Restoring honor in DC

This past week we went on vacation to Washington D.C. for Justin's b-day!  If you don't know - Justin loves Glen Beck, and when we heard there was a rally in D.C. I knew he had to go.  Thanks to Justin's parents who so kindly bought our plane tickets and accompanied us, we had a blast.  There were way more than a half-million people there. It was incredible!  We happened to stay in a super sweet hotel not to far from the White House and all other major memorials including Jefferson and Lincoln.  The day before the rally we went to check out Lincoln memorial where the event was being held and we happened to be right there crossing paths with Glen and his aunt-rouge . Justin's dad got to shake his had.  We were super jealous. 

Justin helping {k} cool off.  He loves this picture because it looks like he is peeing.  Such a guy thing, such a dad!

There were Sooooo many people there, everyone so kind and nice.

Happy Birthday Justin!  You are so loved....

Emergency Tooth Fairy needs help

EMERGENCY

That is what Justin saw in his txt from me this morning at O a 6:30am (He is working graves and should have been home at 6).  Kyle came in my bed room and was super sad.  "Mom, something really bad happened. Pause. The tooth fairy didn't come and my tooth is still under my pillow."   mom (in my head):  AHHH CRAP!  So I had him climb in my bed and convinced him that it is technically night time, and that he/she is still probably making the rounds.  I turned my phone on silent and quickly txt'd Justin the above message. Luckily Kade was in bed with me and was fusing, so I told Kyle I would be back, I was going to put Kade back to bed - right!  So then I frantically try to hide the tooth (it was in a baggy so tooth fairy could find it.-don't you find that funny) and then tried find a dollar.  Couldn't find one, so I stole a dollar out of Kyle's own piggy bank.  Now how bad of a mom am I?  Really. I went back into bed, then seconds later Justin comes haulin' in the door trying to find money.  We are a joke...  Heaven help me on the next 14 teeth or however many there are!

Blueberry cake bars

Blueberry Cake Bars
1 package yellow cake mix
2 sticks of butter, melted
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups of fresh blueberries
1/2 cup sugar

Place first 6 ingredients in bowl and mix thoroughly. Reserve 1 1/2 cups of this mixture for the topping and set aside. Pour remaining batter into a greased 9x13 pan. Press into bottom of pan. Place blueberries and sugar in bowl to combine. Pour onto the crust. Scatter pieces of reserved crust mixture over top. Bake at 350 until light brown about 40-45 minutes. Cool on wire rack.


I found this recipe on Little Birdie Secrets, it looked so yummy.  Luckily for me, I still have blueberries from bountiful baskets, so I decided to give it a try.  Definitely recommend it, however I used a pineapple cake mix instead and boy was it sweet. Next time I'll just stick with recipe!

Nursing hats

Tonight I was searching the internet for nursing covers - making sure my idea is still on fore front!  This is what I found.  Sure by me posting this I moving them up in the Google world, but really you have see this nursing hat!

  Why didn't I think of that?

Swatches

I have been super busy lately. I am now an official business owner, known by our dear government federal and state alike. Now that I have a tax ID #  I get to order fabric at whole sale! YIPEEE.  My favorite designer is Heather Bailey  I will be doing a post on her down the road.  Any how, I love her bright patterns and I will mainly be choosing her fabric for my covers. Do you like?

 Crazy swatches can't get them to move where I want them .ugh.

Ain't nothin' but a hound dog

 SOLD!

Guess what the wind blew in and the wife blew out?  Ranger - our new hound dog as of Wednesday night.  Guess who we sold tonight (Sunday)? Ranger!  Justin did it again...  Last summer Justin got "Buddy" Satan's span.  After several months of large stinky poop, our yard almost in ruin (the list goes on) we got rid of him.  This summer we he went for a cute cuddly puppy.  I must admit he was super cute and fun.  Until night time and then the switch flipped.  This little yaper yaps all night. I'm not kidding- I have eye bags to prove it.  We researched teaching dogs not bark. It suggested spraying the face with water.  So at 2 in the morning I finally grabbed a cup and was throwing water on it, but then it started drinking it... not my initial intention!  This morning Ranger found himself on KSL and who can resist.  Sleep tight ______. Hope you are glad you bought him come morning.  I know I will sleep tight - Sucker! 
(Side note:  I have a commitment from J-dawg that we are not ever going to have another dog while we are in this house.  You are my witness blogger.)

In honor of Ranger

Baby Booties and baby

These soft baby booties are my so cute.  My friend Caitlin is making these soft little shoes for our munchkins.  So cute!