Great Grandpa Cowan came for a visit on Easter and stayed for a few days. They were fascinated by his trailer, Ty called it Grandpa's clubhouse. Grandpa got all sorts of pictures made by the kids and was entertained by the whole time. He was even nice enough to watch the Princess and the Frog with them. The kids were in heaven! This is the picture of Lucy and Grandpa watching the movie. I loved having him here it was so nice to slow the pace of my every day life and spend some time with my Grandpa not to mention letting the kiddos get to know Grandpa a little better. We love you Grandpa and we are so glad you came!
The kiddos are still talking about your visit!
Ty-"hey mom do you remember when Grandpa sneezed?" Lucy-"it scared us!" Mom-"Yes Grandpa's sneezes have scared all of us at one point and time" :)
Wow it's a good thing there has been a Holiday each month because it seems that I only get around to posting if it's been a holiday. Yesterday we had a nice relaxing Easter. The kiddos woke up and started the day off with checking out their Easter baskets and Lucy eating most of her candy in an hour. Then she worked on the rest of the families through out the day I guess that is the fun of being a kid. We hung around the house, watched conference and had ourselves an Easter egg hunt in the front yard. It was a beautiful day. We also had a visitor come to stay for a few days. My Grandpa Cowan It is so fun to have him here with our family. The kids are so excited to have him too! Grandpa will probably leave with enough pictures and notes to fill his trailer. More pictures to come I just wanted to post the Easter outfits I think they turned out pretty cute.
We had an eventful day yesterday between trying to catch that sneaky leprechaun who turned our milk and pancakes green again, and an unexpected trip to get two...yes two kids hair cuts all while trying to get some sewing done for the spring open house this weekend I was ready for a nap by two o'clock! Our morning started off with our ritual of green pancakes courtesy of Mr. Leprechaun. I wasn't sure how he was going to do it because all Ty has talked about was catching the Leprechaun when we made pancakes. Lucky for the Leprechaun, Ty was distracted by Dinosaur train while the pancakes were mixed. Just like last year the mix turned green when they "helped" stir the batter. They were pretty excited about the tricks but not too long after Lucy was a little creeped out by the idea of a little green man in our house playing tricks on us and according to Lucy green pancakes an milk are gross!
After reassuring Lucy that the Leprechaun was done playing tricks and he is not scary I sent the kiddos down stairs to play while I got some sewing done so I could drop stuff off to the shop after lunch. I was feeling pretty good about myself and keeping on task and just as I was patting myself on the back and that I would be done before lunchtime Lucy comes up with a handful of hair. I take one look at her while I'm holding back the tears I just looked at her and said "OH BABY WHAT DID YOU DO!" She cut probably 6 inches off!!! I about died!
After the initial shock of her pretty hair all gone I snapped some pictures and started getting the kiddos dressed to make a run to the salon. Ty got dressed and I got the girls and myself dressed I asked Ty to comb his hair because it was sticking straight up in the back. He came out with it plastered to his head :) As I was getting ready I was feeling self conscious about my parenting abilities (letting my kids play with scissors, let them go out in public with plastered down hair) and I didn't want the stylist to judge me so I tried to fix Ty's hair. As I was combing it I realize that he too had cut his bangs super short on one side. CRAP!!!! Luckily for him his fix just looks like he has a short buzz cut for now. Lucy on the other hand chopped 6 inches! We got to custom Cuts and the fixed Lucys hair and buzzed Ty's She was really nice and only charged me for Lucy! Thank goodness because the night before I left my purse in Chris' car credit cards and all! All I had was a twenty in my pocket! Oh boy what a day!!!
I hope you had a fun St. Patrick's Day ...We sure did!!!
My Auntie Roxanne is a cancer survivor. Recently she was asked to participate in a fundraiser for the Huntsman cancer institute. The popular interchangeable Miche bag unveiled their bag HOPE in hopes to raise at least one million dollars to give back for cancer research in the year 2010. (HERE is a link to the news coverage. ) These bags are reasonably priced and pretty cool I might add :) plus if it will help cancer research I'm all over it. If you are interested my cousin Jane sells these bags just shoot her an email. jscowan28@msn.com
Miss Annie Bear has been on the move for a few weeks now. She is now eight months and is getting quicker every day. She is still doing the army crawl but I'm sure it won't be long before she is doing the real thing we have been on all fours rocking away for a while now. Some other things about Miss Annie are she has figured out how to clap, she ADORES Ty, and is terrified of our dog in the backyard it's kind of funny.
I have been meaning to post this along time ago but I am just now getting around to it. I have been following a site So you think your crafty. There are so many talented women and each week they create a craft around that weeks theme. Although I could never be a participant I love to get great ideas from these amazing women. The last winner is amazingly talented and I now love to check her blog (HERE) out multiple times a week and has inspired me to be more thrifty and see things in a different light. I found this shirt in the first picture at JCPenny for a whopping $2.97 it was a womens shirt extra small and thought I could refashion it to a dress for my Goosey I was mostly pleased with the results and for my first refashion I think it turned out pretty well. One other thing I have made is a skirt made out of a vintage bedsheet kindof fun. Someday I will try to make this too. So many things to try... so little time!
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The other thing that has been taken over in my mind is doing a little baking. My visiting teacher (who was just taken from me to edify a new sister in the ward) is an amazing talented lady who also has inspired me. I have always loved to bake but after seeing the amazing work that Trudy does I wanted to try different things too. Chris got me thiscookbook. I love it and look at it often. We decided that we need to have more get-together because it is a bad idea to bake all the yummy stuff in that book and eat it just the two of us. So mostly we just look at all the pretty pictures but these are a few of the things I have made. Not Trudy worthy but they tasted good!
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We are the Cook Family. I am Corine, married to Chris,and proud parents of three crazy kiddos. We are living in Kansas City Missouri. Enjoying the mid-west, while Chris finishes up his OBGYN residency. When I have a moment out of my crazy mommy days I try to keep our family and friends updated on our life here in Missouri. Enjoy getting to know our little family.
