Seven Browns

My first quilt!

2010-11-01T20:25:00.000-07:00

I have finally finished my first quilt. I finished it a few months ago. I'm just a bit behind on blogging. I got a bit behind cause I got stuck on the binding. Not really stuck but I had no idea how to do it. Thanks to You Tube I found a video that took me step by step through the process. I also ended up hand stitching the whole thing which was fun to wind down every night to. Now I just can't figure out what my next project will be.

Look mom I can ride on two wheels!

2010-07-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

We took Campbells training wheels off the other day. We were very surprised when he hopped on and rode off. No help at all. I guess we could of taken them off sooner. He's only had two collisions with the neighbor kids. I think I will go and get him a helmet.

2009-12-14T20:26:00.000-08:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T20:10:00.000-07:00

What a great night for Trick or Treating. The weather was nice and nobody was sick. Allison went trick or treating with her friends this year which we were not real excited about, but she was responsible and had a great time. Everyone got a lot of candy and will probably be up all night.

Happy Halloween

Allison -Alice in Wonderland
Lauren-Queen
Hailey-Cinderella fairy
Cannon-Knight
Campbell- Cowboy

Smart cars

2009-08-23T12:27:00.000-07:00

I took the kids to a Smart car rally. It was fun to see all the cars together.

This was my favorite car. Check out the actual size on the front of the car (very funny)
The girls liked the ladybug car.
The boys like the blue car. The Rally was sponsored by a radio station. They went to a few places around town and had some tours. The cars all parked at the garden and got tours through the garden.
The cars liked backing up into their parking spots. Must be easy to park a small car.

Bee's Bee's lots of bees!

2009-08-23T12:14:00.000-07:00

We have a great garden this year. Things are growing like crazy. Certainly the pumpkins, I think we may get around 15.
We think these little bees have something to do with it. This is what it looks like in the back of the yard at the bottom of a shed which is in the neighbors yard. The bees have turned this hole into a honey hive. It is cool to watch them fly in and out. We don't want to kill them cause they are doing good but it is a pain with that many bees back there. The kids are good at just staying away from them. We've only had one kid stung. We will go through the winter and see what has happened to them next year and then we'll decide what to do. But for right now hurray for the bees.

Quilt Blocks

2009-08-12T19:47:00.000-07:00

I have always wanted to make a quilt. I do not know how to quilt or even how to start until my friend Stephanie asked me if I wanted to be in a quilt block group. What this entailed was to make 10 blocks of two different blocks 20 in all. I decided this would be a great way to get started. Thanks to many people helping me I finally finished my 20 blocks. I had a great time making them.
The hardest part was finding time that I could work on it. the only way to get it done was to keep my sewing machine up in the corner of the kitchen so I could work on it when I had a free min. That worked out ok except for the boys always getting into my stuff. We had a few cuts on the boys from my rotary cutter and the boys broke my machine so I had to get that fixed half way through, but it sure worked good after getting it back. Other then that it was great.Here is some picture of my blocks I will keep two of these blocks and then will get 8 more from some other women. then I'll have to figure out how to put it all together. Hopefully sometime I will be able to post a picture of the quilt when it is done.

Big Budah

2009-05-29T11:45:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago Court came home and said that his work (Jordan Valley Water) was doing a piece with Channel 13 talking about water conservation. He told me they needed a house to film in. I told him I'd be fine with it in our house since it would be a fun experience. The next week was spent cleaning cleaning and more cleaning. It is not very often when your bathroom is going to be on tv.

Big Budah is an anchor man for channel 13 and he is allways somewhere doing a live broadcast somewhere. During the the news they will go to him about 8 times different times to talk to him.

Big Budah and his camera man were at our house about 5:45 in the morning. There were about 8 pieces filmed in different areas in and out of my house talking about different water saving facts. It was all done live so I found it very interesting how it was all not rehearsed. He would have to come up with more or less depending on how long they were telling him he had. there were different people from different water districts along with Courtney talking to him.

We all had a fun day especially the kids who had some friends who had watched the news to see them.(of course they had to be in the background some time). Laurens teacher even went to the extent to bring a tv in the classroom and let the kids watch the news while it was on. (We let the girls go an hour late to school)

I can see the E!

2009-04-18T20:07:00.000-07:00

Those that have known me a long time know how long I've had glasses. Lets just say I don't remember not having glasses. I've worn glasses until I was about 13 or so then I got contacts. They were great and I loved them. I have always thought Lasik would be a great thing to have done. I am so blind. When I went to the eye doctor to get my eyes checked for lasik they showed me the E (The big E )and said what can you see, I could not see anything. Deep down I knew Lasik would be great but am a bit of a chicken and it made me a bit scared to mess with my eyes. So I never really thought I would do it.

