Yes I do still blog

There has been so much going on around our house since my last blog post. Which is why I haven't updated you guys since May. Here are the highlights.

1. We found out we are expecting again. We are scheduled to have another little boy on December 22. His name will be Jonah Preston. So far all of our ultrasounds have been normal. We are so thankful and excited for Jonah's arrival. Here is our latest ultrasound pic.

This was the biggest reason I haven't made a post in so long. I was sick my entire first trimester and then I got sick from a cold after I got over the pregnancy sickness. So I felt horrible for a good part of the spring and first part of the summer.

2. My nephew spent two weeks with us this summer once I got over being sick. That was so much fun and I wish I had taken some pictures. It was so good to just get to hang out with him. It was really different having a second kid around our house though. Who knew one extra person could make that many more dishes and laundry.

3. We decided to sell our house and move. So last month we put our house on the market.

This has been such a rollarcoaster. Two weeks after we put it on the market we had a contract on it. We were so excited and then we found a house we loved and put a contract on that as well. The next week all those plans fell through. The person buying our house didn't get his loan so therefore our house wasn't sold and we couldn't purchase the house we had found. So now we are back to showing our house again. And for those of you who know me this is difficult for me. I am not very good at keeping my house neat and tidy.

As for Levi he has seemed to not notice all the new things that are going on in our lives. He just keeps trucking along and growing like a weed. I can't hardly keep him in clothes. Thank goodness for Grandma Debbie and GG Juanita who just stocked us up on clothes.

So those are the major things that have kept me from this blog. Sorry to those of you who have been checking in and wondering what was going on (Kristen and Angie). I will try to keep up a little better now that I know there are people who actually read what is going on in our lives.

5-5-09

We had such a busy fun weekend I was worn out. I just sat around yesterday and watched TV and took it easy. Saturday I had a Pampered Chef show and then I went to scrapbook. This is one of the pages I got done. I can't take much credit for it. I completely lifted from this blog. I just loved the layout though and how springy it is. If you love it too you can still grab some of these papers at Just4Keeps.

Journaling reads: We keep you home during the fall and winter to keep you from getting sick. So we are always so glad when it is finally spring.

And we are so glad it is finally spring. I just wish it looked like spring outside. It has been raining for a week.

Sunday we celebrated Steven's grandma's birthday. One of her gifts was a scrabble card game. I was not very good at it, but she and Steven were definitely enjoying themselves. I just thought this picture of the two of them spending time together was just precious.

I hope you all had an equally fun weekend. Now I am off to get some stuff done around the house since I didn't get anything done yesterday.

I will leave you with a verse from my quiet time this morning.

"Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid nor dismayed . . . with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 2 Chronicles 32:7&8

Hopefully you will be strengthened by those words as well and have a fabulous day.

4-28-09

I took a little crafty time this weekend. Here is a card I made using Sketch #81 from the Got Sketch blog. There are some really great sketches on this blog that will really get your creativity flowing. Love it.

I know you are thinking that this doesn't look much like a baby card. I don't buy a lot of theme paper anymore so I was going for the green and cream color scheme to match this box that I made to put the baby gift in. Plus, I have just been digging on vintage lately.

Well thanks for peeking in to see what we have been up to. Hope you have a fabulous day.

4-20-09

I had a little creative streak this weekend. I found this great vintage image at http://www.scrapologie.blogs.com/ and I love it. She has some fun images on her blog. I am loving vintage images lately. I also used the CPS sketch for this week.



I created these two items for challenges at the Just4Keeps forum. Amber and I took that picture of ourselves on the ferry when we were going to Disney World when I visited her in December. We had so much fun.

I love using orange if you haven't been able to tell. This card was fun and fast. Except for the buttons it was completely made out of scraps. Even the white cardstock I used to make the card base was a scrap that was laying on my desk.

Now for those of you who read my blog to see what is going on with Levi and not just to see what creative exploits I have been up to. Levi had a rough week last week. He was really fussy and would get himself worked up and start breathing funny. I was not very excited about this and we had to have a couple extra visits from his nurse. But after getting some medicine in him and a little extra loving he was back to normal by the weekend. Thank goodness. He still is getting me up a couple times during the night, but I think I can learn to live with that. Here is a sweet pic of him Sunday at church. He is wearing an adorable t-shirt my friend Peta made him. I think he looks rather dapper and I can't wait to scrapbook that picture.

