My black apple dolls.

So on a previous post I told you about the black apple website, well the cute artist Emily Martin makes these darling dolls and so I wanted to make some too. Emily was kind enough to post her pattern online so away to the sewing machine I went and here is the result below:I am not so great with sewing but I want to be, and these are so fun to make. I don't even have little girls but I figure I can make them for my nieces. I am just happy to have found something fun and creative to do!

Brayden Naylor

This past week we had the opportunity to go to the temple and see our nephew Brayden sealed to his parents and brother Taylor! He was also legalized by the state and it is now official he is one of us!
Brayden came into Tim and Heidi's (my sister) home in November of 2007 when he was 3 years old as a foster child. They new right off that he was meant to be in their family. Taylor and Brayden are 2 months apart and when they first met it was like they were lost souls back together again. We are so grateful for Brayden and the blessing he is in our lives. We love you Brayden!

Linus and Sophie

This is Linus and his little girl friend Sophie. Aren't they just the cutest? So Linus and Sophie went to this really fun park a couple weeks ago and I took some really cute pictures of them. Linus loves playing with Sophie, which is good because Sophie's mom and dad and Linus' mom and dad are friends.

Radom pictures!

So here is a bunch of fun pictures from the past couple months. I have not been able to post them because I lost the cable to our camera, but I just found it!


Linus saying, "ducks" at the gardens at Thanksgiving Point.Linus and cousin Elijah look like they are up to something.
Linus loves to play the piano and Grandma Harker's house.
Linus loves his "choo-choo's" he lines them all up on the tracks.
Dr. Linus!
Daddy and Linus flying kites!
Linus got this pirate hat in a happy meal and he loves to wear it!

The Black Apple

So I just found this really cool new artist named Emily this is her blog theblackapple.typepad.com. Anyways I found it from my friend Liesl's blog. Emily has so many awesome paintings, I want them all! She also does so many cute crafty stuff that is totally my style. Anyways I just found my new favorite web-site so I had to share it. Also I picked one of her paintings that I thought best described me and I thought this one was just perfect! If you read her t-shirt it says,"All is full of Love" which is in reference to the Bjork song,"All is Full of Love." The painting is called: The Bjork Girl. That's me!

Gavin!

This is my newest nephew "Gavin Paul" he was born May 6th weighing in at a whopping 8lbs 6oz. and almost 22 inches long! He is oh so handsome I think we will keep him! He looks just like his big sister Natalia, and she is very excited to be a big sister! Congratulations Holly and Tyson we love you!The proud big sister with her new brother!

"B"

Here is Linus and his other half (is blanket) in his play tunnel. Linus is very attached to his blanket as I have written in a previous post (you can read about it in my older posts). So he now calls his blanket "B" or "baby" and he still will only have that one. I even got him one that is the same only blue (since the green elephant one in discontinued in UT, CA, AZ, and CO I looked and it's not online either) he still only wants the green one, which makes things hard when I need to wash it. So I have been needing to wash it for months now (yes months) and I can't pry it from his little fingers. So finally today I just took it, while I distracted him (didn't work) he cried but I just did it anyways, the thing is nasty. So I come back from putting it in the wash to find Linus wandering around the house saying, "B.............?B..............?B.............?Where go B?????????? Then he looks at me and says,"Where B go" I said, "It is right there (pointing to his blue one)" and he shook his head and said,"NO??? Where B my B?"
Anyways I don't know what we are going to to if that thing ever disappears for real.