Month in Review!

Wow! What a month and it has flown by!!! Whew! So here is the quick month in review in pictures!

Payton got a big girl haircut. We love it, so cute.

The length before.
Payton making Santa beards and wearing them around the house.

Eden and I making silly faces.

Made a trip to Branson with our Mom's for their early Christmas present. We went on Thanksgiving (also my Birthday) and stayed through Sunday. Lots of fun.

Better shot.
Clay and his momma, Beverly, a.k.a. Nanny working on Thanksgiving dinner at our condo in Branson.
My mom, Brenda, a.k.a. Gigi with Payton playing at the condo in Branson.
The tea cups at Silver Dollar city.
The little roller coaster at Silver Dollar City. Payton LOVES the rides. See her and Clay in the second car back.
Clay being silly.
My Birthday cake on Thanksgiving at our condo. Can you tell the girls helped put the candles in?
Clay, Beverly and my mom Brenda getting ready to ride a really scary ride!!!
Clay and Payton on the big swings, she is in the green pants!
Christmas lights in Silver Dollar City.
Sweet Daddy Clay with Miss Eden in the sling. As I tell Clay, only real men are willing to carry their babies in a sling!
Our mom's on the swing in Grandpa's mansion at Silver Dollar City.
Clay and Eden in Grandpa's Mansion in Silver Dollar City.
The whole family in Grandpa's Mansion!
My Natural Mom's group that I go to once a month learning a new work out from home routine from Nikki. She kicked our rears!!! She's serious!!!
Our church, kids , friends and family have been collecting their change for about 6 months now. We collected about $1500 all in change and are using it to purchase special bikes for special needs children. We had enough $ to get four bikes!!! We will be presenting the bikes to them on Sunday morning at church. So if you were one of those people helping us collect change, THANK YOU!!! You have helped "Change a life with Change".
So last Thursday evening the guys in our lifeline group put the bikes together so that the kids could take them home and ride them immediately! HOW FUN!!

Just a sweet Dad and his girls picture, on the way out the door to something else...
Somewhere in the few moments of breath we have taken, we found about 2 hours to put up a tree. We have started a tradition that the children are to make our star for the top. So Kaytie Jo is helping put the glue on our star for Payton to glitter it.
Silliness.
We have always laughed at people's trees who have kids because either all of the nice, pretty ornaments are up top, or all the ornaments are clumped together because the kids helped decorate the tree. We have both...I totally get it now and I think it is sweet.
Precious.
Look at me hunting for just the right place...like it is going to make a difference now that Eden and Payton have pulled most of them off and repositioned them. What a wierd photo of me, I look about 60 years old, the light was doing something wierd and made me look all wrinkly.
Payton playing the part of an angel in our Christmas story at church.

Eden Grace enjoying some chocolate cake at our dear friend Jeff's birthday party!
Three of the four girls born in five months with their daddy's, did you follow that? Clay & Eden, Jeff & Alexa, and Daniel & Bella.

Whew - there is so much more I want to share with you, but to be honest, I want to go to bed even more...so more later.

Good night and Grace and Peace,

H

More Crafting!!!!

Kaytie Jo modeling her sisters new apron we made her.  It is double sided!

Back of Apron

Front Embellishment!  My favorite part!

I will so be making one for myself!  Sew CUTE!!!

This is finally something something I made for myself.  I have been crafting for others all month and so I decided to take a night off and make something for me!  It is a craft bag that I found in Stitch magazine.  It has a ton of pockets on the outside and is perfect for carrying all of your goodies or it would be a great diaper bag as well.  In my case it will probably be a cross between the two.

The other added bonus is that I found the fabric remnant at a "junk" store here in town for only $3.00!

This is Clay's latest piece of art!  I love it!  Sorry, my photography on this shot does not do it justice.

This is what the girls spent an hour or so doing one morning while I was crafting.  We don't watch much T.V. at our house so it was an extra special treat!  

These are sweet little stuffed doll patterns that I found under the freebie section on the wee wonderful site I mentioned in a few posts ago.  They are for Payton for Christmas!

 This is what got my crafting craze started.  When we went to St. Louis back in September, this is what I did on the road trip down there and our trips back and forth to our cabin and the sites!  Clay would tell you I missed half of St. Louis because I had my nose stuck in my embroidery!  I was pretty happy with it considering it was my first attempt and no pattern used.

Grandparents DON'T LOOK!! Skip this photo!  

These are photo cubes we are making for the grandparents that they can use as bookends, paper weights or nicknacks!

I know you all are probably sick of me showing off my crafty stuff but I am having SO much fun!  Hopefully it will inspire you too to be crafty.  Kaytie Jo and I are enjoying a crafty little weekend.  As I write she is sitting at the sewing machine turning out her own little Christmas  gifts!  We stayed up until 2 am this morning making an apron for her preggo sister whom asked her to make one because her belly is getting so big that when ashe cooks all of her shirts are getting ruined.  So about 9:30 last night we started in on it with the intentions of just starting and finishing some other time this weekend.  Well four hours later we finished.  It is beautiful and I can't wait to make one for myself!!

Grace and Peace!

~Holly

Happy 33 to Clay!!

