My little girl turned 5 yesterday! It's hard to believe. Of course the night before I got the brilliant midnight idea to make her a felt Birthday crown. So I grabbed some scraps I had and whipped this up. It's pretty plain but she loved it. If you want to see a very cute tutorial on how to make felt crowns there's a great one at Juicy Bits She even has a template for you to use. I was in such a hurry I just laid the felt out and went to town with my mini rotary cutter.
I know it seems like I've fallen off the face of the earth but I haven't. I'm just 36 weeks pregnant and counting the days until the end. Also I'm so excited because it looks like we will be getting a new house if everything goes well. My Mom and I have been talking for a while about all of us getting something together (I also have one younger brother still living at home). We found a great stacked Duplex with lots of space for my Mom and brother in the upstairs unit and plenty of space for all my crazies downstairs. We are having the inspection done today and I'm praying that everything goes well. So then it will be pack in the next four weeks, have a baby and move....just like that easy peasy lol!
Like any of my creative endeavors, when I decide to learn something new I tend to become obsessed with it. I got my new camera and have been playing and reading and testing and practicing so I can learn how to use it to it's full potential. I joined the most fabulous site called Clickin' Moms and have learned a ton from the ladies there. The talent pool is huge so it can be a little intimidating at first but everyone is so nice you soon forget to be self conscious and just start asking a lot of questions. I have already learned so much! I have also signed up to take photography classes at our local Junior College and hope to learn a ton more. Here are a couple of shots I took of Claire today on the porch. She's posing with one of the cupcakes I made her for Christmas. I will have to post on my adventures with play felt food later ;)
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Wow it flew by fast... :) Wyatt turned One on the 13th.
We spent our two weeks in Tyler (East Texas) with my Grandmother. The kids had a blast at camp. They had the neatest train museum in the old Cotton Belt depot in Downtown Tyler. My boys are obsessed with trains so we visited a couple of times. Here are the older three outside the depot. Don't they look thrilled that I'm making them smile for a picture lol.
Here's a trackside view of the Cotton Belt Depot in Tyler.
They also have a wonderful park in Tyler aptly named The Children's Park. There are two beautiful waterfalls with plenty of rocks to climb. Please visit the link above to read the story of how this park came to be. It is a wonderful memorial to children. Strolling through the park and reading the names of children who are no longer with us made me sad, it reminded me of the three babies I have lost and it also made me so greatful for the four I have running around now. I got some great pics of the kids but my favorite has to be the one of Mac and Wyatt sitting at the bottom of the waterfall. Wyatt is like a little copy of his oldest brother.
Like the procrastinator that I am, I didn't start making Claire's Easter dress until Friday afternoon. I made the collar Friday and the rest of the dress on Saturday. I don't have good pics of them but I embroidered little daisies all around the collar. I did that while we watched the third season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. I love this show!
I really love how the dress turned out too.I realized if I'm not trying to design for another person's taste then I always end up with simple design and lots of details.
Claire turned four on the 26th. It's hard to believe!
Here's a couple pics of her and the rest of the gang on Easter Sunday.
I forgot to post this yesterday. My little Wyatt is 9 months old!!! I can't believe it. It flew by so quickly. I took this pic of him on the front porch. The weather is so beautiful today!
After Christmas Claire went to her BF's birthday party at Sweet and Sassy. They had so much fun! When it came time for the hair styling, Claire chose the "Rock Star" look. I snapped this pic of her while she was checking out her appearance in the mirror.
She has not stopped talking about it
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Wy Guy and his friend Tristan were baptized on Sunday. I got the idea Saturday night that I should make cupcakes and punch and went off to Michaels at 8:30 at night. Did you know that Michael's now carries Martha Stewart scrapbooking supplies? I found some adorable circle stickers in various shades of blue and green and set out to make little cupcake flags. I wrote their initials on the flags and made red velvet cupcakes with homemade cream cheese icing. They were a hit! Of course I had to buy another cupcake tree stand. I love those things! I really need to buy another one so that I'll have three because as you all know in any decorative display you must go with odd numbers ;)
Wyatt and his Godmother Emily.
The kids had a lot of fun trick-or-treating on Halloween. The pictures we got weren't great because they were taken in a dark house but since I barely finished the costumes I didn't care.
Mac was a ship's captain.He's been a bit obsessed with the Titanic lately so that influenced his costume choice obviously.
Auggie wanted to be a martian so we decopauged a plastic bucket that we got at the dollar store and we also taped in glow in the dark necklaces so that it had an eery glow. He also picked out suction cup ball toys for me to sew onto different parts of his outfit lol.
Claire wanted to be a princess of course. So she was Aurora(sleeping beauty). Hers was the costume that I was down to the wire on.
I was doing last minute shopping at Joanns the night before and Auggie was with me and insisted that Wyatt should be a pumpkin.
Pretty cute pumpkin!
I can't believe my little guy is 4 months old already! We've all been sick with colds around here but decided to take everybody to the park anyway. It was such a beautiful day that it would be a shame to waste it indoors. Here are me favorite pics of Wyatt.
Here's one of Wyatt and Grammy
My two big boys
and here's Stinkerbelle as I'm now referring to her. She got a hold of a pair of scissors last weekend and chopped her hair. I had to take her to get it cut. I was so mad!lol
He's here! Wyatt was born on the 13th at 2:50 in the afternoon. He was 7lbs. 3oz. and 19" long. It was a bit of an ordeal just getting to the c-section. I am a really hard stick so they knew to go straight to the anesthesiologist to get my I.V. going. An hour and fifteeen minutes later one of the nurses finally got a vein in my hand to work. I have never been worked over that much. They tried at least 6 different spots before they got one to work. They don't let you eat or drink for hours before so you get a bit dehydrated and it's harder to get the I.V. going. Then we go into the operating room and the same anesthesiologist is doing my spinal. I'm not sure how many times he tried but I kept feeling that thing snaking around in my back. I got a bit panicked that they would have to put me under but another anesthesiologist finally got it and all was well.
Wyatt is a little angel. His brothers and sister love him. I really have to watch Claire as she tries to be very helpful lol.
Here a few pics of them meeting him for the first time.
I hope everyone had a great Easter! It was really cold here in Texas but we managed to squeeze in some egg hunting yesterday afternoon. Here's a pic of all three kids after quickly hunting eggs.
I had a brilliant idea for baby bibs that I've been reworking for the last few days lol. I hope I can settle on one method that works that I like. I'll give a preview of them soon.
Today I leave my twenties and don't look back lol. My kids already sang Happy Birthday to me and Kenny took the boys to school and brought back Krispy Kreme donuts! Yummy! Nothing like a sugar high to start your Birthday off right lol.
