Mission Accomplished

We spend the weekend away from home.

When we got the invite for the company Christmas party Ryan is working with we started making plans.

• Spend some family time together.
• Stay the night in a hotel with a pool.
• Go thrift store shopping.
• Ryan take his CDL permit test.

Mission accomplished!

I hardly picked up the camera. Ryan snapped a few.

Enjoyed playing and having fun with the kids.

The kids had a blast in the pool.

AK residents I recommend the Hampton Inn. The pool was really warm.

I found 1 treasure from the thrift store to re-do.

After all the cramming Ryan did this weekend his hard work paid off

and he passed the CDL permit test.

Today will be a low key day recouping from the flu. Nolan & I were plagued with it last night. It seems like a quick bug. Nolan has already bounced back. I think with the lack of sleep it will take me a little bit longer. Now that everyone in this house has gotten it lets hope we are done with it.

They are out to get me

I've started to wonder... 

 I have an amazing and a very smart family.

 My husband and kids have the ability to read my mind.

Every time I EVEN think I might sneak some time in crafting they plan differently!

I really think they are out to get me. wink wink 

I even thought I could out smart them but nope waking early didn't work either...

I dearly love them and they do come first and for most.

 But honestly feel like I could hire a babysitter just to get a couple hours of straight crafting time in.

DIY Cupcake liners flower

I saw a picture of these cupcake liners made into flowers and knew right away

 I wanted to try make them.

So I started digging to see what kind of liners I had.

My color selection didn't come near to how cute the ones I saw were.  

You will need 7 cupcake liners.

1. Take and flatten 4 liners and glue centers together. Make little snips all the way around the circle.(Only cut the side of the linear. Don't cut into the center.)

2. Place the 5th cupcake liner (don't flatten this one) into the center and glued down.

3. Take liners 6 & 7 and cut center out. I also trimmed the edges down also. Roll these 2 together to form center of flower. Glue down. I used 3 in 1 glue to glue  center. Hot glue will also work.

4. Crunch and fluff the edges.

I like how it is a chunky full flower, with items you would have at home.

The 2nd one I did had a foil lining. It didn't lay as nice and was harder to get it to

fluff up the way the 1st one did. But I do think it was a lot cuter.

Then, of course, I had to make cards to put them on.

Wordless Wednesday

Reindeer & snowman

Today was a make craft day

We made reindeer from candy canes

Items needed:

2 candy canes

1 pom poms for the nose

2 googly eyes

brown yarn

We taped the 2 candy canes together, then wrapped them with brown yarn. Next we hot glued the eyes and noses on.

And Snowmen from marshmallows

Items needed:

1 stick to build snowman on
3 marshmallows

1 pretzel stick broken in half

1 orange sprinkle for nose

2 brown sprinkles for eyes

3 colorful sugar balls for buttons

To make eyes, nose and buttons stick use a toothpick to puncture a small hole in marshmallow. This will allow you to place the sprinkle in the small hole and there will be a small amount of stickiness to hold it in place.



Total we made 35 reindeer & 24 snowmen. Came up 1 short of meeting the goal I had in mind.

3 months

The last 3 months have flown by and this big little girl has grown so much!

Evelynn you have brought so much joy to this house!

At 3 months you love to be cooed at and coo right back. You are quick to smile at us. You even sometimes can giggle and scare yourself with the sound.

You are starting to almost sleep through the nights.

You are very hard to take a picture of because you are always moving.

You have been our smallest baby at birth but one to grow the fastest.

 You are ultra sensitive when your mother has dairy of any kind.

You are loved by your siblings. Your brother loves to help out and sometimes a little too much.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Over the weekend we were busy decorating the house.

Sure is looking mighty festive around here.

We still have the tree to decorate.

Jack the elf has returned.

Nolan's imagination is the best! At bed time we always get one on one time to snuggle & say prayers. This is also when Nolan will share what he learned in Sunday school that day or things he might be seen or had been thinking about that day.

Last night he was full of questions about the elf.

He has decided that Jack the elf must play with his toys while when we leave the house. How can he just sit there ALL day, not talk or even play!