Duster Concert

Have you ever been to a duster concert? At first I wasn't even sure what it was.

I haven't been to one before....well until this weekend. We were cleaning and Mikayla grabbed the duster and proceeded to put on an amazing concert for us!!!! I suspect it was not only for entertainment but also to get out of doing her chores (which didn't work but we all had fun anyway)..... LOL

She was seriously rockin!!!!

Monkey see monkey do!

We went to my nephew's birthday party at a really neat place, they had a total indoor play area, video games galore, rock wall, slides...you name it. Including a monkey cage!!! (yes with real live monkeys....)

Here's Mikayla on the rock wall, I can't believe how long her hair is in this picture, I mean I know it's long...but it just looks longer here, LOL I'm not sure why hee hee



She would catch air on these slides....


Here are the monkeys in the monkey cage.... well plus the real monkeys, the kids got to hand feed them and they were jumping and running all over the kids, it was crazy. I thought they were all very brave especially considering that none of the adults were very interested in going in there.






This is the dominant female of the group, they take her out when groups go in, she sounds the nervous alarm and the monkeys go crazy, so they just remove her and she gets to socialize with the outside world.

It was a good time!!! Mikayla slept like a rock that night!!!

Cows and Princesses

What do cows and princesses have in common..... well nothing unless it's Princess Family Night at Chick-filet-a..... After school, Mikayla got decked out in her princess attire (daily occurance at our house anyway) and we headed over to the mad zoo! The princesses were out in full force.... wow!! I'm not entirely certain my hearing will be the same! LOL

Here is Mikayla with the Princess Cow.....


Here is little Miss, feeling VERY good and pretty before we went into the party. (notice her gloves....I found some of my grandmother's gloves and decided that this was the perfect opportunity to wear them out-her hands look HUGE LOL)

Strike a pose baby girl!

Here is Mikayla with Princess Tianna

Cinderella squared

Princess Aurora (aka Briar Rose, Sleeping Beauty)

Fun times!!

YUM ice cream

We had to come home and actually watch the movie Cinderella too.

Gnocchi's have arrived

What is a Gnocchi you wonder, it's a cross between a dumpling and a pasta. My wonderful MIL made some for us to have this week. You can make them out of flour, potato or ricotta cheese. We decided to try the Ricotta recipe (and bless her heart she made some with gluten free flour for me too). I can't WAIT to have these this week. Naturally Mikayla had to jump in on the gnocchi making fun! You roll the dough on the paddle to make the shape, after dried or frozen you boil them and serve with your favorite red pasta sauce.

Musical family

Here Michael is playing the electric guitar instead of the 12 string, he does a really good job!!

Here is Mikayla, playing her piano after having played the guitar and singing for us...all before 6:30 am... wow, I wish she woke up that happy and energetic every day!

Craft Room Update

Here is the not so new but very improved game/tv/scrap room

My work tables, etc

New cubes :) I LOVE my cubes - even have three empty cubes just waiting for stuff....

The top row of small bottles are all my delectible stickles!! A girl can't have too many!!!

my Scrappy world started here.... I didn't have anything in addition to what fits inside this bad boy LOL (that was a LONG time ago), I never thought I'd need more than what it could hold.

I'm so happy with my area, I can't wait to spend some time up there and see what creativity finds me :)

Have a great week!!!

Scrap Area

Well I'm in the process of re-organizing not necessarily because it's a new year but rather I really need to make my space a LOT more functional, I just sort of ran out of areas to put my products...so here is the work in progress, I'll post progress as I get it. My redo started with this NIFTY storage unit...I can't say enough good about it!!! I'm so excited!!!!! (there will be a 2nd unit right next to this one in the next time you see it).

The goal is to clear up space on my work tables so that I actually have room to work, as you can see I have a ways to go.....well actually all of my table tops are full.... there are 5 - 4 ft tables..... I'm so happy I have so much room!!!!

Here is my whole scrappy area :)

And the rest of the room.

It's a good project, I'm looking forward to a new and improved functional space here :) Sooooo exciting!!!!