The Both's

Vintage Pearl Giveaway

2010-06-26T16:25:00.000-07:00

I Just got a necklace from The Vintage Pearl for Cambryn. I love it!.

If you've never heard of The Vintage Pearl they offer hand stamped jewelry.

Isn't it so cute?
I was so excited to find out she is having a giveaway on

A Lovely Lifestyle

So head on over to A lovely Lifestyle and enter to win.

My Life the Past 2 Months

2010-01-02T04:03:00.000-08:00

This picture needs no explanation.
Oh yes take it all in....

This is amidst The Nutcracker chaos.
My home has recovered.. luckily.
Me not so much---this picture stresses me out.
My children not so neglected
and well Riggi is just a lost cause.

At least he's cute!

Potty Training- Best Picture Ever

2009-12-31T11:36:00.000-08:00

Children Learn best by Example Right?

Worked for us

PS We don't practice potty training out in a field... a freezing snow covered field. We were on our way home from Idaho no potty in sight and when the trainee says he has to go, as you know, you better take him. . In case you were wondering

Thanksgiving

2009-12-20T11:16:00.001-08:00

I sure hope Cyndi doesn't mind that I'm doing this...but since she's been so crazy busy with everything, I'm taking the liberty to invite all of you over to my blog to see pictures from our Thanksgiving! :D You'll have to wait to see Cyndi's pictures from everything else she's been doing for when she's not so crazy and busy--or just busy!! :D love you Cyndi!

Picking apples

2009-11-22T09:31:00.000-08:00

I took Riggi with some friends to pick apples in Tehachapi. The apples were so yummy. Riggi was really into picking the apples for all of 2 minutes. He then figured out the apples resembled balls and decided it was much more fun to chuck the apples.

Daddy Daughter Dance

2009-11-16T11:49:00.000-08:00

Cambryn's school had a 50's themed Daddy Daughter Dance. I got together with a friend and we made our girls poodle skirts. The girls were so excited to go. Cambryn was so excited to dress up and go on a date with her Dad to a dance. Jay and Cambryn had a blast. They even won a coupon for a free pizza, which we enjoyed the next night :). My friend Jill was in charge of the whole evening. She put a lot of work into decorating, getting prizes for a raffle, a photographer then put all the pictures together, making treats and making the night fun for the girls and their dad. Thanks Jill you really went above and beyond! It was fabulous.
Jay said one of the funniest parts was when they played Miley Cyrus -hoedown throwdown. Jay said every single girl started dancing the dance.

Mr. Tanen Tie

2009-11-12T10:27:00.000-08:00

this is what happens when you loose a school library book.

we have search high and low for this silly book. Under beds, in beds (my kids like to read in bed), under couches, gone through bins ( that's saying a lot for me), took apart the play room, looked in Brayden's classroom (just in case), Looked everywhere, still no book.

Last year we accidentally turned one of Brayden's school library books into the public library. No worries. It was easily recovered.

Okay so here is my dilemma. My children have a homework station. A certain place for everything!Click on picture to enlarge.

As you can plainly see. Same as last year. And he still put his library book in the wrong place.
So this year I told him to please just leave his library books in his backpack. After he was done reading it or looking through it, PLEASE put it in your backpack.

Obviously that did not happen.

Now I owe $15 for a book.
Grrrr

PS I ususally get a call at least once a week from the school saying Brayden has no lunch. I go look in the car and it is always on the bench right next to his seat. Last week I got called 3 times. One of the times last week when I got to the office the sweet office ladies that call me informed me that Brayden said the reason he left his lunch box "it was all Cambryn's fault." No matter how many times I tell him to just hold it in his hand and NEVER put it down.
Any suggestions on how to solve this problem.

Piano Lessons

2009-11-10T18:55:00.000-08:00

Brayden's first lesson. I was so excited for Brayden to have MaryEllen as a teacher.
She was a little apprehensive about taking Brayden as a student. She thought he might be a little young. He is doing AWESOME. Well at least that is what she tells me. Personally I think he is doing fantastic. It is really cute to watch him learn to play. I can't wait for him to be able to perform for everyone, or play with Cambryn.

Night Time Bath

2009-11-10T18:19:00.000-08:00

This little guy loves his bath time. Until we have to wash his hair he hates that. He loves glasses and goggles.

Later that night.
Riggi resting
Molly resting
I had to take a picture it was too funny.

Night Night

Soccer Time

2009-11-10T17:57:00.001-08:00

Brayden decided to try soccer this year.

He absolutely loved it. I don't think his team won any of their games. I think the parents were more worried about the kids scoring then the kids were. :)
Brayden thought he rocked and we'll just leave it at that. Jay did have to tell Brayden to "stop doing cartwheels" and to "stop laying in the middle of the field" more then once. hehe Gotta love Brayden

Dad coached Brayden's team just like he did Cambryn's first year.

Until next year....unless of course we find something else he likes to do, but he insists he loves soccer and wants to do it again next year.

Chira and Caden's last night

2009-09-11T23:02:00.000-07:00

Our last night in Utah was so much fun! We had yummy BBQ and a picnic and just relaxed on the grass one more time!

Future Zubies? :D

Yummy food at our picnic! (yes we were cold!)

Caden eating 'corn the cob'

Brayden's awesome face eating corn on the cob (this one is the best of Brayden, for sure!)

Cambryn eating corn on the cob!

Thanks Mom and Dad for EVERYTHING!! We had such a good time! We can't wait to come home again!!

Rock Climbing!! We are so tough.....

2009-09-11T23:01:00.000-07:00

Another thing we do when ever we're home is go rock climbing--well Charles takes the kids! :D Riggy and Caden wanted to be like the big kids and wear climbing shoes and climb on the rocks, too!

Testing the waters to see what they could get away with! (thank goodness for the candy mechines!)

Cambryn and Brayden's first time going up!

My kid wants to be cool, too!

There is a little kid wall upstairs, it's perfect for littles!

I totally wish I had one in my house!

Brayden showing us his Spidey skills!

Chillen!

We had to beg and plead with Brayden to go on the big wall more than once so he could go all the way to the top. On his third time up, he did it!! Cambryn went to the top, too! :D She was all over the place! Thanks Charles, it was so much fun!!

After we were done we went to Zupas, which has the best soup ever. It was so good. I didn't even get to eat my chocolate covered strawberry or yummy dessert I picked out! I'll have to go back again, for sure!

Dinosaur Museum @ Thanksgiving Point

2009-09-11T22:59:00.000-07:00

K, the Dino museum @ Thanksgiving Point was so awesome! We were there forever, it was so much fun!

And, Brayden makes the best faces--just incase you didn't know!

Caden showing us his "ROAR" face...

Mom showing us her "ROAR" face...

Cyndi showing us her "ROAR" (?) face! :D hahaha, apparently she doesn't know how to be scary (umm...)

Charles was able to make a new friend, too!

There was this huge sand pit where the kids could get all dirty and move the sand and water around. They didn't want to leave!

My favorite were the smocks. Or maybe just the word SMOCKS. Thanks to Cyndi I learned that that's a real word! Look how little Riggy looks in it! So cute!

Riding a dino.

Caden was totally scared of the big shark! Brayden, clearly, was not! :D

Diging up dino bones.

We commissioned Charles to take a picture of us really fast (see below) and Rigdon didn't like not being held. Poor baby!!

Aren't we so cute? :D Our parents take us to the BYU Bookstore when ever we're all home to hook us up with some gear, and this was seriously the cutest womens shirt--go figure we all liked it! Someone totally made fun of us while were walking around becuase we were all sporten our Y shirts! Whatever!

We had so much fun, thanks Mom!!

More Crazy Fun!

2009-09-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

Cyndi took us up to the best place ever, well, not to the kids, but to us! I'm sure all you Utah people already know about it (and if you don't, you're crazy!), it's called Ti Pan Trading, Co.--and it's bascially awesome. We were there FOREVER!! I love this picture of the kids all holding hands. They were so over it when we left!
Cyndi making more friends with the wildlife!

Mom made us the best milk shakes! They tasted like frosties from Wendy's! Don't you love Riggy's hat? My dad found it somewhere in the house. Pa came out sporting the hat, Rigdon decided he liked it and would not take it off! It was so cute!
mmm...messy babies!

Later on with the Dick Tracy/garden awesome hat. No worries he put it back on after the bath.

Caden's obsessed with drinking out of straws!!

All the kids! I love being outside!

K, I can't even type this with out laughing! There was a metor shower while we were at home. When we were outside earlier, early evening time, there were a MILLION dragon flies all over. Like, it was scary! You could hear them snapping up bugs and flying around, I'd never seen anything like it. My dad kept saying it was because of the metor shower--joking, right? :D Well, metor showers must bring out spiders, too, because while we were up sewing like 5 huge spiders came out! Where they come from, I don't even want to know! But, we sort of woke up our parents with our screams and shreeks. We had told our mom earlier that we were going to be calling her on the phone everytime we saw a spider so she could kill it (we don't kill giant Harry Potter sized spiders, sorry!). After we woke our parents up, Dad totally said, "Your phone's going to ring" to our mom. Yup--we called. She came down and killed the giant spider. And, since we were all were up at 1 am we decided to go outside and see us some metor's. Then our loudness (aka gasps of awe and wonder every time we saw a metor!) kept our dad up the whole time, too! :D Oops!

You know you wish you looked this hot at 1 am!!

Cambryn's Baptism

2009-09-11T22:52:00.000-07:00

My mom did a fabulous doing EVERYTHING for the baptism. It really would not have happened if it wasn't for her. She really was amazing and I felt so blessed and lucky to have a mom take care of me and my family and Cambryn on her special day.

This is my adorable niece, Cambryn! She was able to get baptized while we were all in Utah. It was so special to be able to be there to see her reach such an important marker in her life!!

