Beautiful service

Beautiful service today!!!
And a beautiful prego friendly cup filled with deliciousness!!!! This morning was wonderful!!!!

Bella's new crayon holder

I needed a way to organize the crayons in Bella's meeting bag. I found the idea online, and decided to make up my own.

Homemade cream of broccoli soup

Koral help make this amazing soup.
Broccoli, butter, milk, potato creamed. Blended. And topped with cheese and croutons.

The croutons are from 2 day old sour dough loaf I made. And they turned out better than the soup!! Koral and I couldn't stop nibbling on them!!

Mmmmmmm dinner is yummy!!!

Service with the family

Another successful day out in service with the kids. Jehovah has blessed us in so many ways!

I just want to make note that Bella's poncho was made by her teta, alihandra. :) that woman is so talented.

We talked to a few people today. But I have to say the amount of people out in service was most encouraging to me. Tons of people!!!

Tomato soup

It's cold out. I'm snuggled under a thick blanket. Warm socks wrap my cold toes. But it's not doing the trick. It's time to result to a hot shower. Which was wonderful, until I had to get out, and I became a walking pregnant popsicle!! So co-co-cold!! I ask my hubby for some tomato soup and to turn up the heat. He does. <3 such a good man.
As I'm drinking my hot tomato soup, Bella comes up and says "mamma, tea?" lol! "yea baby, tomato tea."
Which she replies "mato tea!" and she slurps down half my cup. I'm happy to share, what kind of mother dosent want her baby to voluntarily drink tomato soup?!?! Lol

Tomato tea...

:) melt my heart.

A new hat for my girls

I finished Bella's hat. A pink hat with care bear ears, and a danty little flower. And of coarse matching gloves.

And as I already posted, Koral has her blue set. My girls look so toasty warm.

And in respects of my husbands wishes, I covered my beautiful daughters faces, because of all the creepy deepies out there.

Any how, I will continue to spoil my beautiful babies with love, laughter and spirituality- one stitch at a time, one day at a time.

After all, the bible was written one word at a time. Grandmas quilt was made one stitch at a time and all the best food is made in a kitchen with music, laughter and love.

The amazing Koral does it again

Koral zipped through this skirt like it was nothing!! I sat down with her, I guided her through the instructions, but my hands never touched the sewing machine. She said she likes this skirt for school, but not for service or the kingdom hall. So we agreed to make another "fancier" version...another day. I am so proud of her. This is a basic knee length skirt with elastic. The pockets were easier than I expected, and she did an awesome job on them!

That's my girl!

Crown braid

My hair has gotten wonderfully long. And like any woman that feels huge the end of her pregnancy, I need change... Something to make me feel small and dainty and amazing. So instead of cutting all my hair off and regretting every moment of chopping it off, I decided to educate myself. Braids. Big braids. Little braids. Braids with bumps. This one caught my attention because I thought it would be good in the delivery room. It's a French braid all the way around and all the extra just gets pinned. Before I layed down to rest, it was loose, so maybe not great for delivery. My husband had little feelings about it. I like that it's off my neck, out of my face, off my ears etc. it might be a little old lady lol, but my last 2 post WAS about crocheting right?!?! Lol

Bella's gloves

Bella has been begging me for a pair of gloves like sissys. So I made her a set. She picked out the color, the color of the flower and the color of the button. She loves them! And now she says "mamma--hat--hat mamma--hat" so I'm going to make her a hat to match. :)

Bedrest at it's finest

Today, I learned how to make these adorable fingerless gloves. I really like the stitch. I don't think it comes out very clear in the picture, and I added some little crocheted flowers. This set of gloves is for my girl Koral. I've had request already..... And it was so easy to make, so why not?! :)

It's true!!!

I begged and prayed for this: to be a mother.

Now, a mother of four, I can't remember why I begged to hard?!

Why didn't I just open a day care like every other sane woman.....

What my day consisted of

The following pictures are not mine. I found them on the Internet, and they represent my day almost perfectly.

Boot camp blues

For so many reasons; this is right!!

Blues clues hand puppet

Being on bed rest has had it perks. I've found a cozy little project; hand stitching hand puppets. I'm sure I could whip through these using a sewing machine, but if I stitch by hand, I can lean back, which is what dr wants.
Bella LOVES these little land puppets.
I'm currently working on the line of Backyardagins. Then, onto fake food using felt!! :)

A funny moment in the martin home

My son, Billy, can make a wonderful dinner. Steak and potatoes, chili dogs, home made French fries. He's become quite the little culinary artist. Which is why it's funny when he makes a DUH mistake. I've taught this child how to make Mac n cheese. Yes out of the box. This being on the same term as, jello. Here's a box, follow the instructions, and do it. Well, I guess today he just figured he would--do it his way.

Step one: put milk, butter, water in pot. Bring to a boil.

"um...bill...what are you doing with the milk?"

He then explains he's about to add the milk and cheese.

"BEFORE the noodles are cooked? Please bring me the box."

He does.

We read it together. And he says "They must have changed the directions over the years!"

Lol!!! Yea.... THEY changed the directions. Lol!!!!!!

Just chillin

While we rest, our bodies find the most unique positions to relax in. Take Bella for example; she's just chillin.....
:)

Home made pot pie

The changing weather inspired me to cook a massive chicken pot pie. In between my 30 min bed rest, I would do a new step. Happy news: it's yummy!!! I used the last of the summer squash from the garden. I used twice as much chicken as the recipe called for because I live among carnivores!
I never made a gravy base for pot pie before, it was very easy and super yummy. Of coarse, Bella helped the whole way!! Hello beautiful autumn.....

Date weekend

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