S(NO)W kids involved

They day we woke up with ALL the snow, school hadn't been cancelled, and I was amazingly off work that week. I came home from taking them to preschool- grabbed my camera & went to document that it actually happened. Shelby always loves the snow so of course she was excited to go play. I didn't last long (maybe 5 pictures!), I'm not much of a cold weather kind of girl, plus my neighbor came home so I went to hang out with her! :-)


Our home sweet home buried in a foot of snow. It's beautiful but after 24 hours of it I was ready for 65 & Sunny weather. That's the california girl in me. I didn't move to Texas for cold weather anyway!



Even just your average suburb streets were just stunning covered in snow!


Shelby taking a break from catching every possible snowflake!

Rewind X2

Valentine's weekend....had to think for a minute......we had our big snow storm with a whopping 12" of snow the thursday before. We enjoyed the snow & snuggled inside until we lost power at 5 am Friday morning. SO much for having a nice day in my pjs at home! We bundled up and headed to the Grandparents' house and camped out there for the entire day. We checked on the pets and house throughout the day eager for the power to come back on but nothing. Finally at 8 pm we decided to head back home and sleep in the cold house (okay it was only 61, but that is still cold for me!) Heading home i was just PRAYING for the power to return, we turned on our street & sure ENOUGH, power was on. I yelled in the car, "PRAISE THE LORD!!! We have POWER!!!" Mason thought that was pretty hysterical so he joined in on the fun and ran around the house flipping the lights on. I have never been more thankful to pay my electric bill than this month. I couldn't rough it without electricity. So sad...and even more sad, is I'm married to an Eagle Scout. or maybe it's sad, that HE as an Eagle Scout is married to someone who couldn't survive a day without power. YES....i think the 2nd is more sad. ha!

Saturday, I went to a long time friend's baby shower. I grew up with Amy- we've attended the same church since we were 7 years old. Crazy to think I've known her over 20 years!!! Since then we both grew up, I moved to Asia, came back, we both went to college, got married, then she moved to Asia, moved back and we both had babies, she is due any day now with her 2nd baby. Of course i love baby showers and now in the past 6 months, i've truely enjoyed MAKING baby gifts for showers! So naturally Amy got the blessing of one of my beautiful creations. I think each gift is just getting better and better. Here is Amy with the gifts I made for her and baby Bryson. i LOVE LOVE LOVE the theme she did in her nursery- VINTAGE TOYS. why didn't i think of that?!?!

Playmat for Baby Bryson

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Cute blocks i made for his room:

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Here they are in his nursery (I just LOVE these!!)

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in celebration of Valentine's weekend- here are a few dresses that I've made for gifts, baby gifts, and just for my sweet niece Rilee.

Valentines Dress:

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A Cute little summer dress.....if only i could get away with wearing this!!

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i LOVE this print...deciding what I could make for myself out of this print :)

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And here is that sweet baby girl modeling her valentine's dress for me ! All i can say is she is the luckiest niece in the world that I only have boys!

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Rewind!

Last week was a crazy busy week, but what's new, right? I'm starting to get used to that.
February 19th was the dreaded day. 4 years from when my Mom passed away. how has it been 4 years? it seems like it's been so long, but at the same time it seems like it was just yesterday when we were planning her memorial service. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her. We've made a lot of good memories since then with the babies now being in our lives, but a lot of those great memories are also bittersweet to not have her apart of those wonderful moments. She will always be severely missed no doubt.


My dad came in town that week and it was a great trip for him. He really tries to make February 19th a great day in memory of my Mom. This year was by far the 'easier' day to get thru so far, but not without many tears shed. Since my dad was on vacation from Chinese New Year in HK, Amy, Josh & I all took off from School/Work for the day & we all headed to the Four Seasons for massages and a fantastic lunch! Our spa date went TOO fast. Can i have another please?
That evening we all gathered at Mi Cocina's to celebrate my birthday dinner since my dad left that Saturday. What chaos is ensued by us- but we wouldn't have it any other way. My Mom would have relished in the chaos ;)

Mason at Dinner......dipping his hotdog in yogurt. don't ask.

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Mason with Amy & Uncle Chris

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Rilee making sure I blew out my candle correctly

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The next day on my actual birthday, I had a wedding to set up, so that was half the day, after getting home i enjoyed a nice nap with Mason & then Gavin & I had a great night out with friends to Esparza's & to Wilhoit's in Grapevine (my favorite hang out place!) I had such a blast with friends and was so lucky to have so many to hang out with! What a great way to finish off the weekend! I'd love a 2nd dose of that :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had our usual low key Sunday with house things & a trip to Lowe's.
Mason found his valentine.




Not this year, sorry babe.

But I did make these for valentines.








Which held this:



Eh. Riding lawnmower.....cool new sippy cup. The kid is happy with either.
My cute valentine bags I made- he could have cared less about, he just wanted to know what was in it. SO glad I made those instead of paying the $$ from Potterybarn kids!

We had a unusual v-day dinner-we cooked Thai food at home & had the neighbors over! It was fun & relaxing.... Def a must next year!