Cambryn and Jay by the font

The Both fam!

One more of Cambryn. This is Cyndi-- I think she looks so sweet and cute I had to show her off one more time. I am a proud mama. (picture taken by my good friend Emily- she Rocks)

What I don't have any pictures of is all the Unice's that were able to attend, and then go to my parents for food! (actually, I didn't take any of these pictures, my cousin Todd did...good thing he had his camera handy!!) It was so much fun to see cousins and aunts and uncles! Jay's parents and siblings were able to come too (since it was the day after the wedding!!). It was awesome! The next day we headed up to my grandma's for Sunday dinner. It was so much fun to see my cousin's and let the kids play! We had cake and ice cream to celebrate all the birthday's and anniversary's that are in August, too. I miss spending time at Grams's house--it's a vacation all by itself!!

Boondocks

2009-09-11T22:44:00.000-07:00

Because Chira does such an amazing job blogging I'm just going to let her blog the rest of our Utah trip together......AKA I'm totally stealing these off of her blog...

We went to the FUNNEST place while we were in Utah--I'm pretty sure the adults almost had more fun than the kids! It's called Boondocks. Our cousins, Hill and Todd and their 2 cute kids, Aubree and Trevor, were in town, too, and were able to come! Grams was able to be there, too!

Here's a lot of us--you can't see some of the kids!

My cousin's little girl Aubree and our Grams having conversations!

Mom was awesome enough to watch the kids while we were on the go-carts! Doesn't it look like she's having fun, too?! :D

Cambryn hit the mother load on one of the arcade games she played!

I love this picture of Riggy trying to get the golf ball!!

Trevor, Brayden & Cambryn!

Golf pro?

Everyone on the put-put

Caden and Riggy--they were so cute with their little golf clubs!

The water boats was probably the funnest part! We were all soaked! This is Trevor showing how it's done!

Caden and Charles getting wet! Charles's face is killer!

The chaos!

More of the chaos!

Cyndi and Riggy--clearly Cyndi was super in to it! Rigdon did NOT like getting wet! Poor kid!

The wetness that was us--smeared make up and all!

We also got to do laser tag! Pretty much it was super fun! (Oh, the people you don't recognize are my cousin and his friends!! :D)

Basically we could be Charlie's Angles!

The boys playing arcade games!

The Best Vay-Cay ever

2009-09-06T11:11:00.000-07:00

Brayden brought home a "getting to know you paper" the first week of school.
One of the questions was
What was your favorite vacation?

Cambryn ( who does a better job doing everyone else's homework then her own) pipes in

"Going to
Maine!"

Brayden states "The one we just went on."

Me completely dissatisfied with this answer,

"Are you sure?"

Thinking in my head what about Maine, Idaho, Arizona, DC or even Disneyland. Seriously UT we go there all the time-----

Brayden:
"Mom yeeeesss!
On Saturday we went to IHOP,
then Seven Peaks ALL DAY,
then went and got ice cream
(at the creamery),
it was the best day EVER!"

Who knew that could make for the best vay cay ever.

The only pic we have of this momentous event. Left to Right Top: Miley, Clark, Jay
Bottom: Kierra, Jenna, Cambryn, Brayden an Aubrey.
Kierra and Miley didn't go but I think they were missing their Daddy and didn't want to be left out of the pic

Best part for me (beside careless shopping all day with Alisa- It's been way to long) might have been seeing the guys get out of the car wearing matching shirts. No they did not plan it - I looked at Alisa and said, Did you pick that out for Clark-- I wasn't surprised when she said yes, we tend to do that more then you'd think!

We miss you already--- Come to Cali!!!!

the Cake [ok, and wedding!]

2009-09-04T13:14:00.001-07:00

Part of our Utah trip was spent getting ready for Jay's little sister's wedding [it was August 6th-and a gorgeous day, I might add!!]. Jodi, the bride, asked Cyndi to make her cake. Did you know my sister makes cake's on top of all the other crazy things she does? Since I had now taken my first Wilton class, I got to be #2 in helping with the cakes--as if that makes me anywhere near qualified to make a wedding cake! It was fun, and stressful, but mostly fun! :D

How many ingredients do you think it takes to make a 4 layered cake? [we were tying to be Bakerella with our photo! :D lol]

Cyndi did the baking, I did the frosting. Riggy and Caden helped clean off the beaters!

[after 5 double batches of butter cream was made! we ended up making 2 more, too!]

mmmm

After many LONG hours of putting the cakes together we carefully placed them in the back of the van and drove to Logan. Jay got a sweet deal on a hotel--Caden was very comfy in the big bed!

Outside the temple--I didn't even get a good picture of the temple..grr

Yeae the cake!! What I didn't take a picture of was the drama of cake layer #2. The day before Cyndi had literally spent hours, probably 3, trying to get the frosting smooth--but it wouldn't work. She finally gave up, scraped all the frosting off, and pushed it to me to frost. (Oh this is Cyndi inserting this- It was between stabbing the cake to get my frustration out or wiping all the frosting off- Still Chira freaked-- and looked at me like I was CRAZY, which I totally was and said "What are you doing?") So, we started over with the frosting of the chocolate cake. When it was finally done, we put them in the boxes and then in the car. [ps...they were in the fridge all night, just in case you were wondering!] The next day we went to the church to set up the cake. We got the first 2 layers stacked and then opened the box of the chocolate cake and it was a MESS! All the frosting had completely drizzled off the cake, it was a nightmare! I wish we had taken a picture of it, but we were too stressed out! Thankfully Jays other sister, Nicole was there to keep us laughing, she rocks! We got the frosting re-put on the cake and hurried and finished. The chocolate cake was so the cake from h-e-double-hockey-sticks. Cyndi almost stabbed it. We totally asked the photographer to take pics of the cake first, because that chocolate layer just wasn't holding up--she was awesome too! When we finally cut in to the cake, we did the chocolate one first--and it went SO fast!! Guests kept asking for more of the chocolate cake! So, I guess it rectified itself by tasting good, even though it didn't want to hold up! :D

Glad to be done setting up!

Maddi [Jay's other little sister] and Cambyrn at the guest book table

Brayden keeping himself busy with his DS at the reception! Can you see the boy's cute ties? Yea, we totally made those--thanks to my mom's mad sewing skills! They were so cute!

The whole night Caden kept disappearing. Larry, Jay's dad, found Caden here--in the kitchen, can you tell what he's doing?...

licking the frosting off the trays!! Silly boy!!

Thanks for letting me help, Cyndi! It was fun to see the behind the scenes of making a
fan-ta-bulous
wedding cake!

Thanks Kiki- for keeping me sane- I totally couldn't have done it without. Love you to pieces!

ps when i get some pics from the wedding I'll post them.

The Day the Power went OUT

2009-09-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

We're used to thunder storms--rain, wind, thunder, lightening. What we're not used to is NO POWER! Most of us were in Orem watching Cambryn's dance-camp performances and had no idea the power was out until Cyndi talked to Jay [who was at my parents house with my 2 nephews]. There were 3 cars of us driving home at the same time, and thankfully my dad happened to hear on the radio that there were power lines down on HWY 89 between Springville and Mapleton [where my parents live]. So, we had to detour and what not but we saw so many power line poles leaning against trees or completely broken at the base! It was crazy! Just on the street my parents live off of there were 3 poles that were broken. Needless to say, it was going to be a while before the power came back on! "Adventure!" one might think, right? Sure! We had to wait for the wind to die down before we could turn on the grill so we could have some dinner [thank goodness my parents have a grill!] Trying to prepare everything with a flashlight was an odd reminder of girls camp--at least the toilets still flushed! Jk, it was fun! The stressful part was that the NEXT DAY we had to have 4 cakes completely frosted and ready for the drive to Logan for Jay's little sister's wedding. The power being out for 6 hours seriously cramped our cake frosting time! [I'll post pics on that tomorrow!]

Caden and Riggy were watching the trees blowing in the wind

Then they moved their operation to the kitchen and Cambryn and Brayden joined in! I love it!

How do you entertain two 2-year-olds when it's too windy to go outside? Let them watch Pa on the lawn mower! Riggy and Caden [yes, in switched jammies since they both HAD to have Buzz Lightyear on!] Watched our dad on the lawn mower the entire time he was out there--probably close to 45 minutes! When he was out of sight at one window they would run to a different window saying, "Where's Pa?" to where they could see him and shout, "hi Pa! hi Pa!!" Dad did wave, but I don't know if he knew at the time they followed him the whole time he was out side!

I love this one! :D I have a video of it, but it's not loading right now...I'll figure out in the morning and re-post it, it's so funny!

[ps, this is Chira again--and can I just tell you
I feel so smart I figured this out...I know
it's not hard, but I'm special like that!!]

The Sweet Tooth Fairy

2009-09-01T20:02:00.000-07:00

I am a slacker poster/blogger, so my fabulously awesome sister posted this for me. If you didn't know my sister rocks. ove you Kik's

I know you're all as obsessed with cupcakes as we are--so no laughing at our pictures! :D After reading and hearing a lot about this particular cupcake shop, we HAD to stop by! It's adorable, and famous for their va-NIE-lla squared cupcake!! Pretty sure we wanted to hang out there all day with the cute girls that work there! [and that the girl that was helping us totally hooked Cyndi up with a much needed cake supply for the wedding cake--more to come on that!] It was a sweet experience!

Posing on the outside,

Posing on the inside!

Mom was our chauffeur that day, so we left Riggy in the car to sleep...but he still wanted to hold on to his yummy sucker! [Do you see me there next to Riggy? Yea, trying to squish my bottom in between the car seats was an interesting experience--these car seats sure are bigger than their infant ones!]

Caden eating his own yummy sucker [although they ended up trading a few days later--is it gross to keep suckers for a few days?--and Riggy finished off Cadens! haha! note to self--apple is much better than cookies and cream when it comes to suckers!]

