Cousin Slumber Party

Saturday, the 19th, Riley & Kayla came to stay the night with Josie. She was excited about her slumber party all week. Kayla has never stayed the night with us and she did a really good job. Towards bedtime she said she missed Mommy, but she never cried about it though. But she did get Josie to the point that she too was saying she missed Aunt 'Chelle. Riley would try to console her by telling her that bubby was right here and so was Aunt Shannon and she would be fine.
Josie and Kayla had every room in the house destroyed! But the funniest part was when they got out the dress up clothes and put them on and then proceeded to put their "biker boots" on with it.

Riley and Uncle Mikey played Wii while the girls took their bath. I dont' know who won on that game but before bath, I played him and I won! Course I had to pick on him about it, cause Riley isn't the best loser. Normally he pouts and quits what he is doing if he loses but stayed right along with me and insisted we keep playing.

After the girls bath, they wanted their fingernails painted. So we ended up with one foot pink, one foot orange, one hand pink and one hand blue. They were oh so pretty!
We finished out the night with milkshakes, popcorn and a movie. We had a really good time and they all were really good.

Kim Klassen Textures

I was playing around the other night while Josie was in the bath. I had just got my hair done and it was looking good! Plus Josie was in the bath laughing at me. She thought it was silly of me taking pictures of myself in the bathroom mirror.

I played around with some textures from Kim Klassen and some brushes from Jessica Sprague. The quote I got from my class over at Snapshots of a Good Life.

Love you!

I love that you:

• Humor your Mommy with the camera and allow me to practice
• Love water and bath time
• Eat popsicles in the bath
• Your eyes that I think are starting to turn Hazel like Mommy's
• your "big" hugs where you squeeze my neck until it chokes me
• that you are finally starting to rely on your Daddy more
• Love your "babies" and are such a good caring "Mommy" to them
• Love that you call Riley & Kayla- "Bubby & Sissy"
• That you are ready to go wherever you have to go that day for Mommy to be able to go to work
• Love that you Love Us with all your Heart!

I love you Josie, more than you will ever know.

Kitchen Organizing

Mike has been on a kick of organizing all my cabinets once again. It's great by after about a month of it, I'm over it. I hope we can get it done soon. I would love to have my kitchen back with some added space.
He started with the spice rack he built where I use to keep my sheet pans.

Then he moved onto other cabinets putting organizers in them and building boxes that pull out.

He really has all of my cabinets organized now.
Now he is building an island. I plan on putting a butcher block countertop on it and using this for all of my baking needs. I can't wait to be able to use it. It even has a higher side on the backside of it for barstools that we will be able to eat at it. It will also house my overflow of cookbooks and sprinkles and such.

Hopefully in the next month I will be able to show you the finished island!!!

Hello Kitty & Runaway balloons

I put Josie in her Hello Kitty clothes yesterday (17th). As Mike was getting her dressed, she informed him that she "loved Hello Kitty all my life!"
She is so hilarious at times.

She has several balloons in the house from various birthday parties. They just won't go away! But she wanted to take the balloon upstairs tonight. I kept trying to talk her out of it, telling her if it got away from her it would go to the ceiling and we can't get it down. She told me that Uncle Nathan could get it down. LOL Anyway, she had it tied on her wrist and was sitting in the floor eating a cookie, and off it went. She looks at me and says "See I told you it would go to the sky!" You terd!!!