want on the card. This is an especially good idea if you have kids. I just pulled out some colored paper, stickers, markers, and ribbon, all stuff I had at home.

Here is my Valentine (nick names are covered :)

Happy card making.

Snow Day & Craft Pictures

Here Are the photos I promised from the past couple of posts. I didn't get any really good ones of the pretty snow scenes but I got ones of us sledding.

This is Clementine and her friend Luke going down the the hill. You can't really tell from her expression but she loved it.

This picture is hard to see because it is dark, but this is how you play with a 4 month old in the snow, strapped on and zipped under my jacket. We all decided to sit in the snow.

This is Brian's parents house before they got their second snow on Wednesday. They have a crazy amount of snow and Foster loves every bit of it. It snowed the first week we got him and he thought the snow was so much fun then too. I love looking back at puppy pictures.

His first snow.

Here are my art projects I sent to Megan for Jude.

This is the other tutu I made for Madalyn. She really likes all the Disney characters so I wanted to make a Mini Mouse tutu and it could also be worn UofL game days.

Happy Snow Day!

I know a lot of you have had quite a bit of snow recently but we haven't. It has barely snowed here since before Christmas. So I was excited about the big snow today. I love snow because it always makes you feel like a little kid. Snow really has it's positives in the city because we don't have to worry about driving anywhere or being stuck at home without milk. Although, I never understood the panic of being stranded without milk; unless you have babies who really need it I promise you can survive without milk (keep in mind I don't really drink the stuff so I could be a little bias.) Now wine or a cold beer on the other hand is what we should stock up on when there is nowhere to go, at least it makes for fun times. Ok, I am a little off track. Anyways, I wish Brian wasn't on nights so we could go sledding together I bet the snow won't be good for sledding by Saturday, oh well. It is still beautiful to look at and I get to play it all day tomorrow with Clementine and Field. Brian on the other hand is not so happy about the snow because his Vegas trip was cancelled since his flight was supposed to leave in the morning. He will recover from this heartbreak soon enough.

More snow fun talk: Today was Nelson's birthday, the father of the family I work for. He was telling me how on the day he was born there was a huge snow storm that basically shut down the city. So it was fitting that it would snow on his Birthday and he didn't have to work because classes were cancelled. His mom sent out this link that was an interesting story about the snow storm in 1969. If anyone wants to read it here is the link and I think it is crazy to think about how efficient we are at snow removal these days.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/remembering-a-snowstorm-that-paralyzed-the-city/

Also if any of you are are looking for fun things to do with your snow you should look up recipes for snow cream. It's basically slushy ice cream and tastes delicious. Enjoy the snow ya'll I'll try to get some good pictures of it tomorrow.

Missing Brian and Other Projects

The Past couple weeks Brian has been on his night rotation. We miss each other by one hour coming and going so the only time we get to spend together is from Saturday around noon until Sunday at noon when he leaves to go back to work. In that time on Saturday he has to nap/sleep because he worked on the Friday night before so it's really less than 24 hrs that we are together. I'm so glad he only has two weeks left of nights and then he never has to do it again.

Since I have all this free time on my hands I have been tuning into my creative side. My parents gave me a sewing machine for Christmas and I have been trying to teach myself how to sew. I am really starting from scratch since I have never even touched a sewing machine before. On Thursday nights this month I'm taking a beginners sewing class. It's a lot of fun and I never knew there was so much to sewing. We are making a tote bag with lots of little details so when it's complete I'll post a picture. I can't wait to make all kinds of things with my machine. I have also been painting and paper crafting. I can't post the pictures of my creations just yet because most of them are gifts. But I will eventually.

These are all my fun fabrics that I am going to create with :)

I made this little tutu for Clementine.

I am going to give it to her for her Birthday. Her signature color is orange but I couldn't find orange tulle so I used orange ribbon for the waist band.

Some other exciting news is that Brian received a scholarship to go to an orthopedic conference in Las Vegas. He is only going to be there for two and a half days but it's such a great learning opportunity for him. Not mention everything is paid for. I am so proud of him and when great things like this happen it just confirms that we made the right choice to move here even if we have to be away from our family and friends that we miss a lot. Brian is luck to have so many wonderful opportunities here everyday.