Lamp Shade Up-cycle

Loved the red but it had to go, it just didn't match or go with the yellow.

I saw this on another blog, but I can't remeber which on, or I'd put a link because the girl always has great ideas but it was pretty simple. I just sewed some ruffles out of white fabric, strips of 2 inches x three times the width of your lamp shade. Then I pined the ruffle on and hot glued, make sure to hot glue where sticthing is so you don't see the glue. I totally love the way it turned out, I want to do this to every single lamp shade in my house!

Total cost .99 cents!

i {heart} you

A little behind on the posts but better late the never (Right?) Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday but I still like to make it special for the girly's. Lynlee's party at school, they played BINGO and decorated cupcakes.

There finished edible masterpieces. Regan decorated hers with goldfish and then ATE IT!! YUCK!

SWEETHEARTS-AWWWWW

McKenna playing with her heart balloon from Mom & Dad!!

Snowed In

Last Thursday it was COLD and they were predicting snow, so the schools actually called a snow day for Friday. The girls were so excited to play in the snow and build a snowman. We woke up Friday morning to just more cold weather and absolutely not one drop of snow. Houston did get a really bad ice storm and it was really cold so we stayed in all day, and we needed a project. We worked on the girls Valentine's boxes for their parties this week. Turned out cute and entertained them for about 15 minutes, they were crazy the rest of the day.


I saw this idea for Valentine's Day cards on some other blog and thought they were adorable. I just took a picture of the girls and had them developed at Walgreen's, it only cost me about $3.00. Bought some suckers at Target and Wah-la, so cute.

Bedtime is just not my finest hour as a mom, I'm exhausted and the kids seem to never run out of energy. I found this quote this morning and realized how true it is, and how I need to take a deep breath and just snuggle with my babies while I can.

Daredevil

I find this baby like this or some other crazy place she should not be about 10 times a day. She is fearless! My prediction is she will be our first kid to either need stitches, a broken limb, or a visit to the ER. This is by far her favorite thing to climb up and she can now climb on top of the coffee table so that's fun.

A smile after I rescued her.

Pinewood Derby

My Cub scout Pack had the Pinewood Derby, the Pack is huge with so many boys and it was totally crazy!! I love watching the dad's because I know most of them made the car. I asked Billy to take some picture so here are the two he took.

I put myself in charge of weight check. I really do love my calling, and working the scouts, they are a lot of fun.

Christmas in Utah

We headed up to frigid Utah for Christmas, and boy did we have fun. Came home completely exhausted but had a great time. After having a NIGHTMARE of a time getting there, missing our flight, we started are fun with the Gateway and Build-A-Bear.

The lights at Temple Square, always beautiful!

We partied with family eating, opening presents and then eating some more.

Gardner Village's elf scavenger hunt with all the cousins.

Billy had to fly home for work a few days before Christmas so it was just me and the girls. Christmas eve we went out to eat at a really fun Japanese restaurant where they cook the food in front of you. Regan got a little scared and told me she was going to hide under the table. But it was fun and oh so delicious. Then headed over to the Christmas village in downtown Ogden.

Thawed out with some hot chocolate and watched Elf with grandma and grandpa.

Finally Christmas morning, the kids woke up so early, we all needed a nap by 10. But everyone seemed to like everything. I was the year of the Pillow Pet, each kid got one.

Playing with glitter glue and pixio's.

The girls and I flew home a few days after Christmas, we had so much fun

we all were able to relax:

and let loose!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year!