Good Things

This week hasn't been much fun with Dh and I both sick (him more so than me), so I thought I'd do a blog of some cool things I've found recently.

1. Doily Clocks - I love this! I couldn't tell that it was a doily at all. Gives me ideas for the hundreds my Grandma has made me over the years. But I really love this circular one too.
You can find them here. 2. My friend Beth just started selling Tastefully Simple and at her party last week, she had us try one of their new seasonings for summer, Green Tea Peppercorn. She had us try a little on some beer bread - and I wanted to eat the whole container! It's SO good!! I'm going to make these potatoes next week for my birthday. I CAN'T WAIT!! 3. The cutest rubons from Hambly. I want to own these in every color. For no reason at all. I think they'd make the cutest decorations for a baby or kids room. I guess I'd have to work on that for this to be relevant! 4. I must be hungry - but this looks awesome! Parmesan Crusted Chicken from Pioneer Woman. It looks good enough that I think Dh wouldn't even know there's mayo in it.
5. This one's kind of a DUH! for me - Google Reader. WHY haven't I been doing this for years? I just set up every website I go to the other day - it makes everything so much easier! I mean, one place where you can check if the sites you visit have been updated? Too cool. I'm finally with the times!

6. I haven't brought it up yet, but next week is my birthday! I'm always super excited for it! My family and Dh's family comes over and we hang out, eat, and eat some more. This year, I'll have lots of good stuff from Tastefully Simple to serve them, which means we'll all be stuffed and I'll have too many leftovers! Oh well, that's what it's all about, right?

Legally Happy

I'm so excited for this!!

Princess Party

So yesterday was the niece's 3rd birthday. We went to their house early to help them get ready for the party. My niece wanted curly hair, so her mom and I put it in rollers. She looked so cute with them in!
The curls didn't last much longer than taking them out of the rollers! Oh well! We tried. She also dressed up in her Tinkerbell outfit, which was so cute. I tried to take some pictures of her with the princess balloons, but she just wasn't having it!
Here's my niece blowing out her candles on her princess cake. I can't believe she's 3 already! We had a great time yesterday, and it was so nice to spend it with my family.

Mid March Update

I can't believe how quickly March is going! Not much going on here, just work really. We got a couple of inches of snow earlier in the week. I'm sure most of it will be gone by the end of the weekend.

I was able to do some scrapping the other weekend. I'm finally getting caught up to Christmas!

Heidi's going to kill me for this one, but I love how it turned out, so I had to share.
Dh and the nephew at Christmas. I had a hard time with the layout, so it's a little boring, but I'm okay with that.
The niece at Christmas with her kitchen. I love that I was able to capture her unwrapping the box in every stage. And then her happy dance - so cute!
The nephew playing the Wii. I had all of these shots that weren't that great, but really captured him playing. So after I cropped the hell out of them, I think it worked!
My crazy niece at Christmas with her dress-up clothes.
Tomorrow is my niece's 3rd birthday. She's going to have a Princess party. It should be so much fun. I'm really excited for it!

Creative stuff

I did a lot of shopping this weekend, trying to get some healthy food in the house. But Saturday night, I had to try the butterfly thing that Alli Edwards featured on her blog on Friday. Here's my take -
I used the Anthropology catalog that came on Saturday. It was really fun to make. Here's a close up:
Here's some layouts I've done in the past couple of weeks:

This is a picture that I glittered around because the background was too distracting. And because Marni is just that fabulous!
Dh's Grandparents anniversary:
And some old pictures of Dh and his Grandpa.

Can anyone else believe it's March already? Crazy!