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Things I've made

We've been pretty busy (What's new!) between work, home projects & building projects, KIDS, running, yoga, birthdays, LOTS of baby showers (which means lots of sewing) and just the regular busy life on top of it all, no wonder blogging doesnt get done!

Back in December Gavin decided sacrifice his office (originally a large game room) since the boys are in the same room & I'm in need of an office/craft room. We talked about making the spare room into a playroom, but since our sunroom is still the perfect place for that & I didn't like the idea of the room next to the boys room being my craft room since I do a lot of sewing, I was afraid of waking the boys up, so Gavin offered to move over his office. What a nice husband!! Gavin's office is almost complete which means my craft room is NEXT!!! I've got a temporary table set up & the wardrobe units put together so I've been able to reclaim my dining room AND I've gotten quite a bit of sewing completed in the last 2 months. I'll have to take some pictures of the progress of the craft room as we go :)


So here are some recent projects I've completed!

Baby Gift for sweet little Grant next door
4" X 4" Blocks

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Taggie (other side is brown minky fabric)

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Playmat

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Baby Gift for Selah who will be here sometime this month!
Taggie & 2 burp cloths

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Selah's playmat

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Laura (my running buddy) & I have started doing hot room yoga & really love it! So of course I made us bags for our yoga mats
Laura's mat bag

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My yoga mat bag

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Christmas gift for Nana, a throw quilt

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back side of the quilt- mostly white with a strip of the left over fabric

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Remember all the old vintage fabrics Gavin's Granma gave me? I was determined to do something with them for her for Christmas- this was just a basic wreath with fabric strips tied on

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Her other gift using the vintage fabrics was a dozen place mats (okay that project took A LOT longer than expected) but I did use majority of the fabric she gave me AND i got to use up all the trim she gave me too!

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My friend Dede, my sister Amy & I went to Canton back over the summer and amy bought some large bare wooden crosses. Of course me her PROJECT MANAGER (aka- person who does her projects! LOL) had them sitting in my dining room for quite some time and finally got them finished last week! i need to take a close up of the red one, i love the detailing on it!

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Cross for my niece Rilee's Bathroom

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My friend Meredith hired me to make some t shirt quilts out of her & her husbands college shirts (Texas A & M if you can't tell!)
this was a big learning experience for me, but i really enjoyed it and I hope she likes them!
The first is her shirts from her sorority- i used the backs of the shirts as a good amount of them all had bible verses on them, and i really wanted to incorporate that.

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The 2nd one is more the true Aggie theme- lots of Maroon!

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Babys 1st hair cut

Went & got Maddox's 1st haircut yesterday. His baby hair is so fine & was getting so so long on top. He did really good & just stared at the hairdresser most of the time wondering what she was doing with his head. When she pulled the clippers out to shave around his ears he finally decided he was done. He looks so much better now, not sure you can tell because he's just so stinkin' cute!

Sitting in his fun red airplane



Does not look amused.



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Bath time

We've been bathing the boys together since Maddox out grew the infant tub looooong ago, but we've had him in a bath ring since then. Yes I know he's 10 months old, but I'd rather be safe when 1/2 of my attention goes to a toddler. ;)
Last night I finally did away with it & he thinks it's hilarious now !




Goof.





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Movie time

Sunday we had a lazy/productive day. We didn't go anywhere & didn't get many chores done- but we got some projects done! Yeah!
Naptime came around & went, mason just didn't act tired & was behaving really well so I said okay you can hang out with Daddy instead. Gavins office was project central & he usually has a movie going, today it was 'Back to the Future' & wow Mason was just mezmerized by it, he laughed, talked about Doc, the superfast car & really liked the movie all together. Which is surprising that it's not a cartoon.

After it ended Gavin put on Toy Story 2 which M seemed to like until the garage sale guy came on. Then he was done with it for the most part. (that might go back to Mimi telling him & Rilee there is bad men outside??)
Gavin liked that he really enjoyed BttF!



Rainboots is the way to go!

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Recent Randomness

Weve been so busy since NewYears I barely remember what happened since, let alone the little things tend to slip my mind- Thank goodness for calendars & camera phones to remind me!

Mason & Papaw playing trains


Mason put on his underwear ... His waist is in a leg hole. ?? He was so proud of himself.



Phone conversations with mason goes something like this-
M: hi mommy
Me: hi mason
M: how are you?
Me: fine, thank you.
M: are you at work ?
Me: no, I'm sitting right in front of u on Nana's couch.
M: okay. Miss you.
Me: love u bye.

And then it starts all over again. Makes no sense. And I'm not quite sure where he gets this "work" mentality!!



Yeah! Finally have a mirror in our entry way!! Previously owned frame+ beveled mirror from lowes ($23.00)+handy
husband = happy wife :)
Now I need a longer entry table!


Found my sister's clone
At Wal-Mart. Why didn't Barbie come with a little black dress when I was 6? I might have liked her more!


2 best buddies eating lunch at Jackson's Birthday party


So close to crawling!!!!!!



Helping Daddy build my wardrobe units for thr craft room. What a helper!


So easily entertained.


Fixin' his new big boy bike. Because everything needs a-fixin' you know!



Even closer!!!!



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