Kenley Jean Bandley

Here are some pictures of Kenley 1 week old. She is soooo cute. We love her! Don't mind my appearance, I had been at school all day dealing with 3 and 4 year olds and I look like it! Oliver is really into keys and cameras right now. He was loving all the picture taking.

Fat Tuesday Dinner Party

My parents loved their vacations in New Orleans a few years ago. Ever since, they have had a Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday dinner. My mom loves any reason to have a dinner party. She loves to cook and decorate. It was fun. She made really good food (gumbo), as ususal.


Alyse, a week before Kenley was born.


Don't worry...my mom did not earn these beads the old fashioned way!!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Here is one of my favorite excerpts from "The Cat in the Hat". It describes how I sometimes feel about the month of March.

"I sat there with Sally.
We sat there we two.
And I said, "How I wish
We had something to do!"

Too wet to go out
And too cold to play ball.
So we sat in the house.
We did nothing at all.

So all we could do was to

Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
Sit!
And we did not like it.
Not one little bit."


We get sick of sitting inside during preschool and since we can't go outside, (usually due to weather or the Spanish Fork winds) we have been doing a lot of fun ART!!! Those of you who know me know that I love art projects. The beauty is in the process not the product and all of these projects had such a fun process!!!

I love NeW YoRk CiTy!!!

Sew much fun!!

I have been taking some sewing classes. One class was a community class that was a month long. You could bring any project to make. I brought an apron, of course. The second class was at Gracie Lou's in Salem. It is the best fabric store around. Lots of designer fabrics. Anyway my mom and I signed up for this class. It was the night before I left for NYC so instead of packing I was sewing an apron. Crazy!




This is actually the third apron I have made since Christmas. I actually only made the bottom half. My mom had to finish it for me in the second class because I was in NYC!!

I love this fabric.

I was trying to get a picture of the cute neckline...

Community sewing class with Kalli. It was fun but frustrating the week I had to unpick EVERYTHING because I used small ric rac.

Half finished apron. I need to attach the straps and pocket to the front of the skirt.

This is me attaching the large ric rac it was much easier to sew than the small stuff and super cute!!

My Birthday

We went to the Cheesecake Factory
Turning 31 was pretty fun!
Here I am with Kalli. She made some awesome face cupcakes in her cake decorating class. I will add the picture to this post as soon as I can.