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Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did NOT find myself singing an inappropriate song to Eli as I was changing his diaper the other day. If I had been singing a song to him...it would NOT have been a modified version of Play That Funky Music White Boy! It did NOT go a little like this:

*Change that funky diaper white boy*

*Change that funky diaper right*

*Change that funky diaper white boy*

*Lay down your booty and change that funky diaper till you die*

While I was NOT singing that song to Eli, I was NOT reminded of the Friends episode where Ross sings Baby Got Back to Emma! I then did NOT start singing that inappropriate song {only in my head though} either!

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Eli has NOT totally been living up to his nickname of Hoover lately! He has NOT been constantly eating every single speck and spot that he can find on the floor. He is also NOT completely tearing up my floors by pulling up the polyurethane coating and then proceeding to put it in his mouth like it is a yummy treat! I am NOT concerned that their may be more floor in his stomach than actual food sometimes!

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We did NOT take our first trip to the beach after church yesterday! I did NOT have to go with all three boys by myself {well Mandy helped a TON} because Jason ended up working all weekend! We did NOT have a blast anyway! While we were NOT at the beach:

Eli did NOT eat a ton of sand!

And I {technically it was Grant who did the flashing, because he was the one pulling down my bathing suit top!} did NOT flash a few unsuspecting people {including Tracy and Mandy}!!

I did NOT go to bed last night thinking that I wasn't sunburned very badly, only to wake up the morning with major lobster legs! I did NOT neglect to put suntan lotion on my legs while we were at the beach. That would be silly, because legs get sunburned too!

Photostory Friday: Cookies for My Cookie Jar!

I decided that I needed to bake some chocolate chip cookies to add to my SUPER cute cookie jar that I made for Heidi's Monthly Craft Challenge. After two different stops at the store last night, I had everything I needed to make a massive amount {a double batch....one for the cookie jar and one for my friend Karen*} of SUPER yummy cookies! The baking started at 9:00 pm and ended a little before midnight! There is nothing better than late night cookie baking!

I think my new cookie jar looks even better now that it is full of SUPER yummy chocolate chip cookies! What do you think?

* Please remember my friend Karen and her family in your prayers today. She found out yesterday that she had a miscarriage {her second 2nd trimester loss in less than a year}. Just remember her family and pray that they lean on God during this extremely difficult time!

Hosted by Cecily and MamaGeek

Mongrammed Flower Pots

Monogrammed Flower Pots

I made a stencil by printing out the "W" on paper. Then I placed it under some contact paper and cut out my stencil with a craft knife. I {with Jason's help...definitely need more than two hands for this step} carefully placed the contact paper stencil onto the pot. I used a craft pen made specifically for writing on terra cotta to fill in the stencil. I peeled off the stencil and cleaned up a few edges that were rough. I think they turned out really cute...now I just have to remember to water the plants so they don't die!

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Monthly Craft Challenge: Monogram

I am participating in Heidi's {@Blue Eyed Blessings} Monthly Craft Challenge!

This month's challenge was MONOGRAM!

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Appliques

I currently have an obsession with appliqueing! I just realized how quick and easy they are to do and how SUPER cute they always turn out! The first picture is a shirt that I made for Eli with some leftover fabric. The second picture is a bag I appliqued for my sister for her birthday! To do both projects, I simply printed out the letter on paper, spray glued it to some interfacing and then the fabric, cut out the letter, and used the zigzag setting on my sewing machine to attach the letter! SUPER simple and SUPER cute!

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Wooden Letter

I picked this wooden "W" up at Kohl's for less than $15. I know you could cut out and paint your own, but this was so much easier! Okay, so I didn't really craft anything here but it is still a monogram and I think it looks really good!
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Monogrammed Flower Pots I made a stencil by printing out the "W" on paper. Then I placed it under some contact paper and cut out my stencil with a craft knife. I {with Jason's help...definitely need more than two hands for this step} carefully placed the contact paper stencil onto the pot. I used a craft pen made specifically for writing on terra cotta to fill in the stencil. I peeled off the stencil and cleaned up a few edges that were rough. I think they turned out really cute...now I just have to remember to water the plants so they don't die!

