This and That

Just a few pictures of us staying busy. I am looking forward to Valentines Day. I love that it is totally ok to be romantically cheesy and spoil my husband. I have lots of goodies planned for him :) It is going to be great! We have a busy week coming up full of cookie making and decorating, activity days to plan and operate, my dad's birthday, and Valentines day prep!! Yeah!!


Here is my cute Valentine's Day banner I made!! I love my cricut...have I ever mentioned that :)


The other day I heard Macey wake up from her nap, when I went in the girls room I found this ....... CUTE!


And then this..... so happy to be awake. Macey loves to play with Annie.


Classy, I know. But for the record, it was washed out and ready to recycle. Funny though.

Puddle Splashing fun!

It has been raining here, shocker.... so we still go out side to play and walk. Macey loves to walk because she is much more stable and doesn't trip as much so we brave the weather. So, I let them splash as much as they wanted and they had a ball! They were laughing so hard, it was pretty cute!

Kinda a side note, but I am getting so excited because Rex has a few months left of grad school! He will be done with classes in April and done with his internship in June. Then onto job hunting.... :) I am so proud of him and I am grateful that he does so much for our family, what a stud! LOVE YOU HONEY!!


The girls splashing.... Just so you know Annie picked out her clothes :)


Macey Moo is so cute!! I just love this baby!


Annie loves her umbrella, one of her favorite presents from Nanny and Papa, she is a great helper and is a wonderful big sister! Love her!


Me and the girls, I love that I get to spend everyday with them!

Not a whole lot going on.....

I wish that I had fun events to blog about but we haven't been up to anything really exciting around here. We always stay busy, but sometimes not a lot of picture worthy moments. Here is what we have been up to in the past few weeks.....


Made some super cute valentine's day blocks....


Macey enjoying lunch and she is too cute to not take a picture of....


Annie wearing Mr. potato head earrings, she forgot she had them on and wore them for like 3 hours....


And after a long day of playing, falling asleep halfway standing and playing with all her stuffed animals... TOO CUTE!!!

Well, we have birthdays, holidays and more crafts coming up so much more to post about! yeah!

Look at those pearly whites!

Annie took her first visit to the dentist on Thursday and did great!! She was really excited. They told me they would do what they could so that she would be comfortable and not scared, but they did the works on her! She let the hygienist do a full exam on her and smiled right through it. She has healthy teeth and gums...yeah, thank goodness since I am the one brushing her teeth :) I am so proud of her and she looked like such a big girl sitting in the dentist chair. My baby is growing up tooooo fast!! Way to go Annie!


Annie is really excited about her new toothbrush that suctions to the counter :)


And also she now realizes that she can make wired faces at the camera.....joy.

Off to a good start.....

Well being that it is a new year I have made like 1,000 resolutions. Ok, let's call them goals or things to be accomplished. A lot of them are projects that I want to do, things I want to make, fun and easy. Well, so far I have been very productive. Here are so pictures of my latest finished products....... Oh, I actually do have resolutions. To name a few, go to bed earlier (Rex and I are night owls), practice the piano every week, read more books (that aren't Twilight.... that one will be hard :) Moving on.............


Ok, this I am proud of only because it took a long time to make! I made Annie and my niece Ryan each a quite book for church! They turned out great! I worked on them every night for 2 weeks leading up to Christmas! Whoo! This page it the alphabet that matches an animal for every letter.


This page is to make ocean scenes with different animals and ocean life. I also did a jungle page too.


This is one of my favorites, shapes!


And we must practice our colors too :) There are also pages for Annie and Macey to color on with washable makers too. This book is great. I can make more pages and it keeps Annie and Rex busy at church for like a half an hour! :)


Cute huh? Wondering what it is? It is a needle holder. Perfect for me, for some reason my pin cushion eats my needles, but not anymore!


See, handy right? I love the bird and colors.


Annie and I made finger puppets, it is a mouse :) I love using felt! I have lots of projects coming up with felt!


And my little sewing helper. Don't worry I am a good mom and this is a little kid pin cushion with NO pins in it :) Well, a new week starts tomorrow and I have lot of stuff to create! .........and laundry to do :)

Reading Rainbow

I just thought this was cute :) I made this "reading corner" when I decorated the girls room and not once have they sat in it. I mean they love to listen, read and look at books, just not it the comfy pillow corner I made. Well today, I was just about to do Annie's hair and I came into the room and YES they were sitting there. So I dashed down stairs and found the camera in just enough time to snap a few shots! I love my cute girls so much!!

"What are you reading?" Annie was reciting this book, pretty much.....


Just relaxing and being cheesy of course!

Great Grandad

Over Christmas break my grandad was able to spend the holidays and break with us and it was really fun to be around him. We haven't seen him seine I got married so it was about time!! I hope that we kept him busy, we did lots of fun activities and he was able to hang out with the guys. I have so many great memories of being around him and my late grandma, but this time I was able to talk about more grown up stuff. About how he met my grandma, being in a war, raising my dad..... I was great! And he met is great grandchildren. Thanks grandad!! Love you!

my little family with great grandad

My family (my dad and his dad if you couldn't tell :)

And again our wonderful friends from Sweet Home/Lebanon came to hang out with us while they are on their break. Thanks guys, we always have so much fun!