What’s New…

Eeek… how is it two weeks into the New Year already???!!!  Our holiday season FLEW by… with several trips to the coast to stay with my parents over stretches of time, a HUGE trip out to Florida to play at Disney World, a strange New Year’s where I severely hurt my neck (couldn’t even move much out of bed for a few days), teaching preschool, dance events, birthday parties, and a new weight loss attack plan put into play.  Phew! 

First of all, my first baby turned a decade old!!! Wowzas!!! Here she is at 10 weeks old:

And here she is at 10 years old at her birthday party… her grandma (my mom) came over to teach a bunch of her friends how to make Ukrainian Decorated Eggs!  It was so much fun!

Over the holidays, my sweet friend Mary was nice enough to snap some new family pics for me in her backyard… so here we all are:

 

And then of course we went to Disney World… we had a blast (you can’t have a BAD time there really…) and loved the whole thing!  We even got picked while we were there to be part of a riverboat show… check us out with our silly costumes and tambourines:

We met tons of characters… here are a few:

And here are a couple of my favorite shots of the castle at night that I snapped… it’s so gorgeous with all of the lights!!!

We had Christmas since I blogged last too…

My kiddos love the Christmas ‘hat box’ over at my parents’ place!!!  And I guess now we have a sneak peek at what Tyler will look like as a very old man??? Hee hee hee…

Kaitlyn had the fun opportunity to dance at the halftime show at a Blazer game in Portland!!!  Here is her part of the dance team lined up along the logo on the court:

And here are the girls after the game (you can tell we had the nosebleed section seats) :

Well.. I’ll leave you with one more cute pic of my boys dressed up all ready for church… I can’t help but include it:

Ok… I promise to get back to my scrapping this week… Kim is probably getting ready to toss me out the window… argh!  And she has a great new grab bag up for sale right now too!!!

Grab it here at DSO or DSV

She even has a sampler over on her blog right now too – but if you know Kim, you know her work is ALWAYS AMAZING!!!  You’ll want to invest in her overlays… they are (in my humble opinion) wonderful.

Ok… signing off for now… will be back again soon!

Hugs!!!

It’s Black Friday!

Ok… just got back in to my place after spending a couple of nights at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving.  My poor mom – she broke her ankle a few days ago… and is having a tough time (to say the least) getting around now!  LOL!  She doesn’t even have her ‘real’ cast yet… just a temp one till all of the swelling goes down.

We had a lot of fun though… and it was kind of nice in some ways for my mom to be ‘immobile’ --- it gave all of the rest of us a chance to do all of the cooking, cleaning up, and serving for a change!  My mom deserves a LOT more of that!  (Just preferably without the broken leg part! LOL!)

The kids enjoyed putting together some cupcake turkeys:

Here’s Ty eyeing his… with a HUNGRY eye!  Hee hee hee…

I would love to say I came up with the turkey cupcake idea all on my own… but I didn’t!  If you would like to see how to make them (they are SOOOOOO easy) just click HERE to check it out!

Ryan had fun putting together the big ‘map of the United States’ puzzle (over and over again). 

Well… we’re home now… and Matt is going to be busy setting up our new GIGANTIC flat screen TV!  He took advantage of the Black Friday deals… and our TV was dying anyway… so… we HAD to right??? LOL!  I am NOT good at setting those things up… I am leaving that ALL to him!  Wahahaha!

Speaking of Black Friday deals…

Kim B. has some GREAT deals for you TODAY!!!!  Did you miss out on her 50% off birthday sale???? Well.. you are in luck!  She has her store on a 50% sale AGAIN today only!!!

AND she has another amazing CU grab bag too!

AND she has a FANTASTIC new Christmas themed kit!!! Woohoo!

 

This cute kit is ONLY $2.50 for the weekend!!!! Hurry!!!

You can find all kinds of fun freebies over on Kim’s blog today too… check it all out by clicking HERE!

Well.. that’s all I have time for today I’m afraid.  I’m off to watch my girls dance in their studio’s production of the Grinch!!! Woohoo!  I can’t wait to see them!

Hope you’re all enjoying the Thanksgiving break and holiday!

HUGS, Beth

I Used It Again!

Well… my little guy is now officially 3!  Not so little anymore I suppose… but he’ll always be the baby of the bunch as far as I’m concerned!  We had fun celebrating with him – eating cake and ice cream… and then setting up our Christmas tree.  (Yup… you read that right… and I KNOW it’s early… but we are antsy – and we just couldn’t help ourselves!  Wahahaha!) 

I put together a ‘sort of’ choo-choo-train looking birthday cake for Ty.  (He loved it – so that’s all that matters right??? LOL!)  And I am totally going to sound like an advertisement for Pampered Chef here, but I used my Classic Batter Bowl AGAIN for the little ‘hill/tunnel’ that the train is supposed to look like it’s going through.  I tend to use my batter bowl a lot for baking cakes… Here is what the bowl looks like:  (nothing very out of the ordinary or anything…)

All ya have to do is bake your cake inside the bowl and then flip the baked result upside down… Here is the cake I made for Ty’s birthday this year:

And here are couple of past cakes that I’ve used it for too:

I just keep using that thing over and over again… hee hee hee! 

Well – I just wanted to pop on today and say ‘hi’… nothing major.  I have some scrapping to do now for Miss Kim… she has a beautiful new Christmas kit out that I can’t wait to dive into.  Woohoo!

C ya later!