Grandma's Cookie Party Fun

Every year at Valentines Grandma Fergy has a cookie party for all the grandkids. There they decorate to their hearts content cookies and cupcakes with candies and sprinkles. This year was the craziest "fun" yet with the 6 older kids super excited to decorate treats and then the 5 babes just ready to eat and get messy.

Phoebe is a cautious child  when it comes to decorating. She doesn't add much to her cookies, in fact the only reason this heart got as much as it did is because I added to it. On another note Phoebe is my MOST frustrating picture taker EVER she doesn't understand looking at the camera for a picture, so you either get a far distant look to only heaven knows where or you get after much yelling to look at the camera and hold your cookie up, cookie face girl.UGHHHH!

By know it is a widely known fact Phoebe is a non eater.  She only tends eat when she is in a social situation, which is why she took ONE bite of her beloved cookie. The rest of the cookie came home with us and has been given many times as a dessert, but she only ever eats a bit of it at a time...the cookie finally got so hard we had to toss out the rest of it & yes 2 wks later thoes cupcakes of her still have not been eaten. 

Though the twins are normally big eaters they just didn't understand the whole cookie thing so they mainly sat there and held their coolie and waved around their spoon of frosting until their cousins eventually stole what was left of their trays.

Cousin Zach got really into the decorating, but he would only use the manly color green to adorn his creations.

He had made such a widespread disaster with his sprinkles that he felt he could only begin to clean up the mess by wetting his hands continually and licking them up, unfortunately this gave Phoebe an idea of what to do with pink sprinkles. 

After all was said and done the twins maintained their nearly perfectly clean staus compared to the rest of the babes.  I think they would have been more into it if they were both teething at the time.

Until all the yummy fun again next year including another baby in the mix,  this picture of brother will have to tide us over.

First Cuts & Fire Hats

Our little boy has what can only be described as crazy red hair.  When it is done (wet with gel) it is very curly and I call him little Mikey (because he had a Jerry curl), but for the other 6 days besides Sunday he has hair resembling Flint Lockwood, the main character in Cloudy with a Change of Meatballs.  We have been talking about giving him his very first a hair cut for a couple weeks now, but when it came down to it I wasn't sure how I was going to cut 1. a wiggly little boys hair 2. such curly hair.  I figured however, after someone on Sunday commented on Josh's afro and yesterday when we went to play at a neighbors house and her boy who about the same age and hair color had such nicely done hair it was time to take a "wack" at the long shaggy mane of Joshie's head.

For proof of the crazy red hair he sports on a daily bases I have before pictures.  See wacky uncontrollable frizz.

After about 20 minutes and only a few tears our little man is once again so handsome.  I had to use both sheers and scissors to achieve his look.  I wanted it short in the back but still noticeably curly on top & I think it was achieved.  Is it a totally perfect haircut, nope, but it is good enough for me and I had reached the end of this little boys good natured patience.  As I am looking at the pictures, trust me it looks better in person, but either way I think this wee one is cute enough to even pull of his mama's crazy hair cuts.

NOTE: I didn't do his hair in these pics it just got wet and went extra curly now that we cut a little length off the top.

I just couldn't write about cuties and leave this cutie twin out. I posted last week about the trip to the fire station, well, Cams still loves her hat, especially now that we took the elastic off.  She puts it on in the morning & wears it all around the house. Her biggest pet peeve is when her siblings try and take off her, she gets so mad and screams till they give it back. Here sh is watching TV & playing with it on.

Party On pt 2 & Only 15 Months late

Last Saturday a friend of mine, Stephanie, took me out for a late birthday celebration.  We started by going to a day spa for manicures & pedicures only to find out that the place that we had made appointments for a month ago and had pd gift certificates to was now out of business.  Feeling a bit annoyed we went on with our next plan which was to go eat.  We were too early for the lunch we had planned so instead we ate a late breakfast & boy I am thrilled we did!!!  The place we went was some place neither of us had ever been to but, it came highly recommended and now I pass this recommendation on to you all.  If you in the SLC area you must go to Gourmandis Bakery.  Here is a picture of the breakfast I ate.  Sorry, I ate half of it before I remembered to take a picture so think of all this deliciousness x2.  The berries were some of the best I have EVER had & it only was $4.75 for it all!!!  I can't rave about t enough I am craving it just thinking of it.

After breakfast we went and had to pay again for pedicures, but it was worth it; both Stephanie & I needed them really bad!  With my toes all beautified it was then off to the nest party, the Fergy clan V-day apron sewing party.   

We picked a new fun pattern and got together and sewed our holiday/everyday aprons. Here are 3 of the aprons completed. I was about 1 hr late so like always I had to take mine home to complete it. After only about 45 minutes my cute reversible apron was complete.  One side is for v-day and the other for St. Patties day; a rather genius idea I came up with myself.

