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Yes most of you probably already heard but for those who haven't...Derick and I will be adding one more to our family in October! We are pretty dang excited! But it sure has been a rough past 14 weeks. Luckily I went off track last week but that's about when I couldn't keep any food down. Come to find out I was pretty badly dehydrated and had to go to the hospital for an IV. But since then I have been feeling better. I still have some bad nauseated days (like yesterday) where I am pretty much stuck in bed all day. But for the most part everything is good with the little one. Heard the heartbeat 2 weeks ago and go back in 2 weeks. Everyone's wanted me to post belly pics so I will post one but do not look at my face (without makeup) just the belly bump or there will be no more pics! LOL

Meg's Baby Shower

Back in January the girls from work and I had a fun baby shower for Meg and Baby Cash! We had it a Kate's house and she made tons of yummy food! It was fun to be with everyone and talk and especially opening presents! Cash was born in January and boy is he adorable! Congrats Meg!

The Diaper Cake I made for Meg!
Meg and her baby bouncer!

The cute jammies Derick and I got Cash

Yeah! Diapers!!

Oh and of course cute Lindsay!

2011 Projects

Arts and Craft Projects: The past few months have definitely been crazy! Here are a few projects that I was able to complete back in January. For now a lot of projects have been put on hold until I can feel better!

The bag I made for my Relief Society Binder!
A bag I made for our Relief Society President!
She's Awesome!
Derick and I found a foam mat for cheap at Hobby Lobby.
So I got some fabric and covered it so he can sleep on it while camping!

I saw these cute blocks at Roberts and decided to make them for valentines day.
One side is the front and the other is the back.

I made this blanket for Whitney a friend of mine who had a cute little boy named Skylar!

It turned out so good!

Wowie Wow Wow!

Well in the words of Junie B. Jones- Wowie Wow Wow! (sorry for all of you who don't know who that is!) It has been a crazy past couple of months. For some odd reason I always get ideas for projects I would like to do and then try to do them all at the same time. It all started right after Thanksgiving. We have a cute store called Crafters Corner and instead of doing the whole black Friday thing, I decided to pop over there and do some crafting. The items were on sale and then they had free craft day where you could use any of their supplies, paint, etc. It was so nice a relaxing and I was one of the only ladies there! So much better than trying to beat the crowds!

My next project idea was to stitch these cute tags. I saw some pictures online and decided to mimick them. But instead of using them as gift tags I decided to use them as ornaments on my Christmas tree. I stitched each one and then used crayons to color them! Then I glued on some rope hooks. I think they turned out so cute and they look great on the tree!

The finished project!

I also decided to make some Christmas presents! I have Kristi's family for Christmas and decided to make the girls and boys something! So I can't show the pictures yet! But be sure that pictures will come soon! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Gingerbread Madness

Wow! Is there really only a couple of days left until Christmas? This time of year definitely flies by! The house is all decorated, presents are all wrapped, tree is decorated and lit, and now I am just waiting and waiting to be done with work! Every year the girls I work with and I do a book exchange! I love doing this because we all get something nice and that we will all use instead of doing some dumb white elephant exchange! Sorry to all of those who love the white elephant thing! But after being a teacher, you would hate dumb trinkets too! LOL

Tina (and of course Lindsay!)
Kirsti (and more Lindsay!)

Lindsay and Tina

We also were able to decorate some amazing gingerbread houses that Shelley made! We had tons of candy and lots of fun! I learned that I am totally not creative! But everyone's houses turned out so cute! I love holiday traditions!

My House

Meg's House

Kirsti's House

Tina's House

Lindsay's House

November

November is finally here...oh wait where did you go? Can't believe Thursday is Thanksgiving already! Then December and Christmas will be here soon! Last year my parents were here in Utah! It was fun spending Thanksgiving with them since I haven't been able to in years! But I am super excited to be going home for Christmas! Derick isn't as pleased since our drive is quite long! But he'll be excited when we get there! He can be such a holiday scrooge! Anyone know the number for the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future! LOL He'll start loving holidays so help me! :)

In all of my excitement to be going home for Christmas I have broken one of my cardinal rules! I have been listening to Christmas music already and can't wait to break out the Christmas decorations! But I know Derick would kill me if I got them out already! (Guess I'll just wait a few more days!) I have also gotten most of my Christmas shopping done! I made my nephews and neices presents and then know what I want to make Chris and Kristi, I just have to go get all the materials! So I am super excited! Then I already got my parents done! Yeah! Now I just have to get Derick something and stocking stuff! Yeah! But I refuse to go out on black friday! All of you who do are crazy! Especially here in Utah! It is soooo cold that early! I might venture out later on in the day because Crafters Corner has some good deals on Christmas decorations--yes derick doesn't need to know that! He'd kill me if i brought home one more decoration! Scrooge!!! LOL So if anyone wants to go let me know!

October Projects

Derick always says I have way too many projects going on. I've always got some kind of sewing project or crochet project or scrapbook project that I am working on. So I told Derick that I could get it all done within the 3 weeks that I am off track. So far I've been off for a week and a half and I'm almost done with my crochet project (which I can show cause it just might be a present for someone). My next project was going to be some kind of Halloween table runner, but then I got a cute spiderweb one and decided to turn the project into pillows. So of course I got to work while Derick was out of town for the weekend.

This is my first Halloween pillow. On this one I just stitched and little picture and then used fabric. Turned out pretty cute I think!

This was my second Halloween pillow. On this one I got a little creative and decided to use fabric, ribbon, black lace, white tool, and even black buttons. (I think Derick likes the back better!)

My next project (which I tell Derick is a continuous, never ending project) is my scrapbooking. I have so many pictures and pages to do that I've been trying to make lists. ( I think it helps me to see things getting crossed off) Since I finished my "Williquette Family Scrapbook" I moved on to my "Schmidt Family Scrapbook". Which turned out pretty cute! But I can't wait to add more to it. I love having both of them done so that now everytime I get new pictures all I have to do is print them off and glue them in.

The next things on my scrapbooking list is a scrapbook of all the Trips I've taken mixed with all the fun things I've done with my family when I went home during summers and off track times. So I am doing tennis with Brittany and Donny, going to the Cavaliers/Jazz game with Donny, Sarah's baptism, and lots of others. Keep posted for more pictures, oh and to my sisters...please send me lots more pictures of the kids!