More family pictures...

oma, opa, and aiyden at the playground...

latest knitting on the round loom. i think it's cute, riv said it looks like a blossom hat. if anything, it would be really cute if it were smaller for a little girl. maybe a new item in the etsy store.

great grandma berte reading a book to aiyden, and he was really liking it!

about to go down the slide like a big boy!

the next set is aiyden's first time playing in a pile of leaves. i never thought about before we got here but we don't really get piles of leaves where we live so they were a lot of fun for him!

Thanksgiving!

we had an awesome thanksgiving meal and tried many new recipes this year! martha stewart came thru with the spatchcocked turkey in the november issue. This is by far the best way to cook a turkey, i will never to it the old ay again! we cooked a 12 lb. turkey in 70 minutes and it was the juiciest turkey i've ever had!

following with martha's suggestions, i decided to make an apple pie and cut maple leaves out of the dough for the top crust. mom and i searched everywhere for a leaf cookie cutter but we couldn' find one so all the leaves were hand cut. it looked beautiful and was very delicious. i also made my first homemade cheesecake but i didn't get any pictures, it went fast!

luke-dog, just chillin...

great- grandma berte and aiyden playing patty cake...

family photo, it's been a while since everyone was together. we took like 10 pictures trying to get the perfect one but it was so cold and windy on the porch. this was to best one... perfectly imperfect.

sporting the sunglasses...

aiyden really likes his jackie o's...

Fabric Mat Framing

I got these prints from August Eve on Etsy. I love the earth tone colors paired with the imaginative, dreamlike images! Anyhow, I've been waiting to get frames for the prints and realized that i had two frames in the closet with no mats. I have a ton of scrap material so I covered the back board that comes with the frame with a navy/green plaid, laid the print on top, and no need to buy new frames! I like the muted fabric with these prints but I think a bolder fabric would be a great contrast with some black and white photos.

on a side note: the toddler bed lasted for two nights and the crib rail went back on. Not ready for that one yet!

PJ's and a Big Boy Bed...

oma got these cool pj's for aiyden. he loves cars and walks around rubbing his belly saying "car car car"

we're going to try out the toddler bed! he sleeps much better in a real bed and wants a pillow so we'll see how it goes...

he got really excited when he saw it and climbed right in

next project, homemade wall decals. i think it's going to be a shel silverstein theme. any other ideas???

Milk Crate Toy Storage

So, toys have become the bane of our existence! I think we've done good about not letting them take over but still, toy storage has become a much googled topic. It is insane how much you can pay for toy chests and bins and cubes... even ikea didn't come thru for me! So, we resorted to the ever popular (and free) milk crate. Spray painted them blue and brown and anchored them to the wall. Total cost: $5.07 for spray paint. And I think my client is happy with the results!

Pics from halloween

I just realized that i didn't post pics from trick or treating yet, sorry! So, overall, I don't think aiyden was too traumatized by halloween. We were at oma and opa's house so we went around the cul de sac. it was rainy so i didn't get too many pics. The first house was decked out and had talking zombie thing that scared the crap out of aiyden! It took a couple more houses to recover from that one. He then realized that people were giving him candy so they would offer something for his bag and in return he would pull some candy out to give them! So cute!