Summer has arrived... briefly

Oh gosh y'all.. the high today is supposed to be 86!! A whole 86 whopping degrees?!!! Yes please! Hahaha.. I know that that's not REALLY hot, but considering that the highest temperature before the past 2 days was only about 72, I'd say it's worth blogging about! Too bad it's only brief and will be back down to a high of 59 on Saturday. Talk about depressing.

So since it's been so nice out, I haven't done any scrapping for the past few days. I have taken plenty of pictures for scrapping though! I'll share just one of my little man enjoying his water table!



Well I hope y'all are enjoying your week so far! Don't forget about the DT Call at Scrap For Therapy!

Calling all creative thinkers!!

Sooo that most likely applies to all of my followers! haha! Anyways, Jonah's first birthday is coming up in July. I've been putting off planning for it because I'm in denial. I can't believe my baby boy is growing up!

I've decided on a theme: Whales. A Whale of a Birthday... eh? Ok, so I need to practice my catchy title, but either way.. whales. His name is Jonah.. he needs whales. The only problem with coming to this conclusion is that I can't find whale party supplies anywhere. Good thing I'm crafty, I suppose.

That's where y'all come in!! Anyone have any ideas for a whale first birthday party? Any cake decorators out there that have tips for me??! The only experience I have with cakes is making them taste good (I can make a mean semi-homemade chocolate covered cherry cake.. yeahhhhh), but the frosting is a no-go. LOL I'm horrible at that. I wanna try fondant though. Any tips!

HEEELLLLLPPPPPP!!!!

Thanks girls!
-Dani

I'm not much of a floral designer.

Happy Mother's Day to all of you wonderfully amazing mommies! I've had a great day so far. I got to sleep in until 10 this morning! Oh, it was awesome! It was especially good since we stayed up late last night with our friends that were visiting. We met them back when we lived in NC. The trouble with the military is that you always move away from all of the awesome friends you've made. I'm glad we've kept in touch with them though. And Jonah just loves his Katie! Here's a picture from this weekend of Jonah and Katie! It's too cute not to share!

We had a GREAT time! =)

Anyways, so today during my free time I finally finished up something I've been working on. At Scrapbook Challenges, Pamela always has a Pick of the Week, and there is a challenge to lift the pick of the week. This week's pick was a bouquet of handmade flowers by one of the members of the group. As soon as I saw it, I knew I could use a take-out box!! And you all know how much I love those take-out boxes! I've also been trying to learn new ways to make handmade paper flowers, too. So this was exciting!!

I was looking through tutorials for handmade flowers and saw some like these that were made out of fabric. And of course I thought they would be perfect with paper too! I love how they turned out!! And the little bow is made out of old book pages (I actually found the PERFECT old book from Goodwill... an encyclopedia from 1953.. P-E-R-F-E-C-T!). The tutorial for these can be found HERE. I just inked them to match my paper. And isn't the take-out box the perfect "vase"? Uh YEAH! =)

Well I hope you all have a great Mother's Day! =)

Today was a big day.

We're marking March 2, 2010 on our calender. Jonah's first tooth finally broke through his gums!! We've been expecting that little booger for weeks now. And not only that, but he started crawling today, too! He has been scooting around on his belly for a while now, so we've been expecting his first "real" crawl. He's growing up all in one day. Before we know it, he'll be driving. Soon, he won't think we're funny anymore, and he'll listen to terrible music way too loud. He's already blaring Monet from his play pen.
Aside from all of that excitement, I realized around lunchtime that today was my husband's 4 year mark in the Army. Had things happened like we thought when we got married, we would be on our way back to the normal life back in Alabama soon. That got me to thinking about how much things have changed. Four years ago today, I was sitting at home missing my best friend (we weren't even dating yet) because he had left for the Army. I never thought that in 4 years I would be married to him and have a 7 month old baby. The thought that my child would be crawling for the first time and getting his first tooth 4 years from that very day never crossed my mind. So yeah, March 2 is a big day in our family.

Ah, it's been a long 2 days.

My sweet little guy is sick. I believe he has a cold, but it also could be an infection from one of the tests he had done the other day. Sooo we're running to the doctor here soon. A couple of days ago, we had to go to Stanford University's children's hospital for some tests and to see a urologist. Little Man has slightly enlarged kidneys, so his pediatrician referred him there. All of his tests came back normal, and the urologist said he has very mild hydronephrosis. He expects it to go away on it's own soon, and we have to go back up there for a follow up in June. So his kidneys are pretty much out of the way.. now if he'd just get over that dang cold (or infection/whatever).

I had some pictures printed the other day. They turned out very nicely. I wanted to share a few of Jonah. He's such a happy, sweet baby. I can't wait 'til he's all better again!


Now I'm off! Off to the doctor.. and off to put together some things for a nice blog candy to giveaway! I need some followers.. and giveaways appear to be a good way to get some! Happy scrapping! =)
-Dani