So, iTunes is giving away for FREE 20 holiday songs this week only. And these are good songs performed by popular artists. Click here to download this Sampler Holiday album for free. What a nice gift from Apple. (I would insert a mean comment about PC right here, but it is the holidays :-)
My favorite thing this time of year are all the different versions of peppermint bark you can find in the store. Here are just a few I have tried and here are my favorites in order of best to worst.
Costco Peppermint Bark - five stars
ghirardelli peppermint bark squares - four stars
Andes Peppermint Crunch Mints - three stars
M&M mints - two stars
junior mints peppermint crunch - 2 stars
I haven't tried William and Sonoma's version, but i hear it is very, very good! So, I need to get out there and try some.
And while I am on the subject, I came across Peppermint Bark Brownies! I love it. I am making these for sure. Just take your own favorite brownie recipe or mix and melt white chocolate chips and spread over the top of the baked and cooled brownies and then sprinkle with crushed candy canes. I can taste it now!
Around 5-6 months, I take pictures of my kids on their tummies. I have done it with all of them so far and here are jakey's photos. I love tummy time photos.... they make me so happy!
Not much to report these days. I can barely keep my head afloat. But here are a few pictures of the kiddos. Just because!
Sorry for the lack of posts these days. Between traveling for thanksgiving, coming home and getting ready for Christmas, i am overwhelmed. I love this time of year, but until I get the decorations up, laundry done, house clean, tree decorated, cookies made and all the gifts made... other things fall off to the wayside. But at least I will have lots to share after the holidays! So, stay tuned! And I hope each of you are having a great holiday season!
We headed to DIsneyland last weekend to check out the opening weekend of Christmas decorations. It was great. Nice weather, low crowds and christmas spirit along with the Disney spirit... what could be better.
Some highlights of the trip:
We walked Sleeping Beauty's castle and the girls loved it. We have never walked through the castle and this trip it was all Hannah talked about and they probably walked through 3-4 times.
One of the best parts was during the fireworks, Ella held up here stuffed duckie to make sure he could see the fireworks (like she was being held up) on shoulders. She said "here duckie, fireworks" and you could tell she was very concerned duckie could see the fireworks show. How cute is that?
We saw the evil Queen from Snow White and Hannah has very concerned about being near here and wouldn't let me get a picture of her with the Queen. She had a bad dream about the queen many months ago and she is still traumatized about the dream and does not like the Queen.
It was fun, the whole Alice in Wonderland crew was out in Fantasyland interacting with the crowds and Hannah got picked to play charades. She was supposed to act out Pixie. She did her best and most was just awe-struck to be "playing" with Alice, the Mad Hatter and Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum.
So many fun items out there right now and with Christmas coming up soon, i thought I would put my wish list up on my blog (mostly to help my hubby as he looks here for christmas gift ideas) and maybe a few for familly (if they need help)... And fun ideas for all you out there. So here you go:
Rachel Ray Bubble and Brown Dishes
Department 56 Kringles High Heels Cake Stand
Cuisanart Food Processor
Eddie Bauer pajamas
Colorblock Waffle Henley from Eddie Bauer
Ruffle Neck Sweater
These old fashion hooks
Cricut Tool Kit
Martha Stewart 24 pack of Glitter (I believe you can get it at Walmart for $20 or so)
CameraBag for my iphone and my mac
Market Tote PDF
Vidalia Onion Chopper
Sure Cuts A-lot
As you know, this month's visiting teaching message was "sister's choice". I chose the talk Preserving the Heart’s Mighty Change by Elder Dale G. Renlund. And this is the little gift I gave my friends. I loved this talk because we can all strive to preserve our heart's mighty change whether it is big changes like repenting major sins or even the smaller effort to commit more and be more obedient to the small commandments.
Here are the tags if you want to use them. Enjoy.
For Activity Days this week, I decided we were going to GIVE THANKS. I took advantage of Oriental Trading Company's thanksgiving crafts and set the girls loose. The night consisted of the following:
1) decorating a small little booklet (with fall leaves from my cricut machine). The booklet is to be their Thanksgiving Journal. Each day this month, they are supposed to write one thing they are thankful for and why. It is to help them remember to be thanksful.
2) From OTC, I bought a "foam kit" door hanger. They are kits that the girls will put together that say "give thanks" and they can put them on their doors to help them remember to give thanks during prayers and to write in their journals.
3) OTC has these accordion cards that spell out "thanks". The girls are going to decorate the cards and think of one person they want to say thank you to. They will write on the cards and send that person the card telling them why they are thankful for them.
This activity is obviously centered on being thankful and very artsy-crafty. It should keep the girls plenty busy.
I also included the quote about thankfulness that they girls will receive to put in their binders.
So, the hectic gift making season is upon me. I have started about 4 projects so that I can have them ready by Christmas. I am not sure if i have overdone it as for as my capacity to get it all done, but only time will tell. So, the blog might be sketchy the next two months as I work on my projects, but in the end I will have lots to share.
In the meantime, check out this simple yet pretty advent calendar. I love advent calendars and this one goes on my list as a favorite.
I seriously have to make one of these. They are just too cute and my girls would love, I mean love it! I don't know when i will find the time, but I think after seeing this one, I am going to have to sit my bottom down and get cracking. Isn't it so cute! I love her garden, such a cute idea.
Click here to see the whole house. It is amazing.
And here are a few more cute images of Table tent Playhouses
Playhouse 1
Playhouse 2 You can buy these.
Playhouse 3 A good tutorial on how to make one.
Playhouse 4 more tips on how to make one.
I had my old blog design up for a long time, so I thought it was time for a change. In time for fall (I should say in time for fall here). It's all new and hopefully improved. Hope you enjoy!
Is there anyone out there that knows Illustrator that would allow me to ask you some questions. I am at a lose and have searched the web for answers for hours and haven't found any answers. Please let me know.
thanks so much!
I am asked quite often how much for a logo that has already been created, but not used. So, I thought I would have a Simple Seconds Logo sale. Here are a variety of logos that if you are interested can be yours for $70. If you are interested, contact me and any one of these logos can be yours!
The purchase comes with color change and name change. Dig In!
What a fun halloween.
The girls loved everything about it. From the ward halloween party to the carving jack-0-lanterns to decorate for our party to of course the mounds of candy they collecting trick or treating.
It started with a super fun ward Halloween party where ella won "cutest costume". We had fun carving pumpkins. Hannah designed her pumpkin face and worked hard with dad to get it carved. Ella played Bingo by herself in the other room.
On Halloween, we had a soccer game in the morning. Then we had friends over for a little halloween dinner. We had fun going out with friends hitting the neighborhood with our adorable crew. The kids did great. Hannah could have gone all night, but her costume started to malfunction and other kids were getting tired, so it ended just in time. Ella about half way through, just wanted to eat her lollipop and ride in the stroller. She was as content as can be at that point.
It was a blast and the costumes were a hit. Hannah's costume I made and I loved how it turned out. It is a cross between a costume I saw in a magazine and the pottery barn cupcake costume. My favorite part is the strawberry I made for the top of her head. All in all, it was a great halloween!
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