Hailey's birthday

Thank you to all who came and made Hailey's birthday special and fun. I know she had a great time. :) I can't believe she is two! Here some pictures from the party. She took a nap before her party and Kirt put stickers all over her lol. Kirt also helped with her cake. He rolled his own fondant and put it on.

Fun Week

We have just been having a fun week! It was Hailey's birthday this past Tuesday. We are having her party tomorrow. Anyways we were able to do some mommy daughter shopping while Jon stayed home with the boys. Hailey is hilarious when it comes to shopping. She will go pick Items up show me and say "cute." Thats all good and fun for her, but when it's time to go she gets upset because well lets just face it she isn't done shopping yet. lol I've created a monster. So with that aside we were able to get some fun spring clothes since it is already starting warm up. I know you're all excited. Then today we went shopping with aunt Karie, and visited Nanna. She came in town for Hailey's party. YAY! The kids had a blast at Tempe Market Place. It was so nice outside!

Crafty time with the kids

Jon has been in Flag since Monday, so today the kids and I made Valintines Day cards. I need to get more glue sticks. Hailey kept saying, "glue, glue, Kirt glue," She didn't like having to take turns. That was the best part of the craft for her. They actually did a pretty good job pasting the hearts down. They enjoyed themselves thats what was important.

Hailey's birthday is in two weeks I'm not even ready. I just got invitations out so hopefully you'll be getting them in your mail in the next couple of days. :) Hope you all can come. It's going to be Tea-rrific. Well won't be serving tea lol, but we are going to have lots of tasty treats.

On Sunday after church we were all relaxing and Jon unbuttoned Jaren's shirt and set him down to soak up the sun. Then he said "he's bringing sexy back" I just laughed. My little hot stuff!

Outside project

Since we have lived in our house we haven't given much attention to our backyard. It is one of my goals for this yeart to start a garden and our back yard is pretty messy. So here are some before pictures. I need everything raked up, trees purned, a stump removed, a dead tree taken to the dump, and gravel removed. It is a huge project and Jon is gone so much I'm about ready to hire someone to do it. I'm going to work on it this week and hopefully I can get the major stuff done before Hailey's birthday. So much to do so little time!

Monograms

I just love monograms and have been wanting to do some for each of the kids for some time now. I've just been super busy. Anyways I was browsing through blogs and I found this post on Unnecesssary Necessities http://amber-unnecessarynecessities.blogspot.com/2008/03/l-is-for-livy.html for steps on the how to. It is super easy and not expensive to make at all. I had most of it on hand. Anyways here is the first one I did for Haileys room. I'm going to be getting a shelf to hang it on the wall.

Quiet Book

Ok so I have seen a couple of these done and just find them sooo cute and creative. I saw a couple of different ways and like how Emily dixon did it on her blog, I also used ideas from homemade by Jill as well. Here is what I have so far and I have about two more pages to complete.


















I also have seen a bunch fun apron patterns. I decided to make one for Hailey out some scraps I had. I didn't follow any pattern and thats probably why it didn't turn out perfect, but I like how it turned out anyways and Hailey likes to wear it when we make cookies together. :)







Hailey got this really cute big wheel for Christmas, and Kirt got on it and started taking her for a ride. I think my favorite part of this picture, even though Kirt and Hailey look pretty darn cute, is that Jon is sacked out with Jaren in the background. :)

Funny story

Ok so it has been awhile since I have posted anything, but that is simply because I haven't been able to find my camera; until today. First off we all know how husbands are a little squeamish about changing diapers. How does this relate to finding my camera you ask? Well It had been awhile since Jon had changed one of Jaren's diapers and I had just changed one of Hailey's. So I asked him if he wouldn't mind changing Jaren it would be nice. Upon agreeing to this, I warned him to wait just a bit because Jaren looked like he still wasn't quite done. Jon was already making faces before he even opened the diaper, and he started to get him all cleaned up when out shot some more, and I mean SHOT. Jon started freaking out and I just laughed. It had gotten on his leg and the couch. He then said ok you're finishing this. So I went over and cleaned Jaren up and removed the couch cushions, and low and behold there was my camera wedge up in the corner of the cushion. So I just thanked Jaren for pooping on daddy so I could find my camera. lol.

So besides that I have been busy this month working on crafts and preparing for Hailey's birthday. I can't believe she will already be two. She is so smart. She can count to ten pretty much on her own and she sings the ABC's with me. Along with a sling of other vocab, including; share, cute, pop (which means Popsicle, and she asks for one regularly) bite, and much more.

Here are a couple of crafts I have done. I found them on other blogs and concocted my own make of it.

The cozy car caddy from homemade by Jill:

I've also been working on a quiet book and I'll post pictures from that later. It's still in the works.

We have also recently aquired a new member in the family. Our dog Rosco got out at ten one night and never came back. He was more than likely stolen and was not at the pound. The kids and I were really upset, so Jon surprised us all by getting us a puppy.

His name is Niko... (Jon named him) He is a German shepherd/ lab mix. He is quite the handful, but Jon loves him. He won't admit it, but he gives more attention to that dog then the kids. Anyways hopefully I'll be able to keep up on things now that I have my camera. I'm partial to reading posts with pictures myself.

Thanks for ready about my crazy life.