Family Bonding Time

Gosh, I love my family!

It Must Be....

If your mom dresses you all in green and puts you in a silly hat...




If your mom gives you chocolate gold nuggets for breakfast from some guy named "the leprechaun"...




If your milk has mysteriously turned green, but it's still okay to drink...



Then it must be St. Patricks Day!!

Check It Out!

Look at my friend Mimi Evans blog for highlights of one of the best parties I've been to, Joy's birthday. We had a blast! Mimi is so creative and made the cutest stuff. Now you know where I get some of my inspirations :) I'm hoping Mimi and Joy open up their own store similar to "Dear Lizzie" in Utah. They run Pinkapple Boutique (formerly Chatterbox Designs) from their homes right now. You can see their blogs on my links. Enjoy!

My First Dress

So in my sewing adventures, I decided to make a dress. I'm finding out that I don't like to go exactly by the patten, so there's a lot of fudging involved. I wore it to church today! I have to say I'm very proud of it, but I think the end result was more homely than I had wanted. It's not a maternity dress, so it's a little short on me right now, but after baby it will be just fine.

Soap Cupcakes

Grate a bar of soap. I used Yardley of London, it has a nice lavender smell. This should make about 4 "cupcakes".



Add extras...lavender, oatmeal, etc. Then microwave it for about a minute.



Push the mixture into cupcake wrappers in a muffin tin (I used the foil ones). Let it set (about 12 hours or so).



Melt down some more soap, preferably a cute color like pink or blue, and let it cool for a small amount of time until you are able to "gob" it on top of the "cake". I added some glitter to make it extra girly.



Yum, looks good enough to eat, and smells so good. I gave two of them to a friend for her birthday.

Photo Update

Here's a few things we've been doing this week.


Once I found out we're having a boy I could finish my diaper cake.



We're introducing the idea of a potty to Bryson, even though I know it will be a year or so before he really starts to understand the concept.



Bryson hanging out with his cousin Troy. I can just imagine them as teenagers!



A sneaky shot I took (don't let him see you!!!) of Bryson being such a good boy in church nursery. They're having their snack of goldfish, string cheese and mandarin oranges (which it was my turn to bring).

It's A Boy!

I know everyone was hoping for a girl...but we couldn't be more overjoyed to have another boy. Think of all the money we'll save, we already have everything! I told Brett he's lucky, I don't feel the urge to shop since it's a boy. We aren't going to stop at two, so there's still more chances to have a girl. Just like my sister-in-law Lexi always says, "I'm happy having all boys". We'll take whatever God gives us and just be thankful they're healthy, happy and well loved :)