Beautiful Calling

View Full Album Chloe’s friend, Jaiden, had her birthday party on Saturday. This is her card. Chloe drew the Purple Birthday Penguin featured in the first photo (just in case you were wondering LOL). She also did most of the  gluing though I did the positioning We seldom buy cards. I used to buy the [...]

After posting I Can, You Can? I took a week off. I froze raspberries, strawberries, canned peaches and I made pickles for the first time ever! I am so pleased with the fruits (or vegetables LOL) of my labor. The pickles taste wonderful and the peaches look great (haven’t tasted them yet) I made both [...]

We had planned to go camping this weekend and have family out to our campsite for John-John’s first birthday party. In an effort to be frugal, I didn’t reserve a campsite for this weekend. I guess I should have. There are none available. Since Chloe is 2 and has only been camping once in her [...]

It was the simplest of ideas; cheap, easy to make, and lasting… Rock Critters! This is one of the last rock critters we have kicking around. I would say he’s about 20+/- years old. He resides in moms garden. His eyes are missing so he just has rocks propped up on him. We used to [...]

This week we have a guest post from a wonderful man, my husband, Scott! He is far more adventurous than I when it comes to making things like this from scratch. Though he has had a few things that…umm..maybe weren’t so great, the bulk of his attempts turn out fantastic. Yogurt is one of them! [...]

Those of you who know me, know that I love my cloth diapers! But I do still use disposables on occasion. They are handy to have tucked in the van for emergencies or if we are out and about and I know I don’t want to carry a messy diaper around. Huggies has a new [...]

Chloe is my daughter. She is two. Her room is one of my favorite rooms in our home. I started collecting things for her “big girl room” when she was 5 months old and still in the nursery. Her bedroom was actually the guest room then. I put her bedroom together when she was about [...]

I have an amazing husband! Thanks to him we have never really had any ‘picture chaos’. I take pictures – lots of them. I have such adorable children – how can I not take their pictures? Anyway, I take the pictures and once a month or so my wonderful, wonderful husband takes them and downloads [...]

Our Whole Gang! Is there somewhere you’d like to go and it costs too much? Try buddying up! My sister and I love the zoo! She has 5 littles and I have 2 so needless to say, it costs a lot it would be a special treat to go once a year. Many times a [...]