11/26/09

happy thanksgiving

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and gobble till you wobble!
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You know thats what these four will be doing!

11/25/09

super cheez-e turkey shirt

Ella needed a turkey shirt for Thanksgiving and since I don't own a sewing machine (yet!) I went with the hand printed turkey. Hopefully after Christmas I will have a sewing machine and Kristen will teach me her mad turkey making skills for next year! I can't wait!

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Used fabric paint to make Ella's hand print on front and wrote "I'm thankful for..." with fabric markers
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then on the back I listed some things Ella is thankful for this Thanksgiving.

11/24/09

advent calendar

so, this weekend jeff, brycie and i made up things to do everyday until christmas (well, 18 days so far) and i made this advent calendar so we could stuff it with our ideas. i havent stuffed it with all the goodies yet in this one...
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and here it is with a few goodies from the target dollar isle... we are so excited for december!!
on a more thanksgivingish note, the babies were so sad to see brycie go home for thanksgiving!
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bye brycie!! we love you!!
and i finished ben's addition to the turkey thanksgiving shirts and just made him a pilgrims hat
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11/21/09

princess ella

Ella went to a friends birthday party today and had so much fun. It was a superhero and princess party so Ella went dressed as a princess. She looked precious!
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This pretty princess likes to keep it real, she went straight to a pot of dirt to play in.
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who me?
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I love this picture. It's kind of blurry cause Ella was jumping with joy but I love her face and clinched fists. A pinata had just been hung and Ella was very excited about it.

11/18/09

screen printing 101

We are always looking for new crafty projects to do so when we found a place in Lubbock that offered a screen printing class, it soon became our latest obsession. So last night at the Garden & Arts Center, Kristen and I learned the steps for screen printing on fabric. Our fabric of choice was of course a good ole' walmart v-neck t-shirts and you know we made matching ones for the whole fam. The first step was deciding what we wanted to screen print on the shirt. Once we knew what we wanted a snowman and flower we had to cut them into stencils on freezer paper. We free handed the snowman and traced a flower image from the computer. We didn't get any pics of the stencils but here are some pics of everything else. Hope you enjoy.
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We used royal blue and teal "Rit" dye to color the shirts.
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Getting the shirt ready to go under the screen
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Pouring the paint
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Charging the screen
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Printing the stencil on the shirt
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Our snowman shirts
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Our flower shirt
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After the shirts dry you heat press them before washing.
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Then we added some buttons for the finishing touch
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Ta-Da! All the kids modeling their new shirt
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This was just so much fun and we ordered our own screen the second we got home last night! So this is only the beginning of many more homemade screen printed shirts to come!

different braids on wednesday...

for bryce and blaine!!
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brycie decided to needed a hair change before her big-life-moving-and-starting-nursing-school-change and before she could chicken out she found herself in the chair of a hair lady she had never met and took the giant plunge to
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short hair!! and it soooo cute!! just looove it!
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and blaine joined in, deciding it was better for her to change colors than cuts and
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went dark!! aren't they both so cute! i love a hair change (as you know if you know me at all...at home perms, self dye and highlight jobs, jeff cuts it, new bangs, etc...) way to go different ladies!! i just may have to dye mine...

11/16/09

late matching monday

jeff and aves were matching bakers/decorators tonight and they had so much fun. they decorated dinosaur rice krispie treats and they got to eat a few bites of their finished project. aves was so excited and beside herself that she got to decorate and eat them!!
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the finished project!
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she was so proud. (sassarina's here we come!! now i have to get jeff and aves as head bakers when i create my bakery someday...)

lake fun and birthday bashes

super fun weekend!! while al was partying with her fam jeff and i drove to my parents lake house to play. friday night i went out with blair and her friends and partied the night away!! it was so much fun!! tons of high school friends were there and her friends and cute boyfriend are so sweet. we basically just hung out and talked but it was soooo much fun!! (i am such a small town girl livin it up in the big city!)
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i am so small town i even wore denim on denim...i know its a fashion faux pas...oh well. hello dallas, welcome to some west texas farm fashion.
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gorgeous couple!!
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chhs forever!!
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blair's sweet ut friends
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love you blair!! thanks for letting me play with you this weekend. miss you guys already.
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then this adorably cute and fun family met us at the lake and it was SO FUN!! i dont have any pics because my camera was not handy but kinley was so gorgeous and sweet and so advanced!! she can stand up by herself! it was so much fun to watch her and get to know her better and better. linds and ben were so easy and fun, like always. it was just a perfect weekend. so sad to leave!

11/15/09

all aboard the polar express

My family is in town for the weekend and we have had so much fun with them. Last night we all rode the Polar Express to the North Pole! We took a 2 hour train ride around Lubbock, had cookies and hot chocolate, danced and sang with the elves and saw Santa! Ella loved it!
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All aboard the Polar Express!
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Me and my sister Anna in our matching pjs
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Family pic on the train
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The conductor punching Ella's ticket
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The chef passing out cookies and hot chocolate
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Ella loving the Polar Express
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Bob is very excited about it too!
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Anna texting all her friends about how much fun she was having!
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And of course I loved every minute of it!
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Waiting for Santa
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Looks like Ella wants nothing to do with Santa but she really did love him. She said "Ho, Ho, Ho" all night.
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