It's Been How Long?

I just realized it has been over a month since my last post! I know it's a little late but here is a roundup of Lexie's Slumber Party.

~note to self, 12 pre-teen girls for a sleepover is about 6 to many, ha!

Even though I was ex-haus-ted the next day, the girls had a blast, and that's all that matters right? Susan (my sis) came over to help me so i am grateful to her for that. Daddy & Ryan stayed at my mom's for the night which was great because we all know how little brothers are, right?

On to the pics! Here are a few of the decorations. Have I mentioned before how much I love my Cricut? No, well i do ;) It would have taken me for-e-ver to cut up all of the stars one by one!

Here are my Martha knock off tissue paper pom-poms.

The banner...

The cupcakes...

Here is the birthday girl!

A pic before the boys left.

Doing the Cha-Cha slide ;)

Playing Guitar Hero.

Make a wish!

All of the girls...

Silly girls ;)

Present time!

Making bracelets...

A little twister...

And having a little dance party ;)

You think after all of that they would be tired, right? Not so much, ha!

After that they watched a movie & had ice cream sunday's. And there may or may not have been shaving cream involved in some pranking ;)

The girls had a blast and i am sure many of them had a little nap the next day ;) 

Eleven

This girl is eleven years old today.....

Wow, has time flown by....

It seems like only yesterday she was this perfect little bald headed baby...

And now I am decorating for her slumber party tonight!

Yes, time sure has flown by....

Wishing You...

And your family a Blessed and wonderful 2010!

Sew many gifts, sew little time....

This year for Christmas I really wanted to make most of my gifts and I am so pleased that I was able to make about half of them.  (Next year I hope to make almost all of them)

So this past month, between all of my orders and gifts, I was doing a whole lot of this

And let me tell you, my hubby is sure glad we have our dining room table back. Boy do I wish I had a craft room. A girl can dream right?

Here are some of the gifts I made. Whacha think?

Merry CHRISTmas!

From our family to yours.....

"But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11

Family Night

On Saturday we took the kids out for family night. We have never taken them bowling so we thought it would be a great thing to try. Needless to say, the loved it! We had a great time. It was great to get out & not think about the Holiday craziness for a few hours :)

Ryan's ready...

1...2...3.... go!

Lexie was a natural

She was so proud of herself.

Daddy

See, the do love each other ;)

Catching up.....

I am sooo behind on my blogging, but the reason is good. God has really Blessed us this year because I have been swamped with orders. So every night I have been up to the wee hours of the morning sewing my little patootie off!

Things have finally settled down so I can finally catch up on my blogging (and my wrapping).

Anywho, I thought i would start with the pics from Thanksgiving. Early in the day we went to my in-laws house to spend some time with Louie's family. It is always nice to see everybody, we don't get to see them quite enough. After that we headed to my parent's house to spend time with my family. I am so thankful that we were able to spend the day with all of our loved ones.

Ryan's turkey masterpiece ;)

Daddy & Ryan

My loves

Lexie & Grandma Maria (Louie's mom)

Some of the kids at the in-laws

The kiddos at my parent's house

my sis & her boyfriend (is he the one? hmmm, we shall see)

Ryan outside playing with the kids

The beautiful Faith

Susan, mom & I

Our Family

The kids singing "Jesus loves me"