Moo's and Valentines

Oh Lucy cracks me up. Tyler decided to make animal noises last night and let me tell you, she loves chickens, roosters, sheep, dogs, and cats....a cows moo however makes her cry! hahahaha! Here's a picture of the face she made when Tyler mooed:

She just sticks that bottom lip out and then breaks into a wail! Oh it's so adorably sad!

Anyway I've got a secret that I'm going crazy keeping! I got Tyler's Valentines Day gift and it's making me crazy not being able to tell anyone. We haven't really gone on a good date in a little while so I thought I'd find something that we could go on just the two of us. I got him tickets to see Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy in March. I'm so excited! He's going to love it! We haven't gone to a concert/game/event really since I was about 4 months pregnant. We've gone to a movie here and there but we haven't really gone on a real date. I'm pretty pumped. This means we'll get to go out for a nice dinner and spend the evening together. I'm the worst person with gifts, I find just what I want to get someone and I go crazy not being able to tell them. I get so excited so. I can now sigh and feel slightly relieved that I told someone! Now, all I have to do is make his card and get him candy!

Well I hope Lucy's sad face pictures made you smile! We laughed so hard when she got upset about the moo sound!

Bridal Shower Decoration Creation's- #3- Heart Wreath!

Oh boy has it been a fun day so far! Lucy and I have been hanging out at home enjoying my day off. Tyler got to come home for lunch today and Lucy got some daddy time! It was really cute watching them play. She's our newest spokesperson for Montgomery Electric:

Cute huh!?
Okay so onto my project of the day- While Lucy napped this morning I decided to try making a heart shaped wreath that I'd seen other people making.
I used scrap fabric and bent a hanger into a heart shape and used some left over brown ribbon that I had used on my mantle redecorating.

 My supplies.

 cut strips and the beginning of the ties

The finished product! I wish I'd had some pink fabric but I'm pretty happy with how it ended up turning out!
For my next project, I'm waiting to get a few things I ordered and then I'll be able to finish all my decorations for the shower! I'm thinking I'm just going to have to drag Tyler to the lumber store so I can get the piece of wood to make Lucy's growth chart with. I've also got two small tables/stands that I'm going to paint and use in Lucy's room.
Well she's awake and I need to get her ready to go to the doctor for her check up! Hope you have a great day and seriously if you have some extra scrap fabric laying around make one of these! They are super easy and fun to make!

The Abominable Snow Baby!

Snow suit perfection:

 She wasn't exactly happy about it....

 But by gosh she was adorable in that snow suit!

 And Pardon the weird family photo where we all have our eyes either closed or extremely close to closed!
I've been itching to get her picture taken with the snow and I finally got to. She got all bundled up and was out side for about four pictures and then we went back in haha!
Anyway, that was our saturday- I worked that morning. My youth group was selling sub sandwiches on super bowl sunday so we made them that morning. Then we spent the day with my in-laws and then went to the basketball game that night. Lucy is really starting to get into her sports!
Then came Sunday. Lucy got to wear her dress and even shoes for church! We were greeters and Lucy was extremely popular! She was super cute...she may or may not have spit up on the floor and there is now a baby puke stain in our church narthex that I will smile at every time I see it :) It's our little secret!

 Wasn't she cute? The shoes made her feet look huge but by gosh they were adorable!
Then we went over to the Metzger/Montgomery Super Bowl Party (well, after Lucy and I took a delightfully long nap in the afternoon- almost 2 hours!) While there she got to hang out with her cousin Brody where they didn't hold hands but...they held each other's sleeves and it was cuuuuute!:

 Adorable right?
And to give you a small recap of friday too here's Lucy playing on her activity mat attempting to roll over and giving me a silly look for taking her picture:

I can't tell if she was more irritated, surprised by the flash or if she was farting when I took this picture! Honestly, it was probably all three!
 She's three month's old today and it's both blowing my mind and freaking me out...she's growing up way too fast already...I suppose I better schedule her 3 month pictures soon!
Well, I hope you all had a great weekend!

Bridal Show Decoration Creation: Project #2- "banners"

Oh I love having a reason to decorate in cute girly ways! I've loved being able to use my cricut too! That thing is a life saver! Tonight when I got home from work it was time for my "second job," taking care of all the business stuff for Tyler's business. I got all my quick books entered and updated and I'm happy to report for the 2010 year I am only off on my balance (comparing my records to the bank) by...drum-roll please...2 cents! Woo! Aka: I've successfully completed almost one year of business without any major screw-ups! Lucy was my trusty secretary while I worked...She was rather focused as you can tell by this photo:

my rather focused secretary!

 Shouldn't every secretary make you want to smile like this one!?
 Well, after dinner Tyler ended up having to work tonight. He was supposed to tuesday evening but the walmart he was working at lost power so he came home and it was rescheduled for tonight. So once Lucy was in bed I had some free time. What? Free time? I'd forgotten what it feels like to have free time all to myself! I won't lie, I kinda enjoyed it! Although once I'm done with this post I'd be happy if Tyler came home, I've had enough "me" time... Anyway, I decided to work on some more bridal shower decorations! I finished up the cupcake toppers and made two "banners"!

