Road trip with Ryker

I love air heads! :)

Trying to figure out technology

Grrrrr!

Handkerchief Dress

How to make:

I just eyeballed and drew the top of the dress on a blank piece of paper (I folded the paper in half and made adjustments to get it even on both sides), then cut it out. From top to bottom it measured about 4 inches. I traced this onto the back of a paper plate and cut it out so I had a heavy duty stencil to trace around the poems once they were printed onto white card stock paper.
I found the "Threads of Eternity" poem on the internet and copy and pasted it into word document, shrunk the font (Lucida Handwriting) size down to 6 and the title to 14. Put two to a page then traced the dress around the poems once they were printed.

You will need these items: white hankie, a jumbo paperclip, a bobby pin, scissors, a small rose/flower (I got mine from walmart in a small package), glue gun, and needle nose craft pliers

cut out top of dress and set aside

Get the paperclip and needle-nose pliers.

*you can watch a video on how to make a minature hanger on youtube.

Open up paper clip and make a hook going backwards with the shorter side (right side)

The hook goes towards the back

now straighten out the longer side

Hook the shorter side you made the hook with to the longer side and bend wire to make an even bottom half of the hanger.

What it should look like once you have positioned the hook to make it look even.

Then use your pliers to make the hook for the top of the hanger. This will take some working. Try to make the neck of the hanger (above the small hook) longer so you can glue the small rose there. The paper clip should be the perfect length. On the youtube video the lady cut off the end of the wire to make a smaller hook but I like it better this way.

On this little rose I was able to work the hanger behind the petals so it will stay on better

Move it down onto the neck of the hanger and position it for gluing.

Glue the flower in place

 Tadaa!

Now get your cut out top of dress. Turn it over and glue bobby pin to back right at the waist.

glue the hanger in place

                                                            

Then get your handkerchief and follow the folding instructions below

Put the handkerchief in the bobby pin and WALAA!!! 

Holy Smokes! I might be back to the blogging world!

This is all new! Crap! Now I'm gonna need to relearn how to blog...not that I knew how before! I am going to try to blog again...no promises!

In need of a vacation

I have some great sites for cheap vacations!!! For cruises we like www.vacationstogo.com and for the all inclusive resorts we have been told by friends that this site is the bomb diggity www.applevacations.com We are always up for a cruise if anyone wants to be our cruising buddies :) We are planning on going later this year with Brads sister Tara and her hubby and their friends if we can get more people to go the better and the funner it is. I think we will probably be doing the carribean cruise that goes to Roanan, Cozumel, Belize and Costa Maya. The prices are pretty good around 350 to 450 a person. Let us know if you wanna come :)

Something

I haven't gotten on my blog for a while. Well I guess its time for me to snap out of it and post something. So this is something! :) Since the last posting not a whole lot has changed. Brad and I still work work work. We are hoping to take some more time this summer to play. I need to get myself in shape. I got a steal of a deal from my friend on a treadmill and that was in January and I have only ran on it like 4 times... horrible... I know! So the plan is to do things that trick my brain into thinking Im doing something fun rather than exercise...Ha! Any ideas??? Dont say get a gym membership cuz i have one... paid 200 bucks for it... it exp in July and I have only used that 4 times :/ dont plan on using it again either! I did just get a bike and put a basket on the front :) Im trying to teach Louie to ride in the basket. Its hilarious... I look like Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz, all the little kids stop and look at me like I'm a whacko, but its fun. Well thats about it. Help me out.

Lately...

Kitchen "face lift" new kitchen faucet and black knobs

Newer and improved entryway table

Family pictures

Another day at the office

What Brad does in a day!!!

Brads little Brothers Homecoming

The boys in the Fam!

I love my fam!

We have been buisy latley.... Geeesh! Sorry for all the posts but Im catching up!

Brads Magic

My husband is amazing at building me things... like this AMAZING entry way table!

Thriller with the girls!!!

We had a blast going to Tuachan and watching Thriller.... We first of all stopped off at Pizza Factory and had dinner then off to the show.

