Kids!!!

What the heck!!!! Who lets there kids do this???? I normally don't like to post about kids that aren't mind but this cracked me up and grossed me out. Thought I'd share. Merry Christmas!!!!!

My Crazy Mama

Here are a few photo's of my mother. Let me just tell you she is nuts. She just got into a car accident but you wouldn't ever guess that. She is just like my grandma, in fact I could see my grandma crawling on top of the roof without thinking of the danger, these gals just don't wait around for nothing. She really wanted her lights up as you can see. The last photo is Lance's costume for the ward Christmas party. My mom was trying to get Vanessa used to someone wearing a beard so she wouldn't cry with the real Santa. It didn't really work but we like to torture our children. Brad just played Santa for an elementary school. He loves doing it as much as I think he feels a little silly sometimes. What a wonderful man I have and what a wonderful time a year!

I have started a new site called The RED Polka Dot. I am really excited at what it can become and I hope others are interested in shopping at it and also posting there homemade items. So many of us are so crafty but it's hard to rent out a space at a boutique and then have to sit there all day hoping people show up. SO I started The RED Polka Dot in efforts to help everyone. If you would like to sell some of your stuff then just let me know by commenting and I will give you all you need to know to be apart of this. It has just started and I am still working out some bumps but I wanted to get the ball rolling before we miss out on some great buys before Christmas. You can click on the link at the top of the page or go to www.theredpolkadot.blogspot.com/

Happy shopping and I look forward to seeing your cute stuff.

Oh Chrismas treeeee

So I am constantly on the look out on crafts that are great ideas and don't cost a lot of money. I loved this idea as soon as I saw it. I was thinking even if you did it in all red or black glittery paper this little tree would be beautiful. I'd like to do one on a large scale and put it as a decoration in my home. I have listed the tutorial link below for anyone interested. Oh and sorry for the Christmas stuff even though we haven't had thanksgiving yet.

http://taylordesign.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/curled-paper-christmas-tree-tutorial/

Spice of life

I was looking for some inspiration (a Pattern actually) for a pettiskirt I want to make for my Vanessa and I came across these photo's. These if you can't tell are napkins and they make me laugh so hard. This is a mother that has drawn pictures on her children's lunch box napkin. The child obviously loved it because look how well intact they are. But it made me laugh because my mother did something like this to her children. Ours was a little but more humiliating version. On permission slips or notes to a teacher or pretty much anything that an authority would read that we had to turn in she would come up with some huge silly story. I talked to her about this a while ago and she said one that still makes her laugh is one for my brother Devon. She sent him to school with a not excusing him from class because he had diarrhea and that she told him not to eat what he was eating because we were out of peptobismol. I don't know how much of that one was made up but it really didn't matter. I think this is the reason why I am so great at signing my mothers name. I remember one that I was suppose to turn in and she had written about how she had made me put on clean under wear before I left the house. That permission slip magically got lost between my house and the car and was never seen again as were many. I'm sure your mothers did something for all of you similar to this. SO here's to you mom for bringing spice to life!!!

Bowdabra

Looks like I need to answer a few questions on my new toy the bowdabra. There are two sizes of bowdabra's. I have the mini because I am just using it for little girl bows. You can get them at wal-mart or Micheal's. I think the later is better because you can use the 40% off coupon. The cost is somewhere around 9.00 bucks for the mini without the coupon. I did try to find one at Joanne's and they don't carry them.

How to use it (this is for you amber). I looked at a few different bow websites and stole ideas on how I wanted to make my bows look and figured it out how to do it from there. But a basic bow you put a piece of string to tie the bow in the center of the bowdabra. Then grab the center of your ribbon so it goes down in the bowdabra like a W. This just makes it pretty. Then flip it back around and do a loop and around again to make the other side. The bowdabra just helps in holding your bow in place and making the bow the same size.
Happy bow makin gals hopefully this makes your lives easier and answers all of your questions.

My new toy

So I know this might be a silly thing to blog about but I have fallen in love. My sister in law has been telling me about something called a bowdabra for months and I kept thinking I don't need that because I can make bows already without one. Well I now think everyone in the world with a little girl needs one of these. I am converted for life and am a bow making freak. SO I'd like to thank my mother in law and Val for making me a freak!

Briggs first Hair cut

Brigg received his first hair cut today by his uncle Curtis. Curtis did such a great job! It's so weird looking at him with shorter hair I feel like I have a brand new son. Here are the before middle and after pictures.
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Master of Disguise

One of our favorite cartoons around her is "the Backyardigans". One of the episodes features a character that is entitled The Master of Disguise. He is able to dress up and fool anyone in thinking he is someone else through his costume changes. I am afraid I live with the Master of Disguise. This kid cracks me up with how cool he thinks his pink glasses are. You wont find him without a hat on hardly ever, I hadn't noticed that until a friend had commented that he didn't know my son was a blond because of the constant hat on his head. He's a strange one but we sure love him. Here are a few of his many getup's.

School boy. Note the keys in his pocket and the backpack he packed with diapers, a drink, his bear, and a variety of trucks.
A cowboy. I know the majority of cowboys wear shades buy grandpa does and so you go with what you know right.
Hawaiian. This was so funny because he couldn't get them off thus the unhappy face.
Finally a dare devil. This is him asleep at the top of the stairs. Scared me half to death when I about broke my leg coming down the stairs.