December Daily catch up from Yesterday

This little ceramic gingerbread house could keep my kids occupied for much longer then I ever thought humanly possible. Gracie got it for Christmas form my Aunt Karen over the weekend. To the right of the door you press a little button and it plays music and lights up. Both of the kids think it is the greatest thing. Who would have ever thought that a 6 year old and a 21month old would find this so amusing. They dance around their room and Q says "(A)gain, (A)gain!!" over and over again. It sits on Gracie's dresser right next to her pink tinsel princess tree which is of course another Christmas must, right???

December Daily

While I was taking a shower the kids got out the princess tea set and decided to have a club called "High School Musical 3" Don't ask me why but that's what it's called. This is a club activity to have a Christmas Tea Party. It included Christmas shaped cookies, out of the box of course, soy milk for Q and orange juice for Gracie. Q was extremely jealous of the little tea cup that Gracie had so he attempted on several occasions to take it from her. He also was not a fan of the cookies on the plate so he proceeded to dump them off the plate and eat them straight off the table. Gracie spoke in an english accent the entire time. Now the tea party has turned into chasing each other around the house and giggling through the whole thing.

Continuation of today!
The kids enjoyed a little time in the snow before I took them over to their Dads house. They had a ball and really love to shovel. Go figure!

Happy St. Nicks!!! This is what the kids madeout with today. Along with one larger item each. Gracie got a Princess Clipboard with some art supplies and Q got a Wheel-wheel puzzle!


My little Q was not interested in anything but the "Can-ee" He grabbed his stocking and immediately stuck the green candy cane in his mouth plastic on and all! Gracie was so giggly over this. She was thrilled to have a new little pet shop for her ever growing collection. It was really stinkin' cute if I do say so myself. It's a little mouse in a cupcake. They were both so stuffed with sweets that neither of them ate much of a breakfast. Oh well it only comes once a year. :)

December Daily- December 5th

Nothing all to important today on the Christmas front. Q finally learned were the button was on the singing snowman/penguin/puppy combination. He was pretty darn proud of himself! Today Gracie went swimming with Girl Scouts at the YMCA for a try-it requirement. She was excited about the free-swim time but not the class because they made her go under water!!! God forbid she places her face in the water. What a silly girl she can be sometimes.

December Daily-December 4th

Gracie and I practice making Candies for my Tupperware parties. We made both peppermint bark as well as chocolate covered pretzels. It was so darn easy. Then we took groups of the Chocolate pretzels and put them into the round Tupperware containers, tied a bow around them with a snowflake ornament and we will give them out as gift to great-grandparents and aunts and uncles on Saturday for the extended family Christmas party. Gracie loves white chocolate so she really enjoyed licking up the extra chocolate on the spatula. Then when all was said and done she had a bit of a stomach ache. Poor little lady a had a bit of Chocolate over load. But do you think that stopped her form then eating a chocolate covered pretzel later in the evening. No way!!!

December Daily-December 3rd Q was modeling both the "Gracie-wacie" jammies and a Santa hat all while saying "Ho-ho" yes he omits the the Ho. He seems to only be able to put two syllables at once. Any way he says it it's the cutest darn thing! A little back story on the "Gracie-wacie" Jammies. Gracie loved these lavender Jammies as a little 2 and 3 year old. She insisted that we keep them and pass them on to a sibling when one came along. I asked her what if its a boy? She replied " It's OK, boys like purple too!" So, per her request they were saved and when I was pregnant with her brother we found them. She was so thrilled! Pulling them out of the box saying "the Gracie-wacie " jammies!!!!" I could not believe that she had remembered something from 2 or 3 years ago. But how sweet of her to keep that on her little brain and still be so passionate about sharing those very special jammies with her little brother. If I do say so myself, he still looks like a dapper young man, even if in lavender.

