Valentine's Day Card

First, I'm so tired today, I stayed up watching the Olympics, anyone else watching them? 

As most of you already know I am a scrapbooker, yep, I'm nerdy like that. While I don't get to do it very often any more, but have the equivalent to a Micheal's in our guest room, I do enjoy any excuse to break out my stuff and create something.

I have a Cricut Expression. It looks like this:

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It's one of the most amazing machines ever invented, okay I might be exagerating, but it's a pretty cool machine. You can pretty much cut shape/lettering out and then use this:

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 If you don't know what this does, they make stickers. Yep that's right, you stick anything in there, and it puts a sticky backing on it, and viola you have a sticker.

I digress, with Valentine's THIS WEEK I thought that I would re-create some cards that I made a couple of years ago for some friends.

They looked like this:

This insides looked like this:

apparently I didn't know how to spell pretty when I made these, oops!

Everything was cut using the Cricut, how cool is that? So if you don't have one, go out and get one and start creating. I think this years card, will look really similar to those owl ones up there. Need to finish them by Wednesday so I can mail them out. Wish me luck.

Happy Monday!

Handprint Flower Bouquet

As promised, here is the hand print flower tutorial.

What You'll Need:

Paper
Paint - various colors if you want it colorful
Paint brush
sissors
Green pipe cleaner - I'm still using the pack of pipe cleaner from this project

What To do:

Step 1: Get your kids to make hand prints on your paper. Let me tell ya, getting a 4.5 month old hand print is hard work!

Step 2: Cut out the hand prints for your "flower" bloom

Step 3: Tape the pipe cleaner "stem" to the back of the hand

Step 4:  Make some "leaves"

 I cut one pipe cleaner in half. Place pipe cleaner about where you want the leaf.

Put one side behind the "stem" and one side in front of the "stem"

Then I just folded it around the stem

Wrap the bottom half of your leaf

Do the same to for your other leaf.

Make as many or as little leaves as you want.

Have your kid give it to someone you love. It will make their day, really

Put flowers in a cute vase (Baby Fox wanted to give my mom the flowers while I wasn't home, so I never got a finished product picture. So I had to ask my mom to take one with her phone and send it to me, it was a miracle that a)she knew how to take a picture and b) that she knew how to send it, so I couldn't then get picky and ask her to send another one that wasn't blurry. Next time I go over there, I'll take a better picture).

See it was super simple to throw together if you need a last minute craft for someone.

Happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend! I survived my first 5 day week of work, looking forward to spending some time with my kids and sleeping in past 4:30am!

Celebrating My Mama

Tuesday was my Mom's birthday. I already told you we celebrated with dinner and a movie on Saturday night.

In reality my mom is a hair taller then I am, I love tall shoes!

I had been working on a craft with the kids, handprint flowers. They turned out fantastic! Tutorial coming tomorrow.

Baby Fox couldn't wait to give them to her, so he gave them to her a day early. He's waiting for her and Ampa (my Dad) to come pick him up for the library and lunch.

 Monday night Baby Fox and I made Nana a cake

Yes I actually let my 3 year old use a hand mixer, he thought it was the most awesome thing ever

What's a cake without decorations? White and pink sprinkles. Mini Fox wanted in on the action too, but she needs to work on her hand/eye coordination.

 The finished product (the M&M's spell out NANA)

Nana loved her surprise cake and the fact that Baby Fox made and decorated it for her.

And of course Baby Fox had to help blow out the candles

Happy Birthday Nana, here's to many more birthday celebrations and cake making/decorating. We thank God everyday that we have such a wonderful Mom/Nana, who loves us unconditionally and will do anything for us. We hope we helped to make your day a little more special.

Bargain Outfit

Now that I'm back at work and actually have time to be on a computer, I can return to regularly blogging. I don't know how stay at home Mom's blog everyday.

It was my Mama's birthday yesterday, but we celebrated on Saturday with dinner and a movie. Sorry there aren't any detailed pictures, we were on our way into the restaurant and I was trying to find somewhere to take a picture and we saw this green light pole and we thought perfect place to take a picture right? My parents and sister were waiting for us, and they wouldn't seat us until we were all there, oops.

I bought these green pants at Old Navy. I have another pair of the same style and I love them so much I wanted to get another pair. I looked online and it said they were $19.95 with 15% off, okay I can do that. I refuse to pay shipping, and I didn't want to buy $100 worth of random stuff just to get it, so I called the store to see if they had my size, they had 1 left, kismet. I asked the lady what the price was because the online the price said it was $20, is that the same price? She said let me check...nope it says they are $9.95!!!! Come again? I'll be over there in 10 minutes, hold those pants!

Pants - Old Navy, Shirt - Loft, Jacket - Wilson's Leather Outlet, necklace - Forever 21, bracelet - One Kings Lane (not shown, but it's there), Bag and Boots - DSW

The green bag I'm holding, is from DSW, in the clearance section. It was originally $119, and I got it for $15! Yep that's right, $15, but I did use a $15 coupon to get it to that price. Leather bag for $15, another score!

