Fergy Egg hunt

Every year the whole Fergy clan gathers together for the Annual Fergy Family Breakfast & Egg hunt. This year we had delicious crepes with all the topping you could possible want.  Phoebe & the twins (who eat nothing lately due to teething) even ate multiple crepes.

After our breakfast dinner we had all the daddies hide the eggs for the the kiddos to find.  Phoebe did really well this year finding her own eggs to put in her basket. Grandma even got each of the grandkids their own  pool noodle and sun glasses to hunt out. Our kids LOVED the pool noodles a little too much and they have since been re-hid in our garage due to swinging them around and overall annoyances with them.

The twins were a little bit too young to get the egg find concept.  Josh just mainly ran around yard and tried to eat cousin Zach's eggs. Cami was more interested in the dog next door than finding eggs, until she discovered there was candy in the eggs, then she just sat down and started eating eggs.  Eventually daddy just had to go around the yard and find all the rest of their eggs for them.

Cousin Afton discovered the chocolate in her eggs too and downed a candy bar before she was found out.

Phoebe loved opening the eggs more than eating the candy inside of them so Mom & Dad scored well again in the candy department.  Man, will we be be sad once they begin to care that we eat most good candy.

April's Date Night: The Rainbow Connection

For April's date night I came up with the theme The Rainbow Connection. We invited our neighbors Krisi and Eddy over after we both had put our wee ones to bed for the festivities.  We began our rainbow theme date night by sculpting with $1.99 sculpting clay. To make things interesting we had rules to our sculptures..we had 25 different colors which we placed in he middle of the table & then took turns choosing one stick of color until all was gone. We had to use all of our clay in the sculpture and had only about 20 minutes to create our scenes.  Afterwards we voted for our winners...1st, 2nd 3rd, & Thanks for Trying. Can you guess who built what???

Jennie did the hamburger & fries, Cory did the duck pond, Our neighbor Krisi did the rock band and her husband Eddy did the braids/braided rug (left to our interpretation).

 

Cory won 1st place, Krisi was 2nd, I came in 3rd and Eddy got Thanks for Trying. After sculpting our master pieces we partook in Eddy's amazing rainbow cake.  It looks way rich, but it wasn't, it was just colored white cake which we then smothered in whip cream and strawberries.  It was so good we all had 2 helpings!

After our treat we played a game called pirates dice with rainbow colored dice, to match our theme night.  It was kind of a random date I made up, but it was cheap, fun & relaxing especially because I didn't do the cooking for it!

Trying to Remember Why

Today has been one of those rough mommy days where I think I yelled at one point so loud I strained my voice... to my defense, I yell so I don't beat. So tonight I am blogging about some of the cute things my wee ones do so I remember why I stinkin' love them so much.

Lately, Cami has been really interested in dressing herself. She is always trying to unzip her pjs or put shoes on. Last week I came to get her after her nap to find she started to undress herself by taking her arm out of the sleeve & neck hole. She tried to put other outfits on, but couldn't figure it out how so instead she just carried those outfits with her under her chin as if they were put on correctly.

The twins can't make up their mind if they still need 2 naps a day so sometimes they sleep in the morning and sometimes they just play in their room for all of morning nap.  SOMETIMES, however, they do sleep in the morning and chose to play for all of afternoon nap, this is never ideal so luckily it doesn't happen often, but when it does we either get crank-o kids or wee ones who look like this at 6pm. This little man was so tired he slept right through dinner and the rest of the night.

Miss Phoebe has been our true trial lately, but even on days when I am near tears with frustration over her, she still manages to make me laugh. Such as when she get her arm or bulbous head stuck in her shirt she always tells me, "Help, I can't get this stinkin' shirt to work."  In fact she can work the word stinkin' in almost any sentence, which is humorous (ex. I stinkin' love you guts Mom). Phoebe also amazes me with all that she is learning lately.  I tired to joke with her a couple weeks ago about seeing a man on a lift under a bridge. I told her, "Look at that silly man way up there, get down silly man."  Her response was, "No, mom I fink their fixin' the bridge." How she figures these things out all on her own when we have NEVER even discusses anything remotely on that topic before never ceases  surprises me.

I love the funny face she is making in the first picture it is like she is giving the camera the stink eye... her smiles can sometimes be a bit special for pictures.

I guess I remember now why I love these rotten kids so much, hopefully they just got it all out of their systems today and tomorrow they will all be angles...here's to hoping!

Winter & Spring Sewing Endeavors

I know I haven't posted anything this year on my sewing endeavors so here is what I have been up to in a nut shell. 

For my resolution this year I wanted to still continuing sewing, but instead of doing one project a month my goal was 6 larger projects fir the year & to continue with taking misc sewing classes.  So far I have taken 4 sewing classes this year: sock monkeys (which I have yet to still finish mine), hair bow making, magic binding receiving blankets & machine binding.

Since I never finished the monkey and hair bows aren't worth picturing I will show you the blankets I have been making. First are the magic binding receiving blankets. I have loved making these simple blankets! They turn out cute every time and they are simple to make.  In fact so far I have made 6 of them.  I gave 3 away before I took pics, but here are the remaining 3 I still have.  Too bad I am not having a boy to use them, but god news for girls in my ward soon having one.