More December Daily December 2nd. Quintin was so desperarte to get out into the snow! He even went as far as getting MY old snow boots on. It had it with the snow leaking into my old boots so Q and I went to the mall and got some new snow boots for Mommy. So, of course that means that my old ones are all for Q. He even wanted to wear them to pick up Gracie from school!

Catching Up on the December Daily. These are from December 1st.

Check out the tounge in the photo below!!! So cute!
The kids were playing with "Gar-lee" also know as garland.
They were dancing around the hallway like is was some sort of runway model show with the several different kinds of garland my Mom has. I think my Mom may have a bit of a Garland addiction. The funny part is she has none of it up in her home. That's alright the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever that they could play with it.

Some O f My Latest Work
I made this one a while back but I forgot to post it. I love those Prima Crystals.
The journaling here is a letter to Gracie remindering her to just be who she is and not let others dictate her life. It has already started at age 6! I just got these Maya Road tress and I had to use them!
More of the new Reminisce....and yes I am into folding ribbon!
More ribbon folding!!!!

My kids LOVE snow!!!!! So on this first day of December they were so excited to see all the snow pictured above on the ground! Gracie wanted to get a ll her gear on and go in it as soon as possible. She was elated that she has school today because that means and recess she can play in it, not once but twice!!!!! Oh what a great day this will be!
Q was standing by the window saying "WOW!!! (s)nowing Mama, Awe-fum!!!" He blew kisses to the snow, he waved to the snow, he sang to the snow, he talked to the snow he even told the snow "Wuv You"
It was a bit of a rushed morning thanks to the the 30 minute commute to Gracie's school. Today it took us a little under an hour to get there and a little over an hour to get back thanks to mother nature. I believe it has finally stopped snowing now as I write this so I am hoping that pick up will be a bit easier. I have some Tupperware work to get done after a morning of re-organizing the pantry so I should get to it!!!

OK, I am really tired! I was just over reading my friend Elizabeth's blog and she sounds as tired as I am! What is it? She thinks it has to do with the weather and I have to agree. I am sitting here with my little one on my lap waiting for him to fall asleep. He is so tired and will not give in today! I have so much to do, and places to go, but it's all a little hard to do with a sub-2 year old on your lap that just wants Mommy! So the computer is where I will be until he decides that sleeping is whats best for him right now. I have not been scrapbooking much over the last few days, but i have been Tupperware-ing like a mad woman! So hopefuilly today I will get everything done I want to and still have time for a little snooze!

Yes I have been Scrapbooking a lot! Enjoy!

I've actually started to scrapbook again. After months of not creating anything I am going at full steam now! Oh how it helps with the stress level. The one above is using Bella Blvd. paper. My friend Stephanie is the owner of this awesome company. You should go check out the blog! Bellablvd.typepad.com
The tress in this one are also Bella Blvd. I used a lot of different companies on this one. I just love that little stuffed full of banana look.
Yes, I made Q's Wall-E costume. He did nto wear it long but it was still cute. I also hand cut the Wall Paper piecing.
Look at that face! Need I say more?

Yes thats me with Mickey in the 80's Proof that my love for the mouse started early!

Amaya's feet. I love when my friend Heidi gives me the oppertunity to photograph her children. So Sweet!

My Q's little belly! Ahh, I love it!

A busy Mommy!

Wow we have been a busy little family over the past month. A lot has changed in my life in this time as well. Although some of those changes have been hard and stressful I have faith in myself that I will continue to be strong in my hardest of times! My children are such a blessing and though all of the drama in my stage of life they have been there with smiles on their faces and always ready to curl up with a good book and a little cuddle time. We had a great time at the pumpkin farm although the only thing we did not do was to actually get a pumpkin! I know its weird but the line to go out to the field was like an hour long. So instead we just did allthe other stuff like look at the animals, ride the rain, ride the ponies, play at the little playground and eat some yummy treats. The kids did kiss a pumpkin though :) I don't even think anyone cared that we did not actually get a pumpkin!