A Girly {PINK} Christmas!!

November 27, 2009

Do you love my new blog as much as I do?

I enjoy Thanksgiving but I anticipate the weekend to come because I get to decorate my house for the Christmas season. And since I am excited to be blogging again I decided to decorate here for Christmas too. I found this awesome design kit called A Girly Christmas and I fell in love. I had to have it for my blog. I spent the last few days perfecting my banner and putting it all together. It is so pretty to be here now. It puts me in a glittery holiday spirit. So here's a big *cheers* to a girly Christmas and a joyful holiday season!

Thanksgiving Wishes

November 26, 2009

I have been away for so long and I have missed this bloggy world greatly! I've enjoyed my time away and have begun to adjust to having 2 children. It is a lot of fun but much more time consuming. Isaiah is 4 months now and Jaya is about to turn 5. We've been enjoying this Thanksgiving week with Daddy home and the festivities of today and those to come. What a wonderful day to give thanks to God for pouring His blessings on us. I hope that you are all feeling blessed and thankful today for all you've been given. What a beautiful joy! I hope everyone is doing well. I can't wait to catch up with you all!! Yay!!

I've been busy making all kinds of things I just haven't posted anything. One of my projects was decorating paper-mache pumpkins for centerpieces for my tables. Blessings!!

Story About a 10 Pound Baby

September 1, 2009

Well, I had a 10 pound baby, lol. :) No one would have ever thought, myself and my doctor included although I must say that I gained 50 pounds with this guy. To make a short story, shorter, I went in a day before my due date for an induction, not necessary, but doctor said it was okay to do. My water was broken around noon, contractions started soon after. I got my epidural about 3:30 pm. I dialated quickly and felt pressure very shortly after the epidural was in place. I pushed for 17 minutes while laughing with my doctor and nurses because my doctor was doing a giddyup for the baby to come. He was apparently hog tied by his feet and hands by the umbilical cord and yet he came out quite quickly. The nurses immediately started making bets about how big he was! You know you had a "big one" when that happens, lol. He is still so precious to me though he was like a 3 month old. :) He just had his one month appointment and the boy is 14 pounds and 4 ounces and 24 inches long!! He is in 3- month clothing and size 2 diapers already! I can't believe it - he is such a big boy! His height and weight are both off the charts. He's a little snuggle bug. :)

I've been away for a long time it seems because of how crazy things became after the delivery. The day after we brought Isaiah home, my husband went into the emergency room you to have his appendix removed. I was besides myself. We were both out for the count. To top it off we moved less than 10 days after we got back from the hospital. Thank God for the wonderful friends and church family we have out here! We received meals for 2 whole weeks and didn't have to lift a finger to move. They continue to be a blessing to us. So we are still getting settled into our home and the transition of a new baby. Jemiah went back to teaching and Jaya to her preschool. Jemiah is also coaching the boys golf team and doing his master's program full time. Oh and hunting is starting and I'm destined to be a single mom though October. *Sigh*

So things are nuts around here! I do get my own craft room now - I'm so excited. I hope to get it set up and show everyone but I'm in no hurry. I'm taking things slow and enjoying my new baby boy! Blessings to you all!!

{Maternity Leave}

July 22, 2009

I have not quite had the baby yet but I am getting ready as I only have 1 week left until my due date. I'm giving "notice" of my plans to be absent for a little while, although as you might have gathered that has already been happening. Oops, sorry!! :) I made this little digital scrapbook page of myself at my baby shower (my husband says I don't smile well for photos and as you can see he was right!) I put a clock on it because I am counting down the days, I mean hours, I mean minutes, I mean nanoseconds until I go into labor. Please pray for me to have patience! It is so very hard. Love to you all out there in blogland. I'll let you know when we have baby news! :)

*Graphics from Baby Cake Scraps

Happy Independence Day!

July 4, 2009

What a beautiful day to celebrate our Independence as a country. People come from all over to be apart of our country and its freedoms and I am thankful for the heritage that this country has (under God). What a blessing to live here! Thank you Lord and thank you past, present and future patriots of this country! :)

This was the munchkin's wand for her bike during our 4th of July Parade today!

Miss Jessica hosted a fun Red, White, and Blue Tag Swap and I was so thrilled to get mine in the mail yesterday. There are 17 yummy tags! Thanks girls!

These are my set of tags that I sent in for the swap.

I just saw a flash flood warning for our county in the next couple of hours. Hopefully it comes and goes quickly for the holiday and bbqs and fireworks planned. Pray for those who live right on the Colorado river. Two inches of rain per hour would be devastating and dangerous!

I've been playing with GIMP, which I call GIMPing. It is a free program that works like photoshop. I love what I'm learning about it and having fun making photo albums and digital scrapbooks and stuff like that. If you don't have money for photoshop I'd recommend checking it out. There are free tutorials on its website too. I haven't checked any out because I'm one of those weird people who'd rather take 3 times as long to figure it out myself, haha. I hope everyone has a lovely holiday of rememberance and thanks. Enjoy those fireworks!! :)

Mad Tea Lover

June 27, 2009

Oh Mat Tea Hat I wait to wear you to town today

All the proper folks will have gossipy things to say

Do not fear the boring peole we will pass

Togther oh Hat we will be one sassy lass

The Mad Hatter will welcome us in for the fun

Fancy teas and sweets we'll enjoy under the sun

We will mingle with other Mad Tea Lovers there

And oh Hat, in all the jubilation we will share!

Catching Up

June 23, 2009

Oh my dear my life is insane! I wish daily that I could be online blogging and creating fun stuff to share with you. I'm nearly 35 weeks pregnant and feeling it. I've never been so hot in my life! We have no A/C where we live and we are underneath the boiler for our entire building. Needless to say, I'm dying of heat, which means that I am not sleeping. We can get our place down to the 60s at night but it is not enough for me.

I just finished up a big weekend with the God Rally out here in good 'ole Rifle, Colorado. I was in charge of the Kid's Corner and didn't ask for much help with setting it all up. I did it mostly but I move so slow that it took forever and all my energy. On top of that I started getting all kinds of pelvic and back pressure as the baby "dropped" this weekend. I was pooped.

I want to slow down and do the things I enjoy now but I haven't mentioned until now that we decided to move. I need to get away from smoking neighbors, 30 year old shag carpet, mold and little spaces. We found a house to move to and we are excited about that, but we can't move in until August 10th, which is shortly after my due date. So I am a packing fool now. I think I will be boxing up my craft stuff shortly and then I will be even more boring than I am now.

I am excited to have this baby and move but right now I am getting my tail kicked. I just wish it would all come and go as quick as possible. I'm busted up.

I wish you all blessings as the summer heat comes upon us!

Dreaming of Butterflies {Show Me Your Crown}

June 10, 2009

Vintage Bella Studio is hosting Show Me Your Crown today! I loved this - it was so much fun. I settled on "Butterfly Marie" for a theme. I couldn't stop there so I made a coordinating wand to go with the crown. Thank you for Marie for always being inspiration to so many of us Victorian Wanna-Be's!

The "Butterfly Dreams" wand is composed of the same colors and flowers as the crown and has a glass glitter butterfly in the center. I had fun with these colors.

Thanks Andrea for hosting this creative blog event. There are many participants and beautiful crowns to view today! Check them all out at her blog. See you all soon!