flower headband!

Want to learn how to make this flower headband?! Its SUPER easy and really cheap! 

All you need is:

felt 

hot glue gun

scissors 

and a head band

Get any color felt and cut out 5 flower shapes. Mine are probably 2 inches diameter.

 

next fold them in half like so...

 

Then your going to place a folded vertical flower right on top of another folded horizontal flower and put a little dab of glue right in the middle to hold them together.

Do the same with the next two so it looks like this. Its should resemble how you fold a moving box!

Now take your 5th flower and fold in in half, then in half again so it looks like a pizza slice! ( Now my stomach is rumbling and I'm waiting for my PIZZA to deliver!!! :) ) 

put a dab of glue on the point of the folded flower pizza thing and stick it right in the center of the four flowers so its standing up! 

fluff all of your flower petals towards the center one and then you can glue it or sew it onto a headband! they would be really cute on shirt too! :)

anyways here's what a finished flower should look like!

hope its easy to understand! They are REALLY cute and I LOVE making them! 

My little Maddie-bug wearing her hot pink one!

guns,Car seats and piggy paint... What a weekend!

Michael and I had a really awesome time together at the Lodi Grape Festival. It was so much fun spending some time with just him! Plus, Maddie was good for my parents while they watched her. She has stayed with both sets of grandparents now and been fine! She has come a LONG way! 

 on Saturday we went to the gun room in Elk Grove to check out hand guns and to look at hunting shot guns for Michael. That was the VERY FIRST TIME I've EVER held a gun and It made me extremely nervous. :O I got the handbook for the safety test you have to pass to buy one and its basically just common sense. We are going back to rent a couple guns so I can shoot them there and see what one I feel comfortable with :)

Who would have thought I would be willing to go shoot guns?! NOT ME! BUT I spend A LOT of time home alone with my kids, and I need something to protect me and them god forbid anything were to happen. We also looked at the gun safes to keep it in locked and away from the kids. I have NO problem with people owning guns if they properly store them with the safety on and AWAY from a child where they can NOT be accessed. 

We also went to a baby store in Elk grove that carry's a car seat that I wanted for Madison. I was REALLY interested in the Sunshine Radian XTSL. BUT our babies R' Us doesn't carry it in the store and I really wanted to see what I was buying. This car seat is AWESOME. It's very narrow, but its a tank! Its steel re-enforced and extremely safe. Madison can also rear face for much longer. We love this car seat so much we ordered one for Brandon too!

 

I also got Maddie some Piggy Paint finger nail polish!!!!! Its as natural as mud and is non-toxic, odorless and baby friendly! We got "Forever Fancy" and "Girls Rule." I painted her toes when she was sleeping and they look SOOOOOOOOOO cute! I could seriously eat her little toes up!

When she wakes up I'll try and get some pictures of them :)

Friday date night :)

Today has been kinda a BLAHHHH day. It feels like its going by FOREVER and I just cant get motivated to do anything. So instead of cleaning today, we finger painted, rolled around on the floor playing, sang songs and read books. Although I couldn't get motivated to clean, I had fun with my little love bugs! Tonight my wonderful husband is taking me to the Lodi Grape Festival while my parents watch the kids! I love going out with him, It always reminds me how much I love him and spending quality time with just the two of us! I spend 24/7 with both of the kids (which I LOVE) but I'm in much need of a little break for a few hours! :)

50 things....

50 things I want to do before I die.

1. Grow old with my husband

2. Live out in the country in a cute country home with a wrap around porch!

3. Own my own business. I don't know what I want that to be yet, but I just want to start a business!

4. Spend a week in Bora Bora in a little hut on the ocean with Michael.

5. Visit Italy.

6. Buy a boat or maybe some jet skies!

7. Have an amazing relationship with my daughter like I have with my mother!

8. Watch my kids graduate High school.

9. See my babies fall in love and get married.

10. Become a grandmother!

11. Take my kids to Disneyland.

12. Spend a week in Nashville TN.

13. Have a wiener dog! 

14. Have REAL beautiful hardwood floors all through out my home!

15. Take my son to a PBR or a Portagee Bull fight.

16. Go camping somewhere absolutely BEAUTIFUL in the mountains with my family. 

17. Take my mom and Maddie on a vacation. Just the three of us girls! :)

18. own a bunch of truck and trailers and grow Michael's business. 