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Etched {well sort of} Glass Cookie Jar

As soon as Heidi announced the challenge last month, I knew I wanted to try this project! I end up procrastinating until the last minute and didn't really end up with what I had hoped for, but it turned out pretty cute anyway!
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{I actually bought a different cookie jar, but I dropped it and it broke into a million pieces. I found this one the other day when I was at Walmart for a little less than what I had spent on the original and I like it better too!}
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I used the tutorial that Heidi linked the other day. I printed out the letter, taped it to the inside of the jar, attached some contact paper to the outside, traced the letter and removed it, then applied my {sort of} glass etch medium. After I applied it, I realized that it said "glass etch look" and that it wasn't really etching the glass! Oh well, after two attempts it turned out looking pretty good. Now we just need some cookies to put in the jar!
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Go check out Blue Eyed Blessings to see everyone's MONOGRAM creations!

Wordless Wednesday: Everybody Say Cheese!

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And the winner is...

CONGRATULATIONS TO A JOYFUL CHAOS!!

{ The winner has been emailed and has 48 hours to respond.}

Thanks to everyone for entering!

Family Day at the Farm

On Saturday, we went to Family Day at the Farm. It was supposed to introduce farming and agriculture to kids and the community! There were a bunch of booths and demonstrations...we made butter, milked a 'cow', made plant people, saw real cane syrup, petted a few animals, saw how to make homemade soap, and a ton of other really cool agricultural type things! It was a beautiful day to enjoy a fun {and free} outing with the boys!

Cute balloon corn stalks!
Henry milking the 'cow'! Henry pointed out that it wasn't really milk...it was just water!
Grant took a turn milking the 'cow' too!
The boys got to see a SUPER cool spider among a ton of other really disgusting dead insects and bugs!
They got to check out the fire truck...
and try to rope a {fake} bull!
Grant climbing the fence in the horse arena!

Henry with his chicken balloon.

Eating their ice cream that they got {free} for milking the cow!

Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

We are NOT loving the summer!



After my posts about food the last few weeks, I did NOT decide that even though I am happy with what we eat at our house, maybe we could broaden our horizons a little and try a few different things too.

I did NOT take an adventurous trip to Target and roam the isles looking for some interesting {but still yummy} food! I have NOT found my new favorite snack! It is not NUTELLA! I have NOT eaten an entire jar of it by myself in the last two weeks! It is NOT delicious, and I have NOT been sitting at the computer eating pretzels dipped directly in the jar of Nutella!

On my adventurous trip to Target I also did NOT buy all of the ingredients to make hummus. I did NOT actually make the hummus, but then end up throwing it away because the smell was SO BAD! I did NOT put way too much tahini {a weird smelling sesame paste that is only for the very brave} in my hummus, making it basically inedible! On my next trip to Target I did NOT just buy some premade hummus {which didn't smell like feet and was actually very tasty}!

I am NOT just a little glad that VBS is over! We had a great time...but VBS is NOT a ton of work, and I was NOT just a little exhausted by the end of the week! I was NOT SUPER excited that three little girls walked the isle at church during the early service {and I think a few more during the late service} because they had gotten saved during VBS!

I did NOT have an AWESOME time Saturday night with my girls! Girls Night Out is NOT the best stress reliever ever! We did NOT have a great dinner and then we did NOT spend about two hours roaming around Target making way too much just a little bit of noise! I did NOT talk Karen into buying some Nutella....and I don't think she is now in love with it too!

I am NOT going to remind everyone one more time to enter my GIVEAWAY for a SUPER cute personalized beach towel! The giveaway does NOT end tonight at 10 pm Central Time!

What were you doing...

...two years ago?

That is the question that Heidi at Blue Eyed Blessings has tagged me to answer.

Well, I was probably doing LAUNDRY!

Or giving my filthy child a bath spraying him off with the waterhose to get all the mud off of him!

Honestly I don't remember this particular day because Grant LOVES to get dirty and probably did this at least twice a week the whole summer! And he actually still ends up looking like this most days that he goes outside to play if there happens to be a mud puddle in the yard!

So what were you doing....

Now, it's my turn to tag FIVE of my blog readers asking them this same question - What were you doing 2 years ago to this very day? (or at least as close as you can get) Share some photos and your memories of that day 2 years ago. Add it to your blog so all of us can see your answer and then tag FIVE more people to keep the ball rolling.

Tracy @ Simply Smith

Alicia @ More Than Words

Carrie @ Martin Manor Happenings

Jennifer @ Momma D and Da Boyz

Jill @ Sneaky Momma