Our First Gingerbread House!!

Let me start out by saying that I cannot remember ever making a gingerbread house. (Sorry mom if that's not true!!)

Mimi (my mom) bought us a gingerbread house kit and we had lots of fun making and eating it!!

All Karly was interested in was eating the candy and licking the icing!!


Reagan liked the icing too!



She really enjoyed decorating the house however she liked.

Karly just really enjoyed the icing!!! They went straight to the bathtub after this!

All finished!

Yeah, I know...it's not the best gingerbread house ever but we had fun making it!! Thanks Mimi!

Sugar Plum Treasures!!!

My Sugar Plum Fairy Tutu made it to a Treasury List in Etsy!!!!

Check it out and all the other sugary delicious items! ;-)

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=25894

Hurry before it expires on December 11th!!

New Blog!!!

So I've decided to start a new blog for my What's on a Name items.

http://whatsonaname.blogspot.com

There I will blog about new items I have made or are curently working on and excited about!!

Please check it out :-)

ps...I've added lots of new items to my site so check em out...

www.whatsonaname.etsy.com

Black Friday!!

It has become a tradition for my mom and I to go shopping on Black Friday. This year, my older sister Elizabeth joined us. She was the brains of the whole operation and found us some awesome deals that we probably wouldn't have found without her!! Thanks Lilly ;-)

Here I am starting off the day right with a hot cup 'o joe!


Here we go!!! 4:30 am



I'd say we look pretty perky for 4:30am!


Laughing at Mom b/c she couldn't get her smile right!!

We went to Toys R Us first, then on to Target, Kohls, Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, Flower Factory, Pat Catans and Party Center (Lil was shopping for Grant's 3rd birthday party.)

After ALL of that, we were exhausted!!
Can you tell??

Poor Elizabeth...her ear starting hurting her and she barely had a voice. After all the shopping, she went to the doctors and found out she had a sinus infection, ear infection and pink eye!!!

We ended off the afternoon with some yummy Mexican!!

I had so much fun with my two favorite "adult" girls and got some awesome deals! So glad to say I am done Christmas shopping :-)

Can't wait to do it next year!!!!

Fun in the Leaves!!

These photos were taken about two weeks ago when all the leaves were falling (and before this cold snow came!!) We had a few days of warm weather so I decided to go out and rake the leaves. Our backyard was covered! It took me about an hour to rake up maybe 5 or 6 huge piles.

I can remember my sister and I jumping and playing in leaves as children and having such a good time! So I let the girls come out and play in the piles of leaves I just raked up. They had soooo much fun and I enjoyed watching them!

This was Karly's first experience playing out in the backyard and she had a blast!


A little wobbly on the grass!

She loved going down the slide and into the leaves!! What fun! :-)

Reagan had fun sliding into the leaves and then throwing them up into the air!

Look at the excitement on Karly's face.

♥Rosco♥
You could never tell from this picture that he can be a big meany! If you look closely at his left eye you can see that it is all red. I took him to the vet and found out that he had pink eye! They gave me medicine to put in it twice a day. It has gotten somewhat better but is still pink. Boy did I have a hard time with him at the vet. He is so protective of me and does not like strangers! I had to put a heavy duty muzzle on him but that hardly contained him. He tried his hardest to pull the muzzle off with his nails so he could get at the vet technician. She was very good with him though and just held on to him, petted him and talked to him in a calming voice. Thankfully we didn't have to be in there long. Just enough for the vet to come in, administer the shots and say that he had pink eye. Next time, Derek will be taking him to the vet!! He is too big and strong for me to control!

We got Rosco when Derek and I lived in Alaska. He was just 6 weeks old and was our baby for the first 4 years of our marriage...until our other babies came along! I was so worried that he wouldn't be good with our girls but thankfully he loves them and is very protective of them too.

New Items!!

Here are some of the latest items I have made for my http://www.whatsonaname.etsy.com/ site!!


Bi-Color Agate and Black Pearl Earrings

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17039045


Thanksgiving Hair Bow

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=16998085


Fall Princess Headband

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=16998068



Fall Princess Pom Pom Hair Clip

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17213930


Fall Princess Tutu

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16998050


Turkey Hair Clip

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17227503


Christmas Tree Hair Clip

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17156735


Christmas Tulle Pom Poms

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17213886


Christmas Hair Bow

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=17213856


Christmas Tutu

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=17213821

Ps...don't I have a GREAT model?? I don't have to bribe her too much to model for mommy. The promise of a sucker usually does the trick!! ;-)

Look What Karly Is Up To Now!!!

Last night after Derek got home from work, I left the house for about 1/2 hour to vote. When I got back, Derek told me that I had to look at the pictures he had taken on the camera. He said that they were upstairs playing and that he ran downstairs for all of 15 seconds to get something. When he went back up, this is what he found!!





I just hope she didn't stick that thing in her mouth!!!

Karly's 1st Birthday Party

Reagan helping Mommy ice the cake


The finished product. I was very proud of my work!! ;-)

The Birthday Princess!!!


Goin for those presents!


Trying her hardest to pick it up.




I saw this babydoll at Hartville Kitchen Collectibles. There was a brunette one and a blonde one. The dolls name is Reagan and I think they look so much like my girls! So Grandma Hawk bought Karly the brunette one for her birthday. Boy does she love it.....and so does her big sister. I'll have to get Reagan the blonde one for Christmas.

Sophia (my best friend Becky's daughter) and Reagan having fun with Karly's music set.

She didn't really care for the singing part!

But she looooved the cake part!!

Yummy!!

Looks like Grady wants some!

We were laughing so hard because Karly kept leaning down and licking the cupcake. Watch her tongue in the first video!

Birthday Girl Licking Her Cupcake!!




Birthday Girl Shoving Her Face With Cake!!