The Sims Dancers

This is a daily occurrence at our house... the girls dancing! Even Maria knows how to work the CD player. She will put on her favorite songs and just dance and sing. They often get together and make up dances to put on shows for the rest of us! What I love about it most is that they do it to Christian music, it is their favorite genre of music! Okay, sometime they dance to Rascal Flat or Taylor Swift or Barbie, but mostly to praise music! We listen to 104.9 in the car (Christian station) so they hear a lot of the same songs and you will often hear them singing! The best is that we sing those same songs at Church and I will often hear Olivia, Maria or Anna singing their hearts out! That is when I feel especially close to Christ!

Lil Cupcake Party part 2

Ok, I have no idea what happened to yesterday's blog... it really got butchered! It angers me that when I preview my post it looks great, but when you actually push the post button, something happens in cyber space and it gets all messed up. This blog is going to go through a major overhaul real soon... so stay tune!

Lil' Cupcake Party - part 2

The birthday girl modeling her new outfit that Nana and Grandpa sent from Florida!

The mantle decorated with streamers, tissue paper flowers and a birthday sign (made from my cricut too!).

The party table! Simple decorations but it looked so cute! The center pieces where tissue paper flowers that Anna had fun making. I use to make them as a kid and loved it as much as she did! You just fold two layers of tissue back in forth, like making a fan. Then twist a pipe cleaner around the center and gently pull apart the layers. I tried to keep the table clutter free, because when it was time to decorate the cupcakes it became full of candy!

I added die cut cupcakes to the pastel goodie bags (made from my cricut machine - I told Bill I would make it worth it's money! I use it more for things like this than for my scrapbooking!). The bags contain their aprons with cookbooks and wooden spoons, cupcake book markers, and a cupcake cup!
The centerpiece was simple tissue paper flowers! I use to love to make these when I was a kid, so I showed my ten year old, Anna, how to do and she loved making them too! You take two layers of tissue paper and fold them back and forth like making a fan. Then twist a pipe cleaner around the middle and gently pull apart the layers to create the flowers!

Feathered Friends

Olivia asked for a bird feeder for Christmas. We hung it on our front tree right outside our picture window. We have had some beautiful birds come and enjoy a meal at it!
In this cold snowy weather there is not a seed left after a few days!