The Week After: Post-Hawaii...

Monday was beautiful...in fact, I felt a little "spring" in my step and finished a few projects. Like:

I got this idea for sillouettes from a great blog The Nie Nie Dialogues. She's an amazing woman!

Planting the flowers just made me so happy...I am so itching for a non-snowy spring...but THEN Tuesday came. And if you live in Utah we all know what happened!! 10 inches of snow! ARGH. My beautiful flowers spent the rest of the week in the garage...and the yellow petunias turned out to be hardy...so they survived.But today is glorious and I'm ready for spring again. Yippee. Over Spring Break we went swimming at the Rec Center and Lucy enjoyed her first swimming experience...and I think that's because the pool felt like bath water, hiding from the storm under a huge "bubble." Can hardly wait until we can go for reals with true sunshine kissing our skin. Sophie was very confused why we didn't have to put on our sunscreen in the bubble. We've trained her well. :)

Hope everyone else is in love with spring finally rearing its lovely head.

Baby's #1!

I had so much fun getting ready for Lucy's birthday. I made the "happy birthday" banner from templates from (who else?) Martha...I saw this same banner on Etsy for $25...and I think mine is much cuter!
Also, the little butterfly templates are on Martha too. I just love them. The girls loved helping me cut out all sorts of butterflies...Sophie said, "It was the best day of her life." Good to know. Wish I was so easily impressed.We also celebrated my Dads birthday and I must say he didn't need very much encouragement to wear the buggy headband. So funny! What a good sport he was!

And of course Lucy LOVED her ladybug cake. She didn't need much encouragment to get in there...she got the idea pretty quickly. I'm so glad we went through all the effort for a fun day. She'll only turn 1 once and we're so glad she's our baby bug!

Saturday Night GLITTER

Well, with Adam at the BYU volleyball game with Spence and Grace, I got to spend some quality glitter time with Sophie. Lucy was in bed...and we thought, WHAT can we do? Of course...get out THE GLITTER.

Actually, glitter makes everything better. Just ask Libarachi. So...here are our masterpieces:

Before fabulousness.

After fabulousness.

Sophie made up this whole story about how the other un-glittered birds were very sad AND lonely AND jealous AND saying not very nice things about one another.

Huh?

Okay. It's her story. So we had to put a few birds in "time-out" while they awaited their glittering.

And now...every bird is happy with their new sparkly self.


But really? Aren't they cute? Almost all ready for the Christmas tree.



And then we got in a little reading. So...this is how it feels to have one child!

Sophie just knows Grace and Spence will be very jealous when they come home from the game and find out about all the fun we had. Perhaps we should just sprinkle a little glitter on them and all will be well.

xoxo

1st Annual Girls Halloween Party

Well, we did it. We survived the First Annual Grace and Sophie Halloween Party! Whew! Here she is our Kimono Princess...isn't she lovely? I spent quite some time making these little party favors...but they turned out so cute, so it was worth it. Watch out Lucy...Countess Gracula. So we had around 22 kids at our house...and me, the only adult. Here's an example of the ensuing chaos.