Happy Life . Crafty Wife

Snoooooooooow!

Not too much of it.. but, the kids finally got to go sledding. We have the perfect yard for sledding with our driveway and the fact we pratically live in a ditch, lol. The girls were out for about 2 hours! They had so much fun! Even I went down a few times. I really need to get myself some snow gear. I don't even own a coat. Not ONE coat. I am a hoodie type of girl. Hoodies don't do so good in wind and snow though.. brrrr. I wore jeans and tennis shoes outside. Yes, laugh all you want. My booty was frozen for at least an hour and my toes went so numb that they hurt to warm up by the fire!

Anyhow.. here are my little snow cuties! I took more video than pictures.. it was so cute, Austin discovered he could eat snow!

 This picture carcks me up! Little Austin, stuck in the middle of a snowball fight.. he was laughing so hard!

 

Autumn getting ready to go down the hill! She flies across the yard and into the neighbors driveway most of the time, lol.

 

Austin was telling me it was cold.

 

 

 

The girlies just came down the hill... so fun!

 

Austin's first time going down!

Here's the hubby. He went down and started pretty high up.. He was going.. going.. going... and crashed into a tree, lol.

 

Anyhow.. I packed away the very last Christmas decoration today *sigh*. Now, it's time to plan Austin's party! He turned 3 on December 28th but we're not having his party until either the last weekend of January OR first weekend of February. Sad, I know. But our weekends are packed and I need to make it work and he was promised a 'robot' party!

Other than that, I am looking forward to doing some Valentine's crafts. I might.. miiiight attempt to make my kids own cards. I just hate the thought of making all those cards for their classmates just to toss in the trash..

 Little punks! LOL!

Well, that's it from me until 2011.. ahhhh! HAPPY NEW YEARS! I hope you all have a great one! Be safe! I am staying home, yay me..



Saddle bags, here I come!

Oy.. this holiday season got me up 2lbs!! Eeeeks! Tisk-tisk. I wanted to share these two delish recipes with you all!

A tradition in our house for breakfast Christmas morning has been homemade cinnamon rolls! Oh... my.... Love me some cinnamon rolls.. and um, homemade right from the oven? *drool* Complete with cream cheese frosting. I don't 'do' cream cheese but this frosting is to-die-for! I use THIS RECIPE

Mine might look a  little odd... but, that's because I ate the outer part of the roll before taking a picture, LOL.

I follow the recipe but I do make extra frosting! Also, a little tip! After the come out of the oven, flip your baking dish upside down with the rolls inside. This let's the gooey yummies drip down into the cinnamon rolls! I flip mine over wax paper and leave them for about 15 minutes.

They are AWESOME!!

 

Now.. onto something easier to make. Yet, they taste devine!

OREO TRUFFLES

You will be everyone's favorite person at your next party if you make these! They are best cold and right from the fridge!

The hardest part making these.... crushing the Oreo's! I beat them and crushed them any way I could. It took awhile (because you want them to be pretty fine) But, all the beating was worth it! I am pretty sure my own mother wanted to marry me after trying these!

Mmm, good!

Some may say it's a sickness...

But me and my girls say NO WAY!

You might remember me posting a couple months ago about these dolls.. and how I promised mysef not to go overboard with them and just to get the girls one or two.

Yeah.. I am so full of it!

I blame Santa... tee-hee!

Yes, soooomehow we.. (yep, I said 'we' because I love them too) ended up with all but one of them and the only reason we didn't get that one was because I haven't found her yet for a price I want to pay!

Issues, much? Nah! Sure, they don't do anything and weigh a billion pounds and can't even sit up on their own.. but, they are just to cute! I've seen some people saying their kids don't play with them. Thankfully, my girls love 'em and have had numerous tea parties already.. my little Alannah sleeps with them every night!

let me just add before I post these pictures that the girls requested photos of them with their dolls to be added to the Lalaloopsy Facebook page!

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Sew' stinkin' adorable! I hope they make more! These will be so fun so collect!

The Christmas season has kept me busy!

Whew! No time to craft or blog lately :( No fun!

I've been baking like crazy for what seems like the past week! I gave several people gift baskets and man, it was a lot of work! Not to mention that buying them probably would have been cheaper! LOL! I plan to come back and do an update of our past 2 weeks or so with some pictures!

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

I will leave ya with a picture of the gift basket I made my mom.. she also got a platter of bread and treats!

Can ya guess what I will be doing for the next few days?

Baking my little heart out!

We're going to my in-laws on Friday for the weekend to do a little pre-Christmas get-together and I am going to make them all gain a few pounds with some yummy treats!

I got the peppermint bark done! Sugar cookie dough and gingerbread dough are chilling.. going to roll out and bake tonight! I will share pics of all the goodies with recipes later!

Mmmmmm.....

Germs are amoung us..

And they need to go away!

I've been a Lysol freak the past few days.. and it's not working.

I caught this nasty head cold from who knows where. With my constant trips to Michaels lately, I'd bet it's from some sick kid sneezing on some stacks of paper or ornaments.. bleh! LOL!

I THINK I will be well tomorrow. Maybe. Who really knows?... My husband has worked all weekend (16 hour shifts) and of course, I am sick and he is not home to help me. Moms are not allowed to get sick, right? If I get sick I can not lay in bed whining and moaning about a little stuffy nose that is 'killing me' (Like some handsome grown man I know.. and live with.. that I'm married to...).. *sigh* My kids are non-stop so any chance I had to sit down and just chill.. it quickly ended by a fight between my girls, my over dramatic 7 year old daughter who's world comes to an end at least 3 times a day... The cat scratched my son.. my son licked the cat.. so and so needs a drink, snack, dinner... son needing to pee every 5 minutes! (yes, I swear he had to go to the potty waaay more than usual on my worst sick day!) My poor head was pounding! Ahhhhhh! Over it! It's so hard to keep a happy mommy face on when I am not feeling well. And trust me, happy mommy face was long gone before I stumbled out of my room that morning!

I went to bed early last night after my day for hell.. Didn't matter. My son woke me up TWO TIMES last night to.. yes.. go pee! What the heck? WHY?.. Can a girl just get some sleep? No, no I can't. He then woke me up around 6:30 crying because he was SICK! Egh! It begins.. the cycle of germs! Never, ever can just one person in my house be sick. We like to share.. passin' it around. I know my girls are bound to get sick in a day or so.. I should have started sneezing on their pillows the first day I was sick to get it over with.. You see, we have a trip to Ryan's (hubby) parents planned this weekend for an early Christmas celebration. I have a gut feeling one.. if not TWO of us will be sick. Not good. I don't want to go sick, either. My baby nephew will there there, my pregnant sister-in-law and the rest of the bunch. I don't want them to be sick for actual Christmas day!

Hopefully I will be 100% tomorrow. I really need to get started on some baking. *fingers crossed* Right now I have a slight stuffy nose, itchy cough and a headache... wanna kiss?, LOL!

On a side note.. I crafted a bit the other day! Instead of feeling sorry for myself having some germies.. I took some DayQuil and got busy making some yarn trees!

 

Cuuuute! I love my little trees! They match my new decorations perfectly!

Now, with touching the pretty soft yarn.. and for the first time ever, going down the yarn isles.. I fell in love! I now have an urge to learn to knit! I have been looking at some videos and an online forum I found. Seems complicated, LOL! But, I need to remind myself I say that about every thing I start for the first time. After Christmas is done I plan to pick up some supplies and try to make something. I will probably start with a scarf. *shrugs*

Anyhow.. gotta go! I'm going to snort some Afrin and go to bed!

Glossy Accents.. Lovin' it!

I bought this stuff about a month ago and just now played around with it. I really like it! I didn't get a good photo to show it off but what it does is dries hard and glossy with a slight 3D look to it. I really like it for the eyes! Plus, it's cheap! I think it would look great over snowflakes!

If you like the treat box, the SVG is from HERE super cute! I need to make the other characters as well. I have been so busy all week I haven't had much free time. Now I am not feeling well... it's always something! LOL! Maybe later I will try to get a better photo to show the 3d gloss better..

TTYL!

Trees galore!

This year I told my husband that all I wanted was a tree or two complete with decorations as my Christmas gift... Well, that's what I got! I've been buying up all the decorations at Michaels with their 50% off sale and added a 15% off coupon!

I had the green tree, which is posted below... but when I got my white tree I moved all the ornaments! I just love the white tree with all the purple!

Then, since my green tree was empty I picked up some country'ish cutesy ornaments.. these are just so adorable! Here are some photos of the tree and some matching decorations. I have since added two more things that I need to get some pictures of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then there is my newest tree.. I looove this little thing! It's a 3.5' BLUE tree! Yes, blue! It's so fun!

 

 

 

 

 

So.. THIS is what I've been up to! Getting all this cute stuff up and shopping!... I am oficially DONE shopping for my kids! It feels so good to be done so early. I am almost 100% done with EVERYONE! I am going to start doing some baking soon as well.. I can't wait!!

Well, that's it for now. I have some new goodie boxes I need to share.. they came out super cute!

OK, off to take Alannah to the bus stop and to wrap presents!