St. patrick's day decor

I finished a project for St. Patrick's day. I was inspired by a project I saw over at naptimecrafting.blogspot.com and this is my version. (i had to update the picture above this year because I misspelled leprechaun below...)

of course, I had to pull out the shamrock candy dish and I seperated all the green & yellow M&M's. Justin didn't even realize I had done that until he pulled out the bag and thought, "there aren't any green or yellow m&m's in here." He thought i had bought a special bag of st patrick's day m&M's.

Refinished Chair

It was time to find a computer desk chair! Justin found this chair at the Salvation Army for $1-- yes, $1!!! We recovered the seat and painted it black. We love how it turned out!

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Before:

St. Patrick's day decor

It's time to put up the st. paddy's decor! I went to wood connection to get the letters & shamrock. I decided to paper craft them instead of paint them. I'm happy how they turned out!

young women activity

Fun Activty...

We had a class activity with the Laurel's and Shelly McCullough (who is amazingly crafty and talented) taught us to make hair bows. Here is Melissa wearing all of them. It was a really fun night, and the girls even went from the activity to the craft store to purchase more flowers to make some more clips. One girls wore hers on Sunday to church. It was adorable and so easy to make! Thanks Shelly!

Driving in the car with Evelyn

Evie & I were driving to the other day, and she has started a new thing when she's in her car seat...she puts her hands behind her head to relax. She just looks out the window and is so comfortable! I grabbed my camera, (even though I was driving) and turned it around to take the shot. Pretty good shot for not looking!
Evelyn even puts her hands behind her head when we put her down at night in her crib. She lays down and immediately puts her hands there. It's so cute.

As we were driving, she started playing with her blanket, and just threw it over her head and didn't say anything. Again, this a not-looking camera shot, and so it's a little crooked, but you can see her arm poking out...that is what she did. She'd cover her head, and then just relax her arms on the arm rests. It was such a fun game for her!

the big people table!

Evelyn has moved to the big person table (where mom & dad sit). (Please don't look at the mess on the table...i had been sick the week before, and so everything landed there). She still eats in her high chair when she's the only one eating, but at dinner, she joins us there. She is so happy about it! and it's so adorable to see her sitting there.

Valentine's day 2010

We had a really fun Valentine's day. Justin brought home flowers for me on Friday, and then on Saturday, we got a babysitter and went to see a movie. It has been since evelyn was born that we have been to the theater together. We went to "Blindside". It was fantastic! Then, we went to outback steakhouse. Really yummy! Justin called ahead and had our name on the wait list, so we only waited about 20 minutes when everyone else had to wait 90! What a smart husband I have! On Sunday, we melted some chocolate and had fruit and other dipping things like pretzels and we took off evie's shirt so that she could dip her own fruit. Before the chocolate came out, she picked up every strawberry and took a bite out of each one. They were pretty sour (early in the season), but she liked them. She also ate the pineapple too.

She didn't make too big of a mess...just on her mouth. Justin decided to dip a blob of peanut butter. He made his own recess's peanut butter cup!

so cute! yum!!!