Thanksgiving in Texas!

We went to Texas for Thanksgiving this year to visit Cam's uncle Rick and his familyand Grandma Hoppy. We were going to go last year but everyone got sick. This year though, we finally made it down and an are we glad we did! The food was AH-MAZING- can you say smoked turkey and stuffed french toast.... They have the BEST Thanksgiving tradition ever- that we will be starting next year. They play bingo after dinner is all cleaned up. I cannot even do justice to the world's funniest game of bingo that I have EVER played. There was magic, a little Bing, and a whole lot of stealing going on. Thanks Rick, Stacie, kids, and Grandma Hoppy!I should have tried harder to get a better picture of Aleksa but sometimes it's hard to be one.Here's Cooper....Tyler posing by his FABULOUS drink. He even made star shaped ice cubes.Kylee and Lexi before dinner.The whole gang, compliments of our photographer...B-I-N-G-O!Aleksa just ran wild while we played...She wasn't quite sure what was happening with all the laughing and yelling... Aleksa enjoying the bingo spoils-

You just have to see it to believe it, I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time!

Christmas Presents

I keep telling Cam that it's "homemade Christmas" this year. Here are two advent calendars that I made for two of the special names on our list. (Don't worry the advent calendars are already openned and hopefully being put to good use.) Ironically, I haven't finished our family's yet- maybe tomorrow.... I'm not saying that every present will be homemade this year- because although they are very cute I'm not sure it actually saves us that much :). There are other little homemade treats up my sleeve though- stay tuned. I alternated scriptures and activities for each day leading up to Christmas.

Tiles

Several people have asked to see pictures of my tiles. These are just some of the tiles I did for my last bookstore order. I also just received another order for a young women group, they are going to give the necklaces to the girls for new beginnings- I thought that was a cute idea.

Fa la la la collection

Called to serve

CTR

My sister...my friend- great for visiting teachers

November...

Well, we haven't posted in a long time. We have been soooo busy! Cam is swamped with school- they say the first year of law school they try to scare you to death, the second they try to work you to death and the third they try to bore you to death. Cam says bring on the boredom!!! After this semester he will be HALF done with law school- we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have been so busy with my tiles- they are now in two stores- hooray! I have been busy with custom orders and haven't even had time to get my online store up and started- look for this in the coming weeks. Aleksa is growing like a weed, it seems like she has started to learn things so quickly! Here are some pictures from te last three weeks.

Aleksa loves to stick golf balls in her mouth- she has for quite awhile- what can I say? Hole in one?

Here is Aleksa in the pillowcase dress I made for her. It was supposed to be a Christmas present but a friend of Cameron's invited us to the Razorback basketball game and I had to let her wear it. Because she is still pretty little I was able to stretch the fabric that was supossed to make two dresses into four. So she will still get one for Christmas- just not this one. I made her dress shorter so she could wer it over jeans since it is so cold lately. I was suprised how easy and addictive these dresses turned out to be. I used every scrap!She has enough hair for a ponytail!!! I had to do three little ponys to make it happen but we got it! She is getting so BIG!Yeah, it looks a little goofy but hey she's still so stinkin cute!

Aleksa LOVES shoes- mine or Cam's it doesn't matter, she loves to wear them around the house.

Aleksa is working on eating with a fork and spoon, here is one of her most recent attempts.

VIDEO COMING SOON...

Aleksa LOVES when I do the dishes- (at least someone does) well I finally put her to work the other night and she was a great helper. It takes a little longer but we will get faster. RIght now she helps load and unload the silverware- minus the knives.

Happy Halloween!

Here is Aleksandra at the end of her Halloween night. She trick or treated at seven houses. Everyone was really nice to her. She was very interested in the dogs at the houses. Dogs are pretty much her favorite things right now. She wanted to stay and pet all the dogs.
This was at the end of the trick or treating at Fayetteville Square. Aleksandra had a fun time, there was a pet costume contest so she got to see a lot of doggies. She also got a lot of suckers- which is always a plus for her!

One of the businesses had a bubble machine. She wasn't quite sure what to think of it...

If she was ever allowed to pick a piece of candy out of a bowl she would dig for suckers. If there was a sucker she would try and go back for five or six pieces. If there weren't any suckers she would just grab a piece and walk away.

She did not want to be carried she wanted to walk most of the way and carry her bucket.

She loves that binky!

Aleksandra is picking a piece of candy from her friend Hunter's bowl.

Here are Aleksandra and Sophie getting ready to go trick or treat for the first time! How cute are they?!