What have we been up to??

Me: sewing of course!

I do have a pretty good excuse...it's for my classes. My kind of homework. Although when you happen to have a couple of projects due the next day and you are in the sewing lab for 9 hours straight it can get a little annoying.  Not that I had to do that Wednesday.  But luckily I had my friend Natalie there with me to entertain. She also has the same three sewing classes as me this semester so we try and keep each other sane. 

Anyways I have completed some more projects...

 A little onesie!  This is one of my favorite from children's sewing 

it might have something to do with the adorable fabric that I got

at Joannes for 50% off.

Here is a close up so you can see just how adorable this knit is!

 And of course I got enough to make a few things. This little PJ set is actually a 2t so it'll be a while before our little girl will wear it but that's okay.

 And by far the hardest project I have made yet...a plaid men's shirt for Joey. Yes PLAID is the key word there. It was quite the challenge getting all my plaid lines to match up. But I was successful and am very proud of how well it turned out.  

And doesn't it look good on Joey?

 I'd say he's pretty happy with the results

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Joey: Studying 

This semester Joey has some pretty hard classes. He's taking three different psychology classes, a sociology, and a stats class. He has a lot of reading that goes along with those and has been doing really good at keeping up.

But what I am most proud of is how well he is doing on his tests, and there has been quite a few.  He's been working really hard and got A's and B's on these really tough tests!! I'm so proud of my hard working Hubby this semester. 

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Baby: Kicking

In case any one wants  a quick note about our little girl.  She has been very active lately which is very cute. And she stopped hiding from daddy (she used to stop kicking right when Joey would try and feel, it was pretty funny). We can't wait to meet her!

Sew Sew Sew and Sew some more

I have decided that the reason I don't blog as much as I would like is only partially because I am busy and mostly because I am a perfectionist which leads me to be a procrastinator.  It's the sad truth and I love that I am a perfectionist when I produce an amazing product or whatever that just makes me proud but I hate that it makes me procrastinate starting things because I'm too worried it won't be just how I want it to be. That being said it's a working progress and here's a little update for ya.

What have I been up to? sewing sewing and more sewing.

It's my new favorite hobby...and I have to sew for three of my classes. But really truly I am loving it, why else would I sign up for THREE sewing classes in one semester?? Everyone at school that I tell that to thinks I'm crazy because sewing classes are a lot of work. Last semester I took my first sewing class here at school it was beginning clothing construction and I LOVED it. The school has the greatest machines ever that I just want to bring home with me. It started out really slow with just a simple pillow case and pajama pants. After that I made a button up collared shirt, it was hard and I'm pretty proud that I did it and it turned out cute. I'd put a picture up but it's packed away with my clothes that don't fit me right now. Our last project was a skirt and it was easier that the shirt but still a learning experience. 

Okay so this semester I am taking the advanced clothing construction class, Home Decor Sewing, and Children's clothing Construction. How fun is that?! Home decor and Children's Clothing are pretty slow moving pace since they are beginning sewing classes but still I get to make fun things. We finished out first two sewing projects in Children's Clothing. A hat and booties, so cute!

I just love how tiny everything we make in this class is :)

In home decor we haven't started our first project yet because we've just been learning things about the machines and such. I am proud to say that I threaded a serger by myself, a real one with tension and everything (no baby lock automatic threading sergers in this lab). Maybe I can help my mom figure out hers. Anyways, our first project will be a "linen" project. This class is fun because we just have to make a certain type of project but not necessarily the same thing. So I'm trying to decide between a few things: burp clothes, table runner, or sewing machine cover. What do you think I should make? 

Okay one more class, sorry if this bores you. Advanced Clothing Construction, I have the same teacher that I had last semester for beginning and I love her. She is an AWESOME teacher nothing against the other sewing teachers I just really like how she does things. This class is a lot faster pace and it's a 2 hour 15 minute class but the time still seems to disappear. Our first project we are pretty far along, we're making a men's button up collared PLAID shirt. I emphasise the plaid because that's what really makes it hard, lining up the plaid has been quite the adventure. But I do love that I am making a plaid shirt, how cool is that!? It's for Joey and I hope it turns out good enough that he will actually wear it. When it's done I will show it off so stay tuned for pictures. 

