My Super Duper Craft Weekend with My Sisters!

(Back)Shavonne, Bethany(Good Childhood friend of Shaina's), Shaina, Rebekah. (Front) Mel (Sis-in-law, but just as close to us!), Sharon, Kim, and Me.


Last week I left for Colorado Springs, Colorado to spend an amazing weekend with my sisters while my dear husband stayed home and watched after our kids. It was so much fun! I wasn't going to go but at the last second, Jared persuaded me to go as an anniversary gift. Many of my sisters like to sew and I am not really into that, though I can sew if I need to, or really feel the urge to, so again, I didn't feel like it would be very fun. My sister, Shaina, said to come and paint, which is something I do enjoy doing. So I did. But we had so much more planned than just sewing. We were going to take a hike at a place called Garden of the Gods, but we had a huge snow storm while we were there and were confined to the house. We did, however, manage to get out of the house on Saturday night and catch the MOST AMAZING FLICK OF THE YEAR! I suggest that everyone far and wide go see the movie, 17 again! IT IS A MASTERPIECE! (roll my eyes!) No, it was fun to be with my sisters and we all cheered when Zack Efron came on the screen. Hey, it's fun to act young, even when you realize you are getting old!

The saddest part of the weekend is that we weren't able to have everyone there. Our littlest sister, Nancy, wasn't able to come and we missed her. Plus, we missed having Autumn, our sister-in-law there as well! At least we will get to see everyone in June for our family reunion. Family is the best institution Heavenly Father created!!!

Here are the paintings I did for my sister Shaina. She wanted the trees done in Fall colors. I didn't like how they turned out but upon looking at them now, I actually like them a lot!

My sister, Sharon, taught us how to make these cute little booties for babies. I gave these to my dearest friend, Emily. She just had a baby girl and so I was really excited to give them to her. They are so much easier to make than I thought! I also made a little boy's pair for my dear friend, Annie.

My sis-in-law, Melissa, taught us all how to make these chunky watch bracelets and I think they turned out super cute! They are cool because you can switch out the bracelet part to match your outfits. I am not a jewelry person, but I really like these watches. I am becoming more girly...which I'm okay with. I don't know what Jared thinks of it though! Will he like the prissy side of me?

All of us with our newly made watches. We wore them to church. It seems like we should have a chant...Oh, actually we could just say "Forever Weber!"

We all slept out in the front room together. My sisters like to tease me, probably because I can totally take a joke. They made me a bed out of all the couch cushions so that they wouldn't have to share a bed with me, due to my hogging abilities and slight smelliness. It looked like a hot dog bun, with me as the hot dog. Oh well, I was warm and comfortable, so that is all that matters. (You can see my sister, Kim, was trying to goose me as the picture was taken but she did it too soon so it was never caught on camera. )

Here is all of us hard at work.

It was the best weekend! It went by way too fast! I hope that we can do this every couple of years. My brother's had a brothers weekend in February so I think our family does a good job of staying close, which is as it should be!

P.S. I rented my very first car and with the help of my sister, Kim, and her flirting, we had no problems getting what we wanted from Victor! Just to rub it in, my car was so much better than Kim's in appearance, but her car definitely had more power under the hood!