Cute Plant

This is called a Fittonia. I know because it's in the cool plant book I got when I was visiting Wendy in Texas. I've really enjoyed reading through it and finding my plants, what they're called, and the best way to take care of them.


This is one of the plants that I thought was dead when we came back from a long Christmas vacation. I think I had somebody water it once or twice while we were gone, but it wasn't enough. It was pretty cold in the house too. Anyway, when we got home all the leaves and most of the stems were brown and dead! Sad! So I cut off all the dead stuff and watered it and took care of it hoping it would come back. About a month later, the day I decided to give up and throw it away I saw tiny little green leaves just barely poking out from the stem. I'm sure in another month or two it will fill the pot with those cool stripey leaves!

Greg's Pants! Finally!

I was trying to make these pants for Greg for Christmas, but the couple days I had set aside to work on them (right before we left town to go to our folks) I got really sick and wasn't able to do much. I was so disappointed to not get this done in time for Christmas! It was kind of tricky getting all those pool table balls sewed on (applique) but I'm glad I did.


This is the front. I thought I was smart for making the band around the waist use the pool table ball material. I was trying to make the pants look more interesting.


This is the back.


I just love this material. It was fun to pick out and work with. It will be fun when I have kids and I can sew fun things for them.


I can't wait for Greg to come home and see them! I sewed them while he's been at school tonight. I tried them on and they fit me in a way that I think they will fit him well. (I put on another pair of his pants to see how they fit me, so I could judge that way while I was making these.)

Ta Da!!!

MY Bromeliad

Dad sent me his camera since ours has disappeared, so I took a picture of the actual plant I have. Doesn't it look pretty with the pink and green doily Grandma made? (I also have the little shoe there that you gave me Mom...I thought it looked nice there)
I'm excited to see how it looks as it blooms!

(Haha, not the shoe. As I re-read this it sounded like I'm excited to see the shoe bloom. You know what I mean though.)

New Plant: Bromeliad

This is what Greg got me as a welcome home present when I came home from Texas. It's called a Bromeliad. Mine looks just like this, only there aren't any purple flowers opening up from the big pink part yet. It looks kind of exotic. It makes me feel like I'm on an island when I look at it. It goes perfect with a pretty doily Grandma made that is the same color of pretty green and pink.

I looked online and found that the Bromeliad is a part of the pineapple family. The Bromeliad is also know as the Urn plant. I was surprised to find that it could take about three to bloom.

Also, I thought it was funny that they call new little plants "pups." After the Bromeliad flowers, pups form and then the plant will dies. When the pup is half the size of the big plant you can cut it off and plant it as a new plant. That kind of reminds me of the spider plant does.

I hope you have enjoyed this week's gardening lesson!

Gmail offline

This is interesting, but I don't really understand it. I kind of feel like it might be a joke, like their last April fools about sending an email and making it look like it was sent at an earlier time. That would be cool if they do get it to work.

Texas Visit!

I just got back from visiting my sister and her family in Texas. I was happy to see everybody again and to get to know my new little niece. I spent the days with Wendy, Heidi, and Hunter. Then when Max and Zach got home from school we'd all go out to the field or the park nearby to play outside. That was fun! I told Wendy that if I lived in their neighborhood I'd never have to exercise. I'd get all my exercise chasing the kids around every day.

Heidi didn't sleep very much by herself, so some of the nights I stayed up late rocking her so Wendy could get some sleep. I miss holding her now. Wendy and I also did some fun things like playing the piano together, making cookies and freezer jam, and going on a sister date. We went to a restaurant where you get a bucket of peanuts to snack on and everybody just throws the shells on the ground. Haha, I couldn't bring myself to do it though! I wanted to drop them under the table where nobody would notice, but Wendy said that's even harder to clean up. So I put them on my plate, but that was dumb too. I didn't want to put my bread in peanut shells. I finally settled on leaving them in a little pile on the edge of the table. Anyway, the food was really good and it was fun to just be with Wendy and Heidi.

On Saturday at lunch time we all got in the car, picked up pizza and went to the park. It was really windy at the park, and at first I was just cold and not wanting to stay. After we ate our pizza I chased the kids around and we all got warmed up. That was fun! Dustin and I were on a team trying to get Max and Zach. One time I hid in the twisty tube slide. Max didn't know I was there and he was running from his dad to hide there. When I saw him coming down I put my hands up like claws and roared. He screamed a high pitch scream of true fear that was as funny as the look on his face! Hahaha! He did NOT expect me to be in there! Hahahhahaaha!

That was a fun week that went by too fast. I hope I get to visit again soon!

Hark I hear the Harps Eternal

This is one of the songs my choir is working on that I really love. It's fun (and hard) to sing. There's funky rhythms and a fun melody.

Slim Fast

Well, I haven't been posting much because our camera is still in the car of Greg's friend, and posts are not very fun when you don't have a picture to go with it. I'm kind of excited because I just figured out how you guys have all been getting pictures off the internet and putting them on your blog.



Anyway, Greg is getting his wisdom teeth out today, and to help him out I bought all the easy to eat stuff like pudding, yogurt, sherbet, jello...And I decided to get a protein shake so he could just drink it still get some protein and good stuff. Slim Fast was the only thing at Winco. I wanted to know what I was giving him so I tried it and it actually wasn't that bad! I was surprised at how good it tastes! I just thought I'd share that with everybody. Someday if you're trying to loose weight you can think of me and remember to try Slim Fast.


Um, I also really liked this picture. I thought it was pretty funny.

Wii Fit

I've never really seen Wii Fit besides on commercials. I thought it looked like fun, but then I saw this video and I just want to laugh at it instead. I'm curious if any of you out in the blogging world have Wii Fit and what you think of it.