Valentine's Fun

We had a date night at PFChangs with some of our favorite people. We had a couple of other couples that had last minute problems, so they couldn't make it...but they were missed! We had made reservations for the Chef's Table, which is placed right in the kitchen. It was really loud, but lots of fun. Thanks for a great night out! McCulloch's, Lauritzen's, Crompton's and us :)

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day. We were able to go to Kassadi's class party to help out. This being her last year of parties, I thought it would be fun...the kids were crazy! We had fun though :) They played several Minute to Win It games.We ate snacks...lots of treats!
Yummy cupcakes with RED frosting and homeade oreos.

This is a hard game! You have to try and get the cookie from your forehead into your mouth without your friends. Out of the whole class, only one of the kids could do it.

We had a special dinner with heart shaped pizza, breadsticks, red crush and chocolate fondue for dessert. It was really tasty!

Valentines Day Decor

Taking cues from some of my friends blogs, I thought that I would post all the crafts that we did for Valentine's Day. Jeannie picked me up this cute stand and I got a grapevine wreath for a couple bucks and put some red berry things in it with hot glue. (Technical...I know!)
Erin found these on a fun blog and printed one out for me. I found an old frame and spray painted it black. Super easy and I love it!
We wanted some fun pillows so again the rockin' Erin found the pattern for these on a craft blog. We used vinyl as our stencil and painted the white fabric with silver paint. We then sewed up the pillows and used ribbon to tie up the ends (mine are just slip covers). The red ribbon is embroidered by another awesome crafty friend of mine named Jenna.
Holly, who is totally crafty and has the most beautiful house, found a cute heart wreath on a craft site that happens to be Erin's cousin (coincidence?) We changed it up a bit and did squares and they are huge! They took FOREVER! The roses were a pain in the behind. The wreath is a bit too heavy for itself, so I need to reinforce it with some sort of wood backing. That will have to be done next year. I do love the look though.
I needed something for the closet door in my entry so I found these wreaths at Hobby Lobby. This cost me a total of $4. I love it!
This is my most favorite project. It was found on House of Smiths. I love love love how it turned out. I love it so much that I designed a really fun family one that can be put up all year. (I will post pics of that when it is done.) This is 6 feet tall. It used a ton of vinyl too.
These letters were purchased from the Wood Connection in Utah. These are such a fun project. I got together with several girls to complete these. It was so much fun seeing how every ones turned out so different.
This was a project that was also on House of Smiths (she is amazing!) I changed it up and put together a more whimsical Love Birds. I think it turned out pretty cute. It was even featured on another craft site. Pretty cool!
This was a fun, easy and quick project that a few of us did. We made several sets each and delivered them to all the ladies we visit teach.

It was really fun to craft with the girls. I don't have a lot of time to do things, but they made sure I took the time and I am so glad. I love looking around my house at all the fun projects we have done. Love all you crafty peeps!

January 2011 BathTime & DressUp

The girls thought it would be fun to "makeover" Bivvy. She loved every minute of it. Now every morning when I put my makeup on, she has to have a little. Boy am I in trouble!

Nice mohawk, Dude!

This was a month...with not many pictures! Seriously...this was all that was on there. (Besides Kassadi's Science Fair Project. She had to figure out what soil grew a seed the fastest. You would be surprised...it wasn't Miracle Grow! In fact, that came in last.)

Catch up? ...or start now? That is the question :)

Whew! You would think that I had fallen off the face of this earth. There really is no excuse except for 5 kids, a house, a needy hubby and a vinyl business. Excuse enough? Hmmm... Well, I have decided that I am going to attempt to blog on Sundays. I may or may not catch up on the whole last year. We shall see.

SNOW DAY

We got snow this year...and of course it shut down the whole city for a few hours. The kids didn't even have to go to school. We went outside first thing in the morning to about an inch of snow. Once outside it only took approximately three minutes to have all the neighborhood kids in our circle...need I tell you it was only 8am? Who does that? The kids had a great time with the nasty, heavy, sticky snow. Good thing because it had melted by noon!

Hi Family!