Thought you were done with all this sewing talk? Sorry. This isn't for a class but I just wanted to make a cute crib sheet for our coming little baby girl. It was a very quick project but I love how it turned out. 

It just looks plain green but it actually has little tiny white polka dots on it. It's really cute fabric.

You can't even tell it's home made can you? If you want to make one yourself I used this tutorial from one of my favorite blogs. Also one of my new favorite hobbies, "nesting" as they call it. Baby stuff is just so fun! I am also planning on making a cute crib skirt and possibly bumper pads, and then for my home decor class I'm going to make a baby quilt. Can't wait! 

When I was in Spokane over the break I also finished two poodle skirts for my sister in law and her daughter for a sock hop, and a cute cars blanket for my nephew... but I didn't take any pictures sadly. 

Okay I'm done I swear. No more sewing talk for today. Although that's pretty much my life right now so it will probably come up again so I can show off everything I make! Thanks for letting me tell you all about my new found hobby of sewing. You should try it, it's really fun :)

BABY!!

Okay I know you are all just dying to know what I look like pregnant, so here's a picture for you in all my pregnant glory! 

For the records...20 weeks along, halfway, yay!

Okay the real good news is that today we got to find out the gender! Funny story real quick, a girl in my class that just had her baby at the end of March was telling me how when she went in to get her 20 week ultra sound the doctor told her the ultra sound tech was out of town but they could have her come in three days later! I was like oh my gosh if they tell me I have to come back later I will cry, I've been waiting for this day! So I go in to get my check up and the doctor comes in and says we don't have you scheduled for an ultra sound today something got messed up and we're completely booked for today...........are you kidding me, is this some kind of late April fools joke!?!? (that's what was running through my head) But thankfully the doctor said he could do a quick ultra sound that wouldn't give all the medical information they needed but he would be able to tell us the gender. Phew! 

OKAY so what is it??? We are having a little baby girl!! :) I'm so happy, don't tell anyone but I was really hoping for a girl. I have my reasons. They are much more fun to dress up, there are more cute things to sew for them, usually if the oldest is a girl then they can babysit the other kids younger, and I'm kinda scared to have a boy. I know weird, but it's true. I have babysat  A LOT and I feel like I always do better with the girls, I think it's because I am one. And I feel like it's always the boys who are the wild kids and act out, which I know is not always the case. Anyways I'm happy it's a girl and will be excited when/if we get a boy.

A BIG Thanks to My Mom!

My mom was in town last weekend and she took my pregnant sister and I shopping! We went to Idaho Falls and really hit the jack pot at Ross, and of course made a stop by Porter's and Joan's for some cute baby fabrics. 

To give you an idea of how awesome my mom is I took a few pictures of what she got me. Sorry the pics aren't that great...

 Here's the whole lot...it's a whole lot haha. I know corny.

Here is just the maternity clothes she got me(minus one shirt that's currently dirty). I know right?! My maternity wardrobe went from basically nothing to this! you can't see them very well in this picture but she got me maternity skinny jeans and they are the BEST, so stretchy and so comfy! I love my mom :)

This is the cute diaper bag we scored from T.J.Maxx, well it's not actually a meant to be diaper bag but it's going to serve as a great one. I love it and it was a really good price, cheaper than any plain ugly real diaper bag you can find. 

 The fabric we scored at Porter's, are those not the cutest owls ever? AND the owls are the oh so very soft minkee fabric and the back is flannel. When we saw the awesome sale we couldn't resist this cute cute fabric...as you can tell I haven't quite sewn it together yet.

*She also got the cutest flannel for a blanket she's making me, which unfortunately means I don't have the fabric to take a picture. And some fabric for a 'nursing cover'*

Haha I love this shirt, and as my mom said "you have to have at least one shirt with a stupid saying on the front".  She actually brought this back for me from Arizona I think, maybe Utah. Just thought you might enjoy it too.

Once again how great is my mom? It's all I will ever need, okay maybe not quite but being poor college students it was a HUGE help. Now I will actually have clothes to wear during my pregnancy. Thanks again mom, love ya!!

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!

For my family March is like the Birthday month, and all within two weeks. So a quick happy birthday to my two sisters, my cute little niece, my handsome nephew, and of course my Joey :)

I think I'll just focus on my husbands birthday since it's the most important to me. And I think it's so sweet when people make a little list of good things and such. So here you go. And in case you didn't know his first name is actually Josiah, which I thought would be more fun to use.

