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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

First of the Month Phone Dump :)

Now that there are two little men in my life I keep forgetting things. The most important being my camera!!! So I have been taking a lot more cell phone pics; I mean really how did we survive before cell phone cameras :) In an effort to get the pictures downloaded and organized I thought that on the first of every month I could download my pictures and share them here on blogland!! So get ready for a whole bunch of pictures.

awesome sugar cookie nativity made by my cousin

Playing with toys from santa

At the Park

 coloring with daddy

 Fancy new hair cut from my sister :)

more park time!!


around the house


 mommy got new shoes :)


 playing with cousins at the mall playground



 Sharing toys :)

more around the house


Playing on the park while Daddy plays football with Uncles



Watching a show

Getting a tan :)

Auntie Erin is going to kill me for sharing her bad hair day, but isn't she so sweet to hold my fussy baby :)

Daddy's first time giving both the boys a bath

more around the house


being bribed with brownies at Auntie Michelle's house

out for a walk

 more time with Auntie Erin

shopping with daddy

 ... yes more around the house

at the park so daddy can play football again!



Lazy day watching "Pooh"

just because :)

Pinterest Love - Ikea Spice Racks and Menu Frames


I'm back for another week of 


I really like that I am finally getting projects done and not just admiring other peoples work :)

My first project has been in the works for awhile. We tried hanging them several different ways, but Our Little Man Cub in very inventive and managed to pull these awesome spice racks off the wall 3 times! 



That's right these awesome book shelves are spice racks from Ikea! They are exactly what I was looking for to finish off the boys room. I would suggest if you have adventuresome boys like mine to use molly's (I think that's right!), otherwise you will destroy your drywall with bookshelves being pulled off :)

My second project was to help my mom out! She pinned this cute framed menu board and wanted to know if I could help out. Well, I knew this was a job for my Creative Memories Digital Scrapbooking program :) I quickly put together 5 different options ...

 

 

and the winner was .......


If any of you would like a full resolution image of the menu boards just leave me your email and I'll send it your way!!!




Thursday, January 26, 2012

Pinterest Love - Card Books

I found this wonderful idea via my Mom!!! I have saved every last Christmas Card I have received since DH and I got married and I wanted a cute way to display them, but not spend hours making something.



These books are perfect!! They are simple and adorable :) I changed them up a little; instead of using rings I used ties and I added some fibers and yarn to make them look fancier. Now I will pack them away in the Christmas decoration box and display them proudly every year!


Saturday, January 7, 2012

Introducing ....

Hello Blog Land! It is time for me to introduce the newest addition to our little story!! As I mentioned in my previous post on Nov. 17th at around 1:00pm we welcomed our 2nd son :) he weighed in at a health 8lbs 15oz with a full head of hair!! So here he is

OUR CHUNKY MONKEY


Getting some big brother love :)



and of course some cuddles from mommy!


Friday, December 30, 2011

The Year is Over!!!

Oh my!! I can't believe the year is over. I feel a little like it went by way to fast; 2011 just started, I had big plans, I'm not ready to make new plans!

So many wonderful things happened this year that I thought a list would help me feel a little more accomplished :)

1. We were all in my Sister's wedding. Getting all of us ready was a little stressful, but it was so special getting to be a part of her big day!



2. We took Our Little Man Cub to the snow. He had never seen the snow, so when DH's friend invited us to come visit him and see the snow we said "yes" :)



3. We found out we were expecting Little Man Cub #2!!



4. Went on our first family vacation! we took Our Little Man Cub to San Diego and visited the Zoo and Sea World. The zoo was a little bit of a flop for him (picture us pointing to animals that are far away and our two year old looking at us like we have rocks for brains), but Sea World was a huge hit (visiting the penguins took a whole hour and he is still sleeping with the penguin doll!!)!



5. My youngest brother made his 1st communion. It was such a special day and he was so excited!! It is so wonderful that our Little Man Cub has such wonderful Uncles that value their faith to look up to :)



6. We celebrated Our Little Man Cub's 2nd birthday. I can't believe he is two!! We decided that his birthday was such a hit last year that we would just do a repeat. So we invited everyone we could think of to join us at the beach. I have to say the Our Little Man Cub ran himself ragged!! He had a wonderful time!



7. We moved ... thats right it was our first move since we got married. But with the impending arrival of Little Man Cub #2 we decided that we should have more than one bedroom. It was so fun getting to put together a room just for our Little Man Cubs!



8. Our Little Man Cub #2 made his arrival!!! Little Man Cub #1 is absolutely in love with his little brother; he is constantly trying to hug and kiss him and if I let him he would squeeze the stuffing out of "his baby"



I was looking at my post from last New Years and I have to say that I don't think I did anything on my list :(  Oh well, I have been pretty busy! I have big plans for 2012 though :)

1. get a meal plan ... nothing fancy. I made 4 weekly meal plans with master grocery shopping sheets. I am going to rotate those 4 menu and not worry about coming up with anything new. I have two babies I don't have to be a fancy cook, there just needs to be food on the table!

2. continue improving my chore sheet. This past year I have gotten really good at my cleaning schedule; I would like to continue that and get it all in writing so that as my Little Man Cubs get older they can help out.

3. 40 bags in 40 days, well not exactly that, but a version of it. I am going to make a list of 50 hot spots/projects around my house and tackle one each week and by the end of the year my house will be super organized :)

4. go for walks. While I was pregnant I went for a walk everyday no matter what!! sadly during the last 4 weeks I was told to stop walking :( and I have had a hard time getting back into the habit again. But I need to just get on top of it and go walking no mater what!! Everyday, for 30-45 minutes, rain or shine, I need to put the Little Man Cubs in the stroller and get out of the house.

5. make time for family. DH has been working so hard that we tend to forget to schedule time for our little family. I want to try and plan one day all to ourselves every month. That's right just one day; one day for our little family to hang out at home or go for a day trip, it doesn't really matter as long as we are together!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

cell phone sharing #3


mommy bought me a huge dounut!!!