Make it Monday.

Today I am going to try something new. I am going to start posting a cute little project, card, scrapbook, or something every Monday....Calling it "Make it Monday". I hope you will follow along every Monday for some inspiration to get your craft on.

This cute little card is made with the Kind Koala stamp from the new annual catalog by Stampin' Up! I am so in love with this stamp. This little guy is so CUTE, color him in with the new blendabilities markers and he's even cuter. I used crumb cake to color him AND I cannot wait to try smoky slate:)

Here are the items I used:

Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.95

Deco Labels Framelits Die

$24.95

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Crumb Cake Assortment

$11.95

Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Melon Mambo Assortment

$11.95

Brights Designer Buttons

$7.95

Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Cotton Ribbon

$5.95

Sweet Taffy Designer Series Paper

$10.95

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Melon Mambo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock

$6.95

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

Santa Cruz.

So last week Ryan was on vacation and we had originally planned to go on the Jeepers Jamboree, it's a 4 day camping trip on the Rubicon Trali {a post from last years trip will be in the near furture}, but our friends backed out last minute so we decided to take the kids on a little getaway. Ryan has been wanting to take them to the beach so we decided on Santa Cruz. It's only about a 3 hour drive from us and totally worth it. 

The kids had a BLAST. They loved the beach. Easton loved it so much I was afraid he was going to get sucked out into the ocean. He wanted to do nothing else but to swim and play in the waves. Bentley on the other hand wasn't as excited. The waves freaked him out and he held onto you for dear life. Cameron was in and out and loved playing in the sand. 

I was attempting to get a picture of all three of them smiling looking at the camera...You can see how well that went.

Cameron passed out at dinner. He slept like that for like 30 minutes.

We spent all day at the beach. We headed back to our hotel to swim in the pool and get ready for dinner. We decided to walk {it didn't seem that far} but once we were all the way on the wharf our hotel seemed soooooooooo far away. Took awhile to pick a place to eat and get seated. Cameron passed out at the table and Bentley was making a mess with his noodles and kethcup. The kids were exhausted!

The next day we went to the boardwalk to play some games and hang out. The kids freaking love all those arcade games. Easton wanted to play every game that had a claw and you win little rinky dink crap. And just like any kid they love winning tickets and they had enough at the end for each of them to get a little spongebob stuffed toy {oh joy another stuffed animal}.

This is one of those little games Easton played. We really had to watch him because he would just wonder off and swipe his little play card in every machine wasting his credits. Well this time he ran off over to the game with a bunch of soccer balls in it and he actually got it all by himself. It was so funny and cute. So Ryan had to get two more for Cameron and Bentley. 

After the arcade and boardwalk we decided to take a drive up the road about 30 minutes to another beach. Just a few miles up the road the tempature changes drastically and it was probably in the high 60's with a breeze and the water was much colder. The kids called this the "cold" beach. We hung out there for awhile before we headed home. 

The kids had SO much fun. They just ran around the beach like the crazies they are, getting their feet wet and playing in the sand. They found tons of sanddaollars and seashells {which of course we had to bring home} and built sandcastles. This was a great day and we will remember it forever. It was so nice sitting on the beach {we pratically had a huge area all to ourselves} watching the kids run and play. 

 Bentley is trying to catch up......WAIT FOR ME!!!!!!

Don't even ask about this picture. Easton had gotten his shorts wet on the walk down the beach and the shorts were rubbing his leg making him a little "chaffey" so he decided to take them off. So YES he had no shorts on half the day at the beach because he had one pair of shorts left which was for the ride home. 

 AND of course Bentley had to copy everything Easton was doing. They had sand all over:)

 Bentley was going crazy running around in the sand AND then he was running chasing the poor little birdies...crazy kid!

Bentley's First Birthday Party.

Well this post is like WAY over due. And I've had half of it done for a LONG time now.

Bentley's First Birthday Party was on May 19, 2013 {that is actually my birthday but of course it was Bentley's day}. The theme of the party was Dinosaurs{ little dino}.  I love the whole party planning thing. Sometimes I ask why do I do this but I love the decorating and making things look "cute" and "pretty". 
I am very lucky that my Mom and Grandma are always here to help out with the kids. They come early so I can do whatever it is I need to do, that usually is finishing up the decorating and getting the food ready to go, oh and finish making myself presentable:) Ryan is usually getting the backyard ready with the drinks and setting up the tables and chairs. Oh and he usually is the one to pick up the cake and balloons and any other last minute things I may have forgotten

This was the "sweets" display. Lots of candy and of course the cake. I got the cake from Walmart. They a ton of tiered cakes which are pretty cute. They don't do fondant. The little Dino on top of the cake I ordered from Rebecca's {you all know Rebecca....Cynthia's little sister}friends sister. She also made the cookies. You can check out her facebook page here.
The little blue and green treat cups I filled with chocolate covered pretzels and purchase them from The Party Fairy on Etsy.

And the Birthday cake. Who doesn't love watching a one year old eat their birthday cake?!

Here is Ryan cutting meat. He slaved over the grill in the 100 degree heat.

This was his lunch before cake. He had his favorite...Ravioli.

And of course anytime there are presents around Cameron and Easton are right there to help.

I tried to get a picture of the boys with cousin Autumn and this was the best one. The only thing i can say is kids WILL be kids.

This is probably my favorite birthday party picture of the the birthday boy.

Month of Blogging????

Well folks I think I am just going to dive right in and DO IT. An entire month of blogging! SAY WHAT?! YEP.....just going to go with it. So for the entire month of August I will post EVERYDAY! 

I am going to challenge myself to get back into the groove. Hopefully within the next couple weeks the blog will see a re-do. I need to revamp and be happy with it again. Some days I might not post until after the kids are in bed and some days it might be early early in the morning and other days lets hope I have some scheduled to post automatic {I really hope I can get ahead of the game and have some scheduled} 

All month long I will catch you all up on the past year. Lots of things to write and tell about. Some old and some new. A BIG family vacation to The Happiest Place on Earth:) Birthday parties, a very special wedding {which was almost a YEAR ago} lots of school functions, and lots of other things going on. 


Of course I have to include a picture of this cutie. This was take last week on our little mini trip. Lots more pictures to come of this little dude and of his two crazy brothers....sometime this month:) 

I hope you will check beck and catch up on what has been going with us!!!!