Eating mac and CHEESE for lunch!

Embarrassing/celebrating our bro's birthday! He was able to get off his night shift on his b-day so the 'rents took us out to dinner! It was so yummy [never mind that I haven't had any delectable Mexican food since moving to the east. I'll eat at La Casita any day!] We totally brought a cupcake, with candle and lighter, with us to dinner! Then we sang. It was awesome! Then the waiter brought Charles fried ice cream, because it was his birthday--too bad they didn't bring him a sombrero to wear, too! :D It was awesome to be able to spend Charles's bday with him! Love you!

You know you're jealous of our yummy cupcakes! Ok, I am too, since we only ate 4 :( They're so big!! We decided to quarter them so we could try them all...but you can't just eat a quarter!! They were all very, very yummy, but my most favorite was the key lime cupcake! [bottom left]

mmmmmmmmm

Do you want to know how many pictures it took until we got one of us both smiling? 5! One of us was taking a bite in all the others--basically we just wanted to eat the cupcakes!

I couldn't leave this one out! So, you may not know that my grandma used to live with my parents--she had her own apartment in my parents house. [I don't really like saying 'she lived in the basement' because that might sound odd...she really did have an apartment, in the basement!] She passed away 2 years ago, and many of her awesome antique things are still in the downstairs apartment--which is where Cyndi's family sleeps when we're all home. Anyway...we were snooping--like any good grandchildren should do!--and came across these fur coats. Yup, REAL fur coats [but we didn't know that!]. We couldn't resit a picture. There were 2 others we were going to put on, both cloak/cape things, but when my mom said that the fur on one was monkey fur Cyndi got grossed out! REAL monkey fur--on a collar of a coat thing. That is gross. But, now I wish I had a picture so I could show what it looked like! Maybe next time we're home we'll get a picture with some old gloves my mom had and a hat or two! I guess we never grew out of playing dress up!!

[posted by Chira...I gotta give myself some credit!! :D]

Our Awesomeness!

2009-08-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

Guest Post by my awesome sister, Chira.
You can see her blog here

When Cyndi and I are together we tend to get a little spazzy--what can I say, we're more like than we ever thought we'd be! While searching for some essentials at Joann's, we found some unexpected treasures--which of course called for a picture montage--you know you love us!

Some incredibly smart person made a product that gets deodorant off your shirt! Becuase using a towel or the shirt to remove such stains is far too complicated!

My favorite product: disposable armpit sheilds. There's nothing more to say.

Now, we know these are essentials for beauty pagents, but Joann's? Seriously?

A cure to the classic problem--gaping and bulging shirts!

I liked my cure: buy a bigger shirt!

We were so excited because we had to play the "what's in your purse?" game and I totally won! I had bra liners in my purse--just in case!

Some of you may know my brother, he's kind of a hippy--and we love him for it! We found the perfect hair pieces for the brides maid's to wear at his future wedding. [No, he's not engaged or anything, we're just planning ahead!! Aren't we thoughtful?]

Some of you may know my sister is skidish around birds...

But, then again, she's been known to charm animals, too!

We had to take a picture of our new best friend--the girl with the white blouse and blue skirt and yo-yo-headband. We were so excited by her adorable outfit we didn't get her name--we call her "cute outfit girl!" She rocks!

While paroosing we came across the knitting section--you know where they have books of knitting and crocheting patterns. On one of the books were small crocheted animals riding bikes. Now, I'm not trying to dis knitting or crocheting, I'm a fan of both. But, why don't pattern books introduce more visually appealing crafts, like these cute fabric made cakes? Tastey, no?!

Thanks for joining us for our picture montage! Hope you have as much fun as we did the next time you go to Joann's!

Happy 1 year anniversary

2009-08-24T21:51:00.000-07:00

I am a sucker for a good photographer. I love love love pictures.
You have to check out this photographer and her contest :)

First Day of School

2009-08-24T13:55:00.000-07:00

I find it almost hard to believe that summer is in fact actually over.
We had a great summer. Full of lots of fun, friends and way to much good food (well at least while we were on vacation).
The kids were ready, sort of, to start school. They were nervous and excited. Then again so am I. I will miss them (seriously I do love when they are home, and if they start to bug I just send them to a friends. You know you do it to). I will try to find
things to do to occupy my time while they are away :)

My first grader looking so cool. He is starting to look like a big kid not my little boy anymore.

The fashion queen started third grade today. Thank you Alisa for spending ALL Saturday, literally until 9pm, shopping with me. I loved every minute of it. You are amazing! PS come visit me :)

I actually remember my third grade year vividly. I was in a 3rd,4th, 5th combo. I always had my name on the black board and had to do push-ups for talking to much (don't tell my kids that), I got my only referral that year for doing a flip on the swing the very first day of school, and all the girls dotted all their i's with hearts for the hot forth grader Ray.

I also for the first time in my live experienced the negative effects of gossip and had my stomach punched by a classmate--- Ray may or may not have been the subject of all the gossip.....

Our Very Own Richard Simmons

2009-07-24T21:00:00.001-07:00

Need I say more.....

He's getting a hair cut tomorrow. His hair has gotten a little crazy. No worries I'm not ready to cut those lovely locks quite yet.

Activity Day Talent Show.... To be continued

2009-07-04T00:11:00.000-07:00

love these girls... modeling the pj bottoms they made

We had our Activity Day Talent Show today. The girls did a fabulous job. I know that this is a crazy weekend with family, friends, reunions, vacations, baptisms and of course the 4th. So thank you to the girls that came we missed the rest of you!

I was going through the pictures. I'll post more more. As you can tell Rigdon thinks he should be in the pic as well... He weaseled his way into a few of the pics. Crazy two year old.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

2009-06-21T22:24:00.000-07:00

Warning
This a total journal type post.

Today was my first day in YW.
I knew last week I would have a hard time this week when the primary kids sang in church.

The first time I was called to serve in primary, I was screaming inside "Are you serious? Me in primary? There is no way I am going to do this?"
Of course what came out of my mouth was "Yes, I would love to."

The following Sunday the Primary sang. Within seconds the spirit testified to me that this was where I was supposed to be.
Today I was so glad I had moved to a different pew away from Jay ,(so Rig could have a better view of his Bro and Sis and yell hi to them). so Jay didn't see me crying for the few seconds I let me guard down. Totally hate crying- well at least in front of people.
Sometimes you just need to let it out :)

I really don't understand why people don't like serving in primary. It IS a lot of work-but everything is when you try to do your best. But it is also soooo rewarding. ( Jay always says I go over and beyond what I should, but if you know me- that is just who I am. If I happened to not- it wasn't because I didn't want to - I most likely was going over the top with something else and ran out of time, this does hapen on occasion with me)
I am really really going to miss the laughter, the singing, the hugs, the silly sunbeams (we have the cutest sunbeam and they are very entertaining) the honesty

(like "Sis Both I'm bored," "Why do you always where Big earrings?, "" We had 2 pets they both died. One died because we didn't feed him (pretty sure that was a bird not a fish) " Talking about word of wisdom and how we don't drink alcohol- One of the kids pipes in shaking his head disapprovingly "Yeah my Dad ALWAYS is drinking Dr Pepper" I could make a huge list here that would take forever and I know that when I hear what Brayden says in class I am mordified so we'll just leave it at that- I literally laughed out loud every Sunday from the comments they would say)

the special drawings for me, the excitement, wanting to be held, the silliness, the eagerness (even if it was to be done with class), the thank you at the end of the day .

Oh and then my girls I AM majorly going to miss you-- During the Sacrament program today some of the girls said things about their fathers- I almost lost it. I am so going to miss them. It is so crazy to me how little time it takes to love-- One of the hardest things about leaving Provo was leaving my Activity Day girls- They had become my "other" children and I literally would have done anything for them. Saying good-bye was too much for me.
How grateful I am to have been able to serve these sweet girls. I am going to miss their kindness, the weekly hugs on Sunday and the million questions about what we are going to do next, watching them grow spiritually, their willingness to obey and help eachother.

I know my time is done here- at least for now.

One of my favorite scriptures is 3 Nephi 17.

As a child when taught this story we imagine what it must have been like to be there with all the children. To have Jesus bless all the children one by one. Then Jesus says "Behold your little ones"
Then have the heavens open and angels come down and encircle the children.
I have always loved that story

As an adult -- I understand the meaning of the these words. Behold your little ones-- Observe or see your remarkable little ones
Remarkable enough that Jesus wept and Angels came down and surrounded all the children and attended to them.

Being teacher or parent to these remarkable children, really is an amazing thing. When you are surrounded by these sweet spirits it is undeniable how truly close they are to Heavenly Father and His son Jesus Christ. That they really are remarkable.
It is this I will miss!

Since I mentioned it I am going to leave these last verses in 3 Nephi 17 for you to read

21... and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them.

22 And when he had done this he wept again;

23 And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones.

24 And as they looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about, and they were encircled about with fire; and the angels did minister unto them.

Cambryn's Ballet Gala

2009-06-12T10:42:00.000-07:00

Cambryn dance Gala is doing Cinderella for the Ballet part. She is a Bluebird and a shop keeper. I haven't taken any pics yet of her in her shop keeper costume. I'll do that tonight. She did an excellent Job last night. We are so proud of her!

Here is Cambryn with one of her teacher's, Miss Traci.

I don't have the best camera in the world so I'm lucky that other people do and share their pics with me.
Thank you!

Brayden's last Day of School

2009-06-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

The Kindergartner's had a Pinata party

Here is Brayden's Kindergarten Class. I can't believe he is a first grader now!

Roar Scary Monster

2009-06-12T10:09:00.001-07:00

I LOVE it when my kids rediscover old toys. They found the bag of Cranium Masks a few weeks ago and haven't sopped playing with them. Berto keeps walking around saying "Roar. I funny Mommy."

