Finish it Friday: Spring Blocks Edition

I think I set a new record for myself of not posting in FOREVER.  I don't have a reason either...just not much to blog about. :) Let's see a few things going on lately...

I hosted craft night at my house last night.  It was a blast- good friends, no kids, chocolate chip cookies, talking, laughing, and crafting until all hours of the night, it doesn't get much better than that. Here's what we did:

Now let me explain the title of this post, I saw these cute spring blocks on a blog a year ago and I wanted to make them so I got all the paper and embellishments together and got everything ready to go...except for the wood.  I asked my husband at least a hundred times (bless his heart) to cut the wood for me.  Well spring turned into summer and I figured I don't need spring blocks now that it's summer, so there the paper sat.  One YEAR later  I decided to put together a craft night and finally finish my Spring blocks.  So as a punishment ;) for not cutting my wood last year my sweet hubby had to cut my wood x 10 :) which he did promptly and without complaint might I add.

 I had seen these little cuties popping up all over blogland and I thought they would be the perfect "waiting for the mod podge to dry craft" and they were, love the way they turned out!

A couple of months ago we got this huge ball at Costco.  It's fun for the boys they can climb inside and roll each other around, it was a great middle of the winter toy for all but one.  Joslyn was petrified of it, whenever we would go within 10 feet of the thing she would cling to me and whimper.  Alot has changed since then.

 Love the hair sis!!

Look what's coming...

Last fall I planted almost 100 bulbs of all sorts, now I'm starting to see the fruits of my labors-- YAY! I love tulips.

Last weekend we took the kids up to Idaho Falls for a cousins sleepover at Casey and Kristy's.   It was a blast!! The kids had a blast downstairs playing and watching movies.

Sea of Kids :)

The mom's and dad's were in stitches upstairs playing wacky (and I mean wacky) games! Woke up the next morning to yummy breakfast.



Cutest little girlies.



Professional Pancake Maker.



Professional pancake eater.

Then drove up to Green Canyon Hot Springs for some swimming.



Thanks Casey and Kristy for a great time--we can't wait to do it again. Oh and thanks for letting me steal these pics off your blog since I forgot my camera. ♥

Finish it Friday: Job Chart Edition

There is nothing Halloween or fall about this post.  But I finally finished up a few projects that have been on my list for...well never mind.

First up: Cute job chart.

I have been wanting/needing to make a job chart for the kids for some time now, I just had to find the right one that would work for us. Enter a cute piece of scrapbook paper, a few embellishments, a list of jobs printed on the computer and a 12x12 frame. So Easy!! When they finish a job they get to cross it off with a dry erase marker.  We tried it out for the first time this morning and they were actually excited about doing their chores so they could cross them off.  Wahoo!!

Here's a close up.


Next up: Uhhh, I guess I'll call em framed initial wall art.  I bought these chipboard letters {{ahem}} 2 years ago, and I finally got around to doing something with them.  Found some cute scrapbook paper, traced the letter and glued it on, distressed the edges, spruced it up with some ribbon and wah-lah! ♥LoVe♥ the way they turned out!!

The J was long and skinny so it had to be put in a 12x12 frame (luckily the 12x12 frames were 40% off at Michaels, because I had to buy three of them!) Another note: This frame is the same frame as the job chart frame, I just spray painted it to go in a girly room. :)

The 8x10s are cheapos from Walmart, but they look pretty good.

Another note: The job chart is under glass (of course) and I threw away the glass for the framed letters since they are more 3D.

I am linking up to these fun parties:

Just a Girl's Show and Share Day
Under The Table and Dreaming's Sunday Showcase
The Shabby Nest's Frugal Friday
Organize and Decorate Everything's We're Organized Wednesday

♥

We're Spicing It Up...

We have always had boring bedding, cream  colored sheets and a cream colored bedspread blanket.  That is the current situation.  I would love to have one of those lovely things from Potterybarn but our "bedspread" just gets used too much. Spit-up on by a baby, snot wiped on it by a two year old and so on.  So a "lovely thing" is just not in the cards right now-at least not until the kids get older.   I was inspired by someone in blogland, I think it was How Does She, I looked every where and couldn't find the post though. I was inspired because this person had a plain colored bedspread and had made pillowcases out of fun fabric.  I can do that I thought.  So I took myself to the fabric store and bought some wild fun fabric and conned my mother into helping me sew them.  We had fun.  So here they are:

I didn't know if I could step out on a limb that far with that red floral print but I'm glad I did.  When I grow up maybe I'll get some bedroom furniture. ;)

Well yesterday we visited the Dr for the well baby check and immunizations :( Joslyn is doing great.  She weighed 12 lbs and 15  oz 95% for weight 23 inches long 75% for height.

