Tie-dye? I'm in!

Last week my huge, massive, way to big and grown up nephew started his first season of Flag Football. Okay, so he is more tall than huge... skinny than massive... but still too big and grown up at 10 years old for his Auntie Aly who still remembers him making a promise to me when he was 3 years old to never grow up. My favorite thing? He knows he made the promise and will crouch down to his knees to make himself shorter because he knows I'm quite... emotional around him.

Anywho, back to Football. My sister and I were chit-chatting last game about wanting to make shirts, and of course... if your going to make a shirt, you gotta tie-dye! Especially with me in involved! (Now would be the place where I insert a picture of Alex & I at our high school senior year homecoming dance where we tie dyed our outfits... however, I can't find a picture! :( ) So Friday afternoon after an amazing pedicure, we went to Michaels and got our tie-dye supplies!

Yes, theses are my amazingly swollen footies. But I got gray and yellow chevron with sparkles done on my toes for Squirts big debut! So outside of normal plain-jane me and yet SO me at the same time!

Elijah's team is the Seahawks... after the Seattle Seahawks, so the colors we tie-dyed were based around the teams colors. Navy, Teal, and a lighter blue for more pizazz. I was all set to do the spiral pattern for our shirts... but then my sister found an awesome chevron folding pattern and I HAD to do it. I say "I" like I did the folding... Alex did, I couldn't wrap my brain around the technique (I blame pregnancy brain) Therefore Alex, Squirt and I all have chevron tie-dyed shirts for us to wear on Sundays at Elijah's football games! When the 2.5 of us and my sister & co came Sunday all wearing tie-dye... we totally made the other team jealous- tie-dyed and proud!

Squirt's Onesie before :)

Folded all nice and pretty by the Daddy-to be!

Our victims.

Let the tie-dye begin!

Our shirts 6 hours after drying in a bag... then we hung them up to dry over night.

The whole tie-dye crew - They turned out soooo good! My sister and youngest niece have spiral tie-dye, brother-in-law and eldest niece have bulls-eye!

Just waiting for Squirt to arrive and join in on the fun! And yes... Ella so preciously photobombed us :)

Oh! And I almost forgot. One night last week... I'll be honest - I can't remember... I was just fiddle farting around the house and then Alex tells me dinner is ready. I'm spoiled, so thats my cue to just sit down and he'll bring me my plate... well on my plate was a BRAND NEW DIGITAL CAMERA! I love it, I was so surprised my reaction was delayed because I couldn't absorb it all fast enough. He's a good one that husband of mine. We have a great 'big camera' which is amazing, but its not always the most convenient to lug around for day to day use... and my old camera, well after it got replaced after a certain kayak accident... it just never was the same. And now, we have an AWESOME smaller camera which I have so much fun taking pictures with. I found myself just taking a million pictures of virtually the same thing just to play around with my camera. Here are some pictures for Elijah's game Sunday I took with it!

Ella loving her Uncle

And now her baby cousin!

Love his face in this one!