Recovering my car seat and stroller

I got a crazy itch to recover the car seat and stroller that we have had since Raegan....what was I thinking?! I was thinking Raegan is now 7 and 3 kids later, it is time for an upgrade. But I didn't want to buy a new one, so I saw a post online about recovering the carseat and enlisted the help of my mom and grandma when they were here. What a great help they were!! It was easy with them and it turned out great! They left and I had to do the stroller on my own (scary)....it wasn't too bad. I did have a friend come and help me unpick and just make sure I was doing it correctly so I didn't have an unneccessary unpicking to do. Sometimes my sewing foot gets ahead of reason and functionalitity ;(


The stroller was going great until my machine broke (boo!) and it would cost more to fix it then buy another one~ So in an effort to save all this money of buying a new stroller, I ended up buying a new sewing machine. I upgraded a little and this one seems fun. So I did finally finish and everything seems to work correctly. I am proud of myself for doing it, but also exhausted from having to put it back together~Good night!

Before

(Look how dirty and gross it is!) That is after it was washedAfter~

I do have to say I liked the fabric better when it was on the bolt and when I finished it wasn't my favorite, but I wasn't going to start over and it was better than when I started ;)))

Space Shuttle and Jellyfish at the Beach!

Here are some pictures from our trip to Canaveral National Seashore today, which is actually part of the nature preserve portion of Kennedy Space Center. Although you can barely see it in the background of the family picture, Space Shuttle Atlantis has been rolled out to the launch pad (that's it, just to the left of Brielle's head). We had hoped to get closer, but the presence of an armed guard on a watchtower indicated to us this was close enough. Pretty cool, since this is the last launch of the shuttle program.

Lot's of Jellyfish in the water today, so we had to be careful. They're very small (see in Brielle's bucket below), but still sting - Logan was stung on the ankle but was no worse for the wear.

During our relaxing day, this NASA helicopter flew overhead. Can't really see in the pictures, but they had men manning huge machine guns hanging out each open side door. Heaven forbid someone should try to steal the shuttle...

Fun on the boogey boards in these next few pictures.

Walking along the beach looking for shells and jellyfish. The kids are so compassionate - took forever on this walk because they stopped for every stranded jellyfish (many wash ashore, most dead) and tried to scrape them back into the water with shells and sticks so the jellyfish would have a fighting chance back in the water...

Pretty fun day.

Logan's graduation

Logan has his VPK gradution. The way they planned it you think they were graduation from high school! It was very cute though. Each class sang a song and then they all sang some more songs. He got to walk across the stage and get his certificate. I have loved his preschool and hope he has the same experience in the years ahead. His friend Ione

Getting his certificate from his teacher, Ms Azar. Sweetest lady on the planet to still love all these crazy 5 year olds after a whole year ;)

Singing their songs. Logan is in the middle next to the boy and girl with long hair.

Getting ready to walk across the stage.

Mother's day

Raegan and Dad made me breakfast in bed. Raegan was so excited to do this. She was so sweet and made pictures to put all over my room. She also made me a plethera of cards at school and a play dough covered pot to put 'stuff' in. Brielle came and taste tested everything which was fine because they gave me so much food!

Logan's little school had a "Muffins with Mom" morning and we got to do a little date and on the table was a cute plate he decorated with pictures of me he drew. It was so nice and I enjoyed the time he and I got to spend together. Even though I often want to sell them on Ebay, I LOVE being their mom ;)

Logan's birthday

For Logan's actual birthday he wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese to have dinner. We went and spent all our tokens and actually they have good pizza. We came home and opened presents and then he had another small cake that was a Zinger....he LOVES them and could eat them all day long.

The traditional birthday hat

Everyone dancing to the Mickey Mouse birthday song.
Don't look at the floors, we pulled the carpet and are redoing it with laminate, but they look nasty there.

Logan's birthday party

Logan's party was a lot of fun this year. We went to the splash park with friends from school and church. He wanted a shark theme so the water park was perfect!

Shark cake that Jake kept saying looked like a pyrana~

Pinata~cheap easy entertainment

Logan and friends using buckets for hats~what else do you do with them?

Brielle and Kaley enjoying some food.

They loved the State Farm wooden airplanes Grandpa Jeppesen sent. They were the biggest hit of the day.

Easter

I have been having way too much fun with the picasa website ;)

Hope you all had a great Easter!!

Summer is starting!!!

Running through the sprinkler on these HOT April days!!

This is my favorite picture of Brielle with the strap under her chin instead of on the back of her head.

Christian Parade

Logan's school had a parade where they dressed up as a character out of the Bible. Logan was David who killed Goliath.

If this isn't the cutest thing!!!!

This is the note she put on her basket so the Easter bunny would know which basket was hers.

Then she left this out for the him~

Brielle's birthday

Our little Brielle turned 3 last week! Where has time gone???? On her birthday we went to see "Hop". (Don't waste your time) Then a few days later we had a little party with her friends. Everyday since she has asked if she can have another birthday party this week. Showing off her new tutu pj's.

Dancing after watching "Hop"

Playing with all the presents she got.

Her "Tangled" birthday cake.

Blowing 'Pascal' (the chamelion from Tangled) blowers.

Dancing with her friend Kaley.

Pin the crown

Making bracelets at her party