This Little Family O'Mine

Bowe's Prom 2011

2011-03-17T08:19:00.000-07:00

Prom 2011!

On our way to pick up Shay! Bowe looks so dang handsome!

Shay pinning on his boutonniere...having a hard time!
The cute couple - of course the parents have to get a bunch of pictures before they leave!

Some of the other couples...while we waited for the other 2 couples, the parents took some more pictures! :) I love this one, how all of the girls are looking at the guys being weird!

Once all of the couples got there...here are the girls! So pretty!

And here are the guys! So handsome!

My weekend!

2011-02-14T11:35:00.000-08:00

For Christmas this year, my sister and I decided to get my mom a trip away from it all! So we went this past weekend to hang out and shop in Park City! We spent the majority of one whole day shopping! The weather was beautiful! This picture is from the balcony of our condo! it was gorgeous up there!

My sissy and I (ummm...what the crap is with my hair? I swear it did not look that poofed when I left the bathroom!) :)

When we got home, my daughter was dancing at ben Lomond's basketball tournament half time! She did such a good job!

Her kick is so good and so quick that it looks like she only has one leg in this picture!

And then yesterday, I took the girls to see the Justin Bieber movie and they had to get their picture taken with the Biebs! haha! What a fun weekend!

Bowe took 1st!

2011-02-14T11:20:00.001-08:00

Bowe wrestled last week at the sophomore tournament and took 1st place in his weight division! He did so good and I was so proud of him - especially since just the day before he had surgery on his "cauliflower ear"! Poor kid! But he is a trooper and he did GREAT!

(I cannot believe how big he is getting! He is turing into a handsome young man!)His first match was a bye. His second match was with this guy below. Bowe beat him 18 to 8!
His 3rd match was this guy below. Bowe barely beat him by 1 point with 1 second left in the match! This was a tough match!!!

And this was the final match to find out who was #1 and who was #2!

Congratulations Bowe! You are definitely #1!!!

Kylee made the team!

2011-02-14T11:05:00.000-08:00

Kylee tried out for the Orion Jr high Basketball team last week...and MADE IT! I am so proud of her! She is only in 7th grade so it is pretty hard for a 7th grader to make the teams! This will be an amazing experience for her and hopefully she will learn a lot!

These pics are not from the Jr High team, but from her comp team she is a part of right now!

Valentine's Day!

2011-02-14T10:36:00.001-08:00

Since today is Valentine's Day, I figured I would post the few decorations I put up and the cookies me and the girls made a few weeks ago! :) Here are our lovely cookies in the process...And my lovely girls decorating them!My attempt at making some decorations for this holiday was the little tissue paper bouquets!Here they are a little closer! I think they turned out pretty good!

Simple as that! It has been a busy month between Bowe's wrestling, Kylee's basketball and Kaitlyn's dance! At least we did a little something for the Holiday! :)

Christmas 2010

2011-01-05T10:40:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun this year with Christmas (my hubby and I)! We have been fortunate enough to have had enough money to pay cash for all of our Christmas without stress and still pay all our bills! We usually do make it but we also usually have stress, cut corners, and some credit card usage...but not this year! Yeah!!! Thanks hubby for working so hard!!! You are amazing!! It was also our year to have the kids Christmas Eve/Christmas morning (we trade off every other year with the exes) so we got to have our kids Christmas morning!! I love waking up and seeing their excitement to see what Santa brought them and opening all their presents while in their new PJ's with sleepy eyes! Love, love, love it!!!

I always have to take a picture of their Santa piles before they delve into them! Although I have learned in reviewing these pictures that I need to start pulling out my camera more! I did not get very many pictures - I will have to work on that one for next year!

Here is Bowe's pile from Santa... And Kylee's...And Kaitlyn's....And of course Dixie gets a stocking full of prizes too! :)Kylee got a bunch of hair stuff: straightener, blow dryer, 3-barrel curling iron, shampoo, conditioner, etc along with a new coat and a camera! It is so cute and completely matches her jammies she has on in this picture! :) Kaitlyn got a Nintendo DSi, a couple games, accessories, and a new coat!Bowe got a new snow-boarding coat, gloves, a new cell phone and a video game!Dixie of course got some new toys and some bones!Dixie trying to tear into her bones....And she succeeded! :)After opening all of the gifts from Santa and from Jason and me, we all got ready and headed over to my grandma's house!Emilyn in her cute little Christmas dress!My mom realy surprised Jason and got him a GPS - he said it was his favorite present by far!Emy got some new clothes and tried putting them on! Alexis got a singing teapot with cups that she was "drinking" out of! So cute!Kaitlyn got a microscope set with her dad and the second she got home, she wanted to pull it out and look at stuff! Dr. pepper, salt, pepper and sugar were among the experiments!And then Christmas was over (sad) and we ring the new year in!

Here are Kylee and Kaitlyn toasting in the new year with their favorite fake champagne!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

2010 Annual Cookie Making Party

2011-01-05T10:23:00.001-08:00

Ok, so this is the first year that we only did cookies...we usually do candy - but thought we would make a change this year! The girls in my family get together every year around Christmas and make candy/cookies for the season! It is a good time to get together, be dorks, eat junk, and laugh!! We had a lot of fun! Emy got to come hang out with us this year! She loved the pizza...this pitcure gives new (cute) meaning to the term pizza face!! Love her!Kylee stiring up some dough!We made a mess - but we had so much fun trying out new recipes for cookies and dancing around like fools!! :)

Kaitlyn Christmas 2010 Dance

2011-01-05T10:09:00.000-08:00

Every year around Chrismas time, Kaitlyn's dance team puts on a Christmas Dance. This year her group did a cute little dance with a kick line! They did so good and I am so proud of her and her talents! She never ceases to amaze me!!

(love the underbite smile, Kaitlyn!!)Emy just LOVED watching the girls dance! She was in awe!!And here is the video of my precious little angel dancer!

Kaitlyn's Birthday!

2011-01-05T09:38:00.000-08:00

This December (2010) was my baby's 10th Birthday! I cannot believe it! My BABY! IS TEN!! Yikes! That makes me sad! But each step of her life has been so much fun to watch!

(this picture was taken a few weeks earlier...but it is my new favorite!!) Of course, if you follow my blog, you know that this past year all of our kids opted for a bedroom remodel as their present, so the party was very simple, family and friends at our house for some pizza and cake/ice cream!

Kaitlyn made the cake part really easy on me since she was dying to have ice cream cone cupcakes!

They turned out really cute and she loved them! I did them the colors of her new room!

She got many amazing presents for her birthday - of course clothes are the fav!

...playing Guitar Hero!

And now the room reveal...

New paint - I painted it "Clear Turquoise" (even though this picture looks light blue) Kaitlyn picked out the bedding and everything was decorated off of that! The little circles are round cork boards that I got at Ikea and spray painted to match the room! And her old PINK carpet from the 80's was replaced with new neutral carpet! It makes it look so much cleaner in there!!

As with Kylee's room, I took her old, light pink lamp and spray painted it a purple color that I LOVE!! And then just added some cute appliques to her shade

We splurged a little bit and got her a new dresser - one that she can grow with through the years! We just spray painted the handles the same purple color as the lamp! It gives her so much room for her display of trophys!! And then we added some more cork boards and some white shelves for more trophy storage!

You can see the real turquoise color in this picture! Nice white curtains now cover the window instead of the old pink blinds!

And this is her (and my) favorite part!! My mom's old vanity! I painted it white and spray painted the handles a pink color! It has so much storage for lotions, make-up, hair accessories and jewelry! And Kaitlyn spends a lot of time right where she is in this picture!! :)

Her closet before had on old hollow brown sliding doors. Kaitlyn REALLY wanted curtains to make it simpler to get in and our of her closet. So we added some pink curtains. The closet inside before was just one rod going about 3/4 of the way across and some small shelves horizontally. They did not hold very much and were very unsturdy, so we ripped them all out. Kaitlyn already had the 9 cubby shelf and we built around that! We made the top shelf up a bit higher than before and added another rod for more clothes storage!

Her room before was stripes and circles on the walls, so I already had these circle mirrors up and did NOT want to have to rip them off (that mirror mastic is a killer on the dry wall!) so I just added some cute purple ribbon to make them look like they were hanging!

I repainted Kaitlyn's name letters and added some jewels and purple ribbon to hang above her closet.

One last look! I love how it turned out and more importantly, Kaitlyn LOVED it! Happy birthday baby! Mommy loves you!!

Emilyn's Birthday

2011-01-05T09:28:00.000-08:00

OK...so I have a little catching up to do! It has been a while! With the Holidays and birthdays I have been busy!

So let's start this game of catch up!

My little niece Emilyn turned 1 in November! She is getting too big too fast! And she is obviously learning how to give the stink eye! haha! I love this picture!!Emy LOVES Chica, so I made her a Chica cake with a little cake all her own!She got spoiled and got a bunch of cute little presents!And at the end she got to dive into her own cake! She loved it! Actually ate most of it and even dug into Chica a little bit! Happy Birthday Emilyn! Your aunt Stephanie LOVES you so much!!

Halloween Weekend

2010-11-01T09:50:00.000-07:00

Halloween has now come and gone - time goes by so quickly! I can't believe it! My one peeve...when did people stop celebrating Halloween ON Halloween? I live in Utah and for some reason it has evolved so that if Halloween happens to fall on a Sunday, you celebrate it on Saturday! How nuts is that?? And if Halloween...why not ALL Holidays? Crazy!!

Anyway, the kids had fun! Bowe was a dude from the 70's, Kylee was a prom queen, and Kaitlyn was a dead bride!

And this weekend, Bowe also shot a deer during deer hunt! He was pretty pumped! They counted and measured and said it was a 6 x 6! I am SO NOT a deer hunter, but I am told that is good! He was pretty proud of the shot!

Now it is clean up time from the Halloween decorations and getting ready for Thanksgiving and coming soon...CHRISTMAS! Ahhh.... :)

Halloween food

2010-10-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

I am so loving the Halloween season this year! I have never been huge on the Halloween kick, but this year I have found my Halloween motivation! It is now probably my 2nd favorite holida behind Christmas! This year I have tackled decorations and crafts, cupcakes and food. Next year it is my goal to take on a Halloween party and to actual have me and my hubby dress up!! :)

So I have already posted my decorations and crafts...and here are my treats!

I made these cupcakes for my mom's work. Chocolate cupcakes with mm cream filling, chocolate frosting, "dirt" made of crushed up chocolate graham crackers and worms!These are my take on the candy corn cupcakes that I have seen so many people make! Love this idea!These I made for MY work today! Lovely little sausage fingers! My hubby thought they looked so gross, he said even thinking about putting those knuckles past his lips made him want to gag!And of course some eyeball deviled eggs! I am loving the creepy Halloween food! Next year I want to do a bunch of different things for my party...we will see if that happens! :) HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Decorating for Halloween

2010-10-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

We finished putting up the rest of what we wanted to for Halloween this past weekend! I wanted to share some of the photos! I have made some good progress in my decorations this year! I try to gain a little more each year!!

Here is my little countdown sign at the top of the stairs with my cute little candy holding skeleton that I bought last year!This I will call my "fantel"! It is actually my tv entertainment center...but it serves my purpose of displaying "mantel-type" decorations!I love my little bear with the pumpkin shirt! And the pumpkin and scarecrow can stay up through November!Here are my little new painted pumpkins and some cute tea light holders!I still love these little apothecary jars that I made from a tutorial from Shanty 2 Chic! I had to dress them up with some skeleton heads and cobwebs!Big Frank (does anyone remember that toy??) and my new witch's broom...And I am not sure if any of you remember, but a while back, I had to purchase a mannequin for my daughter's dance solo she did...so here is my putting this purchase to GOOD USE! The tree that he is hanging from is dead and we are in the process of getting all of the large rocks and trees removed - to remove that whole island from the front yard, so the weeds make it a pretty authentic graveyard! ...do you all see his other arm attached to the tree branch...bloody on one side? haha! I wonder if my neighbors are creeped out??A close up of Manny!My front door looks so inviting!And our other little friend hangs out on the front porch, welcoming guests! :)So there are my Halloween decorations for the most part! And just because I did not want to contribute a whole post to my new birthday presents, here are pictures of my 2 new tattoos!

I designed them both myself! I LOVE to sing and would die without music in my life!!And my #1 passion...MY DAUGHTER!!! I told her this was the second time she has caused me a lot of pain! :) She told me it was MY choice! I have to agree! But totally worth it!!HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Jars of Halloween

2010-10-12T11:50:00.000-07:00

This weekend, my mom, sister and I decided to have our Halloween craft night! My sister was in love with the little Halloween jars that she has seen others make, so we set out to make some of our own! We bought 3 different sizes of jars, a bunch of different tissue paper and we created!

It was so much fun to come up with different ideas like a scarecrow, Jack the Pumpkin King, Frankenstein, etc!

Here are my moms...LOVE the goofy look on her Frankenstein!!

And my sisters...Near perfection! My fav is the Vampire!

