Reindeer Rootbeer / Beer

I made up these "Rootbeer Reindeer" for Molly's gymnastics teacher gift. I saw the idea over at Fingerprints on the Fridge and just had to make them. I think they are so super cute!

I made some to add to my brother Scott's gift too, but used Guinness instead.

I just wrapped brown pipe cleaners around the tops of the bottles, and twisted smaller pieces around to make antlers. Then I hot glued on googly eyes and red pom poms on, easy peasey!

Peronalized Lap Tray

This weekend I have been crafting like crazy trying to get a lot of the Christmas gifts I am making done. Here is a tray I made for Molly. Last year my sister gave her one and she LOVED it, but after using it nonstop it broke.

So I bought this plain pink tray with my coupon at Hobby Lobby. Then I just used paint markers I borrowed from my mom to write her name and a few fun flowers. I think it turned out great, and the paint is totally washable and waterproof.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

This year we truly have a lot to be thankful for. Amazing healthy!!! children, and a family, friends, and community that have shown us unbelievable love and support. Thanks!

Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

For lunch we celebrated with Randal's side of the family, and had a wonderful time. Molly had a blast crafting with her cousin Heidi.

And Nora played so hard, she laid down ready to sleep in the middle of the living room floor!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Thanksgiving! We are heading out to dinner with my family, and I am so excited. I love Thanksgiving, and am so grateful we get to see our families today. And, I am looking forward to games, movies, corndogs and the Raspberry Stoli tradition. :)

Harry Potter Party!

Since the amazing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 movie just came out! I thought it would be a perfect time to show you the Harry Potter Halloween Costume party we had. I'll have to get a picture soon of the invites so you can see the fun wax stamp we used.

We made a common room with Gryfindor and Slytherin tables.

Decorated with fun signs used in the movies, We had a wall with Umbridge's Decrees on it too, but I didn't get a picture.

The Leaky Cauldron was a lot of fun. We even made Butter Beer(adult and kid version), Polyjuice Potion, and Pumpkin Juice. For food we had a lot of fun Hogwarts style snacks, including chocolate frogs!

Randal was Professor Quirell. For all you babywearing moms, yes... that is my Moby Wrap on his head. :)

Everyone who came had the best details to their costumes. They were truly amazing. Our friend who dressed up as Luna Lovegood had these great Quibbler's to hand out.

We all got sorted into one of the four houses, and that was the team you were on to complete your O.W.L.S (Harry Potter Trivia).

TEAM GRYFINDOR ( Arabella Figg, Trelawny, Luna Lovegood)

TEAM RAVENCLAW (Ron, Lavendar Brown, Professor McGonagall)

TEAM HUFFLEPUFF (Harry, Hermione, Professor McGonagall)

TEAM SLYTHERIN (Tonks, Tonks!)

Even Cedric Diggory came to the party, complete with his Hufflepuff scarf and Potter Stinks button.

Turkey Crafts!

We have been having a lot of fun doing Thanksgiving and fall games and crafts this week. I haven't been getting many pictures, but I did snap a few of the turkey crafts Molly made.

Molly loved gluing the paper rings onto the plate in this one! I saw this fun craft over at A Mommy's Adventures. We still have to add the yellow legs. :)

This craft was a blast. It doesn't look the prettiest, but was so fun to make. Molly colored a coffee filter with washable markers and then sprayed it with a water bottle. After it dried we folded it in half and made it into a turkey. Molly loved making this so much, she ended up making 8 of them! Now we have a whole turkey farm in our house. :) This craft idea came from Funny Days With Mommy and Maddie.

We've also been doing a ton of the fun activities, songs, papers, and games from Moo Moo's & Tutus great Thanksgiving Tiny Teach FREE Download. It is AWESOME!

Turkey T-Shirts!

Check out the fun Turkey T-Shirts I made for the girls to wear on Thanksgiving!

I loosely followed the tutorial from Nancy's Couture to make these fun shirts. But I used the turkey pattern from the Silhouette I won to make the stencil, and used a black fabric marker for the eyes.

I made the one on the left for Molly, and a matching little one for Nora on the right. I think they turned out super cute! I was going to have them model them for pictures, but with my girls the second they put them on stains will magically appear. :) So they have to wait until Thanksgiving!

Turkey Hair Clip!

I saw these adorable Ribbon Turkey Hair Clips at a craft fair and knew I had to make some for the girls for Thanksgiving. For this one, the ribbon is just hotglued to a alligator clip covered in brown ribbon. For Nora's I glued the turkey to a headband like I did HERE for the spider one. Her hair is still a little to short for an alligator clip to hold. I'll get a picture of hers tomorrow when she wakes up. :) And I'll show you the super cute turkey shirts I made!

(PS- Anyone know how to glue on gluey eyes without burning your fingers with hot glue a million times ;)