My children, Eleanor in particular, have an obsession with rocks. Their obsession is driving my husband crazy, because we have rocks sprawled all over our yard. I have a few rock crafts up my sleeve though. I have had these Elmer's Painters pens for years. I originally got them for a campaign way back when and have completed quite a few crafts with them. I'll share those projects at the bottom of the post. The rocks were gathered by my children at the beach. You technically only need ...
CELEBRATE! Parties & Holidays
Birthday Breakfast
It is hard to believe my little girl is 4! It is absolutely unreal how quickly it has all passed. So unreal, that it wasn't until my sister-in-law sent out invites for their son's birthday, which is a week after Eleanor's, that I realized I better pull something together. We literally texted my family to come over for pancakes the next morning, because I knew they would all be around and they are all local. That, and our family keeps getting bigger and our house is the same size, so fitting both ...
Hudson Turns Two
Hudson turned two on April 16 and I am just now getting around to documenting it. Just looking at the pictures, I can see he has already changed. The weather was iffy on Hudson's birthday and we didn't have any specific plans. We picked Eleanor up from school and daddy from work and had lunch at Culver's. Ice cream and cheeseburgers for the birthday boy--his favorite! Ross and I decided, since it turned out to be a beautiful day that we should head to the Milwaukee Zoo. Spring in Wisconsin ...
Patriotic Printable Pack
We kept things pretty generic for this patriotic printable pack. We wanted you to be able to use it for cheering on the women in the World Cup, celebrating the Fourth of July, representing during Flag day, showing you support during Memorial day or being an awesome fan during the Olympics. This printable party pack includes a Land of the Free printable, great for parties or decor, bunting, bag topper, drink labels, and cupcake toppers, which can be used for straws or a cake ...
A Patriotic Porch
I don't know if you happened to catch our porch makeover. Last year we finally did something about the dated wrought iron and ratty carpet. You can check out all the details here. To give you an idea of how bad it was, I leave you with this: I'm super excited to announce that our porch makeover was featured in the June issue of This Old House magazine! Since the holiday decor came down, I've been itching to get this porch ready for the spring. We got our porch all pretty just ...