Flashback Friday

March 2004
Do you ever bribe your kids to get their pictures taken? If you look carefully you can see fruit snacks hanging out of Brandon's mouth.

A little of this and a little of that...

Ryan dressed up as Cher for Valentines Day. Wow! Yeah, that was a surprise!
Actually we had a fun day with soccer, cleaning etc. But we ended with a wonderful steak dinner and the kids loved it.


Of course I had to throw in another climbing shot of the monkey.

I neglected to add my Saturday weigh in. I lost 1.5 lbs last week. Yay!

And I wanted to share an idea I am doing for Ainsley's baptism. (Courtesy of Julee, Ryan's sister!) If any of you are having your first get baptised, I thought this was a GREAT idea! We had all the family (including grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, parents, you get the picture) write letters to Ainsley sharing their testimonies. There are a few who aren't comfortable with THAT, but were more than happy to just write a letter sharing their love and excitement on her special day. We added pictures of them together and created a book special for her on Shutterfly. It cost about $30, but is so special, it's worth way more. We LOVED this idea Julee did for Katie and Bella, and I KNOW Ainsley will love it, too!

Hope this helps someone in need of a tradition! Have a great day!!!

Valentine Crafts

First of all, I wanted to show off Ainsley's hair. I know the picture isn't the best, but we made hearts in her hair for school today. They were really darling.




Secondly, I had this little wooden box with grand ideas. I got it at a garage sale full of musical instruments for $3. I was thrilled because I already had a crate with the instruments, so I threw them all together and voila! A ready to decorate treasure! The plan was to modpodge it for V-Day for my honey, and use it for papers, etc. on the overcrowded desk. See the cute picture of the temple?





Here's the problem. My ideas are usually not finished as I plan. What the heck? It got all bubbly. WHY did my paper bubble up? Any modpodge experts out there? I need to know before I attempt Alexa's ugly Ikea dresser.

Flashback Friday

Okay, I am feeling a bit of stress these last couple days preparing for Ainsley's party. I have SOOO many things to do, yet she has all these ideas about her enchanted forest party. AHHHH. We'll have to see how it all turns out.

So, I decided to flashback back from back when I had time and creativity.


CUTE cupcakes for school. Now...nothing. Thank goodness the school won't allow it!


Look at that cute cake. I can't believe I did that.


How much did I spend? Too much. We were richer then. ;)

Ainsley's Invitation

Saturday Weigh-In

Okay, I didn't post last week. I only lost .2, that's why! So, this week I lost 3.5 This is a grand total of 10.9. For some of you that is a lot, but I am only 1/4 of the way there. So here's to a good week!!!!

The little monkey

Alexa is our little monkey! The other day I found her on the couch. What? Yesterday we caught her climbing the kitchen barstool rungs like a ladder. Over the TILE!!! Today I was putting away groceries and when I turned around...