More Seattle Pictures

Selina enjoyed spending time with Grandma and Grandpa.


Selina loved having full attention of everyone in the house. Here is aunt Tami reading her a book.


Selina wanted to "exercise" a lot! She spent a lot of time bossing Grandpa around telling him "sit down" constantly and making him play with the blocks and toys with her. Thanks for being such a good sport Grandpa!

White Christmas

We had a wonderful time in Seattle this Christmas. It was great to be able to visit Jeff's parents and spend Christmas with them for the first time since we have been married. It snowed most of the time and finally started to melt the day before we flew home.




The back deck on Christmas Day



Selina's "Santa Pile". I thought that Selina would love the dress up things that Santa brought her, but she preferred playing with the toy cars from her stocking.


Selina came down with a cold the day after we got to Seattle, and was very grumpy for most of the Christmas festivities.



Selina was quite attached to Grandpa Erekson the whole trip!

News

I have recently been working on getting some of my products ready to sell. A friend of mine from high school started up a website, createdbymom.com, where moms can post things for sell. So I decided to give it a try and put up some of my creations. Right now you can see my toddler duvet covers and my tree wall art, but I am planning to add things one step at a time. If you would like to see my stuff click on the this link.

Great Day

We had a fun-filled, busy Saturday. We woke up and went to a nearby flea market, where we took our time window shopping at all of the booths. There was a wide range of things, from hand-made crafts to antiques to just plain junk. We were even able to visit with Santa. After the flea market, I headed to Hobby Lobby and Ikea (two of my favorite stores) with my friend Shanna (who also happens to live next door). Shanna and I were able to escape during nap time and enjoy a leisurely shopping trip, without chasing 2 two year olds around, it was GREAT! Tonight we went to our ward's Christmas party, where we enjoyed a yummy dinner and had fun with the other ward members. Who could ask for more, really? A day of shopping and having dinner cooked for you, what a great day!


Selina started crying when we tried to sit her on Santa's lap, so Santa told Jeff to sit on his lap with Selina. These are the moments I am glad I have a camera phone!



We watched Andrew tonight so he came along with us to the Christmas party. Selina and Andrew love playing together. They were playing Ring Around the Rosies here.

Everyone in our ward thought they were so cute as they walked around the gym holding hands.

Selina's room!

I finished Selina's room! I had a lot of fun putting everything together. It has actually been mostly done for a few weeks now, I have just been waiting to get the big "S". I had to special order it from the store because apparently "S" is a very popular letter! One project down.

I just took a quiz and found out I belong in 1956, HA!

You Belong in 1956

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?

Thanksgiving

We had a great time going to Jake and Maren's house for Thanksgiving. Maren and Jake prepared a beautiful turkey, and we all brought sides to share. The evening was ended at their friends house with a pie EXTRAVAGANZA and a fun game of "Worst Case Scenario". I brought my camera, but unfortunately only took two pictures.





The girls had their own table but only sat there for the first 2 minutes or so of dinner.

The Critters are BIGGER in Texas!

I have had to get used to living with a few unwelcome guests in the last couple of months. I try to take pictures when I come across them, so that I can share them with y'all, and y'all can be creeped out as well!


I often find these little friends scurrying across my kitchen floor and I am starting to become a tad obsessive about vacuuming my house in an effort to reduce my encounters with them.


Geckos are everywhere here! They like to sneak into our house and they often run and hide faster than we can catch them. I like to think that the ones that are living with us are enjoying some of the above spiders.


A couple of months ago I woke up to find thousands of small "Army Worms" covering our back porch, it was like nothing I had ever seen. I was totally CREEPED out! A couple of hours later I saw these black birds all over our lawn in the front and back, they were making a meal out of the visitors. We later learned from our neighbor that the worms come every few years and eat people's lawns, just wiping them out. Even though we had the birds come to eat the worms, our grass still suffered and turned brown. We are told that our grass should make a comeback next Spring. I sure hope so!

In addition to the above critters we have fire ants, snakes, and a cute little frog that lives in our yard. I do have to say that Jeff did warn me about all of the animals/bugs in Texas. After we found out that we were moving to Dallas he said "Oh, by the way, Texas has the most venomous snakes in North America, fire ants, and all kinds of other creatures."...Thanks Jeff!

My Projects

Since we moved to Texas, I have been tapping into my creative side a lot more. I have been decorating our new house on a budget and I have been trying to make as much as possible to save money. Jeff has been going a little crazy with all of my projects because it is hard for me to only work on one thing at a time, so I often have several projects sitting around the house. I know this may be boring for some of you but, here are some pictures of what I am working on. When I get the house put together, I will take pictures of the finished rooms.


I searched and searched for toddler bedding that I liked and didn't really find anything to go with my theme for Selina's room, so I decided to make her comforter myself. Next to the comforter is the cute owl rug that is also for her room.


Close up of the comforter fabric.


Also for Selina's room. I saw a painting similar to this on potterybarnkids.com but it costs almost $200, so I decided to make my own version of the painting.


I have wanted a round pedestal table for a while now, and we lucked out big time when we found this sitting on the side of the road 2 houses down from us with a "free" sign on it. I had to beg Jeff to take it home, and he finally agreed. The finish on it is not good, so I am sanding and painting it.

Baby booties that I made for a friend.

Selina's new haircut. Selina's hair was crazy all of the time, it didn't matter how often I brushed it, she constantly had snarls. So I decided to cut it myself.

Squirrel Obstacle Course

For your entertainment....

Trip to the Fort Worth Zoo

It was fun to go to the Fort Worth Zoo this past weekend. We went with my cousin Jake, his wife Maren, and daughter Tessa and my aunt and uncle, Darcy and Steve. Selina had a great time with Tessa who is just a couple of months older. It was a perfect day, the weather was great (temps in the upper 70s!) and all of the animals were out.

Selina's favorite thing was feeding the birds


Tessa and Selina take a moment to pose for the camera

ZONKED! We really wore Selina out!

Halloween

Selina and I were lucky enough to be able to take a last minute trip to Virginia while Jeff was in Wisconsin for training during October. We had a great time hanging out with Grandma Dallin and Uncle Michael.

We went Trunk-or-Treating in Virginia


Back in Texas for Halloween Day



Off for a night on the town with her new buddy, Andrew

Finally Blogging

I have been inspired by my sister, Mary, and several of my friends to finally start blogging. My hope is that it will help to keep everyone updated with what the Erekson family is up to. So check back often and enjoy!