Changing it Up

After putting our shoe stuff in the garage, I moved what used to be our shoe cubbies into the living room. I love it!

Garage Shoe Station

We cleaned out the garage yesterday and moved our shoe removal station out there. Now shoes will not even enter our home and, all of the bags and coats will stay out there instead of clutterring up our kitchen. We even hung some art to make it look fancy. I hope I like it's functionality as much as it's appearance.

Old Craft Project: Napkin Wreath

So, I have made a lot of crafts over the past 2 years and now that I am on pinterest I've become even more proud of my achievements. I think I have put a nice spin on lots of existing ideas and want to give people the opportunity to create lovely things. I will be posting more old crafts soon.
This is an easy and cheap project that I made for my daughter's first birthday.
All you need is:
- a straw wreath form ($5 at hobby lobby)
- 3 different napkin colors
- lots of hot glue
- ribbon
- picture frame

To make it I just cut the napkins into 4 squares by opening them and cutting along the folds. Then grab each piece at it's center and twist. After that you just glue them onto the wreath form next to each other all over the front entire wreath. After I covered the whole wreath with purple napkins I decided it needed something else and I added a couple of twisted napkin fourths in a contrasting color (pink) surrounding an orange twist of napkin. Then it was basically done I just added the frame hanging on ribbon by pinning the ribbon to the top back of the wreath with a straight pin. I think it came out pretty good. What about you?

In the doghouse...Literally

Lillian thinks it's great fun to crawl into Ernie's cage. I actually have a funny story about this.
So, last week Lilly was having some constipation issues and was having a very difficult time getting her business done, if you know what I mean. Nothing I did seemed to help her and it actually made her more angry. It was not a good morning so far. After at leather an hour of fussy-mcfusspants she crawled into Ernie's cage, squatted down, gripped the metal bars and got down to business. Now, mind you, she was also creating a terrifying and heartbreakingly hilarious cacophony of screams and grunts...while squatting in a small dog kennel. Plus, every time I tried to soothe her by rubbing her back or evicting her from the kennel I received an adamant "mo" and a very vigorous wave of her arm. It was both upsetting and comedic. When she was done after a few minutes she calmly crawled out of the cage, looked at me and signed diaper. Children are interesting.

Mini Spinach Pizza's

I made Lillian some pizza today using my handy dandy cookbook by Jessica Seinfeld.  The cookbook is all about hiding healthy things in kids favorite foods.
The pizza is supposed to be on pita bread but I didn't have any so I made it with a tortilla. Then, I put spinach pureé, which I made myself, underneath spaghetti sauce and mozzarella cheese. After the whopping 10 seconds of construction time I just popped it in the oven at 400 degrees for 8 minutes. I'm so lazy and impacient I didn't even wait for the oven to preheat.
It is really tasty. In fact, Lilly wasn't all that hungry yet and therefore didn't eat much, but it's almost gone because I've eaten so much. I think I will bake it without a cookie sheet next time so the crust will be crunchier. In fact, I could probably make a bunch and then freeze them. That way I would have zero prep work. Hmmmm...I think I'll go do that right now!

Lillian and the Kitties

Visiting in the New Year

We spent the night in little rock so we were able to eat lunch and visit with Alex, Alecia, Aunt Fran, Eric, Justin and Dad. It was really nice to visit. Lilly loves her Grandpa.