Tuesday Loves

Kind of fallish/holidayish and mostly just fun.

This is so fantastic.  I want to start this today.  Love it.

This shop on Etsy is so cute.  I love the alphabet book and the pillows. The tooth pillow is so cute.

Martha makes me want to learn to cross stitch.
How cute would it be to put it on one side of your christmas card after you did it.  Love it.

also loving her twig coasters.  these could also be placemats.  so cute for thanksgiving.

Speaking of coasters, these painted ones are so cute from design sponge.  They would be cute also as hot plates and you could put christmasy stuff or thanksgivingish stuff on them.  I am def trying these.

Just saw this on flickr and a friend of mine wanted me to try and make it and it turns out she has a mini pattern!  It was super easy!!  And its actually from ravelry.com!


and then I made one in navy for aly.

It looks blue here, but its actually super dark navy.  oh well, you can see the stitches better with this alternate coloring...
I am also working on a few stockings for Jennifer.  I hope they turn out good!


Here are just the tops of two of them so far...
oh, and I made the smores thing from pinterest and it was so good.  I highly recommend it if you are in the mood for smores.

Ok, I guess that is all I have so far...
Hope you guys are having a great tuesday!

friends, tables and chairs...oh my!

Nothing too exciting to blog about, just some random happenings and what not. 

Bob used some of his vacation time at the end of October and took a week off. It was wonderful! We didn't go on vacation anywhere, we just stayed home and loved every minute of having Bob here with us. By the end of the first day Bob had told me more than once that I had too many projects. So true but I think I like it that way. Some days I do wish I had hours and hours of uninterrupted craft time so I could actually finish one, but don't we all...

I don't think I actually finished any of my ongoing projects while Bob had the week off but we did get a couple things accomplished. The table we had been using in our kitchen was way too big for the area and it drove me kinda crazy. Bob told me to start looking on Craigs list for something smaller and I stumbled upon this little table and four chairs that sounded like the perfect size. Bob went out to make the deal and bring it home. You can never really tell what you are gonna get from a craigs list picture...

Turns out the top of the table was not really wood. It was like the tables that used to be in my school cafeterias, rubber molding around the edges and all. So, I decided to paint the top white to match the chairs and legs. But of course the whites didn't match...

So then I thought WWKD (what would kristen do) and I busted out the chalk board paint! I love the way it turned out and Ella loves getting to color all over her kitchen table.

How small is this table?! We cracked up when we saw just how tiny it was but it is so great to be able to walk around in the kitchen now. It teaches good manners too, when we all eat dinner it's elbows down or else you bump elbows with your neighbor. 

Here is a pic of our old table that was too big. I guess I should have started with this pic, I'm kinda going backwards. Anyways, the highchair we had been using for Kenna attached to the table because we didn't have any room for the standing one.

With the big table gone, we brought back in the wooden highchair we had used with Ella. Speaking of projects that never get finished, this highchair should top the list. I originally bought it in raw wood when I was pregnant with Ella. We have these orange and pink striped bar stools that I wanted to match the high chair to so I hauled one of the huge bar stools to a paint store when I was prego with Ella to get the paints matched. The highchair stayed raw wood until Ella was almost one, and by then I had only gotten the orange color painted on it. I never got around to the pink stripes and now those cute bar stools are in our attic at this house because there is no room for them. I guess the moral of that story is that Bob is right, I have too many projects. 

Of course the second Bob brought the highchair in the house I had the immediate urge to finish this 4 year project and add the pink stripes. Only to find out that we left the pink paint in our old house in lubbock... So I mixed up about 10 different paint colors I had for screen printing and taped off a few stripes on the top of highchair. 

Then I ran an electric sander over it. I think I can say I'm finally done with this project.

Other things that happen when dad doesn't have work is lots of fun outside time and super cool tea parties.

Tea party fort designed by dad himself.

 In other exciting news, we had some VERY fun visitors come stay with us this weekend! Jordan, Brittany and Cooper!

I didn't get very many pictures (brittany has some very cute ones on her camera that I will have to share later) but it was just the best weekend. We cracked up at McKenna constantly attacking Cooper with kisses and Ella couldn't get enough of Jordan and Brittany.

I bought these chalk markers from Hobby Lobby that Brittany and Ella had fun with.

