Growing up is hard to do...for Mom

The single most important rule out our house has been that Olivia is not allowed to grow up. She is to stay my baby forever. Sounds simple right?

She doesn't quite agree with me. She wants to grow up, get married and be a mommy (Y.I.K.E.S.)!!!


So to defy me (and my rule) she grows daily (really), she turned 5, and insists that she is going to turn 6 cause God made her that way.

BUT today she not only had her last day of preschool.......to top it all off, Olivia lost her first tooth. More traumatizing to me than the little blood and pain she had. She is so excited for the Tooth Fairy's first visit. She has told everyone she saw that she lost her tooth, from the preschool morning door helper, to every cashier we saw today.





I really thought I had at least one more year before this milestone. Really time is flying by WAY too fast.

But look how cute and small that tooth is.. (under the H if you are wondering).

I guess I will have to get over the fact that my baby is growing up! But she will always be my baby, even if she won't let me call her baby.

New Pictures... YEAH!!!

I have wanted new "professional" pictures of my kiddies since last fall. What took so long you may ask??? What didn't!?! Is my answer! :)

Olivia (the little princess or my monkey)

Bradley (my Dude-le)

Goofing around

Loving

*** SNEAK PEAK***

Kelsey and my kids.

I will let Ivy post the rest of the pictures.

I don't want the wrath of my sister coming down on me. ;)

Go Green Again!

It is Earth day again...already? This year has just flow by.



So have I become more eco-friendly? I would like to say yes, but really it is Richard who heads that department in our family. After are mostly successful garden that we planted WAY too early last year, it has really been a passion of Richard's. So much that this year he bought a composter. Now we are saving food scraps and lawn clipping to make our own wonderful and enriched soil.



Let me tell you that I am glad this is something Richard wanted. This is a stinky venture he has created. Well only when you open the composter, ours is fully enclosed. I do have to deal with our counter top composter though.



This little can has filters in the lid, so it doesn't get all stinky just sitting on the counter, but boy when you open that lid it sure is ripe if it doesn't get emptied every day.



The kids absolutely love this. They help turn the composter and they always want to know if this food or that can go into it. Bradley thinks it is crazy that egg shells and coffee grinds can go in, but steak and candy can't.



As for me, I want to some kind of project in honor of Earth Day. I have chosen a pretty adventurous project. Hopefully I can get it finished in time and that it turns out like I see it. My idea....



But my fall back tribute to Earth Day will be dirt cups desserts. Very easy and safe. Bradley has been asking for them, so why not?

Cake Balls Anyone

For Jeff's Master Recital my mom and I made cake balls. Tons and Tons of cake balls. These wonderful morsels of chocolate covered cakes are popping up everywhere. Bakerella was my inspiration for these. Hers get a lot more elaborate, but for a huge crowd, the easier the better.

Chocolate or White Cake

Chocolate went faster, but we had a lot of compliments on the white.

Oh and there were eclairs from a bakery... but the cake balls went first.

They were such a hit with my kids, they want these for their birthday instead of a whole cake!

You Seriously Made That!?

The Twisted Headband

My post title has a double meaning... Yes I seriously made this, and I got the idea and instructions from a new blog that I am following. Yep you guessed it, the name of the blog; You seriously made that!?

Cute HUH???

Let me say now that I am not a crocheter. The single link (loop) stitch is all I can do. I don't even know the lingo... I am sure I could probably learn more, I just don't have the patience.

But hey, I got this down. Aren't the colors fun???

I even made a small one for babies. I just need to get elastic to finish it off instead of ribbon. Check out the tutorial and some of her other great crafts.