Catching up a bit.

A lot has happen since I last posted, so here is some quick words and pictures to catch you up on our little family.

Thanksgiving in Tonto


Out on the pond.

I am thankful for my kids.

Our Seventh Anniversary, and still madly in love.

Elijah Turned Three

Had a Merry Little Christmas

Emily's Now One

I turned 28 and we went to Disneyland and California Adventure to celebrate.

Daddy held them up so they could see the parade.

Peeking at the ride, notice the girls cute pony tails.

In Monsters inc car, notice our very own Indiana Jones riding with us.

What is Disneyland without M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!!

Had a Happy Valentine's Day (or week).

Little Blog Award

Katie, my BFF who recently moved far away from me, has nominated me for this little blog award. And no Katie this does not make up for you moving to CO, but every little bit helps.


My reward is I get to answer these questions in one word (or pretty close). Let's get started!

1. Where is your cell phone? purse

2. Your hair? clean

3. Your mother? caring

4. Your father? hard worker

5. Your favorite food? Many

6. Your dream last night? A mystery

7. Your favorite drink? strawberry lemonade

8. Your dream/goal? secret

9. What room are you in? family room

10. Your hobby? scrapbooking, photo shopping, refashioning, thrifting, crafting... oops...a little more than one word

11. Your fear? Loosing my hubby

12. Where do you want to be in six years? here

13. Where were you last night? home

14. Something you aren’t? rich

15. Muffins? YUM

16. Wish list item? new kitchen

17. Where did you grow up? Arizona

18. Last thing you did? picked Addy up

19. What are you wearing? shoes

20. TV? hulu

21. Your pets? messy

22. Your friends? awesome

23. Your life? lovelly

24. Your mood? content

25. Missing someone? Them

26. Vehicle? Caravan

27. Something you’re not wearing? jacket

28. Your favorite store? Ross

29. Your favorite color? all

30. When was the last time you laughed? today

31. When was the last time you cried? monday

32. Your best friend? Ammon

33. One place that you go over and over? Goodwill

34. One person who e-mails me regularly? Spamers(so I made this word up)

35. Favorite place to eat? Outback

Now I nominate... two dedicated bloggers......

1. Bobbi's Busy Book of Life (a private blog)

2.A Slice of Missy Pie

It was a Lovelly Halloween this year!

Addison decided months ago she wanted to be a witch. She may just be the prettiest witch I have ever seen, but don't tell her that because she might become a bit witchy and bite your head off. She wanted to be scary and everyone kept telling her she was a beautiful witch, which did not make her very happy.

Hannah decided last year she was going to be Belle next time and much to my surprise she still wanted to be Belle when Halloween time came around. She really was a beauty and even seeked out her Beast although she never found him. Now She says Elijah will be Beast next year and she will be Belle again.

I tried to convince Elijah to be Superman since we already had the costume and initially he agreed. Then somewhere he came up with the idea that he was going to be Bad Spiderman. He has never seen the movie, but he does have a black Spiderman toy. Needless to say, he won. Luckily my sister had a costume, but it was a 6/7. Elijah not even three disapearred in it, but luckily I was able to temporally alter it to fit.

I wasn't sure what to dress Emmy as, but when I saw this flower headband in my girls dress up stuff, I knew she just had to be a flower, so I found an old onesie and made a stem to match with some ribbon I already had. I have to say that I picked the right costume, she made an exquisite flower and smelled so sweet too.

Ammon I were a bit boring and didn't dress up this year. We had been sick the whole week before and weren't feeling up to it, but I am intent on finding some clever costumes for next year!

Happy Birthday Addy.

Has it really been six years? Celebrating her birthday takes me back to the moment we met. As the doctor layed her on my chest and her eyes wide opened looked up into mine and I melted. In that one moment my whole world changed and I became a mother. Her birthday marks six years of struggles, tears, laughs, smiles, and priceless moments as I have learned and continue to learn to be a mother. Motherhood is beautiful and I love you Addison.

Addison Nicole Lovell 10/17/2003

That being said, Addy started planning her birthday months ago. She wanted a carnival birthday party. I have no idea where she got that idea, but I decided I would do my best. So I begged, borrowed, and bargained. Addy was so excited and for less then 50 dollars, I was able to throw her a pretty cool party. We had popcorn ( the dollar store has awesome popcorn bags), pretzels (recipe to follow), and cotton candy ( dollar store variety). We had a (cup) cake walk, a horse race (I got stick ponies from the dollar store), a fishing booth, a tin can toss (food storage cans work great), a bean bag toss (borrowed), a bouncy house (borrowed), snow cone station (borrowed), face painting, and even a photo board ( dollar store foam core poster board). It was a fun-filled Saturday!
Addy and the home made photo board.Bouncy house and snow cone face.
Cute daddy daughter moment. Notice the cute ice cream cone on Ammon's cheek, he was told it was a dragon =)!

Hence this photo of Ammon acting like a dragon. And yes that is snow cone syrup all over Ammon, he is a messy vendor.

* Thank you for all those who came and celebrated with us. I would have posted a bunch more pictures of everyone, but blogger was giving me trouble.

My baby is growing so fast. I can't believe she is already 9 months. She recently got her first two teeth and learned to climb the wooden stairs. She usually only climbs a few steps before she stops, since they can't be to comfortable to crawl on. She loves to wave and say hi and claps all the time, sometimes she will even through in a yea. I feel truly blessed to have her in our lives. She is straight from heaven and such a joy to have around. She's got all five of us wrapped around her little finger. In the words of Emmy "YEAAAA"!

My first refashioning adventure!

So a few days ago I ran across a tutorial on how to make a dress out of a pillowcase. I just had to try it, even though I haven't touched a sewing machine in like 10 years. 

So I borrowed my Mom's sewing machine and took a quick trip to Goodwill (on Thursday, dollar day) and purchased a pillowcase for a dollar.

I forgot to take a before picture, so here it is sideways, you can kind of see that it is a pillowcase. It was really easy, even though it took me 4 hours. It should have taken a lot less, but like I said, I haven't touched a sewing machine in a decade.

Here is the finished product. Addy wanted a ribbon, so we just tied one around it and she even wore it to church. I think it turned out pretty good for my first sewing adventure, but just don't look close up at the stitching =)! I think it is pretty cute for something that cost me a dollar and some change. I will definitely be making more of these in the future.

I am now making plans to turn one of my old skirts into a cute little sundress for Addison.  If you have any cool refashioning ideas, let me know. I think I may have to purchase my own sewing machine in the near future. I may just become a refashionista.

A NO POOP SIGN!

So the other day I was in the kitchen cleaning, while the kids were eating lunch. I looked out the patio doors to see something stuck on the window, I opened the door and I found the picture in the previous post. I instantly thought what the heck, who put that there and what is it? Then I began to peel it off and instantly Addison proclaimed, " NO MOM DON'T! I DON'T WANT POOP IN THE HOUSE!" It was hilarious. It still makes me laugh when I think about it.  I have no idea when she did it, but later I found one on the doggie door as well, so I guess they were meant for the dog.