The Christmas Dresses/ Outfit!

My FAVORITE store to shop at for outfits for my kids is CRAZY 8! And that is exactly where I got their Christmas Outfit/Dresses at. I like my kids to wear them more than just the week before Christmas or on Christmas so they have been wearing them The whole Month of December! I LOVE that Kaylin still likes to match her Sister and until she doesn't like it any more we'll probably keep doing it, because I think it's super CUTE!

Christmas Shirts

I wanted a CUTE shirt for my girls to wear this Christmas... so when I saw this one on Pinterest, I just had to try one of my own...

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First I went into the craft room and found that I had LOTS of ribbon so that wasn't an issue with making them, I went to walmart and got a couple of cheap white long sleeve t-shirts then came home and cut the ribbon strips and rik-rak to size, tied a bow for the top then used Washable Fabric glue (it's permanent so I can wash it when the shirts get dirty).

And this is what the FINAL result was...

2 perfectly cute Shirts for my girls; costing LESS than $10 total!!! NO SEWING involved (that was the BEST part)!

I LOVE this time of year

If you know me at all you know that I absolutely LOVE to make Crafts... and when they turn out this BEAUTIFUL... who couldn't LOVE it!

This year I wanted a new Christmas Wreath for my front door! I saw some on Pinterest that I really liked, but when I went to the store to look for the PERFECT Ornaments... these were it!

WALMART had just the Ornaments that I was looking for. I LOVE the traditional colors of Christmas (with the exception of Silver instead of Gold)! So when these were there with a cheaper than I thought they would be price tag I just couldn't pass them up. Then I had to make a trip to JoAnn's and the Dollar store for the Wreath form and smaller ornaments to fill in all the gaps that the big ornaments left!

When all was said and done I spent $30 for this Beautiful Wreath that I am in ABSOLUTE love with!

Disney on Ice

I have always wanted to go see Disney on Ice, and now that I have a little girl who LOVES the Princesses I figured why not take her! When I found tickets for a pretty good deal, I called Grammy and Jennie to see if Madelyn and Grammy could come, and we are so glad that they could! We were one of the FIRST ones to get there so we went and found our seats, took pics then walked around for a little bit...

Grammy and the girls... wishing it could START RIGHT NOW!!!

This is the way Madelyn looked through the entire show... she loved it... when Rapunzel and Flynn came out she squealed with delight!

Kaylin was super excited too! Those girls LOVED every minute of the nearly 2 hour show!

At the VERY end of the show... ALL of the princesses and their princes came out... it was sooooo fun....

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Afterward, we promised the girls a trip to the Disney Store for a new cup, because we just couldn't justify paying $15 for a cup when we knew we could get a good one for $5 there! Instead of just getting cups, somehow the girls talked Grammy into buying them THESE:

Yep that's right... Kaylin got a Tiana dress, crown and wand, and Madelyn got a Cinderella dress, crown and wand!

This day was such a fun day.... I'm thinking that next year we might just have to go again!

Family Pictures

I think they all turned out GREAT... these are just a few of the best ones! Thanks to Photoshop we can get a pretty good picture of all of us! We really thank Val for taking the pics for us... she always does such a good job!

Boomer Sooner!!!

I LOVE this time of year... Every Saturday (when there is a game) you will find all of us sporting our OU shirts. This year the kids got homemade ones because I just couldn't find the right ones that were affordable for all 3 of the kids!

Grocery sack problem

Any one else have a problem with too many grocery sacks?

Here are 50 grocery sacks... look at the nice pile... how do you organize them so that they aren't floating around the pantry floor, or under the kitchen sink?

My first solution was to use one of the bags to contain all of the other bags, but it still took up a LOT of space and really wasn't the best at getting them out...

Then I was on pinterest.com (a new LOVE website) and found this:

Take an empty baby wipes container and tie one bag to another and so forth as you cram in as many sacks as possible into the wipes container. When you pull out one handle set, another one will "pop" out because you tied the bottom of the bag to the next set of handles...

This wipes box now contains those 50 grocery sacks! Now I have a use for those wipes containers that I keep getting... Now for those extra sacks I don't need (who needs almost 200 sacks?)... those are going to the recycling center instead of the pantry! 50 is plenty for our needs!

OU shirts for 2011 football season!

This year I looked and looked for the perfect OU shirts/outfits for my kids. Any of them that I liked didn't have their sizes or if they did have their sizes it would cost me nearly $100 to buy them all. So my crafty little self started thinking, what can I do to get cheaper shirts for my kids?

I decided that I would just buy red material and make an OU on the shirt... then I looked in my fabric scraps (thinking there might be some red in there) and found a nice little ziploc bag of the left over material from making the twins bumper pads. Imagine my excitement when all I needed to do was cut out a square that had the LOGO on it and all I would need to do was to sew the square on a white t-shirt for the kids! Of course I had NO t-shirts in their sizes that I could sew on so off I went to K-Mart (it's the closest store to me) and found a package of 5 onesies and a package of white undershirts. I brought them home, attached with some Heat & Bond, Iron on adhesive, then sewed around the edges. I really wanted it to be a zig-zag stitch, but my machine was acting up and I had NO idea how to fix it (guess it needs to make a trip to Oak City to have my mom play around with it)!

I am pretty impressed with the way they turned out and now ALL OF my children will be wearing an outfit that fits them for this season and the BEST news of all is that I paid around $10 for all 3 of them!!!

My CUTE kids!

I can NOT believe that my babies are this big!

Kaylin LOVED wearing her new skirt that I bought at Oak City Days this past year... Ashlyn was sporting a hand me down dress from Kaylin, and Evan's was a hand me down shirt and sweater from Jennie's boys.

It's crazy for me to think that Kaylin is only about 4 months away from being 4 year old and that Evan and Ashlyn will be 15 months tomorrow!

Kinder Garden Preschool...

Last Thursday, September 1st, Kaylin started her Preschool. There are 5 girls in the group and each of the Mom's takes a week to teach the girls.

The Mom's decided that we needed a name for our "school" so we named it Kinder Garden Preschool. The girls have so much fun learning about a letter, they each have their own backpacks and supplies inside their bags.

Kaylin on the first day of School.

Daddy had the day off so he was able to walk her to school on that first day too!

And even more fun for Kaylin was that her Nana and Papa (Ryan's parents) were here visiting so they got to walk her there too!

When I asked her about her time at school, her favorite part was Snack time and play time!