july 2011

As July comes to an end I am sad and happy to say yah.  But soon the kids will be in school but before that we will have swimming lessons.  Harvest will be here soon and so will all the real heat/  school supplies shopping and all the fun that comes with that.  There have been days that I am happy my kids are here so we can do things and there are some days that i just cant find what to make them do stuff to keep them happy.  We are all getting tired of going to movies and we just need to go swimming or somthing that will make them happy and me happy too.  But soon school will start and then we will be wanting to spend more time together or will we.  I hope that they are having a fun summer.  I am but I think we need to do more swimming in august.  That will make everything much better.  As I say good bye to July i am saying hi to august and all the fun we will have.  Maybe i will set up the tent again and we can camp out side.  That sounds great to me , how about you?  Hope all have fun this long weekend.  Hope my mom and dad have fun on their holiday to the states.

so i for got

As school has been winding down I have been looking forward to it as then if i need to run to town then i dont need to wait unitl the kids come home from school.  I have been working on aprons for the teachers and for a trade fair i have in july.  any ways i told everyone that iwas making them and i thought i need to take pictures well i for got .  i remembered when the kids had just finished wraping them and i thought i am not rewraping them so i did not get any pictures of them.  but all the teachers loved them and they never know what i think of getting them or making them.  so i thought to keep my  christmas costs down yes i am talking about christmas , i thought  i would make everything.  so that it is easy to send to my sister who is in ohio and so that i am not spending on things people will not use.  i ahve lots of things to make and i know that i can get everyone something that they will need or want.  so i am trying to get everything in order to get all of that......

i am so excited that school is done.  i have been looking forward to getting my house in order so that we are able to go and do things.  i would like to go to the states, but we will see.  as i am not sure when.  i will beable to spend time with my kids and that we can have some times to sleep in and enjoy the summer.  my garden is growing good and soon i will be busy canning.  so how are you excited for summer?  what are all your plans.?  i will try to make sure i tell you what we have been up to and i will try harder to take pictures of what i have been making as so you can get ideas. 

so aprons aprons aprons

I have been sewing, cutting out and finding more material to make aprons.  the kids asked me to make some for their teachers as school is almost done and for on of my childrens it will be on next monday.  the other two have a few more days of playing at school,   then on to holidays.  how fun.  but back to the aprons.  my first atempt to make a grown up one turned out horrible so iam keeping it as a reminder not to make that pattern as i dont care for it to much.  lve the material i made wit hit but i do not like it.  anyways so i am going to keep it and use it when i am painting or doing anyting that is dirty and i need to wipe my hands.  iwill have to get more material so i can make a better one.  i have been working on one and it is turing out to being better then i  thought and i really like this pattern so i will wait and see what will happen at the end.  i will try to post pictures but that maybe not so as it did nto work last time.  so you will have to check out etsy instead.  anyways that is what i ahve been up too.  also i can been making baby blankets as there are somany people haveing babies and i love it so that i can visit the fabric store more then ever.  now i need to clean my house so i can sew while it rains. 

This is what I have been up too.........................SEWING

Lets start at the beginning..... I was at a Trade Fair the other month and I was selling my nursing covers and my hair things.  cute little hair do dats.  When people would come to my table and see the nursing covers they thought that they where aprons so i got a light bulb moment and it went like this why dont i just make some aprons and see if they sell.  so off to Fabric land and got some patterns then i went down stairs to my room and looked through all of my fabric that i had waiting to be used as something.  and so i started out with the kids ones as they seem to be the most fun and i have some to show now.  the models are my own children and now they all have claimed one of their own so these ones might not be for sale.  but we will see at how many like them and then i will tell you my secret of what fabric i used.  i tired to up load my pictures as i wanted you to see them but no luck i am unable.  not sure why but i will try to put them on my etsy.  To check them out check out my etsy which is treasureskatie.etsy.com.

Hip \Hop it someones birthday.

Today is someones birthday and his name is Jamie  he is now 6 and he just cant wait to have a cool birthday.  as a mom i have been busy and so i did not plan a birthday party. hopefully i can get one together in a couple of weeks so jamie can have a birthday i jsut cant believe he is now 6 and has grown up a little bit.  he is a joy in our lives and has so much energy that it is not funny.  he keeps us on our toes which is good.  he loves to be out side and riding he two wheel bike that right he can now ride a two wheel bike. yah for him.  this year he wanted was new jammies with the caps as he loves those and being a super hero.  what a great kid and an excitment to our family.  His big eyes just have excitment in them and they tell you that he has lots of adventures in his future soon.  he always wants to help and trys his hardest, he also wants to do what the big kids are doing like trying to sew with the sewing machine.  and he wants to make his own things.  he just loves working with his hands but for some reason he does not like to do crafts all that much.  which i think is weird but that is jamie.  Happy birthday sweet JAMIE as you are my energy that i wish i still had.  Your the best and keep being you.  Love you |Mom

This is what happened ................

