Sunday! Tree!!!

Legos...











Tree trimming! It smells so good!

















The kids playing under the tree brought back sooooooo many memories of my childhood.











I finally finished crocheting clarice and rudolphs collars and cape. Liv insisted he needed a cape.













Ira wanted a necklace to match, but she gets itchy from wool... And I only had blue cotton- so she got a blue necklace- she loves it.






Finished up a Christmas present. liv's chime anklets!






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Farewell friends

We had to say goodbye to Longmont and our friends today to mosey on back to Tucson for a wedding! How blessed are we?! All celebration these days!

We went to the Caffe Luna and the park. Ira ran through some sprinklers...


We found some mushrooms growing under a pine tree...


Liv tearing out the the contents of my bag as we all laid in some shade. She never rests, always moving and doing something!


Ira made a stick doll...


Then, right as we were leaving, we took a group picture of the girls. Oh how iras tears started.... And never stopped.... For hours. She was so sad to leave her friends.
She even propped the picture with their letter on it up do she could stare at it in the car






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the eighth day

one of our friends showed ira how to make people with pipe cleaners.... now i'm finding little sparkle people all over the house.....


we went to the park by our house and walked the lake trail....



stopping for strength training along the way....









and a cute couple photos and a HUGE thanks to my lovely friend B who made emers this outfit.... check her out~ Little Ru Baby ~ on etsy....















now that emers smiles- ira is all over him....



then we played computer games on nickjr.com........



while jared made tortillas for our fish tacos....

craft time

During the "chicken pox shut in" week, i read more blogs than is probably healthy! i was inspired by this and this from over at the crafty crow.....

we started painting the acorns by hand, but when liv dropped an acorn into the paint, ira said, "look! she found a faster way!" and so she had ;)



we didn't really have a plan for these cuties.... but after our trip to the farm today for pumpkins... we decided on a haunted pumpkin patch....

so very excited

My husband came home from work holding this beauty the other day. The pictures do not do it justice, because it was dark out and i didnt want to wait and get pretty pics in the morning.

Its from a local waldorf family that he works for... so cool. Ira has really really been wanting to get a highchair for her babies, and I really wanted one that matched her kitchen we got a while back, but just never seemed to have the extra money for a nice one, and I didnt want to spend the money on a cheap plastic one that wouldnt hold up to this tribe of children my husband and I are making ;)

Thank you waldorf faeries for keeping us in your acts- even though we shopped toys r us this bday instead of nova naturals! Ira is currently waxing on a star wars obsession, that I am hoping this new addition will help tame ;)

carnaval

We went to the second annual Tucson Carnaval on saturday! It was so much fun. The childrens museum was involved, so admission was free and we had a blast walking around the historic neighbourhood surrounding the celebrations too!

I took pictures the first 20 minutes we were there and the camera didnt come out again, You will just have to trust it was amazing ;)

oh, and we made three masks, no pics of us wearing them either- that may still be arranged..... but here are two that I took while we were making them.... there is still glitter EVERYWHERE in the craft room.

second round of completed presents

BEAN BAGS!!!!
these took for-ever.... so worth it though... 70% wool 30% silk. they are so very soft...and so much more rich than these pictures portray.

this is a stick ira collected on a hike that i sanded, polishe and attached the metal clip to.... it holds a playsilk or long thick ribbon beautifully.


the night before our secular christmas i made this doll.... in about an hour, with liv on my breast/lap.... but, imperfect as she is... ira loves her...