(2 months and 3 weeks old)

I don't remember Hudson's exact numbers because it is kind of a circus trying to get a two year old to cooperate at the Dr's office.  But he was in the 90% for weight and 75% for height.

They both got shots which I will never do again because which one do you comfort??? :( I was so sad for my babies.

I have been having some major pain in my wrist and down my thumb.  This has been going on for months (since about the last 3 months of my pregnancy) I finally decided to ask the Dr about it since it is now affecting my every day life (it hurts to write.) So he tucked my thumb and did this and that, and bent my wrist just so and I went through the roof.  He said, "yeah that's what I thought you'd do." So I have tendenitis and he gave me a shot of cortizone. :( It is starting to feel better already.  So thanks to my sweet hubby for taking care of dinner last night because my wrist hurt and all I wanted to do was hold my baby.

Here is Hudson with his CONSTANT companion: Lightning McQueen.

Don't think I am kidding when I say CONSTANT.

Hey I finally got with the program and updated my editor, WOW!!

Are You Feeling Crafty??

I am. Go check these out. Cute no. I am going to make some if anyone wants to join me, I can cut the wood and the letters. Let me know.

Valentine Topiaries

Yesterday was a great day, and a first for Joslyn. She sat in the beauty chair...on my lap while I got my hair cut. I don't even remember the last time I got my hair cut, aaahhh! It feels good. After that I went and spent my b-day money at my favorite store, see that cute table runner? Then I came home and finished these cute topiaries. I found this fun idea on The Idea Room I couldn't believe how many felt circles it took to make these babies, WOW! I guess I should have believed them because I had to go back to the store for more felt and I still didn't have enough! So how do I have time to do all this with a new baby you ask? Well Braiden and Brody helped, they were actually very eager to help, it was a fun little project to do together. Braiden couldn't believe that even with the mountain of felt circles, we still had bare spots. (I decided that they were OK because they are on the bottom and gives them a flat place to sit on the candlesticks.) Love em!

We're Here...The Baby is NOT :(

We are ready to meet our baby girl, maybe she is not ready to meet us!?!?

Doesn't she want to be wrapped up in this gorgeous quilt from grandma?




Or spit up on these cute burp rags?




I would if I were her {wink wink}

We shall see what tomorrow brings.

Fabric Flower Fever

I have been feeling very crafty lately, I think it is my form of nesting this time around. Here's what I've been up to:

I came across this little cutie on ETSY:



I bought it having every intention of taking it apart and trying to figure out how it was made. But when I got it, it was too perfect and too cute to take apart...Soooo. On to plan B. I got on Tip Junkie and searched "fabric flowers" and found a tutorial for THIS little cutie:


It is not the same, but just as cute I think.

Soooooo:



I made a few to match some of baby girls' outfits. Fun!

I had to change this:


To this:


Love It!!!

We did this muffin tin advent calendar and "believe" sign at our ward Super Saturday:




And I saw some cute little clothes pin magnets online somewhere soooo:



I spray-painted mine black before I mod-podged the paper on. Around here with all of the art work coming in I can never have too many magnets. Love em!

Stay tuned cute burp rags coming up.

We had a great Thanksgiving- we got two dinners lucky us. I was fun to see family and hang out. My two SILs and I were going to go to New Moon on Wed night but it was sold out, I was so BUMMED! So if any one still wants to go... ;) Hope you all had a very Happy and Yummy Thanksgiving.

Spoooooky!

Here is the finished "tree" I like the way it turned out, and I think the little "ornaments" match the table runner quite nicely. :) Since we don't have any trees yet I had to go out to my mom's and hunt for the perfect branch, I think we found it.
Now how am I going to store this spooky creation??? Ugh!

Bows!

The other day my cousin taught me how to make these cute bows. They are so fun!!
It is very strange doing this kind of stuff after three boys, but it is very fun.