If you haven't noticed my baby is totally living WT style. I never thought I'd be that mom that lets her kid run around in just a diaper all day. I even remember a time when Jay would come home from someone's house he had just visited and say

"Yeah there house was really bad. Yada yada and there baby wasn't wearing any clothes. He/She was just in a diaper."

Hmmm lets see My baby plays outside half the day, in the dirt, with the chalk, with the dogs, Won't wear a bib at all, no matter how many times I put it back on, and isn't the cleanest eater, He's 2 what do you expect?

Yes I could Oxi-Clean (new favorite cleaner, Thanks Jessica, wish I knew of it's awesomeness earlier. But you have to get the laundry one. It is already mixed. But you can use it on everything else too. It is a multi purpose cleaner. Carpet, furniture, counters- just about everything--Love it!), but let's just face it I don't have endless hours to pre treat every outfit he puts on. I don't like him going out to messy- That's just ghetto! :)

So instead we keep the clothes clean- Get the baby neked! When we go out I put the baby in the sink wash the face, hands and legs/feet. Then put the clean clothes back on.
Then when we come home. Clothes back off!
I'm So Smart!

What do you do in the summer time?

2009-06-12T09:53:00.000-07:00

When you don't have a pool you find other ways to get soaking wet!

Here is where it all started. We had friends over for dinner and to play. I'm not exactly sure how washing the dishes turned in to washing the toys, but it did. We ended up with LOTS of clean toys that night.

Rigi has decided that it is his new favorite past time. Whenever I do anything at the sink, including wash my hands, he drags a chair over and says "help Mommy help."

How do I resist that face?

Crafting it Up!

2009-06-09T23:12:00.000-07:00

Long time..... ☺ Oh I HAVE missed you blog. Just so you don’t think I sit around all day doing nothing (unless of course your definition of nothing is-
A person who chases a crazy, busy, talkative, sweet 2 yr old, goes to the gym, does way to much homework for someone not in school, has relearned reading and math, cleans the same things over and over again at least 10x a day it seams,
(dirty is so much easier.....RIGHT?), learned ballet and the violin, again, Is a pro at Zack and Wiki (that might actually count as nothing ☺) chases Rigi- it is worth saying twice, drives the kids around, etc you’ve heard it all before) then yes I am doing nothing. And loving it! I love being busy with my kids. I just wish I had more hours in the day to do more crafting.

So I am showing off for a few and I must give credit where credit is do. I am a crafty copier- crafters beware, if it is cute I am so copying it.

Aubree was really sweet and shared her Birthday with Cambryn. I made Aubree her cute Birthday hat and embellished her tee with some fabric and bling. A Girls gotta have some bling! I have more pics....

Fun Baby Cake

I Basically want to copy everything this lady does. I want to Live Life Patino Style. We could so be glitter buddies. She is over the top which I LOVE. In another post I’ll be showing lot’s of fun things that I’m making or have made thanks to Miss Patino. I was inspired to make a cute St. Patties day shirt for Cambryn.
If you want a taste of the Patino Life Click here

back

front

clip

I've made
Lot's of these

and this.

I made these end of the year thank you's for the kids teachers. Love the wrapped sterling on the peach beads.

Party anyone?

Who doesn’t love to receive presents. For me I think I have more fun making presents then receiving them. . . most of the time :)☺. When my friend, mother of 5 boys, found out she was actually having a girl. I think all of her friends 1- started praying that this baby would make it here okay 2- hmm what are we going to get this baby--- everything. I think we all wanted to spoil this baby and mom. I have no words to describe what an amazing mom and person she is. I asked her what she wanted of course she said whatever, just as long as it was hand made. Theme red so I went with it Here is what I made her.

I just went to her house the other day to make more bracelets and binkie clips. She decided she needed more bracelets to match all the outfits-- :)

This tu tu onsie was so cute I almost had to keep it. I ruffled 3" strips of tulle and sewed them on the onsie then put swarovski crystals on for a crown. Perfet for the little princess.

Ian's crib bedding you can see his cute room here

I can't wait to see it in person.

For Caden. Miss you!

I made a nursing cover tutorial if anyone wants it. It is really easy. Lining is the trick!

We got to go visit the newest Both in January. What a little sweety. He will be so big next time we see him. Cambryn and Brayden loved holding him. Sometimes they actually fought over how would be able to hold him. Brayden was really sweet and would hold him forever.

I was so excited to make him some cute things and his big sister too. I saw this on a web site and I had to make one. I had been itching to use my grommit setter.
Way better cover then what I had for Cambryn and Brayden.

Isn't he the perfect model.

Cambryn with Baby Noah. So sweet.

We made these for Activity Days. I had the girls write a letter to themselves with a goal for this year and then put it in the box.

I got these wooden boxes from the dollar store. Rounded up some cute scrapbook paper. Made a pattern unhinged the boxes and let the girls have at it. We Mod Podged the paper then sanded the edges, then mod podged again and put their cricut cut names on with Mod Podge. Then another layer of Mod Podge. Fianally Hot Glue cute layered flower on Top. Oh and put the hinges back on.

This was before they had all put their names on. They turned out Super Cute!

Cambryn rockin' the leotard I made her. I love the ruffles around the neck. I would love a bathing suit with halter straps like that.

I found this all over the blog-net at Halloween time. Kiki and I made the actual BOO ones and then had this fantabulous idea to make one for every Holiday. What a great idea. Well a couple of months went by, Kiki made her Valentines one sooo cute (I'm not sayng her other ones weren't cute). I had to copy. Love Pink, Love glitter. I got stumped on Spring--- anyone have a 3 letter or 4 letter word to describe spring, besides EGG. Thanks Chris
You can see the details to make one of these
Here

One of my favorite Blogs around is Just a Girl. She has some of the best ideas. She truly sees the lemonade out of that lemon. I have copied a few of her things and been inspired by other things she's done. So worth checking out!

Hand Sanitizer Blinged Out - Teachers Valentine Presents
Directions
Here

Altered Compostition Book
Instuctions
Here

If you haven't guessed yet I love Mod Podge. It is basically a staple for crafting. Seriously I use it for everything. It is an essential tool. Guys have duck tape, I have Mod Podge!

These are so old but worth sharing. We made these at our Super Saturday. Such a cute easy idea. Take a book ( this is actually one of the blue Book of Mormons) cover with cute paper and some mod podge- love the stuff if you couldn't tell- a couple of times.
Put a cute ribbon around it secured with a brad on the front and back with a flower embellishment. Ta Da
Cute scriptures for church

Front

Back

Oh I made these really cute Trick or Treat Owls for Sharon's Boys. She sent me the tutorial Here

I thought of lots of cute ways to change these for my kids.... if I end up making them

Few Okay I think that is enough for now. See you soon......

Violin Recital

2009-05-10T20:25:00.000-07:00

Cambryn did an excellent job playing her violin. She played Minuet 3 by Bach. She is very excited to be almost through the first Suzuki book. She is a very hard worker and Mom and Dad were so proud of her for trying her best.

Cambryn wanted a new "concert" dress. Any excuse for a new outfit-- True True!
I gave Cambryn 2 options and this is the one she picked.

I originally saw this outfit HERE

(Major addicting blog)
Which lead me HERE

I changed mine up a little to make it go a tad bit faster. But I honestly didn't think it took that long. The whole outfit took only a few hrs. I took one of my old shirts and took in in and up a little to fit Cambryn, but left enough seam allowances so she can wear it a while.

I think it turned out pretty cute!

Rigdon copies everything everyone else does. I LOVE it!

Family Visit

2009-05-10T19:50:00.001-07:00

The day after Christmas Jay's parents came. We had a lot of fun with them. Okay we had way to much fun playing the Wii. I think we burned more calories then we ate..... Maybe not Christine's Enchilada's were killer yummy.

While they were here we mostly fished and played the wii. I wish we could see them more often, but I am very grateful they came out to spend time with us during the holidays. I hope we can visit them again soon.

We love you and are so blessed to be a part of your family :)

Fishing with Grampy

Fishing with Grampy and Grammy

This one LOVES to fish. I guess when you actually catch something then it IS fun!

And when that doesn't work playing with a stick can provide hours of entertainment. SERIOUSLY!

Who are we kidding here is what Brayden really wanted to do.

shhh...

2009-04-28T16:11:00.000-07:00

Cyndi and her lizard!

IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY!!!

I tried to put up as many silly pictures of Cyndi as I could find on my computer--but I don't have that many!! :D
Happy Birthday Cyndi!!!!

worken it! teehehehee

Dad and lil Cyndi

we're special, you're all jealous! [I think this is '98?]

My favorite picture of us!

Today minus 5 years! Thanks for letting me get married on your birthday! I love you!!

*Kiks*

Christmas Summary... It's about time

2009-04-17T20:45:00.000-07:00

This was our 5th Christmas here in Bakersfield. We moved here December of 2004.
I can't believe we have been here for 4 whole years.

Christmas Eve
We spent Christmas by ourselves this year-not my favorite thing to do. I love loud family chaos. Constant laughter and conversation. Lot's of crazy giggling kids.

We went with our good friends, the O'Neill's to their Church's Christmas service.
It was really nice. The kids really enjoyed it and it was good celebrate the birth of our Savior with friends.

Singing Christmas Carols

Puppet Navity

This is a story about what Christmas is NOT all about-----

Wow Brayden those are some pretty big VROOM VROOMS (Riggi's word for car)

Brayden I think those were supposed to be for me.

Rigdon think again

This is so unfair

I never get what I want....

Poor Baby

Ohh what's this

Cars for me Yeaay
All better

Santa's Foot prints and magic snow. We get it where we can. Little Berto was trying hard to stay awake :) Can you spot him on the couch?

