Crafty Weekend!

We had a totally productive crafty weekend! Sam even got in on the action and made her first Valentines day craft! :) A lot of the stuff I made is for Sams party so no pics of those yet, but I did make a sign for my kitchen wall that I am in love with! Sam is always bringing home art projects from school and they usually go on the fridge, but I saw a sign like this and knew I had to make one!







Isn't that awesome?? I LOVE it!

Sam wanted me to take her picture too when I was taking those, so here she is :)



And here she is with her Valentines Day house she decorated!



Again, she wanted her picture taken when I was taking pictures of other stuff (and she is always in this chair because thats where she sits to 'help' me make stuff!)




And here are some adorable pictures of Sadie from the other day










and Sam just waking up :)



Also, I just started up a craft blog. Please check it out! I will be posting all the little crafts I do over there!

www.livingcraftilyeverafter.blogspot.com

Little Mommy in the Making

Sam loves babies. LOVES them. I think we have 1357685413354 million baby dolls lying around the house and in the car. Seriously. That many. (well, maybe not QUITE that many... but we have A LOT of them). And she is so darn cute when she plays with them. When I am bouncing Sadie trying to get her to sleep, Sam grabs a baby and comes to stand right next to me and starts "Shhh Shhh"ing her baby and bouncing just like I am. *swoon* she is so cute! She will go pick up a baby and say "Hey beautiful! How are you? Good? Good. I love you". Awww she is just so sweet it melts my heart! The other night I snapped a few pictures of her being a little mommy to her baby.

(notice the paci and how she is holding it... I do that with Sadies paci so Sam does it with her baby's paci too! Oh and her baby is wearing one of Sadies swaddle blankets too!)













Bonus cute!




And Birthday Party planning is in full swing at our house! Invites are made and were dropped in the mail today! :) I have to admit, I wasnt totally thrilled with how the invites turned out, but I still love them! Took me FOREVER and a night with my sister helping to get them all made! Thanks Aunt Re-Re!





And the seal on the back of the envelopes


One more party thing and then you will have to wait for the big day to see the goodies I have been making! I want to keep some of it a surprise. Lets just say the party is going to have a lot of PINK! :)



Can you tell what that is made of? No? Cupcake wrappers! Cute huh? :)

Big Bear!

Tai and I have been saying for awhile that we wanted to take Sam to the snow. And I have a friend who graciously said we could use her house in Big Bear (she let us use it when we went a year and a half ago too!) so we decided to go over the 3 day weekend up to Big Bear! We had a blast. My friend also allowed a couple of our other friends to stay in her house as well, so that was extra nice! We got up there early Saturday morning and stayed until the afternoon on Monday. Although it was a quick trip it was an awesome weekend getaway!

Not surprisingly, Sam did not like the snow. LOL. It took her awhile to warm up to it enough to even stand in it! HA! But eventually she made it onto the sled for a couple trips down the driveway. My friends house is on a big hill and the driveway is a perfect sled track. It made it nice because we really didnt have to leave the house at all!

My friend Kristi's house




All bundled up to go out to the snow for the first time! (it really wasnt that cold out... but I bought the snow clothes so she was going to wear them LOL. Plus I didnt want her to get all wet.)



Sam and Emma



Sam, Emma and Allison


Walking out... thiking she is going to love the snow


But......nope. She didnt like it! :)



Allison and Emma going sledding!





Daredevil Emma even went by herself!





Watching everyone else sled


And then Sam fell in the snow and was not happy



She eventually went in the sled though




Notice where she is standing? In the one spot without snow. LOL




Here are some pics of the kids just playing

Allison




Allison and Anthony










Sam and Emma




Sam and Allison


All 3




With Taylor




Lindsey and Kennedy










Emma and Taylor builing a snowman. Sam wanted no part in this because she did not want to touch the snow!



Kim and Ava


Sadie all bundled up to go outside!





me and Sadie


The Fam


Tai and Sam sledding


Keith and Taylor decided to take the sleds out and find some bigger hills to go down






Keith


Kim and Ava and Shana and Sadie.


Then Sam asked me to take her on the sled. So I did (and Tai took like a million pics of us on the way down. He likes our new camera a little too much. LOL)















and then I crashed us into a little hill and Sam got snow all over, so she wasnt happy with me





Taylor and Emma


Anthony and Allison


We also had fun inside the cabin. We had a fire going, music playing and the kids running around like crazy! There is no TV in this cabin, which is actually fun because we sit around and talk more, play games and the kids are forced to play with their toys and not watch TV! We had fun cooking dinner together and just hanging out.

Sadie passed out




Sam and Lindsey (we moved the couch back like that so the kids were blocked into the room. lol. The staircase is pretty steep and we didnt want anyone to fall down, so we locked them in!)





Sam and Allison


Sam was obsessed with the high chair.







Sadie and Ava


Taylor with all the girls. LOL. They just kept climbing on him


Sadie and Ava again


I guess I didnt get as many pictures of the kids playing inside as I thought. LOL. But trust me, they all had fun!

Yesterday when we were packing up everyone was saying how much fun we had and that we wished we were staying a couple more days. It was just a great time relaxing with friends in a gorgeous place.

KRISTI- STOP READING NOW IF YOU ARE READING THIS! :) I dont want to spoil the surprise.....
















Did you stop reading Kristi?? Hope so! So as a thank you to Kristi for letting us use her house, I made her kids some hats. She has a little boy Griffin who is Sams age, and then she also has a Samantha who just turned 5.





I hope they like them!