Daddy's Little Helper

Jaxon just got a little lawn mower for his birthday.  Now every time Brandon mows the lawn or edges Jaxon runs to get his lawn mower then follows Dad around.  He mows right around the edges and then goes back and forth just like he's really mowing the lawn.  It's so cute :)

Kitchen Table Reveal

Well the weather has not cooperated, but I finally finished my kitchen table.  Here's another look at what it looked like before:

And here is the after:

I think it looks so much better with the colors of our kitchen than it used to.  The table top is an ivory color with a brown glaze on top to give it kind on an antique look.  I love that it's not just a solid color and the black really stands out against the neutral cabinets and tile.  What a difference a little paint makes!!!

Well Over-Due Updates

About a month ago my computer decided not to recognize my SD card anymore, so I haven't been able to post in awhile.  I had to go dig out the box my camera came in, install the software and download pictures directly off my camera using the USB cord instead.  Really, not hard, just took some getting around too.  So here is what we've been up to the past month.

Kitchen Table Re-do

Here is a sneek peak at what I am currently working on.  This is my aweful kitchen table before I pulled out the spray paint.

The color doesn't go well in my kitchen at all, not to mention the stains on the table top.  The project is about half finished, so if the weather cooperates I should be able to show the completed project by the end of the week.  Knock on wood!

Picture Frame Craft

I started out with a few wooden picture frames, painted the edges black, then mod podged some scrapbook paper to the front.  Once they were all dry I flipped them over, lined them up and stapled a ribbon to the back to connect them all together.  Now I just need to print some pictures to go inside the frames ;)

Jaxon's 2!!

Now Dad can have some help mowing the lawn.

Jaxon liked scooping up his cake and ice-cream with his new dump truck.

Easter

The cousins came over for an Easter Egg Hunt.  It was such a nice day.

Zion's National Park

We spent spring break at Zion's.  The kids loved hiking around and hanging out at the pool.

Just outside Zion's we stopped at this little souvenir shop that had a petting zoo at it and who doesn't love a petting zoo??

Swimming

Cody and Whitney just finished swimming lessons.  We'd always stay a little longer once class was finished to let the kids play.  Hailee and Jaxon love the water, playing on the slide and diving for their jelly fish and of course, everyone needed a pair of eye goggles :)

Crazy Hair Day

Friday was crazy hair day at school.  Cody had been growing his hair out since December just for this.  We ended up cutting the top of his short and leaving the back long to look like old man hair then we colored it blue.  Whitney had braids sticking out all over the place that we sprayed pink.  They both loved their crazy hair.

3rd Grade Basketball

Cody just finished playing basketball.  He's quite the little guard.  He loved passing the ball off to his team mates for the assist.  It was amazing to see how much the team improved over the season and how excited they got when they made a basket.  Great job team!!!

Hailee's Birthday

A few weeks ago Hailee turned 3!  She had a little party with her friends and then grandparents came over for cake and ice-cream.  She kept telling me she wanted a barbie cake.  I'm not much of a cake decorator, but she thought it turned out so cute.

Everyone seemed to love the cake and ice-cream.  Jaxon even licked his plate clean.

Flowers and More Flowers

I was another fun day spent with some of my sisters and sisters-in-law.  This time it was all about flowers. 

We made vintage looking flowers, rolled flowers, flowers for headbands and flowers on clips.  Actually they can all be put on headbands or used with an alligator clip because of the way we did the back.

On the back of each flower we glued a felt loop.  Two pieces of felt were sewn together down each side to create a loop in the middle.  Now we can slip a headband through the loop or put an alligator clip on it.  My girls were so excited about all their new flowers.

Knotted headband

I saw a super cute crocheted headband the other day that looked similar to this one.  I saw it on a sight called youseriouslymadethat.blogspot.com.  If you haven't seen Cami's blog, go check it out, she has some great tutorials.  Anyway, I don't crochet, so I thought I'd try braiding instead.  To figure out how long to make my braids I measured from my nose to my fingertip (I know, very scientific) 4 times for the long braid and 2 times for the short braid.  I cut three strands each length and braided them together.  Once the two braids were complete I followed Cami's tutorial on how to tie the knot and finish off the headband.

I was so easy to make that I decited to make one for myself as well :)