Sometime in January

Apparently my boys have a plethora of UNDIES, SWEATSHIRTS and SHOES.

Tanner received a Nike sweatshirt from Lauron (blue) and us (maroon) for Christmas.  I thought it was pretty cute that he laid out his collection.

Park purchased new hot pink Nikes and then pulled out his collection of shoes.  Crazy boy.  Brian and I give the boys $60 when school starts for shoes.  They just think they need more pairs, and they think they need to spend more per pair.  This is what they both like to collect.  (Parker more than Tanner at this point.)  I'm glad they both work hard and have their own money which they can learn to save and spend.

A few other random photos from our week:

I thought it was so fun that we accidentally matched and wanted to get a picture before we headed into church.

Sunday night was at the Vore's this week.  Hudson and Isaiah wrestling.

Christ, Ella and Charlotte

Part of the group....the kids usually hang out upstairs.  I think the teens (Aub, La, Tan and Holden) are going on short walks on Sunday nights now.  It gives them a little time alone and space away from the younger kids who beg them to play.  Now they play a little and then slip out.  

Aunt Wendy, my mom's sister, is in town.  She stopped by, and it was fun to catch up w/ her and hear about our Linde cousins and their families.

Brit, Ang and Megan

Aub off to Nimitz with her new b-day sweatshirt from the Vores.   (Park photo bombing in the background.)  

My current Valentine projects I am selling.  Aren't these scratch off cards the cutest?!  

I've also been making these personalized wood signs.  The scratch off cards were a huge hit on my personal Facebook page, and I sold a ton at $5 each.  They didn't sell at all on Marketplace though.  It was the opposite w/ these personalized wood signs.  I sold a few to interested friends on Facebook, but I had so many purchased through Marketplace.

One kind of funny thing, and I can say funny now because it is in the past.  The wood signs were taking a ton of time for each one.  I listed them at $14 each which I think was a fair price if I was the consumer.  However, they were so time consuming.  Brian would cut and sometimes sand them.  Then I would paint (several layers) or stain them, customize/design the wording, print, weed, and make the sign.  Then I would still need to take a picture to get the okay from the customer which is good because I mixed up the established date on two of the orders one day.  Next I would purchase the postage, print the label, package the sign and either Brian or I would run the orders to the post office each day.  Way more work than $14 worth I think.  However, it was nice to have that extra income coming in.

But back to the funny thing...I was swamped with several orders day after day.  I decided I needed to take the listing down to at least catch up on orders.  However, FB wouldn't let me take the listing down because I still had open orders.  I would work as fast as I could so I could catch up on all of the steps and get those darn wood signs marked as shipped...and then I would hear a DING.  That ding meant I received another order.  Noooooo.  It happened over and over again, and it was so stressful.  

Finally I had the idea to print labels for all of my orders and mark as shipped even though I hadn't even made them yet.  That allowed me to mark the listing as sold out.  Whew!!  Moving on from wood signs.

I saw Tanner eyeing my photo prop and knew I was in trouble.  He was contemplating wearing it to school.  No way my boy.....I might need that for future products.  But he makes a handsome model, right?