Be My Valentine

We had a great Valentines yesterday! Minus the fact that I had to work most of the day. We started off pretty early 7 or so and Todd made a french toast breakfast for the family and the kids opened their goodie bags.

I decided to make these bags Saturday. So of course it was a mad rush Sunday night trying to get them finished. They didn't turn out too bad. Reese's was my first one so of course it's the one with all the mistakes. (It's too big, the fabric on the flap is going the wrong direction, and there's a giant pen line across the piece of fabric - oh well). Boston's turned out perfect - it was just the right size and it came together nicely. One thing I will change if I ever decide to make them over is assemble the felt bag portion and then sew on the letter. I sewed on the letters first and then assembled. It was hard getting everything centered. I didn't really use a pattern. I followed some directions from a diaper bag tutorial on makeit-loveit.com but made some obvious changes. I watched a youtube clip to learn how to do a blanket stitch to attach my initials. It was a fun little project.
Reese's loot: Sticker activity book, Little Critter Valentine book, Fancy Nancy Valentine book, a Valentine shirt, and some treats.
Boston's Loot: Set of Elmo mini books, Valentine shirt, and Elmo movie.

Boston turns 1

So this weekend we celebrated Boston's day of birth. His actual birthday was last week but since Todd is working mostly evening shifts there wasn't time to do a party then. On his actual birthday we let Bos open a couple presents (a little people airplane, and a penguin pillow pet). He loves his pillow and likes to play with his airplane when his big sister isn't hogging it. We still struggle with sharing most days. We even bought a cheesecake from the bakery to enjoy (I'm not going to lie Boston probably only had one bite of that).
As you can tell we had a cookie monster themed party.
We just stuck with a blue and cookie theme everywhere. Most stores don't have cookie monster decorations, and I never remember to order stuff online in time. We did find some cookie monster books to give out as party favors, also guests got a bag of chips ahoy mini cookies, and a bag of cotton candy (much thanks to my grandma's neighbor for making the cotton candy).
Boston was pretty excited for his party.

We had pizza for dinner (Boston's favorite).
This would be the 2nd child of mine that wasn't too thrilled with their birthday cake. Reese bawled the moment she stuck her finger in the frosting on her first birthday. Boston got frosting on his fingers and didn't like it too well either. He didn't even dig into the cake part.
It's his party and he can cry if he wants too...
Opening presents.

Helpful cousins.



We didn't worry too much about the mess he was making since he'll only be wearing this shirt once. Notice the blue frosting, pizza and root beer stains.
Modeling his new birthday shirt.
Showing off on his new 4-wheeler. He can barely touch with his toes, but he still pushes himself across the room. It was a great birthday!

"Look what I can do" - update my blog

It has been well over a month... and I thought I better get an update in here before I get too behind. To be honest January has been pretty dull. We're all going bananas cooped up in the house all day.

A couple of weeks ago it snowed a good 6 inches and we finally got Reese some snow pants. She'd been asking for some snow pants for weeks. I don't think she liked playing in the snow as much as she thought she would. She especially didn't like all the layering and making sure socks and boots don't get any snow in them. She did have fun though. She made a snow angel and tried making snowballs to throw at dad. She even made a friend with the girl across the street and together they had fun scraping armfuls of snow off of our cars.
Just some cute pics of my best little guy - after eating an oreo.

The kids had some fun with the balloons left over from Todd's birthday. No, I didn't take any pictures from his birthday. Both Todd and I worked on his birthday, but earlier that week we went down and celebrated at his parents house. On Todd's actual birthday the kids and I got a few things rounded up when he came home for lunch. Just dinner, some balloons, and a gift from the kids (Community Season 1). Todd also got a ukulele from me.
6 blossoms on the Amaryllis we got for Christmas from Grandma Kathy. Usually we get 2-3 blossoms but 6!
Boston LOVES hats! He is constantly wearing hats out of Reese's dress up box, Daddy's hat, or even just random tupperware buckets.


Playing a little air guitar.