its because we love to hunt

Hunting season is one that i love and hate.

hate because kris is gone so much but love because i love to hunt.

This past weekend i went up to the unit my dad got drawn to help with his hunt.  His unit is by this tiny little town which is called Seligman. Seligman is seriously a one horse kind of town. It is actually what inspired the Cars movie, Route 66!!

My dads favorite bike he ever owned was this one, a Honda 90!

 This was one of their general stores.... yeah.. that is 3 pair of sunglasses for sale

mater!

Their only grocery store.

our camp.

love my parents.

The boys figuring out a plan.

{kris, brother chad, and dad}

We all have a special bond with this mama cow. 3 weeks ago when my dad an Kris went up to scout, kris said this mama cow was trying to cross this fence and it was always right at the same spot. Well she then started to mother another calf that wasn't hers, 3 weeks later she was still there with both calfs!!!

hahaha love her.

So me and my mom was hanging out in out in our to hauler... we take a look outside and instead of just Kris and my dad outside practicing target sooting, there was 7 men out there!! hahaha love how hunters are usually so nice. 

crossing my fingers my dads gets a trophy.

first time sewing project=experience.

So starting at about september it begins to be bitter sweet.. i get super excited because the weather begins to cool off, but the stinky part is that means hunting season starts.
i love hunting don't get me wrong but it also

 means---->I'm a hunting widow.

So.. i decided rather than sitting around not doing anything I finally made the leap and decided to finally make my pillow cases for our new couch we bought a couple months ago!

Now if you read my previous post,  you would have seen what happened with my first pillow i made.

Diesel{aka- the destroyer} mutilated my pillow.

Now i look at it as somewhat a good thing because i then saw even cuter fabric. so i started from square one. new everything.

Diesel kept me company the entire 3 days...

So after 3 days...

energy drinks{staying up till 2 in the morning}

 jamming out to you tube...

i finally finished the pillows!!!!!!


So this is what the pillows looked like that were on our couch!
OLD

Anddd.. this is the 

NEW

I LOVE them!
i sewed 6 pillows!!

Sound all good and dandy and it was easy peasy!
wrong.

Where do i start?
haha
THE ZIPPER
Who would have thought this would be such a task?
i sure didn't!

 This incident happened on 2 pillows- i got the zipper all aligned and pinned down on the seam... started sewing... got all the way down to the end and realized i put the zipper wrong side down.

i accidentally missed sewing the zipper so i have to re-do the entire seam.

i concentrated so much on sewing as close to the seam as possible i forget about the other "watch-out's"
i sewed my actual pillow INTO my zipper seam.

Needle mishap.

not too sure how this happened but i somehow broke the tip of the needle off!!! 

luckily my mom insisted that i take her sewing machine manuals and I'm so glad she did! 

Since that is how i figured out how to change the needle!!

Although after alllllll this i loveee my pillows and so does Kris.
Cross your fingers Diesel doesn't chew these ones up.

Girls weekend {labor day}

So this weekend Kris and my Dad left to go scouting for my dads big archery hunt in 2 weeks!

This picture is so true!(saw this at Hobby Lobby)

So my mom decided that Saturday we would have a girls day and so we went to lunch at Rubios

Love their fish tacos.

We then did some shopping, always end up buying something for the hubby also.

(wouldnt be a girls day without some shopping)

I bought some Fall decor! First Wreath i have ever hung on our house. 

{Winter please come faster}

 So my mom and i wanted to try a few recipes. She wanted to create a yummy moist cupcake and i wanted to try this new Cinnamon Bun Popcorn!

So we baked!

She made a Red Velvet Cupcake with Buttercream Icing(some had chocolate chips in them).Then also made Chocolate cupcakes with Cream Cheese Filling and Buttercream Frosting with Chocolate Chips inside the cupcake!

Her cupcakes were soooo good!

Loved my Popcorn also! it turned out so yummy!

 My favorite part was this part where i was making the caramel and i had to mix the brown sugar with the cinnamon.. ooo did it smell like the holidays.

Needless to say we had a few hickups though.

Yes that is my tuberware melted threw! Dang chocolate wouldnt melt so we put it in for a little longer then... this happend! haha

 We then decided to go to Morenos {aka-Gecko Grill/Cravings}
Best green sauce ever.

 Pollo Fundido=yum!

So she ended up staying the night with me and the next day we finally decided to start my throw pillows.

 For months now i have wanted to make new pillow cases for my couch because i hate the ones that are on there that came with the couch. so we went to Joanns, bought my fabric, so then my mom could show me a thing or 2 on making a pillow case!
She has a old sewing machien and the brand is a Husqvarna and Kris was making fun of my mom because he thinks they didnt make them anymore!! haha so funny! and then we see this at JoAnns!

Started out smoothly, but then came the zipper. ohhh how i hate zippers.

Pillow took me 3 hours to make.

LOVE{D} it though.

Soooo.... the reason i say LOVED it was because i put the pillow on my couch that night went to bed and woke up to the pillow i made OUTSIDE... CHEWED UP!!!!!!!!

Dang Diesel chewed my new pillow up!!!!!
i had a melt down. in my house. on the floor. kinda crying.

that dog is so lucky to be alive.

But this weekend was so much fun though.

Loved being with my mom!

lots of laughter, girl talk, bonding!

So happy to have her as my mom.