She Can Walk

Just finished making a TuTu. The Lilac TuTu. 1/3 Green, 2/3 Purple. I'll try to have pictures posted tomorrow on FB, expect to see it in the Etsy store sometime next week probably. It's super cute, and I love the colors. It could also be named Tinkerbell, because that's what it reminds me of!

So I'm skipping a list of posts I have written down that I need to get to because I've been waiting a long time to post this, Savannah can walk! YAY! I'm so proud of my little peanut girl! At 14.3 months old, she's 1.7 months ahead of Connor as he walked 2 days before 16 months old. It's so funny, she is so much littler than Connor was at this age, so she definitely doesn't look like she should be walking yet. She started yesterday at Grandma's, so I told Scott he had to go home and charge the battery in the camcorder (I had my exercise class with Chrissy last night) so I could record her when I got home. I got home and she's wearing old Connor PJ's, lol. I made Scott change her into "girl" PJ's, because "we're recording this, and she doesn't need to know we use to put her in boy clothes", lol. Love my logic, right? Anyways, got it on video, and I can't believe I can finally say my baby can walk! She's getting too big!

Buddy's Party

I am proud to announce that I've lost 3.2 pounds this year so far, and officially can fit in my size 5/6 clothes! YAY! Super excited! I've been doing the 30 Day Shred 2-4 times a week, plus I have a 1 hour workout class on Thursday nights. I've also been staying on top of eating salads, and have averaged 3-4 every week. Now only 10 more pounds to go!

So Buddy's 3rd Birthday Party was on January 28th at the Moore's house. His theme was Madagascar and the cake turned out super cute! They got it from Carl's cakes
(the same place we got our wedding cake) The kids also got animal masks and blow up animals and a goodie bag. Buddy got some great presents, including a ton of animal stuff (he's gotta love that!). I hope he thought it was super fun! I can't believe he's 3 already, where does the time go?

A Sleepover

Still feeling pretty miserable........yuck! I should be cleaning our bedroom right now because we have some people coming to measure for the new carpet tonight, but I really just don't feel like it! Hopefully they wont mind to much, lol. So who all watched the Super Bowl last night? I did! And I won a jersey off of it to! Scott & I bet on the game, and I won! Go Eli!

So it's been a week and a half but I wanted to post about Connor's 1st sleepover with his cousin Buddy. We had dino nuggets & fries for dinner, then we made a gingerbread house (where the boys ate WAY to much candy, lol!). Then we watched American Tail and ate some popcorn! We almost had an incident, Buddy was looking at me saying it was time to go home and I thought he was going to cry, but I distracted him enough and it never happened, thank goodness! I think both boys had a lot of fun, maybe we'll do it again in a few months!

2nd Degree Orange Belt

So last night sometime a nasty cold decided to slap me in the face. What a wonderful feeling, yuck! To bad I don't have time to be sick and there is lots to do around here! Gotta finish a bunch of homework, need to go to the grocery store before the Super Bowl, and sometime I have to find time to clean my room because we have someone coming over tomorrow night to measure the carpeting in our room!

So on Scott's Birthday, Connor received his 2nd Degree Orange Belt! He started before all the other kids he's currently doing karate with, so he's the only one with the 2nd degree. All the other kids received their orange belts the day before. They were nice enough to wait to give Connor his 2nd degree for when I could see it. I had missed when he originally got his orange belt, so I really wanted to see this. He's doing really good with karate, and I know he enjoys it because he makes me play karate with him sometimes at night. Currently we're only signed up to go to April 1st, but I'm hoping we can just add on another 2 months and go to June 1st, then we'll take the summer off because we'll be busy with swim lessons and I really want to sign him up for T-Ball!

Happy 28th Birthday

It's Friday, yay! It's been a long week. Savannah has been sleeping like crap (I think she's teething), which makes for an exhausting week. Also we've been looking into flooring places and we have someone coming in Monday night to measure so we gotta get working on cleaning out our room, not fun!

So it's been over a week, and I'm a little behind, but Scott just celebrated his 28th birthday. Before dropping Connor off at school, him & daddy opened all the presents. He got 3 - boxes of cereal, 3 - boxes of candy, 3 - movies, and 3 misc. (Dolphin's chip clip, a wrestling guy & a luggage tag). After school we went to met up with the Moore's and Betty and ate at Ella's Deli for lunch then we went to the Children's Museum. Afterwards I had to run a few errands then we met up with the in-laws for dinner at the Cardinals Nest. Next we came back to our house where Scott got to open more presents and we ate some ice cream cake. He received a new portable DVD player (his broke last spring), a camel (for his Nativity seen), tickets (to the Elimination Chamber - Chrissy, Jim, Connor & Scott will be going), and some other great stuff. It was a busy day but overall I think it was great, I hope he thinks so to. Happy Birthday Mr. Veith!

