MY FABRIC CENTERPIECES!

Do you remember a few weeks back when I was stressed out about completing those 58 fabric rectangle thingy's? Well here they are at the wedding. I think they turned out quite nice. The attendance at this wedding was close to 400 people! The tables had to be simple because there was so many of them.

The reception was at an airplane hangar. As you could imagine the space was HUGE. It was really different. It accomodated 400 people perfectly. Here is a picture of just one of the airplanes there. I love how the blue lights reflect off of the silver plane.

I must say that the best part of the night for me, aside from two people getting married, was seeing my little 5 year old in a tuxedo. I know I am biased but I really believe he is the most handsome 5 year old I have ever seen!

GORGEOUS!!!

Jules

EMBRACE THE CAMERA

It is pouring down rain here today and my day has consisted of a little bit of this

a little bit of that

and alot of this

I did manage to sneak in a quick kiss with a smile though

Happy Embrace the Camera Thursday! Man-no offense to my little guy but I can't wait for the sitter tonight!!!!

Jules

EMBRACE THE CAMERA THURSDAY!

I haven't done an "embrace the camera" in several weeks. I thought I would start again today. Since the older boys are back in school I have been spending alot more time with my sweet baby boy. Poor baby got 4 shots today. Yup-4. Two in each fat thigh. I have been trying to give him a little TLC this afternoon. While playing on the floor I got a few shots:
I HATE the first picture of me but I LOVE it of Nick. Check out the rest of the cute photos at www.andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com. I promise you will smile!

JULES

NEW PROJECT!

WOW! I didn't realize how AWESOME my Canon Rebel Xsi camera is. I had to take these pictures today with my old el cheapo sony point and shoot. There is such a huge difference in picture quality. No wonder I used to be so frustrated with my photographs!

I know I mentioned awhile back that my cousin was opening up an antique store in Pennsylvania. He wanted to try to sell some of my things in his new store. The store was supposed to open in June so everything I made was short sleeve and summery. I think, fingers crossed the store's new opening date is this Friday. I had to make more things that were long sleeve seeing as the weather is about to turn. Here are pictures of some of the things I am sending. I have to get to the post office this morning and of course it is pouring rain. Oh well, let's hope this stuff sells. Jules

PS-I have no clue why the second paragraph is lighter than the first paragraph. I am not savvy enough to fix that I guess!

FREEDOM....THEN WHY AM I SO SAD?

School is back in session. This is maybe the first year that I wasn't really looking forward to "back to school" time. This summer went way to fast and didn't last long enough. I am not looking forward to early bedtimes and homework and it getting dark early. I think part of my dreading back to school day is because my 5 year old started his elementary career last Wednesday. I thought I would be fine, I honestly did. In fact, I was fine until I saw his little face peeking out of the bus window as the bus was pulling away leaving me. I'll never forget the image of just his face peeking out the window with an ear to ear grin flashing me his black tooth smile (that only a mother could love) and feverishly waving to me. I waved and smiled and went into the house and sobbed. I drove to the school to make sure he got to his class okay on his first day. He was so fine and didn't appear nervous at all. He was just really proud to be sporting his new KC Royals backpack and officially declare himself a Kindergartner. My second grader wasn't as excited as his brother. He was more nervous I think.

The whole day I was fine one minute and then the next minute have huge tears welling up in my eyes. It's so hard to let go. I was worried about all kinds of things like was he going to be able to carry his lunch tray by himself? Would he be able to button his pants after he went to the bathroom? What if his shoe became untied? Would he be confused at lunch and pick out an appropriate balanced lunch? Would he find little friends to play with at recess? Do I need to get a life or what? What the hell am I going to do when they leave for college? YIKES! I can't even imagine that one. I also can't help but wonder if I did enough to prepare him. Not being home with me everyday is a BIG deal. At least to me. I honestly realized that morning that being a mom is so rewarding but also so heartbreaking. After you are a mom you just have to face a lifetime of letting go. I realize that it is a good thing to be able to let go it's just so incredibly hard!

Jules

EMBRACE THE CAMERA

It's another embrace the camera Thursday. This is the best I could do today. I know its a little blurry. My 8 year old took it. It's a picture of me and my smiley 1 year old. I love his chubby, slobbery smile. Go to www.andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com and check out the rest of the cute photos.

Jules

SUCCESS!!!

Smashed pennies from the train track! This was a two day process. We went back the next day and there were no pennies to be found. My two little buddies were pretty bummed. We put 6 more pennies on the track yesterday and as we were pulling up to see what we could find a train was way off in the distance. My kids and I quickly put a bunch more pennies down and waited patiently in the car. After the train passed this is what we found:

I am aware that this isn't very exciting to most people but my kids thought it was really cool!

Jules