What a week!

It's peak busy time at my place of business. We're registering students for the coming Fall semester. This week was the busiest of the year. Yesterday I worked a super long day! I've been working usually 7:30 am to 6ish but last night I got home at almost 9 pm. Betsy was already asleep. I missed putting her to bed :(

HOWEVER, next week is easier. We don't have to stay as late and while I haven't taken a lunch break in about a month the college has been providing us Jason's Deli everyday and the steady diet of sandwiches, fruit, veggies and spinach wraps has helped me lose a few pounds. I am so glad it's Friday. I have things to do (lots of sewing!) but more importantly I want to be with Ben, Betsy and recharge my battery so-to-speak.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the sale I posted on the blog! All the emails and inquiries have been great, I sold about half the stuff I had stored! The extra money is going to a special savings account so Ben and I can save up for some cabinets to be built in our living room. Thank you again :)

By the way! To the Texas moms or moms-to-be who read the blog it's tax free weekend! Diapers and baby clothes are included in that. I'll be stocking up on size 3 diapers since we're down to just a few more boxes of unopened diapers (and I'm a diaper hoarder :)

Apples and teeth

Poor Betsy. I suspect all four upper middle teeth are coming in at once. I can feel them pushing down. She has a low grade fever before bed every night. She drools like a faucet and she can't keep her hands out of her mouth.

She loves this mesh feeder thing. She loves it with Banans and ice, but last night Ben put an apple inside and it was LOVE at first bite. I suspect something harder to crunch on feels good to her.

Now that Betsy is consuming solidish foods (cereal, cookies, bannanas, apples, chips and queso (kidding)) Madison is WAY more interested in her. She sniffs around hoping Betsy is in the mood to share (she usually does).

MADISON! How many teeth can you count?


Apples, yum.

**!SALE!**

After work today I came home and worked on a few projects. One of those projects happened to be cleaning out my sewing closet. When I find cute embroiderable items for a reasonable price I buy them and store them for future use! Until I emptied my closet I didn't realize how much I had accumulated. LOTS of stuff.

Tote bags, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels, beach towels, receiving blankets, baby blankets, bibs, hats, handkerchiefs, travel coffee mugs, check book covers, cosmetic bags, golf shoe bags, and more.

So the thought occurred to me that I should have a sale. Anybody interested?! PLEASE! Buy something! Help me clean out my embroidery closet!

I'm going to attach pictures of some of the items I've done in the past. If something jumps out at you that YOU would like, or would make a great Christmas or birthday gift for someone you know just reply here or email me at thatsewshannon@hotmail.com.

Thanks for reading :)

I have towels available in red and white or yellow and white.


I have these available in blue, green and pink

I made the baby...and I embroidered the crown. I'm offering to sell a personalized crown, not the baby ;)

Blabber mouth.

Betsy speak:

She still rambles Ahma Ahma Ahma when she's upset. She wants Mama to pick her up.

She still says Ahba when she sees the bottle come out of the microwave until it goes in her mouth.

She says ungee when she's hungry.

Yesterday she cried and said pffttt..ninnie! pfft ninnie! because she was stuck in her car seat and her ninnie had fallen out of her mouth.

And last night I asked her what book she wanted to read, I gave her a mini scrap book to hold and she said buh..buh...buh..book...book...buh while I changed her diaper.

All these things happened in about a week time! I can't wait to hear more :)

Betsy Bear

Brace yourself for the cuteness.

Is that a tail on Betsy Bear? I think it is!

What's this? A pouch to hold her teddy bear!

Too cute Tuesday!

Betsy loves her new Leap Frog activity table. I bought two from a woman off Craig's List. They were a huge success.

Betsy checking out her new Stride Rite kicks. She's getting used to wearing shoes!

Sharing a fudgecicle with Daddy. Yum.

Post fudgecicle, see why we let her eat it 'shirts off'?

Betsy dressed for school this morning. Now Betsy, do those shorts meet the dress code? They look a little short to me. Speaking of, as we walked into the church this morning the toddler class walked by. Betsy squealed and bounced up and down in my arms. She LOVED watching the 'little bit bigger' kids walk by.

Wonderful weekend!

For some reason I found this weekend extra enjoyable.

Thursday night after I fell asleep Ben found two scorpions in our hallway (?!?!!). Also, our air conditioning stopped working. In Texas. IN AUGUST. Friday morning I headed to work, and Ben called the AC repair man, and a family friend who happens to be an exterminator. The AC was repaired and the house was sprayed before I came home at lunch time, what a relief! The unexpected bonus here is that Ben cleaned the house Friday morning since people would be over. So I came home to a cool-bug free- clean house.

As soon as I got home Ben and a whole crew of 'his boys' headed to Dallas to celebrate JD's (my brother-in-law) upcoming wedding in true boy fashion: with a bachelor party.

Betsy and I played-played-played, and I watched my cousin's baby Isaiah for a couple hours (he is just too precious for words). Then Betsy and I packed up and headed toward Austin to meet some friends for dinner and shopping at the outlet mall. We were gone from 5 to 10 pm and Betsy was very good the whole time. She flirted with lots of patrons at the restaurant, and gave her opinion (when we asked) about what onesies she liked the best at the Carter store. Friday night we were both asleep by 10:30 pm and we slept 12 hours. IT. WAS. AMAZING.

Saturday afternoon Ben and the boys made it home and Ben, Betsy and I all took a nap together, and watched a movie. And once again all three of us slept twelve hours.

Sunday we headed back toward Austin to meet JD and Tiffany (my soon-to-be sister-in-law) for lunch and to hit the Men's Warehouse to look at suits for their wedding. Tiffany and I also tried something new...it's called threading. I got my eyebrows threaded (rather than waxed). I tried to talk Ben and JD into trying it too, but they weren't budging.

We all made it back home, then I hit the grocery store for this week's fresh fruit and milk, and we called it a night.