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Bathing Beauties!

Kate was just thrilled that we put her bumble seat in the bath with Isabelle. And Isabelle was super excited to be sharing bath time with little sis! They both are too funny!

Spring fun

Whew, well the total lackage of sleep is certainly starting to affect me. Kate made it a point to make sure I didnt get more than 2 hours of continuous sleep last night (FUN). However she does make up for it during the day, cause shes crazy entertaining. Shes rolling and squealing and laughing. She loves to be entertained by Isabelle. Which is GREAT cause Isabelle LOVES to entertain!



If you cant find us....we are probably out swingin'

Enjoy the day :)

I "heart" valentines day

Hello reader world... Lots of happenings since my last post.

Had a baby.... Cute isnt she :)


Survived Christmas with a newborn


Hosted a birthday princess tea party..yeah Isabelle is 4, can you believe it?

launched my own etsy shop while feeding a baby...

http://www.etsy.com/shop/AnnRoses


Turned 29 and ate some lobster

showed some love on Valentines day

Pumpkin lanterns

My darling daughter is a creative child and will find creative things to do on her own if that energy isn't channeled into a constructive activity. So today we interupted my craft fair prepping for these cute lanterns!

All you need is : Jars...various sizes would be cute. I dont know if we either haven't taken our recycling out in a while or SOMEONE is eating alot of pickles around here. But I happen to have 4 pickle jars of the same size
Orange fabric or tissue paper
Modge Podge (we used elmers glue, works just as great!) and paint brush
Cute ribbon or fabric strips

Jars...

I cut two inch squares out of fabric, but tearing orange tissue paper would be great too!

Paint the jar with glue...

Apply orange

Cover orange with a layer of glue, let dry
and voila! Jar one is done (almost)

Multiply by as many as you would like...4 will look lovely on my window sill

Tie bows around the top (leaves) I also thought that raffia would look great too! and add some faces and put some lights in them or I am going to line them up and stuff them with orange halloween lights (its not dark yet, or I would show you!)

Enjoy!

Fall Photos

I was feeling artsy this morning, and Isabelle was feeling....er..model-y shall we say? So we decided to go out for a little photo adventure. Here are the results. Enjoy the day!









Most of the pictures we took...somehow resembled this...our pig face. Charmed, Im sure.

Thanks for looking!

And were back....

Sorry for the hiatus! I feel like I have been absorbed by facebook and all the other happenings of the last year. My poor blog has suffered for it. We are doing great! Jim is coaching soccer, Isabelle starts pre-school in a few weeks and I only have 10 more weeks of being pregnant! YEAH! Here are some pictures of our activities over the last few weeks up to just yesterday! I will try and get some more of our summer fun on here. Hope everyone is well!
My little helper...Changing the color of this rather aged shelf for my kitchen.

Always a super star...

The lovely Lola stayed with us for a few weeks...Her family was away on vacation (check out the bow and hot pink toenails! We miss you Lola!


New wheels! I have been dying to get Isabelle a scooter! She has had a blast on it!!!! We go out "scooting" on it everyday!

Fair time! We went to the fair yesterday with our good friends! So much fun. But to me the fair is really the sign that summer has ended :( So sad, seeing that it wasnt much of a summer to start with. This was really Isabelles first time on rides! The merry-go-round was the favorite (3 rides!) the tried others...motorcycles, planes, ect...She was looked slightly terrified while on it, but said she had fun. Im off to see what I can find to do in the craft room....Also tossing around starting a blog about projects..stay tuned!

Christmas Wreaths

I know it seems alittle early...but Janel and I started making wreaths this week! We have a company that buys them from us, then ships them out. So we will be making wreaths for them for the next three weeks! Then we start making wreaths for our own little business. Last year we made around 75 wreaths. We will probably double that this year. It was such a gorgeous weekend, that we tipped balsam boughs. We filled the Jeep and the Truck. The kiddos had a GREAT time too. Thank goodness it was sunny and (somewhat) warm. 

I hate to brag...

But they dont get much cuter than this.....

Hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!