Hoo are you?

 Here are this week's questions!   
1. Have you ever attended a professional sports game?Yes I have, once in high school we were at a DECA conference in St. Louis and went to a cardinals game 2. Have you ever been to a concert and if so which one was your ultimate favorite performance?Yes several local performers but I honestly havent been to a concert in YEARS!! I think my all time fav was UB40. I think I was in the 6th grade! LOL 3. Have you ever been to Disneyland or Disney World?Disneyland yes! Disney World no, but would like to one day. 4. What is your favorite theme park?I have only been to a few, since we dont have them in Hawaii! I have always wanted to go to waterloo (is that what the water park is called?) I love watching those shows about the different theme parks. I had a great time at 6 flags cause I love coasters! If they suspend you and go upsidedown the BETTER they are!! 5. Do you have a favorite vacation spot?
We dont vacation enough to have a favorite spot. Infact we dont vacation. It's too expensive here to go anywhere. I am looking forward to a vacation that I demanded for our 20 yr anniversary. I demanded that my husband take me to wine country.


 

Growth Chart

I have been dying to try something with vinyl.

I see stuff online all the time and I could very well get carried away and cover my entire house with it.... of course if the hubby let me.

I ordered me some vinyl from Expressions Vinyl along with some extra cutting mats and a spatula. They have GREAT prices people, check them out!

I started simple since it was my first time afterall.

I have a wall in my kitchen where I would mark the kids height and I just loved it. Reminded me of my grandmas house growing up and all the marks on the wall in the kitchen.

Of course, were in the middle of slowly, very slowly redoing out kitchen so when it was time to paint I had to do something to save all the measurements.

I took out my cricut and my roll of black vinyl that I got from Expressions Vinyl.

I cut out numbers 1 through 6 and used my handy dandy spatula tool I also got from Expression Vinyl.

It was so super easy to use, I couldnt belive I didnt start cutting out lables for everything in my house. I got out a piece of wood I picked up from Home Depot for about $4 and spray painted it white that I already had in my cabinet.

I carefully measured out every inch and put my vinyl cut out numbers at each foot.

Then I marked and transfered the measurements that I already had on the wall.

I asked the hubby to help me screw the piece of wood into the wall and tada here is our new growth chart!

Right next to my magnetic pantry door!

Please excuse the bright flash the pix was take at 6:30 in the morning and it was still a little dark inside.

Ok so wanna good laugh???

Gotta be me I tell you!

So when I measured it up on the wall I didnt quite get a good measurement apparently because its all OFF!!! You have to add an inch to what you see on the growth chart.

I'm so totally bummed!

But not bummed enought to do it all over again!

Anyways, this is just the first of many more vinyl project to come.

Working with vinyl was way easier than I expected and if you order from Expression its way cheap too!

So please check them out and tell me what vinyl project you wanna do!

I'm linking up {HERE}

Day 4 Potty Training

(please note this was supposed to post yesterday so now were on day 5)

So we finally gave up on the pull ups idea and decided to go for big boy underwear.

Untill now its been good one day and then nothing but diapers for a week!

This past Saturday we noticed that I was running low on diapers again since I always say ok this will be the last case of diapers I'm gonna buy... and then I end up having to buy another one. Well the little guy can ask to put on a diaper so I told him if you can ask to put on a diaper you're being lazy and you can ask to go potty.

He most definately was not happy about it.

But he got used to to it. Sometimes it took a little entertaining on the potty to make him stay there.

But now, so far so good! Hes asking to go to he potty and we've only had a few accidents where he started to go and then stopped himself.

I must admit, we did start with the bribe reward system and he loved it. But after the 3rd day he said he didnt need a treat after potty.
Also by the 3rd day we stopped asking him a hundred times a day and let him tell us when it was time to go, which seemed to work well.

It has taken a lot of patience, a few underwear a day and A LOT of praise but (knock on wood) all is going pretty well.

He is very hesitant to drink a lot of fluids and eat a lot of food and at nap and bed time he struggles to go to sleep. We wonder if subconciouslly he is afraid to go in his pull up.
We tried explaining to him that he has sleep time underwear so its ok if he has accidents.

So what worked for ya'll??
Any tips for us?

MMMM

Happy Monday!

Gosh, why do the weekends always seem too short?

We'll its back to the grind today and time for Monday Music Moves Me!

It's a freebie day and these songs are what I'm loving right now.

The weekend is here, can we say TGIF?

Whoo hooo!

Well, kinda.

Once again, the hubby isnt home this weekend.

Thankgoodness for Papa!!!

My dad once again swoops in to the rescue!

Its time, actualy way over due to wash the screens and windows so thats the plan for Saturday morning. Hopefully if we get done early we can play.
Maybe go to the beach... or I can experiment with some new ice cream flavors.

The hubs is at a fishing tournament so it would be nice if he would bring home some fish.

Kitchen Sign

I started this project so long ago and only now am I posting about it. You have probably seen this sign in the background in other posts such as {this} one.

I had a scrap piece of wood that was really long, I cant even remember from what project, it could be from our garage wall.

I liked the worn/aged look similar to all the hand painted signs you see in blogland and also like I posted about {here} so I tried to whitewash it sorta. Basically I just used watered down primer and brushed it on without giving it a good coat of paint.

Then I used my awsome Cricut and cut out letters on cardstock and then traced them onto the board.

I have not read the book Eat Pray Love but I liked the saying. It makes me feel like it matches in the kitchen the heart of the home, dont ya think?

Then with a small brush I painted in the lines with a lime sorbet.

I went slowly and carefully and did 3 coats since the green was so light.

And then I didnt like it and decided to go with a darker green.

Orignally I intended it to go over my kitchen window and then I got design ADD and decided to put it above my stove where I had a red kimono picture.

I havent attached it to the wall just yet 1. because I still have to paint the wall up there and 2. cause I just might change my mind once again.

So here it is for now and if you checked out {this} post you can already see that I rearranged some of the items around it.

Linking up {HERE}

going ons... and mixed fruit and berry sorbet

I have got a bunch of little projects I've been working on that I have to post, sorry for the lack of posts these days.

Besides being busy at home with tons going on, I've been busy at work as well with the boss being out of town so by the time I get home I'm exhausted!

I picked up a $25 desk a while back that was nice and long and I figured would be perfect for my crafts. I finally got the darn thing painted up.

I hand painted a little sign for my kitchen which you may have noticed {here}.

I started another corkboard...

Painting has started in the kitchen, I know this project will be a long work in progress.

I did however finally decide on the fabric for my curtian in the kitchen.

From Fabric.com check them out on my sidebar! Fab fabrics and good prices plus free shipping if you spend $35. (which will be no problem with all their great choices)

Anyway...

I also made a new bff for summer.

I saw this ice cream maker at Costco and couldnt convince myself to buy another kitchen gadget for $34. Then their coupon book came out and they had a $6 off coupon... hmmm that deal is sounding like something I cant pass up. Then the very next day I saw a post on The Pioneer Woman about mango sorbet (of course I cant find the post now) and I was convinced it was a sign.

Yup I bought it and made sorbet the very next day. It would have been sooner except you have to freeze the bowl for 18 hours.

I used whatever frozen fruit I had in the freezer. Added a bit of honey, lemon juice and a couple of scoops of yogurt. Blended them all together and then poured them into the ice cream maker.

I'm guessing because the fruit was already frozen it started to freeze up and resemble sorbet really quick.

That night dessert was mixed fruit and blue berry sorbet.

I looked like a professional. *wink* hehehe

I think he liked it