Merry Christmas!

Where does the time go?? I can't believe it's less than 1 week away. Ryan and I celebrated our anniversary last night. It's not until this next week, but Ryan is having surgery tomorrow, and I have to work on our actual anniversary day, so we celebrated last night. Nothing special - We just put the kids to bed and then watched a movie together. Ryan had stopped by Harmons and bought Hazelnut gelato to share and some ginger beer for himself. He really likes it and will occasionally buy himself some. I have tried it a few times, it's not my favorite though. The gelato was good. When he brought it home he told me to guess the flavor- I had no idea. The closest I could get was chocolate- I think that's because I usually have hazelnut chocolate combos. This was just plain hazelnut. Yummy!

We've been married 14 years! Wow- how things have changed. It made me realize that in another 14 years it will all have changed again and it goes by SOOO fast! My baby will be 17!

We are as ready for Christmas as we are going to get. Ryan put lights on the house a little over a week ago as a surprise for me! It was great. He said he even came out to my store to buy some stuff, but didn't stop by to say hi so he wouldn't ruin the surprise. We have gifts for everyone that's getting one, but they aren't all wrapped yet. Oh well.

That's all for now, I have to go change for Kenpo. (ie P90X) Ryan has been trying to get me to do it with him. I'm getting stronger, but not skinnier. But then I'm not very consistent. Here's a website I found that has some interesting recipes. http://realmomkitchen.com/ I need to try something different for Christmas morning- any ideas??

Halloween Birthday Parties

I'm in the midst of planning a birthday party for Genna. She's never had a friend party before, and we decided this was the year. I almost backed out, but Ryan said I had to do it because she LOVES to go to her friends birthday parties. I found a REALLY cute Halloween scrapbook kit that I would have liked to use to make the invitations.

But I don't think Ryan would be impressed if I spent more money on scrapbook stuff. (Maybe I can win it instead- If you have an extra $6 go check it out at http://sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=35261&cat=0&page=1 )

I started a guest list- there are 17 little girls in the neighborhood around Genna's age. (Those are just the ones from church! I don't even know all the one's in her school class) I have narrowed the list to the 4 little girls on our street, plus 1 other from her primary class, and 1 other from her school class. But I know not everyone we invite will come, so I have 5 other maybes- girls that she knows from last years primary class or that she has played with before. - I guess I could just invite them all, and If I get 12 girls- it will be an adventure, but at least she will have fun. Mom gave me tons of great ideas- Thanks Mom!! And I decided it will be okay if Genna misses her dance class or goes late that week- the party won't end until 4- the same time dance starts. Now I just have to get everything ready- good thing I have two plus weeks. And thank goodness Ryan is such a sweetie about helping me out! He even went to Joann's today- probably the only guy in the entire store! What a guy!

HELLO???

I haven't really abandoned my blog- just not interested in writing anything. Is anyone out there reading it anyway??

Scrapbooking

Well, I am SOO far behind in scrapbooking. Working full time really puts a damper on other things I'd like to do. I haven't been doing much for the last month or so because I've been running an online backup. Who knew that would take SO LONG! But Ryan and I were both tired of losing stuff. Too many hard drives, external hard drives and DVDs/CDs crashing. So hopefully the online thing will be more successful. Anyway- the back up REALLY slowed down my computer, and I didn't have the patience to sit and wait for it to do stuff.

I found a digital scrapbook kit I like by one of my favorite designers. She is giving it away to a lucky winner! I really hope it's me. It would be perfect for zoo pictures, and for pictures of Adria- I'm always telling her she's a little monkey. Here's the link - check it out:

Little Safari  and here is a link to the store: http://sunshinestudioscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=3457&cat=0&page=1

So keep your fingers crossed for me- now I better go do some actual scrapbooking!

I'm tired of my boring blog, but too busy or lazy to change it much. Oh well. Here are some more pics of my stuff I made. Finally a pictures of the boys hats! (Adria's too) And another hairband flower I made for the girls. I like making flowers. Don't know what to do with them, but I like making them! I made a star fish for Pierce too. He loves it- Wants it sewn on his hat! Then there's the a picture of the little blue flowers I made for all the girls after Paisley's blessing last Sunday. Yup- I even made one for Kellie. I gave it to my Mom and said to send it with what ever she was mailing next. (if she didn't send it yet, I can make you another one or ask her about it- let me know) SOOO...What have you done with your flower? (I haven't done anything with mine!)

Hello again!

So it's been awhile! I decided to take a leaf from Ashlee's book and post all the craft stuff I've been doing. Lately it's been crochet. I found some cute crocheted mary janes online and thought- hey, I can do that! So I made some. My first effort was 2 tiny pairs of white ones for Jessica and Elizabeth's babies. The pictures are taken with a cell phone- so not that great of quality, but you get the idea:



Aren't the little pink buttons cute. The shoes are so tiny- they fit newborn baby feet only. So I decided to make a slightly larger pair for Jess:



They have cute pink flower buttons!

Then I wanted to make shawls for the girls for church. No, No one else wears a shawl to church- but they are so much cuter than a big winter parka (which the girls never wore to church anyway), and warmer than going without a coat at all (which is what they usually did). I found some yarn on sale at Micheals. It wasn't my first choice in yarn, but I think they turned out well. It is a very some velvet yarn.


The green one is Genna's. The red one is adria's After I finished them, the girls insisted on having flowers added. I think I put them too low. I really need to take them off and move them- but I haven't done it yet.



After that I made hats- beanies with brims- for the boys. They both really like them, but kids as school made fun of Myles, so he won't wear his to school anymore. Pierce still wears his though. Ryan said it was because the colors were too girly. I don't have a picture of the hats- I'll have to add one later. Myles hat is bright green and pierce's is bright blue. Adria insisted that I make one for her too- hers is pink, without a brim.

After that I made a few flowers- I even made up my own pattern for those! I gave them to Ashlee to use on hair stuff. I decided I better some of my own. I used some leftover yarn that I got on sale and used to make another pair of mary janes for Libby. I found some cute buttons at walmart and glued the flower and button on a hairband. Genna was disappointed that it wasn't pink! But I bought a bunch of yarn tonight while out -Red, yellow, orange, blue, bright pink. I wanted a lighter pink and a green, but couldn't find any. Now I just have figure out what to do with it all (more flowers) I have WAY TO MANY PROJECTS!!!!!! Here's the last two pics:






Well, after previewing the post I think that I really need to do a better job with the pictures! But it's late and I should be in bed, so they will be left that way!

Ryan bought me "Monday presents" yesterday! (Don't ask -it's a longer story that I have time for now) But he got me 2 books on taking better pictures. I've been wanting those! THANKS RYAN!!! (Now I wonder if I should get the third one, hmm.... Think about that later too!) Anyway, maybe my blog pictures will improve- but don't count on it!


P.S. This says I posted it at 8:42 p.m.- where does that time come from???? My clock says 10:10 p.m. Weird!