My website!

As some of you know I make jewelry for fun. Nothing to fancy, just cute stuff for friends/family and something to keep me busy. At the urging of some of my friends I have started a website. I've done a few craft shows and have had a lot of fun creating new things. Check it out www.hottmommadesigns.etsy.com

Sorry its been so long to get an update on me out...lol So much to do so little time.

Girls playing :D and new group pic of the kids

Well things have been exciting around here. We've been having alot of fun. The girls got tutu's today, my friend Dina makes them and they turned out really cute :D I hadn't taken a new picture of all the kids lately so I did that today. I can't believe they were all looking at the camera and all smiles :D Hannah has grown up so much lately and is starting to say more words. Hailey is being such a big helper with anything and everything she gets her hands on. Garrett is starting to read (can't believe he's getting so big), and Lance is learning cursive handwriting which he's really excited about and he lost his 2nd tooth last night. Ty and I have been busy as always. He's in the middle of Winter Quarter for school and I've been busy with the kids and making jewelry. I've made a bunch of pieces lately, and actually sold a couple which was pretty exciting. I've also been asked to make jewelry for a friend thats getting married, so thats another challenge for me in the near future. We are hopefully going to be doing some more remodeling to the house this year, not sure what yet, depends on how much time we can find in our crazy lives. We hope everyone is doing well and that life is being good to you all.

Love ya,

Katie, Ty and kids :D

Finally feeling better!

Well its been a long week in the house. It all started last Wednesday when Garrett started getting sick. He missed school that day and I braced for the worst. We got a big snow storm come in that day and canceled schools for the next 2 days. During those 2 days Hailey got sick on Thursday night and Hannah in the wee hours (1am) Friday morning. I was up for 36 hours (Thursday morning-Friday night) with sick kids. After going most of the day on Friday with no one vomiting we thought maybe it would skip Lance. But low and behold Saturday morning Lance started getting sick. He was only sick for a few hours and then it was done. Ty and I were the hold outs. I started feeling Ill on Sunday night through Monday night. We got lucky with it being a holiday weekend that we had 5 total days off school so the kids didn't really miss any time off for being sick. Ty was lucky and seems to have escaped it for the most part. He's lucky, becuase it was horrible and I'm soooo glad we won't have to do that again for a while I hope.

Other than illness sweeping the family things here are good. As seen in previous posts I have another blog for my jewelry making. I'm not a pro by any means, but its a fun hobby, and if I can make a few dollars doing it, great! I've been staying pretty busy with that and the kids. Ty started back to school in the beginning of January and is doing that and working full time so he's always busy with something. The kids aren't in any sports yet, we're considering baseball in the spring for the boys, and possibly a ballet class for Hailey. I think I'm going to let her try it a couple times and if she likes it I'll sign her up. I am very sick of snow and ready for spring to finally get here, only 2-3 more months till we're done with snow. Hope all is well with all of you.
~Love y'all~

My jewelry blog

For those of you who watch this I thought I'd give you a heads up one something I've been working on. I have another blog, mainly dedicated to the stuff I like to do, like making jewelry, sewing/quilting, and photography. If you want to check it out the address is http://hottmommadesigns.blogspot.com/ Don't laugh to hard at the name, a friend helped me come up with it ;) Leave me some comments on here or on there. Would love some feedback on likes and dislikes of stuff I've made. Always looking for self improvement.
~love y'all~

Snow, Snow and more Snow!

Well we got some snow today...I think we're up to about 4-5 inches. The kids went out to play in the front yard which was covered in it. Garrett didn't get to go out though, he's been sick all day, so we'll post more pics after he's feeling better and gets to go out too.

One more snow pic :)

This is a cool pic I took today of a bridge near our house. Its been snowing the past couple days and looks amazing! My cousin Ang posted something a while back about a pic she found that reminded her of this place...so Ang, this is for you :)