Shutterfly

I love to send out Christmas cards every year but with all the hussle and bustle now-a-days having two kiddos, my days are planned out just right. I wish part of my day consisted of enough down time to sit and write all our cards by hand, but let's face it, that's never going to happen again!!

I could go to Walmart to print them or even to Walmart.com, but why would I want to do that when Shutterfly has such good deals and not to mention the best quality prints!! I have never used them for Christmas cards but I have friends who have and I love how they look. They have such cute designs! Click here to take you to their website to pick out your favorite design I will definitely be using them this year though!! Here are some of my favorites...

I love the quality prints I get when I use Shutterfly for my regular pictures so why not use them for my Christmas cards as well!?! I'm so excited I have already started working on getting them together!!

sneak peek of our 2010 fall pictures

Oh my word!! We just had our fall family pictures taken last night and can I say how amazed I am with them! I had Lauren Ames do them this year and she just did a fantastic job! These are the only ones I have seen so far so I will post the rest when I get them.

Please pray for this family

http://lesliejoyevans.blogspot.com/ My friend text me today and told me she found my missing younger sister. I then clicked over to the blog her family has started on her behalf. This has touched my heart and has been on my mind all day. I can't even imagine what this husband/dad is going through. (you should read the whole blog to catch up. It's only like 5 posts and they are short. Just to see what this dad has been through already) This family is going to be in need of our prayers. If you can stop and say a prayer that would be great! God is so good! So I have been M.I.A. for almost two months!!! Longest I have ever been out of the blog world, but I promise to be back soon. I am just going to have to do a make up post for August and Sept...A LOT has gone on! Hope everyone is doing well! :)

UGH!!!

making it from scratch

So it just bothers me to know that I am feeding my baby preservatives in his jar baby food, so I thought I would give "making it on my own" a try! It's soooo easy and so much better for them!

I mainly try to feed him the stuff that I have made while we are at home and then for convenience reasons, I grab a jar food for when we will be out and about during a feeding time.

For the chicken, I ALWAYS buy the Smart Chicken even for us to eat.

Boil it, cut it up...

Put it in the nifty little food processor I bought at a garage sale for $5 (LOVE this thing!!) AND...

I have chicken baby food!

I then put it in ice cube trays and freeze them.

(This is broccoli)

Then after they are nice and frozen I put them in freezer bags. They are ready to go now! All I have to do is pull out however many I want and warm them up and we're good to go!

Each cube equals one oz. of food. So it's easy to tell how much they are getting!

(this is sweet pots)

I also get the bag of frozen peas and carrots and do those together.

So easy and so good for them!

a visit from Grams

My grandmother came in town to visit and came over and spent the day with me and the boys. We had such a wonderful visit together! Sterling enjoyed her company and kept her extremely busy! Grams is extremely creative (I think Sterling gets some of that from her! And how come I couldn't have inherited more of that gene I don't know!) and she and Sterling made a bug catcher like she had made for herself at home. He also kept her busy playing games, reading, and telling stories. He has quite the imagination! I know Grams enjoyed every minute of it!

And, of course the, day wouldn't have been complete without playing play-doh for about an hour! Judson was getting a little fussy so she picked him up and rocked him for a just a bit and he fell right to sleep! This NEVER happens like that...must be a great-grandmother's touch! :)

The next night my mom decided to treat us girls to a movie! We saw "Love Letter's to Juliet"...perfect girl's night movie!

The 3 generations

Oh my word, it took us like a million tries to get this picture just right!! It was pretty comical! Good thing there was only like 5 other people in the theater and they were teenagers! And what night would be complete without some ColdStone Creamery! MMMM!!

She missed the silly face memo! Wait, now I missed it!

We love you Grams!!

Sunday school sweetness

Sterling cracks me up sometimes! This is what he drew in Bible class.

Let me interperet for you.

Him and his Daddy in the water with the boat next to them and the best is what he had to say! What a sweetie! :)