Project 365 | Week 2

01.08

Today we all gathered to celebrate Grandpere! He LOVES dessert so of course there was a yummy cake! Daniel stole a little of his thunder when he beat him to blowing out the candles! But we just lit them again and this time grandpere got the candles out first. A great day!

01.09

Daniel LOVES music, he loves to play Grandmere's piano, uses anything he can find as drumsticks, and sings himself to sleep and to wake:-) It's so sweet:-)

01.10

Today Daniel did SO well in gymnastics, no whining, no crying, AND he listened to everything Coach Ted said! Yay! AND he had fun! SO I treated him to Starbucks, and he insisted we get Holden some too! So we surprised Holden with a treat after school:-) Love my boys!

01.11

I have a few "jobs", luckily I LOVE them all. Today my mother in law came down to spend time with the boys, work with holden who can't get enough of learning to read. And I in turn worked, editing photos of my sweet friends. I definitely LOVE this job!

01.12

Today Daniel has been super clingy, not grumpy just wanting to be with me ALL day! Here we are watching Holden at gymnastics and he is seated right next to me on the bleachers with his hand on my leg. I am not going to lie, it's hard on clingy days, BUT these moments are sweet!

01.13

Today we headed up to Beth's to play with the cousins...I kept asking myself is it REALLY January as I read my magazine and the kids jumped in the trampoline, all in the warm sun!

01.14

We were having dinner with our good friends when she gets out her iPad to take her Project 365 picture, SO I decided to include her in my picture:) What a fun evening!

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A Crown

 I LOVE to make gifts:-)  BUT I have a problem I am working on.  Buying and STASHING fabric and sewing supplies, SO my goal was to create a gift only using what I already have.  I usually appliqué a shirt or something like that, but I didn't have a shirt for a 4 year old girl already in my stash!  SO I got some hair brained idea to make her a crown.  

I scoured pinterest and found a bunch of tutorials.  I picked one and tried to print the template, but alas the printer was broken.  So I did what anyone would I drew my own:-)

This is the tutorial as a starting point, but then made it my own as I went a long:-)

I used flannel for the front and a cotton for the back.  I used heavyweight pellon to give it body.  The flower is from an Amy Butler pattern, Madison Bags.  I had forgotten how much I love these!

I am very happy with the results of my first crown endeavor:-)  I can't wait to make more!  The boys think they each need one!

Strawberry Shortcake Birthday

My boys LOVE birthday parties!  This one was for Miss S, she is a sweetheart, Daniel often says he "yoves her!"  AND Holden always wants to play at her house:-)  As you can see it was a strawberry shortcake themed party!

Mr. N was there and he had A LOT of fun!

There was face painting and games, including hot strawberry (aka hot potato), a balloon stomping game, stick the jewel on Strawberry Shortcake's crown, AND a piñata!  A lot of fun I tell you!

There was even Strawberry cake with whip cream and strawberries!  The birthday girl and her mom!

Daniel's cheesy face!

A fun way to spend a Saturday with the boys!