get your jam...

so earlier in the summer i started making jam to sell at the local farmer's market. well it kind of took off faster than i anticipated, so needless to say, i have been making a lot of jam:) i never knew how much work went into going commercial with food. it is intense!!!! but now that i have done that i will be getting into shops... legally. they make great gifts & there are lots of different flavors, so you should be able to something for everyone.

i'll be at the bijou market this saturday from 10-4 in provo. come down & give them a try! if you don't make it down to the market, you can always order them from here.

finally posting:) start current... play catch-up later~

our halloween was super fun this year! my kids & my sisters kids did the whole peter pan thing. which i found was a very popular theme this year. dempsey & sawyer, my sisters boys, were captain hook & the tick-tock crock:) while my kids played peter & tink. everyone had a blast, except that the cotton candy machine stopped working just 30 trick or treaters in:( i am happy to finally get some sleep! between sewing, cooking & staying up too late just trying to catch up DVR, paired with starting a new business(more to come on that) & working part-time at the Gap... i can sleep when i'm dead... right:) here is a picture overload of the kids in there costumes. i think it all turned out pretty darling... if i do say so myself!

funny kids!

i always forget to write down all the funnies that my kids come up with these days.  so i'm putting them here:)

avi-  the other day we walked outside to get in the car & it was early & cold.  the car was covered in frost.  "what happened to our car?" avi asked.  i told her it was frost.  she replied "our car is covered in FROSTING?!?"  "not frosting sweetie:), frost... don't lick it!!"

becks- the other day we were out with some friends, & he was telling them that he had been on TV.  my friend, amy, responded by telling him that she was on TV every night.  he argued with her~

"no you're not,"  he said

"yeah, i am.  i do the weather." amy replied

"no Amy... Jesus does the weather."  beckham retorted completely matter of fact.  

it was hilarious!

fairy tale friends...

this week avi had 2 friends celebrate birthdays, both having cute princess parties.  unfortunately i was only able to stay at one of the parties & get pics, but they were all such cute princesses!  becks was such a great sport to tag along (even though i wouldn't let him dress up like a cowboy or a pirate~ in fear of scaring all the princesses)  jackie was so darling, thanking everyone over & over for coming to her party.  kelle dressing up as Cinderella just put the icing on the cake... forgive the pun:)  all the kids at with the party & just at the farm wanted to come say hello to "cinderella".  watch out disneyland theme park employee!  i am so glad that avi has such fun friends with sweet, patient parents:)  happy, happy birthday jackie & bella!

swimming is great...

this summer my kids both took swimming lessons with the amazing miss pam & miss kaylynn.  i would be totally understating things by saying they LOVED swimming & there teachers!  they are now both incredibly confident & capable in the water & wish they could be in the water all the time.  both of the "miss's" impacted my kids in such a positive way i can't even explain it.  we love them sooooo much!  thank you to the miss's & all of the life skills that they taught my little lovies.

{avi & her safety place}

{becks with the ring & the float}

{the kids & miss kaylynn}

{swim, swim, swim}

{gotta get to the step}

{watch out for spashes}

{& the diving board}

{good kicks!!!}

{the breath goes in better with a bigger mouth}

{i love her in those goggles}

{saying bye to the toys is always hard}

{& could you just eat up that swim cap??}

{one last jump...}

bad things happen in 3's... right?

hopefully our string of bad luck is over!  it started about 3 weeks ago now, when i fell off our front porch & ruptured all the blood vessels on the outside of my left foot:(  now, 3 weeks later, it still hurts to walk too much.  sorry no pics of my black, blue, green, purple & yellow swollen foot.

5 days later... we were up out the cabin with all the cousins & the kids were out playing, when all of the sudden, someone comes in carrying becks.  he has a gash in his leg so deep you can see the fat & there is blood dripping down to his foot.  AWESOME!!!  sunday night was spent in the pediatric after hours getting 7 stitches in his leg.  he was a champ though!  he watched the whole thing & didn't cry once.  he told quinn, that it was just because he was there:)  the worst part about the whole thing is that summer was over for him 10 days early.  no water anything while the stitches were in & he didn't get them out until the first day of school.

{a mended wound}

{just playing around before the fun starts}

{easy does it...}

{just checkin' out his new lightning mcqueen bandage}

6 days after that...  i had taken the kids to the park so quinn could get the mowing done quicker.  we had a great time, but when we got home, quinn pulled me aside & told me that lola had been hit by a car.  the most maddening part was, the car didn't even stop.  he assured me that she was fine, but of course i went right to the garage to check for myself.  turned out she wasn't fine... she wouldn't stand up, she just sat there looking at me.  when we tried to stand her up her leg would just flop.  i called my friend, the dogs groomer, to ask her opinion.  she told me some tests to do to make sure she was okay for the night & called the vet to let them know we'd be bringing her in first thing in the morning.  she was fine that night & in the morning we took her in to find out that she had a fractured leg & would need surgery to put pins in to hold it together.  she is doing fine now, but now she is the one that can't do too much.

{one sad, wounded puppy}

{with one seriously bad haircut!}

i really hope that we will be injury free for a while at our house & that lola's hair grows back quick!

8 years past... on to a new chapter~

i write this post with tears welling up in my eyes, but knowing that change is hard, good or bad.  

after only being married 10 months, my new hubby & i decided to take all of our savings & buy a flower shop:)  now 8 years later, it was the best hair brained idea we ever had!  but a lot has changed in that time & now 2 houses, 2 kids & 2 dogs later... it has just all become too much for me!  my now not so new hubby wanted to do something that HE was a little more "needed" in the work place & i need to support him.  even if it means giving up the store.  i know it is the best thing for my family, i guess i'm just scared!  scared that i am giving up on what i am good at, scared that i will feel a whole in my creative spirit & most of all sad about the people i will miss that i have built friendships with through bloomer's.  even though the future is unknown, i  can't wait to see what it holds & i am so grateful for the amazing things i was able to do... all because of a little flower shop!

**also, if you live close~ we will start our inventory liquidation tomorrow, August 15th @ 10:00 am.  everything will be 50% off... & if you come in i promise i won't cry!