Please Indulge Me...

(Because I like them better than quilting!)

Baby Bibs

When your grandaughter is a drool machine, the grandma gets to make bibs!

Twenty bibs, total.

19 for Olivia and 1 for Bennett.

I added little heart appliques to each one.

The flannel was from Wamart.  It was SO cute!

You can get 2 bibs from a quarter yard of fabric.

I used sew in Velcro for the fasteners.

If you would like the pattern, click HERE to view and download the PDF.

Baby Update

These pictures were taken a few weeks ago.

(I love these babies so much!)

Baby Blessings

In our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, we do not baptize (christen) our children when they are infants, we wait until they are 8 years old to be baptized.

However, when our children are infants, we do have another special tradition.  The infants are brought before the church congregation and given a special personal blessing, usually by their father, along with the assistance of invited family and close friends.

Baby Bennett wore the same outfit his daddy wore for his blessing.

My oldest daughter, wanted her daughter (Olivia) to wear the same dress that she and I both wore for our blessings.  After much searching, the dress could not be found :(

Fortunately, Olivia's Great GREAT Grandmother crocheted her a BEAUTIFUL amazing blessing dress. ...but there was no slip. :(

So, what did I do?  I got up at 5:30 am, the morning of the blessing and made her one :)

I have my grandmothers slip that she wore for her christening as an infant.  (My daughter, Kate, wore it under her blessing dress that her grandmother crocheted her).  I used this for the pattern.

It is REALLY big, and will still fit her when she is two years old!

It worked perfectly :)

....and for dessert....

The EPIC Cradles

Because my husband is as crazy as I am, he had to make his new grand babies cradles!

Bennett's mommy requested a more traditional style cradle fashioned after a cradle that she saw at a  colonial fair.

For baby Olivia, my husband decided to surprise her parents with an amazing Super Mario Brothers style cradle.

He and painted the whole thing and really hit the nail on the head.

The babies (and parents) love their special presents from grandpa!

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Christmas Stockings for the Grandbabies

When we first were married, I crocheted stockings for our little family.  It soon became a tradition in my family that when ever one of my siblings got married, I made stockings for their families too. 

 Now that my children are having children, it appears that I will be making stockings

 for a long long time ;)

This purple and white one is for our sweet baby Olivia.

Baby Bennett's is just like his dads, only a little smaller  :)

No matter how hard I try, the stockings are never the same size ;)

These two are pretty close to the same size ;)  Yee Haw!

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Santa Babies

(For those of you new to my blog, my two oldest daughters had babies the week before Thanksgiving.  One girl, Olivia and one boy, Bennett.)

Of course!  They had to have pictures taken in Santa suits!

Olivia is not really feeling it!

It's getting a little worse.

....and a little worse!

She has had it!

Bennett, on the other hand, could care less ;)

 

  Snoozing under the tree.

(we love his mustache binky)

 

Photo Shoot Sequence

Aunt Katie to the rescue!

"Ah!  Finally that silly outfit is off so I can take a nap!"

A binky and some friends from my uncle Mac.

Out cold!