Next has been my largest sewing endeavor of the year, a new blanket for Sophie, but not just any blanket my very first real quilt.  I have made this mostly using scrap fabrics I had.  I have had to make a few runs to the fabric store for not only materials, but quilting instruction and advice, luckily I gave a good quilt store about 3 blocks away & they are more than willing to help a beginner out.

I haven't gotten to the binding yet, but I just took a classes on applying machine binding to quilts so hopefully this week I will finish that up.  So far I am really excited about how it has turned out. Especially since I have done all the quilting myself, I know the stitching isn't perfect, but I am still pretty proud of how it is turning out!

My next endeavors, within the next couple  weeks, are a mini quilted hanging banner and a Minky blanket so stay tuned for more of my sewing endeavors.

Fergy Spring Girl's Day

A couple weeks ago the Fergy girls went on our semi annual Girl's Day Out.  This time we chose to visit

 a old fashion general store in Layton and the head to lunch.  I don't have any pics from the store, but here we

are enjoying a delicious lunch at Gourmandise.

  

Last time I visited this place we enjoyed their wonderful breakfasts but this visit was dedicated to lunch and once again they didn't disappoint. Their sandwiches were so large I couldn't hardly fit my mouth around them without making a mess and squeezing out all of the middle fillings. I also visited the bakery/pastry shop this time and splurged to enjoy 2 desserts, a cookie and chocolate mousse.

After the lunch we headed back to moms to enjoy some craftiness with personalized name plates.

The finished product.  I haven't hung it up yet still looking for the right spot, but it was a cute idea!

Afterwards I headed home to help Cory paint the living room but the rest of the girls then headed back out for some more fun shopping.  Maybe next time when we aren't on such a baby time crunch I will stay for all the festivities.  Thanks for another fun semi-annual Fergy Girls Day out!

Our Locks of Love "Donation"

What happens when you can't be everywhere at once... nothing good.  Earlier this week I was down stairs with Cami finishing one of 90 projects left to do before our new arrival in 4 short weeks when Phoebe was upstairs playing with Josh.  These two playing together is usually a ominous situation, something I didn't think about until I came upstairs to see these chunks all over my bedroom floor.  

As my eyes doubled in size I quickly ran to locate the source of SO MUCH hair.  This "lovely" beautician's hair cut is what I found.  After quickly assessing all the damage it was quickly apparent that it was more than I could fix so I called my neighbor in a panic to come help help me out.

 

Phoebe sat pretty well for her first professional haircut done in our kitchen.  She really didn't like the cape so after only about 4 minutes we had to pull it off.

The results were pretty good I think and as an added bonus now we don't have to fight soo many tangles & tears when doing our hair.  After many many sessions of lecturing on why we stay out of mommy 7 daddy's bathroom drawers and that only mommy's cut hair, this confession & apology of our up and coming beautician. 

Oh kids, I hate when they are so naughty, but at the same time so cute you can't punish them without smiling and getting pictures/video of all their mayhem.

Doughnut Weekend

Ever since Cory have been married, General Conference weekend has been known as Doughnut Weekend (the only 2 weekends a year we get doughnuts).

This was the first time that Josh and Cami got to fully participate in doughnut weekend and they LOVED it!  Surprisingly enough Phoebe has never fully appreciated doughnut weekend, but at least with MUCH nagging Phoebs actually finished the 2 doughnuts we got her (1 for Sat and 1 for Sun) sometime on Monday. These two twiners didn't need any prodding to help eat heir doughnuts in fact they had a it that Phoebes was eating a doughnut on Monday and they weren't.

We love and look forward to the first weekend in April and October, of course 'cuse we get to hear the prophet, but also because we all get to load up the ole Fergy van and head to Wal-mart to load up for 2 days worth of delicious "fat free"  fried doughnuty goodness.

Pinewood Derby Time

Earlier this week we got the opportunity to go watch & compete in the Pinewood Derby car races for the cub scouts I am in charge of. We brought the whole family to watch the races, but it was apparent after only a few minutes that it wasn't going to be practical for the twins to stay, they just wanted to walk toward the track, so Cory took them home & left Phoebs & I to do the cheering

Phoebe loved the races, she sat in the front row and clapped & clapped as the cars raced down the track. She even got to press the start button once which was a real highlight for her!

Our 4 scouts did excellent! They took 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 7th place; above the1st and 3rd place cars are pictured. Phoebe did very well watching the many heats of car races; she was even more attentive and patient than I became as the races drug on and on. Good thing for me it's only once a year.

Phoebe's First Visit to the Dentist

This week was Phoebe's first visit to the dentist. I was a bit nervous for her because I wasn't quiet sure how she was going to react to all the dental exam. I tried to make the dentist seem like something that was going to be fun and exciting by reminding her and telling her that the dentist brushes her teeth, which is one of her FAVORITE things to do.  

Phoebe was so good at the dentist she sat like a princess, it didn't hurt that they let her watch Tangled during the appt. Phoebs did everything they asked her to do and more. She was in fact sooo good that they gave her extra prizes, an extra toothbrush and a ring, which is funny because I asked Phoebe earlier in the day if she knew what you did at the dentist and she answered, "Get married?"  Well she didn't quiet get married, but she did get to pick out a sparkle ring.

I had promised Phoebe earlier in the day that if she was a good girl at the dentist that she could have a princess doll when we got home, so here she is with her shiny new Aerial doll & dentist prize pack. Phoebe is now really EXTRA eager to brush & floss several times a day to get all the "sugar bugs" that the dentist told her about out of her teeth.