Sunday was Clay's #33 birthday!  The girls and I greeted his morning with 33 reasons why we love him!  If you click on the photo it will enlarge and you can see them better.

I just had to stick this one in here.  Eden totally passed out on me Sunday morning in church.  I just put her in the sling and a sleep she went.  I so cherish these moments because they get so big so fast.  There are already times with Payton I miss cuddling like this.

For Clay's birthday gift this year we did an unusual thing, we bought him a gift!  We don't really do this too much for the adults in our family.  But on his 22nd birthday (11 years ago) I bought him a watch and had it engraved "You Complete Me!"  Don't laugh, it was the time of Jerry McGuire.  Well he has worn this watch as faithfully as his wedding band and it has seen better days.  So the girls and I went and bought him a new watch and had it engraved "Our Prince, Love, your girls".  He loved it!

Blog Crazy!!! and a Craft-tea!!!

I have been gone for a while due to crafting for the holidays. We have also been very busy doing...well, I am not sure, it just has been crazy. However, late in the evenings when all has quieted down I have been searching the web for ideas of crafty ideas. So here are a few that if you even have a teeny-tiny bit of craftiness in you, you must check out these sites.

http://sewmamasew.com/

http://todayscreativeblog.blogspot.com/

http://lenatoewsdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://www.weewonderfuls.com/

oh there are so many more and I will try and find them again for you. We are in Noble, OK for an early Thanksgiving with Clay's family and I am busying myself while the cook (Clay's mom) is fluttering about in the kitchen. So when I get back home and have my own computer to look up my favorite bookmarks I will share more.

A couple of other things I have discovered within the last couple of weeks!

Stitch magazine - http://www.quiltingarts.com/shop/Stitch.html it is their premiere issue and I LOVE IT. I have already made a couple of different things out of the magazine! They are very easy little projects!

This is the other thing I have discovered..It is a book "Living Artfully". It is a wonderful and easy read. She has good reminders of how all of us have the ability and NEED to live artfully. I am about half way through it and it is wonderful! http://www.sandramagsamen.com/living_art_newsletter.html

Oh and another thing I had the pleasure of doing this week was attending a Craft-tea at the home of one of my friends. It was so sweet and scrumptious! We all brought some sort of tea-food and a craft to work on. It was a great couple of hours with friends. Thanks Kierlee!

I will get home and have a little slower week this next week so I plan to share some photos of my craftiness!

Grace and Peace

Holly

Halloween

These are four girls born in five months of each other last summer. We all go to church together and are close friends. Eden, Gracie, Alexa, and Bella and their Dads. The look on Eden's little face is TOO cute. They were both so precious in their outfits. We went to our church's fall festival, then trick or treating to Aunt Mary and Uncle Steve's and home to make pizzas and open the door for other trick or treaters!
Just had to share.
~Holly

And the Votes have been counted!!! And Camera Found!!

The votes have been counted...John McCain has won our popular vote here in the Peevyhouse home. McCain - 21 Obama - 3. Payton was a little disheartened when we counted last night before the announcement of the actual winner, but still kept her stance that Obama was going to win! Who would have known... My dad called this morning and asked to speak to our four year old about some stock tips and futures.

We took the girls with us to vote yesterday. We wanted Payton to see the real process since she took such an interest in the whole thing. I can remember going to this very same church with my dad EVERY time there was something to vote on since I was a little girl like Payton. It is kind of fun to carry on the tradition. I am pretty sure the same sweet little old ladies are still the ones working it as when I was young.

It is all this lady's fault. Our obsession with government and politics is in our blood because of her...my grandma Max. She gave it to my dad and uncles (2 of the 3 are city managers and have been in city government for a LONG time), and now it has run its course to Payton. Payton and her get a long great and found even more in common someone they both believe should be president. At somewhere between the age of 2o and 80 years old, she is still incharge of the voting precinct near her home and could run circles around me! She is an amazing woman and one of my role models.

OH - and we found the camera!!! It was locked in Clay's glove box. We have no idea why or how it got there, but we were sure glad to find it!

Grace and Peace,

Holly

Bicycles and Randomness

Well if you have known my husband for very long you probably have known him to drive several different cars over that time. He has been known to drive and sell one vehicle a year over several years. He has owned 12 cars and one motorcycle in the ten years that we have been married! So now instead of cars, it is bicycles...at least they are getting less expensive. We do have a rule in our house, if you bring something new home, you must purge (get rid of, give away, or sell) something of equal value. So here are two bikes ...

So these are the two large trikes that are up for sale! If you are interested please let me know and you can take them for a spin!

Here is the latest ride - A Rhoades Car
It seats four! He found it on www.craigslist.com one of our favorite websites. He has wanted one for several years, but new they are outrageously expensive. However, this one was in Bixby at a price we couldn't pass up!
It needs a little love and he has plans to change up the seating a bit. We will add updates as improvements are made. Can't you just see our little family riding around town in this awesome car?
Isn't she lovely?!?!
She was finished with lunch and about half asleep at the table. She sat there for the longest time in this pose.
We held our first Annual Autumn Potluck Picnic last Saturday. YUM - look at this food!
We are looking forward to more gatherings with our neighbors.
Look at this big girl. She is making her own pb&j sandwiches these days.