Fairy tale come true! Im going to see the Princess!

Im finally on my way to Idaho to go an meet my new niece, Cinderella Torrez! My baby bro and his beautiful wife Tiffini had a baby girl in July and I am so excited to finally get to meet her! I am super excited that she also gets to be my excuse to go and see my family and friends too and just have a good ol Burley Idaho experience. :)

Baby Cinderella your Auntie is Coming!!!!!

Parrot Jungle Island

 Had a  blast with the kiddos today at Parrot Jungle Island. It's like an interactive zoo. Glade, McCoy and I have been before but this was boo boos first time and she loved it! She really loves animals.She wanted to hold and touch and pet everything. Many of the animals she did have an opportunity to touch so that was nice. She was never afraid at all. Mommy got a bit nervous though.

This is an actual Liger. The biggest in captivity they say. You can't really tell from this pictures but he was HUGE!  Bentley kept growling at him trying to get him to grow back I guess then she finally put her finger to her lips and shushed us...she wanted us to know  this is his napping time LOL.

I MUSTACHE you a question....So, what do you think????

So the McRockstar and I were browsing the internet and came accross a picture with a bunch of kids with these fake mustaches and we thought it was funny. He had a friend over later that day and I cut out some mustaches for them and they had a blast with them.

So I decided, why let the kids have all the fun? So I whipped out the sewing machine and made a couple of Mustache Key Chains. It was really simple and fun and I think it will be a silly little gift too for someone with a good sense of humor.

First I cut out a mustache on a paper.  Then I folded a piece of felt so my mustache would be two layers thick. I also used the thicker stiff felt.  Then put the paper on on my felt and stapled it there to hold it in place so I could cut around it. After I cut out the mustache I tore off the paper but left the staples to hold the two pieces together while I sewed it. .

 Then I cut a thin strip to use as my keychain holder and slid it betweent the two felt pieces and then sewed around the edges and... DONE!

Sewing 101: The Pillow Case Dress

I have been wanting to know how to sew for years but I have been to timid to learn or ask someone to teach me so finally I decided to join a sewing group through my church and as soon as I signed up I was asked to head up the group. What the heck? Yes I was surprised but decied I liked the challenge. Now I really had to learn. So I set up the first meeting and was quickly told the fastest way to learn was to buy a machine...What? I had been holding off getting a machine because I wanted to learn first. But I eventually broke down and bought a machine and I couldnt be happier. The first sewing I did was the little tunics I made for McCoy's Star wars party. VERY SIMPLE. All I had to do was two straight lines. Easy enough. Then I moved on to a pillow case. A good easy first project but half way through that I decided I wanted to do something else because I would never really use the pillow case so it turned into "The Dress." My first official sewing project. I found a simple pattern for a pillow case dress and Wa-La...

Ok, I know its nothing fancy to look at but I am just pleased as punch that I sewed LOL. And I made something my baby can actually wear. I even had fun sewing the material for the matching hair bow too. Every outfit has to have its accessories right? The best part is she loved it. I look forward to working on more fun sewing projects.

18 Months

Bentley is 18 months!

My precious princess Boo Boo is getting so big and is so smart. Someone reffered to her as my "trick" the other day and I was like, "What?" And they said, yes, she is definitaly your trick. She is so adorable and cute and fun and loving that she makes you want another one. God sent her to make sure you have more kids LOL.  I thought that was pretty funny.

Bentley is such a silly girl. She does things knowing she is being silly because she wants to make us laugh. She will put her pants on her head or wear brothers shoes and dance around. She is such a goof. We absolutly love her personality. She can be fiesty when need be, her demands come out in LOUD shrill screams but lucky for us she is for the most part very happy and easy and going but on those rare occasions she is not....cover your ears!

Bentley is trying to talk and can say a few words that are pretty clear and reconizable. She can say Mama, Dada,Bubba, up, hup (help), No, Yea (used in place of yes most of the time) and Yesh (Yes) Thanksh (thanks), Mimi (her blankie), E-Us (Jesus), Ameh (Amen),

She also says these words but we are the only onese who can understand: blablanbla (also her blankie) and lambalamba (Lambie her Stuffed Lamb), ame-eo-eon (chamelion).


She is still singing and can pretty much tell us what she wants through combinations of sign and yes no's. Which is so wonderful. I hate those rare occasions when she wants something and I can't figure it out. I am so thankful for sign language and how much it has helped me with my babies. I encourage everybody try it. I usued Dr. Garcias book of baby signs but we also use to watch Signing Time with McCoy and so between what McCoy and I have learned we teach Bentley. It is so nice because McCoy helps her and understands her also.

Right now she loves her bubba more than anything. If we can't get her to do something we ask McCoy to ask her and she will always do whatever he asks. She follows him around and is his biggest fan. I love their bond, he takes such good care of her and in return she loves him unconditionally and supports whatever ideas he has.

She is also very fond of her Mimi(blanket) and she can't sleep without it. She fell in love with my comforter and the different textures it had, velvet and silk so I gave her the pillow shams. Luckily there were three because we have to alternate them often. She carries them everywhere and they get very dirty so one is always in the washing machine.

She loves to eat just about anything, she is a great eater and loves to try new things. We think she might be allergic to peaches so we stay away from those but other than that anything else is game. Despite her hungry appetite, she is still underweight. She always has been on the low end of the wieght scale, but high for hight. The doc said she has to up her pediasure so we did and she gained a pound in a week. :) She drinks three pediasures a day plus her reg water, milk and foods. She is just such an active thing that she burns it all off in a matter of minutes.

We all love our little Princess Boo Boo so much. Can't belive she is growing so fast.