Haunted House

I am super excited about my newest project.  I had to make a haunted house.  Apperantly, don't ask me how I ended up getting assigned to be not only Truman's, but Dillon's "art mom" in school.  Then the day after they both came home with the paper that informed me of that, Dillon came home with another paper that said I was also his "Room Parent".  What ever that means.  

I went to the meeting that was supposed to give us some insight on how to be an art mom, but the meeting was just a clever disguise to recruit people to the PTO.  I ended up leaving after twenty minutes of the principal droning on about cleaning up some junior high (why can't they clean up their own school?).  The principal and I don't get along, he doesn't know that yet, but he will.  I also decided that I have no idea why they call it the PTO or PTA.  It seems to me that they deal more with the administration, than the teachers.  It should be called the Parent Administrators Organization, or the Parent Administrators Association, the PAO or PAA.  Who's with me?  Anyway here is my awesome haunted house that I was assigned to make.

 Are you loving my photo shoot?  I just see how cute other pictures are, so I am going to try harder to take better pictures.  I know these still suck, but I am not giving up!  Plus, for some reason the coloring is way off.  The roof is not done in yellow, it is the same brown color as the sides of the house, whatever.

My house on the other hand rocks.  Sure Dillon informed me after it was done that they may not like the fact that I put blood on it.  Jason said to tell them it is rust.  I thought it added some color, hopefully they will think so too.

Stuff and More Stuff

Last week was Conference, and we made a trip to Blackfoot to visit Jason's Parents.  I got to work on my blog book, which I am really close to finishing, and the kids and Jason just played.  We played some games.  I swear Jason's parents have every game ever made.  Just when I think I have seen them all, Jason brings out another one.  Here are a few pictures from our trip.

 Okay so Elleree thought she would see if Beckett would eat her corn, because she didn't want it.

 Turns out he really like corn....a lot.

 Nice dinner out doors!  We had a good time.  It was nice to see John and Kay we don't get see them enough anymore.

 More making of things.  I know, I know you are so over my crafty-ness.  But, for some reason, it is a form of therapy for me, so deal with it.  I copied these cute flowers.  Guess which one is the original?  It's the one in the left corner.

 They are really cute, right?

 Okay I am taking my crazy to a new level.  I am trying to figure out what to do with all of Becketts baby food jars.  First the kids and I made these jack-o-lantern things, yeah not so cute, but the kids carry them around with them all day.

 Next, I found out how to color the glass so I made these cute things.  No, I have no idea what to do with them.

 I just have not figured out weather to use them like this or the way they are in picture above.

Then I spray painted them with chalk board paint, so I can label them.  I like these the best so far and still have no idea what I am going to do with them.  Any ideas?

Robust, Varmint and Hay Hole

Robust, Varmint, and Hay Hole, these are my new favorite words.  Hay Hole comes from Truman.  When we were at my mom's feeding the horses Truman was on top of the hay pile and he yelled and my mom and I " I fell in a hay hole".  Mom and I started laughing and said "we hate hay holes".  

The other two words came from my trip to Colorado to visit Alli.  I listened to the kids watch the cartoons I watched as a kid and decided that the words robust and varmint are not used near enough these days.  

 First stop was a place called Miller Farms.  It is this really fun farm.  They have all the Cars cars the actual make and models of them it was really funny.

 They have a pink tracker.

 There is a ton of toys including this big bouncy thing.

 Not alot of things that were fun for Beckett, so Jason hung out with him.

 They had the tracker ride of coarse.

 Corn maze, hay tower and tricycle trackers.

 The kids had a good time, even if it was a little warm.

 The best part for Jason was this farm takes you out on a little wagon and lets you pick as many vegetables as you want.  They have corn, beans, peppers, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots they kids really enjoyed that too.

 Next stop was the butterfly pavilion.  They had some really cool exhibits.   This one is a honey bee hive.  It was super cool to watch the bees come in and out working, working, working.

 They had this tarantula that they allowed anyone to hold. Dillon was all over that.

 Surprisingly so was Truman.

 Then we went into the pavilion.  When we went to Seattle they had something like this at the children's museum, but this one was bigger, and had a few extras.

