Liam's Costume Birthday Party!

My sweet first-born turned 7 on Saturday. He's been talking forever about having a costume party for his birthday. I decided that I could NOT expect him to wear one of the same two outfits he's been wearing on halloween for at least three years, so I went to work on making some new costumes.
Originally, the idea was Liam would be the Tin Man and David would be the Cowardly Lion and Heidi be Dorothy.
Then, I found a cute princess dress for Heidi for less than 4 dollars, mentioned to Liam that his Tin Man costume could easily be a Knight instead, and could only find dark colored material for the lion....
Enter creativity:
Liam went as a Knight, David as a Dark Lion and Heidi as a princess. And it was great. So many of the guests dressed up too (I only have a couple pictures because the battery on my camera decided right then to die....grrr) and the party was a great success!

You can see them in a few of the pictures: we had mustache and lip lolly pop favors. I got the idea here.

Anniversary Present

I found this really cool picture done with maps on Pinterest:

(Found here)

And I really, really wanted to make it for Jon for our 10th anniversary...so, I did. Scrap booking paper, a frame from a thrift shop, and my mom's color printer and some cutting&pasting later, I came up with this:

I found the idea for the people online too and just HAD to add them, it was SO cute!

I thought up the captions on my own......and all in all I am super happy with it!

Annie Oakley

Heidi, Mostly

I have not blogged in ages. I have been very busy tearing my house apart, moving things around and trying to make it all fit back together again. We're in the process of getting rid of one of our desk top computers (Jon and I can not share computers, so we've had two for years......time to downsize to lap tops) and trying to make our small apartment feel less crowded and cluttered.
That, and the eventual demise of Picnik.....my favored photo editting site, and really feeling like I have had nothing of real interest to blog about, has led to the absence of blogging for me.
Well, I am here to end this blog fast for you all. And as the title says, it's mostly Heidi.....

 We recently exchanged Heidi's infant car seat for a forward facing one.....Now I have a sweet little row of child-faces watching me from the back seat. It's lovely. (by the way, Heidi's showing the camera that she took off her socks. She always takes them off in the car, usually seconds after getting in)

Heidi asked for my bear one night and has been sleeping with him ever since. I snagged this picture one night to share because it's so cute:

Heidi chose this position for TV watching the other day....so cute:

When Liam saw me with the camera, he jumped down into the same position as Heidi. Of course, David had to strike a pose!