Thanks to Court who really wanted me to get it done I decided to go for it. When I went to my appointment for the doctor to see if I was a candidate I saw a big jar full of glasses where people had donated their glasses that they no longer needed. I thought I would love to someday put my glasses in there. I am happy to say I put my glasses in that jar this week. I got lasik a month ago and all went well. The good thing about not having glasses is I can see when I wake up in the morning, Packing for trips is easier, and many other great things. I also noticed that the traffic lights are not made up of one green light. The green light is made up of lots of little lights. Don't laugh I've never seen that before, but don't worry I could see the traffic light though. The bad things are I can see when the shower gets dirty, and more crumbs on the floor. Those of you who have thought about Lasik it is great. It's so quick and does not hurt at all.

Allisons Birthday party!

2009-03-28T15:26:00.000-07:00

Allison is turning 12 this week. My how the time has flew. I remember when we just had her. She is a fabulous daughter.

For Allisons birthday party we had a scavengar hunt at the mall (Thanks Mitzi and Kendall for the idea). I would have to say it was one of the funnest parties. The kids had so much fun. They were given clues and had to find different items in the mall. To my surprise those girls knew the mall very well.

We love you Allison and hope you have a great Birthday.

Not too old to be silly.

2009-03-06T15:40:00.000-08:00

What does a 11 year old do on a Friday when there is no school?

Bad hair day

2009-02-24T08:12:00.000-08:00

Sunday was obviously a bad hair day. The funny thing was I did not know this. I got into church and had two friends attack me by fixing some hair that was sticking up. ( I think I must of bent down when getting out of the van and messed my hair up) I thought my hair was then fixed and then Lauren passes me a not which says(if you can't read it)

"Mom your hair is sticking up a little bit." "It's supposed to look good"

It was so funny. I wanted to laugh out loud. I then had to leave to the bathroom to check it out myself.

What a beautifull day

2009-02-23T20:08:00.000-08:00

It seems that I've been spending a lot more time on facebook then blogging. I decided since I've been bugged by a few people that I better get a new post going.

The weather is getting nicer this week in Northern Utah. Well at least the last few day have been above 30. It has been nice to let the boys go play outside and get some of that energy out.

Last summer I talked Court into letting me use my babysitting money and get a big swingset. I have always wanted a big swingset for the boys to climb all over. This has been the perfect swingset for that. Court and my dad did a great job putting it together .

I think it will be a great summer because Campbell started to pump his legs when swinging. How nice that is. Campbell and Cannon are such great boys. They are lots of fun. They love playing together and they both love to give mom hugs ( I wonder how long that will last?)

Socks,socks,socks

2009-01-28T11:50:00.000-08:00

I have found with 7 people in the house we accumulate a lot of socks. This is my least favorite job, sock sorting. For you mothers who are just starting out I would suggest you to get all your socks at one store. then you do not have millions of different kinds of socks. Walmart has some awesome ones that are have colored heels to tell you the size. For example blue heel is small etc etc...

Enough of my rambling I better go sort some socks.

The timer

2009-01-19T19:26:00.000-08:00

I have found that I can get side tracked very easy. For example, I go down to the toy room to clean it up and I find a sippy cup. I take the sippy cup up stairs and while I'm in the kitchen I see that the dishes need to be done. I start doing the dishes and I see that there are dishes on the table. As I go to get them I trip on Cannons nerf gun. Then I take the gun and down to the toy room and start cleaning up in the toy room again.

Yes I think I'm losing it. I do not remember being so scatter brained. Since I end up all over the house and not getting much done I've decided using a timer works the best for me kinda like what fly lady has you use. I will set the timer for ten min. and stay in one room until the timer rings. Wow it really works. I can actually get things cleaned up. I hope I'm not the only one with this problem.

I hate to say it but I think I'm getting older or maybe it's having five or more kids in the house. Here is another example of my scatter brain. I called Court at work and as the phone was ringing I saw something across the room so I put the phone down and went and did it. I totally forgot I was calling someone. A few min. later the phone started beeping cause it was off the hook. So I put the phone back on the hook and did think for a second I think I need to call Court. No need for that , Court called a few min. later asking if everything was ok cause when he answered the phone when I called him nobody was there except for a house of people talking. I told him the story and we got a good laugh. Oh well I think I may be losing my marbles and if that's the case I'm going to have a hard time finding them in this house.

