Old friends, Crafty things and such...

I'm going to start doing a Sunday Summary, so all that I miss throughout the week I will get to on Sunday. For posterity's sake! :) This week I have some things that are from the past 2-3 weeks, so hopefully from here on out, I won't have such mammoth posts! We'll see! :) I'm more of a picture person, so my documenting consists of a lot of pictures.

Here goes...

I've wanted to stay in a lot this past week. Just tired and in the winter lull...you know, after the holidays, its cold and wet outside, you just want to stay cozy and warm inside.

We have been doing a lot of hanging out at home:

Still playing with a lot of our fun toys from Christmas:

Tucker can't wait for it to warm up to take this baby outside! :)

I've had some old friends come in to town.

Emily was here for Christmas, her sisters threw a baby shower for her. It was fun seeing her and catching up! And Joette was there and it is always wonderful to see Joette! :)

Jessy came in to town this week. I always love having Jessy here and now its even more of a bonus because she brings that cute little Will of hers! :) Tucker and I love us some baby Will! :)We got together at her parents house with some old friends. My friend Gen also just had a little baby, Wyatt, 6 weeks ago! He's so adorable-I couldn't believe how good of a baby he was! Good thing that I have such great friends who are great mothers to teach me how to do things! :) We're just a bunch of tired, worn-out mama's now! :) (you certainly can't tell in this lovely picture, though!--that was sarcastic!!) :)

We were at the Enloe's watching American Idol this week and I think that Carter is becoming a bad influence on Tucker. He is a monkey man, he climbs on EVERYTHING! I think its adorable! :)

Next think I knew, Tucker was up on the counter with him and they were throwing magnets on the ground! We found them like this during one of our commercial breaks! :) Too Cute!

Olivia was getting into the American Idol spirit and put on a little show for us! Here she is rocking out...

And taking a bow...

And just trying to woo us judges in this one...

I've also been getting really crafty these days! I love being crafty and making and creating things. I'm not good at like coming up with my own unique things, but when I see things that I like, I can usually re-create them pretty easily! I made all of these necklace, bracelet and earring sets for my sister-in-laws on Ben's side of the family. I thought that they turned out pretty cute!

Doug and Sadie came into town from Seattle this weekend. Sadie is an awesome knitter and makes the cutest baby hats and mittens. She is going to be in a trade show next weekend in Seattle. We worked hard all weekend to get her prepared! We made a cute tablecloth for her booth and some cute vases to put on it! I think that they turned out great, if I do say so myself! We also made her some awesome fliers and business cards! We were working women!!!

Doug and Tucker both love their puffy vests, and Tucker was so excited to match Doug this weekend! :)

And of course, Tucker was following Buddy around and abusing him all weekend. He still hasn't learned the difference between loving on him and abusing him! Poor Buddy is probably very happy to be home and Tucker free! :) Here he is saying goodnight to Buddy!

Another side note about this week is the fact that our ward boundaries changed! A LOT (as in most all) of our good friends are out of our ward! We were excited for the changes at first, but it really hit us today as we went to church and felt kind of lonely with all of these new faces! I love change and welcome it and embrace it, so I'm not devastated. It's not like any of our friends moved, we still live the same distance away, we can still be friends. We have just been so used to sitting with our friends at church and being with them all of the time, going to activities, and meetings-it just won't be the same without them! I guess it's time to turn a new leaf (is that the phrase?) and get out of our comfort zone and meet some new people! Although, I'm sure our new friends could NEVER be as cool as our old friends!!! :)