Look what s lurking in our forest

Looks like a creepy old troll. Or some creature from a fantasy book. if you look close you can see eyes with a wort between them a funny shaped mouth with even funner shaped teeth.. Mother nature is amazing... Shelly took this while on a walk today. she got some other cool pix of our Alaskan forest. I will have to save them for another day...

Holly Cow it's Friday!!!

Man this week went by fast.... I guess it is because of labor day on Monday. I am so ready for this weekend. Having baby M every day this week has left me running behind on things i wanted to get done.. I almost forgot how different baby work is from big kid work.. It takes so much more time to get any thing done with her under my feet. When I had her last year she was a baby baby and was not Mobil.



Any way I feel like I am behind on my scrapbooking sewing and fun things I like to do. Oh well the joy of having her around is worth it.. But having her every day sure makes me look forward to the weekends.. Even if I have nothing planed it's sometimes fun to just hang out with my family and play games and watch a movie.



I am also hoping to get some sewing and scrapbooking done.I have so many yummy papers calling my name... And a few aprons calling my name as well.

Here is an apron I made a few weeks ago for Miss Val I know it is safe and sound in her hot little hands despite Guston.. It was really fun to make.

So what are you all doing this first weekend of September? Any thing fun!!

Time to reflect.......

Yesterday as i was in my room Ben brings me what he thought to be a Jesus book to read. When I looked at what he was holding I just smiled it was my journal . It was not my regular Journal it was the journal that I keep close to my heart one I don't share with others it was my William journal. The one I wrote while William was alive and the one I cling-ed to after William died. After trying to explain to Ben that it was just some writing I had done. He persisted in getting me to read it. So I did I opened the first page that was written and found that it was dated the day before William was born. I must have written it late in the hospital before I fell asleep. I was in Awe at the convections of my words and the as-surety that William would be born alive and that I would have time to get to know him. I read a few more pages and had to quit . The raw emotions i wrote with were a little over whelming to read so I put the journal down. Curiosity was getting the best of me so I decided to get out my regular journal and started flipping threw the pages. I got to the page dated July 25 2oo5 in the head line I had written strange pregnancy dream. So I read on It was all about a dream i had had early in the morning . I am going to back up a moment . People always ask me if I had any warning any inkling that something was wrong with William. I would always say no and then say I had a dream once before I learned that he had Trisomy 18 that he had a birth defect. The thing is I never gave this dream any thought I just figured it was a silly pregnancy dream even when we found out I never gave the dream a moments thought. Here is what I had dreamed according my journal. This morning I had the craziest dream I dreamed that I was getting a sonogram and that the doctors saw something wrong with the baby. After the sonogram They took me in a room and told me had had a heart defect and that if he made it threw birth He would need a heart trance plant. I then was in the hospital waiting to give birth and waiting for another baby to die in order to save my baby's life. All the sudden the doctor came in said it is time there had just been a baby born with severe brain damage from lack of oxygen and the baby would always be in the vegetable state so the parents chose to give the heart of there baby to mine so that he would have a chance at life. I then gave birth only to have him rushed of to surgery. I then had my sweet baby in my arms I rember filling overwhelmed with gratitude that this mother was so willing to give my baby her baby's heart. Then I was at church and every one was ohhing and awing over the baby and I noticed my friend who was also pregnant with me sad and that tears were streaming down her face. I then asked her what was wrong and where was her baby. She then gestured to my sweet baby and said her heart lies with in your baby's chest. i was taken back by her words and the realisation as to what this meant. She sliped 0her arms around me and whispered that it was ok and that she was glad that her child could live threw mine. That was the end of the dream. I am still a little shaken by what I just dremept. Yet I feel peace that all will be OK. I think if this dream was true that this friend of mine would do exactly what I dreamed. Yet I would never wish the burden of losing one's child. I would rather that my child would die than for her to have this burden upon her. It's just a silly Pregnancy with no real meaning any way. We are both going to have happy healthy babies that will grow up and be best friends.