A little tip if you ever use these chalk markers is that they don't completely come off like normal chalk does. I had to use the magic eraser (my go to for many things) to clean the table, but it all wiped off very fast with it.

I hope everyone had a great weekend too!

Canton

I had never been to Canton, so when blair called and told us that she and mel and some of my wedding friends were going, we were all in.  I am not exactly sure how I feel about Canton, overall, but it was definitely a fun day.  We only bought food and little toys.  I didn't really need anything, so we came home empty handed, but with our stomachs very full.

Loved our lives.
(Jeff just called to tell me that it looks like sassy is having a seizure in this pic and I can't help but want my eyes to open...sigh. You get the idea.)


Blair got them fish and I could not resist the worlds best kettle corn, hello.

Avery was pretty excited about her magnetic paper dolls that we got her (like ones she has and loves) and rocked the free headband that a sweet man gave sassy.
Overall, great friday.
(I apologize for the very boring posts about my uberexciting life...We have a few exciting things coming up and you can look to al for some more excitement from her posts!)

The dentist

I am mom of the year.  Well, mom of a lifetime really.  I have heard that you are supposed to take your kids to the dentist when they are like 1 or 2 or at the latest, 3.  I procrastinated a little bit on that (we all know how I feel about the dentist) and wednesday was Avery's first time to go to the dentist  ands she is 5 and a half (and the twins first time, too, but they are kind of in the age bracket so I think they are ok).

Overall it was good...  

It started out bad because Ben would not even step on the scale, much less sit still while he got X-rays, so we had to forgo both of those for him.  He was literally kicking and screaming most of the time.  I had to call in back up.

Sass and Avery did great, though, and I think they loved it.

Everyone was so so kind at their dentist and I was just so overwhelmed with how patient they were; I wanted to run outside and leave my kids there.

They (and by they, I mean aves and sawyer) got x-rays first.

(I know, how boring is me walking you through my children's dentist appointment.  I should have started this post with an apology)



Then they got their teeth cleaned and got to wear these headphones to listen to the movie above them.  Too cool.  And get to wear fancy shades.

Sassy was super cool in hers.
Too cool, really.

And ben never even got to the shades or headphones portion of his visit...
Then the dentist came over and said sassy had these little cavities that were formed when her enamel formed and that it happened a long time ago (aka-not my fault.  thats really all I heard) and she has to come back to have them filled.  and have the gas.  That cracks me up!!! I can't wait to see her with the gas-she is gonna be nuts.

Doesn't she just crack you up in those glasses??! I can't get over it.
Ok. that is the end of this boring post.  Ill just apologize now.

Happy Halloween (a little late)

My mom was so sweet and sat with my kids over a catalogue and let them tell her what they wanted to be for halloween.  I am sure they picked like 10 things.  She and I narrowed it down and we ended up with the most amazing costumes.  When I say amazing, I mean, like heavy, with zippers and stuffing-hilarious!  

We were not really expecting anything that great but we were thoroughly impressed!  She related it to the Sue Wong we got for Jeff's birthday party.  We didn't know anything about Sue Wong and it turned out to be like a prom dress with like three layers of lining!  Haahah.  Needless to say, my mom always proves even better than we thought possible!

Ben was a  triceratops.  He loved his life.

Avery was a princess with this heavy and lined and fancy cape.  So elegant.

And Sassy was a fairy/princess/cinderella.  She had some costume changes.

We went trick or treating with our neighbors and went to a fantastic neighborhood party down the street for some crafts, fun, food and lots more candy.


We were nothing compared to Pippi and Minnie Mouse- Al and Linds were incredible! I just love both of their homemade costumes.  Isn't it so fun that Ella watches Pippi Longstocking at 3??  I try to put on for my kids what ella watches and they always are so like "mom, this is wayyyy over my head...".  Ella you are so stinkin cute! and Minnie!  AHHH! linds just went to hobby lobby and made it all up!! Amazing.  I wish lindsay would make all my clothes too...
Now you guys have to go see Lindsey, Shannon and Patrick's halloween party- like RIGHT NOW.  it is incredible! It is like so professional it could win prizes on a party blog! It is amazing! Loved it guys!!
Then we were the crazy people that went to the dentist the day after halloween...more on that to come...