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Friday, July 22, 2016

Chloe's 2nd Birthday Party

This summer has been busy! And my blog has gotten shoved to the side because of it. But I'm back and I have so many cool summer moments to share with you.

So let's backtrack to Chloe's birthday...which was way back in April!

We celebrated Chloe's second birthday with a birthday party attended by family.

This beautiful little girl woke up happy and ready for her party

On your birthday you get to eat Cool Whip with breakfast...

I can't believe our sweet little girl is two years old already!

The theme was rainbows...

Take-home treats for the kids

Rainbow craft station for the kids

Proud big brother Liam

And of course a rainbow cupcake cake...

And rainbow food...

Lucky little girl with her gifts...

A card from cousin Bella...

Her gift opening helper, cousin Hudson

New shades from grandma

Aunt Becky wishing Chloe a happy birthday via Face Time

Cake time!

She was pretty tired at this point in time

Getting a little help blowing out the candles from cousin Rylan and Liam

Happy birthday to our little sweetie. Our little peanut. Our little cutie.

You are so full of life and love. We are so lucky to have you as our daughter.

Love,

Mom and Dad

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See Chloe's 1st Birthday Party here

See Chloe's 1st Birthday Interview here

See Chloe's 2nd Birthday Interview here

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Easter potatoes

The kids and I made, quite possibly, the easiest Easter-themed craft yesterday. I'm sharing it with you because it's cheap, easy, fun and kids of all ages can do it.

We decorated our Easter eggs first and decided to add this quick project because our kitchen table was already covered in newspaper and the kids were covered in egg dye. "Why not add more messy fun to the mix?" I said.

All you need is a potato, some paper, paintbrushes and paint (I recommend a non-toxic tempera paint for little kids).

Just cut a potato in half. A potato of any size or type will do.

Squeeze some paint onto a paper plate or dish.

Give each kid a paint brush and let them do their thing :) Polka dots and stripes are easy.

You could also try a tie-dye effect, faces or designs. Or adults could carve their potatoes (see Pinterest for ideas) with a small knife or pumpkin carving tool to create more detailed prints.

Chloe enjoyed painting the outside of her potato too :)

Liam's first potato print. Testing it out.

Making a whole bunch of them.

And hand-printing a bit.

They used up all of the paint I gave them.

And here are the results -

We let them dry, then cut out our favorite ones to send to family as Easter cards -

And a photo of the Easter eggs we dyed. We did shimmery ones this year -

If anyone else tries this out please share a photo of them in the comments section below.

We'd love to see them!

And some prior Easter crafts I've done with my kids:

Coffee Filter Easter Eggs

Fingerprint Easter Chicks

Monday, November 23, 2015

Bags and tags

I'm proud to say that Crafty Club has been going strong for over two years now! I had the duty of hosting this month's club. This was the 4th time I've hosted.

I must admit, I wasn't super excited or happy about the craft that I picked out this month, but I think the drinks and snacks and great conversation between us ladies made up for the just-okay craft :)

Since the month of December is rapidly approaching, I thought it'd be nice to do a craft that could help us ladies be a teensy bit 'ahead of the game' with something in preparation for Christmas. It was too early to make cutout cookies or gingerbread houses, but it wasn't too early to decorate some crafty little gift bags.

We decorated three plain brown paper bags each. Ones that you can just throw a gift into quickly, for a teacher or neighbor or friend. And the tag and tissue paper are ready to go too.

Some photos from the evening: