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It has been along time since I have been here. Just to catch you up there are two little munchins in my life now. Part of the reason I took such a long long long hiatus is my little bundle of terror and joy H.  He is so adorable and mischievous all at the same time. H is now 17 months old and adorable. My little/big girl M is now 4 1/2!!! Holy cow that is old. Well I have been feeling the need to write for a while now. So So much that I will be writing about in the near future. I am just going to jump in today on some catching up.

M is now 4 1/2 and everything in her world is princess princess and more princess. I know every princess and how her hair is done, what color dress, and also what her song is. Every time we do Malias hair I ask her what she wants she tells me by saying what princess. Elsa means one braid in the back, Anna means two french braids, Cinderella means a bun, Brave (Meredith) means curls, and Rapunzel means a wrap french braid to one side.

She is so smart! We have decided to homeschool. I was homeschooled growing up and it seemed like such a natural decision for us. I love every minute that we spend doing school. I plan on writing a  whole post on our love of homeschooling and how we got started! For now just so you know we are homeschooling. I hope you dont think its so weird that you wont keep reading ;) lol.

H is amazing. I did not realize how much a little girl is born a girl and a little boy is a boy! Even as an infant he was a boy. He loves everything boy cars, tools, dirt, and EATING!  While M was a tiny little baby H is built like a football player. He loves to be ruff and tumble but also at the same time he loves to cuddle. Infact I had to take a 20 min break (at 12 am) to cuddle him because he was upset. You will learn more and more about this little guy over the next couple of weeks.

We are also in the middle of building a home! Hopefully we will move in the next couple of weeks. It has been crazy crazy busy!

Well keep looking forward to all of my future posts. I know I have been crazy lazy at this but I am going to start up again so be prepared.

Wreath

So I found this really cute wreath on pintrest  and I decided I had to do it! 

You need 2/3 a yard of heavy weight orange felt 

dress makers pins 

a wreath ( I used a 10" one)

top of a 15 oz can 

if you can find or make a cute spider. (I didn't do this part yet)

1. I used the top of a 15 oz can to trace a bunch of circles on my felt. 

2. You cut the circles out then you fold them in half and then in half again and take your pins and pin it to your wreath 

I think it looks better if you change the direction that you pin your circles.

3. Cover the entire wreath

4. Now I already have something that i can hang my wreaths on but in the tutorial it shows you how to attach a ribbon if needed. 

Here is my end project 

I am on the look for a spider to go on it. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 

Pumpkin

I decided to try and make a paper pumpkin yesterday as my craft. Now most of you don't know but I can not cut things out! I can sew but scrap booking or anything to do with cutting paper in perfect circles, squares, or any shape I am HORRIBLE at it. So here is my attempt at making a paper pumpkin. I hope this inspires all of those who aren't martha stewart to still  have fun and do it anyways!

My sad circles ( I even traced a perfect circle and look at them! lol)

I made 12 circles (I don't think there are 12 in this picture but I did 12)

Then you fold your circles in half and glue them one to another until you have a circle of paper! I cut off the bottom of the circles so that it would stand up straight. 

 To finish I took a piece of green construction paper and twisted it and then glued it to the top. After I took the pictures I cut off the white parts that are showing so it does look a little better now but still it looks like a child did it. THATS OK! not all of us are Martha Stewart but at least I had fun. 

Chocolate Bowls

CHOCOLATE BOWLS!! 

I decided to try to make chocolate bowls last night so we could have ice cream in chocolate bowls for family night. It was easy in theory you blow up ballons and dip them in chocolate. 

Then after the chocolate had dried you pop the ballons and the chocolate bowl is left. Well that did not happen for me (yes I am sharing a failure instead of a tutorial). I only got one bowl to actually leave the ballon. When I popped the ballons in the first batch (yes I had to do 2 batches) The bowls popped with them! lol no more bowls left. So then I did it again and I tried to remove the bowls with out popping the ballons I got one off successfully! (Go me!) So anyway I think it was because my ballons were not the long skinny thin kind so I will try again and let you guys know how it goes. 

My lone survivor 

Just keep trying its fun even when you don't succeed!! 

Oh The Things They Say

Oh the things a 2 year old will say. 

Looking up at me while gripping my legs and grunting, "Mommy your heavy". 

While playing around with the hubs new iphone 4s I asked Siri if I was crazy. From the back seat "YES!"

When she was throwing  a fit I said, "Mommy is done" and she looked at me very stern and said, "M. is DONE!" 

Little M's version of Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. 

Popcorn (clapping hands) POPCORN (just shaking her hands) POPCORN!! (Hands above head). Smells so good (smelling her hands) wasn't really good (shaking her finger at you) POPCORN!!!! 

Happy Monday Everyone hope this made you smile! 

The Flintstones!

 Our family had a Halloween party this weekend and so I got to work on our costumes. I love costumes that tie the whole family together. This year I thought we would be the Flintstones! So off I went to the craft store to purchase the appropriate things to make these costumes. Now I like to look very similar to the characters or themes that I choose. However, I did need to accomplish this while staying modest with everyone :).  So here is my Modest Flintstones! 

1. I bought just some plain t-shirts in the correct color (orange, green, and white), some black felt, some blue pants for little M. (She had nothing blue lol), and the hubby used a blue tie he had in his closet.

(Apparently I only took pictures of little m's stuff and none of the others before the project) 

2. So I started with Pebbles. Little M. is really small and I didn't want to buy a nice shirt just to cut it up. So I bought a shirt from the craft store and just raised the hem and cut off the sleeves. Then I took my felt and cut it into little triangles. 

Then I placed the triangles where I wanted on the shirt and pined them. 

Finally I sewed all of the individual triangles on to the shirt. 

(I cut the sleeves of the shirt after I took all the pictures)

Then I took a piece of cardboard and cut out the shape of a bone. I cover this bone in white paper and then hot glued a hair clip to the back. 

3. Then I moved onto Fred Flintstone. 

I cut up the bigger triangles for this costume and did the same procedure as I did with pebbles. At the end I took the bottom of the shirt and cut it up. 

4. Then I moved on to Wilma. I actually Didn't take pictures of Wilma because I finished wilma like 3 minutes before we left for the party lol. I just took the bottom of a white shirt and cut it up, wore pearls, and my hair in a bun. 

And here is the final look! 

New Button

I successfully made my own button for my blog today! I feel very accomplished. I can't take all the credit well none of it really. I used a really super easy tutorial over at oikology101. Since she was so nice to teach me how to do it I thought I would share her tutorial with everyone!
Here is her button so you can jump right on over to her awesome blog. Also here is a direct link to the post about how to make your own button!


How To Make Your Own Button


Also please grab my button!