My friend Kaylee is helping me make onesie dresses for my girls and I am loving it!  I'm making matching dresses for the girls and one extra dress for Audrey (because the white onesies we could find at the store only came in packs of three).  Turns out I really enjoy sewing....who knew?  Not me.  I feel like my hobbies are getting more and more 'little house on the prairie-esque' as I go along in stay-at-home-mom life.  My role model is Janet King from the show Avonlea when it used to be her daughter Felicity.  Now when I watch movies and shows I pay particular attention to what the homes look like, the furniture, the decorations, where things are kept, thinking about what things I like about it and want to be a part of my home.  Oh my goodness I can't wait to have a house!  That is dream on my mind these days.  I used to dream about leaving home and being on my own, then I dreamed about my future husband and wedding, then I dreamed about my kids and life as a stay-at-home-mom.  Now that I've realized all of these dreams it feels like the only thing left to dream about is my own home now!  When I get to that point I'm going to need to find something new to daydream about.  Someday I'll be dreaming about my kid's weddings, my grandkids, and a mission.  That's the thing about life though, isn't it?  There's always something coming next!

Anyway, here are some pictures of my onesie dress project.  I love working on it so much.  I'm so proud of myself for it, I feel like a little kid bringing home an art project to show my mom.  So here it is, Mom!

onesie from walmart

two cute fabrics from joanns.  this ones for audrey's own dress.

this ones for the matching dresses

cut

sew

gather

pin

this onesie we already had for hannah and it came with the bows on the sleeves.  it was so perfect!

Sometimes life seems to be going by so slowly and other times it's going by soooooo fast.  Lately it's been the latter.  Here are some things going on with us lately.

Last week my mom and brother came to stay with us to meet and help out with little Hannalah!  It was so fun having them here and I feel like I definitely got the relief I needed with my mom here to help me so much.  Having an almost 2 year old and a newborn is hard work let me tell you.  One of my favorite things about the whole week was that my mom was here to get up with Audrey in the morning!  I loved walking out into the living room, once Hannah had woken up, to find the windows open, the sun shining in, Audrey happily talking in her booster seat, and my mom walking around the kitchen making breakfast and getting things ready for the day. All my life just the presence of my mom relieves me.
We did a lot of fun things together while they were here and both of our girls got some good bonding time with Grandma and Uncle Luke.  The way Hannah liked to bond with everyone was by throwing up on them.  She's been having some acid reflux issues the last few weeks but the week they were here was the worst one of all.  In the few days they were here she threw up on me (more than once), Mom, Luke, Andrew, and Ross- everyone in the family except Mariah and Audrey!  It's only a matter of time!  We've got some medicine for her now, though so they might be off the hook.  It seems to have helped her feel better already.
Anyways, we had such a great week with Mom and Luke.  We had Easter together complete with an Easter egg hunt, Easter basket surprises and Grandma Chandler's traditional Easter cake.  And in our family Easter would not be Easter without Reeses Eggs!  Other things we did during the week included a library trip, antique stores, Mariah's birthday and a huge chocolate ice cream cake, Salt Lake City and Temple Square, This is the Place Monument, Homestead Crater in Midway, hanging out on BYU Campus, playing in the snow, movies, music, preschool activities, getting our family ready for our Arizona move for our summer internship, and so much more.
IM SO SAD THEY'RE GONE.  I wish they could stay forever.  Well, no I wish that BYU could be in California!!!  Then we could all be together :).  Hopefully someday we will end up somewhere close to our families!!!