My weekend!

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!

Valentine's Day!

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

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

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!! :)

Ikea fun!

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!! :)