Treats!

I had fun making some Valentine treats!

Chocolate covered cherry gummies!

The fun chocolate truffles with pink hearts!

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For Christmas my Mom gave me a gift certificate to the BYU Bookstore so I could go and buy art supplies.

  So the other day Charlie and I set out for a little retail therapy to the BYU Bookstore with the gift card!

  Charlie had fun picking out something very precious!

He choose a little silver CTR ring will yellow in it!  There were about five colors to choose from but he said he wanted yellow because it was Jessica’s favorite color!

  For the first week he would not take it off; it was fun to see the ring on his little hand.  He had so much fun telling all of his friends about it!

  We would say Choose The Right Charlie whenever he was being disobedient; perhaps he got sick of us using the phrase because he took it off and has not put it back on.

Charlie’s Valentine!

It is a tradition to get a little something something on Valentine’s day for my Charlie!

  As I was growing up my mom always did something similar; this is where the tradition originated!

This year I found the cutest stuffed animals and balloon!

All about the frogs!  I had to take a quick picture before Charlie found it. 

  I was at Walgreens and found the frogs; had to get the Mommy and baby frog!  Everything together was $6 that is what I call an affordable Valentine.

With both Grandma and I getting Charlie stuffed animals he is getting quite the collection!

I decorate his room during the month of February and then I put them back in storage for the next year! 

Valentine’s!

The Valentine assembly line!  We love putting together little gift bags for Charlie’s preschool class. 

This will probably be the last year we can do this because next year he will be in Kindergarten and the numbers will be more than double.

12 gift bags are not a big deal…26 yes!  We will see though.  I am the over the top Mom! 

Here they are all done up and ready to give to his class!

These are the adorable Valentine decorations he made at school.  A mailbox and a Valentine card for his Mom and Dad!

Valentine’s from school!

I love this handmade Valentine one of his girl class mates made him!  He had a few of these sweet little notes!

  Oh crushes in preschool! 

Fun little project!

Winter days seem to last forever and so one must have little projects to work on!

Here is my latest project!

  I found this mirror on clearance for $17, originally $90.

It had a few cosmetic issues (chips in the paint) and this is the reason for the great price. 

Chips

I bought this mirror almost two years ago, so I finally pulled it out of the basement and went to work!

Not that the gold was not beautiful; I just felt it needed to be painted a fun fresh color!

Charlie helping me put the white primer on.  It took about 4 coats to cover the gilded gold!

This is the color I picked out! A nice soft pink!

Here it is all pink and pretty!

Four coats of primer, three coats of pink and two coats of sealant later…… ta da!

Thank you Steven for helping me hang this super heavy mirror!  It was quite the process; because there were no studs in the place where the mirror was going he had to drill into the sheetrock and put anchors that support 50 pounds!

I love it and think it looks splendid in our bedroom!

My adorable Charlie ; oh how I love this little guy!

Girl’s night out!

I have made it a goal this year to  have girl’s nights out and invite friends to dinner. 

So I invited a bunch of friends to have a girls night out!

We went to dinner  and then most of the girls had to get home to put little one’s to bed!

Next we decided to go treasure hunting at DI; yes you read correctly DI!  This is one of my favorite places to find treasures. 

All of us left with neat stuff!  Amongst some of the incredible finds: 

Moe went home with a gorgeous practically brand new Nine West purse. Tianna completed her collection of  The Work and The Glory series! (Thank you so much Tianna for letting me barrow the fifth volume; you’re the best)   I found a beautiful channel blanket and a 1950’s table service set! (It was in perfect condition and I think it was someone’s wedding gift that was never used)

After DI the only one’s that were still not ready to call it an evening was Moe and I!

We went and saw….

It was hilarious!  Great movie; a must see!

So I plan to continue putting forth the effort to arrange social events! 

This girl’s night out was so fun and very much needed!

Puppy Dog Eyes!

This is Maxwell looking so forlorn!  Every time we go out to get the mail or just leave in general this is what he does!

  Wait, you for got me!

The song “How Much is that Doggy in the Window” comes to mind!