An Easter Craft

This little bunny is just so sweet. Eliza made it for easter matchbox, popsicle sticks and a little cotton ball butt. Got the idea from kidscraftweekly.com.

Long time since a post..

So what have I been up to:

Working (2 shifts a week)

Baking (for festive Christmas Parties)

Dancing


Dieting (Made this for one of the festive parties)

Went to Ikea

We had the chance to stop by an Ikea for a few hours in California. It was AWESOME! I bought some fabric on clearance:


(the yellow print, in the middle)


And these leaves for the girls room:


(Um no that is not a picture from our house just in case you were wondering)



So FUN!

Eliza's Birthday

So I am finally posting birthday pictures. (2 months later...) She asked for a barbie party. It is pretty hard to find any kind of party decorations so, we had to get creative. I figured out we could buy some barbie magazines and cut out the pictures for decorations. I made this banner from scrapbook paper and pom-pom trim. I wish I could have made it with fabric, but the paper version is grand.


Eliza did the little decorating under the shelf.


A birthday crown that was worn for about 2 minutes :(

The barbie piñata, yes, that we made.

These boys were man enough to come to a barbie party.

The children are still when cake is near.

Eliza kept apologizing for a barbie being in the cake.

Moms busy at work.

It was very hard to get a shot of the present opening. It was a crazy blur of activity with all the kids hovering over the gifts and in about 37 seconds it was done with a heap of tissue paper and ribbon cast to the side

Aw, and like that, she is 4.

Kinda Broken

Blogspot has been acting weird since my last post when I try to upload pictures, so this is the reason for my long absence. I have been posting some photos on facebook. I will be in the U.S. in less than a week (GASP!) So I shouldn't be blogging right now anyway, but I hope these pesky problems will go away once we get to the states.

Aren't these cute?

I found these at: http://belladia.typepad.com/bella_dia/2008/12/button-clips.html via curbly.com. I am quickly falling for curbly, maybe more than craftzine's blog...

oh yeah, i have a blog

Our computer died. Its over. The only sad part is all our Darcy baby pics are on the hard drive. I am really nervous. We are going to have to send the hard drive to a lab to have the photos recovered. So crazy, thats what they do to crazy criminals computers to retrieve data. All we want are our cute, chubby, drooly photos. I am excited about easter, even though it snuck up on me. I will try to dye eggs this year. I never have before because all chicken's eggs are brown here! I have been doing some crafts but can't show the pictures :(

We will be visiting the states again next month! As I prepare to leave I am thinking of all the good things about living here so I don't get wrapped up in going back to the U.S. and only focus on that. So here is reason #37- All gas stations are full service.

Here are some pictures we recovered:
Aren't these carrots amazing. When we cut them they had all those holes. They looked like little flowers! I know, I know there was probablly a worm in there...


Eliza at the zoo we went last month.


The girls hanging out on Eliza's bed. Eliza is always holding her hand or giving her kisses. So of course their arms are intertwined. She basically can't stop touching her.

Darcy started eating rice cereal. She usually tries to hold the spoon herself, I don't give it to her fast enough apparently.