1st Grade Dads and Donuts

One of the biggest perks of helping with Dads and Donuts is getting to know the teachers a little bit. But the BEST perk of all, is getting to see all the cute dads with their kids and how HAPPY this makes the kids. And of course, getting to take pictures of my own kids with their dads is that much more fun! :) Taylor doesn't eat donuts so we packed her a bag of Ritz crackers instead. She was just as happy! Gotta love the expression from Steve.

St Patricks Day

I wasn't creative AT ALL. No leprechauns dyed our toilet water green, or turned our couches and pictures upside down or even left gold at our house! Our kids didn't even eat a green breakfast or dinner. BUT, they loved their 4-leaf clover necklaces, wearing green and playing with their friends later that afternoon. Having it be sunny was such a blessing. The kids are ready for more of this "outside" time. Maybe next year the leprechauns will visit us.

Craft Night at Crafters Corner

Another outing with my Cedar Hills friends ... Tuesday, March 16th ... a Girls Night Out this time. Jenny discovered this craft place in Am Fork called Crafters Corner that will let you purchase a craft and then use their workroom and supplies to make it (for a $5 fee!). Afterward, we all went to JCWs for some dinner.
I did all of these projects ... I love bright and cheery Easter decorations and these turned out soooo cute ... even if I say so myself! And it is so fun to see them in the niche in my hallway and the chick on my mantel in the living room. It just makes me happy. I should have taken pics of the other projects. There were some REALLY cute ones!

Fondue anyone?

What a FUN night! This is our "other" neighborhood. Our friends, Jenny and Chris host lots of "gatherings" and invite us. We've gotten to know their group of friends and almost feel a part of their neighborhood. Its fun to hang out with them. We seem to do something with them almost every month whether its playing Werewolves late into the night, going to a cabin retreat for a weekend, going out to dinner, or something else, its always fun! Fondue Night was was the most recent gathering for couples on the 13th. We ended up staying WAY too late, especially with the time change. But it was fun! Thanks Jenny & Chris and all our friends in Cedar Hills. Check out all the food ... and this was mostly the food for the cheese fondue. We also had chicken and steak, potatoes and a few other desserts! YUMMY!! We laughed at so many things, our stomachs and mouths hurt from smiling and laughing so hard. NayNays and a quarter ... nuff said! Notice Dion trying to sneak into the background of these pics ...

And I promise Steve was there ... he just managed to NOT be in any pics. Sorry Steve. My fault!

I LOVE to do CRAFTS!

I'm not great at CREATING, but I'm great at COPYING. My friend Meredith told me she had once heard it called R&D ... ripoff and duplicate! That's me! That same friend holds a craft day at her house once a month. She finds fun ideas, buys supplies and we all just pay for what we make. Last month, it was the cute little bags I made about a month ago (I posted pics of them). This past Friday, we made hair clips! Here we are making them.

And here is the final product ... mine at least (others made different ones). Meredith made a TON of them. I just made 10 - 3 of the Red, White and Blue, 2 purple and 2 pink, and one each of the other 3. Lots of fun! Want to know how to make them? Go to this blog. That's where Merf found the idea. http://theidearoom.blogspot.com/2010/03/rosette-barettes-and-hair-acessories.html

I still need to post about my craft night with my "other neighborhood". These ladies have let me be adopted into their neighborhood gatherings and we had a blast when we went out. And I love the stuff I made. Its on my facebook, but I haven't had a chance to make my pages yet for here. :) Coming soon, I promise!

Couple more pages with old pics ...

Sometimes Scraps of Ellay (the designer whose creative team I am on) will come out with scrapbook kits that I REALLY love, but I don't have any recent pictures to go with it. That was the case with this kit. I don't HAVE to do something for every kit, but if I like the kit I WANT to use it. :) This kit made me think of two things ... Alyssa's piano recitals and one of her dance costumes from last year. So, I dug through my old pictures that aren't scrapped yet (digitally or on paper) and created these two pages.

First piano recital.
Alyssa does 3 dance competitions each year. I take a lot of pictures at each, but don't want to do 3 sets of layouts about each competition - she had a red costume, a hot pink costume and this one - so they just don't all work on one page! So I decided to do 3 layouts - one for each costume. One page will feature a good shot of her in the costume and then I'll do a facing page with all group shots and action shots from all 3 competitions. This is the first of those pages. She performed to the song "Bugle Boy". She loved this routine!

Credits: Food of Love by Scraps of Ellay & Digi-Designs by Nicole - I love the flowers and the music stuff and it worked PERFECT for both of these events. :)

Serious? Lyme Disease in our area?

YIKES!! YUK!! That's what I have to say about it. I HATE ticks especially when they are infected with Lyme Disease or other yucky stuff. Grrrrrr... Hope we can all be aware of it and none of my friends, neighbors or family be affected. If you haven't heard about it and you live near here, send me an email for details. You can also look at this news article for a little bit of info from earlier this week. Or check KSL for their news piece on it tonight.

Spring may have sprung, but winter came back!

A few weeks ago, we had some beautiful weather, followed by 8 inches of snow on the weekend. The girls loved playing in it. Taylor and Jessica helped me make a snowman (while Alyssa was at dance). He wasn't the best snowman, but the girls loved him. Taylor also enjoyed EATING this snow. She scooped it into a cup and ate it like a snowcone. WHY will she eat snow but not food? Sigh! Anyway, you gotta love spring in Utah ... just when you think its here, its NOT. At least it melted fairly quickly and the snow coming down right now isn't even sticking. YEAH!

Credits: Fall Softly Snow kit by Scraps of Ellay