Pioneer Boys

Just look at this handsome kid. We had an awesome pioneer themed Christmas party this year at the church. I stayed up way later than I should have trying to make these silly hats from an old canvas canopy.

 

I discovered early on in our marriage that my sweet and beautiful bride has some kind of terrible sewing antipathy. No mending trousers, no sewing on buttons, nothing. But, like the good wife she is, she instructed me how to thread the machine and taught me the basics. Last year, for my first big project, I made a hang glider for the kids from a broken tent. We tried tying it to the back of the wagon and running down the road but none of the kids ever got very far off the ground. We think it just wasn't windy enough that day, and nobody was willing to tie on to the back of the car and let me drive down the road. My second big project involved sewing together a small windsurfing sail for the kids to use. Unfortunately Lake Michigan proved too treacherous for sail board school. We are on the lookout for a calmer lake for next year.