J oyful

Joey is a very happy or joyful person. I love when he shares that joy with his cute little niece and nephew and they sure do love him too.

O riginal

I was having a tough time with "o" and when I thought original I still looked it up to see where I could go with that. One of my favorite definitions I found was: genuine and true. That's Joey for ya. He is a very genuine and true person. One way I think he displays this is how much love he has for his brothers and parents. When I see that I see genuine love.

S pecial

I thought this picture would show how "special" he was. Just kidding, it's just for laughs. He is special in the true meaning not sarcastic. There is no one else like my Joey, he is a very special person to me and to his family I'm sure. I love him and all that he has to offer. 

I ntelligent

This is the only picture I could find to portray intelligence. Reading means your intelligent right? Maybe not his chick slippers but hey. Again seriously he is very intelligent and he does well in school, I can always count on him to help me with things I don't understand.

A we-inspiring

I love this picture, even though it's from his high school wrestling days I still think it portrays how inspiring he is. He is a very dedicated person so when he sets his mind to something he will do it, whats more inspiring than that?

H andsome

Look at that handsome devil! Okay maybe I'm a little bias but you can't tell me he doesn't look handsome in that picture! He definitely got good looks, i mean just look at that smile! One of the many things I love about him.

One last thing I wanted to share, the cool cake that I made for him on his birthday!!!

Even though it's not really football season, he still loves the Seahawks!

This is my first fondant cake, I've been really wanting to learn how to work with fondant and what better excuse than my husbands birthday? I think it turned out pretty good, I could still use some practice.

A Very Happy Valentines Day

Why is this valentines day a very happy one? because the news is finally out...

We sent out Valentine cards to all our family and some friends.... 

This is the front of the card (And yes I made all of them by hand)

 And the news was on the inside....

Yes we are expecting! And no I didn't spill water all over this one, it was just a quick way for me to blur the words so you couldn't read the note on the inside. I know Kim, you could have done so much better :)

I am due August 24th, 2011. Which means I am just over 12 weeks along. And REALLY glad I made it though my first trimester with no throwing up! I did get nauseous, but that's okay with me as long as I don't have to throw up. I mostly got nauseous at night...morning sickness?? Sleep is what I want to do ALL the time, I sleep 9-10 hours at night and then come home from school and take a 2 hour nap. Food doesn't really sound good to me because I get annoyed that I always seem to be hungry but don't want to eat. And if I don't eat then I get nauseous. Of course there are times when something sounds really really good to me, but of course we never have it. Oh and I sneeze a lot, I'm just going to attribute it to my highly sensitive nose. So that's been my life for the last few months. I'll keep you updated!

It's time...

I have finally decided that it's time. It's time to stop procrastinating blogging because I will only get further behind. It's time to stop being one of those people that don't post for months on end (I never made fun of them...). And it's time to just forget that I have no Christmas pictures because I suck at taking pictures.

So here you are, we are back from the dead.

Christmas=awesome. I'm just going to say there was no time to take pictures because we were having too much fun. If you want a little tid bit and some cute pictures from the holidays here is the link to my sister's blog because she actually posted for the holidays.

OKAY...
we are now back in good old Rexburg Idaho. And yes it's freezing. We moved into a new complex, let's just say it's amazing how much stuff we can acquire for only being married 9 months...

This is our apartment when we moved in

Disgusting I know. Oh did you happen to notice the space heater in the kitchen? Yeah that's not ours. When we moved into our brand new apartment the temperature was at 36 degrees and the furnace was not working. But hey 36 is pretty worm considering it was in the negatives outside the week we moved in. But still very cold and not comfortable to live in. Warm bath anyone?

I do have to say I am so glad that our hot water was working just fine because the space heaters they brought over took a little while to heat up the whole place. We lived off of three space heaters for about four days before they fixed our furnace...and then the next morning we woke up to 60 degrees when the thermostat was set for 70. Yay for living off space heaters! No actually it wasn't too bad they came back and fixed it again and it's still holding strong. 

Well I was planning on posting after pictures too, because fortunately our apartment does not still look like this. But I haven't taken any yet and I don't want to spend the time tonight. I'm just proud that I finally did something on my blog again. So stay tuned for more on our new apartment. And hopefully a lot more frequent posts :)