On another sewing note, I have been trying to finish up undone projects lately which included Cami's baby blanket from mommy.  I figured it is only 15 mos late, but she really wouldn't have even appreciated it until now anyway.  I chose to make her a rag quilt like her twin brothers, but I didn't want to make all the little squares so she has cute stripes, a cute pattern I made up on my own.

It turned out cute and you can see the front vs back with fun bright flannel colors just fitting for our wild baby Cams.

Thirty Something

By the picture drawn in the shower wall you can see it's birthday time again for another Fergy member.  Last Wednesday (Jan 26th) I turned 31. Last year I was thirty, flirty and thriving, but this year I am now Thirty Something (like that 80's v show full of old people)... even though I am growing more and more ancient I still love birthdays! This year Cory was way on top of things and wrapped my gifts almost 2 weeks ahead of time.  Our up-stairs counter was full of presents!  

Phoebe was sooo exited for my birthday that everyday, about 20x a day, she would tell me, "Mom you know what we got you for your birthday? A Peasant" (and no I don't mean present, I mean it like a poor person, a peasant).

Cory was extra tricky this year with the wrapping of my presents. He wrapped dvds with marshmallow or packing Styrofoam or in giant sacks to try and throw me off in my guesses. It looks like Cory went and spent a million bucks, but not all these gifts wonderful gifts were from him, half were from my parents, but Cory still wrapped them all lovely for me.

For the first half of my birthday day I spent it partying it up at the Drs office, for the 2nd year in a row.  Phoebe woke up sick on Tuesday and we took her to the Drs to find out she had an ear infection, blisters on the back of he throat and a developing stone in her saliva duct.  To get her better they put her on a new medicine and that then started the vomiting which is why we had to go back to the Drs on my birthday.  Phoebe was allergic to her new meds.  After she got them all out of her system she was our happy party girl once again.  For the second half of the day we got to once again party on! We enjoyed pizza from my favorite pizza place Sweet Home Chicago Pizzeria, then we blew out the candles on yummy cupcakes from The Sweet Tooth Fairy.

Note the little hand trying to steal my cupcake, don't worry he got to eat a fair portion of it later.  Even if I have to get older to celebrate my birthday I am happy to do so.  Minus the drs visit, thanks family for another great birthday!!

Walkin' Fools

Look what we have been up to lately... We are all walkin' fools!

January's Date Night & My Children's Favorite Toys

For January's date night I planned a mini progressive dinner noodles & pie.  It is actually because of the movie The Santa Clause 2.  Santa asks Carol (his future wife) in the movie to go on a date with him for noodles & pie, well Cory and I for some reason thought that was funny so I planned our own noodles & pie date.  For noodles we went to Noodles & Company  a place we have been curious to try for a long time & it didn't disappoint. 

For dessert I gave Cory the choice of Village Inn, Marie Callender's or Letherbys (an ice cream shop).  Cory chose Marie Callender's, because pie is what they are famous for, man were they a let down!  Neither Cory or I liked our pies and we were grateful that we also ordered hot cocoa because it was the only redeeming part of dessert.

A pic of both of our meals which we did or didn't get to enjoy eating.

After thought:

This is why buying toys for our kids isn't worth the money.  Last week we went to Costco and stocked up on many items including TP. Out of laziness we didn't put things away immediately and then we soon discovered this pack of TP has brought our kids more enjoyment than any toy we have recently bought them, so we have just left it sitting in our living room.  All of our kiddos are continually climbing up on the TP and on occasion all three of them even fight to be the one getting to sit on our special TP chair.  Yesterday, Phoebe even took a  sick day cat nap on top of the TP. 

Big Red Firetrucks

As many of you probably know Cory is an Architect, but what many of you might not know is Cory's office specializes in designing fire stations and last week his office had a ribbon cutting for the opening of the Herriman, Ut fire station.  To celebrate their new presents & to get to know the community better, the fire station holds open houses where anyone can on a tour throughout the whole fire station; they even let you go up to the firemen dorms and insist you jump on their beds. 

We started our tour by going through the Fire truck bays, checking out the ambulances, and then got to help wash the new firetrucks.  Phoebe was in love with washing the trucks with bubble & we even went back and did it a second time before leaving.  If you ask her she loves to tell everyone the story on how she got to wash the firetrucks.

At the end of tour all the kids got firefighter hats.  Phoebe & Josh were not loving theirs, but Cami put hers on immediately and loved it right up to the point she pulled the elastic strap back and snapped herself in the face, poor baby girl.

Posting side note: 

Many of you had asked me how I have time to ever to do sewing/crafting projects or blog, well I'll tell you a little secret. I either wait tell nap time or I just let the kids play/run a muck while I get things done. The running a muck was the instance last week while blogging. I lock the gate so I know all the kids are up stairs with me and then I let them loose and Josh and Cami last week had a blast emptying my bathroom drawer of all my feminine products and cotton balls.  

What I didn't notcice until he end, however, was Josh was eating the cotton balls which you can see if you look closely in the pictures; it's like I'm living with a mini buddy the elf, complete with the curly hair and everything.