She's Seven!!!

On Sunday we celebrated my baby girls Seventh birthday!!
She wanted a party...so we gave her one!!

My sister and I transformed the dinning room into Avery's Sewing Boutique.

it included button cupcakes.....

 

ribbon, button, embellishments, and more.... 



the party bags were filled with kid friendly sewing kit and a few other little treats.

I finally got to put my vintage fabric to use!

The girls made a fabric hoop to take home.  We used fabric glue and did some hand stitching.

they all turned out SEW cute!

after cake and ice cream we all played pin the heart on lalaloopsy. (Thanks Heather!)

It was a great day!

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl!!


you can find where I got my ideas and inspiration from HERE

Cookie time.......

I will be making these with Avery and 20 other kids today in her class. 

Should be fun : )

 

I wanted to try and find something cute and easy for the kids and something other than the typical iced sugar cookie.

 

So when I came across these cute little reindeer I new they would be perfect! ( plus who doesn't love nutter butters??)  

Thanks to my PINTEREST I new exactly where to go when I found them. Oh pinterst..how I love thee
I'm sure by now everyone has pinterest, but if you don't you need to get it! It's super fun and easy. I use it all the time.

So wish me luck.

I'm off to make cookies.

Wordless Wednesday: Christmas train

We love our new train around the tree!

{Wordless Wednesday}

precious....

a little behind.....

No pumpkins or turkey left, but since this was our first Thanksgiving at our house I want to share......

this was my very first turkey that I made.... I was a nervous wreak about making it...after all it is the "center piece" of Thanksgiving!!  Over all I was pleased with the way it turned out...just wished it was a little darker on the outside.

On Friday we celebrated again with my side of the family.....

the newlyweds..... my sis and Brad

my mom looking so happy that I am taking her picture ; )   {sorry mom}

poppy carving the turkey...

and my mom's beautiful table scape...

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!!

{Photo Friday}

I'm playing along with my friend Heather on her photo Friday post

Photo: Princess feet...

 

Fall Snapshots....

.....outside.

fyi: today I'm cleaning out my kitchen desk. So get ready for a Big "before and after" reveal...coming soon ; )

Halloween Re-cap......

Hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween.

I had two "scaries" this year. It took a lot of convincing, but they got their way.....

my little poser...

My little boy wanted to be scream So bad and apparently that was "the thing" to be this year for the boys.

Funny because, he will Never get to watch the movie!!

and of course this little one had to be something scary too......just like her brother.

........more scary trick-or-treating ; )

and all that candy they got for me.

Wordless Wednesday: Fall around here...

 Happy Fall everyone!!

Fall Break update....Warning: picture overload

I hope you all enjoyed a good laugh of my poor Pilot. The kids have been praying every night that he grows his hair back fast. lol! : )

Anyhow, we  went to Orange beach , AL for Fall break. It was fun! We all look forward to our beach trips.

Orange beach was the very first place we went as a family. Dawson was only 9 months now he is about to be 10!!

This is how I enjoyed my morning coffee....with this view from our balcony. It has been a while since we were right on the ocean with this kind of view. It was nice!

The kids were up and ready to go every morning.



Here are some of my favorite pictures of A playing in the sand....

and with this guy I got some really good profile pics - anything other than that....forget about it.

Avery really took off on her swimming this year.
Love this look on her face : )hee!

We stepped away from the beach one day and checked out the shrimp festival....which was a smorgasbord of food and vendors of every kind.
We got some food and then took off back to the beach....at least we can say we have been to the gulf shores shrimp festival now ; )

We can't go to the beach and not play put-put.
Avery got a hole in one here....

and Dawson needed help from his Dad. (haha! he would kill me)

On the last day of our trip I tried to get some family pictures.
Lets just pretend I meant for us to be out of focus..........

However, I did manage to get a few favorites.....

ok that's all for now. Today is flea market day : )

What's been keeping us away????

Our two week Fall break....

which just ended with a trip to the beach.

I have loads of pictures to share,  but for now....

I have to finish unpacking and stock up on some groceries (before we starve)

I'll leave you with a before and after picture of Pilot when he got his first (full body) hair cut.
We did not expect him to get this much cut.
It was quite the surpirse .... to say the least.