Crafting

I finally caught the crafting bug (it's only been probably at least a year!). I Easterfied my kitchen mirror. I made these happy paper flowers (from craft paper @ Jo Ann Fabrics which is on sale for 5 sheets for $1 & usually costs .59 a page; so good deal!) & I glued a piece of ribbon to back & hung them on the mirror. I'm happy with the result! They were super easy to make. I also made my future niece a little headband with a flower on it. Now I'm working on a wreath that is going to take just shy of a year to finish @ the rate I'm going. I have to make about 4 million more little flowers to glue on it & they take a long time. Someday I'll post that finished project.

Ending feeling of yesterday's crafting? --I'm glad I set aside time to be artistic. Make's me feel good and realize how much I miss and enjoy it. :)

I used Easter Egg craft paper since it IS Easter.
It's really hard to take a picture of a mirror without getting yourself or your husband in the picture :)

Ooey-Goey Chocolate Chip Cookie Time!

Blake helped me this morning with his first batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies! Yum! He was a very good helper & enjoyed eating the dough (I use our chickens eggs, & I know what they eat & do all day so no, I'm not worried about the raw egg....) There was only 1 mishap. When I was taking the 1st batch out of the oven (of course Blake was totally excited to see the cookies coming out) I burned my finger on the pan and dropped ALL the cookies into the bottom of the oven into a big soft gooey pile that instantly started cooking & smoking like they were in a skillet. Ugh. So I scraped them out with a spatula w/out burning myself into the crack at the base of the oven door thinking when I close the door they'll fall out onto the floor. Well I forgot about the drawer of pots & pans under my oven & so all the now smashed cookies fell in there instead. Oh well, it was God's way of saying, "Becky, that drawer is really dirty and this is the only way your going to notice how gross it is. Clean it. " :) The end product was oh-so-yummy though!

Sticky fingers! He's helping make it into balls.
He's having fun
Mmmmm
You're never done making cookies until the spatula is licked clean!
He likes his ooey gooey chocolate chip yummies!

Spring Is Springing!

I love it when spring starts coming! I love being able to go outside and warm up on the sunny porch (yes, I warm up on my rock in the morning like a lizard) Everything is starting to come to life and I can open my windows and breathe fresh air that hasn't been circulating in my house for months. Something about spring coming makes me feel so motivated! I'm coming out of my winter slump! Ok, so we've had like 5 warm days, and the rest are cold with threats of snow (like tomorrow) but those 5 days have been great! Blake LOVES going outside and running around with the dogs & traveling with me down the see the duck & cows & chickens & horses. He really likes to feed the duck bread & when i get the bread out of the draw to make a sandwich for him he's like, "No mommy! Duckies!" The following pictures are Blake on our warm sunny day and his big blue ball. It was really windy and his ball kept blowing away, but he didn't mind; He thought it was fun.

Yes, his tongues out. He must be concentrating!
I can't believe how big he's getting!
I LOVE this picture!
I've been letting Blake do more and more "big boy" things. I don't want to rush him growing up or anything but he needs to do big boy things! He's loving it, too. He is so proud of his big boy bed & he has to show anyone that comes over that may not have seen it yet. He doesn't mind going to bed now in it, but it does take about 30 minutes to get him to STAY in bed. He just keeps climbing out and peeking out the door. If I'm not paying attention he's sneaks out into the living room and hides under a chair :) He's so quiet! Blake got to go on a tractor ride yesterday with out neighbor, Scott. That just made his day!

I have to get started turning out spare room /office/play room into Blake's new bedroom. The new baby is going in Blake's current room since its already a nursery & is significantly smaller than the current toy room. Need to start thinking of ideas! Fun fun!