Jesse's 6th Birthday Party!

My grandson Jesse turned 6 on Friday

and so we went to Chuckie Cheese yesterday to celebrate.

 

Here's the birthday boy!

 

and here's some of the guests

 

 Ezie (he used to LOVE Barney) and my grandsons Mason and Trenton

 

 My grandsons Jesse and Jordan and my Jace

 

 Jace

 

and Jesse with his Rainbow fish pillow that I crocheted for him.

 

and another photo of the fish.

 

Happy Birthday Jesse!!!



Viv's Jr. Prom

My second oldest granddaughter went to her Jr. Prom on Saturday.

I can't believe that she's that old already.

I remember when her mom and dad went to their Sr. Prom.

 

Anyway,

here are some pictures of my beautiful granddaughter.

 

 

and here's a picture of her with her sister and brother, Liv and Jesse.

 

 

and then Fatima, Vivianna, Jesse and little Jesse

 

 

I think Jesse and Fatima have 3 great kids!!



A Wedding is in Our Family's Future!!

My son Jesse and daughter-in-law Fatima

are officially getting married in Sept.!!

 

Jesse and Fatima have been together for 19 years and have 3 kiddo's.

 

I went to watch her try on dresses,

with not much success,

but I was entertained by my 5 year old grandson Jesse.

 

 

 

Jesse is so darned cute!

He just kept giggling and giggling.

Jesse wants me to wear a rainbow wig, a rainbow dress

a red nose and paint my face white for the wedding.

That would be funny huh?!?!?

 

I also caught him peaking up a maniquins dress.

Hee!  Hee!

 

I had fun with the grandkids and I can't wait to see which dress Fatima picks!!

A Birthday and A Blast from the Past!

Saturday my 9th grandbaby, Jesse, turned one. I can't believe how fast the year went by! I made these two little bags for him and some shapes and matching squares to put in them.



I also made this hat for my nephew, Levi, who collects hats. Levi is having a birthday soon and my sister wanted a hat similiar to the one our Grandma had made for us out of Beer Cans back in the 70's. Remember those? The hat was easy to make and I think it turned out pretty cute.

I've also been working on my swaps and can't wait to share some pictures of the things I've been making for those. I need to go sew some more and finish up the rest of the, way to many, swaps I joined.

Also if you can please include my Dad in your prayers and send any healing thought towards him in Kansas I would really appreciate it.

Have a wonderful and productive day!!!!

Finally!

I'm finally all caught up with my swaps...I'm doing backflips...actually I could never even do a cartwheel....but in my head I'm doing backflips. I only have one more swap to finish and it's an apron so that won't be bad at all!!

I'm throwing in the newest pictures of my 2 youngest grandson's, Chad, Jr. is 9 months and Little Jesse is 4 months.

Aren't they adorable?!?!?

I got the Mallory's Halloween costume done and cut the bottom off of Ezie's, so they're set now. I am going to start on 2 tote bags for someone who has been very patient with me and I also have a friend from back home who has requested me to make an Annie doll. I crocheted a hat for one of my nieces yesterday and started one for another niece. I even got some of the house cleaned up yesterday......you can actually see the rug in the living room and the laundry that has been sitting here for 2 weeks is put away. Whoo-Hoo!! I'm doing backflips in my head again!!






and finally.....I'll have some time to visit and catch up with my blogger friends!! Yay!!

I'm not sure that Little Jesse is into the whole costume thing, but Chad, Jr. is the smilingest little guy!

Have a great day!!

A Busy Weekend

We had a pretty busy weekend. Earl and I watched our grand daughters from Thursday night until yesterday afternoon. All of the kids were so good! Here are some pictures I thought I'd share of our weekend.

My son Jeremy and his girlfriend Amanda took me to the hospital to see little Jesse. This is a picture of Jesse and his momma, Fatima.

Here is me with Jesse
(You won't see many pictures of me on my blog, don't laugh!)

My two grand daughters and my three having fun in the sprinkler.

Papa being sneaky with the hose

He's so onrey!

Little Austin had fun in the little pool.

and finally the toads that the kids played with all weekend.

They finally did set them free yesterday afternoon.

We had a busy, but fun weekend! It was nice to have the grand daughters, but just as nice when they left! It seems like I had dirty cups and freeze pop wrappers everywhere. After the girls left Mallory was back over the neighbors house, Ezie had a friend over, Earl had to work and I did some weeding in my flower gardens.

I hope everyone else had a great weekend!

Annie Dolls and a Picture of Our New Little Doll

I've never made a doll before, but I have always wanted to, so when I saw Aunt Pitty Pat's Sugar and Spice Annie Doll Swap I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm so glad I did! I found out that Marcel (Aunt Pitty Pat) is from my home town, Wichita, Kansas and I met a wonderful new friend through this swap, my partner, Valerie. Valerie had never made a doll before either so this was a tense but exciting swap for both of us!

This is the cute little doll that Valerie made for me. She is so cute!!! Her dress has beehives on it and then the little apron has a dragonfly button sewn on. Her red hair is pulled back on the top and tied with a ribbon. She is so cute!! I love her big eyes too!



Val also sent me a kit to make a different doll and a pincushion out of my all time favorite cowboy fabric. Val's 14 year old grand daughter has caught the Annie bug and is making her own doll. I can't wait to see it when she's done!

This is the doll that I made for Val. I wasn't to sure about the hair so I decided to put it up in rag curls and then made a nightie and a robe for her. I tea stained her and decided she was to dark so I put her in the washing machine (not really the best idea on retrospect!) and then I had to redo some of the paint on her face and all of her rag curls. Her neck got a little crease in it from washing her, but all in all I was happy with her.

Then my Ezie was home sick one day and I was working on Val's doll. He wanted me to make him a doll and I told him later after I finished this one I would try to make a boy doll. Then Ezie comes out of my craft room with some WWE fabric that I had bought to make him a pillowcase and had an idea for me to make a boy doll for him. He said he would stuff it if I would sew it for him. How could I resist?? So this is not the cutest doll, but Ezie loves it and who am I to discourage creativity?!?!?

I hope Triple H doesn't mind being made into a rag doll!

This is the newest Grand baby, Jesse II with my son, Jesse

I've had my grand daughters since Thursday night. Last night at 9:00 my two, the neighbor girl and my grand daughters had a picnic in the driveway. They were outside or on the computer playing all day yesterday and we only had one or two little spats. Not to bad!

Thanks Marcel for hosting the Annie Swap and encouraging me to join and thanks Val for the cutest little Annie doll!! I really love her!

The Shower's Over, Now Just Waiting on the Baby!

Yesterday we had a shower for my daughter-in-law, Fatima. It was a family type shower, my kids and some of their friends families. It went well and they received some really nice things for Jesse, II.

The kids LOVED the chocolate fountain and making their own fruit kabobs!!

My daughter, Lexie and her friend Amber, made the little train to put on the cake.

Good Job Lexie and Amber!!

Lexie and Amber also made little trains out of different kinds of chocolate for the party favors.

I made candy cups with little engineers stuck into them.

This is the little engineer we used for the invitations and for some of the decorations.

This is the whole train we used for a decoration. I laminated it gave it to Fatima to use in the baby's room for a decoration.

and this is Jesse and Fatima with baby #3 due in 28 days.