Last year my mom made a super cute costume for Katelyn. We turned Katelyn into a Tootsie Roll! She made it really fast too! I think it only took a couple of hours and it was finished.
So, for this year's costume I decided I wanted to make one...I thought that if my mom could put something that cute together in a couple of hours, I could do something in a day at least. I have seen ideas floating around but nothing seemed right for Katelyn until I saw this one. I loved it instantly and I started thinking up what it would take to make it. I got to work cutting out the feathers and the headband pieces along our drive as we moved. Then once we moved everything in I pulled out my sewing machine and went to town during nap time! I sewed all the feathers on a plain white onesie of hers and pieced the headband together. I love it and that is the cutest owl I have ever seen :)
Here's the front...in action...
The back...
This costume goes where she goes!
Poor girl...being an owl is hard!
I love this little costume on her...but for some reason I can't convince David that I should make mom and dad owl costumes for us to wear :) We could be an owl family! ...maybe next year :)
All this moving stuff wears us all out sometimes. I mentioned earlier how good of a helper Katelyn has been...maybe that has something to do with it. David is done working now and so we can tag team on actual packing and entertaining Katelyn.
Here are some pictures of what we have been up to...besides packing.
Katelyn was helping me clean out the dishwasher and as the story goes, "the dish ran away with the spoon." They didn't get far but who knew they had some help :)
Coaching has been entertaining. It has been a nice break for all of us to get out and have some fun.
Sometimes I wonder what skills we should work on in practice. Between the boy sprawled out on the ground, to the one boy pulling the other's hat over his eyes I no longer have to wonder if they learned anything about spreading out. I think they are on the same team...hello defense? We'll work on that.
Sometimes there is an odd number, so I have to even the teams out. Whenever I go after them when they have the ball they turn into a giggling mess. They love it when I play and they try to fight over which team I join by getting rid of their own teammates.
GO FIRE NINJAS!! Some of them still wish that we were the Killer Kitties and refuse to be a fire ninja :)
We had a really good rain storm. We usually sleep with our window open and I loved waking up to the sound of the rain downpour. Katelyn and I had some fun in the parking lot pond.
She learned how to stomp. It is now her newest dance move and she tried it out in the puddle making her own ripple circles. The water was cold and there was no sun to warm us up so we only played for a bit before she started shivering and we headed inside for a warm bath and hung out in warm footie pajamas the rest of the day.
This morning she was determined to help out and got her own breakfast ready :) This reminds me that she is getting taller and can reach things up on the table pretty easily! Where'd my little itty bitty baby go?
"No big deal, Mom. I got breakfast all by my self!"
Here's a mouthful of cheesy cuteness and she knows it!
Gotta love this silly girl :)
David kind of likes her too! With him being home now he's loving the extra time with his little girl. She loves it too and I think these two are going to have a tough time when David starts his new job and is away all day again.
Ever since we got the new job news we have going and going. Our minds can't help but bounce around from all the things that go into relocating. We are in the thick of it all and so me writing a blog means that I am tired of it all and want to sit in the middle of our packing mess and not even worry about it for a bit and it is very nice!
With us driving across the country in a couple weeks, we are trying to figure out what to take, what to dump, what to sell, what to pack that we won't need along the drive, what we need to keep out until the last second before we leave, and all that fun stuff.
We have turned into carnivores! In the last two months there have been really good deals and sales on meat so I stocked up and nearly filled the freezer. Now that we are about to drive for a week, we don't want to have to worry if the meat is still cold enough in a cooler, and we don't want to throw it out, so we decided we have to eat it. We have never had so much chicken, pork, beef, and elk in our lives. Is this how people turn vegetarian? Anybody want some meat?
Katelyn got sick right after our trip to Washington and that wasn't fun. She went from a runny nose, to a nasty cough, to an out of breath wheezing little girl and it scared us when it got to the out of breath/wheezing so we took a trip to the doctor. They checked for pneumonia, RSV, and the flu, and she was clear for all of those. They sent us off with some antibiotics to help fight off the virus she did have and we were good. She is doing great now, but it made for a long week and a lot racing to wipe her nose before she wanted to...yuck!
She is back to her happy goofy self running around and "helping" us pack by unpacking and rearranging how she thinks it needs to be :) The boxes are fun, but they don't listen when she tries to boss them around which makes her very frustrated. I think moving is just as stressful for her as it is for us!
Just after David got the news of his fancy new job, we headed home for a visit. In the back of my mind the whole stay was how far away we are going, and that I wouldn't be coming "home" to hang out with Mom and Dad nearly as often as it won't be as easy. But, that didn't stop us from having a wonderful weekend!
My handsome little brother was flying home and he just finished serving a mission for our church in Brazil. We drove late in the night to sneak in just in time for his flight arriving. It was so fun to see him and to have him home!
He had a fun little accent and I enjoyed teasing him as he tried really hard to sound like an American again. As he would talk, he would raise the tone of his voice (kind of like we do when we ask questions) and he would do it in the middle of his sentences even when he wasn't asking any questions. He had some issues reading and talking when the word in Portuguese was spelled the same or pronounced very similar and he couldn't remember how the English was supposed to sound. It was cute, and I was hoping he would sound different :)
It was a nice weekend with the majority of the ten of us kids home. We ate, didn't get enough sleep, played games, and had plenty of fun. We went out to Luke's football game and we were relieved that they pulled out the win in the end. We had a loud and obnoxious cheering section and Luke knew it! He would look up at us and then flex his huge biceps for a proud fist pump. He could knock all of us over at once and plow right through us easily if he wanted....Go Luke! Go Braves!
The next night he got dressed up and smelling good for his Homecoming date. He kind of likes this cute girl :)
Christine made us girls all be a little more girly and we all went out to get our nails done. It is always fun to be pampered, except that Abby got a much better foot rub than I did so that wasn't fair :) As we were picking out the color we wanted, Mom was cute and requested the boring colors....What Mom, you don't want neon green???
David was able to hide out to cram for his test and then run off to take it with his proctor before anyone noticed. Then he joined us in the first ever official Bare Open. This sounds much more revealing and rated R than it was. John set up a wonderful tennis tournament and we even had to draw cards to determine our position on the single elimination bracket. Everyone thought I was going to win it all, but somebody decided to invite a friend. Chelsea is not a Bare at all, but she gave me a run for my money. I played Dustin first and taught him how to play, and then Chelsea came in and made me work for it. We were all tied up, but then the mental aspect of the game got to my head and I couldn't stop thinking about how I didn't want to lose, so much that I lost the last game really fast making me lose the match. She said I wore her out though! She was fun to play.
Dad ended up beating Chelsea and then playing Abby for the championship and was pretty proud that he won! Way to go Papa Bare....60 years old and you can't be beat!
We had a family barbecue with the aunts and uncles and grandparents where Katelyn fell in love with watermelon...that's my girl! There have been a few times this summer where I have eaten half a watermelon in one sitting, just like when I was little hanging out at Grandma Honey's with Abby and we each got half and went at it with a spoon. We couldn't have been happier.
I can't get enough of this little girly!
It was a nice weekend surrounded with family and exciting news all around. Katelyn wasn't ready to go home yet and let us know most of the ride home. I was pulling all the goofy faces and glove tricks I could think up, but I think she just needed some more time snuggled up with Grandma and Papa Bare. Until Christmas!!
