Birthday Dress

Starting last year i thought it would be fun to sew Hailey something special for her to wear on her birthday. Well this one i barely finished in time! Here is the top i made her last year This year i decided to do a dress. A bubble dress. I've never made one but there's a first time for everything right? Oh, and i'll be doing a tutorial for this very soon as well! So bear with me for a small picture overload. Showing off the pretty pink nails.

I sewed everything including these pretty flowers!

The middle of the flower is a button.

Hehehe what a cheeser

The back buttons up

Ahhhhhh I love how it turned out!!! What sewing projects are you working on?

Turning 4

My Hailey turned 4 Say it isn't so :( Where has the time gone? We had a low key birthday celebration this year. Hailey has grown up so much since last year. She loves to help mommy and daddy she loves to learn play with friends be outside color sing play dress up help mommy cook/bake Go on adventures Garden Play with Chalk Go to the Park Soccer the list could go on and on and  on.

I did keep up with the tradition of sewing her something special to wear on her birthday,that will be in the next post. But I was able to find time in her busy play schedule to ask her some very important questions. You can see last year's answers HERE
So Here Is 20 Questions Answered By Hailey On Her 4th Birthday.

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite Toy: Floppy

Favorite Fruit: Banana

Favorite TV Show: Team Umi Zoomie

Favorite thing to eat for Lunch: Chicken Nuggets

Favorite Outfit: Rapunzel Dress

Favorite Game: Pbskids.org

Favorite Snack: Crackers

Favorite Animal: Puppies

Favorite Song: ABC song

Favorite Book: Chippy Goes to the Dentist

Best Friend: Owen

Favorite Cereal: Granola

Favorite thing to do outside: Play with Chalk

Favorite Drink: PediaSure

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

What do you like to take to bed with you at Night: Floppy big Bunny

Favorite thing to eat for Breakfast: Toast

What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Cupcakes

What do you want to be when you grow up? Princess

I think I'm going to love having a 4 year old....hehehe

My last year before she officially starts school.

But we won't think about that just yet  :)

Cinnamon Churro Chex Mix

Lately I have been into 3 different kinds of food. Different kinds of green Salads. Healthy fruit/veggie Smoothies. And  Chex Mix. Yes call me weird....hahaha Kind of a weird mix of foods/drinks. So i have been trying out different chex mix recipes and stumbled across this sweet one that is  yummy.yum.yum. Cinnamon Churro Chex Mix.

Here's How I Made It: 9 cups Chex Cereal  1 cup cinnamon Chips 1/2 cup Butter ( To much butter for me so put in less!) 1/2 cup Powdered sugar 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar ( This was also to much sugar for me so i only put in a little of it.) 1 1/2tsp. Cinnamon

 Oh yes and a helper!

First i measured out my cereal in a large bowl...i didn't know it but 9 cups it basically one whole box of Chex cereal.

Next - i melted the cinnamon chips and butter, until smooth.

Then i poured it over the chex and mixed until it was evenly coated.

(as you can tell i used the same bowl to melt and mix dry ingredients.....lazy me)

Last I mixed the powdered sugar, granulated sugar and cinnamon together and mixed it into the chex mixture.

Then i spread it on parchment paper until it was cooled.

And after that it was a tasty snack!

Summer Fun List

I've been wanting to make this summer fun list since probably last summer. So this year i decided to make one. You can use it for any season and just change the colors of the rectangles (which i plan on doing) Maybe it's just me but i seem to get more done when i have a list to check off! Plus i got Hailey excited about all the fun things we're going to start doing! So here's how i made my  'Summer Fun List' (It's very similar to the paint chip calendar i made HERE)

To make it i used: 

some double sided tape 

paint chips

poster board

scissors

I also used a long frame that i had in the closet (collecting dust)

First i cut out the poster board to fit the frame.

Then i cut the words off the ends of the paint chips and taped them to the poster board.

I thought it still looked a little plain so i dressed it up a bit with the leftover paint chips.

I also didn't measure anything or try to get it straight as you can tell.

Then I put it in the frame.

The glass acts a  dry erase surface so i used a dry erase marker to write down some fun summer activities.

I have high hopes we'll do more than what's on the list.....but it's a good start!

I'm loving how it turned out!

What do you have planned for the summer?

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Life

Has it really been over a month since i blogged? Wow. This year is flying by! Here's a little up to date of what we've been up to lately.
Escalator ride really exciting right? For a 3 year old its the best thing ever!

 Somebody started soccer!

And loves it!!

Made a trip to our favorite library to find out we can't check out books there anymore because we don't live in the city :( So we enjoyed there fish before left. That fish on the left with the big teeth- get me every time!

Being silly

This kid cracks me up!

Enjoying some blue skies

And warmer weather!

Which means we spend a lot of time outside while the sun is here.

Making a wish.......except she ended up not being able to blow it hard enough.....haha

Park time with Baby O

Look what we found in the tree!

A leftover Easter egg with candy :D

We squeezed in some time to go to the science museum and got to see the 'world's largest electric guitar'

Little miss fancy pants.

Play date at a friends house.

So that's where we've been for the last month!

Easter 2013

Easter 2013 What a great Easter! Probably the Best one ever! But then again i say that every year! Be ready for a picture overload all my  Friends Family and any other bloggers who stop by my little space.

On SATURDAY morning we headed to a local Easter egg hunt we literally got there when they said
"GO!" so we ran Hailey down just in time!

Who's egg will it be?

I think Hailey had the quicker hand ;)

Checking out the fire truck on the way out.

They had a lot of stuff to do at the Easter egg hunt but there were hundreds of people there and since we came late we didn't feel like standing in a long line of 50+ people so Hailey could jump in a bounce house for 5 minutes.

So instead we headed to the zoo for another Easter egg Hunt!

It was a beautiful day! so we stayed and looked at the animals too. By the end of the after noon my feet were killing me! But i do love the zoo!

Riding the merry go round . Doesn't every zoo have one of these? This girl has always loved the merry go round!  So by the time we got home from the zoo it was pretty late so we called it a day.

On Sunday morning i attempted to make bunny cinnamon rolls i think it was  a bit of a failure. We had church at 9am so it didn't leave much time to do anything in the morning except 1 thing.

To plant some candy!

jelly beans to be exact

(found this idea on pinterest)

She was pretty stoked to plant some jelly beans

and was so excited that only 3 hours later (when we got back from church) 

they had grown into

Lolly pops!

Can you see the excitement?! I had to make sure she knew that you can only grow candy on  EASTER. (i really wanted to do it the night before Easter but you know things happen) Anyways she loved it!

Inside the house the  'easter bunny' had already arrived.

And decided to stay ;)

After lunch we went over the Easter story with Hailey using 

THIS 

idea,this is our second year doing the 12 days of Easter.

To better help Hailey understand the Easter story we also did 'Resurrection Rolls' Loved.Loved. Loved. this idea   I think we found a new tradition ;) (they also tasted amazing which was a plus!)

Hailey got to decorate eggs for the first time too. I might just have a little egg artist on my hands.

For dinner we didn't do anything big or special i just made THIS which i absolutely Love!

And then we ended the day with watching the 'Easter Beagel'

Such a cute show,Hailey had never seen it before and really liked it!

So a great Easter this year, can't wait to see what we come up with next year!