Hurst Family News

Here's the project that I hinted at earlier : TA DA! I rather like it.  And guess what? I did it all with THIS: What What?! A little Heat-n-Bond, a little fabric, fonts found online and traced with window light... and wah-BAM! Wall art. Found the idea on THIS blog- check it out.  PS- I posted earlier today too.  Click HERE to see it. 

Easter is on its way.  Easter is a time of rebirth and growth and springing from the tomb and rejoicing. And hats.  (This hat is from Etsy- you can find it HERE  and join me in the celebration of all things Easter.) The perpetual little girl in me really just wants to grow up to be the Hat Lady at church.  I *LOVE* hats and gloves and miss the little dresses that came with both. This year I will not have either as I cannot find my box that has my gloves and I don't have a good Easter hat.  I also haven't sought for one that would be suitable to go with my Easter Dress (that I also don't have...) Why is it that the froofy dresses are only for people 3 feet tall and under? Hm. I feel a project brewing.  For next year- I'm not *THAT* industrious.  Today's epic task: to make Grandma Brown's Cinnamon Rolls...we'll see- I'm not so good with yeast- I kill it.  But I'm confident that if I go slow enough it'll hopefully ...

Guess who found her camera? No it wasn't Glinda the Good Witch (besides I'd bet Elphaba takes more interesting pictures...)  ME! And it wasn't on the bar- which was a good thing because I was beginning to think I had gone a little loco. It was on the bookshelf--because the last pictures I took were of the wall arrangement I made.  First thing first. Operation Boy-ish Bike is nearing completion.  The boy is completely satisfied and had Daddy not mentioned the unfinished seat would be thrilled at the finished product.  As it stands I'm working on an idea for a seat cover.   The bell is by far his favorite feature.  He has composed a 5 note song with it and insists on riding it to Grandma's so he can ring the bell and she will know it is him.  (PS Helmet...MIA- somewhere here I think- maybe still in storage...on the "to do/find" list.) Now the reason as to where my camera was: Holy Moly- I am not so good at t...

Well we're always in the midst of some project or another.  Today it is Operation Boy-ish Bike. We got bike from a friend's cousin who lives in Monticello.  It was a girl's bike.  A little something like this: Ours came without streamers or bike for Barbie but had lots of pink and stickers. Ian actually kind of liked it the way it was. Nevermind he doesn't even know what a Barbie is.  But I'm all about personalizing it. (I would have pictures of our actual bike if I could find my camera...it's on the bar somewhere...)  He chose blue like Thomas the Train.  I'm excited for him to have a bike of his own.  AND we should all be able to go on rides as soon as we, grownups, fix up our bikes (flat tires and in storage) because we also just got a bike trailer for the two youngin's.  (We sold out other trailer when we moved here.) Bargain deals for both.  Even better.  I'm looking forward to sunshine! Maybe we can e...

If this page takes a long time to load- sorry- 30 pictures...enjoy! These first few are from a hike a few weeks (maybe a month or so) ago.   Natural Bridges . Just us girls and the squidlets. This is one of my favorites. These cousins are best friends.  When they get along that is.  This is where the Echo talked back to us--then we met the guys back up at the top and they were impressed that we'd take all these little ones on such a hike.    Next one: Proof that my baby is growing up. He can get around pretty well now but not necessarily where or how quickly he wants to.  On Saturday for Aunt Trish's Spring Break we headed up the road a few miles to Arches National Park .  Check out the cool cousin in the shades.   Hiking to Delicate Arch- the famous one on the licence plates. Again people kept commenting that we were troopers for taking the kids hiking.  My philosophy: i...

Spring is in the air- and so is change! We moved. Not into the house we're buying- still a work in progress...slow progress but still.   It's the house/trailer we inquired about waaaay back in November.  Finally got the call that it was ready (they had been working on some repairs).  It's nice to have our own space though I am tired of organizing- I realized we got rid of a LOT of furniture when we moved (mostly shelves that I miss).  We even have a beautiful horse as a neeeeeighbor (ha ha).  I'll post pictures some day.  The horse reminds me of my apartment in college.  There was a corral that had a few horses that I'd watch while eating breakfast.  I was so sad when a Maverick gas station moved in and the horses were transferred to some other pasture.   In other updates: Ian gets registered for Kindergarten next month... CRAZY! Landon LOVES to play games.  The boys were so excited when we unpacked our box of games and insiste...