Look! It’s those Posell’s

What is the best book you have ever read?  Chad asked me that the other day, and frankly I don’t think I can answer it.  I have been thinking about it since and still haven’t been able to pin down the best book I’ve ever read.  I love too many of them!  So if you can answer the difficult question, what is it?  I would love to know!

Go see the Lion King!  Tickets go on sale tomorrow for August at Capitol theater.  I wish that I had the money right now to go see it.  I saw it in California at the most awesome theater the Pantages.  It was so much fun and frankly mind blowing!  The pagentry is indescribable!!  Just a friendly recommendation, it’s totally worth it!!

Meet baby Jenna.  This is my little brother Brian’s little girl who was born yesterday.  I am in love with her already!  It is amazing how instantly she is a part of our family.  It is going to be so much fun for Marley to have a little cousin so close to her in age.  I can’t wait to go snuggle on her some more!!

We love the park!  I looked out the window Thursday and thought that we had to go to the park.  The sky was blue, and I didn’t know how long it would last.  I didn’t want to miss our oportunity!  I’m glad we did because it snowed the next day.

I have been dying to get outside with Marley.  I just know she is going to love it.  She loved every second of being outside and especially in the swing.  She even cried when we left.  A forshadowing of things to come I’m sure!  I can’t wait until we can go more often.  I have a feeling we will be spending a great deal of time at the park.

So I don’t do resolutions.  Do you?  I know there are so many things I would like to improve on or do, that it would be crazy to pick just one.  If I had to, my time management would be #1.  So since I don’t plan on actually setting a resolution, I do however have one thing that I will do in 2010.

I am going to set up an etsy store.  Well I actually have a store, but you won’t find anything there.  I need to get some pictures taken and the stuff listed.  I’m nervous.  I know people who do so well with their stores, and I want to do what I need to to get my name out there and market my product.  My main items will be my quilted bags and hair things.  I will also probably be selling a few wood crafts too, but those 3 main categories.

I would be so proud to sell my stuff.  I love my quilted bags and give them as gifts all the time.  I belive in that product, so hopefully I can do what it takes to sell them effectively.

So here’s to 2010 and a new very intimidating adventure!

This time, times two.  I have a Christmas outfit in the works for Marley, that actually involves sewing clothes together, but this is just a onsie with a tree on it.  I saw these trees here and thought they were cute when I saw them.

I saw the Be Merry fabric line in the store and knew I had to do something with it.  I just didn’t know what.  I didn’t have a ton of money to spend on a lot of fabric that I didn’t know what I was going to use it for, so I bought two fat quarters and decided I would make Marley a hairthing.

Then I got the bright idea to put one of these fun trees on a onsie.  I also got to thinking that I didn’t have a Christmas shirt right now, so I thought I woiuld make me a matching one.  I love these fabric flowers and I had made one before for Marley to go with her Thanksgiving shirt.  I like to wear them in my hair too, but I thought I would try something different for myself, so I made me one of these headbands (I made the narrow one).  It was so easy, and I love it.  I will be making more for sure!

Here’s a really crappy picture that I tried to take of us together (I don’t know how people do this and don’t look dumb, but oh well it serves a purpose).

 I love it.  I may be dorky, but I love that we match, we NEVER do, so one time is ok right?

So I am still coming to terms with the fact that my life has changed drastically since Marley joined our family.  Mostly in a good way, and that I accept and enjoy every day.  The harder stuff I am still working on.  Like time management.  You can ask most people who know me really well and they will tell you that is is a weakness of mine.  Well since Marley has come to reside in our home, my time management skills all but dissapeared, and throw in a job, now that is just a joke.

Most of the time it’s no big deal.  Unless I want to do something extracurricular.  Like anything at Christmas.  There are so many things that I want to do, and pretty much none of them have been done.  Heck my house isn’t even fully decorated.  At least we have a tree up and it is all decorated.  The train is even up and running.  But Christmas Cards…Forget about that!  I did take a picture for them though.

don’t even have all my shopping done.  Me.  I can’t believe it.  I never leave this stuff until the end, and now I will be joining the crazies (with a baby no less) to finish up my last couple of things. 

I always leave handmade gifts until the last minute.  It’s what I do.  What can I say, it’s a flaw, that sometimes puts some stress on my marriage.  (Chad HATES that I procrastinate.)  This year, though, it isn’t as much about procrastinating as having less time.  I am making Marley an outfit for Christmas, and people, the fabric is still folded from the store.  I at least know what I’m making, but I had better shake a leg.  Tonight is my last night of work until the day after Christmas, so tomorrow, barring any naptime fiasco, I will work on that major project.  I will complete it.  That is for sure!  I have to!

So here is to just enjoying Christmas.  I love this time of year, and having a kid makes it 1000 times better.  If Marley doesn’t have a fever tomorrow, we are going to see lights somewhere and I can’t wait!  And even though I know that she won’t really apreciate Christmas morning, I can’t wait to have her open her presents.  Being a mom is the best!

I worked last night.  The night of our Davis family Christmas party.  My parents wanted so badly to take Marley with them, and as it turns out, Chad got sick and needed some alone time, so my mom got her wish.  (Chad thinks she was praying for him to get sick).  I knew that Marley would be getting her picture taken with Santa so I dressed her up in a Christmas shirt and some red pants.  She looked so cute.  She needed a bow though and a flower wasn’t going to cut it.

