Jovie’s Belated

Posted on | June 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

Well, my baby girl is officially 2… almost a month later… While we did celebrate when we were driving around France it didn’t feel right, a small cupcake in a hotel room after dinner wasn’t enough I thought. So today we did a little happy belated party. It wasn’t anything big. On some Thursdays M has her friends over. Since we see them often (between school, ballet and gymnastics), these girls have become Jovie’s best buds. When the girls are here I usually give them a little snack anyways so the only difference was the cake (which was BEAUTIFUL), good bags, and balloons (which is one of Jovie’s most favorite things).

Let me share a few photos from today besides a few more digital scrappy pages that I made for Jessica Sprague!

The cake!! I was quite ecstatic about the cake. The girls’ mum, a great friend of ours too, made this. She doesn’t do this for a living but goodness, shouldn’t she?!?! Everybody said that fondant’s not tasty but oh my, this one was!!! Great tasting cake and awesome looking too! I am going to pay her to make me a Mad Hatter cake, HA!!

Another view.

Then here’s a series of Jovie with her cake. Her attempt to blow, her clapping proudly for blowing, and her carefully eating the cake.

She was so happy with the whole ordeal and we’re very glad we’ve made some great friends here in our little village!!! Very memorable day it was!

There here are more pages that I did for different manufacturer at Jessica Sprague’s store. This one below I created using Jessica’s template and gorgeous The Office paper by Splendid Finn.

Then here’s M itching. I love her look. She wasn’t happy when I took the photo but I love how the picture turned out. I used some new gorgeous goodies from In The Making Design: Valpolicella (coming soon!) and a kit that was create for March 2011 Jessica Sprague Digital Design Class.

Then I have this fun one using pieces from Cosmo Cricket’s Jack’s World Candy Candy and Salt Air Paper (coming soon!).

That’s it and oh, the first page was created using Jessica Sprague’s Collab kit from the March 2011 Art of Digital Design class.

Have a great one!!

Just Stuff + Christmas

Posted on | October 13, 2009 | 10 Comments

How’s your week so far? Our has been BUSY since hubby’s on a 12-hr shift at work since Sunday!!! We had a great weekend though! Saturday we spent a nice time in Kansas City. We had my birthday luncheon, sushi, and then went to check-out a pumpkin patch at a farm in Liberty, MO. We went there because we heard that they have awesome pumpkin donuts. I don’t care for pumpkins but hubby thought it was great and so he bought 4 dz of them. Yes, 48 stinkin’ donuts!!! Oh, we got into a fender bender too. Dang! Just a hassle that’s all. The girl swore she wasn’t on her cell phone… hmmm… she freaked out when she saw Jovie but really it was just a tap but big enough for me to get my back bumper fixed.

On Sunday Jovie poop’d. Ok, this is a HUGE deal!! She hasn’t poop’d in 4 stinkin’ days!!! The doc said babies can go on poop breaks but still, momma bear here got a bit worried. I think Jove felt a lot better after too cause she asked for a nap soon after that, which is good cause I had a huge mess to clean!!!

My card is pretty simple. I used PaperTrey’s stamps and a little ribbon that I found in my stash. The card stock bottom I distress a bit and on the snowflakes I added some Pink Paislee pixies that I adhere with Martha Stewart’s glue pen. Simple and shimmery {::SMILES}.

Alright, here are some pics of M. No Jovie cause she was on me and hubby didn’t feel like being in the picture (he was too into his donuts ha ha!!).

So here we go again… me playing single mom. It gets tough cause M has activities in the evening and having hubby around really cuts my travel time. I’m so thankful that my work schedule is flexible and it’s ok for me to leave a tad bit early here and there. More later, bye!!

Jovie’s Baptismal

Posted on | September 28, 2009 | 11 Comments

Jovie had a very lovely baptismal. The priest who did it wasn’t our regular and so we weren’t sure what he was going to do (he kept saying he’s never dropped a baby before) and we thought he did a very nice job. The reading we could have done without (I’ll write where it’s from when I find the bulletin) but it was about cutting your hand off if your hand sins and plucking your eye out if your eye sins.

Anyhow, here are some pics… the dress is a hand-me-down (like most of Jovie’s stuff) from M and her booties were sent all the way from Malaysia by the lovely Cindy. Jovie was asleep before the event. She woke up a bit before the water hit her head but she didn’t cry throughout the whole ceremony.

Ok, so THIS was why the priest kept saying he’s never dropped a kid. I guess this is how he presents the newest member of the church to everyone there. It was really neat. I’ve never seen any of the priest do it this way.

Just us being blessed. The godmother is my best friend here in town. M LOVES her and her little boy. I think one day we’re going to be related since M and the little man get a long so well and he ALWAYS ask for M (and M does too) he he he… it’s so so cute! The godfather couldn’t make it and my friend’s husband was kind enough to stand in for him.

Jovie and dad. We had lunch downtown after the event. Check out this little daddy’s girl. Of course the husband’s ecstatic about her loving him like this. M was and is a momma’s girl and we think it’s mostly because he was gone a lot when M was little. So he’s so happy to have a second chance!

There’s sister. I love my M’s style. Fancy dress with converse {::SMILES}. Love her little dress. It’s a Hanna Anderssen dress that I found at a consignment store. I {HEART} consignment stores!!! I hope there are some in England!!!!

Here’s our little angel. She’ll be four months this weekend. Time goes by!!!! She’s starting to grab things. Not very well but trying to.

This is a close-up of her booties. CUTE CUTE CUTE! I need to put her little outfit back on again today. I never got a close-up picture of her and her garb. We (as usual) were rushing out the door.

I Bruised Jovie

Posted on | July 3, 2009 | 11 Comments

NOT! But it looked it.

We were outside enjoying the sunset a few days ago and here’s our conversation…

Hubby: Is that a bruise on Jovie’s forehead?
Me: (I looked and analyzed) Ha ha… no. It does look it huh?
Hubby: What is it?
Me: It’s poo stain. She had a blow-out and I had to take her outfit off and I took it off over her head.
Hubby: You are so gross.
Me: Not gross, it was an accident. (Pause) Man, I should have said yes to the bruise and have you kiss her boo-boo.
Hubby: I hate you
Me: (Laughing my ass off)

Can you imagine my poo phobia hubby kissing Jovie’s forehead thinking it’s a bruise? If he did though I’d probably be in the process of going towards single mom lane he he…

Just a little page that I did last night while M was watching Donald Duck and Jovie was with dad. Remember I’ve been trying to use up my scraps and so everything was what I found in my scrap box. The bird is from Studio Calico. It’s from one of their fancy discount coupons. I thought it was so pretty and so I saved the coupon. The picture is of my dog Kato (which I later called K — man, I have a habit of coming up with a one letter name, huh?), my first child. This picture was taken almost 7-years ago when hubby and I were still in Idaho. Ahh… those were the days… when we could just go wherever whenever {::SMILES}.

Have a great weekend!! Have a nice 4th of July and stay safe!!!