That was my dream I have to tell you that I don't remember hardly any of that dream. As I read back upon it I wonder if that dream had any real meaning or if it was just a dream. I then reflect on the words that I wrote " It was just a dream we will both have healthy happy baby's that will grow up and be best friends." Well we know my ending my baby was not healthy yet he was very happy and such a joy to our family. Yet I cant help but to think that these 2 babies weren't best friends. I rember holding this sweet little baby girl just hours after she was born and feeling a very special bond. I was still pregnant with William and he was kicking me as I held her I could fill his joying in knowing that is friend was here on earth. I am sadden that we never got a picture of the 2 of them and that they never really got to be together here on earth. I cant help but wonder what things they would have discussed. It still gives me joy as I watch threw pictures as this little girl grows and blossoms into the sweet girl that she has become.

So now as I end this post I am going to put in a plug for journal writing. It is so important to do. We always think we will rember every thing but as i stated in this post you cant. It was so nice for me to be able to sit down and read a part of my life that was such a significant part of who I am today. As I read The story of Williams birth again it was like being there all over again. It is so nice to have those memories written down. I even started to read a little bit on the dark place I went after William died and was glad that I had written that down as well. It's nice to look back and see that I am progressing and becoming a better person and that I have come so far from those fist awful steps of grief that was necessary to go threw in order to heal.

My question of the day? Are you a journal writer?

Being a girl takes a lot of hard work....

I was going to title the post that being a Glamour girl is hard work but lets face it being a girl his a lot of work .. For those of you who know me know what a girly girl I can be. I am according to my little sister high maintenance(but not as high matinece my older sister) LOL.. Well with that said I was cleaning out my closet witch was a whole day plus job. The funny thing is it's not like it's been years since I have done it because I purge my closet 4 times a year. Back to the point as I was cleaning it I was looking at Dales side. He has the basic boy stuff work cloths, Sunday clothes work out clothes, working on the car clothes and casual clothes and about a half a dozen shoes. Then you have my clothes i did not know a girl needs so many categories of clothes. There is every day clothes jean cute tops,( No not 6 or so pairs that the guys have or 6 cute shirts ) 15+ pairs of jeans you have light wash dark wash ,skinny ,trouser , tailored, jeans for that time of the month(don't laugh you know we all have them) then the tops you have cute T's then your knits , button ups , cammies with and with out lace, Tunics, swing tops and on and on. then your work out clothes of course they have to be cute or why the heck would you want to work out. We then have to have our date night clothes cute sequenced tops, fun silk blouses, slacks sexy skirts that you wouldn't wear to church and so forth, Oh I haven't even touched the blazers and different types of jackets we need, then there are summer spring winter and fall clothes. Being here in Alaska you have to have about 30 sweater's not just cute cardigans you have to have turtlenecks , form fitting, cable knit and so forth, Then there's Sunday clothes skirts, long short knee length, wool, A line, pencil, and on and on then your dresses and blouses and tights Blahh Blahh Blahh. Oh I could go on and on and on. but I wont. It just amazes me at how much clothes we need and shoes I wont even go there. The funny part is with all these clothes I have I am always whining that I have nothing to wear. Oh the joys of being a girl.

So we have all the work with just keeping our closets clean what about keeping our beauty products straight and our jewelry. I guess I will save that for another post.

Oh the joys of being a girl. No really with all the work it takes I wouldn't trade it for any thing.

So my big question is are you a high maintenance girl or a easy going ...

Happy September

Can you believe it is already September? I cant Wow this year is flying by. I do have to say thoe that this is my favorite time of year!! I love the fall it starts the beginning of the fun holiday seasons. I am already scheming as to wich costumes to make my kids for the big Halloween season and I am itching to get out all my fall decorations. I have a ton of them and plans to add to my already big collection. I bought a fun Halloween party book today and it's just getting me in the mood.

But first I have to get my house in order my carpets need cleaned and my hallway needs a fresh coat of paint i hope to get these things done by the end of the week. We will see... I also have 2 aprons that need to be made and a fun Halloween banner. I hope they will be done early this week..

To end this post I thought it would be appropriate to share a fall apron that I made. It's a 2 in one apron i made it reversible. I totally love how it turned out and hope that the gal I made it for loves it too.

I hope you all had a fun safe Holiday!! You all will have to tell me what you did..

Have you ever seen an Elephant fly?

Me neither.. But Last night I spotted an Elephant driveing a tractor. Good thing I got a pic or nobody would have ever belived me......

Great Date but I ended up being poisoned.

