Chocolate pudding, updated!!

So, I found the recipe I was looking for. I knew the one I had didn't have dry milk powder in it. Yeah, it was in one of my cookbooks. "Make-A-Mix" by Karine Elliason, Nevada Harward & Madeline Westover. Love that book. We can't get Bisquick over here but they have a quick mix that is just like it. And it's cheaper. And their meatball mix is so yummy. By the way, I just checked out that link and it is a newer version of my cookbook. If you have it or know someone who does I want the recipe for that YUMMY looking pie on the front. I don't have it in mine.

Anyway, I'm home alone tonight after not feeling well all day. Josh took all 3 girls to church this evening!! So I made up the mix and then made up a batch of pudding. It's cooling on the stove now. I can't wait!! =)


Guess what!! My poor old couch died a long time ago. It started ripping within a month of us buying it. So we've bought a couch cover that works but doesn't really fit. We checked out the cost of recovering it but that was going to cost almost as much as the couch cost new. But Nanny and Poppy Hadfield have offered to re-cover it for us. So this week I'm off to buy fabric and then we'll take the couch and fabric and my little rocker/recliner to them. I'm so excited. Our couch and the recliner are so comfortable but look so bad. YAY!!! And probably for 1/10 of the cost!! DOUBLE YAY!!

Friday the 13th

I am so looking forward to this day. Have been all week.

at 10 the girls and I are headed to the Coffee Club for morning tea with friends. (my friends not their's) =) We'll meet Roseanne and Jennie (and Emily too I'm sure.) should be nice.

at 1 we are headed to the Hervey Bay Historical Museum to meet up with friends who are going through the museum with their homeschooling group. We're gonna tag along for fun. (side note: Josh and I had some wedding photos taken there as seen above.)

at 6 we are headed to our friends' house for dinner. They have a little 6 week old baby boy. That should be fun too. Plus we haven't caught up with them outside church for months.

It'll be a busy day but hopefully a fun one. Have a great weekend!!

Laundry...triumphs and tragedies

Triumph #1
earlier this week you couldn't walk into the laundry room without stepping on (lots and lots of) clothes.

Triumph #2
I put up my new curtain from Mom. so cute.

The other curtains are going here. I taped them up to try them out but they fell down. But there is a 3-4 inch gap between the reg. door and the screen door so I need to get a curtain rod to go in there and then I'll put them up. Thanks, Mom.

Tragedy #1 Still have heaps to fold.
The rain means these clothes have been on the line for two days. plenty of extra rinse cycles. =) Hopefully later today they'll finally be dry.

Tragedy #2
This is my couch right now. And that is after folding a basket and a hamper full of clothes plus whatever I could reach off the couch from where I was sitting last night. The girls' piles had gotten quite high and they get overwhelmed trying to put lots of clothes away so I stopped. But those are put away so now I need to finish this before those others on the line come in.

But finally, I have one load in the wash and none in the hampers. YAY!!! It's only taken me a month to completely catch up. Now to keep up with one load a day.

Wedding Pics from Gwen

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Wedding pics

Just some pics from the wedding. Between the wedding and the reception we went to the Botanical Gardens for some wedding photos. The girls and Gwen were checking out the ducks. And Gwen was the photographer and took heaps of photos. I can't wait to see them. The girls ended up being "flower girls" but they carried in a simple heart shaped balloon instead of flowers. They were very cute. And I got the roses done for the cake. Dorothy put the ribbon on the cakes and the candles too. I just did the roses. There was a small mishap with the cake on the left when it was being delivered. It kinda fell apart and the fondant was patched up. So I just followed the patched lines with the roses and then tried to make the cake on the right look similar. Not necessarily how I would have chosen to place the roses but they were happy.

hmmm...

*my roses are going crazy lately. so I brought some inside and floated them in a bowl*

So, lately this blog hasn't had anything crafty on it. Between heat, nausea and lack of creative thought there isn't anything crafty being done in my house. We're barely keeping up with the dishes and school. And we're not really keeping up with the laundry. But I thought we should have something creative on here. So without further ado...

Did I show you this? I got bored way back in October or whenever it was that I got to be home alone (remember that's when I painted all the samples on my bedroom closet doors) Anyway, I also made this that night for the girls' bathroom. Why the bathroom? I don't know. I have plans for more to go in there. Anyway, it was fun. I painted paper with my fingers and then cut the shapes out and pieced it together. I really should do the other ones I have planned. I enjoyed the process and the outcome. (all those white smears are the glue. I took the photo before it dried.)

So I laid out all the "bluebonnet trail" charm squares. I've gotten about half of them sewn together. I'll keep it simple and put a small white border, a bigger red border and then bind it in blue.

This is about half the red roses I need for a wedding cake. I still need some ivory roses and green leaves. Should've started this weeks ago. Of course that would've been totally out of character with my procastinating self. Anyway, wedding is tomorrow!!!

So, there you go...something crafty. We're headed to the pool today with the school. And then when I come home it's on to lots and lots of roses. Wish me luck!!

News

So, this is mostly old news now but thought I'd put it on here anyway. Actually, it's been on here for a week or so if you scroll all the way down to the bottom. But, here it is officially. We are pregnant with Baby #4 due mid-late August!! =)