Update

Raquel

Chrissy
Dad

So Lexi is home and doing better today... watching cartoons. She is still on morphine but her injuries haven't seemed to hurt her personality :) She is all wrapped up and has a cone on her head to keep her from touching at anything. Pray for no infections. Thanks for everyones prayers and concern! I started going through old emails to see if I had some pics of my sisters and their kids. All I could find was these and they are about a year old.

Love and prayers!!!

I don't really think I have explained my moms side of the family very well on my blog. I guess I dont really see them very much and not because I dont want to but because they live the farthest away and all the pictures you see that I have are mostly all e-mailed to me because I am a crappy picture taker. I really need to shed some light on my family I love and was raised with. I know sometimes I'd like to smack some sense into them but I still love them. I am the oldest on my moms side. I have 3 little sisters. Raquel who is 25 and has a little girl Lexie and married to Steven, Chrissy who is 23 and has a little boy Crue and is married to Jacob, and Bailee who is 20 and thinks she has it all figured out but is very confused. My mom Diana and dad Randy were married when I was 8 and my dad Randy adopted all of us girls! He raised us all .... and taught us how to hunt, fight (mainly box....which caused a lot of early lost teeth), ride horses, camp, work hard, laugh hard and sing in unison on our trail rides and campouts to Bar-J Wranglers... we know every song basically. We lived on a ranch in Felt Idaho (Teton Valley Idaho... about 30 min. from Jackson WY) we all use to participate with my dad at the local rodeo's, we collected the eggs in the morning after I beat off Roy our rotten rooster... I think my mom broke two purse straps on that stinker! He was mean! We helped my dad feed all our horses, cows, chickens, cats, dogs, farrets, you name it we had it at one point. We are all animal lovers for sure and our childhood has a lot to do with that. Well I gues that leads me to why I am reminiscing.... we had an unfortunate event happen last night. My niece Lexi who is 5 was attacked by a pitbull. She spent the night in critical condition. The plastic surgeon said he stopped counting the stitches after 300. She has a 10 inch laceration going down the back of her head and a 6 inch laceration going across the other direction on top of her head closer to the forehead. She has several cuts elsewhere and a "U" shaped laceration between her eyes. She is stable but the surgeon said to pray for no infection where all the damage is so close to her brain and she is so young. I am asking everyone to please remember my family in your prayers. They are going through a lot right now. Love you all.

My little brother!

I dont think I have mentioned the reason why this event to go see my little brother play football was so important to me. Taylor and I have never actually met. We have the same dad but different moms. I didn't meet my real dad until I was 2o years old. So meeting my little brother for the first time... there are no words to explain it! Of coarse I was shaking like crazy and on the brink of tears but I held it together and just kept hugging and touching him! I only talked with him briefly but it was soooo sooo worth it! I hope this is the beginning of a life long relationship! He is a sweety!!! I already love him like I have known him my whole life.

More Sleep Screams!

So I am half tempted to set up a motion sensore recording in our room. This is how our night went last night:
Its 11:30 pm and I am sound asleep... we go to bed like 9:30 or 10:00pm..... and all of the sudden I am wakened from my neurotic husband jumping out of bed and dancing around the room screaming SNAAAAKE!!!
We finally get back to bed, our blood pressure returns to normal and we doze to sleep.... only until about 12:10 when I SWEAR I hear a window break and the glass shattering on the tile floor! Louie (our yorky) comes running in the room right as I sit up in bed dazed and confused and frantically start slapping and pounding at Brad to wake up.
Brad and I walk through the whole house, check all the windows, look in the garage, look outside.... nothing. Now Brads calling me the crazy one! We are not having a good nights rest!
We finally get to sleep I dont know what time but I locked our bedroom door and got my pepper spray set on the bed stand right where I could grab it fast... maybe thats not a good idea since Brad is the one startling me half the time!
Then once again at around 2:00 Brad sits up screaming which results in me slapping him and awake and swearing at him in the process!
I have tried to come to a conclusion what causes these night screams .... but its happened since I have been married to him. Maybe 3 or 4 nights out of the month. It use to not happen so much but I think its getting worse. What the heck should do?