Last night Dale and I had a great date. We drove in to anchorage and went to the Temple for a few hours and then ended up at Joannes super store. Dale is so sweet to bring me there on our date nights. We then Drove over to Red Robins and ate there famous yummy hamburgers. We came back into town and went to Fred Meyers to look at there yummy desserts. That when it happened. I started to fill a little sick. My tummy was getting a little rumble and my head started hurting. I thought nothing of it on our drive back to our house I started to feel a little worse. We came home and laid down . I told Dale that I was not feeling to well so disappointingly he turned on the TV as we laid there I started to feel worse. I guess I fell asleep for a while and then my tummy started rumbling and Dale asked me if I wanted Tums Pepito or any thing I said no I will be fine. Then boom I new I was going to be sick. I ran to the bath room and lost my dinner. Dale was so sweet he was stroking my hair and brought me water to rinse my mouth out. I then went back to bed were I fell into a fitful sleep. I was lucky that I did not get any sicker. I just woke up week and with a very bad Headache and very Dehydrated. YUck.

We are pretty sure it was the hamburger I ate we are just grateful I only ate half of it..

I had so many things planed today that have to be put on hold until Monday and that sucks cuz I really wanted to re-paint my hallway today so I can start putting up my fall decorations. Maybe later on i will fill better.

Lets talk Politics, Aprons and Ben's new word..

Wow what a loaded Title. First lets talk politics. I was a little blown away when I turned on the computer this morning and Saw who John Mccain's running mate for VP was. Non other than our Governor Sarah Pailin. I was a little surprised. I guess I have not been paying much attention to politics lately OK that would be a lie because I am called daily by both the republican and democrat representatives for our area . I have had some very good conversations and have been invited to many picnics. To support both the Republican and democratic candidates for Senator. I am not sure how either party got my Phone #. Yet I am glad they did It has made me more aware of who I want in the senate and I have been paying more attention to the measures and propositions that are on the table this year. I guess I really did not watch the news last night. Or maybe it was not announced until this morning that Sarah was running. Never the less this election year is sure to be historical.





On to more fun things Aprons Oh I love aprons and yesterday got a fun one in the mail from miss Susan We were in the Sassy apron swap together. I just love all the fun fall colors she used and the sunflower she appliqued. She also made a fun pot holder but I forgot to take a pic. I love the pattern she used as well It's the same one i used to make a few aprons earlier this week. (I will show them next week when I am sure they are at there home) I am also making the most lovely Halloween (not Helloween told you all I cant spell) apron for a swap that I am in. I love it so much I am going to have to make one for my self.



Now ON to Ben!! Last night I could not stop laughing . Garret told a joke I don't even know what it was but it had to do with the planet Uranus Well upon hearing the joke Ben fell in love with the word Uranus and he just kept saying it singing it screaming it. Garret would fall on the floor laughing every time Ben would say Uranus so of course Ben would say it more. Me I kept trying to explain to Madeline that Uranus was a planet and she kept saying well whats so funny about that . I just smiled and said I don't know. Of course Garrett had to chime in and say well it sounds like another word. I just looked at him and said thats enough. After hearing Ben say Uranus for the 1 millionth time I said thats enough Ben lets stop saying Uranus. Shelly said to Ben do you want to know a new fun word he said Ya so she taught him Superstitious. Not sure why but he liked it and started sing a about superstitious. It was much better than hearing him sing about Uranus.

Kids you got to love them!!

Jennifer Needs......

I took this from my friends Shania's Blog All you do is go to Google and Type in the word {Jennifer Needs} It is Hilarious what comes up here are my 5 favorites..



1. Jennifer needs: to be in a metal facility ( How did they know?)



2. Jennifer needs: A smack daddy ( still not sure what that means but is was # 2 and 3 LOL)



3. Jennifer needs: Mortician (Akke am I dead and nobody told me or do I look like the walking dead)



4. Jennifer needs: to give birth next week. ( Wow wasent even aware I was pregnant)



5. Jennifer Needs :to shave ( done I did it last night)



You all should give it a try if you do let me know I would love to see your responses.



So I will leave you all today with a fun little LO I did. I just love this pic of my oldest and my youngest. It is so sweet to see them like this. They love each other so much.There will be more to come I have been buying so much fun papers and embellishments lately I have some fun projects in the works.

I am a Lucky girl!!!

I have been such a Lucky girl the last few days. I was in a apron swap over at blooming aprons it was Halloween themed. My partner Glenna made me this spooktacular apron. I love it so much it's just flirty and fun!! I am in another Halloween Swap at the blooming apron and I can Hardly wait to see what Missy is creating for me it is sure to be amazing, she makes the most beautiful smocked dresses. She has quite the sewing talent.

