Mil Spouse Fun

A Military Spouse Survey – I haven’t done one of these meme’s in ages, so I figured I’d jump right in. One of my best military spouse friends Holly did this the other day, so here are my answers too! 1. How did you and your spouse meet?  We met at the tribal college [...]

Happy Easter

Ha, just noticed it looks like JW is smoking something blue in this picture. It’s a whistle that was in his basket.

The boys got new suits for a wedding this summer and they wanted to wear them to church yesterday. Too bad we didn’t get a [...]

Birthday Party Planning

JWDrumCake

I love making birthday cakes. I love figuring out how to implement what my kids want their cake to be. JW turned one in January and I made two cakes for his party.

The first was a drum cake. This was a simple two layer round cake with buttercream frosting. I looked up [...]

First Birthday Party Planning

In one week and five days JW will be one! (Doesn’t that sound sooner then less then two weeks?) I’m amazed at how fast the year went. I took a picture of him sleeping on my Mom’s lap at around midnight on New Years Eve. A year ago he was huge inside of me [...]

Two Luigis & a Fairy Witch

Jake wanted to be Luigi for Halloween this year and after a quick search I found this post showing how to make Mario hats. The only difference between Mario and Luigi hats are the color so this was easy to make.

I did make a mistake at first – the tutorial says to cut [...]

Friend Makin’ Monday – Traditions

My friend Andrea is hosting this week’s Friend Makin’ Monday. I’m glad she is because I’ve wanted to participate for ages now!

What are your holiday traditions?

Halloween

Since I’ve had kids, I love making their costumes. The first year Alice went as a caterpillar. And by “went” I mean [...]

Photos While They Are Deployed

Jay Dubber

I already made an appointment to get the kids pictures taken – JW hasn’t had a professional photograph yet, and at (almost) eight months Alice and Jake both already had two sets! That’s what happens when you are born in August, you get the holiday pics in.

JCPenney has an offer from the [...]