Fresh Strawberry Cake

With spring starting strawberry prices are great and this makes me happy because I love strawberries. With that in mind Steven and I made this amazing cake last night for our friends Brent and Marybeth. It was so stinkin good I just had to share. I found the recipe in a church cookbook from Arkoma First Baptist Church. It is my friend Sarah's grandma's recipe. Got love recipes that get their start like that.

Fresh Strawberry Cake

1 box white cake mix
1 box strawberry jello
1 cup oil (we used applesauce)
4 eggs
1 big cup crushed fresh strawberries

Mix all ingredients well and bake at 350 for time said on cake box. (I actually had to cook the cake for 45 minutes)

Icing
1 lb powdered sugar
3/4 of a stick of butter
1/2 cup of crushed fresh strawberries

Mix icing ingredients well. Pour over cake while cake is still hot. Take fork and punch holes in cake and let icing soak in.

This recipe actually takes a pound of strawberries between the cake and the icing. We capped the strawberries and then mashed them with my potato masher.

This was so yummy. I am pretty sure they might serve this cake in heaven.

Enjoy!

Happy Easter

Well, I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a lot of fun. My parents came up to visit and brought my nephew Logan. Unfortunately, they did not get here in time to go to the Easter Egg hunt at church so Logan had his own personal egg hunt in our front yard. Uncle Steven hid the eggs and then Logan went to town hunting. He is so sweet, he took all the candy and put it in my candy dish so he could share. He isn't really much of a candy eater. He prefers tomatoes (I am not joking).



Sunday morning we all went to church together. Levi wore his overalls Miss Marie got him for Christmas and his new cowboy boots. He did not wear the cowboy had to church. It would have been hard to get that hat in his car seat. We just borrowed it for the picture. He is pretty stinkin cute isn't he.



Here is a close up of the boots.





Hope everyone else had an equally great weekend. I should be off to pick up my house. We are having company for dinner this evening.

4-1-09

Well we are busy busy busy around here. Can't wait for Easter. That is our coming out date, by that I mean when Levi and I start getting to come out of the house. I still don't take him out tons of places because it is hard and he is getting heavy to lug around, but we will get to start going to church on Sunday mornings again. I am so excited about that. He has a super cute little overall outfit our friend Marie gave Levi for Christmas that he is going to wear with his new cowboy boots. Yes I will definitely take some pictures so everyone can see how super cute he is. He is starting to look like a little boy and not a baby anymore. :(

I have been doing a little crafty stuff here and there as usual. I finally finished the cart cover I was making for my niece so I feel free to do other projects now. I haven't figured out a good way to photograph the cart cover yet, when I do I will post a picture. I have been working on that thing forever it feels like.

Here is one of the cards I made for the Hippity Hop Easter class from Lisa Pace's blog

Steven thought I was silly with my sentiment, but I thought it was clever. Her stuff is so cute and fun to make.

This is a gift box I made. It is so simple and turns out so cute. You can get the template at the Got Crafts blog. I will definitely be making more of these. This one had a gift card in it for Steven's grandpa. His birthday was last week.

Around Christmas I picked up a new hobby, making jewelry. I wanted to make a few pieces for Christmas gifts. Now I am hooked. I have decided I like doing just about any craft project that I can finish in a couple hours. This is a bracelet I made for a friend's birthday. I am loving the pink and green color combo lately, as you can tell from my current blog colors.

I have a couple other things I have worked on, but they are either not finished or I just haven't taken a picture yet. We'll save those for another blog post. I did want to share a cool site I found the other day. It is called Simple Mom and she has some cool stuff on there. I was really impressed with her menu for the entire month of April and loved the discussion she posted about Facebook. Cool stuff, you should check it out.

I feel bad for leaving Steven out of my posts, but he is just up to his normal this time of year, getting ready for the Easter program at church. They always do such a great job with this program and I love that it is broken up in parts. It is kind of like a mini-series. Levi and I will be there with bells on. You should come too!

Well I should go get around and get started on the things I need to get done today.

Hope you have a fabulous day!