 They had a place with all different types of cocoons from different countries, and you could sit and watch the butterflies emerge from them.  It was really cool.

 Beckett was not a big fan of them he would flinch as if they were going to hurt him.  I never could get one to land on me, or hold one.  I think I must smell funny or something.

 Beckett did love their play area.  He sat and talked/loved on this caterpillars face for some time.

 We couldn't visit Allison without a trip to the rec. center. 

 They have this great indoor pool.  Why don't they do things like this here? It is super cool the kids could stay here for hours, and they do.

 Even Beckett splashed around a bit.

Dillon is starting to swim better this year.  He has been able to pass all the pools we have gone to swim tests.  He is very proud of himself.

It was a quick trip, but it was good.  On the was home we stopped by Cheyenne, Jason's niece was blessed.  It is a long trip, but worth it.

Keep'n Busy

I have been trying to finish up some projects that I have been working on.  I have a million of them still to do, but here are a couple I have been doing.

This is my awesome bracelet that I made out of.... yes, you guessed it a spoon.

This is a desk that my grandpa built.

 I painted it and, the kids love it!  They just have to sit at it when they have homework.  Even Elleree pretends she has homework so she can sit at it.

 This little electronic do-hicky copies videos, and transfers them to to DVDs.  Why, you ask, do you have one of those?  Well I got all of the old videos of grandmas with the cartoons on them.  SWEET!  Yeah you know what I'm talking about: The Hobbit, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, Disney Shorts, Looney Toons, Mr. Magoo, Mighty Mouse and others.  The point being, if there are any of my relations that have a hankering to revisit, their childhood you need to contact me so I can get you a copy.

 This is a quilt I made for Beckett awhile ago, the kids lost it, they just found it.

 I think it is cute, one of my friends said it was scary.  They are monsters, which is what Beckett is, so it works out really well.

 This is the project that I am most proud, of I re-upholstered this chair.

 Sure, I have no idea what I am doing but if you have no idea what to look for it looks good. 

 This is the only picture I could find of the before I tore the chair apart.  Jason bought this chair for $3 at an auction. 

 I pulled this chair apart like over a year ago.  I went to a book club where the host had re-upholstered a ton of things and said it wasn't very hard.  Yeah, it took me only a little while to get to it.  P.S.  I think my version looks way better.

 This is the couch that I really did have re-upholstered by a professional.  I bought it at an auction too, only it cost more than $3.   It is gorgeous, I just wish that I had some place to put it other than my garage.

 I love the fabric, from far away it just looks blue, but it really has this little leaf pattern.  The guy who did it actually didn't like the material, and had me come in twice to make sure that it was what I really wanted before he would order it.  After it was done he said he had to admit that it looked good.  I know what I'm talking about.  Okay not really I just know what I like.

 This is the other chair we had done.  It used to belong to my grandparents.

This is the material.  My dream is to have an eclectic collection of cool chairs that don't match, but that look cool together.  Maybe someday.....

BBQ 2011

This last weekend we went to the annual Mackay BBQ.  It was, as always AWESOME!  Question is where were all of you?  I mean really.

 This is the Merry-Go-Round in the Tourist Park, as you can see it is a mad house.

 As always Beckett is hanging in the stroller, downing a bun.

 A little stop off with the horses and some apples.

 A little double ride on The Incky.

 And a little double ride in the stroller too.

 Incky decided that he really liked Beckett, unfortunatly the feeling was not mutual.

 Later in the day Jason took me on a date.  Which we had not been on in 9 months.  We went on a four-wheeling adventure. 

 These two pictures are of my home town.  It is in the most beautiful valley.  These pictures were taken on our adventure, up the Mine Hill.  Imagine seeing this view everyday!  I can, because I did, and I took it for granted.

 This is a picture of the ranch where my dad lived.  It is called Alder Creek Ranch.

 We rode all the way to our property.  This is the view from the property that Jason and I and his brother and wife own.

 This is the other direction.  I love the view!

I am so rad on a four-wheeler, even if I couldn't feel my fingers on account of it being soooo cold.  Plus we had a great time.  Thanks for the date honey, and thanks for watching the kids mom!