Hello.

Welcome to my new blog. I had an old blog, but it hasn't been updated since late 2007. I hope I can keep this one up. I always have a lot going on. :) I'm a wife and a mommy of three wonderful children. I stay at home with them, but that is actually a considerable amount of work. My husband is Travis, and my kids are Elijah (4.5), Ethan (3), and Madelyn (17 months). I'll introduce them in detail in a different post.

My main hobbies are creative in nature. I love to sew, cook, bake, and just...create. Rare is the moment in which I'm not thinking on my next project. Especially now that I have a daughter and there are tons of dresses, hairbows, doll clothes, diapers, diaper bags, purses, and other fun girlie things to make! I could probably devote an entire blog to just the things I make, so expect lots of entries about that.

I also consider myself kind of a classical music nut. I play the violin and the piano, and I'm always listening to it. If my life had a soundtrack, it would include mostly classical (genre, not time period - wanted to clarify!) music. I would have to mix in some awesome tunes from Glee, though. :)

I mentioned cooking before...that's kind of new. I always loved to bake, but cooking is a new passion of mine. I made a resolution this year to use mostly whole and organic foods in cooking as many meals for my family as possible. I have been making all of our bread at home too. In order to keep me on track, I've decided to mention what I'm making for dinner in all my blog entries. Today I'm making a slow cooker chicken taco soup and some buttermilk wheat bread, out of 100% organic ingredients. It smells amazing in my house right now! Here's a (rather boring) picture of it all cooking, but I'll take a picture of the final product later.

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog! Please follow me or comment, because I want to read yours too! I'll close with a picture of Madelyn I took earlier today. She's wearing some pieces from the new Gymboree fairy line (two more subjects for future blogs: shopping and Gymboree!). Isn't she pretty?