Our Weekend

The Mercedes Marathon was this weekend and Jason's company helps sponsor it. No, we did not participate in the marathon but we did do the 5K fun/run on Saturday.
Once we started running I passed the stoller off to Jason who graciously pushed it the whole way...I am going to have to get much better at this jogging while pushing a stoller thing - its hard!
Linda and Eddie sent us this fun monkey in the mail and Kate LOVES it!
Here is one of the outfits I made Kate. I finally finished the pants and was so excited for her to wear this when not 20 minutes after this picture we got to church and she had thrown up all over it. Oh well, we at least got a cute picture of her in it before hand.

Classic Faces of Kate

Here is why...

For those of you who check here frequently, I am sorry that I have not been faithful in posting. I have been spending most of my free time sewing! Most of you know that I am learning to smock, but for it to be cost effective I need to learn how to sew the smocked dresses. I was told that in order to sew a smocked dress I would need to learn how to sew an easy pattern thus the beginning of a new hobby. Sewing little girl dresses is so very easy (I promise if I can do it then you can too). Here are the first two dresses I made. My friend Deb has been helping me and she is the most patient and awesome teacher! This is the second dress I made...
... its reversible!!!!
And here is the latest dress I made. The flower was a little tricky but not too hard.
Next on my agenda for sewing is to learn how to make little pants and bloomers.

Bring On the Fever Virus

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, Kate is getting over having a fever virus. I picked her up the other day to find that she acted like my own little personal space heater. I took her temperature to find out that is was 102 degrees. However, during the two days her fever was high she still laughed and played but she took AWESOME naps and slept longer at night then she ever has and was just really sweet and snuggly. No crying, no fussing, no nothing. So I say bring on the fever virus!

smiles

Kate is finally smiling for the camera a lot more, but these cute photos are still few and far between.

every now and then

Most of the time when we take pictures of Kate they look like this...

But every now and then we get sweet pictures like this...
p.s. one day I will figure out how to get rid of the red eyes

Random Happenings

During my pregnancy, after we found out that we were expecting a girl, my mom went and got out all of my dresses from when I was a little girl and gave them to me. I know this picture of us is close up but Kate is wearing one of my dresses and my sweater from when I was a baby.

Kate is getting to an age where she really loves her toys. Most of her toys play some sort of music...I haven't figured out how to put them all away in the basket yet without setting them all off at once.
I know kids like to pick their nose but I didn't realize they started so early.
Just another picture in the snow...I love her cheeks.

Kate's First Snow

Of course we had to go out this morning and take pictures in the snow! It was beautiful to watch it falling. Lucy had a great time running around in it but Kate was pretty clueless.

Here are some pictures of Kate's first snow.

Finished!

I finished smocking Kate's baptism gown yesterday afternoon. If I do say so myself I think it turned out pretty good. I still need to thread a ribbon through the top smocking but I will have to get some help on that. I completely understand that this pictures is hard to see since I smocked cream on white but I thought I would post it anyway for you to see. Now I just have to take the dress to be put together...I am so excited, I never knew smocking could be so much fun.

Love It!

Jason's aunt got me smocking classes for Christmas and I am LOVING it! I am completely obsessed. We started our project last night (I am making Kate's baptism gown) and I am so hooked that with one more hour of smocking I will be done. Here is a picture of me at 7am this morning smocking! I will post a picture when the dress is done!

...and this sweet little face is what got me interested in smocking in the first place!