Happy Birthday Annabeth!!!!!

That's right. Yesterday was Annabeth's 4th birthday! She's growing up so quickly.

Here are some pictures that were taken yesterday.

I got some ADORABLE pictures of her in front of the apple tree.

Isn't this one SO cute?!

This is her with the Cinderella doll that she got at Disney Land. Isn't the look on her face priceless?

We had Little Ceasers for dinner, and then we made cupcakes for dessert. This is them before they were frosted.

Yum.

Sorry this picture is kind of misplaced.

Yum. (again)

I caught her just as she was turning around, so she wasn't smiling.

When we sang to her, everyone else was pointing when you got to the 'you' part, and Annabeth was laughing harder than I think she's ever laughed. It was so cute to watch!

Laying down while watching "The Lion King"

And that's it for Annabeth's birthday. Now, I have to share with you how big of a genius my brother is. So, we've really started getting in to doing plastic canvas, and I told Jonathan the other day how I wanted to build something out of wood to hold the yarn. Sort of like a bunch of cubbies. Now, Jonathan LOVES to play with a building toy called K'nex, so he suggested making one out of that. But he took it one step further. He made the neatest thing ever!

Isn't it so cool? I don't know if you can see, but the yarn goes through holes in the white pieces in front of the balls, and you just pull it and the ball spins around.

He came up with a place to put scissors...

...needles...

...and our books! He even has a place for the plastic canvas, but he added that after these pictures were taken, so it's not on here.

Well, that's it for right now.

Kayla

Getting back to everyday life

Hi everyone! We're finally getting back to everyday life. It's nice to be able to cook at home again. Cooking is one of my favorite things to do, and I was able to cook about 2 things the whole trip. So, it's been nice to have home made meals again.

Not much has been going on recently. We put the alpacas on craigslist a few weeks ago, and Wednesday a couple came to look at them. We haven't heard from them yet, though. Speaking of the alpacas, some people are coming to shear them on Monday. It's pretty neat to watch. So, I'll have some pictures from that.

Monday was a really nice day for me, because I sold 2 blankets! You can imagine how excited I was when I saw the email with the title "congradulations on your order for $40.91 from xxxxxxx".  It's kind of funny, because this is the first time that I've actually gotten to see the email telling me that I sold a blanket. It's always been Jonathan or Mom who discovers it.

Also, here's something that I'm making for Sarah out of plastic canvas. It's meant to be for Barbie dolls, but since we have chosen not to have Barbie's in the house, (and even if we did I wouldn't play with them anyway) Sarah's going to use it with her "Loving Family" small dolls.

Just to give you an idea of how big this is, this is the footboard, and this is my hand.

Well, that's all for now.

Kayla