He acts like he's so tough....

Brayden's hiding spot

Rigdon's hiding spot

We had a great Christmas and could hardly wait until the next day for Jay's Mom and Dad to come and play with us for a couple of days. I love family!

He's 2

2009-04-13T23:14:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was Easter as well as Rigdon's second Birthday. I can't believe we have had this sweet crazy baby in our home and lives for 2 whole years. They have gone by sooo fast.
We decided to celebrate his Birthday today instead of yesterday- Too much with Easter. I climbed into my bed at 4am yesterday morning to (finally) go to sleep- Rig was already in our bed and on my pillow. I leaned over kissed him goodnight and wished my sweet baby Happy Birthday.

I promise I am not skipping all the other good stuff ie- Cambryn's B-day, party, Easter visitors, Spring Break we've been busy. Here are some of the pics I took of Rig on His actual Birthday. How can you not love this kid.

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Just watched this movie- I missed so much the first time. Maybe I shouldn't watch movies at midnight and fall asleep in the theatre. :) Yeah for free itunes download. now I can watch it at the gym too!
Hello Hot Picture!

2009-04-04T21:35:00.000-07:00

At this very moment Rigdon is currently Singing, no belting out the words (Riggi style) to Tomorrow.
No worries we are pretty confident in his manhood.

A few weeks ago in dance Cambryn started learning a new dance to one of the Annie songs, Your never fully dressed without a Smile.
Since then Cambryn has literally become obsessed with the movie. She has been getting up at 6:30 in the morning to practice her violin. After I will find her in the play room watching Annie.
It is virtually impossible for me to not sing the songs when I hear them. Ditto for Cambryn.
Brayden is too cool for this (although I do occasionally hear him singing to HSM 3 in the car- he won't admit it) Riggi doesn't know any different yet.

We think it is pretty cute. With that I will leave you with
a little annie imagine little Rig singing. I know I have got to record it. Maybe tomorrow---

Sorry everyone I thought I bought the original Annie, but Cambryn decided that she liked this version any way. She even informed me that on youtube you can watch all the songs.

At the Dr

2009-04-03T19:38:00.000-07:00

I don't know about you but modern technology sure makes dr visits with children so much more enjoyable for me !

Wasting time at the dr's office: I was looking through my pics on the camera. Rig has a new thing every time he sees me with the camera he starts saying cheese and doing a goofy grin until I take a pic :)

Not so bad this time around

2009-04-02T19:36:00.001-07:00

No crying now. He was trying so hard to pull it out. The day after I took these pictures he pulled it out at school. I asked him if it hurt he said "No I just ripped it out."

Gotta love the toothless grin!

July 17th and counting

2009-03-23T17:25:00.000-07:00

Signs that you truly have no life....

1. You have no idea what songs are on the normal radio. But you you know every HSM song, Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers and wiggles song. Theme songs to Diego, Dora, Backyardigans, and Mickey Mouse Club to name a few.

2. You used to know dance moves to *N Sync. Now you now you can dance all the backyardiganHSM dance moves with your daughter.

3. You know every single word to Cars, Toy Story, Toy Story 2 and Nemo. ( Right now Jay is singing along with a Cars song and just informed that he really likes this music! Case and Point)

4. You text your sister lines from Pixar movies you think are hilarious and know she will totally get it- okay maybe I only do that

5.You realize that all the "cool" music you jam out to at gym class are now considered "Old School" and all the people "your age" don't know them (because I still think I am 18).

6.The wiggles actually look cute (help me please). You have a crush on Joe Jonas and Zac Effron just like your 8 yr old daughter.

7.You suddenly realize that all the songs that the "younger people" like are full of vulgarity, innuendos and completely degrading of women and marriage. And there is NO WAY your kids will be listening to it.

dances and practice

At this point you might realize why your parents are stuck in whatever era YOU were born in. It is not their fault they are stuck there. It is yours. They went from being "with it" to listening to the wheels on the bus, Sesame Street, and the Muppets.
Occasionally some "rockin" song would be heard at which point some singing and jamming would take place. And us on lookers from the back seats of station wagons trimmed in faux wood and large full size vans would stare in awe.

This of course would NEVER happen to us.

wood and large full size vans would stare in awe.

My list could go on. But you get my idea

Okay so my point for this post was that I am so excited for this movie to come out. As you can tell I have added a widget to the side to count down to the premier. I will so be there at Midnight. My point being you know you have no life when you are LITERALLY GIDDY for a movie to come out - I mean really -

So here is the Youtube trailer of Harry Potter but you can also go to the official site and see 2 trailers there Click Here

PS Did I mention New Moon will be in Theaters on November 20th and Dakota Fanning will be playing Jane :)

Haha

2009-03-18T21:27:00.000-07:00

Has it really been that long? That position for secretary is still open. Any takers?

I miss the blogging world! But I get nothing done when I start doing this. I can't just come on here and post. I have to browse all the other blogs ( lets face it that can take hours) I have over 1000 unread blog posts to read. The worst part I haven't read any friends blogs and I keep finding other blogs to read.

Brayden picked CPK for his B-day dinner. On the way home the kids told us they really don't like the food there. Brayden just wanted his free B-day sundae.
On the menu it is .99 cents.
Next time we'll just skip the dinner.

So where did I leave off. Oh yes Nutcracker came and went. And in the middle of all that craziness my sweet baby boy turned 6. I can't believe it has been 6 years.

He is my sweetheart. My pregnancy with him was so easy, he was an easy baby and an easy toddler. He was my little cuddler. I remember his little fuzzy bald head would fit right into my neck and he would snuggle up and go to sleep. He hardly ever cried - He was the perfect baby and toddler. He has gotten so big so fast. But he is still my sweet little boy.

He actually told me no this year and I almost peed my pants with shock. I honestly didn't know what to do. He never tells me no. If we get mad at him he is devastated for hours. He is so tenderhearted. He is my helper and my peacemaker. He plays with Rig non-stop and is my little babysitter. Brayden always makes sure everyone else is happy. He loves his brother and sister. He cries when they are sad- and says Cambryn in his best friend. My favorite is they walk out of school to meet me at the gate holding hands. I know it won't last forever. But I'll take it while I can.

Since this is his Birthday post I can brag right--- I was so worried when he started school. All his little friends were going to a different school. When I told him he wasn't going to school with his BF he was so sad. I thought he would just get his heart broken everyday at school. But he has become quite the little social bug and asmart pants too.

He started school not knowing any ABC's (we tried) and know he can read. The light turned on and he absorbs everything. I have him do Cambryn's Math and now they are racing on Minute Math. We'll see if he can catch up to her. He is also the fastest kid in his class. They are practicing for their track meet right now. I ask everyday how he did running. Today he told me he came in first and then said but mom we only ran twice like to was no big deal. It must be those skinny legs :) He says it is his super fast shoes. ( we bought the kids running shoes but they aren't as cool as his other shoes- so I told him they would help him run faster-They will right they're running shoes)

I love this sweet boy. I feel so blessed to have him as my son and so lucky to be his Mom.

Poor kid has had his birthday right in the middle of Nutcracker the past 2 years. And his slacker mom hasn't given him a party because I am crazy at Christmas. We are shooting for a 1/2 year party. But you most likely won't see those pictures until he is turning 7.

I got a little carried away looking through my old pics so just scroll fast through memory lane :)

Remember this one!

Bakersfield Nutcracker

2009-01-26T15:55:00.000-08:00

I am so far behing in my catching up. Maybe by the end of this month I might actually have pics up of Christmas :)
Cambryn asked Hillary a question the other day about the Nutcracker and Hillary responded that she was STILL waiting for me to post pics.
So to all of you who have been waiting in suspense .... here are some pics of my little ballerina.

Cambryn Stretching

Okay maybe not some-
Here will be a major picture overload for some of you.

Cambryn was able to perform this year in our Bakersfield Nutcracker. Words can not express what an amazing blessing and opportunity it is to dance with Civic. Last year Rig was still little so I didn't really spend much time back stage. This year I spent as much time as I could.
Mostly for Cambryn but partly because it was just fun..... shhhh don't tell anyone

Cambryn stretching

The older kids have so much respect for eachother and are so willing to help the younger kids.
They really are great role models for the younger children.
In Bakersfield we are really lucky to be able to perform with a live Symphany Orchestra. The teachers constantly reming the children how special that is and to make sure to thank the orchestra. Even now Cambryn just told me how lucky they were :)

Cambryn had the role as a ginger. She was really excited usually- ususally the older girls get the ginger roles. For those of you how don't know the nutcracker, when I explain this to you it is going to sound creepy, basically in the Mother Ginger Scene ginger's and bon bons come out from under Mother Ginger's skirt. Yes Mother Ginger ia a Man. I actually had to research this out of my own curiousity. It was first performed in 1892. At that time women were not allowed to perform. Why Mother Ginger continues to be played by a man dress like drag queen..... well let's just say he is a good sport.

Here is Cambryn during one of her practices. She didn't want me to post this because she is embarassed for messing up. Good grief she is a perfectionist (where she gets it I have no idea). When I get the actual video of the performance I will post it. Then you can see the whole thing- the kids did such a good job and it is pretty funny too.

Marvin (our Mother Ginger) had ripped a big whole in his bloomer's crotch. I was helping backsatge so I offered to fix them for him. I seriously couldn't even look him in the eye while I talked to him.
Those huge glitter lashes, blue eye shadow, and red lips were just too much for me.

Here is Mother Ginger with Cambryn. How eleven children fit under that skirt? I still have not figured out. Watching them all pile under was hillarious.

Cambryn and Chandler (Clara) she is the assistant in one of Cambryn's classes

cambryn and Larissa- they were in pre-school togeteher when we first moved here and now they are in the same dance

Cambryn and Lauren the other pink ginger

Cambryn can hardly wait for her next performance in June. It is all she talks about! This girl loves to dance-- I take that back she loves getting dressed up, wearring make-up and being the center of attention.