Rock dude

2008-12-17T21:49:00.000-08:00

Cannon came up to me the other day and told me he was a rock dude. Notice all the

accesorories he has added to his shirt. What a fun boy he is I think he has watched his sister hailey too much acting like she is a rock star.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-30T20:07:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We had a nice day. The last few years we have gone to the Homestead with my parents for Thanksgiving meal. The Homestead is in Midway, Utah up by Park city. There is a hotel and a nice restaurant there that we go to that has a special dinner. It is a buffet so there is a little bit of everything. This year my parents went up the night before and slept. They took the three girls with them. We went up Thanksgiving morning and let all the kids swim. I think they liked that better then eating.

The kids favorite part of the meal is the chocolate fountain. Forget about the turkey. Who even likes turkey when there is a chocolate fountain. All my kids like green olives. Cannon ate quite a few of them he also discovered that they tasted even better dipped in chocolate. No joke he ate a few of them.

We all had a great day and ended the day with going to the movie theater and seeing Bolt. What a cute show. It is one of my favorite cartoons that have come out for a while. Good job Disney!

Fashion

2008-11-19T07:50:00.000-08:00

I've decided my girls are a lot more fashionable then I am. Although I don't think I could pull off some of the things they wear so I guess that's ok.

Mascara anybody

2008-10-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

I was in the bathroom doing my makeup when I turned around and found this. When they say water proof mascara they really mean it.

Nesting period

2008-10-28T20:10:00.000-07:00

Campbell is in the nesting stage right now. He collects all the blankets he can find and then makes a big nest and lays, jumps and sits in it. It doesn't bother me much since it keeps him busy. But when he started figuring he could also pull off the sheets to give him more to pile it started to be to much work for me.

High School Musical

2008-10-28T19:55:00.000-07:00

Once again I took the kids and one of Allison's friends to East high hoping to get a better peek inside.(Last time we went we only saw the cafeteria because they were waxing the floor). Even though it was UEA weekend and school was out we got in this time. We got to look in the gym. It looked like they were putting in new bleachers. Then once again we had to check out the cafeteria just because it is kinda a cool lay out. We wandered around the school and found Sharpay's pink lockers. We also checked out the front of the school and noticed 1-There is not a fountain in front of the school like in the play (very disapointing to the kids ha ha) and 2- They put a banner over the Salt Lake East highschool to just say East High. The girls had fun but I think the boys got pretty bored wondering why it was cool to look at a building.

A few days ago I took the girls to the new HSM3. It was fun for them cause they saw the parts of the school that we wandered around in. I would the the movie 5 stars I think I liked it as much as the girls. Allison said it was the best one out of all 3.

Beautiful empty dishwasher

2008-10-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

Ok I thought I would blog about one of my favorite things. I love empty dishwashers. Ok let me refraise that. I love empty dishwashers that were emptied by someone else.

My fabulous mom comes over to help a lot and one of the things she does is she does my dishes. She not only does my dishes she loads the dishwasher and then puts them all away. When I go to the dishwasher to unload it so I can fill it up it's such a wonderful surprise to see an empty dishwasher. Ok now everyone thinks I'm crazy but hey when your busy with kids unloading the dishwasher is not my favorite job.

Thanks Mom

My little elf helper.

2008-10-22T21:14:00.000-07:00

It is now 10:14 pm and Campbell is still awake. He is wandering around the house making messes and looking cute trying on odd things that the girls have left around. I'm not sure why he is awake I've tried numerous times to get him asleep. I guess I'll try one more time cause I'm getting ready to be done for the night.

Picture Tag

2008-10-14T20:15:00.000-07:00

I don't usually do this tag business but I will this time just to show my sister in law I can. Your supposed to go into your Picture file and find your 4th file and your 4th picture and tell about it. Here I go.

My dad is waiting in line with Hailey at Lego land. You can see Haileys head poking up over the fence. Hailey was happy this year to be able to go on whatever she wanted.

Ok Karin are you shocked?

I am going to tag

Natalie Dansie

Jenn Schmerer

Nicole Hind

Melissa Jacks

Have fun girls

Cannons turn

2008-09-30T19:34:00.000-07:00

Cannon was so excited to get to go to school like his sisters. He is in preschool and just loves it. Campbell will miss him but is sleeping most the time he is gone. Wow I get about 2 hours to myself. I never thought this time would come.

Back to School.

2008-09-01T17:37:00.000-07:00

Last week the girls went back to school. They all like their new school and their teachers.

Allison is in 6th grade.

Lauren is in 3rd grade.

