First Camping trip of the Summer

Cory finally had a weekend off from the post office so that we could go camping. Our kids have been asking for a long time to go. It went really smooth and everyone had so much fun. Even Addalyn had a good time. Hopefully we will be able to go again before it gets too cold.

Seriously? I am hooked.

Do you remember the material from my last sewing post? Well here are the finished products.
Taegyn in her dress.
Addalyn's dress
Addalyn in her dress.

I really can't express how much fun and how easy these were to make. After making these I just had to make something else.
Here is a "shirt" with bloomers and a flower hair piece that I made for Addalyn.





I love the ruffle on the back of Addalyn's bloomers. :)


Like I said, I think that this is my new hobby. I am surprised at how I can make my girls a dress and have it be a fraction of the price of a dress at a store. My biggest goal in making these clothes, I want them not to look home-made or pligish. Hopefully I am succeeding just a little bit.

Sunday

I was taking pictures of Taegyn in the dress that I made her when deKyn and Davyn begged for pictures of them too. Here are my adorable hyper munchkins, and my handsome hubby too! :)

My sewing projects

So I have caught a new crafting bug. I kept looking at my girls dresses and thinking, "it really doesn't look that hard to make." So, I bought some material, made up my own patterns and created these.
Taegyn's dress. I actually really like this one.



Addalyn's dress. If I were to make this again, I would do a couple things differently to make it a bit better, but I am still proud of what I made. If only I could buy a pattern and follow the instructions on it, I think I could make my girls some way cute clothes.
Here is some material that I bought for another dress. I want to make Taegyn and Addalyn matching outfits with this material, I am just not sure what kind of style I want to do yet.

Bumbo

My splurge lately was to buy this Bumbo chair. How did I get along without it with all of my other kids? Addalyn LOVES the Bumbo. She loves being able to sit up and see on her own. Seriously, it was a well spent $40.

Addalyn's Blessing Day

We blessed Addy on 7/3/2011. Cory did such an amazing job on the blessing. He always gets so nervous to stand up there in front of the whole congregation. You felt the spirit and knew that Addalyn is a special daughter of God and that she will do great things while she is here on earth.

I cannot say enough how lucky I am to have a worthy husband that is able to hold the priesthood so that he's able to bless me and our children. I am so grateful for the gospel and I know and have a testimony of the importance of eternal families.

I had my mom make Addalyn's blessing dress and I have got to say that I absolutely LOVE it!!!! I always wanted a longer blessing dress for my girls, and with Taegyn I couldn't find one that I liked (let alone afford). But with Addy's, I found a pattern and picked out the material. It was exactly what I wanted. It's just too bad that she won't be wearing more than just the one time. To go along with her dress, I made her a cute bracelet and hair bow. The two perfect accessories to tie everything together.

Something that we did for this blessing that we didn't really do with any of the other kids, is get some picture taken. My friend Courtney was gracious enough to come out before church and take some family photos for me. I think that they turned out cute and am excited to have them to commemorate the occasion.
I am grateful for all of the family and friends that came out to support us on this exciting day!

To my beautiful Addalyn Embree, you were precious and stunning on your blessing day. Your little spirit in our home is such a joy for me and I couldn't have asked for a better addition to round out our family!