Good Morning Bakersfield

2009-01-26T15:42:00.000-08:00

Need I say more?

Who's Related

2009-01-23T19:42:00.000-08:00

I was organizing my photos and I came across this picture. Can you guess who is related and how? When we go out with the fam most people group the wrong kids together as siblings. I wish I had a good close up picture of all of us together . . . .hmm
sounds like a picture in our future

Leigh remember those wands? I still have Cambryn's. LOVE IT!

100th Day of School

2009-01-23T17:08:00.000-08:00

Man did I have a hard time trying to find something for this project. This is what we were asked to do:

"Help your child select an object and then count out 100. After counting several times have the child attach them in some manner to a display board of some type. We must be able to see and count out your project.
This does not HAVE to be creative and artistic, but it can be if you want."
Then a small list of ideas are given (of course I ignore all these!).

(Cyndi version- This HAS to be creative and if it is not SUPER DUPER creative and loved by all the kindergartens you have failed. )
Crap I hate failing!

No lie just now when I typed this I read the part that said it does not HAVE to be creative.

After reading EVER single post, website and blog on the 100th day of school (and yes they do exist) I seriously could find nothing I liked that was creative.

Except 1 but I knew Brayden wouldn't like it. ( It was display 100 boxtops on a board and then have the school keep it. Thanks to my sis and my mom we almost have 250 box tops!)

I did however get my brain thinking in the right direction. I gave Brayden a couple of different options and this is what he picked to do-- Surprised - Not really, I knew he would pick this one.

What you need

1 wig form-- Sally's Beauty- $2.69

1 pkg of pipe cleaner--- Wal-Mart $1.49

2 cans of green play-doh ---Walmart .70c each

3 bouncy balls--- junk drawer :) you've got one too

I actually pulled out a little more play doh from our stash.

Here's how I made it: I rolled out the green play doh and laid it over the "head" and smoothed it all down. Made a monster nose out of playdoh. Made holes for the bouncy balls. Hot glued them on the monster. Took sharpie to detail the eyeballs. Made a mouth out of blue playdoh. (while I was doing this Brayden was counting out the pipe cleaners in 10, then grouping them together-10, 20, 30....)

Then Cambryn, Brayden and I went to work on the crazy hair! We had fun.

End result a green, 3 eyed, 100 "haired" monster.

He was stoked and couldn't stop holding it.
He proudly announced when he came home that he had the best project-- not that it mattered--right?!

A+ for me

I kept Cambryn's from when she was in K if anyone wants any ideas in the future!

Twilight Fans

2009-01-23T16:59:00.000-08:00

2 of my faves together.

and it is not Jacob and Edward

I love Twilight and I love Cinnamon Sticks .
She makes some pretty amazing jewelry.
Check out her latest design.

You know you want it!

Here is Cinnamon Sticks Blog

Here is Cinnamon Sticks Etsy Shop

Bumbleride Indie Twin Stroller

2009-01-17T12:16:00.000-08:00

Okay I know another giveaway but this is soooo worth it! I know I would love to win this

http://inevergrewup.net/giveaway-25-bumbleride-indie-stroller/

so head on over to I never Grew Up

and enter to win.

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

2009-01-16T15:44:00.000-08:00

So worth checking out she has some fun things she makes!

The Lunch Date Blouse GIVEAWAY!!!!

Carrie Underwood- Catching up

2009-01-14T08:54:00.000-08:00

I was so excited that Alisa was coming out the same weekend as Carrie Underwood. I had already had tickets and was planning on a date with Jay. He wasn't that excited about the concert. He was more then willing to watch 9 kids by himself. (He is either slightly insane or just a really great Dad and Hubby.) I thought for sure when I got home he was going to say it was awful. Nope he said all the kids were really behaved and he was even able to rock little Miley until she was drowsy ( Alisa's baby-- Jay does really well rocking the babies to sleep). How lucky am I.

Carrie Underwood sounded amazing. Her voice is truly flawless.
Alisa and I had some seriously ghetto seats- up behind the lights- they were padded folding chairs. But it was better then the alternative. One of our original seats was have occupied by a very large butte'. Like when Alisa sat down the lady next to her had to lift her bum and then place it back on Alisa's chair. Poor girl honestly should have bought 2 seats. So we didn't last long in those seats.

Thanks Alisa for being my date!

Love this girl!

We were laughing so hard trying to get a decent pic we were crying.

Katherine--So Me! What about you?

2009-01-12T17:46:00.000-08:00

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are a Katharine!

You are a Katharine -- "I am happy and open to new things"

Katharines are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

* Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.

* Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.

* Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.

* Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.

* Be responsible for youself. I dislike clingy or needy people.

* Don't tell me what to do.

What I Like About Being a Katharine

* being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down

* being spontaneous and free-spirited

* being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.

* being generous and trying to make the world a better place

* having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures

* having such varied interests and abilities

What's Hard About Being a Katharine

* not having enough time to do all the things I want

* not completing things I start

* not being able to profit from the benefits that come from specializing; not making a commitment to a career

* having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies

* feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship

Katharines as Children Often

* are action oriented and adventuresome

* drum up excitement

* prefer being with other children to being alone

* finesse their way around adults

* dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up

Katharines as Parents

* are often enthusiastic and generous

* want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life

* may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive

Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Come on, Are you Serious? There are no words. . .

2009-01-08T15:12:00.000-08:00

Led tiara and all-- make sure you absorb every detail

I can't believe that I am already doing this. I swear I just graduated from High School and am only 19 maybe 20. I have no idea how I ended up with an almost 8 yr old.

Cambryn is almost 8 which means she is old even to be baptised if she chooses too. I have been casually browsing baptism dresses for the past year in hopes of finding a couple of perfect dresses and then Cambryn can pick the one that she wants.
A preemptive answer to your question- because I know you are going to ask- No- right now I am not planning on making it :) But thanks for the compliment.

Today Chira and I went shopping together ( via ichat and text chat) for Cambryn's Baptism dress. If you are outside of Utah you are looking for a First Communion dresses ( a Catholic ceremony that typically happens around 7/8 -I don't know much about it but you can google it to learn more). A white pretty dress.

This is what we found.

You know you were about to scroll up and check it out again :)

It has been hrs since we discovered this treasure and every time I look at it I almost pee my pants laughing.

No lie this is a real picture from a real first communion.
Was this Mom for REAL!!!

I can only hope that one day she will regret this dress/outfit and hate whoever posted it on the Internet.

No worries I saved the pic so I could laugh again later
ps I thought I should add I am not trying to be mean - we all have worn crazy outfits that we are embarrassed about now but at the time we thought we were super hot. Seriously pic a year I'll find one of mine--- but I might not post it on the web :)

image taken from http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=359831#post359831

Nutcracer Dresses

2009-01-07T17:04:00.000-08:00

I am trying to catch up as fast as I can with out leaving out the important details. Maybe I am not very good at doing a quick synopsis. As you can tell from my last post.
I sewed a couple of dresses for the nutcracker. I unfortunately didn't get pics of the Spanish dresses that I made. Which is a bummer because they were really cool and not to pat my own back but I didn't have a pattern just a dress to copy. So if and when I get pics I will post them. I also made a couple of random things and then this dress for a little girl who was in the party scene of the nutcracker. I had Cambryn model it for me.

I started with a flower girl dress and then turned it into a nutcracker appropriate dress. I love doing projects like this.
This is totally going to make me sound dorky, but whatever. So I totally research all about the nutcracker. The time period it was written, when it was preformed all that good stuff. That way I would make a time period appropriate dress. I learned all sorts of interesting facts.

This is the dress I started with. It was gorgeous to start with

This is what I turned it into. Don't make fun of I took lot's of pics.

Stay tuned for more nutcracker pictures...

Our Local Zoo

2009-01-07T13:41:00.000-08:00

By local I of course mean right here in my very own home.
2 Adults (uhmm older kids), 3 kids, 1 dog, 2 out door cats (they used to be indoor but we have discovered that Jay, for whatever reason, is allergic to these particular cats- we have had others he wasn't allergic too) So I don't really think the cats count and if we are going to count the cats we might as well count the 2 other cats we feed and the skunk who clearly still comes around because I can smell him (if you had for some reason missed the skunk incident you can click on the skunk to re read the drama) a guinea pig, oh and 2 fish ( I have a hard time counting them too).
We have a busy house so why not make it a little busier right....

Here is the latest addition to our family
His name (Mandy I am sorry I know this is your sons name but if it makes you feel better my dog growing up had the name of Hunter and my other dog is Molly . I have lot's of friends with kids named Molly)
is officially Rocco middle name yet to be decided.

yes I tied the bow around his neck before I brought him out to the kids

After 4 days of debating Brayden finally decided he liked the name Rocco because it sounds like Rock On (very important)
He wanted to name him Bowser ( Jay said the name wasn't fitting for an ankle bitter) or Luigi - yes my child is a fan of Mario.

I went and picked him out when he was first born and was super excited to suprise the kids. we have been telling the kids they can't have another dog for months. Cambryn even wanted to ask Santa for one-

Right away Cambryn decided the dog was hers. She took him with her to read, watch tv we had to ask her if we could play with him

We all love him right away except for Molly who was so stressed out she kept throwing up and hiding if the puppy got near her. ( Dad don't worry she only threw up once on the ground- and I completely cleaned and sanitised after) Molly kept trying to get in the car with us- i guess she was hoping to run away.

They are finally starting to get along and play almost all day together. Jay ( who supossedly doesn't like animals even though he is always talking about how he would love to have land and horses-- ) walks in the door and Rig and Molly are right there waiting to be picked up and get attention. Rigdon cries and Molly barks until he does. Jay does pick them up snd carry them round for a little while and now Rocco wants in on it too. It is pretty funny.

The kids have been really good about helping take care of all the animals and so far there hasn't been any complaining.
Rigdon has learned to say Rocco, Molly, Good Dog and Ahh (he says repeatedly whenever he sees a baby or any animal). If I can get him to do it on "Q"
I will record it and post it for you. It is pretty cute.

Please don't report us for animal abuse. Rigdon thinks the dog is his too. We have to monitor the Rig love to the puppy!

Loved and Not Forgotten

2009-01-06T23:34:00.000-08:00

I am still here. I have still been reading all of your blogs. I have read at least 100+ emails and have 1500 unread in my inbox {I'd like to pretend I am that popular but most of it is spam :) } I promise I will get back to this and to you. But until then just a little kid kandy

Seriously aren't they cute.

I had Cambryn go under the Brayden's bunk bed to clean. All sorts of good stuff under there.... Next thing I knew they were all under the bed. Since I basically have my camera with me all the time (never want to miss a good photo opp) I figured this was picture worthy :)

I feel like it

2009-01-02T18:14:00.000-08:00

This was pre-lipstick and lashes. I go to put fake lashes on Cambryn and her real eyelashes were longer!
So not fair

Okay okay I know I ma a slacker. If blogging in my mind counts for anyting I have done tons of blogging. I have so much to share. SO after I catch up on my 3,000 unread emails and email some people back I will catch up on my blog.

SO today ----I could tell you about all the fabulous goals I will be setting for myself this year, Christmas, Brayden's Birthday, the nutcracker, my cute kids my new puppy, my burning christmas light (so stinky we thought the neighbors were smoking for 2 days straight) my crazy life but instead I am going to share a fav of mine.

So I love MAC make up. LOVE IT. It is so fun to play with. I was like a school girl with a new outfit ( okay well that is fun too) backstage at the nutcracker. First of all I love being backstage. It is so fun! Cambryn is at a fun age and it doesn't feel like babysitting anymore. Oh Right Nutcracker that is another blog.
So when another friend of mine saw me with all my make-up ( I kind of have a lot) she busted out her LARGE make-up kit and we compared all our favs and of course had to try them out.
I know this is super boring to most of you, but to Hillary and Chira-- you know what I am talking about. When Maryann showed me one of her favorite looks, I knew I had to have it ( by this time we had already whipped out a pad of paper and started writing our wish list).

Okay Mulch --I had to buy Mulch. Guess what I went home and already had it.

So these are my favorite colors for this week. I am pretty sure my sister loves these to.

Honey Lust (lighter)
Amber Lights (middle)
and
Mulch (darkest)

You can wear all three together or Mulch with one of the others and use a light color for your brow like, Vanilla.

Thanks Maryann I had fun and look forward to Gala so we can play again.

New Year New Blog

2008-12-27T22:47:00.000-08:00

My favorite Shabby Creations is having a blog make-over giveaway. She has some great new blog designs. She will be picking out 3 winners on January 3rd to pick from her pre-made templates.
So head on over and enter to win!

Click Here :)

Merry Christmas

2008-12-27T00:57:00.000-08:00

We love you all.

Who needs a laugh

2008-12-01T13:31:00.000-08:00

I promise I am alive. Just ridiculously busy. I know none of you have this problem but I do, When I start blogging I don't stop. I spend way to much time blog surfing and stalking- I LOVE IT. I just haven't had the time recently. And now I am so far behind.

. . Any way Jay was watching sports on his lunch break - surprise surprise- This commercial came on. I had to rewind it twice I was laughing so hard.

Planters Nuts Super Bowl Commercial: Woman Attracts Men w/ Nuts

This might reflect badly on me. . . or my sense of humor. This woman is killer! Maybe I need to get out more LOL.

helpen a sister out!

2008-11-18T17:34:00.001-08:00

So...I've decided to hack in to my sisters blog and update the posts from the prom pictures...which we have all laughed at for over a month... Ok, so I'm not really hacking in but Cyndi doesn't know I'm posting for her--how long do you think it'll take before she notices? She loves me! :D lol But, in her defense, she's been SUPER busy sewing crib sets, and costumes for Cambryn's dance company, petty-skirts for the little girls at our cousin's wedding and all the other un-nameable wifely and motherly duties a mom of 3 does!! I do think she's forgotten that a blog is to mark the things you've been doing and not just to show off your digi-skills! :D Ok, so I'll put up some pictures from Marla's wedding, but y'all can see more at my blog and our cousin Hill's blog and hopefully Cyndi will get back to blogging soon! Do you think Cyndi will still love me after this?! :D

Getting ready for the candy!

stopping for a pic!

My sisters cute family outside the temple!

My cousins little girl, Aubree, didn't want to wear her puffy slip any more--but Berto was all over the job! He even twirled! :D

Caden LOVES Brayden--it's so cute!

I love these kids!

Prom---

2008-10-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

Kattie Jo, Me, Liz Jr Prom Spring 95
3 of my BFF's
Notice Liz's Jessica Mcclintock dress

On so many levels and for so many reasons I am embarrassed. Since Amy

asked us ( or challenged us, I am not quite sure ) to blog our prom pics here we go. Just to make myself feel a little bit better you have to go check out Amy's blog (hehe) she has some killer 90's photo's of herself.

Because I would like to think that I am a better person then I was in High School and so much of a cool person (no comments or laughter please) I really regret my attitude about prom. Which really needs no explaination. I think my face and the pictures do all the explaining. My poor date, whatever my reasons--- I think that night I used the excuse that I was feeling sick to get to go home early :) I know ----- Maybe that is why my normal 10pm curfey was extended a couple of hours my parents knew they had nothing to worry about. I was scared to death by boys! But my sis made up for that. Love ya kiki

Oh the torture the pain! I mean now looking back at how ridiculous I look!

Moving on to Senior Prom Spring '96

Okay so I had this dress in mind that I wanted to make. After turning down the first person that asked me to prom I thought I wouldn't get asked. But I did. I had wanted to make my dress a tank top. But the boy who asked me's mom was my formed YW pres and I KNEW she would so not approve. Since I was a major kiss butt and worried way to much about what people thought I added sleeves, ya know for the pic and all. Don't worry I made up for it in the back.

I loved this dress. I kinda had a thing for gloves if you couldn't tell. We even made a black one for my sis when she was in High School. Hers did not have sleeves. But had a higher back-- she thought mine was too hoochie or something. But then whn she got married we used scraps added cap sleeves and she could still wear it. So maybe "modest is actually the hotest"!

So many stories about this night. . . way to long-- Short synopsis--- kidnapping, Park City, 18th B-day, Midnight Party, First Kiss, bets, dancing, Getting pulled over by a cop and getting a lecture about the 12th article of faith, "obeying honoring and sustaining the law", figuring out after, that the cop (add bow tie and glasses) was really one of our seminary teachers after the fact. Oh and so much more. Utah Mormon dates are an all day major extravaganza and a lot of fun!

Okay all of you I dare you post your prom pics--

The dreaded note home

2008-10-01T19:39:00.000-07:00

Detention. . . No
F's. . .Heavens no
Room Mom needed. . .no ( I would without Berto)

Picture Day is coming. . . Ugh
Why is it on this blessed occasion that I completely stress out. I spend hours walking around my house peeking in the closets in between my "Mom chores" hoping that the perfect outfit will jump out and say "Wear me. I am the one." You know what sometimes I have that light bulb moment and know just what they will wear. Last year I bought Cambryn's outfit a month early.
So tomorrow is picture Day. No outfit, no fabulous hair plans. . . nothing. Just lots of wandering and staring in closets. . . How come this day came so fast and I am so unprepared. Maybe it is because I just got the most amazing pictures done by peekaboo photos, and we all know that school pictures (at least at our house) never make it on the mantel. Sorry kiddos it really isn't your fault. Mom thinks your cute!
I just wish my other brain's (my sister and friends) were here to help me . . .

The reason why. . .

How can school pictures ever compare.

ps I have so many more -- thanks for humouring me today IHOP ladies. To my family who is dying to get them I really wanted to frame them for Christmas BUT if you can't wait let me know. . . there are a ton that are even cuter then these!

Happy Halloween

2008-09-26T18:11:00.000-07:00

I love this time of year! I love decorating. So obviously I had to decorate the blog too!
Pictures courtesy of Martha Stewart.

Activity Day Help

2008-09-25T12:59:00.000-07:00

Alright sisters I need some help. So we try to plan fun things to do with the girls, but obviously sometimes things don't work out. Two times ago we made magnets and played a "unity" game. We put Disney characters on our back and then you had to go around and talk to everyone asking yes or no questions. The girls had an absolute blast. They loved it.
Yesterday we were supposed to go and do a tour of a local restaurant and eat some yummy. But last minute that wasn't going to work. So we played scripture pictionary and another game. We played the game where you have a small present wrapped in like a million layers and then you go around the room rolling 2 dice. When someone rolls doubles they have to put a hat on, oven mitts, and use 2 spoons to peel off the layers. Okay they LOVED that one. But so did I when I was in YW.
So here is where I need help. I need back up games that I can play as a just in case activity.
There were a ton of games we used to play in YW growing up.
Unfortunately the brain cells that should remember those games have clearly died or I gave them to my children during pregnancy ( you know so they can be super smart {wink}).
I remember there was a game we used to play where you have a pillow and you walk around the room blindfold sitting on peoples laps ( with the pillow under your bum) and then you say something and try to guess who the person is. Then that person is it. But I can't remember all the details or what you say. So to all of you who played games growing up that you loved that is not a board game, Please Please please share.
And to my peeps that I grew up with would you please refresh my Mom brain.
Thanks so much!

Eleven of my sweet girls playing! Okay they were super crazy with this game. I loved it!

