365 Days {Day 56 }

{Abraham's Daughters}

I loved this series of book's by Beverly Lewis.

I i read them all in 3 days I could not get enough of the .

They are about Amish life sweet and refreshing.

For some reason one Janet Oke's book got stuck in the stack .

She has an awesome christian series too.

So what are your favorite books to read?

365 Days {Day 55 }

{Short and Sassy}

Madeline had 15 inches of her hair cut off.

She will be donating it to locks of love.

I think she looks darling with this short cut.

365 Days {Day 54 }

{Make a Wish}

Maddy's 10th birthday!

Sew along!

Every one who expressed interest or wants to sew with us please send me your email so I can invite you to participate in our new sew along blog.

We also need to come up with a name.

Let me know your ideas and we can put it to a vote.

Thank you for your encouragement in this new adventure.

PS.

I will have sewing blog up soon and invites out on march 1st.

Then we can discuss our first project.

PSS.

My email addy is jenny8kids@hotmail.com

10 thing about Madeline

1. Today is Madeline's 10th Birthday!

2. Madeline's nick name is cat.  My best friends husband sings to her his special rendition of Tom Jones pussy cat.

Every time he sees her he sings whats up Maddy cat. It is so sweet and melts my heart.

3. Madeline Irean was named after my Grandma Madeline and Her middle name is from Dales Grandmother.

My grandmother Madeline was very strong willed and full of life. Dales grandmother was quite and gentle and sweet but had some spunk to her.

Anyone that knows Madeline know she has all those traits but the quite one.

4. Madeline is a total fashion diva {I am not sure where she gets that from}

5. Madeline is the 4th girl and 6th child in our family.

6. Madeline has broke her collar bone twice once at birth (not only did she break her collar bone but she broke my pelvic bone) and once when she was 14 months , she tripped into a stair.

7. Madeline has the most beautiful head of hair, today she is being generous and donation 13 inches of to locks of love.

8. Madeline has the heart of a saint, she may be a diva but she loves to help and serve others. She is always worried about her friends who have less than her. She always ask to bring extra food to school in case some one for got there lunch.

When she out grows her nice clothes and shoes she asks if she can donate them to friends or a charity.

I really love this quality in her.

9. Madeline Loves her family, she hates that her older sisters have moved out and she always wants us to be together.

When she was a newborn in the hospital she cried non stop. I never had a baby cry this much and new I was in for it. Then her bothers and sisters came and she let out this loud sigh and started cooing. You could tell she was happy to see her siblings. Then they left and she cried and cried again.

When we got home from the hospital and walked into the house she did the same thing she sighed and stopped crying when she heard all her brothers and sisters.

She never really cried again she was a wonderful and happy baby.

She just wanted to be around her family.

10. Madeline is my princes girl and one day when she is older I know we will be best friends, when she was 3 days old I had a dream that we were in heaven. We were sitting back to back on a rock by a river we had our pinkies entwined and she made me promise to make sure she got to earth if her family forgot there promise.

 I told her I would and that we would always be best friends.

We have always had a super close relationship.

I love her dearly and she brings much joy and laughter to our home.

Happy birthday Maddy Cat!

Hair woes!

I went to get my hair trimmed to day and ended up getting more cut off than I wanted too.

My hair for the last 3 years has been cut in a fun A line style where the back of my hair is shorter than my front.

I decided to grow it out a while a go and I have been doing really well.

Normally at this point I cut it all off.

I had it 3 inches past my chin in the front and was so happy i could actually put it in a small ponytail.

When I went in to day we discussed how I wanted it to look and decided that I had to cut the front as short as the back.

I wanted to cry and say no, but new I had to do this to get the look I eventually want.

It's cute and sassy and I can now see the wisdom of my hairdresser advise.

I keep reminding my self by summer it will be more than long enough to ponytail.

I just got to keep growing it and soon I will have long pretty hair again.

365 Days {Day 53 }

{Good morning Glory}

I love to be greeted with such wonderful sites as these first thing in the morning!

What more can I say it took my breath away!

365 Days {Day 52 }

{Bad to the bone}

Apparently there was a staff email sent out to the middle school stating that I Jennifer Wilderness was suspended for 2 days.

I apparently was rude to a substitute, was disruptive during an assembly and tried to start a food fight.

I guess I am just bad to the bone.

{ Obviously I did not do these things, but my son did for some there was a mess up and my name instead of his was put on the email a the suspended student but later corrected.}

When I posted this status's on face book all my Jr high friends got a kick out of it because they could totally have seen me doing all these thing.

We just wont tell my husband where Garrett gets his true badness from.

How do discipline your child according to a 3 year old.

My wonderful son Garret got suspended to day for naughty behavior.

I was a little irritated when I was on my way to get him.

Little Miss M the 3 year old said" Mrs. Jenn why are we getting Garrett?"

I said because" Garrett was naughty?"

M: Mrs. Jenn you need to spank him when I am naughty I get spakens all the time"

Me: Ok M I think he needs talked too.

M: Tell him he was naughty but you still love him.

Me Ok M.

We got to the school I picked up Garrett.

We got into the car.

M: said Garrett don't you think you should tell Mrs. Jenn something?

Garrett: I don't know

M: Tell her that you love her and that your sorry.

Garrett: Sorry.

M. And you love her

Garrett: I love you.

There you go.

365 Days {Day 52 }

{Say cheese}

For some dorky reason Kadie and I both took pictures of each other at the say time.

I should have her send me a the picture she took of me.

I love it when she and her hubby come over.

365 Days {Day 51 }

{Time to wake up}

What more can I say!

365 Days {Day 50 }

{Day dreaming}

I caught Maddy and Ben looking out the window tell each other things they dream of doing some day.

Ben said" some day I want to jump out of planes and ski down mountains.

Maddy said " Ben one day I am going to be a famous pop star"

I hope they never stop dreaming.

365 Days {Day 49 }

{Silly girls}

I love Madeline's face in this shot.

The pictuer is kinda blurry and way off center but I love it anyways..

Itching to redecorate!

I am dying to redecorate I love my red wall and my brown leather furniture but I have out grown it. So I have picked out a color palette and I basically know what I want to to I just need to know where I am going to be redecorating, whether it is here or Colorado.

Here is what My living room looks like now ok a few years a go the only difference is I have brown beadboard on the red wall and I don't have the oak entertainment center up right now but I am going to paint it and use it in my new decor.!
Oh ya I have wood flors know

This is the color palette I want to use

So my idea is Tiffany box blue walls with white bead board and chair rail.

Floral curtains with red and the tiffany box blue.

I plan on getting a red leather sofa  and that's as far as I have gotten.

I will have white and black accent furniture and lots of fun pillows.

So what do you think of my color palette