Fergy Firsts

Last week I got to attend the ribbon cutting of Cory's very first building that was all his design and construction.  It was for the Utah Career Center aka PipeWorks.  This is a school for union tradesmen such as plumbers, hvac&r workers, welders, & pipefitters. This is where they get their accreditations and advancement certifications.

Below is a drawing of the building from above & pictures of the front of the building during the day & evening.

This room is located in the front of the building & can be seen from outside too.  It houses all the plumbing and mechanical units.  It is lit with changing LED lights for a fun effect but it is a practical learning classroom for the student who attend the school too.

For the "ribbon" cutting the Pipe Tradesmen constructed a copper pipping gate, which they then cute with pipe cutters and it became a gate you could walk through to enter the building.

Here are some details I just wanted to note. One was the board with all those who contributed to the building.  We would hope they thanked Cory personally as we have seen at other buildings, but no such luck. The second was this cool table that was made out of functional pipes and glass. The glass table has 2 panels of inch thick glass on it & each panel of glass weighs 200 lbs.

This last picture was just something I saw that I thought was funny.  Note this is a tent with NO walls & yet they posted an exit sign....really can't you just exit the entirely open space from just about anywhere?!?!

SIDE NOTE:
I forgot to say that we attended, at the end of September, the first birthday of Jared Michael, the first of the great Fergy Baby Rush of '09.  I can't believe all these little ones are now turning one!

Just a Little Hocus Pocus

Every year our family looks forward to getting to visit all the witches at Gardner Village.  Last year, however,  my family went without me since I was still on bed rest, so I was doubly looking forward to it this year plus  we got to tag along this year with Amber, cousins & grandma which was exciting for Phoebs because she doesn't get to see her cousins all that often.

 

Phoebe, my sicko daughter who LOVES spiders,  had to have her picture taken by a big spider which she then pretended to be afraid of.

The 3 weest ones also had fun looking around at everything even though the expression on Cami's face might suggest otherwise.

One of Phoebs' favorite cousins (she has many) is Zack. They are about 7 mos apart, Phoebe being the elder, but Zack has about 5+ inches & 20+ pounds on Phoebs, but still they play pretty cutely together.

The whole gang together, minus grandma who is taking the pictures, for one last shot. This picture turned out cutely despite of how difficult it actually was to get all the kids happy for, they kept trading treats and wandering around, which is why I finally had to hole Phoebs on my lap.  Oh well...the gang had a ton & now I can't wait until Dec so we can visit the elves when they arrive. 

11 Mos Old

 This month Josh learned to crawl on his knees although he still prefers his arm crawl.  Also, both of these wee ones now eat table food. Cami is a noodle fanatic and both absolutely LOVE fruit and eat it until you finally just cut them off.

September's Date Night

For September's date night the theme was romantic night at home. I adapted it to be candlelit Scrabble, Sparlinking Cider & Fresh fruit with delicious cream for dipping. I was really looking forward to this date forsome time, but unfortunaltly it fell a little short of my hopes for it.  Looking back it was obvious a bad omen for romance as I was trying to put the kids down for bed and finishing the dishes and Phoebe was standing on a chair at the sink helping me and all of a sudden my foot was wet.  That's right, we are potty training and it an potty accident.  That wasn't the worst of it either, when I looked down Josh was playing under the chiar, yep his sisiter just peed on his head.  He was not distrested as I was, however, he thought it was fun and was laughing and splashing in it.  So instead of getting kids in bed, two of them needed to be bathed and the floor mopped up.  After this fiasco, it was a bit of a stretch back to romantic date, but I eventally got everything as it should have been and decorated the livingroom, with candles and a Scrabble picnic.

 

We then began to play Scrabble, something Cory had never done. The game didn't go so well due to the lame set of letters we kept getting.  If you can see my board  halfway though the game you'll see U E I & 4 Os. 

Oh well, the food was delicious and I kicked Cory's can by almost 85 pts!  I think this date could still be a lot of fun as long as it is not forced from mopping up pee from 2 kids and the floor and you picked a more fun game.

Mid September's Glory

We finally took down the water colors for Phoebe and , man does she LOVE them!  She paints and paints, but with only he color black.  Yep that's my morbid child.  As is apparent she does not restrict herself to only painting on the page, she paints  fer face, chest and even teeth, oh well their, non-toxic right?!?!

Th twins continue to look for trouble when ever possible. Their new favorite thing is to race to the fridge when ever it's open and raid it.  I wasn't quick enough here and they climbed up in.

Last, but certainly not least is all the GREAT veggies we are now getting to pick out of our garden.  Just look at all the beautiful colors and varieties, I am sure this would cost the kitchen sink if I were to get it all from the store!  We love having a garden of our own, because we get to pick all this EVERY WEEK!!!

