Happy St Patricks Day!!!

Today has been a fun day so far. I decided to start a little tradition this year of "Lenny the Leprachaun" My dad always nicknamed us funny names, and for some reason he always called my sister Jessie "Lucky Lenny or Len" so the name came to me when Briggy and I were making pictures of Leprachauns earlier this week. So I devised up this story that if we drew a beautiful rainbow Lenny would leave treasures at the end of the rainbow. And because leprachauns are so small, we had to put the picture where Lenny could easily see it. So last night Briggy and I went through all our colored markers and made a rainbow. (Briggy pretty much knows all of his colors--he gets a little goofed on purple and black, but other than that hes good)
This morning we hurried downstairs to see if Lenny found our Rainbow!






I can't believe Oliver will be 8 months on Saturday! He's not crawling or cruising around like Briggy was at his age, but hes getting the hang of sitting unsupported for a minute or two--hes just taking his sweet time. Thats kind of the over all personality he has. (He is VERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Tom) Where is Briggy is much more like how I was as a toddler. Oliver is such a sweetheart. Such an observer---and LOVES PUFFIES! He literally starts to shake when you pull out the container and he starts going nuts and grabbing them like a free for all when you put them in front of him--its hilarious! This boy does not miss a meal! We had to purchase a convertible carseat (we actually got another one just like the one Briggy has) because he has exceeding the weight and height limit of our infant carrier! Oliver is about 20-20 1/2 lbs and Briggy is 30. Both my boys are growing like weeds!!!






Briggy looks so like hes up to no good in this picture. Hes got something all over his face--which I have no idea what it was---maybe twisler juice because I let him gnaw on one.....and he just tipped over his bike. Whoops!

Stay tuned for Oliver 8 month pictures and Naked PBJ...I'll post those tomorrow :)

Lucky Charms

I felt I needed to make at least one more little st patty's project so I rifled through some old frames I had and found these long skinny green ones I bought from the Christmas tree shop many moons ago (Gee-golly I wish we had that store out here...I have been having major withdrawls.) They had a nice spring embroidery saying, but were clearanced to 25 cents each, so I bought.....8. I've painted a few black and have an idea to jazz up my dining room walls, but it was already green and distressed, so that meant alot less work for me!
My little charm tags are of Briggy and Ollie's thumb prints (that are supposed to look like shamrocks....that wasnt as easy to accomplish as I thought it would be!) I think it turned out cute.


Briggy had fun coloring and glue-sticking some shamrocks! Im excited for all the green and Irish fun, but looking forward to making a few Easter projects in the very near future!

(dont mind my sideways fridge shot)
I found this fun St Patricks craft party at this great blog!!!! I love looking at everyones crafts!

Lucky Mama

I really am a lucky mama. My two boys are the sweetest, cutest little guys I know.
Getting in the St. Patricks mood with some shamrock crafts today with Briggy. Last year I had this post
http://homemakinghaven.blogspot.com/2009/03/getting-ready-for-st-patricks-day.html
And I'm on the hunt for new and fun St Patty's crafts. Let me know if you find anything fun!

The Tent is up! (as well as a few other projects)

We finally had time to put Briggy's bed-tent up....HE LOVES IT! I WOULD love it if it wasnt so DANG WRINKLY!!! :(
Any suggestions on how to fix it? I'm afraid to put it in the dryer because its sort of a nylony-plasticy material. We dont have a steamer....hmmmm. We have SOOO much more work to do in that room--I can't wait til its cute and all done. We have another bed-tent for Ollies bed for next year. Im wondering if I should get some big storage bins of some sort to go under the bed, there is quite a bit of space. Some woodsy looking basket-bins perhaps....and our poor lone tree needs friends! One of these days I'd like a few more to make it look like a forest.
Thanks Daddy for putting up the coolest bed EVER!





These are some magnet boards that I put up above my 2 craft tables. I really like the red polka dot one much more...but I ran out of red-ribbon :/ and of course I'm too impatient so I just used my other color for the room--yellow. Still cute. Black and white pictures of the boys were FREE courtesy of all the KODAK gallery credits I had. Score! I love my photo freebies!!!!





This magnet board is in the playroom over the toy storage. All of Briggy's masterpieces (and soon Ollies!!!) hang with pride!


This is a flannel board I hung on the wall near the reading/imagination corner. It originally had chipboard letters above it that said "Laugh and Learn" but Briggy picked them off the wall leaving lovely marks! Ill have to cover that up with some vinyl that he cant pick off in the near future.



