Crawling, Camping, Crafts

Ellie started crawling on her hands and knees this past week.  It's funny because on Wednesday I was watching my friends baby who is 2 weeks older than Ellie and he was crawling all around our house and I was thinking "Ellie doesn't do this" and then the next day she was crawling all over the place.  It's so fun watching her learn and explore.  And of course, her favorite thing to explore is Hobbes.  He has been so patient with her thus far.  However, Ellie recently received her first of many battle wounds from Hobbes.  She was sticking her hands under the curtain to grab him. 

I moved her three times but she kept coming back for more and inevitably he got her.

 Camping

Last weekend Matt and I were bummed that we didn't camp out so we decided to have a re-do weekend.  We went back up to Hitchcock Nature Center and ate dinner with some friends and stayed the night.  I have to say the highlight of the meal was dessert.  I made blueberry crisp in our dutch oven and I will definitely be making it again! So delicious!  I got the recipe here:

http://barefootandbaking.blogspot.com/2011/07/blueberry-crisp.html

Jeramiah, Cameron, Dallin, Matt, and Ellie

Jeramiah and Rebecca

Travis and Krista

Happy campers!

I took this picture in the morning. I love how Ellie is all sprawled out.

Crafts

It's funny how I can go months without doing a single crafty thing and then I get the bug and have ten projects at once!  This past week I've been finding a million things I want to do and Hobbes has been helping me along the way (:

Hobbes wearing a tutu I made for Ellie

I've been wanting to make something to organize Ellie's hair bows for awhile now and I finally did it!

I bought this old window from an antique store (it was NASTY), the glass was broken on the top and bottom panes so I removed it, spray painted it white, stapled chicken wire to the back, taped patterned paper behind the glass and used my Cricut to cut out the vinyl letters.  Best part is I did it all within 24 hours of buying the window and I had everything on hand.  It usually takes me forever to finish projects! (I'll be honest I don't really love how the vinyl turned out but I can always take it off and re-do it.)

Could you sleep like this???

I went up to Ellie's room to grab something earlier and she was asleep like this!  Half sitting, half kneeling, with all her upper body weight pressing on her head.