Oh and we're just getting started ;) I can see how you can get carried away making these things, I just love the one that is all curly-Q s.


Conversations with Hudson:

H: Uh Dada? (where's Dada?)
M: Working
H: Why?
M: Cause
H: Cause

This one happens daily, sometimes even multiple times a day, he is such a daddy's boy.


The other night it was getting close to dinner time, Hudson brought me a pan out of the cupboard...

"Mommy, soup pleeease."
apparently I was starving the poor kid. ;)

On Sunday we celebrated Nate's b-day I made a german chocolate cake, and we went up to Albion, Kurt and Terril made dinner-Kurt style, with every type of meat available-(well almost.) Chicken, steak, pork and sausage, I was so stuffed I didn't even enjoy eating the cake, but I did the next day and the next and the next.... It was a good B-day for him. And he is so thoughtful he bought himself a b-day present we all can enjoy ;)

Feeling Crafty!

Sunday morning we woke up to Braiden and Brody running into our room and yelling, "it's snowing, it's snowing!" Of course I had to get up and see for myself...sure enough. Then Brody asked, "Mom is tomorrow Christmas?" (he he) It snowed all morning and into the afternoon but it was gone by Monday night. Thank goodness! I wasn't ready for snow, it seemed like it went from very nice autumn-summerish days to winter literally overnight! Well that put me in a very crafty mood. So I've been having a little bit of fun.



I made these for the boys' teachers. We NEED hand sanitizer these days in the worst way, so why not make it cute!?!

One of the reasons I love to blog so much is because there are so many creative people out there and they inspire me. All of this stuff I found on other blogs and I did not come up with any of these ideas myself (I'm a good copier)

Some Halloween decorations




I loved that scrapbook paper so much I wanted to frame it. ;) But I thought: "you can't just frame scrapbook paper." So... I added BOO letters and ribbon and that made it legal. :)

This project is not quite finished. I still need to get more ribbon, a leafless tree branch and some black spray paint, I will try to post a picture of the finished project later.

Cute little "Ornaments" for the "tree":



And last but not least my mom, my SIL and I made these nifty card holder-birthday reminder books.




At the beginning of the year write all the birthdays of family and friends on the calendar and put the cards in the appropriate slots, then you have to remember to send them out. Oh if only I were that good. (maybe this book will help me be better.)

Now I need to focus my crafty attention to figuring out primary singing time for Sunday. ;)

I love this time of year when we can finally switch the fireplace on and get cozy by the fire. When you can eat yummy soup for dinner. I love walking outside and smelling the wood burning stoves. The first night that it really got cold everyone around must have fired up their stoves, mmm I love that smell. Oh and I cannot forget potato harvest, on Friday the kids and all their cousins were out of school so we went out to my parents house and played. Of course the kids ran down to the cellar to check out the potato action there. Hudson was enthralled with the "truck"s and "cractors" (tractors) and would have been happy sitting back and watching all day. Now he is OBSESSED with "cractors"

With the coming of colder weather means a change in the wardrobe. So I decided it was time to go shopping for Hudson and Brody at Bins of Clothes in my basement. :) Well one thing lead to another and pretty soon I had ALL the bins dumped out and was sorting out, the good, the bad and the the "just plain UGLY" With a little girl on the way I couldn't think of a better excuse to do this. So I ended up with a mountain for the DI, and a mountain for my SIL (who is finally having a BOY after having 4 girls! Woooo Hoooo!) So Kristy, if you end up throwing ALL of them out I WILL NOT be offended, but hopefully you can find something good in there. So tell me after getting rid of so many clothes how did I end up ADDING 2 bins to the stack????? hmmm beyond me...

So the washing machine worked overtime yesterday and I found out that I can fold 6 loads of laundry in about 30 min. but now the kiddies have some weather appropriate clothing to wear. ;)

Raggamuffin Garland

I saw this idea on the Nesters blog, if you've never visited her before you must, she is awesome!! I thought it would be a great way to dress up the changing table hutch. Love it!!

Finish it Friday!

Today I finally finished Hudson's stocking. Thanks to my mom who helped me on the tricky parts. I am glad this little project is finally done, it's been on my list for weeks. Hurray for Finish it Friday!!!