Sleep, bows, and Winnie cuteness

I actually got all of my 500 photos edited and cut back to 143 (not too bad), so now I can share them with you!

I won't bombard you with all 143. In fact, I won't even get into the holiday photos yet. I'll just share some random shots and facts with you and then the next post I'll get into our Christmas and traveling photos.

This is my favorite time of day for Eden:



Lately she has decided that it is impossible to fall asleep or remain asleep in her bed and has migrated semi-permanently to mine. While this is not my favorite thing in the world, at least I have a king size bed and since Kevin is gone, I still have plenty of room (most of the time). Maybe it's just a temporary phase based on Kevin being gone? Please? Pretty please?

She is currently very into bows, tutus, skirts, and dresses. She changes clothes about 10 times a day. I wish I were exaggerating. Alas, my laundry pile and her dresser drawers tell otherwise.



Can anyone say diva?



For Thanksgiving, I hosted my mom and stepdad and the two sister missionaries from our church. It was a nice, quiet (ish -- you can't have a completely quiet meal with Winnie present) evening.

*For some reason the flickr link isn't working...Stand by for repairs.*


This is Winnie's nursery picture from church. That tongue, those pigtails -- I die.



We were very lucky to have Kevin come home on the first available flight. He landed, got a taxi, rented a car, and drove all night to get to our house at 7:00 in the morning. He woke me from a dead sleep and I was so disoriented that I just asked him what he was doing here. (I'm not coherent when I'm tired.)



The girls had a blast with Kevin while he was here. We celebrated by dressing up:



Daddy's boots and Sister's underwear as headgear: I'm thinking of calling Project Runway as we speak. And you can't miss Eden hamming it up in my boots.

We all went to the lights at the zoo and got to ride the train. I think the girls were a little underwhelmed, but at least they always enjoy a train ride.

Testing photobucket - i hate flickr

So that's all I'll share today. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

2014: Let's do this thang.

Happy 2014, everyone!

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have taken 500 (not an exaggeration) photos during the several weeks Kevin was home for Christmas so I will be posting those...this year. (Don't want to get your hopes up that it'll get done any time soon.)

I have about 15 bags/boxes that I still have to unpack (again, not an exaggeration) from our trip from which I just returned last night so maybe when that gets done in a month or two (maybe a slight exaggeration), I can get back to normal life. Including posting photos.

I still haven't unloaded the trailer (yes, I had so much stuff to bring home from SC and NC and VA, that I had to put it all in a trailer AND the back of my van was filled. Where does it all come from??) The stuff on it has been bravely enduring the frigid night air. Only one more night of that (hopefully).

Anyway, I'm going to try to do better about posting regularly (same empty promise, yes, sorry).

Toodles and love!

P.S. Just curious about how many people are keeping up with my blog. Would you mind leaving a comment and telling me that you don't mind my random ramblings and too many photos of my kids? (Shout out to Anonymous [love you, Dad], Kelsey, and Julia who always leave comments!)

P.P.S. Mayumi, 1. My instagram feed is eclawracy. What's yours? 2. You may call me Cameron now. :) and 3. Miss you!!

P.P.P.S. Colette, I did make Winnie's Halloween outfit as well, including the hat. I made it for Eden when she was 18 months old. Gotta love hand-me-downs.

Halloween...better 2 months late than never

This blog thing is just not working out right now. Instagram is killing my blogging. So much easier to upload a quick photo from my phone with a one-sentence caption rather than devoting 10 minutes to blogger.

BUT

I will continue to blog. I love it. I blogged before blogging was cool. So I'll keep going.

Anyway...

Here's what our Halloween looked like (I guess I'll post about Thanksgiving around Valentine's Day and about Christmas around July 4th...).

It was warmish, so we got to play outside some.



Here's my monkey climbing and goofing off.



At our church, we went to Trunk or Treat and I decorated my car like a big giant open mouth. It was awesome, if I do say so myself. Thank you, Pinterest, for the inspiration.



Here's what my girls dressed up as:



Eden was Princess Thomas the Tank Engine and Winnie was a witch that I sewed up a couple of years ago for Eden. Eden even got to wear Mommy's make-up. Ooo la la.

And Winnie wasn't the happiest posing for photos, but Eden doggedly held on like a big sister and did not let Winnie escape.

When Eden told me she wanted to be Thomas for Halloween, I decided she needed to be a girl version of Thomas. So after scouting Pinterest and googling "Girl Thomas costume" I decided to make my own. I got a regular t-shirt and some felt, freehanded a picture of Thomas's face onto some tracing paper then cut felt pieces to fit all his facial features and appliquéd Thomas's face to the shirt. (Sorry, that was probably way more than you wanted to know.) Then I made the skirt, cape, and boiler hat to go along with it. She was happy. So was I.





Overall, it was a great Halloween season, so to speak. We got to use the costumes several times and attend multiple Halloween functions so we had a blast.

On a separate note, Kevin is trying to come home for Christmas so he will try to get on a plane on Friday (this coming Friday) to come home and stay till Dec. 30. Cross your fingers that there is a seat with his name on it on the flight!

Small Hello

Hello.

I'm still here.

Haven't forgotten about part 2 of the Halloween plans. Maybe I'll get that posted by 2014? Maybe?

Who knows?

It's just been very busy around here lately.

Pardon my negligence.

Here is something I've been working on (i.e. the shirts) as part of all the busyness.



And this:



I promise an update soon...ish...sorta.

Toodles!