 Once I got all the letters glued on I hot glued a tooth pick to the back piece of paper and stuck the second one on top. Here's my end result:

 They aren't perfect but, I think they turned out pretty cute! And the fact that they are hand made makes each of them a little different then the next!
I then started on my banners! I cut out six inch patterned circles and 5 inch white circles and 3inch letters:

 And..here the first one is!:

 Simple but girly and something I can use for valentines day in the future! The next one has to be attached to just the right surface or it won't lay right...I was too lazy to walk upstairs and tie it to my china cabinate where it will go so you will just have to use your imagination a bit on this one:

I didn't want it to be tied too tight so it droops too much for how it needs to lay but oh well, I was pretty happy with this one too! I just did heart shapes instead of circles for this one. And, I made the letters removable so I can replace them with a different saying so it will have more uses.
I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to decorate my tables so that's going to be my next project for the bridal shower- I need to decorate my dining room table and my coffee table in the living room. I've got some ideas but I haven't decided for sure yet on what I'd like to do. Anyway I'm going to head to bed since it's kinda late! I hope you have a great weekend!

The world of Narnia

As I drove around this morning I felt like I was in Narnia. Ice coated trees, plants, houses and roads glistened in the sunlight. It was beautiful. It made me dream of how much fun it will be to share with Lucy some of my favorite books. I hope with every ounce of my being that she will be the type of kid to find joy in using her imagination playing with boxes, sheets, and loads of other ordinary items. I hope that she will take time to explore the wondrous creation that God has given her. I long for the days that we will read the Chronicles of Narnia and seeing the glow in her eyes as she reads about Lucy, Susan, Edmond, and Peter. I anticipate the day I can share with her my love for Harry Potter and the wonderfully imaginative world that is Hogwarts.
I look forward to her discovering how powerful the mind is and how great books can be! I look forward to her solving mysteries along with Trixie Belden, casting spells with Ron, Harry and Hermione, Walking Two Moons with Salamanca, hidding from the Nazi's with Anne, and so many wonderful expeditions into her imagination. 

I've noticed with so many of the kids I work with today how they don't like to read and they don't really have much for imaginations. I hope that Lucy is able to dream, explore and grow outside the pre-made world of video games, tv, etc. The thing I love most about books is that they can take you anywhere, you can do anything, be anyone. You get to go on adventures you might never take in real life and they help you learn how to dream and dream big! 
I honestly have never liked a movie more then a book. I always feel like it never lives up to the world in my mind that has been created as I read. I hope that when Lucy gets older and she see's her world covered in ice that it will take her back to Narnia just as it did for me this morning!
Tonight I'm working on making banners for the bridal shower I can't wait to see how they turn out!

Bridal Shower Decoration Creations:1- Cupcake Toppers

 Okay, since the bridal shower we are having for my brother's fiance is at my house it's my job to deal with all the decorations and dessert. (My mom is graciously making all the food!) So my first thought- dessert- cake? pfft everyone does cake for these sorts of things to here's my thought for my birthday last year I got a super cute cupcake tower display thingy-ma-bobber that I've been itching to use and by golly I'm going to! We're going to have cupcakes! I also got pampered chef cake decorator thingy from my sister that she never used so I'm going cupcake crazy! So step one to my fabulous cupcakes is making cupcake toppers.... First of all I started out cutting out L's, C's and J's and I heart you's with my cricut:

L's C's and J's

Then I got out pink and brown paper (Jenn's color choices) and cut them up into squares

squares!

Then came the fun part, I added all the letter's and the I love you's! and here's my almost finished product!:

Monogrammed Cupcake Toppers

I love you cupcake toppers

These are my almost finished products: the first layer of paper will be glued to the front side of a tooth pick and the second piece of paper will be glued to the back to give it a slight layered effect. I'm pretty excited about how they are turning out so far! And even better yet they have cost me nothing! (Which I'll be honest is what I'm hoping my deocration total comes to!) I'm still debating though if I want to cut the edges of the second piece with patterned scissors to give them a bit more character...We'll see, I might try it!
My next creation will be a couple banners one that say's Congrats and another that says Love and a third that says I do!
I'm still looking for a piece of wood to make Lucy's growth chart out of so one of these days when I get that I'll be doing some painting and decoupage (is that the right spelling?) I'll keep you updated on my banners and other decorations as I make them! Hope you're having a great day!

The Perfect Ice Day!

Today was the perfect ice day. I'm not kidding. Tyler is working tonight which takes away from the perfect day but, that meant he was home today! Lucy was perfect, she played and giggled, took great naps, ate well and is getting better about burping again (she's been kinda fussy about it lately). The dogs laid around napping all day and it was nice. I baked cookies, napped, watched a movie and cuddled with the cutest baby girl and best husband in the world. Here's a pic's of Lucy and her cuteness and Tyler with one of our dogs:

is that smile not adorable!?

Ryah fell asleep on Tyler while he was trying to take a nap before working tonight!

Okay so now the rest of my night is all mommy time since Lucy is such a good sleeper. Tyler piled wood outside the front door in case we lost power and I needed to use the fire place, laundry is drying, dogs are sleeping...hmm what to do...
Well, I gave in and watched one of my guilty pleasures: What not to wear. I laugh at this show a lot and dream of all the wonderful fabulous clothes I could own if I got to go on that show...I won't lie I kind of want to buy really cheap crappy clothes and beg someone to nominate me just so I could get an awesome wardrobe! Hey, a girl can dream, right? Well as for the rest of my night I'm going to use my cricut and make some decorations for my soon-to-be sister in-law's upcoming bridal shower! Cupcake toppers and banners are in the works! Hopefully I'll have some fun stuff finished to share tomorrow! (If I still have power here that is!)