Hailey is in 1st grade.

Q tips

2008-08-14T09:56:00.000-07:00

Recently in our house Court has had many days of his Q-tip jar disappearing. The culprit has been found, but how can you get mad at him.

Heads up.

2008-08-01T14:58:00.000-07:00

When we moved back to Utah and moved in our Dimond Dr house I found a playhouse for the kids. Ok it was also for me. I've always wanted a playhouse. This playhouse is not small it is built like a real home with siding and shingles. Since it is not small it is not very easy to move to get it in our backyard we had to get a crane to get it in the yard.

Of course we had to take the playhouse with us to our new house so I had to find someone that could move it for us. It was quit the show. Everything went good nothing damaged but it was sure stressful when the house barely fit under telephone wires when driving it to the new house.

East High

2008-08-01T14:35:00.000-07:00

On the way to the zoo we go past the famous High School musical East Highschool. I have always wanted to stop and take the kids inside, since we were going by it we decided to stop.

We Walked around the school checking doors. We actually found a door open. We went inside and found the lunch room that they use in the show. There were workers waxing the upstairs floor so we could not get upstairs to check out the other places they filmed the show like the lockers and the gym. They said to come next week when they were done. We peeked down the hall to see what we could see. The girls thought it was fun but we'll have to check it out another time when we have more freedom to roam. When we came home the girls turned on Highschool musical to check out some of the things they saw.

The winner is the monkey

2008-08-01T14:00:00.000-07:00

Today we went to the Hogle Zoo with Grandma Lee. Everyone liked the Monkeys the best.

Allison

2008-07-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

Ground hog

2008-07-09T13:49:00.000-07:00

We are finally starting to settle in our new house. Packing and moving in two weeks is definitely too fast. We are adjusting to a few new things like Campbell not wanting to sleep in a crib anymore and climbing out of his bed. This week I guess the big boy bed is going to have to come out. We were happy to get all the kids in bed last night by 10. That tells you how crazy our nights have been. We live in a house full of night owls.

We our loving our house except for the unexpected guests that we have had. No, I'm not talking about Courts brother coming to visit, we loved having them over. The guest we have had came our first day in the home and Allison spotted something in the window well digging. I looked in thinking I would see a cat. It was the size of a fat cat, but not a cat . We were not sure what it was. We just new it was digging trying to get under our house. It was a bit freaky. The animal control would not come to get it. Court said to hit it with a shovel (ya right). My mom was throwing cups of water on it trying to do who knows what to it(it just made it look like a porcupine) Finally the ROUS (rodent of unusual size) jumped out of the window well making everyone scream, and then scurried down the street. What an eventful day.

Since our visit from the ground hog we have had a skunk sighting in the back yard and then we had to call a professional to suck out the bird nest in the dryer vent. I promise to all that want to visit we do not live in the wilderness just maybe a little to close to the Jordan River.

The new house

2008-06-15T14:44:00.000-07:00

I sure wanted to keep up with this blog thing. It just is not happening. This last week has been very busy. We found a house that we liked and looked into it and now we are moving into it. this all happened within a week in a half. Wow it was quick. We are going to lease this house until our house sells and then we will buy it . The owner is very nice and is working with to help sell our house we own( he is a releator or however you spell it). It will be so nice I will not have to keep the house perfect for people to come view it, which those of you with children know it is impossible, at least with my children. We are excited but will miss everyone in our ward and neighborhood. The good part though is that the house is only about 2 miles away from our old house so we will still be able to see our friends and I may still keep the kids at the same school.

2008-06-08T20:01:00.000-07:00

My goal for my the Browns blog

2008-05-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

I am going to try to put in a posting at least once a week. Courtney is also going to put in a plant of the week for me. Allison is going to try to put in something once a week also. Enjoy

Pickle juice

2008-05-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

The boys were eating the last few pickles out of the jar. The next thing I knew Campbell had picked up the pickle jar and was drinking the juice out of the jar. After he had a few drinks he dropped the jar down on the grass(thank goodness he was outside) and the juice splattered out of the jar all over him. It was all so funny I had to take a picture.

Birthdays

2008-04-20T13:42:00.000-07:00

As most people know April 1 is not only April Fools it is also Allison and Cannons birthday.

This year Allison turned 11. I just can't believe it . It is fun watching her growing up and also kinda scary. Allison wanted a gift card for her birthday this year. She had a lot of fun buying various things with it.

Cannon turned 4 this year. Cannon is obsessed with Lego's. He plays with them night and day. He got a tractor, some vehicles that he can unscrew apart and build and a few other things.