Peggy's Birthday!

I cannot believe I forgot to post about celebrating Peggy's Birthday! Happy belated Birthday to Peggy (April 18th). I made her special cupcakes YUM! We once again loaded all the kiddos up and went to my Dad and Peggy's office for a special Birthday visit.
It was a little crazy! Baylor and Gina were fighting (big time) over who would give Peggy her present, so I suggested Carter do it! This of course ticked Ms. Gina off royally!
Special shamrock drawstring pants made with love ;)
Enjoying the yummy cupcakes! At this point Gina is outside running around the parking lot in her new flip flops and she wipes out! When she comes in, in total hysterics, the party comes to an abrupt end. Peggy's celebration is interrupted by band-aid searching and wales of "I see blood" followed by minor hyperventilating! I love 4 year olds!
Happy Birthday Peggy!

Decorated by Gina

There are areas in our home that Gina has "decorated". This cute little shadow box is in Gina's room. We purchased it at a garage sale the beginning of April. Gina helped me spray paint it ballet pink to match her princess room (it was originally a antiquey white color).
I thought she wanted it to put some of her My Little Pony's on, but after we hung it up she came up with this lovely arrangement! I am sure it will be ever changing.
This collage of paintings was done completely by Gina. It hangs in the hall by the loft and playroom. She decided to paint a few members of the family, and chose colors she thought they would like. I need to have her paint new pictures these were done in August last year.

I used 9 cheap frames from walmart to frame them. I mean really cheap, I think they were like $1.48 each. Perfect in a collage like this. We love the Art work and she gets compliments from everyone that comes to our home.

The Gardens

Yesterday was a beautiful day here, well as long as the rain held off. We went to the Gardens http://www.mobot.org/ . They have a new artist featured Niki http://www.mobot.org/events/NIKI/niki_bio.asp , which is who created the sculpture Adler is sitting in.




I think Gina has given up on looking at me when I take her picture. This is about the best of the day. Geez!












Adler and his Opa tip toeing through some tulips ;) .

I Love this site!

Everyone has a Birth Verse and this site helps you find yours! It is cool! This is an old photo of Gina's 3rd Birthday, because I love having a photo with each post :) !http://www.birthverse.com/mybirthverse.cfm Check it out!

Last Sunday

Once again I am behind in posting! Last Sunday we went to my dad's house for brunch! The kiddos get so excited because grandpa Pat and Peggy always have donuts!

After eating my dad took the kids outside to pick/cut some of his beautiful flowers. He planted over 3000 bulbs at his house!!!
My nephew Carter was the only one that looked at the camera for a picture! Too Cute!

A Productive Princessy Weekend

Well Friday afternoon started things off right I guess :) We took turns drawing princess tattoos on each other. Gina gave me a rainbow tattoo with clouds. I gave her a purple flower with vine tattoo. Needless to say no chores got done at all!
All of that tattoo drawing really wears a princess out! Gina sat on her chair for quite a while contemplating the prettier things in life while I got busy sewing!

The first dress I made was one Gina picked everything out for! She picked the vintage Cindy Brady style pattern from my stash of patterns. Next she picked the blue floral fabric because she said it reminded her of Barbie! The sheer lace trim was a must for her, even though I told her it would be itchy, she insisted! Well the reason there are no pictures of the princess in her creation is because it is tooo itchy!
Because we have no Belle dress up dresses, Gina requested a yellow skirt! This is the easiest thing ever to make! Just tulle and elastic!
Finally I made up a pattern to make her a purple princess skirt! She picked out some sheer purple fabric I had in my stash! It has shimmery silver stars all over it, the under fabric is purple with white stars all over it! She LOVES this skirt the best! Also I don't think I have mentioned this before, but we love the footless tights! Gina has to wear them under all of her skirts, I don't know if her mind will change with the warmer weather, but until then we are stocked up!

*Please excuse the messy house! Kerry doesn't understand why the projects come before housework? Men!

My little diva

Gina has proclaimed that she will only wear dresses! Recently she has discovered braids, and now requests the almost daily. I will be trying to sew lots this weekend, to catch up with need for all things frilly! I hope to post the creations we come up with. I usually let Gina choose fabric and trims, and sometimes the patterns. I think she is leaning towards all things princessy! (Bruise on forehead courtesy of an unfortunate bounce house incident)

My Husband ;)

It has been brought to my attention that my husband's picture is no where to be found on my blog! How in the world did this happen? LOL This is a photo taken last year on a trip to Disneyworld! I was looking for the right picture of Kerry to put on here and Gina said "How about the picture of me and Daddy on the Pooh ride?" She was right. I love this picture, and the million others we have of them on this ride. I swear we rode the honey pot at least 3 dozen times over the course of the week. I have to say this, Disneyworld truly is the HAPPIEST place on Earth! I was hesitant to take a then 3 year old there, thinking she wouldn't even remember it, but it was so magical and soooooo worth it! I am glad we took Gina before Adler was born. Now we have to start the big SAVE so we can take both of them! If you are even thinking about going DO IT! I don't think Gina knew who the characters were before we went, aside from Cinderella and Buzz lightyear, but afterwards she was Disney brainwashed. We stayed at Disney and ate on a Disney meal plan, so for us that meant Character meals! The Princess breakfast at Cinderella's castle was the best.... Oh I miss DISNEY :) How did a post that was supposed to be about my husband turn into a post about Disney? I guess I better find another more recent photo of him to blog about ;)

Relaxing at the Lakehouse

With all of the excitement of Easter finally over we decided to make a trip to the Lake! My sister and my nephews loaded up and we all went to the Lake. It was time to get the place ready for the upcoming season. It really is a condo, and not really ours. It is our Dad's place, but he doesn't get down much so we totally use it. It has been in our family for a while. My grandparents actually purchased it while I was in High school with the intentions of retiring there. My grandfather unfortunately got sick (cancer) and his dream of moving there never came to pass. My Dad eventually bought the place from my grandmother and we LOVE going! I wish my grandpa were alive to enjoy it with us. He would love taking the kids on boat rides, and fishing. We really enjoy the time we spend at the Lake together. I cannot believe the only picture I took this time was of my kids laying in bed watching T.V. ! In my defense I was getting Adler's bottle ready for bedtime and was not quite used to doing it alone yet, really I don't plop them in front of the T.V. together on a regular basis.