Justin and Jamie love that they got vinyl lettering on their door.  thats right the boys now have their own room and it is so nice to put them to bed has the boyslike to goof around and the girls go to sleep right away.  anyways we i put the vinyl on the boys door have not done the girls yet but will.  might even put on flowers not sure.  so justin finds a small piece of dark brown and cuts out his own words that say no girls.  well katelyn was quiet upset and was making a fuss about it.  so this is what the conversation went.......

Katelyn," why are the girl not allowed that is not fair."
Justin," we just dont want the girls in our room. 
Katelyn," well i am going to get a sticky note and going to write no boys"

Thats right she was going to get a sticky note to tell the boys thats that.  it was so funny that i could not stop laughing in my room as they did not know i was there in there.  she did not get  a sticky note but i need to cut out their vinyl.  anywas nothing else is new.  i had a trade fair in lethbridge and it was not the greatest as there where lots of people but no one wanted to buy anything more brousers then buyers.  but that was for everyone.  anyways hopefully i will have better sucess on the other ones.  and i might do the farmers market in medicine hat.  i just need to call and find out more information.  chat later and have a great sunny day. (aka the sun is shining today and the sun is in the living room.  nice.)

This winter

What can i say but the weather this year has been really weird.  FOr the past three weekends it has been snowing and then blows monday and sometimes tuesdays that way the kids dont have school.  So i am hoping that this week coming up will be the whole week of school and no holidays.  as my kids have had more then they need.

on the days that they have no school they do not sleep in but when they know they have school then they sleep in or try to so they dont have to go to school.  i just wish one of these holidays that they will sleep in.  whats up with that. 

I have been waiting for people to ordersome thing from my etsy store but no one has.  One person put my shop as a favorite of theirs and one has but one of my prodjects as their favorite. so that was exciting but i will be more excited when i get some one to order.  if anyone of you know of someone having a baby or just did check out my shop at http://www.treasureskatie.etsy.com/ and then you can email me at treasures.katie@gmail.com or just order there from etsy.  i would like one sale but i will hopefully get one before may. 

I have done it.

So i have dont it.  I have put some things on etsy and now they are for sale.  i have had some people look at them but no one has botton, but i am not worried because its only been a day.  i sure hope i do make a sale i have more i am making and cant wait to show everyone. if you want to look at what i got on etsy go to my site which is treasureskatie@etsy.com .  hope you enjoy it.  i have been so excited that i have check almost three times aday on etsy to see if anyone has ordered from me.  but no one has.  well i cant wait to have my first sale i just might have a party or somthing like that .  or my own little party.  not quite sure yet.  but jsut wanted  to tell everyone the exciting news.  Yah for me.  i have others things lined up to put on and i just needto put on the pictures which i would like to thank justin snell for helping me with that it worked out wonderful and it made my day.  so thank you and also a big thanks you to cheryl snell my sister who thought of this and got me hocked on etsy.  andi hope it works out for me.  I can nto express my thanks fullness enough.  well check it out and tell me what you think. katie

Has this ever happened to you?

Let me start at the beginning.  Last friday night the kids and i went to Medicine Hat because i was meeting a lady about my nursing buddies.  so we went in the night before so that i was not driving in the snow storm that was going to be happening.  Which it did.  so Hugh was at home by himself stranded because of the snow storm and had the house to himself.  He was supose to do his books but no he did not work on them.  so the kids and i stayed at my mom and dads house and it was great for a couple of days.  thats right days. the snow storm lasted that long.  the high ways where fine but if you know the gravel it was not good at all lots of drifts and i hugh drift in our yard.  well drive way.  so we stayed friday night, saturday night, sunday night and monday night. because monday i was going to go home but then i had a flat tire.  so still no going anyware.  so hugh had to come and rescure us and order tires in.  so that is why we stayed there on monday.  then we  came home on tuesday and i went to change my babys bum and was walking in my bed room and i stub my toe really good that i think i broke it.  it is purple all over and it hurts to walk.  life is good.  to top it all off Jamie was sick on weds.  so no school for him. and so he has missed almost a week of school .  great.  well i will send pictures of what the drift looks like and what my toe looks like.  it was not the baby one but the one beside it.  Have a great day. 

so how do you like them.

they turned out so cute .   i love how they are and my most favorite picture is the one with my little holly standing and everyone else is laying down. just wanted to say that and did not put it in my other blog

we got family photos done

hugh has been bugging me for a long time to get family photos done and so i booked them in sears.  and they turned out so cute.  justin had a shinner, holly would not sit still she would run off.  the price almost made us walk out until they came back with a better price.  which we liked and i got a cd with the pictures so now they are mine.  but we had fun.  here are some of the pictures.

