Holy Cow...Is It February Already!!!

Well...I am falling WAY behind. Let's just start with yesterday! I got rear-ended! Not Fun! My car is ok...even though it is making wierd noises and the bumper is going to have to be completly replaced. I am fine-although my back is a little sore. The kiddo that hit me-his car-NOT SO GOOD! He had to have it Clarks come and pick it up.

Our kitchen is a disaster. I am not sure who had the bright idea that our walls and cabinents needed to be painted, but holy moly what a mess it is now. We started with the back living room being re-painted a nice neutral khaki color and the dining room to match. Although that was a pain it was nothing compared to the craziness of having to empty ALL our kitchen cabinents, re-locate the fridge, having NO stove and the bar now in the dining room. YES! It is a crazy hot mess!

On to some other good news...I have some of my items at Rattle Dazzle. I pay a percentage of the rent, utilities and website, as well as a percentage of commission for Michelle selling my items and POOF the perfect partnership. My hats, headbands, pettiskirts and pillowcase dresses are now there. I am SO excited about them! They really look very cute. She has BIG plans for the store, and hopefully by spring time it will be FULL of new and very exciting inventory. I am also selling some MudPie lines and One Posh Kid, which although a little higher in price has just about some of the cutest kid clothes EVER!!!! I am really hoping to learn lots from her and just very excited about it. I have spent so many hours trying to find just the right stuff and I think you all should go check it out!

Here are just some of the headbands/hats/bags that I have there right now:






Here are some pics. from January/February. Look at my little monkey. She is just growing SO fast and she is the little MESS!! You have no idea what a MESS she is. Tiffany took them to the park the other day and Kenedee discovered the swing. That is her new favorite thing! I can not beleive how fast they grow!







I am planning on having a Kenedee a birthday party-with a little Love Bug theme. Not sure of the specifics yet, but I will be mailing invites out in the next week or so.

Here are some pics. from Christmas Time. My Big Monkeys 5th Christmas and my little monkey's 1st Christmas.

Save Handmade Products-All are in jeopardy

Christmas Pictures from Sears

Now this was an adventure. Again flying solo, I took the kids to Sears to get there pictures made. Anyone who goes to have pictures made a Sears, with small children know that this is not a fun experience! But, overall things went really good and here are some pictures from that not-so-fun day!

Snow Day! Snow Day!

Who Hoo! Kory was SOOO excited! It snowed! He was up at 6:15 that morning-dressed and ready to go out and play. An hour later, I had to DRAG him inside to eat breakfast. At 9:30-we were off to school-and Kory had a FULL morning of playing in the snow. I think the teachers at Ambleside were just as excited as the kids to play in the snow. They even went across the street to the park and made several snowmen and had a snowball fight. Here are some pictures. This was actually the most snow we have had in several years..and Kenedee's first time to see it. You can tell from the pictures that she was not all that impressed!!!

5 Years Old...Where has the time gone?

On Sat. Nov. 28, we had Kory's birthday party! Now this was not my usual organized party-it was a little bit of chaos, as I did not have it all together this year! But,luckily the weather was AWESOME and everything turned out great! We had hotdogs and chili,cornbread and cake. The new bar in the kitchen added SO much space to put food on and with the wall out in the kitchen-made for much better conversation! We ate, sang happy birthday and then let Kory open presents. My kiddy trail mix was a BIG hit-there are pictures of that- and then had hot chocolate and roasted marshmellows, which was WAY fun! Thanks to all who came and made this day extra special.

Here are some pics. from my little monkey's very special day!!!

Thanksgiving FUN!!!

We spent Thanksgiving minus Keith this year. He was up north finishing up stripping, but Kory, Kenedee and I still had a great time. Since Anita's fam. and Neally boy were going to be out of town for Thanksgiving dinner-we had Thanksgiving supper! Here are some pics. of the LONG day!!!