Flip Mino Camcorder GIVEAWAY

One of my favorite sites: thriftyandchicmom.com is offering a great giveaway! A flip mino camcorder is about $200 and you could win it! I won something from a giveaway from hers back in the summer...so you just never know! thought I'd let you know about it--we need one because we havent been able to afford a camcorder...and its nice to have with little ones!! and this little guy could fit nicely in your purse!
Good luck!!!
GIVEAWAY LINK

Our Blessed Nest

I needed to make a quick project for our front entryway because I had nothing to put on it after the Christmas Decorations were put away! Im sure with more time I could have made it nicer, and I'll probably take it down and fix it or make something else and have it there in the meantime, but I thought I'd show it because its my first project for the family that I used my christmas present (cricut) for. Love love Love my cricut!!! Im working on the Relief Society bulletin board and have been able to use the Cricut and it makes it look so much nicer and I don't have to go searching for Chipboard letters or draw on stencils....its awesome!
I used a vintage graphic of the nest from thegraphicsfairy.blogspot.com (love her) she seriously has some great images you can use for fun projects...and just used an online photo program to add text (picnik.com)
I couldn't find an image that had a nest with a momma and daddy bird, so I cut out birds with the cricut and added them to the image and voila! our little family. For the time being it gets the job done.


I love our little nest, we are truly blessed!!! :)

Haircuts, Bananas, Sweet Potatoes and Smiles....

Here's some pics from our first week in 2010!

Briggy's hair has been getting really shaggy. We have been procrastinating on taking him to the kids haircut place because it costs $20! I was nervous about having Tom cut Briggy's hair with his buzzer...but Tom convinced me to give it a try..and it worked out well--

Briggy before the haircut:



Brigham after! He looks older with the shorter hair! My little guys is going to be TWO next month, ai carumba.





Oliver started off the week with Bananas, and ended the week with sweet potatoes! Both went really well. I couldn't get him to eat rice cereal, but so far with the fruits and veggies he's doing well...so I can sneak the rice in now when I mix them. Im hoping he'll love avocado as much as Briggy did...thats on the menu this coming week--just waiting for it to ripen!!





Nursing + food = Happy Ollie!

Our first Texas Christmas!

Oliver's first christmas, and our first Texas Christmas. It was a nice day full of playing!!! Briggy and Ollie made out like bandits thanks to a *frugal* mrs. claus, and generous family members!
We tried to not think about how much we missed our families--but that didn't last long. It just doesnt seem like a holiday without grandmas and grandpas, aunts, uncles, cousins....hopefully we'll get more used to it being this way....it was still a lot of fun--of course Briggy always adds an element of fun and disaster to any occasion. Tom dressed up as Santa so the boys would get a sneak peek at the Big guy in Red that gave them so many fun toys! Briggy was pretty much oblivious to Santa, and just wanted to look at and open presents! It took him a little while to figure out how to open the presents--its OKAY to rip, Brigs!!! I had said that so many times, because he kept looking at me like we were doing something wrong by shreading the paper! Once he got the hang of it he went WILD!


















The last little bit of snow left on the ground Christmas morning! (We got a dusting the day before)

Christmas eve....

Oliver Eats!

These are from last week. Oliver really wasn't liking the cereal this day or the few days after that I tried. We took a break, but I think I'll be starting it up again this week but instead of cereal I think I might try banana or avacado. We'll see. Still nursing him every 3-4 hours!!! (ahhh! was hoping he'd be sleeping through the night by now...wishful thinking, I guess)










One of my visiting teachers, Sarah, made these adorable gifts for the boys! The bibs are sooooooooo adorable! The crayon-roll is perfect for mister artiste, brigham!

Santa's workshop!

When my oldest sister and I were younger, we always dedicated a week right around this time of year to making all things Christmas. We pretended we were elves, decorated, crafted, listen and sang to christmas music....it was all very organized its one of my favorite christmas time memories/traditions.
I carried on the tradition with the boys starting this week. We made gingerbread houses, cut and pasted lots of construction paper loops, dressed up in elf & santa gear, and rocked out to Christmas music. We still have plenty days left to go, but I thought I'd post up a couple from these past few days!










Hmmm...the pictures I took of today arent loading for some reason....I'll have to try to fix it and add more later....