its a good day to sew

As I woke up on tuesday morning I relized that the kids would not be going to school and it would be a great day to sew.  This year I got Cheryl and Natalies families for christmas.  So that makes three girls and one boy.  So this year I decided I would make the girls dress and Myers' a vest, tie to match his sister.  So off to fabric land i go and i found each color for each of them.  and they all match each other.  i also decided to make it easy on me and make the same dress.  and i wanted to be a head of the game so i have almost finished my last dress.  yes my last dress,  it is the one that really looks like christmas.  i cant wait for the girls to wear them and how they all look like princess.  also i am going to make my girls dresses and my sons vest and ties.  cant wait.  i still need to get their material but i got the others done.  i stayed up to midnight with one dress and it even turned out wonderful.  iwll post pictures in teh new year as that is when the girls will have them.  my girls loved it.  so i sewed for two days.  when it is snowing and you want to do something that makes you happy then do it.  because the house can wait and so can everything else.  i am do happy i got finished.  it was fun.  so that is my fun with snow.  and i  love to sew on cold days because you are warm at home.  enjoy the snow ....... because it will be here for like EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever

As i was driving on saturday to Medicine Hat where my parents have now moved it was a little weird. As most people know we the Myers girls have moved lots in our lives. And now that we are married well three of us, we still move. As for me i have not moved since i have been married which has been nine years in this house. wow. but back to where i was. i was feel a little weird because everytime my parents moved then i would be going with them and meeting new people and go to church at a different building but this time i am not going with them and i have to come to home to my old house and i am still in the same ward which is fine because i love my ward. as i said was weird. what also was nto hte same was that my sister cheryl was not there and uncle mayne. he was not there and all the other moves we have made he has alwasys been there to help us. what a great uncle. but because i am married and natalie is married and whit has a boy friend we used them to move them and we all pitched into.

Yesturday we went over as a family and we helped mom and dad clean. there is not much left for them to do. i think the kitchen and the master bed room. which i think they can do it. i am so excited for my parents and their new adventure into this new house that is theirs. its nice and we all can feel the space that they have. even with all the boxes. i might go and help set up the house some time this week. because dad has to get back to work. cant wait unitl christmas because we will all be there and we will see how the house is when we all are there. and my kids cant wait to stay over there with hugh and i as well. we lvoe your new home mom and dad and as tye penting would say "Welcom home Myers, Welcome home." and it is so easy to get there. Now i need to find a babysitter????

Its been a while

As i can see that it has been a while since i have written on my blog. which is not good because lots of things have happened since the last time i have written on it. first and foremost we had a little girl on Set 23 2010. we named her Hannah Jessica. she weighed 8lbs 9oz and she was 201/2 inchs long. she has blonde hair and looks a lot like her dad. The kids sure love her and fight over who gets to hold her. She sleeps really good at night and that is good because i need sleep. she is number six in our family and she completes our family. I am happy that stage of my life is done. no regrets.

the second most important thing is that hugh has finished our harvest and we are almost done his dads so that is good. soon it will be winter and planning for next spring.

third, we got everythign out of our garden and i just did up the carrots yesturday and then we will be making apple sause so if anyone out there has some great apple sauces reciepes please share them with me. email me at kidsofvos@yahoo.ca. thats all for now.

As you can see

As you can see i have been not blogging and that is because i have been doing alot more stuff. like making pies. in one day hugh and i made 19 pies. he gives me more created and said i made them but he did the apples so he is part of it. so when i tell people i say "we made". now i still have apples and so i need tomake more because we are now down to 15 pies. i ahve given some away. so i need to make more but after thatone day of making pies i have not had the energy to make more. maybe tonight. or maybe not. i alos have been working on doing up my corn. which i did and hugh helped with that which i am so greatful. and now i look at the calander and i have only 10 days until my due date and i said where has the time gone and just wait in a couple of weeks i will have a new baby and my mom and dad will be moving in to there new house soon and we will be finally in to the rush of things. harvest has been slow because of the weather but as hugh says what can you do about it.? nothing because we have no control over it. and next week i will be getting all the stuff i will need for the baby. like diapers that will fit her. and then i will be getting al lthe clothing ready too. so i better get going so i can get some things done tonight like maybe make 5 or 6 pies. ithink i can. well maybe.