I then received this great little number from Jody I was in a summer swap that Kayla hosted over at the princess in disguise. Jody said she made it from an old apron her neighbor had. I was trilled to get it because my grandmother had an apron made out of this same pattern and I have fond memories of her wearing it. I should have taken a pic of the back it slips on and buttons on the sides. It is super cool and I think I will try to make an apron like it.

Yesterday I got this great package from Miss Val It was all beach teamed .(Don't you all think she knows me well You gotta love the cute animal print bag) She was very thoughtful and sent me some sand from the beaches of Florida that I can put my toes in . She also sent this Fabulous apronwith bathing beauties it will be wonderful to wear in the long winter months to come. I fell so blessed to get so many wonderful aprons for all these wonderful women around the country.

I have been a busy bee making my own aprons to send out on swaps. I will be shoeing pix of the beauty's I have been creating in the next couple of days.

Can you guess what we did at the state fair?

We ate and we ate andwe ate tons of yummy junk food.. Thats one of our favorite things to do...

Of course Madeline had to get her face painted. We tried to get Ben to do the same but he would not.

We went and saw the big heavy construction equipment Ben tought that was the coolest.

You cant go to the state fair without seeing the Animals... and riding a few rides.Last but not least the National guard had some cool exhibits .This fine Choper made by the Orange county Choppers. It was super cool The Guardsmen taking the pic said just look at your husband and boys drooling over it. Yep they were even Ben..

So that concludes our day at the state fair.

The Winners and a super cute pic

The Winners are......Miss Laura for the tote bag and Miss Beth for the apron and we have a surprise third Winner Miss J'ana just because she is practictly family and I forgot to put her name in the bucket.. LOL So Email me with your addys @ Jenny8kids@hotmail.com and I will send you off your goodies.

Dale last night was in a goofy mood and was taking pix with the suckers we got at the State fair from Target You should check out his Blog and see his post about The suckers it's so funny .. This is one of the pix we took last night I thought it was super cute !! I think it's going to be one of my favorites.

Before I end this post I want to thank all my blog readers again I love reading your comments and they really make me happy so keep them coming. I hope you all have a Fabulous day !!

Target is coming to Town

Since I have moved here 2 years ago I have heard Targets coming Targets coming. Then Last Fall they started construction on the 2 new Targets that we are getting one being 15 mins away. When ever Dale and I go into our neighboring town we stop by the now finished Target and just stare at it's beauty just waiting for it to open . It's painted the shelves are in the lights are on all it needs now is all it's lovely merchandise.

Yesterday we went to the State fair and it just happened to be Target day.Target Reps were there handing out amazing stuff and the Target Dog Bulls eye was there to take pictures with. Target also sponsored the fireworks show last night that was super cool they handed out these 3-D glasses and when you watched the firer works threw them there were little bulls eyes around the Fire works it was so cool.

I will post more pix tomorrow about the Fair and I will announce the winner of my Blogaversary.. So if you have not commented yet you better do so.

Here it is my friends my 1 year anniversary!!

As I have been saying for the last couple of days Today is my Official 1 year Blogiversary and to celebrate I am giving away 2 fun prizes . 1st is of course an apron made by me an original designs. It's reversible so it will be like having 2 aprons. For all my fabric sewing readers you will recognize the print by Henry Alexander I just love this print.

The 2nd give away is a super cute reversible Tote bag perfect for quick shopping trips. or atrip to the library or you can put any thing you want inside.

All you have to do to get entered into this giveaway is leave me a wonderful fabulous comment.

I will draw a winner on Monday.

I also want to thank all my readers you are the ones who has made this blogging year so fun for me. I really enjoy your comments each day it really cheers me up and makes me happy.

Thanks Girls!!

Edited:: OK yes I am the biggest dork alive!! I can't believe people can even understand my gibberish.. You should have read my title earlier. (Here my Friends my 1 year anniversary)I should give a prize to the person who can count all my spelling and Grammar errors over the last year! LOL But I don't think any of us can count that high.. So thanks again fir reading this Dyslexics Blog...

BTW I really have dyslexia and I am not poking fun at those who have it. For those of you Who know people with Dyslexia you all ready know what a big achievement this bl0g is .