Pizza Sauce

Can you believe tomorrow is February already? And guess what? We already have our taxes done and they will be mailed out today, so excited! Going to be paying off the CC, put a chunk of change in savings for Germany (hopefully going there June 2013), and now we're looking into replacing our flooring on most of the main level in our house, yay!

So on the 22nd, Jessica came over and we made pizza sauce! We had 15 pounds of tomatoes left in the freezer, and with removing those I was finally able to unplug the fridge in the garage which will hopefully save us some money! So after thawing, removing skins, removing as many seeds as possible and blending all the tomatoes we added 2 packs of Mrs. Wages pizza sauce (and all the ingredients it asks for), garlic powder & some oregano. We ended up getting 12 - 8 oz jars from the batch, so we each got 6! We actually just used our first jar last night and made a pizza, and it was AMAZING! That brings me down to 5 left. If anyone is interested in purchasing one through AJsCanning, let me know and I can get it posted on the etsy site, otherwise I'll just eat it all myself, yumm!

Happy Birthday Buddy

So it's finally Friday! Still slacking on the blog front, not doing it nearly as often as last month. Oh well, I guess until my laptop gets fixed or we get a new one I'll probably not get to posting as often. This computer is so ridiculously slow I can only handle working on it for so long.

So Monday was Buddy's 3rd Birthday. We met up with the birthday boy and the rest of the Moore's at McDonald's, then went over to their house for cupcakes & presents. We got him a piece to his birthday train (when he's 16 and getting his final piece he'll probably hate us for it, lol, but oh well), some PJ's, an outfit and some animal beanie babies (if you don't know yet, Buddy LOVES animals. He loves them more than any kid I've ever known!) I hope he had a great 3rd birthday, and now we get to celebrate again with his big party tomorrow!

Kung Fu Panda 2

So I'm super excited to announce that a photographer has contacted me and we will be trading goods! I'm going to send her a TuTu, and she's going to take some cute photos that I can use in the ETSY store & on FB! I'm so excited! Also, Miss. Savannah's TuTu's has reached over 100 fans so I'm doing a giveaway for a FREE TuTu! Go check it out HERE.

So last Friday night I finally got to watch Kung Fun Panda 2. I loved the first one so I was super excited to see this. This movie had a lot different feel to it than the first. The first one was all about the good guys with glimpses of the bad guys but the second one was a lot more about the bad guys. The movie as a whole had a lot darker of a feeling to it because of this but I still loved it and am glad I saw it. Will there be a 3rd one? I haven't heard anything but it wouldn't surprise me if they did.

Gingerbread House

Wow, I kind have been slacking on the blog front! Oops! Just a lot going on I guess. School started this week which always adds extra stress, plus I've been working out almost every day and just overall trying to spend more time with the family. Plus the laptop is still broken so it's kind of a pain in the butt *and cold* to sit in the basement.

So Thursday I got to go to Connor's school and help him make a Gingerbread House. I was only there for about an hour but it's always fun to see Connor with his classmates and all the other parents. It makes me feel sad that some of the kids parents couldn't come but sometimes work wont allow you to take off and there are other obligations. One kids Aunt came, which I thought was a great idea. If a parent can't come why not send someone in their place? I know there will always be a kid whose family doesn't come and there are obviously circumstances beyond any ones control that prevents their family from coming but it always makes me sad when they don't. Anyways, it was a lot of fun and on Friday after dinner we ate it! Yum!

The Best Of Me

So Connor has off school today, and of course he didn't let me sleep in at all! I don't know why I thought I would get to sleep in, he never lets me! Also, anyone know a good plumber? Or sink is still not working it seems so I think we'll have to call in a professional. Hopefully it wont cost to much!

So Thursday night after my workout class with Chrissy & Cat I stayed up and finished reading The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks. I love Nicholas Sparks and this book was no different. I somewhat predicted the ending of the book but I still enjoyed reading how it happens. I really should take my time reading Nicholas Spark's book's because he only does one a year so now I have to wait until the end of this year/beginning of next year for the next one he just started writing. Can't wait!