February's Fun Fridays

Every year, the school has special dress up days every Friday in February to help with the winter doldrums.  The first week, Sarah declared that it was "Hat Day" as they were getting ready to go out to the bus, so we grabbed a hat for each of them and out they went.  (The note about what was happening each week came home that day after school!) The last week was "Athletic Day" but there was a snow day and I didn't get a picture either.  But the two middle weeks were "Hawaiian Day" and "Mismatch/Backward Day".

My Wedding Dress

I decided to post pictures of me making my wedding dress since it is almost my anniversary.  I had to special order the fabric from JoAnn Fabric. Then I waited until school was out to start. I rolled out the fabric and there was a flaw running the whole length of the fabric! So I had to re-order a new roll!

Laying out the fabric. 

pinning on the lace

Loop tape pinned on. 
If you notice, the date stamp says " 7/29/98"
 - my wedding was 08/08/98
- so I had 9 days to finish it! 
Having to re-order the fabric really set me back!

Sewing on the buttons

Sewing the hem

I brought it to the dry cleaners to get ironed (only ironed) and they got a stain on it!  And they messed up the bridesmaids' dresses (I think the hems got wet and it sagged the fabric).  So on the Thursday before the wedding, we rushed them to the other dry cleaner in town and they fixed the problems (at a discount)  A little too much stress for me!

Check back in a week to see the finished dress!
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Mis Match Day

Sarah's last dress up day was "Mis Match Day". It isn't easy to see, but her pants are black and white striped. She had 2 different shoes to wear at school and 2 different boots and gloves for outside.

School Spirit

Sarah's school is having a special dress up day for every Friday this month. Today is "School Spirit Day" so she wore Purple and Gold for the Yellow Jackets.

The hat was knit by Grandma.

Her outer wear was also purple and yellow!

Sarah thought Andrew should wear the hat Grandma had made for William and participate in her school spirit day.

Emily hugging Andrew.

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I figured this was a good place to show the cauliflower that we got last week.

It was Purple and Yellow!!

(They called it Orange!)

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Uncooked

Cooked

(It tasted just like regular cauliflower)

This was what the water looked like when it was done cooking! (I poured it into a glass to show it better!)