Maybe it's sad to admit that we still have every alarm shirt that Todd has received. So a lot of them have become leggings!
My old shirt became a shirt for Allie. 
And no, when I sew my children do not get their hair done. I can't be bothered with such trivial matters. 
Her favorite are the pockets I added to the front. I didn't think something so simple could make her so happy.
And she also always has to do a cute pose.
This is how our Easter morning went. I think each child had at least 3 safety pins holding together their outfits. I didn't try Jace's pants on him before yesterday and they were huge! They were rolled 2 times and then safety pinned to his vest so they wouldn't fall down. I only got 1 picture before my camera died. And Allie was just having a sad day. Then I picked Jace up from nursery and they had given him a blue raspberry sucker so his entire vest and tie was covered in blue drool! I went all out on the outfits because they are also supposed to be Todd's graduation. Here's hoping that the blue sucker comes out! Things never seem to go right when daddy is gone!
On Sunday I asked Todd to go through his closet and take out clothes that we can get rid of. I am determined not to move a bunch of crap we don't use! I was just going to put all the clothes in the garage sale and what didn't sell I was going to give to Goodwill. But since we have a lack of funds, I started thinking of ways I could reuse all of Todd's old clothes. So Monday I got busy using all of the clothes he said he wanted to get rid of.
I didn't take a a before picture of Allie's dress. It was just a men's button-up, collared shirt.
The back became the front. The front of the shirt is the back of the dress. The yoke made a great lined bodice. I wanted the top to cover a little higher so I inserted pleats (or squiggles as Allie calls them).
Before picture:
I promise he likes the pants, but he had just woken up from a nap that was too short. The pants are actually 5 inches too long but he doesn't need pants right now so I left myself lots of room to hem them when he needs some pants.
I was worried the material was too thin, so I used an white shirt of Todd's to line the pants.
I asked Allie to fold her clean laundry and then I went downstair. A few minutes later she yelled down to me if she could organize her drawers. So I said sure. After a while I noticed it had been really quiet so I went up and this is what I found. You can see that all she got down was folding one pair of tights on her bed!
Here are our pictures from Niagara Falls. Thanks to our friends we were able to use our passports and spent 2 nights on the Canadian side of the falls. Our hotel rooms looked right out on the falls. 
It was so cold that we had to stop in this gift shop just to get warm. So we took our picture with the large moose and bought a postcard for Scott. (which I haven't mailed yet)
This past weekend we took a quick trip with some friends to visit Palmyra before we leave the East Coast.
Inside the Peter Whitmer house
Inside the visitors center at the Peter Whitmer farm
Visitors center at Hill Cumorah
The monument on top of Hill Cumorah
The sink inside the Smith family frame home. We all loved this sink!
More of the kitchen in the frame home
The view from the Smith farm
Walking into the Sacred Grove
These are our 2 most favorite missionaries! Over the last 6 months we have become great friends. Jace prefers to go to Elder Fifita over me. Last week Elder Fifita was transferred after spending 6 months here are we are incredibly sad. We had a farewell dinner on Thursday and the girls picked out some snacks to give him as his departing gift. 
Here is Jace wearing Elder Tusi's stylish hat. We are all pretty jealous of Elder Tusi's style and hope that someday we can achieve his same level of fashion expertise.