19. Grow a garden in my backyard.

20. Be a great grandmother

21. Re-new my vows on the beach in front of both of my kids. 

22. Own a REALLY expensive pair of shoes! ;)

23. own a d700

24. Meet Josh Turner!!!! :)

25. Learn how to drive a big truck! Maybe Michael will teach me in his truck!!! hahahaha

26. Surprise my husband with a brand new diesel Chevy or Dodge or a 69 Camaro.

27. Own multiple homes.

28. Learn Yoga!

29. Have a million dollars! Wouldn't that be nice?! :D

30. Sleep on a beach under the stars with Michael. 

31. Get another Tattoo. I keep saying I'm going to be never do!

32. Go on a road trip!

33. Throw an anniversary party for my parents!

34. Ride a Gondola in Venice

35. Become REALLY good at baking. That way my kids always come to visit me when they are older!

36. Have a family picnic out in a beautiful field. 

37. Own an amazing wardrobe in a beautiful closet.

38. Own some cows. I think they are the cutest animals!

39. Have all of my family and husbands family over for a thanksgiving or Christmas dinner!

40. Learn how to ride a motorcycle. I wouldn't ever ride one. i just want to be able to say I know how to!

41. Go to my children's sport practices and games. I cant wait to watch them play or do something!

42. Visit Portugal

43. Spend a weekend in Napa in a cute resort with my husband!

44. Learn how to play an acoustic guitar.

45. Go to a really expensive fancy restaurant where I have to get really dressed up!

46. Get amazing family pictures taken.

47. have a beautiful big kitchen with an island in it!

48. Go prom dress shopping with Maddie. 

49. Watch my kids live a happy life.

50. Love Michael as much as I do now if not more until the day I die. :)

 

Big weight off of my shoulders....

I deleted my Facebook a while ago and it was the best thing I have decided to do in a long time. Facebook was starting to make me depressed and with two (very busy) kids, I honestly don't have time for it and all its drama! I've decided to start blogging way more. I'm trying to have a new outlook on life. I'm done. I'm not taking ANYTHING for granted anymore. Letting go of all grudges and the anger. People spend WAY too much time holding grudges against people, talking about others and its NOT worth it. I don't care about anything in the past anymore, life is too short to be angry. I have too many blessing in my life, my husband, my children and my family. They are my everything, my world....my universe. Its crazy how much life can change in a matter of years. 6 years ago I would have NEVER thought I would be married with 2 kids today. 6 years ago I met Michael, and it seems unreal that its been that long, but at the same time it still feels like yesterday we were riding around in his Tahoe causing trouble! I love that man more today than I ever have. My life is such a blessing, and sometimes you need to sit down and take a little time to remember that. I look into my children's eyes and am reminded how beautiful life truly is. Hug your loved ones a little tighter and kiss them one extra time everyday. Tell them you love them one more time a day. Quit being so angry and enjoy life a little more. :)

6 months....

My baby is 6 months!!! Ok, so I'm a little late, she's almost 7 months!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID THIS TIME GO?? Maddie started crawling on all fours 2 days after turning 6 months! She has been busy cruising the house and following her brother! She LOVES playing in their room with all of his toys! And she loves crawling all over her brother! She says "mama" and "dada," shes starting to pull herself up on furniture and is kinda eating solids! We have been experimenting with different foods and have yet to find one she likes! Maddie makes our family smile soo much! Here's a few of her 6 month pictures!

Brandon had his 2 year check up and basically he barely makes the charts for his height and weight combined! He is a little runt, but his appetite is pretty good on most days! He takes after his momma! Other than that nothing else is new with him! He's been staying out of trouble and hasn't hurt himself in a while (knock on wood!) Here's a few pictures of my little man (he doesn't like pictures at all!)

Nothing really new with Michael and I. He's still really busy with work, which is good so we can finish this freaking house hopefully! With him gone ALL the time that leaves me baking and cooking A LOT! And cleaning too! I'm sooo excited, my favorite blog for recipes "The Pioneer Women" has a cooking show coming out! I can NOT wait for it to premiere. :) I also can't wait for fall to hurry up and get here! I LOVE Halloween, Thanksgiving,  all the decorating and fun baking that goes with it, the food, AND MY BIRTHDAY! I'll be 23 in November. SO old, I know! ;) My love and best friend's Birthday is NEXT FRIDAY!!!!!!  What in the world should I get this man?! I know what he REALLY wants, but he's so difficult and easy at the same time. If that made any sense! He asked for a homeade white cake, raspberry filling and chocolate frosting, so if it turns out yummy I'll post the recipe! :)

Back at home!

We are moved back into our house!!!!! I forgot how cluttered our little house gets (even more now that our laundry room is a construction zone)! BUT, we are almost finished!!! Today at the butt crack of dawn they delivered all of our molding and doors. they are installing all of it tomorrow and then its ready to be painted on the inside!!! :D <---- That's my big happy face! 

I cannot wait to see what it looks like tomorrow with all the molding up!

Now that we are moved back into our house I have been cooking all kinds of new recipes and baking yummy stuff! My boy's LOVE when I bake! I have TONS of other stuff I want to make, but I need to get myself and my munchkins to the grocery store to get ingredients!

 Ice cream cookie sandwiches!

Cupcakes!!!

My little munchkin's are getting sooo big! Brandon is quite the little talker, its impossible to get him to stop talking for at least 5 minutes! He also got his first pair of cowboy boots and INSISTS he wears them with every single outfit! I think he has a little more Portagee in him then we thought! He looks so cute in them but so okie at the same time!!! My Maddie girl is getting SOOOO big! She is almost 6 months old :(  She's such a little joy to be around! She loves laying on her belly on the floor and playing with her brother! Yup, my little princess plays with tractors and trucks! She scoots all around, and I know its only a matter of time until she starts crawling :/  Nothing else too new around here!!! :)