Wuve, sweet wuuuve.

Wow a hallmark holiday much?  I think so!  But I love holidays so who cares!  Last night around 10pm when this old lady was about to crawl into bed I realized..."crap, I forgot to do the kids Valentines cards"...so there I sat writing out a bunch of cards for a bunch of toddlers that have no clue what is going on.  But I did because it's fun!  Then this morning my precious cousin sends me a picture of her precious daughter and there I am again "crap...I meant to take a picture of my sweet valentines"...then I thought I'd give myself a break and pat myself on the back because I got 2 kids, 2 lunches, 2 napmats, 2 boxes of cards, class snacks, teacher gifts to school only one minute late today...oh and Franny (Annabelle's baby...must. take. Franny.)  So if I'm lucky I can get a picture of my funny valentine's before the day is done...

In the meantime...I have to say...

Corey Wheat- I love you more than cake!  You are my world, my everything!  Thanks for being THE greatest husband and daddy!  Happy Love Day!  You turn my gray sky blue!!

XOXO, Me

and Happy Love Day to all you pretties in my life!

Teacher's Pet

Sweet Valentine's teacher gift idea...thanks to my sister in law for reminding me of the greatness of familyfun.com.  Jaxson + Annabelle's sweet little hand cut outs on anti bacterial soap. They say "Ms.___, You deserve a hand!"  Corey thought it was a little corny ...I think it's stinkin' cute.  I wish I could give these teachers a million and one dollars... they are pure greatness!  They love what they do and we love them!!!

        

Ooo la la!

I participated in another swap...this was hosted by Marvelous Meredith (yes, the one I stalk and don't know her outside of the cyber world :)  This time it was nail polish.  Too fun.  I was paired with Heather from Maryland ...some of you know why this is a crazy coincidence.  Anyways...she did a great job picking colors...yes plural.  Very sweet, thank you Heather, thanks Meredith for hosting, and thanks Boo for the manicure/pedicure this weekend!  Can't wait for the next swap!

Cork it.

I often walk around craft stores/shows and say "I can do that myself", half the time I forget to do it and the other half -by the time I am done with the project I find I could have saved a few curse words and lots of time and patience...most the time it was just worth it to buy the damn thing at the craft show.  While shopping in Canton before Christmas (speaking of Canton..who wants to go in a couple month??) I saw something similar to the project below.  It is a cork board...an oh so cute one for an oh so cute lil girl that I adore!  Turned out pretty cute..don't ya think?

Happy Birthday, Sweet Jaycee! 

Side note:  I also made the shirt...call me crafty.  :)

Wine not whine!

 

A couple friend and I were wondering aimlessly through World Market a few weeks ago and came up with a great idea for a Wine Night! Last night we pulled it off. The event was held at The Jesthers- lovely host and perfect setting! Everyone brought a bottle of wine...or 2 or 3 or 4. We had a fancy plan of which order to try and and which went good in this order and blah blah blah ..but when you get a bunch of strung out parents together for a wine night it was GO TIME...no time for shananagans...so it actually went like this...

20+ bottles on the table- you try. you like. you get your fancy phone out. you take a picture of what you like and you move on...bottle, after bottle, after bottle...oh yeah with cheese and a cracker thrown in there somewhere once you start feeling a little tipsy.

My personal favorites..

Good friends + wine = GREAT TIME! 

Ice Cream, You Scream!

A great idea passed to me from a great friend who knew this momma was in dyer need of another recipe/craft.  Snow Ice Cream. So go, run, RUN out and grab some snow before it melts away!

Recipe:

5 cups clean fresh snow
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
dash of salt
1 tsp vanilla
mix and enjoy!

Gone Crazy...should be back Saturday.

Crazy?  I was crazy once...they put me in a room- a round room.  OMG!  Today is the day I am going to go CRAZY!  I can't take the indoors another minute...I can't, I just can't...MUST. GO. Shopping!!!

This shot was takin' when snow and ice was still fun...