Easter weekend

Loving Easter!

Swinging with Grandpa Shurtleff

Counting her Eggs

Can't Reach

Looking for her next egg

Getting good at finding the eggs

Catching on

My awesome husband trying to keep his eyes open for the picture. He was way excited about his hyper ball that bounces 75 feet he got from his Ma.

Kaiya's easter basket, she was so excited about the tinkerbell and the ducky pez

I love this picture, and I love this little girl!

Daddy Daughter Time enjoying the nice warm day (mid 80's)

All the bright colorful eggs, Brett did the Kaiya loves Daddy one. But I am sure Kaiya would have if she could write.

Kaiya's cousins Alexis, Shelbi, Preston and Kayli

Kaiya's Cousin Savannah who is a year older and her Mommy Cathi.

Kaiya was so excited about dropping eggs in the dye.

I Love her Bright Blue Eyes!



We had a really fun Easter weekend. We went to Brett's parents house and it was so nice just to relax for a little bit. A couple of Brett's sisters were there so it was fun to visit and for Kaiya to get to play with her cousins. I was wondering how Kaiya would do with dying eggs and the Easter egg hunt. But I worried for no reason. She caught on really quickly and seemed to have so much fun. Of course Brett and I just loved watching her run around an enjoy the festivities. Here are a few pictures from our weekend.

Finally...my little bird.

So I have been meaning to make Kaiya a dress to match her cousin's dresses I made. I finally got to it today. I am so sad that they don't sell this fabric anymore because it has to be one of my favorite dresses I have made. Oh well, so is life. It was a little windy when we went out so the photo shoot was short lived. Oh and she finally got her fruit snacks, so she cared more about those then anything else.

Fruit Snack Addiction

Kaiya is addicted to fruit snacks. Everytime she comes in the kitchen its "nack nack" We have such a hard time getting her to eat, except fruit snacks. That's all she would eat if we would let her. So this is my typical morning. Kaiya coming in, getting into the pantry getting a "nack" me putting it back her crying, begging "nack nack"

Family walk on the beach

The weather was pretty good this weekend, so we decided to take a family walk on the beach. Kaiya was pretty tired so she wanted to be held the whole time, but I got some pretty cute pictures.

Aw life has been busy

So between school, Kaiya, sewing and Brett I have been staying pretty busy. But I love it all. Life is good!!

I need to start updating my blog more regularly. This post will be mainly pictures. Oh and I also started selling clothes. Just by word of mouth for now. BUt I started a sewing blog so pass it along, or just check out what I am up to. WWW.madebymommie.blogspot.com

Okay now that is out of the way. First I am so proud of Brett. He is taking 5 classes this semester while going to work full time. One of his classes, Psychology, was a block schedule class so much faster, But he still managed to get an A. YAY Brett. He seriously is amazing. He still finds time to play with Kaiya and I and help around the house. Man I am a lucky girl.

Kaiya Kaiya Kaiya, oh what a fun fun fun girl. She has been a little bit more cranky lately but man is she funny. She is talking more and more and always has us laughing. She loves books. I am constantly finding her sitting on a cushion or in a chair reading a book. She also loves the park, especially the slide. So on to the pictures!

Sew Sew and more sew

I have had a few friends ask me about selling clothes I have made. I figured I would try it out just by a word of mouth bases. So if anyone wants to order something let me know. I was thinking with the cost of fabric I would charge 25 for 1 dress, 20 each for 3 or more. Skirts 15, unless you buy it with something else then 10. Let me know if you think these prices seem fair. I am working on some cute patterns to call my own so stayed tune. Here are a few things I have made this week. Poor Kaiya I think is tired of me taking her picture haha. Oh the outfit with the matching skirt and shirt. I decided it was a little much. I was excited because I made up both patterns all by myself :) I think they are both cute, but not together.

oh I made a new gum drop pillow but I don't have a picture of that. Also I helped my friend make 3 dresses Yup 3. Wow busy week. All that on top of my 4 classes. Busy Busy Girl, But I LOVE It!

Back at it Again

I have been sewing a lot these last few days. Things got busy with school starting and adjusting our schedules but this last weekend I decided to pull out the good ole sewing maching. I found this shop on Etsy taht has the CUTEST patterns ever and it inspired me to get to going. Here is her site http://www.etsy.com/shop/kustomkidsboutique.

Kaiya's new Favorite Thing

Walking in Circles, she does it until she falls over, then gets up and does it again haha.

Christmas

So Christmas was spread out over a few days for us. First when Brett's sister Karie and her husband came in town from Utah we openeded some of our presents with them and let Kaiya open some too. You can tell Kaiya really liked what she got because later that night at 11pm I thought she was sleeping, heard a noise and went in their to find her sitting in bed with her sit and spin and blocks. Silly Girl. Then the night before we left for Brett's parents house He and I opened the rest of our presents to eachother. That way we didn't have to load them up in our already over packed car. I got lots of nice stuff from Brett, shirts, hat, purse lots of fun stuff. I think the best present I got Brett though was his Red Ryder BB gun. The look on his face when he opened it was priceless. Then we spent the rest of the time with Brett's family, which is always a lot of fun and a lot of noise :). Kaiya has been so moody lately so the pictures show many different sides to her. You can also check out the cute pj's made her for Christmas eve. Christmas morning was fun to see her open presents. But we woke her up early to open with her cousins so she was in a pretty bad mood. Anyways I will let the pictures tell the rest.

Kaiya telling Aunt Karie everything she got for Christmas