Sam Turns Eight!

It is amazing to me that 8 years can fly so quickly! AMAZING! He is such a wonderful little boy, and he is turning into an even better little man! I made him his cake (inspired by this cake on Pinterest below). I made it red and blue layers (4) and then frosted it, colored some of the frosting blue, and some red put it in a small ziplock bag and piped on the red in a spiral, took a needle, and drew the lines to make the web look. Then I doodled a spider in the blue and wrote out the letters! I loved the final product!

 

 I also made him 3 hacky sacks, or juggling balls.  Pattern found here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hacky-sack-2

Hayden loved them!

Here is Hayden playing with the Owl rattle I made him for his birthday last week. I never got a shot of  him with it

Here is Sam practicing with the sacks

Oma and Poppy got him a slip and slide! He and Eben can't wait!

Lovely Oma

Poppy!

My gorgeous sister helping him read his cards

We got him some devil sticks on amazon (specially made for kids 6-9) they are lighter and more manageable.

My heart

The yearly photoshoot! He gets cuter / more handsome every year!

Hayden is One!

Today~my baby turns one. One year ago, I became the mother of two! He is a light, he is a joy, and he is adorable. All of the things that you would expect from a baby right ;)!

One Year Photo Shoot

Hayden will be ONE on the 5th of July, I decided to take a few photos of him last night. He cooperated amazingly! Here are the best of the bunch!

Re-invigorated!

I have been Uber inspired with Pinterest of late!!! Re-invigorated for the the craft-a-holic in my blood.

That being said, I have a few projects I would like to share.  

Number One: 

An ADORABLE Owl Rattle for my almost 1 year old boy Hayden, who celebrates our BIRTH day on July 5th. Since he is a baby, we are not going over board with gifts, so I decided to make him a little present with my own hands.  Handmade is better in my opinion (although, believe me, I usually buy gifts).

Here is my Owl, made using this pattern from Lovely Little Life (HERE)

I usually find other peoples patterns hard to read, but this one was very straight forward, well written, and I had ZERO issues! 

I also whipped up some wall hangings inspired by my twinnie, to hang in my crafting room!

Then I decided to clean my kitchen, that entailed pulling my refrigerator out to get the art projects that had fallen behind, and beside it. I was HORRIFIED by what I found. 

Seeeeeee...HORRIFIED!!!!

Dust, and bunnies, and magnets, and old cat toys, and bottle caps, etc.

So, I decided to take out my vacuum, grab that who's-e-what's-it attachment

(shown here)

And vacuumed the whole backside. See, so much better!

I believe I actually heard the fridge thank me ;)

Boston May 2012

We went to Boston for the first time ever at the end of May! We had a few things to check off of our bucket list. 1. Have Sam see the ocean 2. See some Whales and go on a whale watch 3. Go to an aquarium 4. Go to a planetarium 

We checked all of those things off, had a blast, and the boys did too!