And my 2 daughters...Kylee made the small ghost and then went to the haunted house! Kaitlyn made the bat, the big ghost and the "halloween candy" with eyes! :) So creative!

And mine! I think the scarecrow is my fav...but I love how the witch has beedy little eyes and the green bow on the pumpkin looks a little like Aunt Jemima! :)

So much fun and super, super easy!

I would love to see pics of ones that you have made!!

"Batty" for a change!

2010-10-12T11:45:00.001-07:00

A few years ago, my mom gave me a little bat to hang up during the Halloween season! It was nice...but a little plain. It was just a black bat with 3 yellow stars hanging at the bottom.

So I decided to get out some MODGE PODGE and some cute Halloween tissue paper and cuten it up a bit!

And here is how it looks now!

Amazing what a little Modge Podge can do! :)

"BOO"tiful Blog Swap

2010-10-08T13:37:00.000-07:00

Today I am swapping blogs with one of my newest bloggy friends

Cierra over at Crafty Cierra!

She has such fun Halloween Ideas in her new little blog! So read up and hopefully you can get some fun new Halloween ideas! Take a look and then stop on over to her blog and take a longer visit!!

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Hey bloggers! This is Cierra from cRafTyCiErRa I just started blogging last week, so be easy on me! I am a mother & wife. I love to craft & cook for my family! It seems to get me through those crazy days! I love doing anything that has to do with ribbon & paint! I like to do crafts that are cheap in price but look like they cost way more! I wanted to start blogging because I love crafting & sharing my ideas with others! My favorite craft right now are these Wooden Pumpkins for Fall! I have so much fun making them & I hope you will too! They are super cheap & easy to make but the best part is...how many compliments you will recieve on them!

ITEMS NEEDED: Orange paint, brown paint, paint brush, green ribbon, green wire, scissors, glue, small wooden pole (found at any craft store), & a pole of landscape timber (found at Home Depot)

COST: This entire project cost me $12 & once you have the wood you can make TONS more!

1. Cut the timber into 3 1/2, 5, & 7 inch blocks

2. Cut the wooden pole into 3 - 1 inch blocks

3. Paint the timber orange (I did 2 coats)

4. Paint the wooden poles (stems) brown

5. After the paint has dried, glue the stems onto the top of the timber

6. Cut off 3 long sections of wire & wrap them around the handle of the paint brush to make curls

7. Wrap the wire around the stems twice so it will hold well

8. Cut your ribbon into 3 strips & tie them into a bow on top of the wire

AND YOU'RE DONE!

I hope you will have as much fun making these as I did! Please visit me at cRaFtYCiErRa & follow my blog to see other fun crafts, recipes, & more! Thanks for reading & happy crafting!

I've Been Featured!

2010-10-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

I love opening my blogger dashboard, reading up on my blogs that I follow and seeing my own pictures on one of them!

Yep, my lovely kitchen was featured today on Envy My Cooking! So head on over there and see!

Thanks for the feature!!

Black and white pumpkins

2010-10-04T11:07:00.001-07:00

As I have said before...I get so much inspiration from the blogs I read each day! Every time I do a craft and show my family and friends, they all think I am so creative and crefty, but I always tell them - if I did not follow so many wonderful blogs, I would never have the inspiration to do what I do! So thanks!! Here is another one that I have seen around a lot lately! Black and white pumpkins! I love them! I have wanted to do them for a while, and I finally got around to making some! So here they are!!

Countdown 2 Candy

2010-10-04T11:02:00.000-07:00

I have seen these advent calendars marking the days left until Halloween a lot lately! And I wanted one! I made mine a little differently than what I have seen. I wanted mine hanging, so I used a 2x4, roughed up the edges to look a little like a piece of old wood, painted it black, added some spooky paper, the wording and some ribbon, and used some smaller pieces fashioned the same way for my numbers! I have the rest of the numbers set in a bowl in front of my sign, so it is easy for the kids to change them out each day! So much fun!! Love this idea! Thanks to all of those crafty people out there that inspire me every day!!

Kylee's Glam Bedroom

2010-09-23T08:35:00.000-07:00

My dear little Kylee is now 13!! I cannot believe it! She is officially a teenager! Happy Birthday Kylee! Now make a wish...

What did you wish for? Kylee's wish this year was for her room to be changed from the blue stripe and polka dot room into a real teenage GLAM room! So here are a few befores....I did love the blue and brown stripes - plus they took me like a whole freaking day to paint! :)

Her little partial wall with the circles and mirrors where her vanity sat and she could get ready!

We decided to keep the daybed - but we did not want to keep the cream color of it! But here is the before of the pieces of the bed (I get so excited to start that I always forget complete before pics!) You can also see in this picture, the lovely blue carpet that goes out into the hallway...not very glamorous!

And to complete the blue theme, here is the lovely, came with the house, blue blinds! So 1980's huh!!

Here is some of the shelves and such that I took out of her bedroom. Some of the shelves I had painted brown to match her room before - so those will need to change...the light pink lamp will not fit the new style, that cream colored basket is a little shabby and the bronze colored snail will just not do as is!

Here are a few more befores...her letters that were hanging on cute little ribbons in her room - brown and pink of course -and an old oak colored picture frame!

OK, enough of the befores...let's get to the AFTERS!! Here are her new hot pink glamorous walls with her lovely silver daybed and new bedding!

She loves these french memo boards - the rectangular one was a light pink little girly print - so that had to be changed - and one of her grandma's found the new round one!

You can see her new carpet in this picture...SO MUCH BETTER!! No more blue!! And her circle wall is changed to a teenage girl's getting ready station. I put up the little holders below the long mirror that hold her brush, make-up, deodorant, etc.

Yeah, this pic is sideways, sorry....but here you can see the little hand painted scrolls that I did and I added some jewels to make it sparkle!

Here is what I did with that old frame and her letters. I spray painted the letters silver, the frame black and attached a cute little ribbon. Below it is a silver metal push pin board, which I turned into her jewelry holder, just adding the same ribbon.

I also added a little jewel to the screw that hung them up on the wall - who wants to see the screw sticking out? That is NOT glamorous!

I spray painted her little brown shelves to black and her bronze snail to silver. You can see the blue blinds are gone...I do have some white drapes to hang up, they just have not made it up quite yet...

We made a cute little work/craft corner for her on this wall. A black corner desk with a black shelving unit beside it give her a lot of storage on this wall and we organized her craft stuff with this cute striped boxes from IKEA. It is perfect - now all of her scrapbook stuff is in one box, all her jewelry making stuff in another, etc, etc.!

Her cute little light pink lamp - now a fierce silver with embellishments sits perfectly in the corner! And the new large magnet board (which still needs to be hung up by my hubby) is perfect for holding her pens, pencils, scissors, and those little round magnetic cups are ideal for her small embellishments like flowers and sequins for her scrapbooking!

We also changed out her clothes closet - that used to only have one bar across - into a double rod closet! So much more room! She has a whole other closet across from this one for her games and other shelf belonging stuff!

And of course NO glam room is finished until the chandelier is hung! I love this chandelier from IKEA!

I hope you enjoyed it! I know Kylee does!!

Halloween Wreath

2010-09-21T16:55:00.000-07:00

First, start with a wreath and some cheap flowers from the Dollar Store... Next hot glue the flowers to the wreath - try not to burn your finger like I did!

Get them all glued on...

Spray paint it black...

Add some webs, some cute ribbon, and some skulls from the Dollar Store and whallah - a great spooky Halloween wreath!

No Fly Zone

2010-09-21T16:49:00.000-07:00

I took the day off of work yesterday because today was my birthday and I wanted a day off! Plus I needed to register my car and get my license renewed before today! :)

Anyway, I took some time out to do a couple of crafts! So much fun! Here is the first one!

I picked up a little rafia broom from the good old Dollar Tree and after spray painting it black, adding some fun ribbon to it and painting a little sign, this is the end result! I love the way it turned out!

French Memo Board

2010-09-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

So I still have not had the motivation needed to do the rest of my daughter's bedroom - but it will be done this weekend!! :) I did, however get a chance to re-do her french memo board. She loves this thing and always has pictures inserted into it! It was not jiving with the new paint and decor, so when I was at good old Walmart the other day, I seen some marked down left over fabrics - and I got enough to do 2 memo boards of black fabric for about a dollar! So I picked up some cute pink ribbon and some new buttons too and went to re-making the memo board!

So here is the before...

And here is the after! I love how it turned out and it matches PERFECTLY!

Lovely Little Lamp

2010-09-13T10:00:00.001-07:00

For my daughter's birthday, we revamped her room up and in doing that revamped some of her furniture and accessories! I will post a lot of them later, but here is my favorite!! Sorry for the pics - I took the before pic among a big pile of before stuff - so here is the cropped version of the lamp! Cute little pink lamp with a white shade...however my daughter's room was a hot pink glam room with black and silver accents....so....I spray painted the base an aluminum metallic shade of silver - LOVE THAT COLOR!!! And added some cute trim of black satin and dangly beads! I love the way it turned out and since I already had the lamp and the can of spray paint, the beads were like $3.00 - so a lamp transformation on the CHEAP!! And this was one of Kylee's favorites in the room too!!

Ikea fun!

2010-08-30T09:45:00.001-07:00

As I said previous, we were making the trip to go down to Ikea. I have to plan this since it is about an hour and a half to get there from my house! We found some really cute things for Kylee's bedroom and I cannot wait until I get it painted and carpet down to start putting it all together! Here is a preview of some of the items we picked up!
We bought some large, medium and some small of these babies! So cute and will be perfect for storage on her shelving!

This metal rod is about 21" long and will be perfect underneath Kylee's full length mirror - to hang...

a couple of these - in black, pink and white of course! They are the ideal size to hold her brushes and make-up! Sitting in front of her mirror in the mornings primping for school will be fun and easy!

We found this 14"x30" magnet board! The perfect color of glam silver! This will be perfect above her new desk with some magnetic accessories, such as...

Cute little circle magnets (in white of course)

Silver magnetic pen holders

and some magnetic containers - for smaller items!

And what is a glam room without a lovely chandelier

and a glossy black chair for her desk! I love the things we got and am so excited to put them all together and show you guys the results!

Also looking a little ahead to Kaitlyn's room (she loves polka dots) and I thought these little circle cork trivets would look amazing spray painted to match her room and hung up around the room to display her pictures or artwork! :)

STAY TUNED!! :)

Yeah, yeah, the weekend's here!

2010-08-27T11:40:00.001-07:00

I am very excited for this weekend! Why? I get to go shopping at IKEA! I LOVE that store! There are so many ideas and different things to look at and buy! Stuff for decor, stuff for organization, lots and lots of stuff! My oldest daughter's birthday is coming up soon (Sept 8th) and as I have said before, all of our kids opted for a bedroom remake for their birthdays this year! Bowe's was fun to do...but a GIRLS room is so much more fun! And Kylee wants a black, silver and hot pink GLAM room! Yeah! I cannot wait! Bring on the mirrors and chandeliers! Yeah!!

Flaming Gorge 2010

2010-08-24T10:21:00.000-07:00

Every year, we gather together with a couple of our friends and their families and go on a vacation. Well, every year for the past 4 years. We started in Bear Lake, then Disneyland, and for the last 2 years we have gone up to Flaming Gorge! I LOVE that place! Last year, our oldest Bowe, had to have a hernia surgery so he missed out on the vacation, which was a big reason why we chose to go to the same place again this year! We had a blast! So here is my vacation in pictures!

Here we are on the 4 hour drive. Always makes them sleep! :)Bowe was not asleep for this photo, but rest assured, he fell asleep later on Kaitlyn's lap and woke up with a huge slobber pool on Kaitlyn's leg! :)I took this on the drive up. The clouds were like a ton of little cotton balls!When we got up to the camp site and set up, we noticed a TON of chipmunks, lizards and around dusk...MICE! I can handle the rest of the them, but the mice creeped us ALL out!

The kids took pieces of hot dogs after dinner and tied them to the fishing line on the fishing poles and lured the chipmunks with them. It was hilarious!The next day, we went rafting down the Green River! I love this river! It is not the fiercest out there, which is good for us with kids! Beautiful scenery, several rapids scattered throughout, a lot of fun!We stopped along the way to jump off some cliffs! Even Kaitlyn and Daycee jumped off a small one! Good job girls!! This was Kaitlyn's first time jumping! She was a little hesitant last year! But she had a blast jumping this year!When we got back to camp, there is a cove right at our campsite, so we walked over there, and jumped off some more cliffs in the cove!I LOVE taking pictures of the beautiful scenery!!This slapsh below is Kaitlyn jumping off her first cliff that was higher than a few feet high! I missed the actual jump but got the splash! This is her after the jump! Freezing!! :)Bowe managed to make his jump look like a dance move! Smooth!That night sitting around the campfire! Say cheese...OK, now show how tired you really are! :) Of course Kylee is still bright eyed and smiley!We went down the Green River the next day as well! Switched up the groups a little and headed off!Is it just me, or does Bowe look like Billy Idol here?Kaitlyn loved this little rock to jump off of! She jumped over and over...the one Kylee is standing on in the background is the one Kaitlyn jumped off of the day before (ie. the splash pic!)Sisters jumping together!Kylee was so gung ho with the jumping! There were a bunch of teenage boys and older men around the same cliffs that were scared and we all kept saying, you are not going to let a 12 year old girl beat you...are ya! :)I love this shot, the water looks so blue!I love this one too, the angle is great! It looks like Dave is going to do a belly flop!Jason was on one that night back at camp. Dancing around like a goofball, sticking out his butt and his stomach as far as possible! He does make me laugh! Then Bowe had to join in and be a goofball...but his goofiness always seems to consist of showing us all his butt...don't worry, I have "spray painted" most of it so you don't have to view all his glory! :)Kaitlyn posing with Bowe's hat on!A tender moment in the trailer...Kylee brushing Bowe's hair! How sweet! :)The last day, we just hung out at the cove, explored different cliffs, layed out in the tubes in the water and of course, jumped off some more cliffs! I even jumped in this day...but my cliff was slightly IN the water! ha ha!And then....my camera died! Well at least it was the last day! We had so much fun! Can't wait for our vacation next year! :)

Bridal Gifts

2010-08-09T08:11:00.000-07:00

My daughter, who is 9, was asked to be the Maid of Honor at her cousin's wedding. She is so excited and thrilled to do it!!! The Maid of Honor typically has some responsibilities to the bride to be, including throwing a shower, bachellorette party, helping pick everything out and get everything ready, etc. However, with my daughter being only 9, she was not enlisted to do these things - but she is a Maid of Honor none-the-less! So I decided in order for her to feel a part of her responsibilities on the day of the wedding, I made her a "Maid of Honor Bag of Tricks" to give to Kelsi the day of the wedding - things that might help her out and assist her in getting ready! I started with the card, which I made out of her wedding colors... And then in the bag I filled it with a small make-up bag, hairspray, deodorant, wisp on the go toothbrushes, dental floss, Q-tips, a compact brush and mirror, waterproof mascara, lip gloss, bobby pins, safety pins, and a small sewing kit. Kaitlyn is very excited to be a part of the action with this little kit!! And it makes her really feel like she is contributing!

For the bridal shower, Kaitlyn wanted me to make Kelsi a sign, we decided on the wording "Always Kiss Me Goodnight". I wanted to keep it neutral colors since we are not sure how they will decorate their place together. Kaitlyn decided on also giving a jar with Hershey's Kisses - and we tied a ribbon around the jar again with the colors of the wedding.

I started with a plain piece of wood that came with routered edges from Walmart and painted it with a wash of white and brown - subtle brown! :) I finished with the edges all in black and stipled the black along the top edges as well. I found the wording on line, I liked how it was in cursive and then in bold print - so I printed it up and quickly penciled it from the back to transfer the basis of the wording onto my wood plaque. I then painted it in black and added from hearts to the bottom corner. I then drilled a couple of holes at the top corners and insert some black polka dot ribbon - tied them in knots and WHALLA - a cute little plaque for the newleyweds! I think it turned out really good and was pretty happy that everyone I showed thought that it was vinyl! I hope they like it! :)

My Dad's Birthday

2010-07-19T08:57:00.000-07:00

My dad was out of town on Father's Day and his birthday is this week, so I decided to throw him a little party this weekend! We just had a BBQ at my house, but it was so much fun! I love hanging out with my dad and my brothers! We did not grow up together, my dad and mom separated after my sister was born and I was 2...my brother Travis was born shortly after. We have never been tight knit. My dad never really spent much time with us. My sister and I went over to my dad's approximately one Sunday a month, we did not have a room at my dad's, we maybe spent the night twice growing up. But I always have loved my dad and my brother's and love the time that I get to spend with them and be a "family" and not strangers!

My dad has always been a partier! Loves his boat, his beer and his BBQ! So I decided to make him a beer cake...not made out of beer, but looking like a glass of beer! My dad loved it and instantly ate one of the fondant pretzels! :)We had fun just hanging out...until Travis decided he could not let Kaitlyn show him up on the trampoline...Kaitlyn did 3 backflips in a row and my 6'1" brother decided he could do it too....well at the end of his second, he was right on the edge of the trampoline...his fiance Jackie and I were yelling "no" when he went for the 3rd flip...he ended up landing on the hard metal edge with one knee and one shin! Luckily after a couple of minutes to catch his breath, he got up and hopped up the deck to ice them...and then after we ate, decided he was good enough to play basketball...so hopefully that means he was ok!! :)

They played 2 on 2, Bowe and Jason (both around 5'10") against my 2 brothers (both over 6'....like 6'1" and 6'4")! Jason said when Chase was guarding him, all he could see when he looked up was a black shirt! It was fun to watch! When they were done, they were all sweaty and we went in to cut the cake!My dad inhaled his cake - and once Chase and Travis see how much he liked the cake, they decided to feed him some more! :) My dad had fun with it though!I am glad we got to spend some good time together and it is all planned out to keep it a yearly tradition! This morning, Kylee is leaving for 4 days of Girl's Camp. She is so excited! It will be so much fun for her! Along with their list of items to pack, they were also given a questionnaire to fill out about themselves for a secret sister (like secret santa). So we got another girl's list and we were told to get 3-4 presents and to keep them all around $10.00. One of the girl's favorite things to do was "hanging with friends". So Kylee and Jason found a frame that read friends, I added some ribbon to assume the "hanging" portion of the phrase and added some little decorations to the photo mat. Her favorite scripture is Psalms 24 which essentually reads to have clean hands and a pure heart. So we got her a little heart pin with some antibacterial hand sanitizer.Lastly, her favorite colors were yellow, purple and green (which is also why I chose the colors I did for the frame) so we tied on some colored hair bands to her favorite treat, which was brownies! Kylee was super excited to give these to her secret sister! I hope she has tons of fun!!

4th of July Weekend!

2010-07-06T11:47:00.000-07:00

OK, so this post actual begins last week - the week before the 4th of July weekend! :) Because I thought posting parade pics from both at the same time would be better! :)

My son was in the Pleasant View parade last weekend for the Weber Warriors football team! Here is Jason, just waiting for the parade to start!
And finally it began and Bowe came with the football team! I cannot believe he is going to be in High School! Yikes!

They through out footballs...Bowe took it upon himself to autograph a few with his number (well...hopefully his number since they have not been assigned numbers yet!) Silly kid!

I posted before on another post that we gave our kids the option to have presents for their birthdays or to get a room makeover...and they all chose makeovers! So I had a LOT of work to do this past week getting the room made over in time for his birthday party! Sunday night, he picked out his colors that he wanted and I gave him several options in bedding to choose from that night as well. So between Monday and Friday, we cleared out the room, took off the wallpaper border, washed the walls, painted the walls, got new carpet, painted a geometric design on the walls, touched up the ceiling and baseboards, painted the closet doors, painted the wall shelves, put together 2 new black bookshelving units and put the room back together...whew! A lot of hard work and a sore back later, we were done - for the most part at least! We have not gotten the the yellow wall shelves up yet and in the pictures we had not gotten a lot of stuff back into the room yet. There are a few little things to to...but you can see the overall jist of it! TONS better!

Here is a small pic of before...we had almost everything out of the room before brilliant me thought about before pics. Nice sports theme, but not fitting of a 15 year old high school man to be! :) (of course the Kobe Bryant thing WILL return somewhere in the room later...hopefully like behind the door!)

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Kilz paint! It will cover anything! No primer here...just one coat of gray paint and there were only a few little places here and there that I could see the red or blue through! one quick second coat and I was done!!

The lighting is terrible in this pic, sorry, but it was late. It does, however, show you a good view of the BEFORE carpet! Nice orange baby-poop-esk color!

And here is the AFTER! Much better! So much more sophisticated! I did paint some square shelves yellow that are going to be a part of the black geometric pattern that I painted on the wall...but not up yet!

You can see the same yellow color on the closet door knobs! And look how much better the new carpet is!

We did not even realize that the carpet was almost EXACTLY like the carpet we had put in the hallway, stairs and living room...see off to the left! You can hardly tell a difference! Perfect!!

Friday night we had my family, Jason's family and Bowe's friends over for a BBQ. Bowe wanted a baseball cake. So I decided to make a bat, a mitt and some baseballs! I really liked how they turned out! And everyone loved them! of course the boys did not eat any until later...since they ate SO much at the BBQ!! One of Bowe's friends alone ate 5 hotdogs, 2 hamburgers, a bunch of watermelon, chips, and pasta salad...along with some pop and water! Jeez, I am glad I only have ONE of these growing boys living under my roof all the time! Yikes!I made the baseball mitt cake a chocolate cake with Oreo cream filling, the baseball bat and baseball cupcakes are vanilla cake with vanilla cream filling for the cupcakes.

They boys were having arm wrestling contests...so naturally Jason had to join in!

(Spoiler alert...Jason won!)

I think they all had fun...plenty of food, arm wrestling, jumping on the trampoline, basketball, football in the street, frisbee, doorbell ditching some of the boys around the neighborhood and toilet-papering Bowe's girlfriend's house. Yep...pretty sure they had fun!

My little nephew Maguire even had fun!

Kaitlyn stopping to pose for the camera!

Tavin playing with the mannequin arm! Fun was had by all! :)

The next day, North Ogden had their Cherry Days festivities! Jason got up at 6:30 and ran in the 5K. It was his first 5K and he did pretty good for only starting to train about a week before! He did it with 3 of his friends and even though Jason was the last of them all, they only ranged from 24 minutes to 30 minutes...so he kept up pretty good! I was so proud of him...although I was way to tired from the day before to get up and get ready just to take some pictures....I will have to get the one he took off of his phone!

Kaitlyn rode her bike in the children's parade just before the actual parade began.

I tried to get a picture of her and I...hmm...why the crap will she cheese it up for all other pictures, but to take a picture with me, she sits there like she is bored out of her mind??? The parade finally started and Kaitlyn and Dacee were just waiting for some candy!

Bowe and the football team again!

Kylee danced with her dance team in the parade this year and she had so much fun! She even got to wear her favorite colors...black and hot pink!

I cannto believe how grown up she is looking! Boys check her out all the time and I just want to tell them..."avert your eyes...she is ONLY 12!!"

That night, Jason had to go watch the UFC fights, Kylee went to the fireworks with her friends and Bowe went with his friends, so Kaitlyn and I went up to my grandma's house to watch fireworks from her backyard. My sister, mom, Alexis and Emy were there too! Alexis was alseep the whole time, but Emy liked the fireworks...when she wasn't being grumpy and tired! :)

Obviously this new peace sign with the tongue sticking out is Kaitlyn's new signature!

The next day (Sunday) we decided to head up to lava Hot Springs. Some of our friends were up their camping and told us to come up for fireworks and some tubing down the river. So we packed and headed up! Kaitlyn sitting in the middle rubbing both Kylee's and Bowe's backs (she did the same on the way home too...man I wish I was sitting back there!)

What??? No tongue sticking out?? :) Jason, Kylee and Bowe went up to the top where it was a little more rough and tubed down. Kaitlyn and I got in when it was a little more calm!

Here is Jason!

Bowe going down one of the spills...I thought for sure he was going to tip off, but he saved it! And here is Kylee - she looked a little off center too...but she also saved herself!

Jason was having so much fun! You cannot see too good in this picture but he is yelling "WHOOOO!"

Shortly before this picture, Jason turfed it out of his tube...and Bowe is cracking up about it!

Hi Kylee!

Kylee lighting some parachute fireworks for the kids to run and catch!

And as everyone is looking up...Kaitlyn is off!

Jason relaxing from his hard day on the river! He got beat up!

Jason showing me his ouchees! His left knee instantly swelled up and turned blue!

And here is Bowe's ouchees. I did not get a picture of Kylee's, but her knees were the most bloody! Poor things! That is why I got in at the calm part!

The kids playing tetherball

The kids doing some sparklers

and watching some fireworks! It was a fun night! And when we came home, we picked Dixie up from Jason's mom's house...she was so excited to see us!

It was a long, hectic, run-around weekend...but we had SO much fun! I absolutely love my family and I enjoy being able to spend such good quality time with them!! Love you guys!

My weekend of crafts!

2010-06-29T14:15:00.001-07:00

This weekend I wanted to make some new 4th of July (24th of July also for Utah) crafts for my living room. I had some extra pieces of wood so I started with those! Hmmm...what can I make?

Some wood blocks that read U.S.A of course!! A flag as well! I love it!

And I ended with some firecrackers! I love how they all turned out with the deep blue and red colors!

I had also seen an idea for those pesky plastic Walmart sacks that get randomly strewn about in the bottom of my pantry. So I wanted to try what I had seen over at House of Grace. I started with a plain old empty coffee container...

Spray painted it white, added some wording and cut a slit in the lid...Whalaa! Storage for my plastic sacks!

Lastly, I had a fat vase that I had gotten at an auction a while back. I have taken really all blues out of my house, so it really does not match anything...

so I spray painted that white too!

And placed it up on top of my cupboards! I love it!

I am linking up over at the weekly CSI Project!
THIS weeks project is redoing my son's bedroom for his birthday! We gave all of the kids the option for their birthdays this year to either get presents or get a bedroom re-make...and they all chose the bedrooms! We have gotten the prepping done - furniture out, wallpaper border off, walls cleaned...I need to tape tonight and we are going to pick out carpet...hopefully I can get it all done in time! I am pretty sure we will not find any one who can do carpet in a pinch...but I really want to get the rest of the room done by the weekend for his birthday! Wish me luck!! I will show pictures next week! Promise! :)

My Wish List!

2010-06-25T14:42:00.001-07:00

I was watching TV the other night and the most fascinating thing came on! The new Dremel Trio!

I have to have it! It cuts, it sands and it routes! For only $100...I must have it!! :)

Birthdays and Father's Day

2010-06-22T09:18:00.000-07:00

Last week was Jason's birthday! My hubby turned 37! Man he is getting old...just kidding baby! :)

We had a small bbq with his family. Of course the Laker game was on, so the majority of the time was spent (by the guys at least) in the living room watching the game...as I tended to the grill!

He did not want anything fancy for his b-day cake, just a simple vanilla cake with plain old frosting and a whipped mm pudding filling. So that is what I did. In lieu of any fancy decorations, I just used hershey's kisses and whoppers to decorate the cake! It was pretty yummy!

The kids all had fun jumping on the tramp or playing the drums for the Guitar Hero! :)

Jason did not want to blow out the candles but Brody did so he got up to blow them out for Jason.

Although after about 3 attempts - but no success, Jason blew them out himself!

For Father's Day, we wanted to make Jason a fruit bouquet...so I bought all of the fruit and let the kids go to town! Bowe was not home, he was out golfing with Jason...so the girl's did all the dirty work with the cutting out of fruit!

Bowe did help us stick the skewers in the watermelon the morning of Father's Day! The morning of Father's Day, we all made breakfast for Jason. French toast, fried eggs, bacon, juice and coffee....oh and fruit of course!!It was delicious!!!

I think that Jason really liked all the effort we put into his special days!

We love you babe! Thanks for being such a great husband and father!!!

The next day, Bowe's girlfriend Shay and her 2 brothers (triplets) had their birthday party and I made the cake for them. Here is a shot of their cake! :) They are all basketball freaks, so that is what I made them! For more pics of the cake, see my cake blog {here}!

Better After

2010-06-10T14:41:00.001-07:00

Inspired by the site Better After, I thought I would post some of my before's and afters in my home! Let me start out with our downstairs bathroom...man, I WISH I took pictures when we moved in! The bathroom consisted of blue carpet, tan wallpaper that had little blue and black circly designs throughout with a dark blue and black flowery border at the top of the room. This is a small space...and it felt ever smaller! We immediately took all of the wallpaper down and for a temporary fix, I painted the whole bathroom a bright yellow and brought over the fish motif that we had in our duplex before! And that was fine for a while...until the tile in the shower started bowing inward and my daughter busted a hole through it while leaning over while taking a shower! At that point, we knew we needed to upgrade! We took down all of the walls, sheet rock, tile, and yellow color and had it totally re-sheetrocked and a marble shower and marble surround for the window put in...a new window put in...the ugly OLD dark brown cabinet taken out and replaced with a fresh white one...new sink...new toilet...blue carpet replaced with tile...THE WORKS!! I love it! This before pic does not do it all justice, but you can see the yellow paint and the UGLY linoleum that was under the blue carpet! (To see all pics of the bathroom click here)

Next we did the kitchen! The upstairs already had a nice 2 toned paint with crown and base moulding, which looked really nice, so we did not change anything when we moved in. We knew that the cabinets would be something we would want to replace, but a whole kitchen remodel is something you save money for (or file a refi for!!). So we eventually got a refi on the house (which we also used for the bathroom above, central air, updated electrical and a new furnace...not too shabby)! So the kitchen had really shallow dark brown cabinets with no hardware (well besides the copper hinges), and a brownish orangish formica countertop that had little pieces missing in a couple of places, old laminate flooring in the kitchen part and blue marble carpet in the dining part, the kitchen lights were all either brass fixtures or old yellowish track lighting, etc etc! Not a pretty kitchen! The side of the room that our fridge was on has a few shallow cabinets that were really un-usable because they were so shallow and the shelves were not movable so items like cereal boxes would not even fit in! Yuck!! We ripped EVERYTHING out! That was pretty fun to demo the kitchen ourselves...the not so fun part was finding another set of linoleum under the top linoleum and having to scrape and pull at nails for EVER!! But we added new cabinets, new counter top, new paint, new tile floors, new sink, new lights, new over the range micro, new dishwasher (old one leaked), and over by the fridge, we added a deep pantry and a desk! I LOVE IT! Such a tranformation! And we did the kitchen, the bathroom, central air, furnace and electrical all for $20k! I think we did good! (To see more before pics, click here...for more demo pics, click here...and more more after pics, click here) A few months later we decided our kitchen floors looked so good, but they looked TERRIBLE next to the ugly marble blue carpet that was in our living room, hallway and entryway stairs! We picked out the new carpet and thought, hey that ugly dark brown banister would look much better as a pony wall...so we also built in (when I say we, I mean my husband and his mom's boyfriend!) Looks so much better...now we just need to work on replacing the banister in the middle of the staircase from the upstairs and the downstairs! I was so excited to rip up the blue carpets that I forgot to take real before pics...so this pic is Bowe on his 1st day of school last year! You can see the ugly blue floors, the ugly hunter green shelf that I have up on the wall and the cherry finish old sewing table that really does not match anything! This pic shows not only my little girl when she was about 5 years old...but it was really the only pic I had of that ugly banister! Aahhhh...much better! Ugly blue carpet GONE! Now I needed to get rid of the ugly green and lace drapes I had up on an oak colored rod...That is better!The stairs look so much better...and the wall is almost done!I think these decorations look a lot better than that 90's green shelf I had before. And I painted my cute little sewing table a nice black to match all of the frames! Keeping up with the black accessories, I printed out some pictures that I had taken at Laguna Beach and Flaming Gorge and put them in some spray painted black frames...along with a large frame that I also spray painted black and added some vinyl lettering (I love Cricut) to spell out LIVE long LAUGH often LOVE always. And with my new star mirror, I chose to add some accents of stars throughout the room...you cannot see from here, but the tall baskets on the left of the entertainment center have little stars hanging on the little ties.
And since I was also just as good with after pics as I was with before pics...here is our wall all done...and doned with a baby shower garland! ha ha!

Our house looks so much better! Just a few more things to do before it is completely remodeled. I can't wait! Right now we are working on the front yard landscaping and we told the kids they could all get new carpet along with bedroom makeovers for their birthdays this year! Stay tuned! :)

Dance Review and Baby Blessing

2010-06-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was my daughter's end of year dance review! This past week was so stinking hectic! Tuesday, she had try-outs for next years competition teams, Wednesday was dress rehearsal, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights was the review! A lot of time and a lot of dancing! My poor Kaitlyn was pooped! The last 3 days she has slept in until almost 10 am and she is usually up by 7 - 8!!

She just loves this pose that she made up for the end of her tap dance, Shout!Kaitlyn in her ballet dance outfit! She is such a little beauty!Putting on her lipstick...it looks like a real bridal shot! :)We did find out yesterday however, that she made the next level up comp team! Yeah Kaitlyn! I am so proud of you!! Sunday, my niece Alexis was getting blessed! I made this cake for the lunch afterwards!

Next up this week...my son has a baseball tournament each night this week...we are still getting ready to move at work...we are still doing some demo landscaping on our front yard (more on that one in a later post)...and my husband's birthday is this weekend! Bring it on! :)

Have a great week!!

Anniversary with my Hubby

2010-06-09T10:27:00.000-07:00

Today is a day full of blog posts! I have to make up for the last couple of weeks of not blogging too much! :)

My husband and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary 2 weekends ago! I had such big plans for us! We usually end up having the kids or things going on (baseball tournaments are usually over the memorial day weekend) so we have never really gotten a chance to spend quality time together for our anniversary. Being that it was our 5th, I wanted to do something fun! I really wanted to go back up to the Red Moose Lodge where we got married and stayed the first night! However, when I asked if they had deals for customers who got married there...they said all they would do was give me 10% off. Um...nevermind! My brother in law does alot of the plans for the guy who owned the Red Moose Lodge so I asked him if we could get a deal that way...well that guy promised us his own condo up a the Moose Hollow Condos, I was excited! However...he stopped calling my brother in law back until the day before and then told him that he already rented the condo out for the month! RRRrrrr....

So what I decided to do was make our own hotel!

First things first...I got a really great idea from The Dating Divas (such a cute site to get some good date night ideas!!) of doing the reasons why I love you...so I decided to make 50 reasons why I love you and hide them around the house for him to find during the day (I had to work and he was going to be home until late morning at which time he was going to be in a golf tournament) so I hid the more embarassing ones at home and the lesser embarassing ones in his golf stuff! I started with a note telling him about the 50 reasons and to make sure he found it, I taped it to the lid of the toilet (hey, I knew that was the first place he would go!) He really liked the idea and had a fun time finding and reading them!

Then, when I got home from work, while he was still golfing, I painstakingly moved our matress out of our bedroom and into the living room. I cute out red and orange paper to make a "fire", a made chocolate covered strawberries and bought a bottle of champagne, I set them out with our wine glasses that my mom gave to us when we were married. It was all set up like a hotel and I topped the bed with a certificate made out to my husband for the best husband!

Before he could see it, we went and ate at the little diner that we ate the night of our wedding (we got hungry after everyone left) It was nice to go back there, an out of the way restaurant that is not one of our normal places! It was nice!

When we went back home, I ran inside to pull out the strawberries and champagne and when he came inside, I think he really appreciated all of the work I went to! He had a big grin on his face! We had a great night, eating strawberries, drinking some nasty champagne (how the crap do you know which cheap champagne will be good...maybe that whole sentence just should not go together...good...cheap...???) and playing games! Then we spent the rest of the next day doing pretty much the same! I made breakfast, we hung out and spent some really good quality time together!

It was a great anniversary and putting it all together really made me remember, even with our little arguments, or when life gets in the way...I love him so much and I am so lucky to have found him and have him in my life!!

Love you Jason!

Magnet Boards

2010-06-09T10:04:00.000-07:00

My daughter's end of year dance review took place this past weekend! I wanted to make something cute for all of the girls and the teachers and found a great magnet board idea on Cute As a Fox Creations.

I started by getting some supplies:

* Metal Signs from Dollar Tree

* Ribbon from the Dollar Tree

* Magnets from the Dollar Tree

* Scrap book paper from my home supply

* Flowers for the magnets from my home supply

I was making 17 of these and I ended up spending only $24 and some change! Not too bad!!

I started by modge podging my scrap book papers to the metal signs and then cutting the corners to be rounded. Then I added some ribbon across the top and some ribbon to the back to hang up the boards. (I got the colors of the girl's bedrooms from their parents, so they would match!)I took all of my magnets and hot glued some daisies onto them (minus the plastic middle parts) and glued on some rhinestones instead!Don't the magnets look so cute on them?After that I used my trusty Cricut and cut out their names - and modge podged the names onto the boards. Printed out a cute little thank you note from Kaitlyn and held them on by their magnets! All of the girl's, their moms and teachers loved these! I was pretty happy with how they turned out!

Giveaway Winner

2010-06-02T07:28:00.000-07:00

Thanks to all of those that participated in my giveaway! I love having new followers and I love giving the old and the new a chance to win something fun!

First, I apologize for not posting this yesterday...I ended up having a few hiccups! My bank that I work for is moving locations so we have been dealing with that! Plus, my grandpa died and the funeral was yesterday! Plus, my daughter had dance auditions yesterday! (although I was unable to take her, my friend helped me out...I still spent a good deal of time getting her ready and worrying about how the try out was going!)

So a little bit hectic! I have a lot I want to post about! But we are still a little busy here at the bank, so I decided I would quick post about the winner and more post will come in the next few days!!

And since I am a dummy with this number generator deal...I cannot get it to paste on here...so please believe me! I swear, I only did the number generator once and it ended on number 2!

So Meeko, congratulations!! Email me your information and I will get you your winnings!

Thanks so much!!

Weekend of birthdays

2010-05-25T09:22:00.001-07:00

As I said in my previous post, my brother's birthday and my friend's niece's birthday was this past weekend! Friday was a lot of fun with my family, a cook out and some yummy S'more's cupcakes!!

Saturday I spent the majority of the morning (from about 8:30 - 2:00) baking and decorating the Tinkerbell cake! I think it turned out pretty good! I really loved the way the flower and the bow turned out covered in pink sugar crystals! I really hope they liked it! it was my first actual paying cake job...so I really wanted it to look amazing! I do wish I had done bright colors on the whole cake and stayed away from the pastel colors, but maybe I am just being a paranoid perfectionist...who knows! :)

So the really good weekend turned sour when I woke up Monday morning with what I believe is a kidney stone! I have had them 3 times before, so I am pretty sure that is what it is! Ugh, I HATE these! Hopefully it will pass soon! Pray for me that it will!!! :)

Family and Fun for Friggity Friday!

2010-05-21T13:54:00.001-07:00

So I decided since it was friggity Friday (as my husband calls it!) I would post a few pics of family and talk about my pending FUN for the weekend! :) Sound good? Well allright, here we go!

First Family...

On Mother's Day, one of my 2nd cousins showed up at my grandma's house wanting some pics of her and my grandpa. He was getting some genealogy stuff together for the family. So we started looking through pictures and talking of how my grandparents met and where they honeymooned...all simple things, yet we never think to ask them!! So Interesting!! I learned that day that my grandpa not only boxed as a kid (which I did know) but he also wrestled! My grandpa and grandma met at the dance hall (club...whatever they called it back then) and my grandpa and his friends were out of town and trying to hitch a ride home and my grandma and her friends decided to take them...ummm hello in cars with strange boys...did your mother know I asked her!! :) I learned that they honeymooned in Yellowstone and also that my grandpa graduated from the FBI academy...I always thought he was just a detective on the police force...not FBI! Cool things to know! You should try this with your own family!

Anyway, so here are a few pictures that we dug up as well! I love them!

My grandma and grandpa on their wedding day! They look so young!My grandma and grandpa with my uncle Dean! Love that wallpaper!! I love how my grandpa looks like he should be in the movie Grease in this picture with his leather jacket! My mom is just a little baby! I LOVE this picture!!My mom loves this one with my grandpa wearing a Daisy Mae t-shirt! Man he was so handsome!!This picture is a little creepy! The lady in the middle on the top row (my great grandma) and the lady on the left of the top row...were not actually there! I guess when a member of the family was deceased, they would leave a spot for them and put a picture of them in there later...you can totally tell they were cut and glued into the picture! So weird! My grandpa is the 2nd from the right on the bottom...he does not look happy to be there!My little grandpa is the little boy on the left! He is so cute with his blonde hair!And this is a picture of my grandpa a few years before he passed away! I love you grandpa!!

Also on the lines of family, this week was my brother's 20th birthday! I cannot believe he is getting so big...he has had some hard knocks in his life and I just hope that one day he can move past them and become the smart, successful, loving man I know he is without all of the crap around him right now!!! I love you Jord!!

It looks like Jordan is about to sneeze! too cute!!

So we are having a birthday party for him at my house tonight...a good old cookout (my hubby makes fun of me for saying that, he says he has only heard Eddie Murphy say "cook out" who knows!!) and I decided I would make him some Smore's Cupcakes...just for the cookout! :) I sometimes call cupcakes - cuppies and my brother thinks it is hillarious (I see a trend here)...so these cuppies are for you Jord!!

And then tomorrow is some more fun for me! I have been asked to do my first official paying cake job... and I am super excited to do it. Here is a picture of the general idea of what she wanted...I have a few things already made for the cake and I think it is going to look so cute for the little 5 year old! I will cross my fingers that she loves it! I will post pics on Monday of the finished cake!

Anyway, enjoy your families and have some fun...it is FRIGGITY FRIDAY!! :)

Post It Note Tuesday

2010-05-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

ENTER HERE!!!

Baseball Team Update, 100th Post and a GIVEAWAY!!

2010-05-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

My son Bowe is on the Orion Baseball team, which my husband also is coach for too! Bowe is SO good at sports and is such a good baseball player! This year, their team made it to the Championships with 3 other schools. Thursday they had 2 games, Wahlquist vs Rocky Mountain and Orion vs South. Wahlquist won the first game and we won the 2nd!! Yeah Orion!! Bowe pitched the whole game...which actually only lasted not even a full 5 innings because we run ruled them (no team can beat another team by more than 10 runs)!! 12 to 2 in the bottom of the 5th inning!! Great job boys!! So the next day we played Wahlquist! It was an edge of your seat nail biter! Both teams were playing so good! Every hit of the ball would either be caught for an out or would be thrown to 1st for the out. 9 full innings and the score was 0 to 0!!! So 10th innings starts, at this point we are in overtime and who ever gets a base hit first will win the game. We are up and we get 3 outs, no hit. Wahlquist is up and....they got a hit! Game over! The boys were dissappointed, but they played so good!! I am so proud of them all! Good job guys!

Here is Bowe pitching on Thursdays game! His arm looks like rubber he has so much force behind his pitching!!This was Bowe's first hit that got him a double!This was Bowe's second hit that got him a triple! I was cheering and too excited, I almost forgot to get a picture...so it is a little fuzzy! :)Picture of the score board! Nice work team!Such a handsome kid!!Friday's game - man it was rainy and cold! Not fun!Bowe played 1st base this game! Getting ready to catch a pop fly! And one of my cute husband!!

OK, next on the list...this is my 100th post on this blog! Yeah! My only wish now is to get some more followers, some more support, some more comments, some more bloggy friends and some bloggy love!! So in doing that I am going to do a giveaway! Nothing too special, but I will be giving away a pink decorated tote bag, a mini cookbook, a set of note pads/pencils, and a Willow Tree statue to say thanks for being a part of my little old blog!

Here are the stipulations: (each step will give you another opportunity to win - make sure to leave a separate comment for each)

1. Become a follower and leave me a comment that you are a follower!

2. Become a follower of my cake/craft blog (http://www.stephaniessweetcreations.blogspot.com/) leave me a comment here that you are a follower!

3. Put my blog button on your blog and leave me a comment with your blog site!

4. Refer a friend to my blog and have that friend leave a comment that they are a follower (one entry for them) and that you referred them (one entry for you!)

And that is it! Simple, easy, fun! I will leave this giveaway open until the end of the month and will announce the winner on Tuesday June 1st!! Good luck! :)

In Memory of Ethan Stacy

2010-05-13T07:51:00.000-07:00

I am not sure if this story has been heard around the US...but it should! I know that there are instances like this all over - all of the time...and it is unfortunate! More attention should be brought to them to bring awareness to child abuse!

I heard about Ethan being missing Tuesday morning when I watched the news. When I got to work, there were news vehicles going up and down the street and people walking up and down the street looking for him...his apartment he was staying in with his mom and step dad is half a block down the street from my work. My co-workers and I were just praying that they would find him, or that he would wander in our bank off of the street. His mother said that he wandered out of the apartment between 11:00 and midnight and she could not locate him.

About 2 in the afternoon, the ceased the search in Layton and moved a search up to the canyon...over 30 miles away...we knew something was up!

They did find Ethan. Mangled, disfigured, dead. And the story about his last few days to live is horrific! I can honestly say that I cried myself to sleep last night, sick that this could happen to a child...let alone a mother do this to her own child!

I know that Ethan is in a better place now and I thank God that he does not have to endure that pain any more. But I know that there are so many more children out there in situations like Ethan's. Please pray for them, keep them in your thoughts, help them when we can!

All I know is that I hug my kids a little tighter now, say I love you a little more, and be a little more understandable when they make mistakes! We were given our children as gifts and we should always remember that!!

I LOVE being a mother!!

2010-05-10T11:18:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was filled with crafting, dancing, and being loved by my family...MOTHER'S DAY!

Good or bad first...Bad? OK here is the little bit of bad!

My daughter had her last dance competition for this year on Friday and Saturday! And I will tell you, this competition SUCKED! Not that my daughter and her group did not do well...the people putting it on were terrible! They had Kaitlyn's jazz routine pitted against a hip hop routine and a lyrical routine! They cannot be based or judged the same! They had also sent out a schedule beforehand, yet once we got there the schedules were changed and people were not aware, so they were not there yet, it was the most expensive competition, they only had one set of judges so there was a break in between every dance, and the "wonderful" photography studio that was there to take action shots of all of the dancers, FAILED to take any pics of the first 3 solos...and my daughter was #3! The whole thing was just terrible! I will never again put my daughter in a competition run by Pageant Plus and I will NEVER take anyone to get photos at Avante! NEVER! But my daughter's group did do a dance that they learned in 2 weeks and did a really good job at it! So there is a plus!! LOVE my daughters facials! She is in the front to the right in case you missed her! ^

OK...now that I am over my ranting...the rest of my weekend was really good! I finished up the stuff I was making for my mom and grandma and sister for Mother's Day and my mom's Birthday!

Then on Sunday, Jason and the kids made me breakfast which consisted of a Cinnamon, raisin, walnut bread french toast, bacon and hash browns! The kids each made me a card (my favorite!!) and Kaitlyn made me a little gift from school (and bought me a 3 Muskateers...she said she looked for a 100 Grand because she knew it was my favorite, but could not find one so she bought this instead...and this was while I went back to get some pics that I had sent to be developed and then hunted around the store for her for 10 minutes...but how can you be mad really when you could not find her because she was up front BUYING you something for Mother's Day!)

Jason and the kids also got me the mini trampoline I was really wanting! No more sitting down watching the Biggest Loser on Tuesday nights...I will be bouncing away while I watch! :)

Then we took some time to go visit Jason's mom and my family.

My mom's birthday is on the 8th so it is always around Mother's Day! My grandma made a cake, so I made a brownie - cookie flower with fondant roses on it! Yummy!

I also made her these for her bathroom!

She was wanting some beachy pictures so I took some of the ones that I took when we went and stayed on Laguna Beach and added a few shells and a starfish! Love how they turned out!

And for Mother's Day, my mom wanted pics of her babies with their babies...so we had a photo session at my house a few weeks back and this is the end result! (sorry for the glare of lights in the picture of the pictures!)

I wanted to do something similar for my grandma, and this is how hers turned out!

My sister wanted an earring holder like the one I made myself...and I made her one! It was so cute and I FAILED to take a picture of it...so Mel...you need to send me a picture once you get it hung up and earrings in it!! :)

It was a really good day and everyone was so loving and appreciative - my kids all gave me big hugs (and sometimes it is hard to get a 4 year old boy to give you a two armed hug!) and they really showed that they loved me! It makes me feel so lucky to be a mom!!

Thanks...I love you guys!!

My Little Queen

2010-05-04T12:13:00.001-07:00

My daughter had another dance competition this past weekend and did so good, I just have to brag a little more (and a little more I am sure after this coming weekend which is another competition!)

Anyway, she competed against 4 other girls and my little baby won 1st place Queen! I am so proud of her! She is such a great little dancer and I am so impressed that she can get out there at 9 years old, and dance all by herself!

She also danced with her team again and they also took 1st place!! Here is Kaitlyn with the team trophy!

Congratulations Kaitlyn! Mommy is so proud of you!!

Bedroom decorating help!!

2010-04-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

OK, friends...I need some help! My husband and I gave our kids the choice of getting a bedroom makeover for their birthdays this year and they all loved the idea! So we are doing the whole 9 yards - down to the carpets! Anyhow, my will be 15 year old son is not giving me any cool teen boy bedroom ideas! And I am having a hard time deciphering anything cool either! Right now he has a sports themed bedroom, which totally fits him! But it is a little juvenile! I am thinking of either a more hip sports themed room - or something funky and geometric like gray walls with white, black and like bright yellow as accent colors...but I am stuck!

Kylee will be turning 13 and we have her planned out already! She liked black, white and hot pink! I am thinking something like this

with pink walls, silver bed, mirror accents...should be fun!

And my other daughter will be turning 10! She picked out this bedspread

and wants the room decorated around that. She has a metal daybed and has willed me into painting it a bright orange. The other colors in the bedspread are turquoise, hot pink and lime green. She also will be getting my mom's antique vanity, like this one

and we were thinking of painting that hot pink and her dresser turquoise. My problem is with all of that color in the furniture, WHAT do I do on the walls? I hate to just have them boring old white...but I don't want her to not be able to sleep at night because it is lit up like a Christmas tree with all of the color in there either!

So any suggestions, pics that you have found, pics of your own room makeovers, etc would be appreciated!!!

Nephew's Birthday

2010-04-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

This weekend we had my nephew, Brody's 5th birthday party! I cannot believe he is 5 already! That is crazy!! He is such a little basketball player! Always in Jazz gear and ALWAYS shooting hoops!!Here is Bowe getting in on the action!Brody making a shot...and usually makes it!!Nice form Jason! :)The girl's just LOVE Maguire! Kaitlyn loves to take him around in the wagon...And Kylee was taking him for a ride on the scooter!Time for cake! I made it basketball themed of course and used a whipped cream frosting...so yummy, but not the best for perfection...so I had to just put my perfectionist side away for a while and be OK with it! It did turn out pretty good, but it still makes my nerves rattled to see the cake peeking through on the edges! RRrrrr.... :)Make a wish!Brody could not wait to eat the besketball hoop! Everything was edible so eat up buddy!And he really tore up that cake! Must have been yummy!After eating cake, Maguire decided to wrestle with Jason!And Jason let him win!!But Jason did not let Bowe win! Ha ha!!

My Greatest Creation Ever!

2010-04-19T08:05:00.000-07:00

This past weekend, my daughter participated in a dance competition! She entered her solo as well as the team dance. They all did so good and I am so proud of my little dancer! She is absolutely, without a doubt, the greatest thing I have done in my entire life! Here are a few pictures and the video of her solo! Congratulations Kaitlyn!!

Here is Kaitlyn in her solo outfit...all ready to perform!

I made her put her arm around Manny for a picture...does it not look like an awkward first date?

Competition was tough this year, Kaitlyn was bumped up to the intermediate category - but she did really good and took 1st runner up out of the 5 girls she went against! Good job!!

And here she is in her "Spanish Rose" outfit...the team dance!

Her and Nevaeh, her best friend hung out all day! Competitions are even more fun when you share the excitement with your best friend!! Their team did really good! We were all so proud of them! Congratulations Juniors!!

And here is Kaitlyn's solo video! Obviously I am the typical model of a proud mom!! :)

I've Been Featured!

2010-04-15T10:32:00.001-07:00

So the day has finally come in my little blog world...I was featured! :) It is almost silly how something so little means so much to me! Head on over to Women Who Do It All and check it out!!
ALSO...this is now my 93rd post! I am getting so close to my 100th! So I decided, since I am so excited that my little blog is starting to make a name for itself, that I am going to do a giveaway for my friends and followers!

...Stay Tuned!!

Dayspring Giveaway!

2010-04-13T10:47:00.000-07:00

I love giveaways, although I NEVER win! One of these days maybe my luck with turn! And I am really hoping it is with this one! Over at The Nester I learned of DaySpring! You have to go over and take a look. These little wooden signs/quotes are what they call book crops! So cute and so simple! You can even go over to their site and design your very own!

I am in love with the ones with the music on them!!

I designed this frame on their site! I do love all of the book crops, but I am a sucker for picture frames! Head on over and take a look!

Post it Note Tuesday

2010-04-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

Easter 2010!

2010-04-07T10:01:00.001-07:00

This Easter, we did not get the kids for Easter morning...:( Sad! Kaitlyn was going with her dad and Kylee and Bowe have made it kind of a tradition with their mom to go up to the Sand Dunes for the Spring Break! Since the Easter Bunny was not going to make a stop at our childless house, we just got the kiddos some presents before hand!

Here is Kaitlyn in her new tank tops (in her messy room no less...pay no attention!)

She was jamming out to her new Justin Bieber CD that we got her when I popped in and snapped a photo...you can see that look on her face! And she was JAMMIN'!!

Since I was there, she stopped rocking out and sat for some pics!

And her showing off her new heelys! She loves those things! Happy Easter Kaitlyn!

Jason and I decided to drive down to the Dunes for a day to visit with Kylee and Bowe and so they could show off their skills! :) We also got the kids some stuff for the Dunes that they wanted. Kylee got new pants, a jersey and gloves and Bowe got gloves, pants, and boots!

Kylee is rolling backward in this picture...you cannot tell from my zooming in that she is on a hill...and you also cannot hear Rosie (her mom) freaking out because she was rolling backwards! Hillarious!

But she got out of it and headed back down!

Kylee is all matching now in her pink and black gear!

Bowe's friend Tyler and his dad went down with them as well! Which was nice for Bowe!

Rosie and Kylee taking off!

Smile for the camera honey!!

Bowe and Tyler were gonna race up the hill...

Tyler said eat my dust...(Tyler is on the right and Bowe is in the middle) This was Bowe's first year riding a bike rather than a 4-wheeler and he did really good!

Here is Bowe coming down the hill!

Sunday, we went over to Jason's mom's house to watch our 3 nephews do an egg hunt.

Maguire and Tavin were so excited about the eggs and had a hard time putting one down to get a new one!

Tavin kept yelling "ball" and "basketball" each time he would find an egg!

Even Dixie found something for herself! jason's mom has 2 dogs and this bone was one of theirs...way too big for Dixie, but she took it over for a little while!

Brody beat us all out to the backyard and had his basket half full by the time we got out there...so I only got this ONE picture of him finding an easter egg!

Overall, we had fun for Easter. I was glad that I had the party with our kids the week before, it is kind of sad to wake up and have no kids to be all excited to go out and see what the Easter Bunny brought them or search for eggs...but we got to do something special with each of them and they all had a great time!

P.S. yesterday I got a chance to made some new crafts...go to my other blog and check them out!

Blast from the Past Mondays

2010-04-05T13:55:00.001-07:00

OK, so these are not SO Blast from the Past...but the differences in my kids are phenominal to me! I cannot believe how fast they grow up! It amazes me to watch them learn and grow!! These pictures were from 2004.

Kylee was 7 years old! She LOVED that guitar she got for Christmas that year! Kylee is now 12 years old...looks like she is actually about 16! This will be her last year of Elementary School and next year she plans to try out for the Softball, Basketball, and Volleyball team as well as being involved in the drama club!

Bowe was 9 in this picture! So cute in his fleece hood, ready to go snowmobiling with his uncle Jade! Bowe is now 14 years old and in his last year of Jr High! On to 10th grade in HIGH SCHOOL next year...only one short quarter of school away! Yikes! He is a terrific athlete - won MVP in football this year, is a great wrestler, and is just starting the baseball season now...with hopes of aspiring to be a professional baseball player when he is older!

And here is Kaitlyn! She was 4 years old in this picture! She is now 9 years old and is finishing up 3rd grade! She is a beautifully gifted little dancer and will be competing her solo dance in competition in less than 2 weeks!! She loves to please people, clean (other people's houses!), and do math! And I love that she still calls me "mommy"!!
I love all of my kids and being their mom (and step-mom) is one of the most challenging, rewarding, inspiring things that I get to do in my life! I would not trade it for the world!!

Is this what is called Yo Yo dieting...

2010-04-02T11:16:00.000-07:00

I am frustrated to say the least! I have been attempting to lose weight and get back to a healthy weight - seriously - since October of last year. I have cut WAY back on my intake of carbs, sweets, pop, etc...and started spending some time on the treadmill (although I know that is one thing I can still improve upon) anyway...so in doing that I was able to lose 20 lbs! Yeah! That is a start I say to myself...so I keep going with it and what happens from there...NOTHING! I stay there! UGH!

So I have decided to try something a little different to give my body a kick start back into the losing side of things (since I am still overweight by my height standards!) So I decide to try the HCG diet. My friend did it and lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks...my co-workers husband did it and lost 20 lbs in 3 weeks...PERFECT! This is what I need to jump start my weight loss again!

So my husband, my co-worker Becky and I decide to all do it together...morale support and all!

$90 a person for the HCG drops...done

50 calories intake a day for 3 weeks...Meal Plan

Breakfast: black or green tea only sweetened with Stevia

Lunch: 4 oz of lean meat (like chicken, albacore tuna, crab, steak) in a bowl of lettuce, add in some cucumbers, tomatoes, and a homemade vinagrette dressing made with vinager and stevia (not too bad), one fruit (either an apple, an orange, 1/2 red grapefruit, or 6-9 strawberries), and a melba toast

Dinner: Same as lunch, but cannot consist of the same meat

Drink 1/2 gallon to one full gallon of water daily

So really it has not been too bad to stick with the diet for me...sure I crave the mac & cheese that I am fixing for my daughter at night (because she does not like grilled onions and zucchini alone as the side dish!) And all this Easter candy is a little tempting...but I have done it fairly easily since Monday!

Now the premise is that you should lose 1-2 lbs a day.

So my husbands progress has been: 2nd day loss: 4 lbs; 3rd day loss: 2 lbs; 4th day loss: 1 lb=7 lbs down!

Becky's progress has been: 2nd day loss: 2 lbs; 3rd day loss: 2 lbs; 4th day loss: 1 lb=5 lbs down!

My progress: 2nd day loss: 0.2 lbs; 3rd day loss: 3 lbs; 4th day GAIN: 0.8 lbs=2.4 lbs down

SUCK!! And to make matters WORSE...my husband and Becky have both CHEATED! Yesterday, my husband ate 4 estra pickles, a handful of sunflower seeds, a COOKIE and who knows what else! And Becky cheated with a tortilla last night and eggs this morning! And here I sit, following the diet and I not ondid not lose...but I GAINED!

Now I am not one of those 125 lbs women that site and say how fat they are and that they need to lose weight! I am technically, by medical standards, 50 lbs overweight! It is disgusting...embarassing...depressing...not the life I want to live!!

So anyone out there that has suggestions, sympathy, advise, please...let me have it! :)

Today I am doing the HCG diet's official "apple day"...I get 6 apples throughout the day and only enough water to quence my thirst! Supposedly this is supposed to shout to the HCG in my body "Hey buddy, get to work and flush out that fat!!"

Here is hoping that it works!!

April Fools Day!

2010-04-01T13:52:00.000-07:00

Happy April Fools Day Everyone!!

I really really like April Fools Day, I just wish I was more creative and inventive for the day!

Yeah, I know how to create and invent cutsie things...but jokey things are not really me! But I am so envious of those who are sneaky like that!

Like the one who put post it notes all over their co-workers office space...

Or the one who made a Jell-o mold with their co-workers stapler inside...

Or the one who switched all of the keys around on their co-workers keyboard...

Hillarious! My friend Becky, also told me of a co-worker of hers that brought some really yummy looking brownies, all moist with frosting all slathered on top...so yummy looking that your mouth watered looking at them...until you took a BIG OLE BITE OF...sponge! Ha! That cracks me up and I am definitely doing this one next year for my kids! Along with the chocolate covered cotton balls! Can you imagine biting into a ball of cotton...YUCK! But I love it!

I did trick my son into eating a chocolate that was not a chocolate once! It was a little heart shaped Scentsy candle wax sample! It smelled like a raspberry truffle and once he took a bite of it, he dropped it and yelled ** "THAT"S NOT CHOCOLATE!!"

The pranks at my work today consisted of swapped keyboard keys, tape on the computer mouse, tape on the telephone receiver, unplugged mouse and keyboard, tape over water bottle(under lid), shortened height on chair, loud speakers, a ton of overnight bags stuffed in the night drop (yes I work at a bank) with easter grass in them, easter grass in and on top of desks...we had a fun day today!

But I need some good ideas for next year! So I am leaving it up to you all...tell me pranks that you have pulled or have been pulled on you...or stories of pranks! I need new chances to prank my co-workers!

Post it Note Tuesday - Diet Woes

2010-03-30T08:29:00.000-07:00

Here we go...the woes of dieting!!

Go check out Supahmommy for more post it note adventures!

Family Easter Party

2010-03-29T08:38:00.000-07:00

This weekend, I had my family over for some Easter Egg decorating and thought it would also be fun to decorate Easter cupcakes! It turned out to be so much fun! I love having all of my family over! Everyone really loved the cupcake decorating as well! All of my family is so creative! And I also got to hang out with my brother and sister and their little ones! So much fun!

First...when I was taking the pics off of my camera...look what I found! What a HAM!!

OK, here we are at the party! Let's get coloring some eggs!!

Mom is looking really intense on her decorating!

Bowe was on one that day!!

C'mom, Jason give us a little smile!! :)

Beautiful eggs, Kylee!

My brother Jordan, hard at work on his egg....

And whalaa...who needs stinking egg decorations from a kit...just cut out some dude's face off of the newspaper! Perfect!!

For the cupcakes, I decided to make the batter all different Eastery colors!

And here are all of the cupcake decorations...this should be fun!

My sister Melanie made this one with the letter A for her baby, Alexis...we laughed because they kinda looked like purple worms!

My peep had so many eggs under her butt they were falling out, I guess!

The kids love when I let them use my cake decorating tips and bags! Kaitlyn looks so professional!

And here they all are! Beautiful!

Good work everyone!

This was my favorite one that I made! Such a cute little bunny!

Then we had some time to play with the babies! Emilyn is only 4 months old...but she wants to walk SO BAD! While grandma was holding her up, she just kept putting one foot in front of the other and took 9 steps! Silly, you need to sit and crawl first!! :)

Little Alexis getting burped! I wish I got a picture of the front of her shirt, it had a cute little bunny on it! She is getting so big already! I cannot believe she is already a month old!

Emy hates to not be awake for everything - so she only took about a 5 minute nap...but later, she just got too pooped and zonked out while Kyrtin was holding her! What a cutie pie!

I love my family so much and am so glad that they could all come out and decorate eggs and cuppies for Easter! (My brother LOVES the word cuppies so I had to say it!!) Love you all!

p.s. I also did a hamburger birthday cake this weekend - check it out on my other blog...here!!

Blog Header Problems

2010-03-26T15:47:00.001-07:00

So I am really liking the blog template that I picked up today...but I am not loving the blog header! I am not one who knows a ton of stuff about computers...I learn as I go! But my headers that I made before only cover part of the already templated header and it just looks funny! I am also not too sure on the size of my signature. I know that I should use a better program, but when you do these things from work (ssshhhhh...) you cannot just download Picasa or one of those other deals that would probably make my job at this blog beautifying much easier!

So if anyone has any ideas or options for me, I would appreciate any help I could get!! :)

Spring Blocks

2010-03-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to post my new SPRING blocks that I made for my living room! I love them, the colors are perfect! Happy Spring!!

So...full...of...milk...

2010-03-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

Post it Note Tuesday

2010-03-23T15:37:00.001-07:00

My Thoughts for the day!

New Cake

2010-03-18T09:44:00.001-07:00

I have posted my most recent cake on my cake blog...check it out!

A Little touch of Spring!!

2010-03-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

I am so happy that the weather is getting a little warmer every day, and the sun will shine just a little longer each day! I LOVE SPRING! So I wanted to put a few spring touches around my house to get in the springy mood!

I have seen so many cute spring wreaths on the different blogs that I follow, one of which I seen over at Craftaholics Anonymous... and I wanted to make one too! I went to Michaels and they had these amazing huge gerbera daisies on sale at 40% off, so I grabbed a few!

I just plunked a couple remainders in my tall baskets in my living room!

I got this cute little stitchery template from my friends over at Twin Stitchers - there is a slight glare from my camera - but it says "get crackin!"

I changed out my stuffings in my apothecaries that I made from a tutorial I saw over at Shanty 2 Chic. I like the moss and the eggs, but I really want to switch out the flowers, I just don't like them!

I also found this little ceramic bird at Michaels for 50% off - it was adorable and so springy, so I had to get it! It looks so cute on my little cupboard shelves on the side of my kitchen sink!

So cute!

I just love all my blog friends that I follow, they give me so much inspiration!!

Post it note Tuesday

2010-03-09T13:35:00.000-08:00

It has been a little while since I have participated and I have felt shameful because of that! :) But here I am back in the postee business! Airing my dirty laundry and today...my peeves! :) Enjoy!

Bowe's Spring Dance and Grandma's Birthday!

2010-03-08T09:30:00.000-08:00

My grandma turned 76 this past week! So we had a little get together and I made her a cake with her favorite color - BLUE! She loved it!

This past week was also Bowe's spring dance at Jr High! And this was the first dance he has gone to where he actually had a "girlfriend"! So of course, we made them all come over after the dance before they went to a party at a friend's house, so we could take some pictures!!

When they first walked over to have us take some pics, Bowe just stood there with his arms down to his sides...he is so funny! I had to tell him to put his arm around her or something and so he finally did! What a goofball!

Then we had to get some of the group of them! I love how Tyler (boy on right) has one arm around his girlfriend and one arm around Jordan's waist! And it looks like he has a pretty good grip on Jordan! Funny! They are a good group of kids...hopefully they stay that way! High school starts next year....let's cross our fingers!!

I am having a hard time today...

2010-03-04T16:06:00.001-08:00

I am having a little bit of a hard time today, so I thought, well I can always blog about it...maybe getting it out will help me a little! The source of my tough day is my brother mainly. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE him to death! He is such a sweet kid, he has aspirations for his life, he is a good dad, and a loving young person...and then I think WHAT THE HELL AM I SAYING? Now, I DO love him - and at times all of those things are true...but he let's drugs, drinking, selfishness, laziness, etc get in the way of him becoming the person I know is in there and that he can be!

Yes, he does love his daughter - but can you just say I love her and I am a good dad, when you are constantly acting like she is a chore and are ready to pawn her off the first minute someone else walks in the door...or that you don't bathe her and run into the bathroom to take your own bath just as my mom was walking her down the hall to give her a bath...or that you graduated almost 2 years ago and are still mooching off of your mom not bothering to get a job to pay for the things that your daughter needs...which ones of those makes you a good dad???

Yes, he does talk about his plans for the future, about going to a trade school, about getting a job...but it is all talk. When are you going to get off of your butt and actually go out and look for a job - ANY JOB - so you can support yourself and your family. How about not talking about quitting doing drugs...and just quitting them! Mom has paid for rehab twice now and your heart was never in it and you just met people there to sell you more drugs!

I am tired of the lies! I am tired of being told, yeah I was sick of the drugs so I sat mom down and told her what I was doing and asking for help...when the story from mom was that you were acting strange, went to the store (with her debit card) to get some formula and when mom told you to buy a drug test, you miraculously cannot find where you put her card and had to come home...and once she pressured you, you finally cracked and told her!! How about the one when you told me that you got the job with the sewer...when come to find out, you had not even put in a damn application yet! Or how about a couple years ago when I was heart to heart talking to you for several hours about turning your life around and you fed me a bunch of bullshit and once I left I texted you and said "I hope you did not just tell me what you thought I wanted to hear" to which you replied "yeah, I did"!! I cannot trust a word that comes out of your mouth! And I am so saddened by that!

It hurts me to know that you have hit mom, kicked her, thrown gum in her hair, called her the nastiest of names, told her that you wished she would have died when your dad did, or worse, that you wish she had died instead of your dad!! I know that you have been hurt with the death of your dad - but that does not give you the right to be so mean and cruel to mom...the one who is there for you every step of the way, the one who took in your homeless, drop out girlfriend when you got her pregnant, the one who pays for a phone just so she can get a hold of you because she is constant fear that she will lose you too, the one who pays for you to have a roof over your head, a car to drive, food to eat, EVERYTHING even down to your nasty cigarette habit! And you don't even have the courtesy to clean up after yourself. Sitting home day in and say out with no job and no responsibilities and you cannot even do anything around the house! Your daughter is 3 months old...will start scooting and crawling soon enough and what is she going to do? Crawl in the midst of your half eaten cereal bowl, the dirty underwear and towels on the floor and god forbid some drugs that you dropped or forgot that you had!! I am sickened to know that she lives in that! I am disheartened to know that my mom works all day, comes home and is instantly given YOUR daughter because you and Kyrstin are pooped out on being parents and want to go party! I am just distraught about the whole situation!

I do love my brother...but I just wish there was a way that I could open his eyes...but I know that he has to open them himself! I had hoped that Emilyn would have been that eye opener, since she wasn't, what will EVER be??

My new little niece...Alexis!!

2010-03-01T09:48:00.000-08:00

So this past Friday, we welcomed my new little niece into the world! What an experience! Thursday night at 9:00, my brother in law, my mom and me came along for the ride to the hospital with my sister! Isn't she a cute little mom to be!!!

Finally on Friday at around 1:40 pm, little Alexis came to meet her family! She is such a doll! Her little chin kept quivering with her little lamby cry! She was 6 lbs 8 oz and 19 inches long!

Alexis with her grandma! She did NOT like the flashes of light from the cameras!

Such a little sweety!

Kasey and my sister are going to be such wonderful parents! They were both so overjoyed by the birth of their daughter!

Isn't Kasey such a cute daddy! Talking to his little girl...already wrapped around her little finger!

She loved looking around! And was so content!

Mel needed some lip balm!

Mommy and daughter! What a perfect picture! I am so blessed to have been able to be there! It was the most amazing experience! I was very proud of my sister...there were a few complications, but she made it through and it made me so emotional to watch the process!

I love you Mel, Kasey and Alexis and am so grateful to have you as part of my family!!

Valentine's Day Cookies

2010-02-23T12:24:00.000-08:00

For Valentine's Day, I decided to make some sugar cookies and some royal icing and let the kids go to town! They had a blast! The girls cut out the heart shapes, baked them and decorated most of them all by themselves! I put some pink, purple and white royal icing in some decorating bags and they LOVED that!

Here is Kaitlyn holding up one of her creations!

And Kaitlyn's plate of decorated cookies! She did pretty good writing with the bags of icing! I love the "call me" one!

And here is Kylee decorating her batch of cookies! These girls amazed me with their steady hands!

Even Bowe came up and got in on the action! He was holding the bag up so high and just letting the icing drizzle onto the cookies! It was pretty funny to watch!

Here are some of his creations. A steady hand is NOT one of his greatest qualities! :) And I obviously had something on my camera lens! It looks a little blurry on the bottom!

I coulnd't let the kids have all the fun! I made a couple of cookies for Bowe's little girlfriend, Shay. They sit and text ALL DAY - EVERY DAY! So I had to convert the "call me" to a "text me"! And then we put one of Bowe's on the plate as well - do not even think that V'Day one was mine! Ha ha!

The rest of the ones I decorated...

And of course, I had to make one for my lover! :)

Happy Valentine's Day Sweetie! Love ya!!

This weekend...

2010-02-22T11:45:00.000-08:00

This past week or so has been hectic at work with some new projects and a friend leaving the office, so I have not had much time to even get on to view my blogs that I follow, let alone blog about anything on my own blog! :) sadly, at work is when I get online and do my blog stuff, once I get home, I HATE being on the computer! Anyway, so over the past couple of weekends, I have had this inescapable feeling and desire to make stuff! So I have been getting a few things made that I plan to put in my Etsy shop! Yeah! I am so excited! I have not got my Etsy shop all worked out and up yet, a couple more weeks and it will be hopefully, but it is fun getting to make stuff to put on Etsy! I am running out of room to put all of my homemade items in my own home! :)
Anyway, there are more to come, but here are a few sneak peeks...

Tell me what you think...:)

My sissy's baby shower!

2010-02-08T09:15:00.000-08:00

So after months of preparation and days of stress and a lot of money - I was very pleased with the outcome of the baby shower for my sister! Saturday was the big day and not a moment too soon! My poor sissy has preeclampsia and poor thing, swelled little by little the whole time! Hopefully our little Alexis will hold off for a few more weeks since she is not actually due until March 17th!
Anyway, on to the shower!

Here is the table all set up with the Pooh decorations! My sister has love Winnie the Pooh all growing up and is even doing Alexis' room in Winnie the Pooh, so it was natural that we themed the party in pooh! My family are all oddballs and had a blast commenting all day how the presents had "pooh" on them! :)

I made little beehive looking cuppies with little handmade fondant bees on them for all of the guests and a little cake with a sleeping baby being watched over by some little bees for my sissy to take home - Kasey (her hubby) needed some treats too!

For more detail on the bees and the baby - go over to my cake/craft blog!

My mom found some adorable little Pooh decorations online and these little treat boxes to match! I totally get any crafty gene that I may have from her! She made the little candy bar covers welcoming "our little hunny", and she filled the boxes with honey teddy grahams, bit o' honeys and a stick of honey that you can either put on toast or put into a cup of tea! So clever!

This was the basket of prizes for the games!

Here is Christopher Robin's wagon full of drinks for the party guests! I wish I would have taken more pictures! I had a lot of the food themed with tags such as "veggies from Rabbit's garden", "Pooh's honey roasted peanuts", "Tigger's bouncy pouncy cheetos" (which were the twisty cheetos!), "Piglet's ham sandwiches" (I know a little morbid when you think about it, but we also had Piglet's "chicken" salad sandwiches since he is scared of everything!), and "Eeyore's rainclouds" (which were little cups with blue jello and a dollop of whipped cream on top)! They all turned out so cute! But alas - no pics! Sorry!

Here are some more of the decorations. We played a concentration/match game and I made the little papers to cover the answers to look like a patchwork quilt!

As you walk in, there are some Pooh decorations and I decorated Alexis' name for her room which we hung at the top of the stairs (totally my hubby's idea! Good one honey!)

A close up of the name. To see more, go to my cake/craft blog!

For my present to my sissy, I also made a diaper cake and filled it with goodies. We also used this as a game - which I totally was almost lynched over!! The game was this...I left the diaper cake out in PLAIN view for the first HOUR of the shower! So everyone could get a good look at it! It was pointed out by my family members as others arrived to make NOTE of it! Then when we put the game into play, I picked up the diaper cake - held it up, asked everyone if they had seen the cake...to take one last quick look at it...and then as I was walking out of the room with it, I told them that it was part of a game - to write down as many items as they could that were ON the cake display. OMG - you would have thought that my little basket of prizes included a large wad of cash that was to be won...because everyone got all angry, jumpy, irritated, rude, hmmm what other adjectives can I use...PISSED! As I walked back into the room WITHOUT the cake, everyone was telling me they did not get a good enough look, my back was to them, etc, etc...and surprisingly, one of the people sitting CLOSEST to the damn thing was the MOST ANGRY! I said, it was right by you for the first hour of the shower...and I walked out of the room before I got a beat down!! Sheesh people! The person who won got a freaking bottle of lotion and some disolvable bath petals - not a million bucks! Anyway, here are a few views. :)

Here is my Sissy, getting ready to open some presents! Look at that cute belly! Hello Alexis!!

Well, we had a lot of fun, some good food, some cute decorations and Melanie walked out with a LOT of stuff! This picture above is not even the half of it! Plus I really stuffed everything in bags so she could get it all into the truck to go home! Love ya sis! Hope you had fun!

