The week of our trip to Las Vegas finally arrived!  That meant the week of our long-anticipated “Sewing Camp!”  In it’s simplest conception, the plan was sewing in the morning and swimming and cousins in the afternoon.  Sounds idyllic doesn’t it?  I thought so, too!

We drove up Sunday after church so we could start sewing Monday morning.  Actually, we mostly cut out fabric on Monday, but we did get started.  We also got started with our swimming that afternoon!  We were so grateful to Uncle Pete and Aunt Monica who let us all come and enjoy their pool!  Amy and her family came, too, and Diane and her new baby, Liam, too!  Cousins galore!  Monica even handed out popsicles . . . AND we got to see Samantha before she left for a trip later that week.

Sam, Savannah, Sarah, and Megan even opted to go to the mall together Tuesday afternoon instead of swimming so they could make some memories together.  They had great fun and bought cute stuff!

Meanwhile, we continued to sew . . .

. . . and iron which my girls said was considerably less fun.  Actually, those are not the words they used to describe it, but we won’t go there!  

Grandpa, meanwhile, found out that Savannah had been mistakenly enrolled in welding for her first year at the high school.  He had great fun teasing Savannah about that!  He even showed her his welding stuff and took pictures.  It was very funny!  Savannah protested that she didn’t even like the heat from the iron, how could she ever be welder?  She makes a really cute one, though.

 

On Wednesday, after sewing, we went up to see my friend, Kim, and her cute mom, and all her kids. 

She even has a pool so we still got to swim! She made us a terrific dinner, our little kids played together, and we had a wonderful visit.  It was great.  Aren’t we cute?

The next day we changed it up a little and we took the kids to a water playground in the morning and sewed in the afternoon. 

Amy came up with her children to play in the water with us.  It was a good thing because Bethany especially loves her cousin, Emma.  They had so much fun together!  

Back at the house, Diane and Liam came to hang out with us again.  Isn’t he adorable???  Two weeks old!!

Cali, Cheyenne, and Kayla thought he was pretty cute, too!

On that day, Cali and Cheyenne went home with Amy’s family to stay over night.  It was only my four older girls who were doing sewing projects so the twins were happy to have more time with Kayla and Mandy and we were happy to have them occupied!  Because, afterall, the sewing must go on!

We were getting worn out, though.  It’s a good thing there was only one more day!

Friday morning saw us finishing up.  Mariah actually finished Thursday before anyone else and she did two projects – a knit shirt and an owl hat – both so cute!  Megan put the zipper in on her frilly shirt.  Sarah sewed the ruffle to the bottom of her skirt.  And Savannah finished the waist and the hems on her second pair of goucho pants.  We officially finished sewing camp and took a picture modeling our new clothes.  We finished the week victorious!

To celebrate, we all went back to Pete’s to swim. 

It was a great week!  I never could have done it without my mom and dad and all my family who made themselves and their houses available to us.  Thank you, you guys!  But most  of all, thanks to my mom for her hours of help teaching my girls to sew!

Kevin stayed home in Springville all week to work.  Poor guy!  He not only worked at his day job, but every evening he worked on our house.  He received a lot of generous help from Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik.  I came home to a new ceiling in the kitchen, new paint on the walls, a new door, and the beginnings of a new spot of tile, among many other things.  That represented boat loads of work!  We are truly a blessed family to get so much loving help from our hard-working Grandma and Grandpa.  Thanks guys!

It’s been a good week!