All I have to say is HOW CUTE!!!!

So I love these cute little yarn things. I looked them up to buy one....$75! Are you kidding me?!?!?

I went to hobby lobby and bought $65 worth of yarn and made 2 of them and still have enough yarn to make 2 or 3 more! I was able to make them in an hour on my lunch break! The woman selling these for $75 is banking!!

Paula Deen's Banana Pudding

A couple of weeks ago I made this banana pudding for my brother in law's birthday! It was pretty tasty! And since it's a Paula Deen recipe you know it's fat free Y'all! I added some Nilla Wafers to mine as well as the Chessman Cookies.

Chalkboard

A while back I bought a beat up frame and painting at a consignment store with intentions of making a chalkboard out of it. I finally did it on my lunch break today. I will be using it soon for an engagement photo shoot. All I did was use painters tape and some magazine pages to cover up the frame and then I spray painted it with chalkboard paint and Voila!!!!! It was $3 for the frame and $5 for the paint and the can is still full for many other projects.

The 3 Walkers

Yesterday we went to the park and I took pictures of my sister's family. Here are a few of my favorites.

Southern and Sailor

I had the pleasure of taking pictures of Southern and Sailor this morning. They are 3 year old twins and as precious as can be. These are some of my favorites.

I think Southern looks like a model here!

That smile is so sweet!

Love these baby blues!

Sisterly Love!

Pretty Girl!

Love that hair!

Pirate Party

About a year ago I helped my best friend throw a Pirate Party for her little boy who was turning 1. It was so cute and the kids had a blast. There was lots of pirate crafts, Wii sword fighting, and a scavenger hunt. The invitations read like this.....

Ahoy Mateys! Captain Cowen is turning 1!

Please join us for lots of loot and fun

We need all hands on deck for this party

For grub, games, and treasure hunts me heartie

Dress up gear

Captain Cowen! Birthday Boy!

Gettin some grub!

He found the loot! Anything from slinkies to pirate rubber duckies. There was stuff for all ages.

Scavenger Hunt Loot

Getting dressed up before the Hunt

Scavenger hunt clue

We went simple on the food. Goldfish, round cheese and crackers (doubloons), grapes (cannon balls), and pretzel sticks (pirate peg legs). I made the signs (Sails) for the food by taking white paper and soaking it in tea for about an hour. It became kind of stiff which was good. I then burnt the edges and put them on a skewer. The candles and candle holders were from pottery barn that I got on sale after Halloween. In the vase I put sand, some coins, a treasure chest, and some beads for a centerpiece. We went for an all black, red, gold and silver look.

This is the candy buffet. There were gold and black kisses, gold and red peanut butter cups, red twizzlers, and gummie skulls.

We had fish netting draped across the fireplace and I made a little red one with a pirate on it to go next to his newborn pics.

Color Party

It's easy to throw a cool party on a budget. All you need to do is think of a color or two and go with it. For this birthday we chose YELLOW! Before my niece was 2 every time you asked her what color something was she said yellow so it was the perfect choice for her 2nd birthday party.

Once you have your color picked out you can start looking for things on sale that are that color. Anything from flowers, to candy, to platters.

Yellow Dress and a plain yellow smash cake

Yellow Mustaches for the boys and grandmas! Cut out of yellow paper and sucker sticks.

We took pics of all the kids and shot yellow silly string at them when we counted to 3! They loved it!

Cupcakes on cupcake holder. We got a cheap cupcake holder at Big Lots (we used it for her first birthday too. Spray paint the number they are turning and add a little flair to it! The hot glue gun is my hero!

Paper sacks with yellow polka dot ribbon, yellow mustaches in yellow spray painted foam, yellow kazoos, oreos on sucker sticks dipped in white chocolate with yellow sugar, yellow now and laters, and yellow mary jane candies. Most candy can be found at the dollar store for cheap.

A foam E (for Emily) with yellow flowers in it, lemon drop candies, yellow daisies, and yellow whoopie cushions for the boys!

Yellow pinwheeles, yellow rice crispies, and yellow necklaces.

Yellow table cloth and yellow sign made out of different style of yellow scrapbook paper.

All in all it was a great party. We had a hula hoop contest with a yellow hula hoop. We had a ball toss with a yellow ball and yellow buckets. We had 3 large yellow buckets with yellow yoo-hoo, water, and lemon drop soda.

If you plan on doing a party like this, chose your colors based off of a holiday for cheaper stuff. Like right after Valentines Day you can get really cheap pink or red candy. Stock up on black and silver candy during halloween for a pirate party. Always think ahead!!

Long time no see!

So it's been FOREVER since I have been on here, but I really want to start using it again. I have given the blog a little face lift and hope to spend some more time on it. Since I was last on here lots of things have happened.

Went to Jekyll Island, GA

I turned 30

Went to Arizona

Got a new dog named Buster

Emily turned 2

Roman Walker Hitt was born (best friends baby)

Went to Austraila

Went to New Zealand

Went to the Virgin Islands

Emily moved to Georgia (and my sister and brother in law!)

Celebrated our 3rd Anniversary in Alaska

Went to San Fran

Went to wine country

Helped plan Captain Cowen's 1st Birthday

Went to New York City with my best friends