My First Award & My Blog Tribe!

2010-02-08T08:40:00.000-08:00

As I was hard at work this weekend preparing for my sister's baby shower, I received an award from my friend over at A Pocket Full of Buttons!

From reading her blog post, there was a challenge on SITS, it was to create your own Blog Tribe. Your 'tribe" should consist of 5 bloggers that are like your super commenters I guess. The ones that you know as soon as you post they will be there to comment about it. They support you, will laugh with and maybe at you, and will always tell it like it is.

My friend at A Pocket Full of Buttons, also received an award at the same time - The Sunshine Award...to which she combined the two together!

The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blogworld!!The rules for accepting this award are:

* Put the logo on your blog. Pass the award on to 10 bloggers.

* Link the nominees within your post.

* Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on

their blog.

* Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

In combining the two, she chose 7 of her blog friends to be a part of her tribe and to receive the Sunshine Award!

In doing my part, I am going to pass on this award to some of my blog friends - aka: my new blog tribe members!!!

Stephanie @ http://apocketfullofbuttons.blogspot.com/

Meeko @ http://meekothedisgruntledsecretary.blogspot.com/

Meagan @ http://iburtons.blogspot.com/

Melissa @ http://melissasheartandhome.blogspot.com/

Mindi @ http://thehoelleins@blogspot.com

Thanks my friends for all your love, support, and comments! :) I appreciate ya!

Big Baby Bash

2010-02-04T11:29:00.000-08:00

So I just had a niece born at the end of November, another niece on the way in a couple of weeks, a lot of friends who are pregnant, so when I came across this blog - A Daisy in a Rose Garden - and the Big Baby Bash that she was holding...I could not contain my excitement! I felt I needed to sign up and help my pregger loved ones out there! So listen up if you are with child...you need to go to this website and see what it is all about! It will be worth it! There are some amazing products!! Sign up and Good luck!!

If you become a follower of A Daisy in a Rose Garden...please just not that Stepherb referred you!! :) Thanks friends!!

Post it Note Tuesday

2010-02-02T08:31:00.001-08:00

Play Along!

PS...I would love comments from all of my blog friends! Feel free to grab a button and follow my blog! The more friends, the better! :)

My weekend...productive - or broken??

2010-02-01T13:10:00.000-08:00

This past weekend was filled with wrestling, broken bones, crafting, planning, and visiting!
Let's start with Friday. State Wrestling tournament decided to start on Friday at 4 in the afternoon! I had to work until 5 so my husband calls to tell me not to come down, it is cramped, about 100 degrees - to save all my energy for the all day Saturday wrestling.

I get a call around 6:00 p.m. from my hubby saying that Bowe, my step son, has probably broken his ankle, that he heard it pop twice while wrestling and even the trainer said it was too swollen and ugly looking to just wrap and let him wrestle some more. So my hubby says "I will pack up our stuff and call you when we are leaving so you can meet us at the ER".

Here I sit, all ready to go and I get a phone call from hubby informing me that Bowe thinks he is fine and is going to wrestle some more...ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? So swollen and ugly the trainer will not wrap it, but let's see if we can inflict some more damage!! Whatever!

He called me back around 10 saying that he won his last match and they are now going to stop and get something to eat and will be home...ummm...did you forget something...going to the ER to check out the ankle??? "oh, do you think we should?" Ummm, yeah!

So I meet them there and around 12:30 Saturday morning, we leave the ER with a huge, fat ankle, a walking boot, and an x-ray confirming a break!! And what does my step son have to say about it..."man, if I were that kid I beat, I would be embarrassed that I got beat by a cripple"!!

Here is the breakdown of Bowe the past year...August - hernia - surgery...November - broken collar bone - out 6 weeks from sports...January - broken ankle/leg - out 4-6 weeks. Bowe surmized that he is done now because he has had something wrong with the lower body, the mid body and the upper body, so he is done! I think he needs some CALCIUM!! :)

My sister's baby shower is coming up this week so I did a lot for that this weekend too - made some baby headbands, made a diaper cake, made some signs for the shower, made her baby's name sign, made some fondant decorations for the cuppies, and bought a lot of stuff for the shower! I cannot post any pics now - just in case my sissy stops by, I do not want her to see them! It is a surprise!
I also got to visit my mom and my little niece, Emilyn! She is getting too big! Here are some pictures!

Sunday, my hubby and I wanted to make a big family breakfast for the kids - well let's be honest, we made BRUNCH, not BREAKFAST! So we made hashbrowns, eggs, bacon and texas toast sized french toast! So yummy, but SO not on my low carb, low sugar diet! I was worried when I went to weight myself this morning...but come to find out, I had lost 2 more pounds since last Thursday! Yeah!

So a broken, but pretty productive weekend! I cannot wait until my sister's shower this coming weekend! I will have lots of pics to post I am sure!

Blast from the Past Monday

2010-02-01T08:10:00.000-08:00

Here we go...my first Blast from the Past Monday! I found this first picture going through some stacks of photos...and I love it! Nothing better than the Roller Skating birthday party! This had to have been 3rd grade or somewhere about that time! I love how my friend Jennifer is posing off to the right and Megan's stance in the middle back cracks me up! Gotta love the clothes!

Obviously my sister and I thought we were hot shit back in the day! So we would take pictures of ourselves posing for the camera! First me...

Then my sister! Love the side half pony Mel! You ROCK those overalls with the pink belt!

Let me know if you play along! I would love to see some other people's Blast from the Past blogs!!

Blast from the Past Mondays

2010-01-29T14:35:00.000-08:00

I have so many funny pictures and stories (and a few endearing ones too) from my growing up, I thought...every Monday, I will do a Blast from the Past post! Just a little to get to know me! I would love as well to get to know all of you out there! So please feel free to play along! Leave me a comment letting me know you are playing and I will visit you as well! :) So be ready for a good one on Monday! See ya then!

All About MEme Monday...

2010-01-29T14:24:00.001-08:00

I was visiting my fellow bloggers and hae wanted to come up with something fun of my own to do at some point during the week - but I seen this on Supah's blog - and thought I would play along!

with MommyBrain and SupahMommy

I was 16 - fearless - and as always, just out to have some fun! My friend and I in her little red, 2 seater Geo convertible and our other 2 friends in another car. Leaving Chili's we decided to have some run and race back to where we live. So there we are, sitting at the red light - both of our cars at the front of the lanes...revving our engines. Eyes twitching, watching carefully, the light for the traffic headed in the opposite direction...waiting to see it turn yellow...gearing us up to go...and then red - AND WE TAKE OFF - knowing in our minds that their red light means green light for us

hmmm...

did not think about the green arrow for the turning lane! Shit! We all ran that red light! Cutting off the turners

and soon enought, we see the flashing red lights behind us...damn!

Since we were 16 - fearless - and unstoppable - OF COURSE we got out of the ticket!

:)

And you thought YOUR family was weird!

2010-01-28T14:44:00.001-08:00

So I got this email a few weeks back and it made me laugh! AND feel a little better about my own weirdo family - sorry fam! :)
Take a look at these amazing family photos! Hopefully they are not pics of your own families! Sorry if they are - I did not start this one! Ha Ha!

My family did always enjoy a full bushy Christmas tree - but a full BUSH is another thing!

I don't know what is worse...the matching jammies or that dude's pose! So NOT comfy!

Perfect family portrait attire!

I love how this one is all black and white like a professional wedding photo...and um...it does not look like him, but is that my husband in the background? :)

Good use of props!!

I am thinking this is reverse fairtales and maybe that is the evil step-father!

Lovely, naked family past-time!

Why???

It is not enough that the "happy" Easter Bunny looks evil...but why the hell is there a foot lying in the background?? I'm scared!

Again, perfect family portrait attire!

Another fine example of some good props! Are you taking notes future photographers??

Ah, the life...Coors in one hand and breastfeeding your baby in the other whilst sitting in the middle of the freaking cold! Nice!! Next they need to go and all take a bath together!!

OR...maybe watch dad sitting on the blue fur covered pot!!

I don't know about you, but my prom pictures didn't have near the wonderful picture decorations as theirs did!!

Now here is a "normal", good looking family picture! Wait...what the hell...why is there a face smashed in the couch underneath them all???

Post it Note Tuesday

2010-01-26T09:05:00.001-08:00

It is Tuesday yet again - something to make you look forward to the forlorne second day of the work week! We all need a little something to keep us going through the week, right!!

Here we go...

...and I get severe, driving anxiety!

...and I know the person who had to wait for me to slide through the intersection was thinking I was a dumb blonde woman who cannot drive in the snow!

...I thought PMS was only supposed to last for one week out of the month, and I am pretty sure I have been this way more than just one week!

...Pretty Please...

...You would think by cutting a vast majority of the carb and sugar intake, cutting out pop and starting to exercise where there was once no exercise would do the trick...but I ain't seeing a ton of results! Ugh!

Also, please check out my other blog where I blog about the things I make, cakes, cupcakes, cross stitch, etc! Check check check it out!! :)

Queen Bee Jewelry

2010-01-26T08:42:00.000-08:00

I stumbled upon some of the cutest simple jewelry today from one of my blog friends over at Beneath My Heart. Definitely check out the site! Or you can go directly to the Queen Bee!

Take a look at some of the designs she offers!

Aren't they so cute! There are many more to choose from so head on over there and check them out!

Did you know...

2010-01-22T10:40:00.000-08:00

As I was blog surfing my favorite bloggy buddies, I came across my friend Emily's blog. She had gotten an idea from her friend Jalene. The idea is to reveal some little known facts about yourself that others may not know! It is a cute getting to know your friends a little better experience!
So let's give it a try...maybe it will bring me out of my ornery funk today!

DID YOU KNOW...

I started dancing when I was 3? I loved the spotlight! My mom said that first recital while all the other little girls were crying or picking their noses, that I was up there doing every step - all smiles!

I used to take pride in tormenting my little sister? I would scare and tease her all the time! One time she grabbed her blankie, walked out the door and said she was running away and I shut and locked the door behind her...sorry sis!

Once we broke something, we made up instantly? it is funny how the thought of making mom mad always made up come together! :)

I called 911 a couple of times for incidents that happened at our house and dreamed that I would get to be on the show Rescue 911 that William Shatner hosted? Hey something good HAD to come out of the bad situation!

I pooped in our backyard? Hey I was 2 or so and out playing in the backyard...when the neighbors came over and told my mom I was out pooping in the backyard! I wanted to be like our dog I guess!

I was going to audition for American Idol? I had the ppwk all filled out, my songs ready, and then I fell and broke my tail bone a couple days before! Now I am too old! :(

I can twitch my right eye on command? it freaks some people out and I have even been poked in the eye when I did it and it creeped my friend out!

I have "loved" probably close to 50 boys? What can I say, I was always in love with love! If you read my diaries, I loved every one of them! ha ha!

I am glad that I have been divorced? I grew up and realized I can be an independant woman and I did not need a man to make me happy!

My greatest accomplishment is my daughter? Well I am sure anyone who knows me would know that about me! I love her so much and am so proud of her!

I can fold my tongue in half? Now I am not saying that I can roll my tongue like most people can do...I can fold it half way from the front to the back and have it stay there! I have only known 2 other people that have been able to do that - and one of them is my husband!

I love to read? I think my absolute love of reading came when I took AP English in High School! I read approximately 2 books most months of my life!

My favorite all time book is The Count of Monte Cristo? Read it in 10th grade and became infatuated with it! What an awesome story!

I LOVE high heels? I would love to wear 4-5 inch heels all the time if I could!

I abliterated my ankle 4 years ago? Roller skating with the kids is a dangerous sport! My skate stopped and my body kept turning! I shattered 2 bones and dislocated my ankle. It all had to be put back together with screws and metal plates and I could not stop elevating my leg for more than 45 minutes a day for 4 MONTHS! And then had to re-learn how to walk again!

I will never be able to wear the good high heels anymore? I am sure by know you have figured that one out!

I have a constant cankle on my left leg? I hate it! But at least I don't have TWO cankles I guess!

My senior year, my sister and I were best friends? She was in 10th grade and I in 12th and we were inseperable! We had some classes together, ate lunch together, everything!

My ring is not real diamonds? Some people might be disgusted with me - but when you go into a marriage with 3 kids, there are more important things! I LOVE my ring and would not have it any other way! Besides no one ever knows unless I tell them!! It looks real!

I am still scared of my mom? That sounds bad - but it is a mental thing! I have always wanted to make my mom proud of me and am always scared that she will not be!

In 8th grade I hid my report card? I got a 3.4 - NOT ON HONOR ROLL! I was so upset with myself that I hid the report card and told my mom we did not get it yet!

I am NOT a good liar? My mom could tell I was not being true!

I get panic attacks when I drive? It is not always, but if I am fearing being late for an appt or driving in the snow (yeah I live in Utah) then I get them!

One of the things I like about my features are my eyes? I have blue eyes and fairly long eyelashes and I love them!

So this was a little hard and took a while to think of some things! Try it out yourself!!