Cell Phone Photo DUMP.

I know, I know, I need to do a real post soon, and I promise I'm working on it but I thought I'd do a photo dump post first to get some of the random stuff out of the way.

A couple weeks ago I had mentioned that I finished Chase's angry birds for his Christmas present.  Well I was nervous about putting pictures on here because I really want him to be surprised but I guess I'll do it anyway and just be super careful not to let him see my blog until Christmas!  Not that he goes on the computer but sometimes he sneaks a peek over my shoulder or something.  Anyway, if you are not familiar with the game Angry Birds these probably won't make much sense to you but trust me they look EXACTLY like the game birds, it's crazy cool!

Egg bird:



Boomerang bird:

blue bird:

Rocket bird:

Red bird:

And you had seen the bomb bird a while back.
And I made one large pig:

I'm hoping to get two smaller pigs made yet too but we'll see!  I have a lot of things I'm working on right now!
Currently the birds and pig are all hanging out in Ricky's gun safe, which he's super happy about :P
I need to find a big box to put them in and wrap them up.

 I made these two piggies for the girls the other day.  This was Joanna's and my first attempt.

Katy's turned out much better because I paid closer attention to the alignment of stuff as I was assembling.  The sweater dresses I just made up the pattern for on my own.

 I've also been obsessed with making these infinity scarves right now.  I actually took the plunge and opened my own Etsy shop! You can check it out HERE or also go and like my FB page for specials and coupon codes and such.  It's lightly stocked right now but I'm hoping to add to it slowly.  I may need to take a break from it for now until I get everything made for Christmas!

Did I tell you we have puppies right now?  They are almost 7 weeks and super cute and playful right now!  This one is such a tiny little peanut.

We've all been experiencing sickness here lately.  I feel like I've been sick for months now and it's very frustrating.  I actually sprained a muscle in my ribs from coughing so much and have been in a lot of pain the last few days.  Thankfully my cough has gotten a little better but now the kids have it, and Ricky :(

 These pictures are in no particular order... Yesterday Ricky and I had to go in the morning to a closing for a refinancing we were doing.  It felt good to have that completed and over with after months of biting our nails and hoping and praying that it would work out!  Afterwards we went out to eat at Isaac's for lunch.  I had gotten a $10 gift card for there from my DR a while back and never got the chance to use it.  Chase was with us because he had to go to his gym and swim program in the afternoon and I didn't think we'd have time to run back and get him.  So I got to go out to eat and use my gift card on my two favorite guys in the whole world!

 Chase was so obsessed with these fish right behind us!

 Don't the look like they're smiling?

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we set up all our Christmas decorations!  It looks so cheery and festive here!

Oh and we had gotten snow the other day too!

"see mom, snow!"

The kids LOVED putting up the decorations!
and playing with the boxes they came in:

Doesn't she look excited?!:

and enjoying their post-decorating Popsicles:

I forget what I was doing to make them laugh like that but they sure are cute aren't they? :)

and our outside garden area at night:

Ricky says it looks like some short person put the lights on the tree, har har!