day 14

ok ~ here goes project 364!

minus the first 13 days of jan.

like i said before, better late than never!

i have heard so much about this book. i haven't started it yet. i would love to hear from ya'll if ya'll have read it and to hear what ya'll think. so far i have only heard great things!

catching up

here are some pictures that i have taken but havent posted because of the "computer crash". hope you all enjoy!

this first one is of a nativity set that my mom gave me for christmas year or so ago. i love it and the reason i love it so much is that it is made of wood so maggie and billy can play with it and i don't have to worry about it getting broken. and of course it is just so cute! the best part of it is watching the kids play with it, well actually watching maggie play with it. billy is still at the "lets throw everything" stage and i really wasn't comfortable with him throwing baby Jesus around my living room, breakable or not.

one morning i noticed this is how maggie set up the nativity. it gave me a good laugh.

this was another time i noticed that she had changed it up. by far my favorite. and for those of you who know my hubby joe and his one liners.... can you guess what he said when i showed him this???


" i wonder why they turned their back on baby Jesus "
gotta love those one liners. he was proud of himself!


this one is of maggie and her great great grandmother, aka ~ great mom mom, and her great grandmother, aka ~ mom mom, at billys birthday party. great mom mom will be 101 in feb!




this is maggie at her christmas program at school. she was so happy that she got to be a cow in the nativity!




isn't she precious? that's my maggie moo!! we had fun with that one!

and this is my birthday boy! he turned 2 on jan. 2nd!

this was at his party. he is sitting in his tonka truck that my brother joey and his wife tiffany got him. he loves it! thanks guys!

he loved his balloons. he had them for a whole week!!

hello out there!

hello old friends! i know it has been a while since my last post, over a month ago!! it has been a crazy month here for us between the holidays and my grandmothers husband being sick and in and out of the nursing home and then passing away a week ago, a memorial service, the computer crashing and it taking about 3 days to get it running again with great help from a dell representative, thanks olen! anyway, the computer is up and running again but i haven't re~installed my Kodak software. i hope i can find that little disk!! i have such great pictures to share from christmas and billys birthday. he turned 2 on january 2nd. i can't believe it. he is getting to be such a big little boy!

also, i have noticed some of my blogger friends are participating in project 365. have you heard of it? it is where you take one photo each day and post it on your blog. it really sounds like fun and i really want to do it. so, i now must find my cd so i can start what, 2 wks late? you think that ok? i say better late than never!

let me know if you join me in this venture! i would love to look at your photos also!

christmas

well, our christmas tree is up! i put it up on tuesday and told maggie that we were not doing to decorate it at that time because i want billy to get used to it first, and you know billy, he can keep his hands off anything!!! so i told her we would decorate it wednesday. she was so excited! so wednesday shows up and i feel horrible, my throat is killing me, my head is pounding and did i say my throat was killing me?? i really didn't feel like decorating it plus it would give billy a few more times to grasp the concept of no! anyway thursday night we decorated it and the kids had a blast!
oh, and joe was in charge of taking the pictures while i was helping the kids and these are the only two pictures he took! guys......

and just in case you were wondering billy has done real well with the tree. the only time he messes with it is when little miss maggie is messing with it.

kandy kisses boutique

i just recently came across a great website, kandy kisses boutique! laurie, the lady behind kandy kisses boutique is a very talented seamstress! she makes the cutest little girl clothes! she uses all different types of fabrics in all different patterns, textures and colors that make each item she makes a truly one of a kind piece.

when i was there today checking out her site i noticed she is having a HUGE giveaway! starting november 28 th, black friday, she is doing a free giveaway an hour, every hour, starting at 7.00 am! go to her website http://kandykissesboutique.typepad.com/ and check out all of the amazing stuff she is giving away and you might just want to go ahead and start christmas shopping while you are there for one of the little ones on your christmas list!

follow me to a blog giveaway!

i found this wonderful blog called our front porch. http://thescottfamily5.blogspot.com/. she makes beautiful jewelry! when i was there today i found out that in honor of her 100th post she is giving away $100 in free hand stamped jewelry from her etsy shop.( www.ellinoelledesigns.etsy.com )
wow! i know! her stuff is beautiful. so i thought i would share it with all of my friends. go check out her blog and follow the directions and try to win and even if you don't win...... you could get a head start on your christmas lists!!!

fall festival

our church has a fall festival on halloween night so we decided we would take the kids up there. this is the 2nd year they have had one and we always have a good time.

maggie didn't dress up this year, which i am kinda happy about because none of the costumes i looked at were under $30. are you kidding me? for a costume? anyway, one day i went to wallmart, by myself thanks to my hubby. i was looking for a shirt for billy to wear because i knew he wouldn't keep any type of costume on. he won't even keep a baseball cap on and i love little boys in baseball caps. back to the story, so i found him a pumpkin shirt that would be perfect and i knew if i brought him home a halloween shirt and not one for maggie she would be upset so i looked around through all of the scary shirts ( i don't do scary halloween ) and i found this cute shirt with matching pants. for 4.88 each. you can't beat that. ( i don't think you can see what it says in the picture. it says, happy boo to you! ) perfect she would love it! so when i got home and i gave it to her, she was so excited and she tried it on right away and said "this is just too cute not to wear for halloween! mom, this is what i want to wear for the fall festival. can i?" $10 vs $30, you bet you can!

next year i am going to try, since billy will be older and more cooperative, making them one to wear. i will be able do do something that is so much better that the ones you buy in the store. so, you know what that means, nanny and bam-maw.......

here are a couple of pictures i took of the kids.

mag's and billy in their so called halloween "get-up"

the kids with their pumpkins and already eating candy.



and this is my sweet ole mag's. out of all the fun things she could choose to do at the fall festival, this is where she endedup, at the coloring table. she is my "squarly" one. i really think all the costumes bothered her. her was real clingy and didn't want to pay a single game. not even to get candy! so, she colored and hade fun doing it and i guess that is all that matters. oh, i did talk her into walking the cake walk with me, which she won! i am really happy about that because since she didn't play any games she didn't get any candy. so at least she didn't go home empty handed.