I knew that I had seen a tutuorial somewhere for how to make bows (like you buy) from magazines.  I thought I would be able to make one out of ribbon using that tutuorial.  I was right.  Success! 

I used this tutorial, except my pieces were 7.5, 6.5, and 5.5.  For the middle I used two pieces instead of one and kind of staggered them.  I didn’t measure them, I just cut them to the size I thought looked good.  Instead of using staples and glue dots like the tutorial does, I just used a needle and thread and sewed all the pieces together as I went.  I love the way it turned out.  I used 1/4 inch ribbon and the bow is about 2.5 inches in diameter.  Once the bow was finished, I hot glued it to a aligator clip and voila!

Isn’t she cute!  First Santa picture.  Too bad I didn’t get to be there.

I’m participating in

So the U lost last week.  Too bad.  I wasn’t able to watch the game, but I have been informed many times that it was a good game.  My friend Katie posted this on her blog, but she is private so I can’t link to it so I copied it.  Face it it’s funny weather you are a UTE or a cat.

How the Hallch Stole the Show
By Barbara Jones Brown (of the “Y” alumni, and a current “U” student…who hopes that this poem proves to be prudent?)

Every Ute Up in U-ville
Liked Utah a lot . . .
But the Hallch,
Who lived just south of U-ville, Did NOT!

The Hallch hated Utah!
The whole football season!
Now, please don’t ask why.
No one quite knows the reason.

It could be the beer, dumped on his family one night.
It could be, perhaps, that his cleats were too tight.
But I think the most likely reason of all
May have been that his helmet was two sizes too small.

But, whatever the reason,
His helmet or his shoe,
He stood there on Thanksgiving,
hating the U.

Staring up from his valley with a sour, Hallchy frown
At the red-lighted windows above in their town.
For he knew every Ute up in U-ville above
Was busy now, donning their red coats and gloves.

“And they’re hanging their U-flags!” he snarled with a sneer.
“Saturday is game day! It’s practically here!”
Then he growled, with his Hallch fingers nervously drumming.
“I MUST find some way to stop U-spirit from coming!”

For, On Saturday, he knew . . . All the U girls and boys
Would wake bright and early, their hearts full of joys.
They’d rush for Cougar Stadium. And then! Oh, the Noise!
That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!

Then the Utes, young and old, would sit down (some with a beer),
And they’d cheer! And they’d cheer!And they’d CHEER! CHEER! CHEER! CHEER!
They would raise their U-banners, and posters, and signs,
Which was something the Hallch couldn’t stand to the nines!

And THEN They’d do something He liked least of all!
Every Ute down from U-ville, the tall and the small,
Would make a big fuss, with the U-band a-ringing.
They’d stand in the Muss, and the Utes would start singing!
They’d sing! And they’d sing!AND they’d SING! SING! SING! SING!

And the more the Hallch thought of this U-Fightsong-Sing,
The more the Hallch thought, “I must stop this whole thing!
“Why, for three years I’ve put up with it now!
“I MUST stop this U-spirit from coming!. . . But HOW?”

Then he got an idea! An awful idea!
THE HALLCH GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!
“I know just what to do!” The Hallch laughed in his throat.
As he put on his jersey, his cleats and Y-coat.
And he chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Hallchy trick!
“I’ll throw a game-winning pass, to the hands of Saint . . . George!”

Then he called his dog, Max (named after himself)
And told him a secret, like a jolly old elf:
“After the game, in a press-conference tome
“I’ll tell the U’s I hate them, then send them all home!”

Then the game went as planned!
And the press conference, too!
Then the Hallch, he stood waiting, looking up at the U.
“Pooh-Pooh to the Utes!” he was hallch-ish-ly humming.
“They’re finding out now that no glory is coming!“
They’re hearing me now! I know just what they’ll do!
“Their mouths will hang open a minute or two
“Then the Utes up in U-ville will all cry BOO-HOO!

“That’s a noise,” grinned the Hallch,
“That I simply MUST hear!”
So he paused. And the Hallch put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the Net.
It came loud and clear, and made his eyes wet.

Every Ute up in U-ville, the tall and the small,
Was rallying! Without any victory at all!
He HADN’T stopped U-spirit from coming!IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!

And the Hallch, with his hallch-feet too tight in his cleats
Stood puzzling and puzzling: “Even in their defeat?”
“It came without winning? It came without glory?
“It came without rankings, BCS bowls, or story?”
And he puzzled twelve hours, till his puzzler was aghast.
Then the Hallch thought of something he hadn’t thought of en mass.
“Maybe Utah,” he thought, “isn’t so crass.”
“Maybe Utah . . . perhaps . . . does have some class!”

And what happened then . . . ? Well . . . in U-ville they say
That the Hallch’s big headShrank three sizes that day!
And the minute his helmet didn’t feel quite so tight,
He released his apology in the bright morning light
And he remembered his sportsmanship! And love of the game!
And he . . . . . . HE HIMSELF . . . ! Said Sorry!….In Vain?

Marley has but one thing to say… GO UTES!!!