Oh No..Here We Go Again

Well some more crafting for you...usually I don't ever do step-by-step pics of any project I do, because well I'm not talented enough to have anybody copy me at ANYTHING, but this one is hard to screw up and maybe somebody would like to repeat it in their home or on their front door as the case may be.....I just love decorating for holidays, no matter the one, but St. Patrick's Day has never been a real big one for me..has it for you?? But anyway, I thought this would be a very fun craft that Kyle and I could do right after he woke up from his nap and indeed it was...first take rice, and put your food coloring in it, then get little hands in there to get all messy and smoosh it up..how ever many colors you want and then glue all over your clover, or pot of gold (the yellow fluff that maybe you can't figure out what it is..there's a brown pot underneath it drawn on construction paper), or rainbow and pour on the rice and smoosh it to stick...this was the outcome and he and I were quite proud of our results on our door...so now if the "elements" don't whoosh it away for a few days..it can stand as a pretty tribute to our crafting....

One of Probably All Too Many

Well this is just a sneak peak at the massive amount of crafting I've done to keep me busy while here by myself (minus the hoodlums)...Dalin has been really liking to help in the kitchen lately so why not have a cool, boyish apron...And Kyle is the king of costumes and would love nothing more than to run around in some sort of super hero costume all day, which most days he does...and so what little super hero couldn't use a cape with his initial on it, stating that he is the most powerful superhero there is...The first pic is of him flying when I asked him what do we do in our cape??

Blast from the Past...

Well since I"m already behind somewhat on happenings around here, why not go back half a month and recap a Valentine cutie...Can you tell what Dalin's theme was this year for his Valentines...well in case it's not clear enough, it's an alien and the inside of the card said "I have SPACE for you in my heart..." I thought it was a very cute idea that I got off the world's best site, FamilyFun.com and another goodie from that site...I don't think you can read it which is a bummer (I stink at taking good pics, that's Chris's job) but it's supposed to (operative word here) resemble a big red and white popcorn bucket and the front says: "To a Pop-Pop-Popular Teacher" with a bag of popcorn taped to the back...we definitely don't get the appreciation around here nearly as much as in our tight knit military communities and schools for the cute things that myself and my kids try to come up, but if my kids know that I try to make all these occasions special, then that's all that matters, don't you think??

As Usual...

Well like I usually say after a hiatus of sorts on blog posting, I'm not dead and Chris comes home in 20 days!! YAY!! I have a MAJOR "Ruth's Creations" photo gallery to take between now and then to show how I've kept myself busy for 3 months!! It's a big one!! TaTa for now, I have to go make something else....;)

Ribs,Cartilage,and the Hospital

Well since this blog is supposed to be mostly an updater of sorts so that people and friends I am away from know how our family is doing...an update on my last post about my birthday. The last sentence said that maybe something special could happen, right?? Well as soon after as I wrote that post, I went to bed and started to feel very achy and just not comfortable at all. I did not get any sleep at all (I was in the bathtub at 2 AM reading a book with hot pads on my ribs hoping that whatever it was would go away) well as luck would or in this case wouldn't have it...it definitely did not go away and I ended up in the hospital for 6 hours the next day while WONDERFUL friends from church drove me there (since Chris is of course 6000 miles away), and watched my kids. I also got a homemade cake that my kids and their "babysitter" helped them make, cards from them, and 3 bouquets of flowers. What can you say about friends?? Well, long story short, I have a torn or very stretched (they couldn't quite tell) cartilage in my rib cage and so they gave me painkillers and sent me on my way...well the medicine that was supposed to help me sleep like a "baby" last night-did not do so at all...maybe a little improvement over the first night's sleep but still up and very achy all over....hopefully each day will make it get better!! Thanks for all the birthday wishes though and honestly I'm kinda glad that birthday is over!! ;)

"Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear MEEEE..Sad Birthday to me!!" Well so let's have a recap of last year's birthday...Feb. 20th 2009, up at 4 am to catch a 3 hour bus ride to Seoul airport, leaving the only really good friends our family had had in a long time, finding out my parents had moved from NC to Utah (sad because if in NC they would have been only 6 hours away from me), and have an 18 hour flight to look forward to. Fast Forward: Feb. 19th, 2010 (I'm writing a little early) my husband is 6000 miles away and no one other than my mom (aforementioned ALONG ways away) knows it's even my birthday. Maybe tomorrow will bring wonderful surprises that I don't even know about...you think it could happen?? Maybe!! ;)

Stay Tuned...

As usual it's late and I'm up wasting time while I should be in bed, but after feeling like nodding off here at the keyboard and as my head hits the keys, I type something in the neighborhood of lkasjdfnboiuaeriotuwetnzbljasdogsjdg...I thought it best to wait until tomorrow to post some cute creation pics...see you then with some fun new projects of mine!! ;)