Rose Sisters Crafting Extravaganza and Cousin Craziness!

Might I just interject here before beginning this post that I am going forward at this time in my blogging! But, I will be interjecting older posts as time allows, so check backwards periodically. I can't believe I let myself get this far behind. I'll be weeks playing catch-up!

I'm sad I did not have my camera for this two day activity, but I took plenty of pictures with Cindy's. As I know she will blog about it and post pics, I may steal a few of hers, but will let her post suffice for most of them. Just let me say that it was SO MUCH FUN! Lori drove to Cindy's from Rupert on Thursday afternoon as all of their kids were out of school for IEA. Seemed like perfect timing to get together. Julie came on Friday morning with her kids to join the party! I was there both Thursday afternoon and Friday helping with the kids, food etc. and just generally enjoying watching our girls join together in making skirts for their girls and hair clips  to match! Lori has really enjoyed sewing for Kate the past couple of months and Cindy really wanted Lor to teach her the "how-to's". My mom gave Cindy a sewing machine a few years ago and it just hasn't worked well. Lori and I worked on it, readjusting a few things, and got it working well. So when Julie arrived with her machine, we had three set up and running! With Lori's help and expertise, Julie was able to make skirts for her two girls and Cindy skirts for her 4 girls. They turned out so darling and ALL the girls were so excited! Wish we would have had time for a fashion show, but it was just not to be. Lori went home with just hair clips done for herself, but with a great deal of satisfaction, I am sure, knowing she gave the sewing bug to her two sisters! The fabrics today are so fabulous!  I heard a lady say that women don't sew today to save money (because frankly, you don't!), they sew to create! And that is important to women! (Remember Pres. Ucktdorf's talk on the subject?)  What I enjoyed as much as anything was watching my little granddaughters, Regan, Morgan, Jordyn, Kate, Chloe and Lily create amazing hair clips with plastic flowers, fabric, buttons, etc. Regan learned to use the machine and made some belts, and Morgan would push the pedal while Cindy sewed (and held Kami sometimes!) When they weren't sewing, all the girls were playing and having a ball! It was so fun to watch Kaleb, Jack, and Brigham play so well together really not requiring much supervision at all. Cannon, Porter and Kami just played upstairs and followed us around. And Todd,  bless his heart, occupied himself. His buddy Regan really wanted to sew so he just played with the younger boys and on his IPOD with nary a complaint (at least not to me.) 

I think this time together got the four of us very excited about Sister's Weekend in two weeks in Park City. Thanks to our husbands who are caring for kids and doing without their sweethearts for a couple of days.