Craft Night Update

If it's ok with everyone, I think we will wait for Emily and Johnny to get here for our craft night/ LAN party.

I hope everyone is ok with doing those watches. Unless I hear otherwise, I will just plan on one watch face for each of you, in the pearl color (like mine and Shawnee's). If you want different colors, let me know and I can order them for you on the same order so we don't have to pay more for shipping. This is the website I ordered from, if you want to choose something different. http://www.ewatchwholesale.com/products.asp?cat=74

Also, I have figured out the total cost a little better:
Each watch face will be $6.30
Each watch band to make will be about $.75 (that's without beads).
I have enough stuff for about 50 watch bands total, so I think it is safe to say that everyone can make multiple watch bands if you want.

If you want to get your beads on your own, that's great. If not, we can all go shopping together someday and get our beads together.

Sorry to be so redundant. I know I've already talked to some of you about this, but I just wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page.

My new roomate

This is weird... me blogging... ewe gross! I must be turning into a girl. But anyway, McKenzie told me I should blog what happened last night. So I was sitting on my bed reading a cookbook about how to cook ducks and geese (I really must be turning into a girl). I saw something move out of the corner of my eye but when I looked I couldn't see anything. I shrugged it off, but then it happened again, but still nothing. A little bit later I got up to go to the bathroom. I saw it again so I took a closer look and this it what I found. (Sorry the pictures suck!)

A FROG!!!!!

I found a plastic bottle in the garbage so I cut it in half and put him outside in the flower bed.

So there it is... my first blog post. Now excuse me while I go throw up! If I was a real man I would have just eaten it! Bear Grills would have!

Craft Night/ LAN Party

We, here at my house, have been wondering when we are going to do our next craft night/ lan party.

I have some suggestions:

1. We could possibly start doing them at different people's houses, so we don't have to go to Mom & Dad's every time.

2. I would like to make something different than wood to hang on my wall or door. (Although I really love all of the things we've made)... Did you all see the watch I have with different beaded watch bands? I made one for Shawnee's birthday. Anyway, I think that might be really fun. My sister-in-law, Candace, makes them and sells them (that picture is some she made). They are so CUTE! (at least I think so)... They are really easy to make and would only cost about $5 for each watch face and about $3.00 for each watch band we made. We could all pick out our own beads so they would be exactly what we wanted. This place, Bumble Design sells them for over $16 per watch face and $27 for each watch band (see http://www.bumblesdesign.com/), so even if this craft ends up being over our $10 limit, it might be worth it.


Also, using the same watch face, you can make these really cute ribbon watches. They are SOOO easy to make and would probably cost less than $2.00 for each watch band we wanted to make. Once again, everyone could pick out their own ribbon to make their watch bands unique!
3. Casey just got a new graphics card (or something like that) and he really wants to play!

4. We could wait until Emily gets here in November to do it and maybe carve pumpkins in October, or we could do one in October and then again when Emily gets here, cause I'm pretty sure she'll want to participate.


Anyway, post a comment letting us know what you think. The only thing we, (the Dalpias clan) have to work around for October is the deer hunt from the 18th-26th.

Pickin' up Sticks

So I guess we made it sound like we cut the WHOLE tree down but we didn't. We only cut the west 1/2 of the tree down because it was dead. Mom is hopeful that the tree will grow back at least a little, but I'm pretty sure that it won't. Anyway, we finished up the whole clean up process on Monday night for family night. Here's who was there: Wayne, Jan, Cory, Becca, Tami, Natalie, Casey, Benson, and Andy. (Ronola and McKenzie came later and ate dinner with us all.)

