Valentines Day Hybrid Projects

So I got to make some fun stuff for Valentine's day for Nicole's Pre-K class and her teachers and bus driver. For the treat bags I used Shabby Princesses Confection Collection. These turned out so cute and will definately be using that collection over and over!! For her teachers and bus driver I used little mail boxes I got at Target in the dollar section (woo hoo, love me a good dollar deal!!). I then printed out some papers from my kit Stupid Cupid and modge podeged them on the mail boxes. I added some fun ribbons, filled with tissue paper and candy and that is it!! I was a little heart broken when we took them to school and her teacher says, "Oh those are so cute, did you buy them somewhere?" I answer "no". Then she says, "Oh did someone make them for you"? Um, I guess I don't look like the type that can create anything!! LOL!! But those of you who know me, know I have quite an extensive crafting past!! My garage full of craft supplies, just proves this further. To finish off the day her bus drive was just thrilled and surprised to get hers, that made up for the teachers comments.

Turning five

So my baby girl has turned five!!! I just can't believe she is this old! She is growing up way to fast and I am having a hard time with both of my little ones going to be starting kindergarten this year. Nicole has really made leaps and bounds in her progress since joining our family. She is forever overcoming the obstacles placed before her and learning and developing at a wonderful pace. Here she is on her 5th birthday!! Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!!

Snow!!!!

It has been a fairly quiet winter for us here in Maryland so far and the kids are not real happy about that. So last Thursday it started to snow, and kept snowing. It was so beautiful and the kids were dying to go out and play in it. Of course it had to pick this day of all days. Walter was coming home from his TDY and I needed to pick him up at Reagan International Airport in DC. So the flights started getting delayed in some areas of the country and his out of Chicago was delayed almost 2 hours. I had the joy of driving down to DC at 10 o'clock at night after a snowstorm!! LOL!! Luckily the drive went well, I got to see the city at night after a fresh snowfall, simply breathtaking, and my hubby was home!! Anyhow here are some pictures I took that day from the snow.

Happy Birthday Tyler!!!

Today my oldest turned 14!! I can't believe I am the mother to a 14 year old. He had his party last night with his friends. They watched movies, played video games and oh ya, turned the house into a war zone during their nerf dart battle. I thought a few times the house would fall down. But I am happy to report that there is no casualties including the house. Tyler asked for an ice cream cake for his birthday, but not just any ice cream cake, the one that we saw on a show featuring the Duggar family on TV. So here it is!! This cake is AWESOME and definately not low cal. LOL!!






























So if it looks too yummy to pass up here is the easy squeezy recipe!!

24 Ice Cream Sandwiches
2 Tubs of Cool Whip
Chocolate Syrup
Caramel Syrup
2 King Size Butterfinger bars

Line a 9 x 13 pan with ice cream sandwiches, one layer only. Spread cool whip over the top. Drizzle with chocolate syrup and caramel syrup. Crush up one of the butterfinger bars and spread all over. Repeat the following steps again for a second layer and put in freezer to freeze and there ya go!!

Here is Tyler opening his gifts and blowing out all 14 candles!! Happy Birthday bud!! We love you and are so proud of the incredible young man you are becoming!!!

2008 is in da house!!!

Where has the time gone? I can't believe it is 2008!! Makes me long for my 80's hair even more, LOL!! So this year we all managed to stay up until midnight, little ones included and for those of you who know us, yes Walter made it too!! Barely but he made it and after the poppers and confetti he crashed. It was so cute, because we took the kids shopping for party hats, poppers, streamers and noise makers explaining to them we would be having a New Years Eve party. They were all excited and kept asking all night when. So when midnight hit and we let them go wild with their fun goodies and after it was all gone, we told them it was time for bed. Skyler looks at us with a crushed and puzzled look and says almost crying, "That's it?" When we explained to him, yes, he started to cry. I guess he thought is was supposed to be a longer party, LOL. Poor little guy, guess New Years will never be the same for him anymore.
Today was a great day, Walter and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversry. I cannot believe it has been 16 years since we got married. Time has really flown by. We are more in love now than the day we married. It is just amazing to me as I didn't think back then it was possible to love him more. I really feel it is all of the good and bad that we have gone through that has brought us to where we are now and made us as strong as we are. He is truely my best friend and soul mate. Thank goodness for time and all eternity!! We went out to dinner to TGI Fridays and had a really nice dinner minus the kids. We have not gone out to dinner for our anniversary in over 10 years so it was a great treat for us and we enjoyed going our alone (well as alone as you can be in a restaurant on a friday night) time together. Anyhow here are some pics of our New Years and a LO I did of Walter and I for our anniversary. Also a pic that Tyler took of Walter and I tonight. We don't have alot of pictures of me and him. Anyhow, happy new year all!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Hope you all had a wonderful day!!

Family Night

On monday night for our family night we went down to the Washington DC temple to meet some friends and see the Christmas lights. Wow, they were spectacular. There were so many people there, yet it was such a beautiful and peaceful setting. They even had a live nativity, which was very neat. So I will let my pictures do the talking for me today. Enjoy!!