8th grade graduation ushers

Meet the top 4 students of Center Street 7th grade: Jane, Sam, Tyler and ALEXIS CROWE KING!!!!

The top 4 students of the 7th grade get to be the ushers for the 8th grade Vespers and Graduation ceremonies.
So proud of this young man.

Lex with one of his BFFs, Tyler

being goofy

awe, now isn't that sweet.

Lex getting ready for graduation

Tyler, Lex and Sam

Mothers Day 2013

My 7 come bearing gifts ...

Mr Randall made ceramic handprints with each of the little squad. And Aiden (yes, that is my little Aiden) took a picture of each for me.

How precious is that?

Then my big boys (well, mostly Adre) actually hand-made this beautiful table. They took the scrap pieces of wood from handy hubby's projects and put the table together and and painted it.

First family bike ride of the season

simply beautiful

Just Us

Creative Adrien made this snacks for the littles:

 The littles showing off there newest flip flops of the season. I swear they would live in flip flops, they wear them all the time. But these ones are especially cute, I found them at the Disney store.

 I found the littles hanging out on the mower, just chillin' and taking turns pretending to drive. Dang they grow up too fast!

 We have been hit with the belly bug for a couple rounds lately. My poor littles have been down and out. But they think it's a special treat to get to sleep in the living room with daddy on night.

 The littles stopped in to see us at the hospital, they like this cause the nurses give them treats. Actually tho, I think this day the boys were there to have their ears checked. They have basically had one stuffiness after another all winter season and have been having trouble hearing. So we took them in for an exam. Yep, we were right. They were started on a round of antibiotics and allergy med. And they have an appointment with ENT next month for further evaluation. I'm sure they will recommend BMT (ear tubes) and possibly T&A (tonsillectomy). And eventho I work in surgery and I know these are simple procedures, these are still MY babies. Nothing is simple when you are dealing with your own children. sigh

 Anastasia and Lex swimming

 Alesandra riding the big wheel, but check out the shoes! She's in heels!

 Mom, Dad and Adre had a date night to watch Star Trek! Silly boy

Adre's first craft show

Look at that proud smile!

 And he did amazing. He sold over half his supply. He was very happy.
Aunty Carrie showed up with her new baby Reagan. My littles, esp the girls where all over her. They treated her like their baby doll. It was so cute. But certainly made me realize just how BIG my littles are. hehe

my new hobby

Tutus!

My girls love to dress up and tutus are one of their favorite things. It makes me so very happy to see my girls feel so pretty, so confident, so happy by simply putting on a dress. Who knew a piece of tulle could instill such princess status. With 3 little princesses I decided to learn to make tutus myself. So I researched techniques, ordered supplies, and created a plan.

I put together 3 tutus, 1 for each of my princesses

I started with Anastasias's. It was so much simplier than I thought.

I actually enjoyed it.

And had so much FuN creating designs I'm such my own little princesses with love.

Simply gorgeous

Next I completed Princess Allee's

Then Bella's: I actually took step-by-step pics to show just how simple this really is.
Gather supplies

Wrap tulle the length you want (I used a 24" cutting board)

Gather one ed and cut

Complete for all colors. The tutorials said to use 4 rolls of 25 yards (6 in) but I wanted more fluffy so I used 5.

I also used two 6 in crochet headbands layered since my girls are older (4) and I didn't want them to be stretched to the point of being see-through.
I started by tying the first layer in a repeating pattern.

1st layer done

2nd layer done (this is the point that the tutorial stopped)

But I added a 3rd layer for more fullness and tied a knot for a more stylish look

Princess Bella's

Now as I researched tutus of course I found many, many that I wanted to create. But I absolutely fell in love with the floor length ones. So I was just playing around and created this with a simple 1 1/2 in headband. Pics I saw had added flowers to adorn the top

but I like to just tuck it for a very simple look

Of course Bella snatched this up and loved it!