Rigdon

2008-09-25T12:26:00.000-07:00

I love being a stay at home mom! Seriously it Rocks! Berto is at that CRAZY baby stage. If you were at IHOP with me yesterday or go to church with me, you know what I mean. But how in the world do you not laugh at half the crazy and silly things he does. We have lot's of fun at home. I try to only work while he is sleeping so I can spend the rest my time playing with him. He hates me on the comp or for Jay and I to watch TV. He has no problem figuring out ways to divert our attention back to him! Here are some pics of him recently. And yes I DO actually put pants on him but 1. he usually takes them off and then tries to put them on his head (like a shirt) and then gets frustrated
2. You try to come and put Berto's pants on and you will know my #2 reason :)

Rigdon loves hats and sunglasses! He will bring them to use and just walk around with them on forever.

Rigdon recently discovered his rocking horse. Nana and Papa gave it to us for Christmas last year. He will ride this forever to. It neighs and shakes it's tail. He thinks it is pretty funny.

The trampoline. WOW. He will stay on this for a good 1/2 hr. I tie him in and he goes crazy. First thing in the morning he goes to the sliding glass door and tries to open it so he can go play on the tramp. I had to lay the ladder down so he can't get up there on his own. Notice droopy diaper and jammie shirt- we just woke up!

Cinnamon Sticks Boutique

2008-09-23T20:08:00.000-07:00

This is a cute bracelet I got for Cambryn (only it has her name on it). I know adorable! Th cute girl who made it is having a giveaway this week for a custom bangle. They are cute. I will post the link here and have the link available on my other blog for a few days. Remember to check over there often for the latest giveaway. To enter click here

Daily Giveaway

2008-09-20T19:38:00.000-07:00

Seriously what is the deal. I enter a giveaway in hopes that I, yes me, Cyndi will win. Being the Super Nice person that I am {{wink}} I decide to share the goodness with you. I have never actually won any of the giveaways myself. . .but all the ones I have advertised here, have been won by my friends or people who read my blog. Hmmmm. . . Maybe I should stop sharing all my secret finds. Or maybe someone should just give me something any way. You KNOW you want to.

Okay I do love a good giveaway and I want you all to participate in the fun too. Even though I do want to win sometime, I love it when you win too ( or maybe I should just do what Amy does and put "a favorite things list" on my blog. Then if you win a giveaway you could just give me something off my list. You know, as a thank you. I wouldn't mind. Really).

So from here on out all giveaways can be found on my other blog. Click on the Super Mom that says Latest Giveaway in the top right. It will then take you to a fabulous giveaway. I will try to update it daily. You still might find me advertising. It just won't be here! Now hurry up head on over. . . you know you want to!

Photos Up

2008-09-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

You can see some more of the amazing picture's Katie from Peekaboo Photos took HERE
As you can tell Cambryn was having a lot of fun with the pictures. . .or maybe Katie was having fun taking her picture :)

1 1/2 later

2008-09-19T20:15:00.000-07:00

It only took me a year and half to turn
this yard sale find

to this.

Pretty Cute! I think.

I'd like to thank all involved who made this actually happen--- :)

Flashback Friday 1981

2008-09-18T23:38:00.000-07:00

When I grow up I want to be just like my. . .

Thanks Dad for scanning all these great photos.

This is me catching up

2008-09-17T15:57:00.000-07:00

So Jay has informed me, once again that my blog is boring. . .Whatever. He says I advertise to much. But I know you all like my advertising since you all enter in the give aways I advertise. So you can look for all my giveaway advertising on my other blog. I usually find at least one a day that I would enter I might just post a link in the side bar--- called giveaway then you can click on it and enter.

Since this is where I am supposed to tell all on my fam. Here are some recent pics.

Trip to disneyland. For some reason the kids thought I should take a picture of them standing by the gas pump.

Hillary, Brayden, Trevor and Cambryn

It was a little hot that day!!!! Here we are waiting for the parade to start.

My messy messy cheesy boy.

While we waited for Fantasmic to start Hillary got super popular.

At one point she had 7 kids standing around her watching her play Super Monkey Ball
It is a super addictive game.

Two weekends ago we were lucky enough to have Clark, Alisa and four of their five girls come spend the weekend with us.
The kids had a blast. Aubrey and Jenna surprised Cambryn and Brayden in bed when they woke up Friday morning. Cambryn was is heaven. She still starts crying when she thinks about them. She misses them so much.

These pictures are a little blurry. I guess I could have gone outside and taken the picture. . . yeah right!

2008-09-14T20:17:00.000-07:00

test

Cambryn

2008-09-12T12:45:00.000-07:00

Cambryn playing with Rig on the Comp. She was really cute helping him draw a picture on and play on Nick Jr.

Wood Frog
by
David M Schwartz

Cambryn:" ". . . In spring, wood frogs head for nearby ponds to find mates." Mom what's a mate?"

Me: "Uhm it is like a husband or wife for animals."

Jay: "Hey mate." to me

Cambryn: " "oh. " A male frog puffs out is throat and makes loud croaking noises. A female hears the croaks and finds the male."

Jay: "Maybe I should croak."

Cambryn: " To mate with the female, the male clasps her from behind."

Here I show Jay the picture in the book of the male frog on top of the female clasping her.

Cambryn: " "Then the female lays thousands of eggs in a clump of jelly, and the male fertilizes the eggs. " Mom, what does fertilizes mean?"

Me: "It means the boy makes the eggs be babies. Uhhhh, it just means they are husband and wife."

Me sweating trying to think of a better more accurate way to explain without leading to other questions.

Cambryn clearly satisfied with my answer.

Cambryn: "Mom, yum don't you want to eat that jelly? I loooove jelly. . . "

Thank goodness Cambryn doesn't watch discovery channel or National Geographic.

Dentist

2008-09-11T09:00:00.000-07:00

Today is the day.
I am off to the dentist.
Don't worry
I will report the damage.

Wish me luck!

Cricut Giveaway

2008-09-08T09:22:00.000-07:00

The Cricut Expressions!

Who doesn't want one of these. I know I do.

This thing does it all!
Scrapbooking
Vinyl Lettering
School projects
The list goes on and on!

The Cricut Expressions is the craft fanatics must-have!

The Secret is in the Sauce is giving one away this month. Go here to check out all the details

Once again here in the link! Here

The blog looks really cool too and worth checking out. They have giveaways every weekend. Who's game. . . see you over at SITS

It's a giveaway

2008-09-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

I had these two altered clipboards, chore charts made for Cambryn and Brayden from This N That Boutique.

She has some great creative and fun products. Next on my list from her Decorator Dots for the kids play room. She is having a giveaway this week. So definitely check her out HERE

I actaully did it!

2008-09-02T22:11:00.000-07:00

Last week I said I would try to do Cambryn's hair cute and take a pic. Well not only did we get up in enough time to do her hair, we also had time for pictures. Okay barely enough time. She is putting her shoes on while I am taking the pics.

Brayden patiently waiting. Isn't he cute?

Sign's to look for

2008-09-02T22:04:00.000-07:00

How to know if your daughter's shorts are too small?

1.You go to put the clothes away that your husband has folded and your 7yr old daughters shorts are in the pile with your 16mo old son's shorts.

2. You pick up both shorts thinking "Good Grief how in the world could you mess that one up". . . and realize the 16mo old shorts are actually longer then the 7 yr old's shorts.

Solution Cambryn gets new shorts or gets to start wearing Rigdon's!

Nie Nie Auction Winners

2008-09-01T20:23:00.001-07:00

Congrats to Jenn S on Item #1 and Kim on Item #2
You can pay by clicking on the button to the right that says donate to NieNie. After you have paid forward me your reciept and we will get started on your projects. I am still amazed at the blogging world and all they are doing for this family. There are still a lot of Auctions still open and new ones being added. Make sure to check out Design Mom. To see all the active auctions and to see how much money we have all raised.

Kim and Jenn S email me at cbcreations4u @ gmail.com without the spaces. Thanks Again and I can't wait to hear from you.

Congratulations

2008-09-01T00:13:00.000-07:00

Yeah for our winners! My auction is officially over. Thank you to all who participated. I will post more tomorrow. Yawn---- time for bed for me

Auction Ending Soon

2008-08-31T13:57:00.000-07:00

The Auctions will end tonight Sunday, August 31 st, at 12 pm Pacific Time. You all have been amazing. It seems like every blog I go to has a link to or an auction for Stephanie and family. It is humbling to know how much people are willing to give and do for someone they don't know. I think that is pretty AWESOME! So keep bidding and I will post the winners tonight.

PS. For all inquiries I do sell my things just email me at cbcreations4u@gmail.com

Auction Item #1

2008-08-27T21:49:00.000-07:00

For a complete list of all the silent auction items to help Stephanie and Christian please visit Here Design Mom won't be posting the completed list until Thursday Morning. So if you can't wait until then check out the list here. There are well over 100 auctions. I am amazed at every one's willingness and desire to help this family, someone they don't even know. This blogger community auction is going to be awesome. I am really excited to be a part of it! The money will go straight into a paypal account set up for Stephanie and Christian.

My first item is a custom made outfit. It retails for $55. I have a variety ( basically anything you want or can think of) of designer fabrics for you to choose from. The outfit can be made in any size 6mo-8yrs. I have a couple of different tops you can choose from with an embellishment of your choice. The skirt has 2 layers so it is puffy and twirlly. Super cute and perfect for girls of all ages! And of course hair clips to match! Can't forget the accessories. The bidding starts at $10.
Just leave a comment in the comment box with your bid. If you are not a fellow blogger please leave your email address. Happy Bidding. The bidding rules are 2 posts below. Remember to check out the other auctions too. Or if you would just like to make a donation click on the button to the right Donate to Nie.
I will post winners first thing Monday Morning!

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