My Weekend Alone

So this weekend something really exciting happened.

Haley got married!

So Brandon's sister got married and we are all really excited for her.  The kids absolutely love Aunt Haley and they are pretty excited about their new Uncle McKay.  Now the hard thing about this, for me anyway, was the fact that their wedding day was a month before my due date.  Needless to say I had an issue with driving that far at 36 weeks, and flying wasn't an option, so the plan was for Brandon to drive.  At first I thought he was going to be our lone representative but then he started talking about taking the kids out of school so they could be there too.  And then we saw on the school calendar that they had testing days leading up to the wedding weekend so they only had to miss one day of school but were gone from Thursday to Monday.  So then I thought Brandon was going to just take the older two, but of course Britton wanted to go and then I thought I was going to have a relaxing weekend with just me and Bradley.  And then Brandon said, "Why don't I take all four?"  I told him he was crazy but I wasn't going to fight him all that hard.  So Brandon loaded all the kids up and they took off and I spent the weekend by myself.

Here are some pictures of their weekend.

 Their colors were yellow and teal so I made the girls some skirts from this tutorial and then I made ties for the boys and Brandon and the baby.  I made the ties with a pattern from The Ribbon Retreat.  If you have this pattern I have to warn you I've had to play with it a bit.  The first time I made a tie for Brandon I used the insert to make the tie longer and it was way too long.  So for Brandon I have to use the pattern pieces for the 7-10 ages, but this is too long for William.  The 1-3 age tie length works great for Bradley but is a little short for William.  So for William I split the fold in half on the pattern pieces.

 The whole reason they made the trip.

 There was a lot of staying up late, and dancing.

 More dancing.  The kids really like McKay.  I was lucky enough to get to meet him when I took the kids out to my parents for spring break.  And he was great with them then also.

Dancing with Aunt Haley.

So that is how they spent their weekend.  Okay that wasn't everything but Brandon only took pictures on the day of the wedding so I don't have pictorial proof of other activities that were participated in.  Brandon did say that everyone loved the kids.  I think that might be because they were the only little kids there, they are the only grandkids on that side of the family.  That isn't to say that there aren't loved on my side of the family, but the novelty of small children may have worn off a little.  So you might wonder what I did with my weekend.  So here you go.

 Yep, I made a blanket.  But not just any blanket, see here.  It is a lot of sewing.  So spent Thursday sewing, pretty much all day.  I did take some breaks to finish the laundry.  And I got all the baby clothes washed.

And after the sewing there is the cutting through the back layers, rounded the edges, and put some bias tape around the edge.  So that is the last baby project since I put an edge on some swaddling blankets made from cotton gauze.  And for the rest of the weekend I slept as long as I wanted, went to church all by myself, and got the grocery shopping done before they got home.  Brandon now agrees with me that he would have to be crazy to drive that far with four kids by himself.  I don't think he will be volunteering for that anytime soon.