{Back to Business}

Hi! Is anyone out there still reading my blog?

Sorry I’ve been gone for so long but these two little munchkins have kept me very busy for the last 3 months!

Having twins and them being my first children, there has been A LOT of adjusting in our household. But after a pretty long maternity leave (I was on bed rest for a month) I think we are adjusted enough to where I feel like I can do a little bit of work again so, I have re-opened Embellish*ology and hope to re-open A Scrappy Design soon!

I am working on a Grand Re-opening so stay tuned!

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{A Weekend Get Away}

Starting last year, my MIL has rented a house/cabin at the end of summer for all of us to get together for a weekend. Hubsy’s brother and SIL live down in Texas so we meet about half way in South Central Oklahoma. This year we stayed in a nice log house on 70 acres with a pond and access to the river.

While the girls stayed in the cool house, the boys went fishing.

One evening, after dinner, we decided to venture down to the river and explore a bit.      

It was a pretty good weekend. Hubsy did get a little bored because there wasn’t much to do…..and it was HOT.  I, on the other hand, was smart and packed up my laptop. While we didn’t have internet access, I could at least work on design projects.

I can’t believe that was a week ago. This weekend isn’t going to be as relaxing. We have  a birthday party and chores to get caught up on.

Hope your weekend is a good one!

XOXO,

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{Just Keep Swimming}

Luke, my nephew, has always loved the water so when we started talking about opening the pool for the summer, I couldn’t wait to see how he would be when we put him in the pool. I think the following pictures speak for themselves.

What do you think? Do you think the pool was a hit?

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{A Treasure Hunt}

The Minnie Mouse Birthday Extravaganza continues!

When thinking about what we were going to get little missy for her birthday, James came up with the great idea of sending her on a treasure hunt! You see, here lately, Emma is always talking about going on an adventure. She loves walking around outside with me when I have my camera and trying to find things for me to photograph.

After much thought, we decided a simple map would be better than trying to come up with clues for a 5 year old so James set out to create the treasure map. In case you didn’t know, James is also very creative (he’s an artiste) so the map wasn’t just a simple little sketched out map. Ooooh no! He made the most awesome treasure map!

The flashlight & map were her first gifts to get her started on her hunt for the big final gift.

As you can see on the map, her first stop was their car where a set of binoculars was waiting for her.

  
The next stop was the refrigerator where a hid a Dora thermos.

After the refrigerator, it was off to the flower bed where we hid a net. That little boy is Tyler, the son of a friend of the family. The two of them are only a few months apart….I think their families have them betrothed. LOL

The two of them checked the map one more time to find out that they were off to Luke’s closet (Luke is her little brother, my nephew) where we had a magnifying glass.

After the magnifying glass, her last stop was the final gift. I didn’t get a good picture of her looking under her bed because she was just too excited and moving way too fast!

Here she is opening the big gift from us which was pillows and wall decor for her newly decorated zebra & hot pink room (yes, the 5 year old requested this stuff for her birthday). 

So there you have it. Sorry the pictures weren’t that great. As I said earlier, she was so excited and moving so fast that I had a hard time getting my settings on my camera changed each time we went from inside to outside and room to room.

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{Birthday Girl}

Hey there! Did everyone have a good weekend? Ours was full with lots of swimming and a birthday party! Speaking of birthday party, I promised some pictures of the birthday girl, didn’t I?  ;)

Before the party started, I arrived early to take some pics of the party girl. There was also an ulterior motive for the photo shoot….we had to prepare her present from HeHe & Uncle James (That’s what she calls us). But that is for another post. Today it’s birthday pics!

This last one is just a snapshot right before she opened her presents. When she saw me pointing the camera at her she told one of her friends, who was trying to talk to her, “Just a minute! I’m getting my picture taken.” Then she did this pose. She’s such a DIVA! LOL

    

Hope everyone has a great week!

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{Never a Dull Moment}

So, it’s been a pretty crazy weekend and not just because it’s Valentine’s weekend. Yesterday, while hubby was studying and I was working in my studio, my grandma, who lives next door, called me. I answered the phone and all I heard was hysterics. Finally, I was able to make out a few words:  Fire, barn, 911, and your grandpa won’t listen to me. I told her we would be right there and hung up then phone. I then proceeded to run up and down the hall looking for and yelling at my hubby that there was a fire. He was the first one one out the door and once I found some shoes, I followed shortly after.
When we got over there, the south west corner of the barn was engulfed in flames. Complete strangers had stopped and were helping pull stuff out of the building as my grandpa was trying to get his tractor out. As he was backing the tractor out of the building, the fire trucks arrived.
The fire fighters were able to extinguish the fire quickly and were great with my grandpa (did I mention he is 89 years old?). Everyone was a little shaken up but there were no injuries, thank goodness. Unfortunately, with all the chaos, I forgot to grab my camera until after the fire was out and the fire fighters were gone. Here is some of the aftermath:

I’m really hoping we go without drama for a while. I was exhausted after all that.
Hope everyone had a good weekend and a Happy Valentine’s Day!

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{Surviving Winter}

I don’t know about your part of the world but it’s been crazy cold here. We’ve had an unusually cold and wet winter. We are not use to getting this much snow or having our temps this cold. This past weekend was our 2nd winter storm in the last two months and this is how we got through it.

We played.

We took pictures.

We did crafts.

We baked.

We acted silly.

And we made messes.

All in all it was a good long weekend. Today we had to go back to reality, except for all the kiddos. They cancelled school today and now have cancelled school tomorrow. They’re saying that more storms are coming, they’re just not sure how bad they will be.

Hope you all are staying warm & surviving winter!

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{Wanted}

This little boy is Wanted for stealing hugs & kisses, always smiling & being too darn cute.

Warning: Subject is armed, with adorable dimples & piercing baby blues, and dangerous, you can’t help but fall in love.

Happy Thursday! We’re almost to the weekend!

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Weekend in Review

This weekend was a pretty busy weekend for me. Friday night we did our typical eating out with family thing. Saturday afternoon, I took my little sis to get a pedi for her birthday. Then Saturday night, we went to the Red Pin Bowling Lounge for her "surprise"party.

The Red Pin is a really cool upscale bowling alley/restaurant/lounge with 10 lanes and big screens above the lanes that play music videos. We had a lot of fun and I think she enjoyed herself. Here are some more pics from the party.

(Mom & Sis)

(Hubby & Me)

How cute is this little guy? (Brother in law & nephew)

(Niece & Cousin)

Everyone seemed to have a good time. We enjoyed the food, bowling and the birthday cupcakes! All in all the party was a success.

Don't forget my Etsyversary sale is going on tonight until midnight! See this post for details.

Hope everyone has a great week!

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The Big 3-0

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIL' SIS!!!!

Today is my lil' sis's 30th birthday. Even though we are not far apart in age (or location), I can't believe that she is 30 and married with two kids! We have come along way, her and I . . . from being sworn enemies when we were kids (knives were sometimes involved . . . that's a story for another time) to best friends who live only a stone's throw away from each other.

Her hubby and I planned a little party for her on Saturday night that I am excited about . . . I hope I'm not more excited than she is when she finds out where we are having the party. I would tell you but there is a chance that she will read this and then I will be in big trouble! I will give details (and surely pics) later. . .

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Scarlet Fever Update

Just thought I would let everyone know that the toddler is doing well. Thanks to some pretty potent antibiotics, she is almost back to 100%. Tonight, they came by so I could give her the Eve plushie that I made her last night and she loved it! However, as soon as she said "thank you", she said, "now can you make me a Wall-e?" Oy, I knew that was coming . . . I told her that that was a little harder to do and I'd have to work on it. Then the boys went upstairs to watch Rambo and the girls stayed downstairs and played Smooth Moves on the Wii (only because the toddler was insistent that she play). I have to say, she did pretty well for 3 years old.

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