Okay, not really. We just give them out. I am in charge of birthday's for our church's primary (for kids 4-11 yrs old). We decided last year to give them a coupon which allowed them to get a treat from our bishop and a hand shake on their birthday. Here is the coupon each child gets. Pretty simple, it could be used for almost anything. Thought I would share.
In this outfit. Hannah now has to have on her princess outfit when we go for walks. Tiara and wand and all. It is pretty cute though and luckily when people drive by the give me that look of "ahh, I've been there). So, here are a few pics from the other day. (I played around with photoshop on each one - so they are all slightly different).
I found this great visually stunning online magazine about everything SMALL (mostly kids stuff). It is a fun little artistic magainze with little nuggets of goodies. Like the sundress in the picture above. It includes the pattern on page 61. I am definitely making it when my fabric arrives. I just bought this great vintage material off of ebay and it will be perfect for this dress. I love when you find things like this online, so I had to share.
I was searching the web and came across this old-timer
Snoopy Sno Cone Machine . It brought back a wave of memories of my sisters and I trying with all our might to produce one snow-cone to eat. But when we had enough "sno" oh, how good it tasted! This little machine was a huge part of my childhood growing up and it is good to see an old friend :-)
I was in Michael's yesterday and saw this book The Best Bake Sale Ever Cookbook. My daughters weren't allowing me to browse, so I just saw the cover and thought to myself... I think I would like that book. Well, I found pictures of it online and now I KNOW I want that book. I love baking. But it is also ALL ABOUT THE PRESENTATION! This book has that too. Can't wait to go back to Michaels to get it.
This time it is my siblings I am referring to. After the photo clean-up. I had to post my most favorite pictures of my siblings. Every time i see these photos - a smile comes to my face. I love them mostly because they remind me of the good times I always have with my siblings. Love you guys!
It is birthday time in our household. My daughter's bday is coming up and here are the invites to the shin-dig. They were printed on magnetic paper, so her friend's can put them on the fridge as a reminder of the big day. They turned out better than I thought... now for the rest of the party.
As you can tell, we are having a Curious George themed party... messes and all.
I have about 5 shoe boxes full of pictures from high school to about 2004 (everything else after 2004 is digital). So, many photos! Many of them I don't even know why I kept. Either I don't know who is in the picture or you can't see anything because they are so dark, etc. So, I have been spring cleaning my pictures and putting them in photo albums (the ones that matter). Well, this has caused me to reminisce about my past life. Mostly family trips (since that is a huge portion of my pictures). Here are (what I like to think) great photos of just some of the places we have been.
This is from back in October. The shadows aren't great on their faces, but I love the picture of the two of them and it looks so summery, even though it is fall. Enjoy!
I love when people make cheap, easy things look expensive. I highlighted Matthew Mead site a few weeks ago, but I discovered this great cake on his site. It is quite easy and cheap to make, but you would never guess it.
Fancy French Fruit and Cookie Cake
YOU WILL NEED:
Yellow cake mix, prepared in two 8 inch rounds
Fancy Pirouline Cookies (2 boxes)
Fresh raspberries, strawberries, blueberries (2 cups total)
Fresh purple grapes (3 small clusters)
3/4 inch gross grain ribbon (12 inches)
1 container prepared frosting, vanilla
2 cups Bird's custard mix, prepared
Place cake round on cake stand and top with 1 cup custard mix... top with second layer. Frost sides of the cake with prepared icing. Press cookies into the icing to surround enitre cake and tie with ribbon. Cover the top of the cake with custard and arrange fruit. Serve cake immediately and store remaining cake in the refrigerator.
Okay, if you love cute fabric like I do, then you are going to love this guy. Michael Miller Fabric has some of the cutest fabrics out there. Everything from romantic to retro and geometric to playful. I love his stuff, so it is time I make somethings using his fabric.... I just have to! i will show you when i get it done, it could take awhile, since I have to find the time and what I will be making (well, I will be making it up). But if I complete it and it looks good you will see a lot of them on my little girls.
Psst... search his name on ebay and you can get fabric super cheap!
We came across these interesting wind "chimes'. Well, they aren't really chimes. They just spin in the wind. They were pretty cool though and they had hannah mesmerized. I thought it made a cool picture. So, here you go.
Last of the Easter festivity pictures. Here is Hannah decorating eggs for the first time. She loved it as she put eggs in every color of dye she could find. It was a success for all involved.
My sister found this great site and I had to share with those that visit my blog. Dresses that are adorable and modest. Check out their mission for fashion Shabby Apple and then check out their clothes.
Honey, take note. This dress would be a great Mother's Day gift! oh, and don't forget the black dangling earrings :-)
At the carnival this weekend, hananh rode her first pony. His name was KitKat. She was very excited about it and doing well, until KitKat sneezed. That made her nervous, but eventually she relaxed and had a blast. She was telling her Nana about the experience and told her that she rode a horse and a unicorn. That is because KitKat was white.
Also, the other night for Family Home Evening, we were reading an illustrated Book of Mormon. We were reading about Lehi's Dream and she said "the people in the building are laughing at me". The crazy thing is, I dont' think we have read that story for months. But she remember the people laughing.
Another funny saying. Hannah woke up the other day and started walking around the house saying "Gosh dangit". Over and over again and with gusto. I told her, we probably didn't need to say that and then realized I must say that quite often, if she chose to repeat that particular saying.
Last story. The other night Hannah and I were playing Hi-Ho Cherrios. We had to play on my lap, because i was holding Ella too. Hannah starting climbing all over me, so I shoved her off (not too hard). She quickly said "mommy, don't push me like that. I was only playing the game." She was right, I shouldn't have shoved her off. I apologized and was reminded my little girl is growing up.
The town over from us (Clovis) has a yearly event called Big Hat Days. They turn the town center into a big carnival/festival. With rides, food and booths. We went and had a great day. Hannah had so much fun on the carnival rides and the bounce house. So, here is alittle something to capture the day. The funny thing about this event - not many big hats, go figure.
I came across this on another blog and I fell in love with it. I wish I had some place in my house to put it, but unfortunatly I don't. Someday, I will have this in my home (mark my words), since, we are all about family. Check out the website Wonderful Graffiti , there are tons of great ideas.
This is why I don't do traditional scrapbooking. I started this project a year ago and just finished it last week. It consists of 12 very small pages that I didn't have to decorate. I only had to cut out a picture to fit the page. So, imagine if I had to do a whole album or just a few pages... I would be in some serious hurt. But I like how it turned out and it chronicles Hannah's life month by month during 2006. So, for all you non-scrapbookers out there... here is a simple and somewhat easy idea.
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