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why cant things last

yesturday i decided i needed to make somecookies for the kids lunchs. well i thought these should last at least until weds. not so . hugh came in when i was taking the first ones out of the oven and he has to swip alomost all of them and then needed a bag of them to take with him to the combine and then i took more out later and they where like gone whne the kids saw them. so now when justin and katelyn got home they ate some more cookies and there are like two left so guess what i have to do to night is make more but i htink i might make them when the kids are sleeping and when hugh is full of supper.

i was thinking yesturday how i use to make cookies when it was just hugh and i and they would go bad after a while which would be months after . but now that i have 5 kids they dont last two days. so that is why it is better to make big batches when you have a lot of kids who eat them and not when there is only 2 of you . so i did make a lot of jello for the kids and lets see how long that will last.

my new cell phone.............

yesturday i went to lethbridge and had a doctors appt. everything is fine with that. the baby is still active and she love to stretch at around 7 am so that is my wake up call. anyways went to the city got a new cell phone because my other phone we thought could not text but turns out that one of my kids decided to put on a pass word or a PUK on my sim card and i could not text so yesturday well last night i decided to play with the new phone and i played to much with it that i could not do anything but call the emgercy number. which is not good because i did not want to do that. then with all the fustration i had and hugh knew i was fustrated because i just did nto want to talk or even look at anyone and i just wanted to sleep because i wanted to have this nightmare over. well he decidedto call rogers this morning while i got the kids ready for school and got it all fixed. my old sim card is no good now. but when you buy a pay as you go phone then you get a new sim card. and so they fixed it with the new sim card. yah. i am so happy that hugh delt with it because i was fustrated this morning knowing i could not do anything. he was calm and i would not have been and i would have started to cry because my new phone is so much fun. anyways now i can text people yah. so it took hugh about 30 minutes to get it all worked out and os when he was gone i text him and told him thankyou even though i told him before. now my phone works andi dont need to worry and i have locked my key pad so no one can get into it. lets hope so. but i was so mad with technology that i wished i did not have a phone to begin with. now

did any one call for a taxi??????

I have been a taxi for hugh for the past couple of days. i ahve been picking up one of the hired hands and i have been the taxi that is full of little kids who thinks it is so cool to go to the field to pick people up. all i need now is a sign that says Hughs taxi service. as i am the driver but he is the boss. so the past couple of days i have been to grassy lake ,to bow island to burdett and then back home and then to the field about four times last night. which the kids had fun but my house looked like a stamped went through it and i have nto cleaned it today either but for the kichten because i needed to make snacks for the kidsa nd i cant wait unitl school starts holly will get some good naps then and i will beable to get things done that i normal dont get done. but i need to get the house clean for sunday so there is not much to do and it is only 4pm. at least most of my laundry is done and i dont have to worry about that. the baby is very active today and it is hitting my blatter like it is a punching bad for her. i have been going to the bath room alot more. well nothing else is new. been workign on some baby blankets which i need to get on it again so i can give it to the person who is going to be at church on sunday. i cant believe that the summer is over. where did it go and the weather today is so nice because it is so fall like. i cant wait to wear sweaters and all that. i will take a photo of my baby blankets and then i will post them so all can see what i have been making and also the cute girls outfits that i made a week before summer vacation is over. have a wonderful fall day. did any one need a taxi??????

got all the school stuff...............

Now that i did the big buy and got all my three school age kids their supplies for school i am ready for school to start and to have some time to my self before the baby comes and then i will ahve not time at all for my self that is why i am sewing stuff right now and getting the house in order so that i can do as little a possible so that i can enjoy my last baby in my arms.

yesturday i had a wonderful surprise before i went to lethbridge of a doctors appt. a lady who is dear to me did some laundry for me and the kids and you now what she got it all done and the laundry has never looked or smelt as clean as i have ever had. what a wonderful lady she is. she hangs her laundry out side to dry and i htink that whats makes the difference how i love that. she even made my whites look whiter. anyways she got it all done. she loves to do laundry. i don't mind it but she loves it. so she has been doing some for me and i think i am going to get her to do more. it is wonderful. so when i came home from lethbridge all i had to do was put it a way. and i was so nice. it was like my mom had done my laundry when i was a kid. and then she left some cookies for us and they where the best tastings cookies ever. they where so soft and delicious. how i love them. well sad to say they are all gone and i need to make more. and find out how she gets hers to be so wonderful. she even had a house full of grand kids come to visit her and she got my laundry done. so i am going to get her something even special for all the love she gives me and my young family.

the kids where watching sesame street and the word of the day was hughmongous i think i spelt that wrong but i did try to use spell check and it was no help to me. anyways we thought that could be their dads new nickname. hugh mongous anyways we laugh and if you are not oh well i guess you had to be there.

it will be nice when school is in and the kids will see their friends and get to have fun. we have already planned to have a holiday in sept. in drumheller cant wait. but i will let you know what we might do. so all to those moms out there getting ready for school or getting your kids ready for school i understand. its sad to see them go but happy at the same time becasue then you dont have to entertain them anymore during the day.