You ask about the pink leather jacket? Bought while I was very pregnant at an outlet mall while waiting for my dad to start this.

That's actually my dad landing

It was $30, mega sale right? My sister-in-law was jealous the moment she saw my new jacket and was sad she didn't go shopping with us when we were waiting for my Dad to take off.

Side note: These pants are actually cropped pants for normal height people. But for us shorty people, they are the perfect ankle pants.

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy and Tucker Up

Weekend Recap

Haven't done one of these in a while, so here it goes.

It started off with my finishing my first week (really three days) back to work - start back on a Tuesday have Friday off, yes please! Nothing better then taking some pictures with my kids and sister

Friday we had a playdate, but didn't take any pictures, was having too much fun I suppose.

Saturday, if you haven't done this, then go do it March 1, Home Depot has a free kids workshop class, you get an apron, pins after finish the project and takes about an hour of free crafting, yes please! This month it was a race car, next month is a Trojan horse.

Cause you know everyone sucks their fingers while using a hammer right?

That night we went to dinner with my parents and my sister for the first time since before Baby Fox was born, so it's been a while. It was nice chatting and not being distracted by a 3 year old. Even though the conversation always landed back on the kids. My mom picked The Crab Cooker, it was literally this small little place, with a small menu, paper plates, napkins and plasticware.

 
They only serve seafood, and have 3 or 4 sides, it's straight forward, but they know what they're doing and it's good. I got the shrimp skewer. Yes that's full of shrimp, they packed those suckers on there!

The only side they had that I could eat was tomatoes so that's what I got, double order

Mr. got the swordfish, coleslaw and the round thing is cheese potato something or other, that he said was delicious.

So we went to dinner and were done about 6pm, we were NOT going home. First time out in a while and we were not going home before bedtime. So we ended up at the movies. We saw Jack Ryan, so good, you should go see it, nice action flick, and watching Chris Pine for a whole movie...not too shabby either.

Funny story, mom sister and I both wore green pants and pink tops (well hers was a shawl, but close enough), great minds think alike. I had a black top on too, but decided against it last minute, thankfully!

Sunday, Superbowl - okay so the game wasn't great, but the company was. I have a lot of cousins and our family has gotten too big to do the holidays together like we used to, so it's up to our generation to stop using our parents as our social calender and plan stuff on our own. We had a blast and are planning more cousin days, especially now that our kids are getting to the age where they like playing together.

There was only one cousin (from this generation) missing. We were sad she couldn't be there, next time though.

Poor Mini Fox, Baby Fox really wanted to hold her, but we thought the 7 year old was a better choice.

Back at work, after Mini Fox decided not to sleep last night, 3.5 hours sleep makes this Mama really tired to start her first full 5 day week back to work rough. I keep reminding myself, this time is so short, you won't remember how awful the lack of sleep was in a few years, right?

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Alli

Off To Work I Go

Well guys, I've had a good run, but it's time that this gal goes back to work (insert sad face here). Everyday since I've been home Baby Fox asks, Are you going back to work tomorrow? And everyday I would say no not yet, but one day I will. Well that day is tomorrow. I think it might be harder this time around because Baby Fox can say please don't go to work, stay here.

Yesterday I told him that today would be my last day at home with him. He said why do you have to go to work? I said, well because I have to make money, who's going to buy all of your monster trucks and toys? And want to know what his response was? I have enough monster trucks, break my heart into a million pieces why dontcha kid?

I know we're leaving him in very capable hands, who love them like her own. In fact her son and daughter-in-law are having a baby and ask our nanny, you know you have a grandkid on the way right? Stop talking about Baby Fox and Mini Fox...lol! So if I had to leave them with someone, I'm glad that it's her.

I'll keep you posted, I might have a breakdown at some point tomorrow, or perhaps tonight when Mini Fox won't sleep and I'm up at all hours counting down till when I wake up. In case you were wondering, it's 4:30am, ugh!

I'll miss these faces

 Linking up with

Karly Kim Glossy Blonde

What My Kids Wore

Katie at For Lauren and Lauren decided to create a link up so that we can show off our kids. A chance to show off my kids, um, yes please! So these were our family photos and since I fell off the blogging band wagon, I figure, I'll kill two birds with one stone. (Mini Fox is about 3 months old in this picture - she's now 4.5 months old now)

Baby and Mini Fox 

In case you wanted to see, this is the picture we picked for our Christmas card

Baby Fox

Shoes - Target

Pants - Gymboree

Button Up shirt - Old Navy

Red Vest - Janie and Jack

Mini Fox

Dress - Gymboree

Red Sweater - Gymboree

Tights - Gymboree

Shoes - Walmart

Headband - Mom-to-Mom Sale board on Facebook (but I think she got it from Janie and Jack)

Mr.

Pants - Guess

Sweater - Old Navy

Shoes - DSW

Sarah

Dress - Old Navy

Leggings - Nordstrom's

Shoes - Payless

Belt - Francesca's Collection

Necklace - My Mom's closet (but I think she got it from Stella and Dot)