Invitations with my Silhouette !

My Father in Law is being ordained later this month and my in-laws asked me to make invitations for them to send out. I was super excited at this excuse to use my Silhouette. 
So I went straight to work and came up with this : 

I used this bright pink paper to test out my design because I have pounds of it left over from scrapbooking for Ashlynn's 1st year. 

After I had everything lined up correctly I switched to the good stuff. 

And here is the finished product. 

It's very simple but I had to make about 40 of them one at a time so ... simple works :) 

I really like the way they turned out and this photo does not give the paper justice! 

We found it at JoAnn's and it's called Pearls. It's gorgeous. 

A Buggy Bowtique Giveaway !

Today I am celebrating with Night Owl Crafting ! It is Leslie's Blogoversary and she is having TONS of Giveaway's over there. And I mean tons ! Like one every hour tons! and I am participating ! 
If you would like to be the winner of the very first giveaway ever by Buggy Bowtique  then rush on over to Night Owl Crafting and enter.
While you are there check out the many others because let me tell you there are some really awesome things being given away over there. 
I have given Leslie the go ahead to give the lucky winner of the Buggy Bowtique giveaway two bows and two  headbands of their choice for free.
If you want to check out what you could win head over to the bowtique and do some browsing. 

Tasty Footballs

Sugar Bee featured these little Football's from Bakerella last week and I just had to make some. I stopped by  the store on my way home Saturday night and had to use bakers chocolate for my football's instead of almond bark. 








They are made of cream cheese and oreo's and are Amazing ! ! 
They were a hit at the party we went to. 
My hubby wants to try them with Mint Oreo's so we are going to make some Valentine Themed treats similar to these later this week. I bought almond bark for those. 

15 Month Check Up

Today I took our little Bug to the doctor for her 15 month check up. 

We also thought she might have an ear infection but it seems that she just has a cold. I'm very grateful for this. She's never had an ear infection and I'm praying we keep things that way.

So anyway ... 

Her checkup went fine. We have to cut her down to one nap a day and keep her up until 8 to try and get her to stop waking up in the middle of the night and talking to herself for hours on end. She'd in the 25th percentile for weight, 15% for height, and 80% for her head. She's doing pretty good, she's just a little girl with a big noggin. 

At her checkup she got 3 shots. 

I had a new nurse, who I'd never met before today, giving her the shots and she had me hold Ashlynn on my lap, which the other nurse has never had me do. I was suppose to hold her legs still with my legs and her hands with my hands. 

Right. 

Because Ashlynn isn't strong enough to move her legs away from mine when your coming at her with a needle.

It was a nightmare. 

Ashlynn was flailing everywhere screaming her head off while kicking her legs away from the needle. The nurse stabbed ME with one of the needles while she tried to stick another one in Ashlynn's leg. 

Yea. 

Me. 

In the Leg. 

With a Vaccine. 

So.

Ashlynn then decided while the nurse was still giving her the shot to try to roll over, so she was bleeding like crazy.

 I ended up having another long talk with the Doctor and I'm  never letting that nurse anywhere near me or my baby bug again . . . if she is still employed. 

Happy Birthday Hubby :)

In case you didn't get that, today is my Hubby's 22nd Birthday. 

 

This is him on his 21st birthday, styling some chic selections made by yours truly and my darling Sister In Law.

He's pretty much amazing and the best friend I have, so I think he serves a Happy Birthday out here in blogland .

Kisses babe . You rock my socks . Most days :) 

<3

My Lynney Bug

So ... our daughter, Ashlynn, will be 15 months old on the 7th of February. 

And let me tell you, this kid cracks me up.

She's at that age where she is starting to realize that when she does certain things she can get a reaction. 

So in the last week or so she's said "Uh-Oh" about five million times. 

And she's making these faces that make me fall in love with her all over again. 

She's also doing things that make me want to pull my hair out, but it's moments like these that make the patches of missing hair worth it.

Everyone Loves A Giveaway

Hey all.

I know you love to get things for free.

We all do.

And you know you want to be healthy.

So why don't you head on over to Win, Lose, or Blog and check out this Giveaway from Nachomamtees ?

While you are there check out the journeys of the fine ladies who are competing right now.

Including me.