happy birthday lullaby lubbock

one year and 288 posts later, we are officially having a birthday!! woo-hoo! we can not believe that its been a year. that is so crazy. so much has happened...we have learned so much about different crafts, parties, our kids, blogging, creativity; its just been so much fun. we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we first started. the first few months we had a few pictures sporadically that were kinda uneventful, but we were excited to document our lives in lubbock and our kids. that eventually opened us up to the blog world of so many other moms, friends and strangers (that we now feel like are our friends because we look at their blogs daily) who are so inspiring, creative and fun. thank you so much for looking at our blog and for inspiring us to create new and fun crafts, parties and more exciting activities with our kids!

let the party planning begin!

Guess who turns two this month?!

Ella!

This time last year I was making over sized lollipops for Ella's Candyland first birthday party.

This weekend I started working on some stuff for Ella's second birthday party. The theme is going to be "tiny two." Tiny invitations, tiny food, tiny favors, tiny crafts, and lots of tiny kids running around! I am making a tiny town out of boxes that hopefully will come together like I have it pictured in my head. It is going to be a big project but I am very excited about it!

The workers at Lowes know me by name now, I have been collecting boxes from them the last couple of weeks. I put a coat of primer on them last night. I will keep you updated on the progress of Ella's tiny town!

snow day/sew day!

We had a snow/sew day today! You never know what your gonna get with the weather in Lubbock these days and today we got snow! It was such a fun day. Ella played in the snow and I sewed some of those fabulous elastic waist skirts that Kristen made the other night. They really are so easy to make.

The teal and white stripe skirt was Ella's favorite. The second I put it on her she spun round and round till she couldn't walk straight.

props to anna

Sing song was this last weekend at ACU so Ella and me went to Abilene on Saturday.

Anna was a prop girl for Kojies and they did so good.

That backdrop wouldn't be standing there so good if it wasn't for Anna holding it from behind! Way to go Anna!

Ella showed her support by wearing this shirt that I made her.

We love Prop Girl Anna!

elastic waist skirts

so, i had a productive day for the first time in like, i dont know, years. i woke up, worked out (if you call bouncing around to the same tae bo dvd that ive used for the last twelve years a workout), we went to church, and i made these elastic waist skirts. insanity. dont be fooled, however, they are super easy and i am in no way a perfectionist so they are not good, but they were super fun. as you can tell. i made a million. i just couldnt stop. i used these instructions and it was so easy (she tells you exactly how to do everything. she really makes it sooo easy). (and i just found these for a little one. and with hearts!! i love it!!) i want to use the same pattern for easter skirts with ben a matching tie with the seersucker... and then allison told me she found wider elastic and i loved that so i had to try one with that.

and aves wanted to wear a pink shirt and sass wanted white so, there ya go. there was no real outfit creating or hair brushing but they are smiling so thats good. i used this cute cordoroy that linds and al got me for my bday and fabric from shannon for mine (i maybe wont be wearing it with this shirt but it worked for the photo shoot).

then aves found some rainbow fabric that i had and insisted that i make her a rainbow skirt. and then i saw the little girl tutorial (how stinkin cute is that skirt!! and i love the pockets. and that little model... so cute) on freshly picked and added heart pockets. and then she had to wear the heart shirt. of course.