Disney Shirts :) - Signing Off for the next week!

So I slacked off and didn't make my own patches for our Disney trip, but I did buy some at Joann's and hand stitched them on! Two per person and I used a coupon for all 12 of them! I got some on black Friday so they were cheaper, I probably spent about 25$ on them but they saved me a lot of time and stress! I think they turned out great! Here's a picture of a few of them:

OH and I'll be signing off blog land for the next week while we go to California! We are so excited! My friend is getting married so I get to go to her sealing and then we get to spend 3 days at Disneyland/California Adventure and a day or two at the Beach! Brycen is SO excited to make a sand castle! Hope everyone has a SPECTACULAR New Year! I'll be sure to show off our fun finds and pictures from our trip when I get back!

Broken to Cute - Toddler Rocking Chair :)

My wonderful and amazing father was driving down the street the other day when he drove by this broken kids rocking chair. He came home and didn't think anything of it. He mentioned it to me and I was like "Heck yes!", so he and my husband went back up the street and snagged it :) the front dowel that connects the two legs was missing and one of the legs had fallen out. So he went to work on it. He found a scrap dowel and stained it, glued the leg back into the chair. Clamped it, then screwed the dowel into place to make sure it was sturdy :) The seat has a spot on it, but it is a nice little chair! I plan to make a cushion for it next week so that you can't see the spot on the seat.

Here's the spot on the seat:

The front piece that my dad stained and screwed in:

I didn't take a before picture, sorry! But can I just say I am so lucky to have such a great dad! The boys love it! We gave it to them for Christmas, both boys LOVE it!
Here's Cooper going through his stocking with my Dad while sitting in it:

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

"I'm Bored" blocks!

For my nephews this year I wanted to give them something creative and fun. I found these cute blocks on "Say it on the Wall" vinyl company a while back and was so excited to make them for my nephews. Almost every time they come over they say "I'm bored", so hopefully this will help!

Now I just need to get together all the fun stuff that they can do and put it in a bin for them. Some of the ideas include: making play dough sculptures (need to make play dough), make a puppet show (i'm going to include some fun stuff for paper bag puppets), read a 1 chapter of a book (i'm going to throw in a few books), make paper airplanes (i'll include paper) anyways, you get the idea, it's a bunch of fun ideas for them to do. They just roll the blocks like dice to see what they are supposed to do :) If you want the full list of what's on the blocks just leave a message with your e-mail and I"ll send it to you :) Merry Christmas!

Gingerbread house!

We got a recipe for a homemade gingerbread house from a wonderful friend! So my sister and I set out to make them! I made the dough, she baked it and cut it, and we split the candies :)
Brycen had SO much fun making the gingerbread house:

He LOVED putting all the toppings on:

and ta-duh! a fun gingerbread house :)

Candy Cane Cookies :)

It's a terrible picture, I"ll have to take a better one once I make more this week :) But we LOVE these candy cane cookies, they are a favorite of mine that my mom made every year growing up! Here's the recipe if you want to try it:
Candy Cane Cookies
1 1\2 cups butter
1 1\2 cups sugar
(mix)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp peppermint extract
(mix with above)
4 cups flour
1\2 tsp baking powder
(add to above)
~divide into 2 parts
2 tsp red food coloring
(add to half)
~refrigerate for 30 minutes
~Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes

SO cute!!!

My mom came home with this super cute purse/bag, it's adorable! Her friend made it for her for Christmas!

I pretty much wanted to make one as soon as I saw it! I LOVE the flower! and I LOVE the fact that it's reversible, here's the inside:

The flower is put on with a safety pin so that it can be used on either side, how fun!
PS: Here's the tutorial I used for the patchwork ornaments, they are SO cute! http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com/2010/12/patchwork-ornaments.html

Easy Favors/neighbor gifts :)

We had a cute little joy school group come over yesterday to do a little nativity play and sing a few songs. They were adorable! They did it for my wonderful grandparents who thoroughly enjoyed it! My grandma wanted to do a little treat for them to take home. I didn't have time to make cookies so I picked up a box of oreos at costco - it had 10 rolls of oreos in it :) for $6.57

Then I rolled the rolls of wrapped oreos (I didn't open the oreos) in cellophane and tied the ends with a ribbon. I wanted to use fatter ribbon and attach a little note but that would have taken more time than I had, so for a 10 minute project they turned out pretty cute! I used green cellophane: