Ixer's Insights
Monday, November 12, 2012
2012: Year of the slacker
It has been a crazy year. I have been a complete blog slacker. That is all. Maybe as the year comes to a close and a new adventure begins for our family I will be less of a slacker.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Dinosaur Resource Center
On the drive up we passed the Cave of the Winds and the Cave Dwellings. Shaden saw a bit of the cave dwellings and got excited about the "houses in the rocks," so I think we might have to take a day and see those.
Monday, April 09, 2012
Easter 2012
On Sunday we went to church before having any Easter candy, but you would have thought the boys had a bucket of it before hand. Shaden was bouncing off the walls in anticipation. Our Sacrament meeting was wonderful. The youth sang a beautiful song at the beginning that brought tears to my eyes.
After church we went up to my parents' house and the Easter Bunny brought baskets filled with toys and candy. Both boys got Leappads and eggs filled with candy. The Easter Bunny was thinking of my sanity when deciding to give them the Leappads. Shaden and Jayce keep stealing my iphone to play the games on it. Then I have a hard time finding it when I need it. Now they have their own cool thing with games (and I don't have to worry that they are going to be trying to buy stuff or delete things).
I'm really impressed with the Leappad. Shaden actually gets excited to use a pen (stylus) to write letters on it. That is a big win!
We also dyed eggs and tried to tattoo them. I wouldn't recommend tattooing already colored eggs... all the dye kept running off and on to my hands.
The sun was shining and we had dinner outside on the deck. It was a very nice day.
Monday, February 06, 2012
Jayce's i-spy quilt
I finally finished Jayce's i-spy quilt!
It took me longer than I wanted but I finished.
I'm still learning all the tricks to quilting and that means my seam ripper is used quite a lot.
The design for the quilt was inspired by Jeni from In Color Order. She made this beautiful plus quilt and I thought it would be fun for an i-spy quilt.
Here is Jayce's (finished) i-spy quilt:
It is a twin size quilt.
Here is the top of the back.
I used the blue dots from the front and the stripes from the binding for the 3 big plus signs.
Here's a shot of the back, binding, and front.
Here is Jayce with his new blanket.
Jayce and Shaden love playing i-spy with their blankets! Yay!
Monday, January 30, 2012
T-shirt Scarves
Another cool idea I found on pinterest is changing a old t-shirt into a scarf/necklace.
You take the t-shirt and cut the body of the shirt into strips about 1inch thick. Then stretch the loops you now have. Then you can wear them in different ways. Here are the two I chose.
I wrapped another part of the shirt around the seams.
These are for me, but it is easier (and cuter) if I have my boys model them for me.
You can wear it long.
Or doubled and short.
I love this face.
Here I took the big loops and wrapped them around my hand then tied them together.
This is doubled. It is really long if not doubled.
You could make it smaller by leaving out some of the loops.
This is Shaden being Shaden.
Now to figure out what to wear these with... hmm.
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