Hurst Family News

I had a couple of shirts that were the exact same red and decided I'd try my hand at refashioning them into one cuter shirt. I told my sister I'd post pictures if it turned out well.  Not exactly what I was going for but better.  I may in fact add more floofies (not flowers so I don't know what to call them) later.  And I cut my bangs and decided to try them out today.   If I decide against them the good news is they're log enough to just sweep to the side still.   Lando wanted to get in on the picture fun: Then we decided to make funny faces: THIS is what happens when you ask Daddy to put a fresh diaper on the baby... Check out the awesome train track the boys built with Daddy last night (Charlie is in the bumbo behind Ian's arm) TGIF

I thought since it feels like forever since I sat down to do a blog entry I'd just do it all in one go.   Ready?  (In the voice of Peter Pan) "Here we GOoooo!" This is how Landon shows he can be a good big brother.  He is "reading" one of his favorite books to Charlie.  It's in the shape of a tractor and all about...you guessed it- TRACTORS!   Other big brother wanted in when he heard Lando say "Cheese!" (PS I don't know how the scratch on Lando's face happened only that we didn't realize it was a full scratch and not just dried blood that had run down his face until the next day...)  So the boys keep me busy.  Same story as every other mom right? Know what else keeps me busy (and makes a grand mess?)  Crafting.   But it's good for the soul most of the time and doesn't hand me boogers as presents.  So here's the story behind THIS craft project.  You see I'll be flying to California to visit my Grandma soon but it'll...

A DELUGE  of pictures: First up we have this sweet boy's first birthday.   (No this one is NOT mine- he's my nephew--isn't he cute though?) I love that he has brown eyes and hope perhaps his little cousin will too.   This one is for Great Uncle Mike (and all other Uncle Mikes).   The tradition continues.  Peek-A-Boo  (Yes the picture IS turned the right way- Lando is sticking his head out the back of the stroller after which he promptly announced "See Me?!") Blue Icing makes for blue fingers and mouths: Silly Grandpa (See where the boy children get it from?) Look! Look! I finished Wee #3's Blankie:  With apparently at least a week to spare... Here are some of his friends waiting for him: (Ian loves the bear and Lando loves the giraffe- wonder what baby boy Hurst will choose) Now, I am well aware that this one is not a great photo.   However, if you look closely you can see a hidden message quilted into the green and navy blu...

My apologies blogosphere: Shari pointed out that I had the wrong picture posted before.  So HERE is the attempt at making it Symmetrical--alas I didn't have the right amount of squares (see how the bottom left one looks TOTALLY out of place) because the pattern I was going off of makes a 3x3 square quilt- but I like the 3x4 size better:   And again the final pattern for the top-- much more mixed up-- I like it better that way.  After sewing it together it's a little... lumpy. But hey- that's life right?  I'm not about to unpick the stitches and redo it.  I'll post more when I get it actually finished.  Or when the baby comes- whichever is first. 

We went camping with Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Nikki, Uncle Tyler and Brocky Boy last weekend.  This time we actually stayed the night.  It was fun but an air mattress at this stage of pregnancy is less than ideal.  We didn't stay the second night. 4 Wheeler ridin' and shootin' and playin' in the dirt wore the boys out. (Let me clarify: the grownups were shooting--the boys were assigned to find all the treasure AKA the shells) Tired Boys:  I spy with my little eye: Uncle Tyler up a tree. So that was then and this is now... I've been working on Wee #3's quilt since apparently I have time. This is one of the original iterations of it.  Tried too hard to be symmetrical on the blocks at first.   THIS is what it is going to be: It's a darn good thing I took a picture of it because as soon as I turned my back, Lando had messed up 3 of the squares.  No biggie- referencing my picture I restored it.  Well then I transferred the p...