~Easter 2012!~

We had a great Easter weekend this year!  We were all home and Ethan & I were just starting our weeklong holidays.  We put out our Easter decorations the week before and made treats for all the kids at school.

We had planned all kinds of fun things but in the end we fit in what worked for us.  Ethan really ‘got it’ this year and was so excited to look for eggs!  The Easter bunny did a good job hiding all the eggs and dropping clues to find the basket of goodies.  The Easter Bunny even left bunny ears for Ethan to wear!

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Randy and i also made a slew of treats for the Preschool class and Daycare before Spring Break.  We made little bunnies for the kids and Chicks for Ethan’s ‘Chicks’ his teachers!  They were very cute…next year I think I’ll make them a bit earlier than the day before though!!!

 

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~HaLlOwEeN 2011~

We had a spooky good time on Halloween again this year.  We didn’t follow through with our promise of a new family costume for this year though…we went as Pirates again.  No pics of us as a family though…it was a busy night at our house!  Ethan got to dress up for school this day as well and brought home some treats from there as well.  Daddy took him out for his first ever trick or treating jaunt that night as well.  He really liked that!  I stayed home and played Pirates with all the kids that came to the door…I think I might have had 6 groups! 

As usual I had fun decorating…I did my shelf and Randy decorated outside! Also Randy and Ethan had fun making their pumpkin!  Pics of course coming up!

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As always, click on the pictures to see the whole thing…this album maker cuts off parts of the pictures.  We had a blast, looking forward to next year!!!

~Summer Shelf Decor~

Summer is here and it is time for new decorations for our shelf!  I went with soft and sophisticated for now…the flowers shown here I have drooled over at Micheals many a times but I’m just too cheap to spend $11.99 a stem!  So the other day at Goodwill on one of my Deal shopping trips I found a pot stuffed with a flower arrangement.  It was full of the EXACT flowers I had drooled over at Micheals…even the same colors!  It’s price?  $2.99.  I got 8 of the big stems and lots of little flowers and greenery as well, not to mention the actual pot and the foam inside.  It was a smoking deal!  So I tore it apart the other day and made my own arrangement in my own little vases and it looks great!!!  I’m so happy with how it turned out!

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I also got the Canvas print I had made of Ethan put up on the wall.  It is perfect and looks great!  I wish they weren’t so much or I would get more made!  It is a picture that we will love for many years…

I know I’ve said it before but I sure love having a house and being able to make it our own!  I’m super excited to get started on decorating the basement, I’ve got my ideas planned out and things ready to go, I just need to get the last coat of mud and the painting done so I can order my carpet!  So it’s going to be a couple months yet…argghhh!  I’m hoping that it doesn’t take all summer to get done but at the same time I don’t want to be in the house working all summer either…so it will get done around our fun time outside playing!  Which reminds me, I should take some pictures of the progress to share!  It is looking great down there, Randy is doing a great job!  But that’s it for now, hope everyone is loving the sunshine!

~Christmas Decorations~

Ethan was a big help in decorating the Christmas Tree this year.  He liked handing us the balls and thought that the ‘balls’ should be kicked!  Too cute!

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My deals I tell you!  The star is from a garage sale this summer for 25 cents, I got the metal tree from Walmart for around $3, the Noel sign I picked up from Winners on clearance last year for $1 and all the other stuff are things that I’ve had for awhile or repurposed for decorations.  The pearls are a necklace I bought from Reitmans last year for $1.99 a string…Love the cookbook, it has great cake and cupcake recipes in it, I want to try these snowmen!

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While I love my blue and silver decorations I also love the look of a more natural themed Christmas…pincones, berries, poinsetta, wicker wreaths…So I decorate the rest of the house with this stuff.  Next year we are planning on getting a real tree for the basement and having two trees.  The one upstairs will be my decorated ‘nice’ tree and downstairs will be our Family tree with all my family ornaments and quirky stuff.  We spend most of our time in the basement now so it makes sense to have a second tree!  Well truthfully it is a compromise…Randy wants a real tree in the house and I want a pretty tree; so we just decided we could both have what we wanted this way.

We do need to get better with our outside decorations though…we only have one lonely string of lights.  I’m going to keep my eyes peeled at work for clearance yard decorations in January, I might be able to scoop up a deal!

Anyhow, hope you enjoyed the sneak peek into our Christmas!

~Halloween Decorations~

Time to update my shelf for Halloween!  I had bought some decorations last year after the holiday was over and so I had some fun things to work with!  I had fun, can’t wait to get more ‘spooky’ things for our house!

Like the rat?  The stupid thing freaks Randy & I out because it looks so freaking real!  I couldn’t imagine running into one of those buggers in real life!

~New Shelf Decor for Summer~

I wanted this summer to be cool, calm and collected.  Relaxing on the deck or playing in the sandbox in the backyard.  So I went for simple, cool colors for my shelf this time.  I love that I only paid under $5 for everything here too!  I got the vase for a mere $1.50 at Micheals!!!  Anyhow, here is what summer looks like on my shelf!

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