Fireman Baby Shower

I'm so happy that I can finally share another big project I've been working on. I went straight from finishing the twins birthday to this shower for my amazing baby brother and SIL! My SIL's SIL and I had the best time coming up with ideas to reflect the theme my SIL wanted (my brother is a fireman, lol). I'm so very excited to have my first baby nephew to love on! My SIL's mom graciously offered to let us use her home and it couldn't have been more perfect! 
ENJOY!!

Cake Table

Aren't the burning buildings so cute!

Homemade Chocolate Cake with butter cream and fondant. The puppy I made out of clay

When you can't find the perfect napkin use ink and stamps on white!

The "FIRE" Chandelier was very eye catching!

Candy "Bar"

There are paper fire hydrants for guests to write sweet messages. Then they went into the black keepsake box!

Started his book collection

Keepsake box

Used Fireman theme clothes as decoration!

Write a silly message on a diaper to bring a smile to a tired new mom or dad!

Spray painted veggie cans for silverware holders!

Homemade Mac & Cheese, Sriracha Apricot Meatballs and Chick fil A

Cake Jars instead of cupcakes!

SIL's mom made this adorable wreath to welcome guests!

 

CONGRATS R and T!!

Craft building!

My husband is the best! For the last few months he has been working on building me a place to FINALLY craft until my hearts desire! It's been a slow process because of time, rain and heat. We are slowly getting there. Since he has the opportunity to work from home we decided to built one building with two separate spaces! This is going to free up tons of space in our home moving the sewing machines and craft items as well as give him a private work space! We have one door left to put on and then we are stopping to work on another building project (more on that in a later post). When we finish a small needed project we will resume and get the electrical going to it so we can FINISH! 

Here's what we have so far! 

I can't wait for this to be done! 

Checking In....

Hi Friends!! I finally have a few minutes to check in! We are having a jam packed summer! Between swimming, craft activities, meeting friends, party planning (stayed tuned because I've got fabulous pictures to show you in another post), exercise and TWO building projects it's been CRAZY!  

All the kids are doing great and growing like weeds!! The twins are getting so big!! Here's a few new stats on them...

1). They each have four teeth and are each cutting three new ones. You would never know though that they are even teething. They are the happiest babies I've ever seen! 

2). They are crawling and can get in a squat position. All they need to do is push up & they will be standing.

3). They do sippy cups during the day but one bottle before bed. 

4). We are still doing purées. They aren't big fans of chunky or finger foods other than puffs. They can pick them up using the finger and thumb but they haven't figured out hand to mouth yet. Barrett will eat/gnaw a vanilla cookie stick but Brennen isn't a fan. 

5). They both LOVE  two blankets when they go to bed. One is their birthday gift we had custom made and the other is a blanket my SIL 's grandma crocheted them. 

6). They are BUSY BUSY BUSY boys, lol!!! 

Custom blankets

Brennen with both blankets ans his fingers (he sucks his fingers with his wrist turned up)

Their cribs!! (This is a stock photo) 

They love their handled Nuk sippy cups and I do too!! 

Look at Barrett smile! 

Geez mom a little privacy! (Brennen)

Brennen with a full morning tummy.

Playing in their new play yard! 

Summer

The days have been flying! I can't believe it's already the 12th! We've been spending our days swimming, cooking/baking, taking walks before it gets to hot, Father's Day shopping and playing! We had a sweet little guest (my friends 4yr old) for a few days while his mama was in the hospital. I'm looking forward to next week because Riley is home for vacation!! We have lunch scheduled at Texas de Brazil to celebrate his birthday!! 

Today was craft day for Father's Day! Walgreens had white 100% cotton tshirts at Walgreens 4 for $10. I thought he could use them for around the house lounge/pajama shirts. I used picmonkey to design some transfers (if you try this don't forget to reverse them for printing). I printed them on freezer paper, ironed the freezer paper to the shirts, darkened the lines with a sharpie and then let the kids color them with fabric markers. They turned out so good!! I messed up on one shirt. I wasn't paying attention and ironed it upside down. Lol. Oh wow, Riley will think it's funny. The kids LOVED working on these! I had to make them promise not to spill the beans before Sunday!! This year Riley's dad is out of town so it will just be us. The kids are going to help me make Riley homemade banana pudding! 

If the weather is nice we plan to swim and grill bacon blue cheese burgers! Yum! 

Here are the shirts after ironing the design on and darkening it with sharpie. 

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Nautical First Birthday

 

Boys with D

C & D modeling birthday hats

In Lieu of gifts we asked our friends and family to donate to Ronald McDonald House! This was the truck full of items we were able to bless them with after the party!! Yay!!

Third Grade Graduation

Down two ceremonies and one to go! Today's was Brady's! I can't say enough how proud I am of our sweet boy! Last year he had a really tough year and hated reading.  We also discovered he had a speech problem resurface which was effecting his ability to read/sound out letters. So we immediately put him in speech therapy and what a difference it made. The school even had a meeting to see if we should consider holding him back to help his reading. It was decided we would work really hard over the summer and he would continue on to the next grade because of how his birthday falls. I am so glad we decided to push forward. This year was so different! His teacher was amazing and he had a complete change of heart on reading once he could produce the sounds.  He would come home every day and get right to work on his homework, which was a huge improvement from the year before. He fell in love with The Magic Treehouse books and I kept him well stocked in chapter books. He made A/B honor roll all but once this year. He also passed both the Math and Reading STAAR tests!! Whooohooo!!! At the awards ceremony today he got the Most Improved award and it was well deserved!! His daddy had made him a deal if he did awesome during the year and tried his hardest he would order him a HUGE lego set he wanted. So it looks like he earned that lego set!!! Way to go Brady!!

(I blurred or blocked out other children's faces. I'm uncomfortable putting other kids on my blog without their parents permission.)

Brady and his teacher