Injury day at school

Ok, so you have to admit that these pictures look real don't they? Well, thankfully they aren't although the cast Josiah has on was really his when he was about 4 years old. It was injury day at school and of course Josiah LOVES dressing up for those events during Homecoming week at school.

Just had to share it with you cuz I think its hilarious! And yes, people really thought he had a black eye! (look what eyeshadow and eye liner can do!)

the knifty knitter

isn't amazing what a "knifty knitter" from walmart can do?! I've the 2 colors - sandstone and soft pink in my drawer for the past year wanting to make a scarf out of them but never got it started. This was until a couple weeks ago when my co-worker came in wearing a scarf that her 11 year old daughter made her. Granted it wasn't with this fun fur that I had, but still. So, long story short, Kaylee is still in the process of making me a scarf with more fun fur (soft pink and confetti), but in the meantime, I bought myself the knifty knitter and more yarn of course and made this scarf! :) Now, you can't see it from the picture, but I need to work on my ends. The instructions showed you how to knit a hat, but not a scarf, so the ends are different. And with the fun fur, that crazy stuff gets tangled up so easily so my ends aren't the greatest, but this was my first scarf so the mistakes will be on this one.

Josiah has already put his order in for a "bee" scarf (black and yellow - he probably chose these colors cuz we've seen the Bee movie quite a bit lately!). Isaac hasn't said anything about a scarf yet, but I'm sure he'd take one if I offered it to him.

For now I'm impressed with myself that I was able to do this cuz if you know me at all, I am not a crafty type of person and I envy those who are. That was a gene I missed out on! Oh yeah, it took me one week to do this too, which I didn't think was so bad considering that I only spent about 5 hours on it.

My new Niece and little nephew!

Josiah and baby April - aren't they cute!!! After holding her, he made it known that he wanted to have a baby sister. Well, we all know that all dreams don't come true!
Cody and I - he was being so goofy and we could not get a good picture of him and I so we finally gave up!
Baby April and I - isn't she cute?! I held her practically the whole time! - it was my first seeing her!
Cody being goofy!
Josiah and April again. She eventually fell asleep on his lap!

We had so much fun with these guys yesterday! It was so much fun finally getting to see April who just turned one month old on Sat., Oct. 4th. Cody, is almost 22 months old and is just a little nut! he's talking so much and loves to play. He had us laughing so good when we were trying to take his picture and he moves so fast that I bet I took about 10 pictures of him before I finally got his full face in a picture! He is just a little goober! He can say just about any word you ask him too and he LOVES Thomas the train! Did I say that he loves Thomas the train? Whenever a movie comes on with Thomas in it, he sits very seriously in front of the tv to watch it! too cute!

As for Isaac in all of this? Well, he was there, but he chose not to hold April (maybe he was too afraid he would like her and want to have another sibling? he's told us before that he doesnt' want anymore siblings for fear they would be like Josiah!)

Challenger No. 3985

Ok, so the pictures didnt' turn out the greatest. It was getting too dark outside and with the train being all black - you figure it out! :) But this train was really cool - you'll have to see the link I posted about the train.

http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/media_kit/steam/3985/index.shtml