Colliers, Turley, Martin, and Tucker

We are excited to announce that Marc accepted a full time position with a real estate firm called Colliers, Turley, Martin, and Tucker. Thank you Scott Morgan for refering us to this company. Marc is also in a class with a lady who works there. We think she had a hand in helping him get the position. We are extremely thrilled this has finally arrived. It sure has been a struggle for us to wait this long. In fact it's been so long that it took a while to settle and realize how excited we are. These are our, yeah, daddy got a job faces. He starts on the 17th of November and our insurance will start in January, which is a huge blessing! The office he will be working at is up by the airport. No plans of moving up that way any time soon, but we'll keep you posted. Marc will still be working toward his CPA, who knows, maybe the company will help cover the cost of the exam. Thanks to everyone for your fasting, prayers, and help through all this, we greatly appreciate it!

Our trip to Michigan

So these pictures are long over due. It's been busy couple of months. Now I have a lot of blogging to catch up on. We took a trip to Michigan Labor Day weekend to see our friends, Scott and Faith. It was very fun, but seemed to go by too quickly. I found out that Faith's friend has a common uncle. My uncle Terry Hatch is her dad's brother (David). Anyway we had a great time, thanks to the Morgans. Hope to see you again soon.

Julia is Walking!!

These are some fun Halloween outfits I love. I love having the girls match occasionally, it's fun. The first ones Marc's mom got for the girls. They have cats on the shirts. The others have spiders on them. "The girl spider has a bow, but the boy spider doesn't have a bow. Boys don't wear bows, they wear hats. But mommy wears bows and hats." (quote from Natalie) I think my favorite time of year is fall these days. I love winter cloths, pumpkin anything, hot chocolate, fall colors, the leaves changing and Halloween and all the fun that goes with that. Plus with colder days you are forced to stay in more and get things done around the house that are hard to do when it's so nice out. We have a group called music makers in our ward that gets together on Fridays and we sing songs with the kids and then let them play together. This month is Halloween songs and Natalie loves them all, we sing them everyday while we eat our lunch or periodically throughout the day.

Fun Girl's Nights

Well, with hockey season here once again, and Marc in school on Mondays and playing basketball on Tuesdays, I decided to make the most of the nights without him. So the girls and I have been doing fun crafts, going to the library and other activites, to make the time pass quickly and have as much fun as we can together. They grow up sooo fast! Here's one of our girl's night activities. We made cookies together while Marc was at a hockey game and then took them to some friends while he was playing golf on Saturday. We left the cookies at their doorsteps with a note that said You have been BOOED (an idea I got from Terica). Then we went to the ward hayride that night while he was at a hockey game. Last night during his basketball night, we went to a trunk-or-treat party at the school with some friends in the ward. The kids loved dressing up in their costumes and going around. They also had a firetruck there. Natalie asked the guy if she could get in and he let her sit up in one of the seats. Then he gave her a fire hat and a coloring book. Tomorrow night we get to go to the hockey game with Marc. The kids get in free if they wear their costume, so we're going as a family. Natalie is so excited. She crys whenever daddy leaves for the games and always asks if she can go with him, but she doesn't get in free anymore. So she gets to go Thursday and then again in December the whole family is going after Christmas. We're keeping busy, and having fun!

Happy Birthday Brooklyn!

These are bows I made for my neice Brooklyn for her birthday. I really hope they like them, it took me so long to make them, especially the rose one. Happy Birthday Brooklyn, we love you and miss you. Brooklyn and Natalie are 10 days apart, we wish we lived close so they could play together, hopefully we'll see each other soon.

We spent a great confrence weekend with Andy and Terica. This is Natalie and Jadeyn reading stories to baby Paxton (who is so precious and cute!). Julia and Maddox are our little kissing cousins. They are so cute together. Maddox comes up and hugs and kisses her and she just lights up. Then he was sharing his breakfast with her. It was a bummer to sit down and turn on the TV only to find out that Charter wasn't broadcasting it until the 15th and 16th. But we worked it out and watched on the internet. This didn't stop us from having a fun weekend together. Terica made cupcakes and we sang to mom and Andy for their birthdays.

Natalie was so cute this morning. I stayed the night at my parent's last night and stayed up til 1:15 helping Cami with a project on the holocaust. It turned out really good, but I didn't get much sleep. Anyway, Natalie came in around 8:00 and pulled back the curtains and said, "Mom it's time to get up. The sun is awake and the moon went to bed, so we need to play now. So get up sweetie." Then she stroked my face. It was so precious, I wanted to hold on to the memory forever.
And b.t.w. Cami called me after school today to tell me that everyone loved her poster(I'll see if I can get a picture of it). I helped her write a poem and her teacher said it was so good that she could take it and give it to the people at the holocaust museaum next week. I was happy to hear this because the whole project was making me frustrated and that doesn't happen very easily.

More Bows

So here are some more of the bows I've made, as promised. I haven't been doing the felt ones very long, those are the only ones I've made so far, I don't really have a method for those I just think up how I want it to look and start cutting, then I sew all the pieces together and put an embellishment in the middle. It's kind of hard to explain the other flower shaped ones with the rhinestone in the middle, if I do a tutorial on that I would have to use pictures to show how. Let me know if anyone has interest in learning or having me make bows for you, that would be fun.

Quick bow lesson

I use alligator clips for my bows. I get them at Sally's beauty supply, you can get 100 for $5. You can use almost any kind of ribbon. I buy whatever is on sale. To do the Cork screw bows, take dowel rods and wrap the ribbon around it holding it in place with cloths pins on both ends. Then put it on a cookie sheet and bake it for 30 min. at 250. Then I gather them in the middle and hot glue a ribbon (the tighter the better) and glue it to the clip, it's actually very simple. If you have questions let me know.