Benson and Grandpa Otis
Loadin' up the trailer to haul it in the field to dump it.
Big Boy Benson standing up. He's been walking around like crazy!
This is the finished product. (Johnny this is for you.) Don't be disappointed that there wasn't much more destruction to the tree... sorry I explained it wrong.
The girls raking. Tami, Becca, Natalie, Mom

Dad put a fanny pack at the top of one of the trees. He says there's a reward for whoever gets it.
This was a hard picture to get. I had to walk over in front of the King's house to get the house and the tree in one picture.
When Dad was cutting down some of the big branches, one of them hit the slide and dented it. He fixed it though.
Nat, Becca, Tami
Dad and Benson again.
This is the only picture I have of the slide after Dad and Cory and fixed it. They did something else to it after this picture.
Pickin' up sticks again.
Cory made this little cat house for Becca's cat Panda. I thought it was so cute so I thought I'd let you all see it.
Benson and Grandma Jannie

Cutting Down JB's Tree

Hey Everybody! Nick just posted videos on our blog of Dad cutting down JB's tree. Go check it out. We hope you enjoy the videos. Also, I didn't realize when I was taking the videos that you can't rotate videos like you can pictures, so you're going to have to tilt your head. I know, I'm as annoyed as you are, but they are really cool, so I'm sorry I messed up. I'll know next time that you can't tilt the camera for videos. Here are some pictures too. Our battery died before we were all done, so I don't have an after picture, but I'll take some tomorrow when we go to play "Pick Up Sticks" for Family Home Evening.
Oh yeah, I wanted to tell you guys what happened too. After Dad cut down the branches and stuff, George Penrod came over with his back-hoe with some forks on the front of it and he totally helped us move all the huge branches. He helped us for a good 2 hours or so and then we all had to leave to go different places or George would have kept helping us! George, I know you'll probably never see this blog, but if you do, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You have no idea how much time, energy, and effort you saved us. We really appreciate you as our neighbor!

Girls night!

So I don't know if mom will care but I thought I would post what she's planning for Priesthood night while the boys are gone to their meeting. I think it's totally cute and will be a cute fall decoration! She'll probably just cut out one for each of us unless we tell her otherwise. Anyway, that's all. I hope that all you fellow Haws crafting girls can all come.

Happy Birthday, Andy!

Happy Birthday Andy! Sorry this is such a late post. I just wanted to let you know that I am so happy you are in my life. You are constantly making me laugh (even when I don't want to)! You are a great person & I hope you know that you can do anything you put your mind to. I have really enjoyed these past four years with you! I hope you had an awesome birthday. I sure had fun laser tagging (and I hope the rest of you who were able to come had fun too)! Love you! Happy (late) Birthday!

Happy Birthday Cory!

Cory, I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday! I remember playing when we were little and I was always so fond of you. You were always one of my best friends, and I still consider you one of my best friends. You are a great brother and I love you very much.
I hope today was a good day for you and that you had a good birthday!
I love you Cor!
Tami
These two pictures were from Cory's birthday party. They are the best ones I have. Mom and Dad gave Cory some climbing stuff. The picture above is Cory playing with a rope he got. The bottom picture is the after of the birthday cake. The camera didn't take it fast enough so Cory had to fake it for the picture...
Happy Birthday Cory!

By far my favorite performance in the olympics.

Crazy Cool Campout: You're invited

Crazy cool Campout
Who: All Available Haws Family Members
Where: North Fork Campground

6413 N. North Fork Road Eden, UT 84310
When: Friday August 15th- Saturday August 16th
Time: We will leave once the majority of the people are off work
(some people can leave earlier than everyone else if they get off work early)
Why: For Fantastical Fun!!!!
AGENDA:
Friday the 15th- Dinner: Hot Dogs, Chips, Soda, Smores (Tami)
Saturday the 16th- Breakfast: Pancakes, Bacon, Eggs (Natalie)
Lunch: Sandwiches, Chips, etc. (Tami)
McKenzie and Andy: Chips and Drinks

Fun during the day- Geocaching, Playing in the river, Games, Croquet, Bocce ball, Nature treasure hunt, Horseballs, Hiking, Shoot guns, etc.
B.Y.O.C.A.T.AG.
(Bring your own Chair and Treats and Games)
THE ONLY RULE: NO USE OF MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(unless it is being used for a group event or to block snoring of fellow "tentants")