Sew Determined: August & September Editions

For August's sewing project I took it easy and just completed a project I have always wanted to do, a fabric Birthday Banner.  I  did it the hard way in that I found a font I liked on the computer then cute it out then pinned it to fabric and Heat Bond and cute the letters out again; the easy way would just to be iron on letters in the first place.  Oh well it makes mine more unique. It turned out pretty cute in my opinion, perfect for any birthday we have at the ole Fergy residence.

For September's sewing project I made a car seat tent, which is another thing that has been on my to do list for ever. This was a really easy project that I tried to make more difficult than it was really meant t be by adding embellishments that I eventually tore off in several stages and had to resew 3 different times.  Really all you need to do is have 1 1/4yd of top  fabric and 1 yd of under fabric and then take the top fabric cute it to 1yd and sew the two together you can round the corners or not then with the extra top fabric make some handles, they can Velcro, tie, or button.  Then embellish with anything else you like. I made this tent for a baby  shower gift and not obviously for my babies who just grew out of their infant carseats.

Weekend Recap (pt.2 Labor Day Fun)

Every year on labor day weekend we have our annual Fergy Family Camp-out in grandma/pa Fergy's backyard.  This year was the best yet!  We started our venture after church and brief naps.  When 't know  we arrived Grandma had kites for all the kids to choose from.  Phoebe chose a frog kite which she LOVES.  She doesn't know what a kite is or does, but we put it together and she likes holding it in the car. Brother got an airplane kite while Cami got a Ladybug one, theirs are still in the packaging waiting until their are old enough not to eat them.

We were then treated to dinner and a show, for dinner we had dutch oven potatoes and 2 yummy kinds of chicken.  I was on the fence about dutch oven cooking, but after this meal I am won over, it was DELICIOUS!  For the show we enjoyed Zack putting on cousin Lily's boots and then fighting her keep them on his feet and she was trying to rip them off saying no these are mine pink boots.

For dessert we rosted marshmallows in grandma's new fire pit. It was a lot if fun, but also nerve racking as the little kids refused to sit and kept running by the fire pit. Uncle Davey had to of course be different from the rest of use roasting with sticks he had to roast his mallow on a twig of a log.  

We chose not to camp with the rest of the family because as a general rule unless Cory and I are homeless we don't camp. The next morning however we got up early and went back to grandmas to eat and play more.  Cami and Josh both had their first times in the baby swing, as you can see by their faces, they loved it!  Phoebe insisted on being the one to do the pushing.

Phoebe loves to swing, but as brother and sister were occupying it Phoebe took it upon herself to find a ride of her own.  This a Barbie horse she is riding and you can see her and her cousin Lily didn't think it the slightest bit strange she is rinding this mini horse, in fact she wanted a turn, but only a 20 lbs Phoebe could ride this house with no damage to the horse.

This weekend was so much fun that I was truly sad when the time came to head home again.

Weekend Recap (pt.1 Misc Happening)

This past weekend my oldest niece Savannah turned 8 years old so she was able to be baptized in our church (LDS). It was a lot of fun to she how genuinely excited she was for her baptism. The service was nice and short since she was the only one on the program. Afterwards we enjoyed and wonderful lunch at her house and she shared with us a very wonderful testimony. She is soo grown up from when I first met her when she 3 yr old and she didn't speak much to me except to tell me that black was her favorite color.

For the rest of Saturday we were able to relax and enjoy family time.  On Sunday as we got ready for church we picked out the outfits but when I told Phoebe to pick out her shoes and socks she came out as we were dressing the twins and reveled to us her pick of shoes and socks. Oh silly girl!!!  I guess next time  I will have to be more specific on the shoes I want her to pick from.  Everyday Phoebe does at least one crazy  thing that catches us totally by surprise and is just cracks me up.

Say Say oh Playmate...

Everyday around here is getting better.  As the twins are more mobile and active, Phoebe turns to them to play with and relies less on me and movies to entertain her for 10hrs of the day (YEAH!). With is then comes the good and the bad.  I love that she wants to play with hem, but it is all too common to hear Phoebe in the twiners room playing around when they were or are suppose to be taking naps, in fact we have had many timeouts over it. When I walk in Phoebe is always in Cami's crib jumpin' round.  Cami laughs and thinks it's great fun unless her sister tangles her up in the net then she gets agitated.

The twins as they can both crawl & sit themselves up on their own follow each other to play with the same objects & or the same trouble.  I love that they crawl over and interact with each other on a constant bases, they really are going to be the best of friends.