Pirate Dolls

On May 1st, Jovi's preschool is having a family picnic and silent auction as a fundraiser for the preschool. The whole picnic is pirate themed. They asked for donations for the the silent auction so I made three pirate dolls. Hopefully the will find good homes on Saturday. All their accessories are removable.



I'm thinking about selling a few of these. They are a Bit of Whimsy pattern and she sells ready made dolls and patterns HERE. I have two more pirate dolls, a girl with red hair and a boy with black hair. I could also make plain dolls or dolls with matching kid clothes. You could choose skin, hair, eye and clothing color. I'm thinking about selling plain ones, like the one I made for Corbin (below) for $25 and dolls with accessories or matching kid clothes would be more. Email me if you are interested and we can talk about the perfect set for you.

New Blog

I started a new blog. It is more of a personal, about me journal than this one. It's proabbly be pretty boring, really, but if you would like to read it you can check it out HERE.

More Bunnies

A week ago we were working in our very small garden (we have three 2 foot squares). While I was adding some compost to the strawberries I noticed a hole in the dirt near the corner of the box. I investigated further, lots of grass and rabbit fur. I pulled it back and found five, yes FIVE, baby bunnies. Their eyes were open, but they were only the size of hamsters, smaller than our last set of bunnies. Unfortunately they were crushing my strawberry plants so I felt we needed to move them. Juan dug a burrow for them nearby and we all had fun moving the bunnies to their new home. I tried to get a picture of all of them, but it proved impossible, they were fast.








That night we saw mommy bunny come. We had a great view from our master bedroom windows into the yard. She was recognizably confused. It was as if she was saying where are my babies?!?! I was really worried that she wouldn't find them and thought about moving them back even if it hurt the strawberries, but by the morning she had obviously found them. Unless someone came into the yard she sat near the new burrow watching over her babies. We checked on them once each day and I am truly amazed at how fast they grew. By Friday they were a little bigger than the other bunnies we found and by Saturday they were gone.

Catching Up

It's been a while since I've posted. This month we've been sick a lot, but have had some fun and exciting times too. Juan took off Friday the 16th and we went to the farmer's market and the Dallas science place. It was a lot of fun, but the bottom level of the museum, the part made for kids 6 and under was super crowded with a bunch of school groups. Friday is apparently field trip day. I recommend going on a different day. They had a light exhibit that the kids really enjoyed in the nature museum, or as Juan calls it, the stuffed zoo. Here are some pictures in front of the nature museum.



Jovi is growing up. Sunday, the 18th Jovi gave her first talk in primary. She talked about Joseph Smith's first vision. We practiced with her a bunch at home and she said she wanted to do it without our help, so on Sunday she stood up all by herself and gave her 2 minute talk and did a great job. That night she lost her first tooth. We had noticed that it was loose only the day before. After her bath I was just trying to see how loose it was and out it popped. She was so excited. I made her a super quick felt tooth pillow so she would have a place to put her tooth for the tooth fairy. The next morning she found a half dollar and a Sacajawea dollar. I've gotta say that there has been some hefty inflation on baby teeth since I was little and got a quarter for my first tooth. As you can see, Jovi was pleased.



Corbin is getting bigger too. He talks all the time, mostly in correct sentences. He wants to do everything Jovi does and it is a good thing he is super cute because he is two year old Trouble, if something can break or spill he is sure to do it. We went and saw How to Train Your Dragon earlier this month and Corbin loved it. He switched between sitting on his seat, my lap and Juan's lap the whole time, but stayed relatively quiet and very interested in the movie. He talked about the movie the whole week afterwards. He is very into TV and movies right now and wants the TV on all the time. I'm planning a TV free week next week I will try and post about how well that goes.

Easter Bunnies

Let me warn you, this story starts out sad. Last Saturday Juan and I decided to work on our neglected yard. I mowed our two foot high weed patch in the back yard along with the rest of the yard and then Juan went around weedwacking. Well, while Juan was weedwacking he found that we had a family of baby bunnies living in our yard. One had come out of the burrow and was hiding in a weed patch near our fence. Juan felt so bad when he found out, it was too late for that bunny, but he was extra careful the rest of the time and found another bunny near the fence and their burrow with two more bunnies in it. These bunnies were about the size of large hamsters, they were old enough to have their eyes open and be venturing out, but not old enough to run from us humans. The bunny in the first photo what the second one Juan found and he just sat there the whole time Juan was weedwacking the yard. When he was done, he came in and showed me and I took the kids out to look at the adorable bunny. He let us come right up to him and then Corbin bent down and picked him up, ack! I took him away and said we would put him back in his burrow with his brothers, but before we did I let Jovi hold him. She wanted a picture to commemorate the event.




Here is a picture of all of them in their burrow.


Sunday evening mama bunny came around. (Look hard, she blends well with the grass)


Monday morning we had an empty burrow. We think mama bunny moved her babies away from our prying eyes, but it was so cool to see our back yard bunny family for the two days we knew they were there.

On Friday, 3/26 we went to our first Easter egg hunt held by Frisco at Pizza Hut Park. It was ok, nothing special except they had "healthy" snacks for the 2 and under crowd like cereal and animal crackers instead of candy Corbin barely grabbed anything because he was looking for the candy.




Last night we went to our next Easter egg hunt. On Sunday, sitting next to our Sacrament Bulletin (which was on a chair in the chapel) was a flier for an egg hunt at a Frisco park. I was excited, what a fun ward activity, so fast forward to Friday. My parents come over, we go to the park and see all these people from 5th ward out there (we used to be part of 5th ward till it split and now are part of 7th ward). Well, maybe it was a stake activity? No, no it was the 5th ward's activity and we crashed it. I was so embarrassed. None of the few people who were our friends were there either so it was just a bunch of people we kind of knew, but there was no way to explain that to the kids who had been looking forward to an egg hunt all day. I don't think anyone cared, but it was very embarrassing.

Juan and my mom went with Jovi to hunt eggs in her age group and I went with my dad and Corbin to his egg hunt. He was SO funny. He would pick up an egg, open it, make sure there was candy in it and THEN put it in his basket. He did it for every egg he picked up and then after the hunt was over, he threw out the plastic eggs and just kept the candy in his basket. He was very sure about what he wanted.



Happy Easter everyone!