Finally a Post!

Yes it has been a very long time since I posted something, so on this random night that I could not sleep I thought, "hey I should finally post something.". Please be aware that it is one o'clock in the morning so if I don't make sense at any point blame it on that.
So updates: my friend that had me make her wedding jewelry picked out a simple chain of small pearls, crystals, and rose quarts, and had me put a pendant on it. Unfortunately out of the four necklaces I made it was the only one I didn't take a picture of. However she did say that she would try to get me one, and if she remembers I will post it.
Avah turned 3 on January 14th. She had tons of fun opening presents, eating cake and telling everyone "Happy Birthday!!" We started to potty train her last week and after the first couple of days she did really good. But this morning, just kidding yesterday morning, she insisted to be put in a diaper. so I did but I still kept asking her if she need to go. her most common answers were, "no, mommy, I done." or " Its stuck, mommy." She got candy land for Christmas and alphabet flashcards for her birthday which have both become her favorite games to play. In case you are wondering the flashcard game is me asking her what the letter is and getting really excited when she gets it right.
Sarah is getting really big really fast. at 8 months she was only eight pounds lighter than Avah. She is allot more adventurous than Avah was and gets into trouble the second you take your eyes of her. She took her first couple of steps yesterday. I have also discovered how adorable she looks with a half Mohawk thing.
Well I hate to abruptly end this exciting post but, I am falling asleep at the computer now. hopefully it wont take me so long to post again. I might even have pictures next time. keep your fingers crossed.

I am compleatly freaking out!

A friend at work has asked me to make her wedding jewelry and I am sooo panicked! She gave me a bracelet to base the designs off of, and so far I've made three of my ideas. I have also got two more ideas waiting to be made. The problem is that I keep freaking out with thoughts like, what if she doesn't like any of them, or what if she says she likes them but doesn't really and wears it so she doesn't hurt my feelings. I am so panicked I can't think of anything else. I really want this to go good. Cross your fingers that she'll fall in love with something I do.

Halloween week

We started the week off by carving pumpkins. We lit them up every night to scare away any ghosts that were out there. We then spent the rest of the week planing what we were going to do on Halloween day.(I know exciting)

Then the day came!

We dressed Avah as a clown and Sarah as the devil she is(j/k). Andy was batman again and I was just a fairy. When I got home form work we went to the trunk-or-treat. Avah had a ton of fun and got just as much candy. We then went home made homemade pizza and watched the Nightmare Before Christmas. Avah, who was allowed to eat as much candy as she wanted after her dinner, was the only one who stayed awake through the entire movie. All-in-all a good Halloween. (don't worry the as much candy as she wanted was a one time thing. I don't want her to have another sugar rush like that.)

The dog we had for a couple of days.

I was on my way out to go somewhere when I ran into my neighbor who had this dog following him. As soon as the dog saw Avah they started to ply together. My neighbor asked if it was my dog, when I said no he said he would call around and see if it belong to on of our other neighbors. Me and Andy decided that since Avah was having so much fun playing with him we would watch him until we found the owners. He had a collar but no tag and he was filthy and hungry so we wondered if we would find the owners. but a couple of days later after I had gone to work and before Andy got home someone had gone into our backyard and got him. I still need to confirm with the neighbor that it was the owner that came and got him, but I can't think of any other reason anyone would want to go into our backyard. I was slightly sad to hear from Andy that he was gone, he was a very well behaved dog and he was very patient with Avah who liked to pick him up by his fur, but I'm glad he back with his owners(hopefully).

Updates!!!

So labor day weekend was my second attempt at selling my jewelry, and while I didn't do as well as I thought I would I still did about three times better than I did last year. Needless to say I'm encouraged enough to try again. I also learned alot from Lindsee(one of the girls I did the booth with.). We also "rented" our booth to a lady that wanted to sell her hair flowers, and to be honest she was annoying and lazy. All we charged her was a third of the booth money, but we should have charged for labor too. Saturday she dropped off her stuff left and then came back when it was time to close for the night. Lindsee had to keep track of her money and we both had to help the costumers. Of course she didn't leave any bags for us to use so we had to use our own(only when people asked, we didn't want any negative feelings from customers). And when she was there she had Lindsee set aside about a hundred dollars worth of her jewelery because she couldn't decide on a necklace, I only had to set aside about five dollars worth. She didn't help her costumers, all she would do is talked to Lindsee. She turn her chair so that her back was to me and Lindsee couldn't get around her, so for a little while I was taking money for both of them. Lindsee felt bad and told me that if I wanted to walk around and check stuff out she would watch my stuff for me. The other girl(I can't remember her name) left around five to "feed her family" and then showed up again when it was time to take everything down, about nine(apparently it takes a long time to feed the family a pizza that she called a half hour ahead on.) Other than that it went pretty good I made a bit of profit, and learned what I need to improve on. I'm encouraged enough to want to do one around Christmas.

Now for a Sarah update...Sarah just had her four month appointment the other day. She is five months now but her doctor was on holiday and the I forgot about it and had to set up another one. Any way she is 18lbs. and 26in. long. Her doctor said that she is the size of about an 8month old. He was also surprised to see that she has her first two teeth. So she is a big healthy giant who is all smiles and drool. She will also only laugh for Avah. I have tried being as silly as Avah to get Sarah to laugh but I guess I just can't do it right. I have a video of it on my phone and if I can get Andy to help me I'll post it so you can see how funny and adorable it is.

Now for an Avah update...Avah hasn't had a doctors appointment recently(not for the lack of trying, she was so upset when she found out the doctor was going to look at Sarah and not her.) but she is growing like a weed! Her talking improves everyday. she can now tell me what she wants as long as she isn't upset, which makes things easier. Most of the time she is an awesome big sister. she loves dogs right now, probably because she has seen alot lately. I love how polite she is most of the time. She is turning into such a cute kid.

Sarah pictures!

Sarah was so happy yesterday I just couldn't stop taking pictures of her.

She isn't as comfortable around the camera as Avah was at that age,

but I still got some good ones.

Oh how I love her cheeks! I always want to pinch or kiss them.

Isn't she so adorable?! I can't believe what cute kids I have!


This one is my favorite. Her smile is just so big. She is definitely one happy baby.

P.S. I cut my hair. I just couldn't handle how long it was. It is now just above my shoulders. I don't like the way it looks, but its nice not having to move my hair when I sit down so I don't pull it. I didn't donate it to locks of love. I should have but I forgot to say something to the girl cutting it. It was a lot of hair too, I didn't realize how much I was cutting off until I saw it on the floor.

funny story

The other day Sarah was spitting up a lot, and Andy kept using his socks to clean it up. He had gone through three pairs and I was always the one who picked them up off the floor. So when I had him feed Sarah I handed him a burp cloth and told him it was so he didn't have to use his socks again. His response was "what if I do." So to show my annoyance I said, "My plot to kill you will come increasingly closer." Finding it funny he asked, "Does it involve a cliff?" Being a little more annoyed with his answer I said, "No, but it involves socks!" I was not expecting the roar of laughter that followed. I mean he was laughing hard and loud, which just made me laugh. Andy found it so funny he submitted the story to Readers Digest. We are still waiting to hear if they are going to use it, and I am still plotting death by socks. I am sure I will post any developments with either situation.