Tiny blankets

Lately I've had the happy situation of having lots of friends having babies, which means lots of my favorite kind of crocheting projects! I made these bubble blankets for my new little twin nephews:

(Super-easy free pattern here; I love it!)

My children loved these blankets SO much that they all begged for one of their own. Maybe that will happen someday . . . but for now I told them they could each choose some colors and I'd make a blanket for one of their stuffed animals. They have SO many animals they love that it turned into more than one each, but since they were so tiny I didn't mind. :)

I like these little twins

I am now working on a blanket for myself, which I've never done before, and it will probably take me eons. (Actual person-sized blankets are so BIG!)

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Junebug is three!

This lovely girl turned three! Here she is wearing her birthday dress. I love the little hat with her short hair!

We had a picnic and played at a playground for her Birthday dinner. Since she just said "Yes!" to everything I asked her (she loves all food), I chose the menu: ham and egg salad on rolls. (It was the day after Easter, after all.)

She is so brave and capable! I love three-year-olds! She loves to try something new and then do it again and again until she's good at it. She loves to be involved with whatever is going on, and she's such a good helper!

She and Daisy are such good little friends. They love to sing and dance together, and they love wearing matching outfits (often ones they've cobbled together themselves).

We think she's the best little three-year-old in the whole world! We love our Junie!

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Easter Eggs

I just like to post pictures of our pretty eggs because otherwise I feel sad about cracking their shells and eating them.

Abe's bear egg

Sam made the cute bunny one.

Daisy with dots.

Rainbow!

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That infernal nonsense 'Pinafore'

When Abraham saw Goldie in this dress, he said, "Oh no, she's wearing that infernal nonsense Pinafore!" (Which, as I'm sure you know, is a quote from Pirates of Penzance---the Major General's song: "Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore/ And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.")

Pictures of Daisy (and me!) wearing this outfit can be seen here.

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Easter and other festivities

This was our most bunnyful Easter ever! Nutmeg was very obliging, considering. We posed him for picture after picture.

I took these pictures of our Easter Dinner Table especially for Kenneth. Yum!

Matching

Some of us got up to watch the lunar eclipse.

It was beautiful!

Shaking hands over the meeting of the rails at Promontory Summit

Enjoying the rocket display at ATK which we discovered near Promontory Point. This is a space shuttle rocket motor (you can see the tiny children standing under it).

Playing in the new playhouse/shed

Gingerbread girl with her gingerbread baby

Church history museum

Beautiful Spring flowers at Temple Square

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Red Butte Spring

I love daffodils, so if we can, we always make it a priority to visit daffodil gardens in the Springtime! Red Butte Garden is one of our favorite places. I don't think I got any pictures of the flowers last year, and when I compare with past years everyone looks enormous and enormous-er. Soon they will be pushing ME through the gardens in a stroller! I hope so, anyway.

Goldie was a little sick, and you can see it in her eyes---they're kind of tired and sad-looking. Poor baby. She sure likes her brother Abe, though.

I love the afternoon sun on the daffodils!

Daisy "hiding" behind a tree

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Easter Bunnies

What good is it to have a bunny if you don't take Easter pictures with him? I told Sam that if he and all the kids have household duties, it's only fair that Nutmeg have some too. Bunny Household Duties include being cute, being furry, and posing for Easter pictures. I love how they turned out. Easter is my favorite holiday and these little people are my favorite people!

I love Daisy's face in this picture. She is put out because she wanted to hold Marigold on her lap.

She got over it, though. :)

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Soft Pretzels

I love soft pretzels! My friend Rachael and I made them for our 11th-grade book report on The Scarlet Letter. In the shape of fancy letter A's, of course. We also made homemade "wine" that sort of turned into real wine over a long weekend in our teacher's office . . . but that's another story. Anyway! These are SO delicious. We have a tradition of making them during Holy Week (they are supposed to look like little folded arms, praying).

The children have gotten quite good at making the pretzel shapes (or other shapes . . . Daisy kept making shapes that looked exactly like those "awareness" ribbons you see for breast cancer or what-have-you. They were actually quite nice. And Sebby made a tram which he was very proud of).

(We referenced the recipe from here. Since we ended up modifying it and combining it with this recipe, I will reproduce our version here to save you the trouble.

Soft Pretzels

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History always repeats itself.

Right?

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Statements of Fact

Goldie plays,

and Daisy plays.

They play together.

I made blankets for my new twin nephews, because of whom . . . 

. . . everyone is playing "twins" these days!

Daisy likes to twirl.

Goldie rides the train,

and falls asleep.

Others ride the train, but don't fall asleep.

Junie wears one of my old dresses.

People are cute getting ready to go to church,

and coming home.

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