The easiest skirt ever tutorial for jessie

 This is the same style of skirt just with a cuff and belt.  I made the cupcake shirt with coordinating fabrics to match.  Brooklyn wears it all the time.  It took me start to finish 20 minutes with the girls interrupting.

 First you'll need a rectangular piece of fabric what ever length you want.  Brooklyn's is 14 in and Sophia's is 10 in.  That was literally all of that fabric i had left over from another project.

  Serge the only seam together.  That will be your back seam.  Serge around top and bottom.

 Fold top over the width of you elastic-sew-add elastic.  Hymn bottom.  Press if you want.  If you want the skirt to be fuller just use two rectangles.  I keep each piece as wide and the width of the fabric.

 The finish product at our fashion show.

So while I was sewing my girls skirt a knock on the door happened.  It was the fed ex guy with some flowers from my parents for mother day!!!!  Thanks momma and daddy, I love you!

checkup

So yesterday I went to the nutritionist.  I have lost 8lbs with them in four weeks (11total).  I am very excited with a renewed since of maybe being able to accomplish my weight loss goal.  1 more lb and I'll weight what I did when Trent and I got married.
We have been putting the lock back on sissy's door at night.  Surprisingly she hasn't been getting up at night and has been sleeping in till 6!  I know don't be jealous. 

I guess we'll wait alittle longer

So this morning I tried to put Sis in panties.  She screamed and hollered and carried on like a crazy person!  When my mom stopped by to bring Brooklyn back she put Sis in panties.  Sis thought it was great.  Three accidents later, not so much.  The third time she went into the bathroom, locked the door, then peed on the floor.  Almost I know.  While I was cleaning that up she got out a diaper, laid on the floor and put it on herself!  So I am thinking we'll just wait a little longer till there are no more diapers in the house!  I think we have maybe two weeks of diapers left.  I am ready for this battle with Sis.  She's so stubborn though I know it will be on her time and her terms when she starts using the potty.

On a completely different note tomorrow I have my one month follow up at the nutritionist office.  According to my scale I have lost 8lbs this past 4 weeks.  That puts me to 11lbs total!  I hope I can keep up the 2 lbs a week.  If so I'll reach my goal by the beginning/middle of June. 

cake

I really don't think this cake could get any cuter!

YAY!!!!

10 LBS DOWN, 10 MORE TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Late Easter!

We had a good Easter.  I hope everyone else did too.  We hunted eggs inside, went to church, then supper at in laws.  The girls were pretty well behaved all day so that was an added bonus.  I got to sit through all of sacrament (except when sis hit her head but we were able to come back in).  I didn't have time to smock the girls dresses so my lovely sis Jessie sent me the peeps from her etsy shop.  They turned out super cute on their halter tops I made.  Both the shirts only cost me $2.75 to make!  The added bonus was we had a bandaid for Sophia that matched everything well!

A post of pics from my phone

Brooklyn and Penelope

 at gymnastics

Brooklyn loves a side pony tail

Look at sissy's face!

They made their own mac and cheese

 It was bring a friend day at gymnastics.  Sophia went in with Brooklyn and did very very well.  She participated in everything and the teacher never had to fuss for her to listen.

This morning Sis was walking with her head down (as always) and ran right into the door!  She didn't cry or anything.  I didn't realize it was bleeding till a little later when Brooklyn saw it and started freaking out. She only got upset when I put a band aide on it. I guess I'll have to find a cute band aide for Easter tomorrow!

I am also extremely excited to say that in March I weighed 167.  When I went to the professional weight loss clinic I weighed 164.  This morning (3 weeks) I weigh 158!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That's 6 with the clinics help and 9 total so far!  You can't really tell by looking at me yet but I can tell by how my cloths fit.  I'm not dying in my skirts at church and I don't have to suck in as much to button my pants!

food saver

On march 24th I ordered a hose attachment and jar sealer from Foodsaver.com for $20.49.  I waited and waited and it never came.  I called them today to find out what was going on.  One of the products I ordered had been canceled!  So for my troubles they reordered both items.  They only charged me $3 for the attachment hose!  The jar sealer and shipping are free for my troubles!  That made my day and what a great company and customer service!  They are even going to ship them separate so I can go ahead and get the hose.  The jar sealer in on back order so it might take up to two or three weeks to get.  That gives me plenty of time to get mason jars.  Again part of Mays money saving madness I am going to go to some places like good will and see if i can find any jars.  As long as you use new lids to seal the jars it doesn't matter if the jars have been used before or not!

BANG!!!

 You might be wondering why this product is on here.  It's because I was so impressed with it.  For May we are doing a money saving maddness and I want to have a list of some money saving products.  This bathroom cleaner was bought at the Dollar Tree.  I kind of laughed when I saw it.  I thought "if it has to say it's LA's TOTALLY AWESOME" it can't really be that great right?!  Well let me tell you when I cleaned my shower this morning it turned out to be the BEST bathroom cleaner I have ever used!  And I think I have used them ALL trying to find one that actually cleans.  Not only did it clean great it cleaned the left over residue from previous cleaners!  I think I am stocking up on this product.  The only negative I can see is it has a strong smell (it goes away VERY quickly) so while you're doing the actual cleaning I would keep small kids and pets out of the bathroom.  Now price wise it is a great deal.  The bathroom cleaners at Walmart range from $1.97-$3.48.  And most of them don't give you as much cleaner!

sometimes

Sometimes I am over whelmed by my awesomeness.  I mean I try to be awesome everyday but today I feel like I really hit the nail on the head.  I was an awesome babysitter with no major fights and everyone's diaper clean all morning, AND the kids even cleaned the room with no complaints!  I then took my awesomeness to the dollar tree to pick up a few things.  In May for relief society we are going to be talking about saving money (and making laundry detergent).  So at the dollar tree I bought some thing I normally wouldn't buy there.  Then I went to Walmart to compare some of the prices.  In my awesomeness at Walmart I even bought Trent some new socks!  Anyways by buying the few things I bought at the dollar tree I saved myself $7!!!!!!!!!!!!  That was on four items.  At Walmart I also found some drawer organizers and cleaned out the catch all drawers.  In relief society enrichment we are going to have a craft corner every month where people can show easy, cheap, super cute crafts to make our homes and our lives easier.  This month I made this awesome wreath for the door.  It didn't even cost me FIVE BUCKS!!!!!!!!!  The wreath was from michaels for $2, the ribbon dollar tree, the bunny dollar tree and the plastic eggs I had.  So now my awesomeness is needed to play tic tac toe with Brooklyn.