(The Tree is a cutout I made from a big load of felt I ordered. I have some Yo Gabba Gabba felt characters I made too, but I thought I'd make a few cutouts for him to play with--the apples are fun for him to pick on and off and practice counting--don't mind my less than professional cutting/artistry--I'ts alot harder than I thought to cut out!) I will be making a lot of these felt cutouts...you can see the tutorial on my friends blog:
http://alittleofthis---alittleofthat.blogspot.com

It'll be great for teaching my boys, and also for FHE lessons!
There you have it.
February projects and fun!

Families can be together Forever

A couple weeks ago I was able to put up our dining room vinyl. I needed something to really fill up that awkward space where I planned on having a family photo wall. As you can see from the photo, the only picture missing is OUR family photo! :/ We were going to have one taken during Briggy's bday celebration, but my aunt was feeling well, Ollie had an eczema break out on his face, and we all were feeling a little under the weather. Im hoping for a nice photo soon--we'll see what happens! Just thought I'd share the outcome--I put it up myself (my first time doing it alone!!) and I think I did a pretty good job. I noticed that the second line looked a little crooked--but it was hard without a ladder and with the cursive writing to really get it level. To the average onlooker, I dont think they'll notice. At least I hope not! Just thought Id share!! I get all my vinyl lettering from friends at church that have a business
ddvinyl.com
They are so great about capturing what I want and having very reasonable prices. I hope to have a vinyl party soon so everyone can order their goodies!!!
I really think it MAKES the room. Im totally addicted!
My aunt had a cute saying over her guest room bed that we stayed in
"I love you to the moon and back" I think Im gonna get that for over our bed one of these days.

Briggy's Bday Weekend

Auntie Katie and Uncle Bob got Briggy such a FUNNNNNNNNN present---an ALL TERRAIN RADIO FLYER! Briggy is seriously in HEAVEN. He was so well behaved IN the wagon--I can't say the same for OUT of the wagon....but when he was cruisin' it was all good! We went from blizzard to beautiful sunny day in the park as soon as we headed down to New Braunfels. Here's us having fun and feeding ducks! Ollie had a fun time just observing all the excitement--I cant wait til I can cart around both of them in the wagon!! Then after naps, Briggy was able to eat lots of yummy Gabba cake and open more presents!!! It was sort of bizarre and out of character for Briggy, but when we all started to sing Happy Birthday! he started to cry and cover his face with his hands! It was hilarious, but not his typical "Everyone LOOK AT ME! THIS IS A BLAST!" sort of behavior!!!

We got Briggy a Muno Guitar, A Gabba bath-boat toy, a Dance cam---this thing is PERFECT for Briggy, because he loves to dance in front of a blank tv, stove, or dishwasher to look at his reflection...now he can see himself dance on TV! and we also got him a little tikes golf set. With other birthday money from family, we were able to take him to Babies R US and he picked out a Fischer price grocery cart and register! Auntie Amy, Uncle Jeff and Addy sent him Gabba squirters for the bath tub and A fun magnetic toy. He was so spoiled and had such a fun second birthday!!!
With birthday money from the granparents we plan on getting this awesome play kitchen (Briggy always plays with the one at church!)

Favorite random weekend photo: Briggy really wanted to try on Bobby's bigboy cowboy boots. I really wanted to get some for the boys, but they were CRAZY expensive....$75 for little kid boots. SERIOUSLY!?! thats alot for an ADULT pair. Geez. Hopefully I'll come across a great sale one of these days! Overall, we had such a nice time. Poor auntie Katie got SOOOO sick....but now that we've done the drive (4 hours) and it was actually WAYYYY better than we thought--Oliver slept or was quietly playing THE ENTIRE TIME and Briggy was actually realllllllly good--very minimal screeching. I hope we can go down when it gets a bit warmer!!! They were the best hosts and Briggy loved it there!!!!

A TEXAS SNOW STORM!!!!

Last Thursday-Friday it snowed NON-STOP here and it snowed about 10 inches! It was the day before our drive down to New Braunfels to visit Auntie Katie and Uncle Bob for Briggy's 2nd Birthday!! Right after Briggy woke up from a nap I bundled him up in about 4 layers of outfits and went to play outside with him. He only lasted about 5-10 minutes before he had had enough of the cold white stuff! I left his pacifer (ergh) in because he wasnt giving me the easiest time bundling him up like crazy. Oh well. As you can see from the video we werent very well-equipped for such weather, but we made do!