Our weekend

My sister Christine started the weekend off early for us on Thursday when she had her new baby Lincoln Porter. I haven't seen him in person yet, but he is absolutely darling in his pictures. Big sister Evelyn seems to like him so far too.

Friday night Kent and I got to go out. We went to see the new X-Men Wolverine Movie. It was pretty good. Although I could have done without the rear naked bum shots. I know that there were several other people in the theater who liked those scenes.

Then on Saturday I had to finish reading some books, organize my house, drive everyone to and fro, and waited for Trevor to come home from a sleepover. Turns out he went swimming with his friend (and his family) 3 or 4 times on Saturday. Trevor decided he didn't want to wear sunscreen. We asked him if he had learned his lesson. He says he has definitely, definitely learned. Here's how he looked on Sunday. He is still beet red and it's Monday night. He can lift his arms today, which is an improvement over the previous 2 days. However, he cannot put a shirt on because he is so red. Because of that we had to keep him home from school today. They frown on kids coming to school without their clothes on. At least we're nearing the end of the school year!

Trevor's back with the blue Instant Burn Relief Ice Aloe Vera / Lidocaine / Tea Tree Extract on it. Ouch! I'm just waiting for it to blister.

Yesterday we had stake conference. We opted not to go. I can't sit through sacrament meeting, which is 1 hour 10 minutes or so, and there was no way I was going to last longer than that for SC. And Trevor was so sunburned that he wouldn't have been able to put on clothes for church. We watched a session of General Conference, so we did get spiritually fed. Since we were sitting together watching Gen. Conf. I sewed the material together, then tied Justin's blanket. Then I sewed the binding on. Then I had to re-sew the binding on Drew's blanket because there were some issues. He also managed to rip his special pillow case from Grandma Susan at the seam, and he was freaking out about that so I fixed that. (And, Mom, I don't believe that I'll have to pick out the stitches with my nose in heaven. I think that sewing, especially while surrounded by my children, is a good Sabbath Day activity.) I even did a little crocheting on my baby blankets. I think I'm going to have to start selling them because I am done having kids, and none of my siblings or Kent's siblings are pregnant. Pretty soon I'm going to have quite the stash!

Justin with his new blanket. He was thrilled because it was black, red and white with skulls on it. I am getting soft in my old age!

After we got the kids to bed I assembled 100 teacher appreciation gifts. I didn't take any pictures (dumb, I know!). They were cute. I had a 4" x 4" piece of heavy weight decorative paper or textured cardstock, put a 2" x 4" label on it with a poem, punched 2- 3/16" holes and stuck in a caramel covered apple flavored sucker, then hot glued an inspirational rock on it.
After I was done with that I made 4 of the large flower hair clips for Natalie. I'm going to post some step-by-step instructions on my craft blog in a while in case you're interested in making them.