Scrappy Cabinet

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I was able to get my scrappy cabinet!  This is what she is supposed to look like when she's all assembled :)

 

 

My goal is to have the three cabinets/airmore that currently house my equipment and goodies plus the coat closet I converted to craft storage all fit into this one piece of amazingness!!

 

I was FRANTICALLY waiting for my boxes to come...the shipped weight of this is 500 lbs and it comes on a pallet!

 

 

 

Finally!!! She's HOME!!!

 

 

 

After Christmas, we brought her in (and were SOOOO happy to recycle and get rid of all of the packaging!

 

 

 

 

 

Then came the task of assembly.  I know it's been a very daunting task in the past...many people had a horrible time...but all in all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

 

 

 

 

It took us just over 5 hours (2 people, 2 drills) to assemble the cabinet and another 2+ hours for two people to install the shelves...they were very bad boys to install....

 

but then..... it happened.....

 

the MAGIC!

 

 

 

then MORE MAGIC

 

 

 

Then...... the most magic you can imagine.... IT ALL FIT!!!!!  and I have EMPTY bins for more stuff!!!!  I mean just empty bins that I didn't need to fill.

 

 

I used all of these

 

 

I sorted, I purged, I cleaned, I had a LOT of help from my MIL and Katie and Michael and Mikayla....

 

and then.... you close it up..... and walk away!

 

 

 

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Tooth Fairy!

Well I wasn't prepared to see her again so soon..... but alas, she came on December 28, 2014.  WOW!!!!

 

Mikayla's first molar came out!  These teeth are hard work!  They hurt going in, they hurt coming out and the new ones even hurt too!

 

 

This time Mikayla set up the shrinky dink fairy garden we made!  it was cute!

 

 

 

This fairy, I swear she makes such a mess with her glittery fairy dust!

 

 

Mikayla was thrilled...... and she thought that her note from the Tooth Fairy looked a lot like my handwriting.... can you imagine... Fairy better change her ways...some people are getting too smart!!!

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!!!!!

Ohhhh we had such a wonderful Christmas!!!

 

We started Christmas Eve with a wonderful homemade traditional Italian dinner.  We made the pasta, we made the sauce and meatballs.... it was delicious!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

After dinner.... Ha!!

 

 

I do have to say Mikayla was absolutely heartbroken that her elf, Rolo had to go away.  So she wrote Santa a note, expressing her desire to keep Rolo.  We had MANY tears about having to say goodbye to our friend again this year.

 

 

We attempted to do a new tradition this year and go to midnight mass.  It was an amazingly beautiful service.  Mikayla actually requested to go to the midnight service....but it did turn out to be a little too much... she loved the idea of staying up till midnight - not realizing that was the BEGINNING of church, not the end of church (which was near 2:00 am)..... she poked me several times to tell me it was too late and that it was a terrible idea to go... ha!  We got there plenty early because of not being able to find seats because they fill up so fast so we got there just after 11:00... and we totally didn't have to worry, the people started filling in around 11:30.

 

 

This year something else we did differently was to have my dad stay the night too so he could be there for Christmas morning.  We did get to sleep in until about 6:30....which was nice...but Michael and I didn't even go to bed until after 3:00... yawn!

 

 

 

 

Then we dove into presents!!!  We had such FUN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We cooked up a storm, ate up a storm, cleaned up a storm then cleaned up more and more. We have played more than we ever played before, we really had a wonderful and blessed Christmas!!! 

 

I will say that I do not think that we're going to introduce the midnight service to our traditions just yet, we were exhausted for about 2 days afterwards.... ha! 

 

Nutcracker on Ice

Some of Mikayla's classmates take ice skating lessons, so to surprise her, I got us tickets to go see their Nutcracker performance.

 

 

I know the picture below is weird....but you can see our reflection in the glass and look at how darn TALL she is!!  She is right about how tall my mom was!!!!

 

 

 

We had bleacher ON the ice seats!

 

Her friend is one of the mice below.

 

 

One of the little gingerbread girls below is the sister of one of the girls in M's class.

 

 

One of the "party guests"

 

One of the toy soldiers is another friend from school.

 

 

 

 

It was a lot of fun, during the second half, Mikayla poked me and asked what in the world the ice dancing they were doing had to do with the Nutcracker.... I said, I have no idea!  HA!!

School Program!

Mikayla had her school program last week and it was fun!!  I really think that her school is doing an amazing job - especially considering that they are a 1st year brand new school.  From the parental side, I wouldn't ever even know it was the first year.

 

Anyway, Mikayla's class sang two songs in French.  So they were allowed to wear Christmas wear or French attire... so this is the best I could come up with.

 

 

Wee wee! 

 

 

 

Goofy class picture.  Can you find her, I couldn't she had to point herself out to me.

 

 

On stage :)

 

 

 

 

Ahhhhh it was so nice!!  Next year our little school will be more than double in size. Literally!!!  It's an amazing place to be!

 

I've been helping the teachers out a little bit and have LOVED every second of it. 

 

Here are two of the most recent projects I've done over there.

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVE doing the bulletin boards.... seriously, my latest obsession!!!!  :)

 

 

 

Pretty girl!

I was playing around with my new phone camera.  I love these pictures.  Little missy is so much fun, so expressive, dramatic when necessary, always posing, always dancing, always singing.

 

 

Good times!