The Keeper of the Paci!

The other day {after Jason had to search for Eli's paci twice during the night because his two current paci keepers had gotten old and lazy} I decided to make a few new paci keepers for Eli! These things are a life saver, and I love that I can make them any color I want....as opposed to being stuck with just the blue ones you buy at the store.

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PACI KEEPERS 101

AKA The Easy Baby Gift You Could Ever Make

Gather your materials:
Fabric
Covered Button Kit
Rick Rack or Ribbon
Badge Clips {found in the office section}
Hot Glue Gun

Lay the fabric over the covered button kit, then add the button and gather the material.

After you gather the material, you snap down the covered button kit.

With just a little snap, you end up with a SUPER cute covered button!

Next, you add a little hot glue to the back of the button and attach the ribbon or rick rack. Then add a little more glue to attach the clip part of the badge to the back of the covered button.

Then you take the other end of the badge clip and thread the ribbon or rick rack through the hole in the plastic piece. Fold over the edge of the ribbon and hot glue it into place. And you end up with the cutest and easiest baby gift ever!
Eli modeling his new SUPER cute paci keeper.

Fun and Fantastic Four!

We celebrated Grant's 4th birthday this weekend with a SUPER fun POOL PARTY! Grant's beach ball birthday cake
Sunbathing bears....cupcakes for the kiddos!
The birthday boy is all smiles before he opens his presents!

Hmmm....I wonder what this could be?

Lots of presents and cards to open!

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For some reason I never get any good pictures of the kids actually in the pool, but there were about twenty kids splashing, playing, and having a great time!

Grant had a great birthday! He was so sweet and so excited about his party, and more than once he said that he really liked his party and all of his presents :)

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Happy 4th Birthday Grant!

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.

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This week was NOT a SUPER stressful one for me! We did NOT have a ton of things going on that almost drove me to insanity by Saturday afternoon. I am NOT feeling just a little better today,and I am NOT hoping that this week is a little more calm {yeah right!}.

Jason did NOT have to go out of town for three days before Grant's birthday party...leaving me with the lovely task of making sure that everything was ready for the party! This did NOT stress me out beyond belief, forcing me to turn to a big tub of ice cream! I did NOT eat the entire tub of Blue Bell ice cream by myself during the three days that Jason was out of town. Ice cream does NOT make me feel better...and does NOT seem to make stress just a little easier to handle:) {It's okay to eat ice cream for dinner after the kids are in bed, right?}

I did NOT let my almost one year old climb up the stairs this week because I was just a little distracted on the phone. I did NOT attempt to get Henry to save my escaped child only to have him 'help' by letting him fall down the stairs! I did NOT freak out just a little thinking that my child could have some serious injuries from falling down 6 steps! He was NOT fine and only had a few little marks where he rubbed his back on the carpet on his way down the stairs!

We did NOT attempt to buy a car this weekend....and I did NOT get SUPER mad because things just didn't seem to work out timing wise for us! We did NOT finally get things straightened out, and I will NOT be getting a new car in two or three months.

Despite all the stress of this week, we did NOT have a great time at Grant's 4th birthday party on Saturday....and he was NOT the happiest four year old around!