Superhero Monday

Last night the boys had a great time wrestling with their Daddy and being superheroes. They are boys through and through and love anything that involves their "big" muscles, attacking bad guys, and pretend "weapons" of any sort. The pictures are just too cute not to share!

Here is Spiderman (Owen) and Captain America (Caeden) and Elliot James who doesn't have a costume to fit him yet but he doesn't let that keep him from getting in on the action!

Spidey and Captain America taking a break from crime-fighting to pose for a picture.

Captain America showing us his fierce superhero face!

Persistence and Pleasure

The days of dodging parked cars, moving cars, drainage gates and uneven parking lot pavement within our apartment complex may have come to an end. Over the last year and a half, or so, Chris has sought to teach Owen and Caeden to ride a bike. However, he has been met with little interest and the aforementioned dodgings. Until recently! I recommended that he take the boys to a nearby school for a change. And, well, we've been pleasantly surprised by our boys' persistent pleadings to "go ride our bikes!" and our own pleasures in seeing our sons "fly" off into the adventures of boyhood. Hope you enjoy!

realistic expectations

When I started this blog, I had the expectation of posting around 3-5 times/week, but this has not been a reality for a couple of reasons. As this is primarily a family/sewing blog:

1. In order to get all of Owen's schooling in, we stay home every day and do the same not real exciting things every day, thus not much to blog about.

2. I am so tired by the end of the day that I haven't gotten nearly as much sewing done as I was hoping I would be able to, thus no products to post.

All that said, we did manage to get out of the house on Friday since Owen's school schedule is not quite as full, and went to the Louisville Zoo. We love the zoo and have had a membership since we moved here. Even though the boys have been there dozens of times, they still really enjoy it.

Here is Owen and Caeden riding a tortoise statue:

And here is all 3 boys on the rhinoceros statue. Elliot is barely holding on but I had to get him out of the stroller for at least one picture:

Oh, and I did have a chance to sew a little over the weekend so hopefully those will be up soon!

a good weekend

We had a good and full weekend. Our highlight was by far going to an Andrew Peterson concert on Saturday! Do y'all know Andrew Peterson's music? We absolutely love it! A local church was hosting a FREE concert, which is also great and so we took the whole family, along with some friends from our care group! I'd post pictures, but well, we didn't take any because we were so busy trying to keep our little wiggle worms from wiggling and we were trying to listen to the music too. Really the boys did quite well considering we were there from 6-9pm and their bedtime is at 8:00, and they love Andrew Peterson's music as much as us! He just came out with a new album and has this sweet video on his website (scroll down a little on his homepage and play the video). So I'll leave you with a picture from earlier this summer just because they're cute:

millions of peaches!!!

Last Friday was Chris's last day of summer break before school started up again so we took advantage of it and went to Huber's Orchard and picked some delicious peaches. Here are Caeden and Owen with their cheesy smiles trying to pretend that it wasn't super hot and they weren't super itchy because of the peach skins!

And here is Elliot who didn't really want to pick anything except for the rotten peaches off the ground. Otherwise, my sweet boy just wanted his mama to hold him.

And here is the fruit (no pun intended) of all our labors. We picked a lot, and I mean a lot, of peaches. I had decided to try my hand at canning so we now have 12 quart size jars of peaches to enjoy this winter as well as 4 quart size bags of frozen peaches to enjoy in our smoothies. Yum!

Covered Journals!!!

Consider this the unveiling of my first product! I started making these covered journals a few months back after seeing them on another blog! I am hoping to open an etsy shop at some point, but for now I am going to try to sell products via email, since y'all know me anyway! Here is the stack of the ones I have already pre-made:

Here is an up-close look at the front of one of them. Each journal is fully-lined and has a ruffle of coordinating fabric(s) down the front, as well as a button and elastic closure:

The inside front has a pocket for holding pens/pencils. Each journal cover is made to form-fit a standard composition notebook, so when one composition notebook is full just get a new one and insert into the journal cover.

I am selling them for $15 each. If you are outside of Louisville, KY, it is around $5 for shipping. Please feel free to email me with questions or interests or I can send you more pictures at crbuttons@hotmail.com.

Fun Summer Memories

Since summer is drawing to a close and I just started this blog, I thought I would write about a couple cute summer memories that we had as a family!

Owen attended VBS this summer for the first time and loved it! They had an astronaut theme and what little boy doesn't love rockets!? He did great at memorizing the verses and we even got to take a couple of boys that live upstairs with him! Well, the week after VBS was over Owen announced at the breakfast table that his favorite song from the week was the "Yellow Bean" song. Chris and I looked at each other quite perplexed because we knew that all the songs were about Jesus. As Owen sang a little bit more of the song, we realized that it was actually a song called "Only Elohim" (L-O-HEEM). We all had quite a laugh over that one!

Our middle son Caeden isn't known for his ravenous appetite. In fact, every meal is quite a challenge getting him to eat his food, but for some reason the kid loves peaches, so here are a couple of pictures of Caeden and his peaches. We had a short video of him and his peaches but I couldn't get it to upload! So I hope you enjoy his pictures!

I am hoping to get some pictures of my products posted soon!

First Post & First day of School!

Well, I have decided to embark on this ship of blogging for mainly two reasons: to keep our family and friends in touch with our family as life seems to be getting more and more busy and also to use this as a means to sell some homemade products of mine.

So, as I was trying to think of what would make a good first post, I realized that a big part of this week for me has been getting Owen (5) started on his school officially. He is a kindergartner now, which means that I need to be organized and have us on a daily schedule so that his schooling actually gets accomplished. Two days into it and I am feeling pretty good. Owen is doing well and Caeden (3) and Elliot (19 mos.) are cooperative for the most part! Yeah!

So, here is a picture of the big kindergartner sporting his homemade pirate gear!

P.S. CRButtons is the name that Chris came up with for my products. What do you think?