Easter Chicks

I always had chicks and farm animals growing up, but given our HOA, we aren't allowed to have big farm animals where we live. But for Easter I talked Rob into letting get the boys a couple of Easter chicks. I told him that they usually color them all different colors for Easter. So we headed over to the feed store and let the boys pick out a couple. They had a whole rainbow of colors. Landen picked a green one and named him Lucky and Boston picked out a blue one and doesn't really call him anything.

Aren't they SO stinkin' cute?! (The boys and the chicks!)

Landen and Auntie Autumn enjoying the chickies!

Blazer and Boston loved them! Until it pooped all over Blazer.

Tune in on Sunday for a fun Easter Surprise!

Disney, Disney

Well, Disneyland was a BLAST!

We were there from Monday to Friday and I'm reallyglad we decided to stay that long. It was the boys first trip to Disneyland and they loved every second of it. I took tons of pictures, way to many to put in one blog post, so I put them all in a slideshow on the blog if you want to see them.

I will just touch on some of the highlights while we were there:

-Meeting Mickey Mouse very first thing on the first day we were there. The boys were in Heaven.

- Landen's favorite ride: Finding Nemo

-Boston's favorite ride: Buzz Lightyear

- Meeting WALLE

-The boys feeding the ducks.

-Boston feeding his Hat to the ducks.

-The boys being totally pooped out after just a few hours!

-Thanks to some awesome friends and connections ;), having VIP seats for the Pixar Play Parade! It's where the celebrities usually sit, it was SOOO awesome! They characters all came and interacted with us.

Priceless.

- Getting their first set of Mickey Ears

-Playing at the Hotel Pool. They liked this Almost as much as Disneyland. Almost.

- Boston being a stud.

-Awesome hats from Grandma that, again because of connections, were under $5 a piece!!!

Disneyland 2009 Pics

Disney Fairy! HELP!

I need people's creative help!! I feel like the White Rabit cause I just don't have the time!

As you know, we are going to Disneyland next week, March 16-21. So I decided to make a tradition for our kids. Instead of spending tons of money on things in the park, each night when we get back to the hotel (we are going to the park 5 days) there will be a wrapped gift on each of their pillows from "The Disney Fairy", or whatever name we come up with. Yes, I said "we" meaning you readers.

THIS IS WHAT I NEED:

I need a cute little saying to go with each gift. It can rhyme or not, I don't care. Just something cute and clever. Not even all the gifts are Disney related. I also need to come up with WHO left the gift. It can be a different character each night or the same person (example: Disney Fairy).

Here are the items (they are in no particular order of what night they will be given):

1.Mickey Mouse hooded towel I made- this is the only one I have pics of.

2. Silly string

3.Disney books

4. Elephant and Lion stuffed animal

5. Donald Duck and Buzz Lightyear cups w/straws

Ok now get your creative juices flowing and leave your sayings and ideas as a comment. PLEASE, I know you are all very creative and I am very short on time!

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

A few more crafty crafts

These are a few of my projects recently.

My sis Cedar turned 13 on Feb. 28th and I wanted to give her something cool. So I thought a mirror would be good since most teens LOVE to look at themselves. So I decided to get out some ribbon and some knick knacks and this is what I ended up with:

I have been wanting to make some shadowboxes of the boys for a long time. Thanks to Hobby Lobby and their awesome sales I was finally able to do it. This is each of the boys suits they were blessed in.

They were so tiny!

I'm very baby hungry.

Good Job Rob!

This is a shoutout to Rob and everyone else on his soccer team.

Rob plays on an indoor league on Saturdays. They had the championship game this past weekend and they won....AGAIN!! This is the 2nd CHAMPIONSHIP IN A ROW these guys have won!

Good Job Rob and the rest of The Recruits!

Boys Room

If you know Landen, you know how OBSESSED he is with animals. Especially safari animals. He thinks he's an elephant. I hadn't done anything with the boys room, so I decided to give them a safari -type -theme. It's still a work in progress. But decorating can get REALLY expensive, so I got creative. I knew I wanted their names on the wall somehow, but to buy those "hanging letters" would cost me around $68 or so at $6 a piece. No way. So this is what I came up with, for MUCH cheaper!

I got the frames at Walmart for $1.50-$2.00 a piece, got on the computer and designed a safari background and printed it off, went to HOBBY LOBBY and got the scrapbook paper in zebra and giraffe print for under $1 total for all of it, and bought the matching ribbon on sale for $3 total and Wahla!

This lamp I got at Good Will. It was all white and plain (I should have taken a before pic) but the exact size and style I was looking for. So I used the leftover giraffe print paper and covered the lamp then added some ribbon for the finishing touches. It turned out pretty cute, as long as you dont look to close (lots of flaws!). But at least the boys are proud of their room.