You did what???

Yep, that's me!! Wow, do I ever look pregnant! SO here's the story behind this beautiful picture in case no-one has talked to my friend Tammy, who apparently thinks it needs to be known to every person in the state ;) I received an email about a week ago from a friend saying that the new local fabric store was having this AWESOME deal on fabric for St. Patty's Day. I'm ALL about a good deal so I said bring it on! I continued to read the flyer and it said that if you dressed up like a leprechaun from head to toe you would get 50% off all you fabric purchases!!! YESSSS 50% OFF!!!! What a deal! Then it hit me, do I really want to dress this fat, REALLY pregnant body up like a leprechaun? I went back and forth about whether I was going to do it or not and decided why wouldn't I do this, am I crazy to even hesitate to get ten dollar a yard fabric for five?! Unheard of! AND it was the perfect opportunity to get the fabric for those skirts I wanted to make my girls. As I was telling my oh so supportive husband what I was planning to do he just laughed and said, "You will NEVER follow through with this." So the big day came, I got dressed in my borrowed hat and skirt and wore Alex's baby legs and my green shoes. Cam couldn't even take a picture of me without laughing, as I was leaving I said goodbye and he turned his head and said that he couldn't even look at me and that he prayed for my sake that I wouldn't see anyone that I knew. What a putz, didn't he know how much money I was saving!? As I got closer and closer to the store I started to get a little nervous about if I was going to be the only one dressed up. Sure enough I parked right in front of the store and couldn't see a single person in green, not even the employees. I thought maybe they didn't want to promote the deal too much because it was such a BIG deal. I couldn't get out of my car. I had to call my sister Cris and have her walk me through getting out and realize how much of a steal I would be getting. I did it, I finally got out saying what the heck who cares right? As I was walking up to the door the manager was walking out to go next door and he took one look at me and said, "Oh dear! It's tomorrow!!" Wow did I ever feel dumb and that's what I get for not knowing the date half of the time. I told him that I would just put my lovely hat in the car and come in anyways and look around. By that time ALL of the sweet old ladies that work at the store had seen me in all my glory and were chuckling as I walked through the door. The manager came and found me and asked me what I was needing fabric for and I told him that I was getting a bunch for my girls to make some skirts and do a project in my oldest daughters room. He said that he would honor the deal if I would do one thing for him. I thought what in the world would he have me do? He asked that I put all my outfit back on and take a picture to put in the weekly newsletter they send out via email. WHAT?! Oh great, so not only did my husband get to laugh and mock me but all the people in Surprise get to too. I had already been humiliated twice so I agreed. I got 16 1/2 yards of fabric for $80! SO worth it! It would have costed me about $200 full price. So all of you out there that think I'm nuts and are having a good laugh at me I will have two cute girls and one awesome room when I'm done :)

All the pretty fabric....aaahhhhhh
I thought I would throw in a cute picture of the kiddos in their green.

A child's addiction......

My child as an addiction. He LOVES his crocs and mommy loves them because he can put them on himself. His old brown ones lost the back straps about a month ago and everytime he would wear them, which was every day, they would fall off in random places in the grocery store or as we were crossing the street. He as been begging me to get new ones and you know who has the time to remember to get your kids shoes :) So today was the day, we dropped Alex off at school and me and my buddy headed to the mall and got him some new stylin red crocs. He picked them out himself and since it's St. Patricks day next week they gave him some free clover Ji-Bits that he thinks are pretty cool. While the man was putting the Ji-Bits on Jake saw that there were a variety of different Ji-Bits and just HAD to have the ball one. I figured what the heck $2.50 for a little piece of plastic was a steal ;)

Finally!

I made a bag!! It took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R! I saw this pattern a long time ago and decided that I would some day get ambitious enough to get around to it. I thought what better time to make it than now for a diaper bag for the new little chica coming soon. Me and my friend got together and I won't tell you how many times or how long it took us because yes it is depressing but it is done!! I know those are some pretty crazy prints, it must have been one of those "crazy" days when I was picking out fabric, but I couldn't be more happy with it and I'm glad it's done.

INSIDE

I saw some really cute appliqued onesies and decided I would experiment and make my own. Let's just say it will probabaly be my last. Wonder Under is NOT my thing. I know there are some of you out there that think I'm crazy because I've been told so, but it just plain SUCKS to work with. So here's to never doing that again and here's to probably never putting the baby in them because of the cringe I get every time I look at them.

Alex wanted in on the picture fun....

Life Lesson...

Alex has been wanting a certain new game for her leapster and has continuously asked over and over for it. I am not one to just up and buy my child a $25 game for no reason so we had the money doesn't grow on trees discussion and you don't get anything for nothing. We decided that I would make a chart for her to earn some money by doing chores around the house. Of course life gets busy and a couple of months have gone by since she first asked and yesterday she asked again while I was making dinner and I told her again I would make her a chore chart, she looked at me and with her new sassy voice said, "I will make my own chart because you told me that one hundred times!" And she did. She made all of the little squares and I told her to write amounts of money in them and I would find chores for her that would earn her the amount and she would be able to put a sticker on after the chore was finished. I totally should have done this earlier because she has been asking all day what she can do to help around the house. It's been great, I get a break from doing the little things around the house and Alex gets taught the life lesson of you get what earn.

One day......

I WILL learn how to make this outfit....... and find the TIME to make this unbelieveably cute outfit for my two girls. It's good to set goals right? :)