Pinterest Party

One Thursday night a group of us got together to complete a Pinterest craft and eat recipes found on Pinterest. We settled on making fabric wreaths. We each bought our own supplies (wreath frame and fabric) and prepped the fabric (cut it into strips). That night we just sat around and assembled the wreaths, talked, and ate. It was so much fun!! A few of us (the teachers) stressed in the prep phase but we can thank our Type A personalities for that! We plan on doing this each month, so I can't wait to see what's next!

Cut and ready to go!

The finished products. Three fall themed, two birthday themed, one rainbow, and an everyday!

Hard at work...

Our motto!

Mother Goose on the Loose!

Madeline and I have been attending a class at the New Albany/Floyd County library on Tuesday mornings with Anna and Emery. It's called Mother Goose on the Loose and it is free to any child 0-24 months. We sing, read books, and interact with nursery rhymes. Maddie is warming up to each part, and she definitely participated more the second week!

Summer Evenings

This is how we are spending our summer... Outside with friends, driving Power Wheels, and pushing baby strollers! We are loving every minute!!

Feelin' Artsy!

The end of January and month of February was a very "artsy" time in my life apparently. Recently we discovered a place that was called Sips-n-Strokes, it has since changed names to Uptown Art Uncorked, we prefer the first name. Basically you pick a class based on the painting you want to create, pay your money, receive a blank canvas, instructors walk you through creating the picture, and 2-3 hours later... Voila! Art!!

Oh and did I mention you get to drink wine while you do it?! Good times!!

I first took my mom for her birthday, we painted beach houses. 

 I went back the next night with my GNO group and we made a Fleur-De-Lis. (See the wine in the picture!)

And finally a group from school (including our principal!) went and painted a field of poppies. A lot of us have used the pictures of each step for writing lessons (minus the ones that include the wine) as a way to show sequencing, developing details, etc. So the whole thing has become multi-purpose.

If you haven't been you should try it, we had a great time each time we went. I hung the Beach Houses in our bathroom... still searching for locations for the other two, but I love having something I did!

Visiting friends!

The boys went golfing and Chrissie G and Ezra were headed down to visit Amie and Camryn so Madeline and I joined in on the fun!

 Maddie and Ezra

 Madeline, Ezra, and Camryn... it is INSANE trying to get all three of them in a picture!

 Loved this one of Ezra!

Maddie enjoying a cookie. 

Mommy note: Both Ezra and Camryn were great walkers at this point, little miss M still needed assistance from push toys. After this day someone started being more adventurous on her own. By Wednesday she was taking steps on her own across the living room!

Happy Birthday Camryn

Madeline's BFF turned one on August 24th. We celebrated Camryn last Saturday with a Hot Pink and Zebra themed party. Maddie had a blast. I loved watching her watch Cammie. She watched her attack, and I mean ATTACK the cake, and open presents. Hopefully she learned what she needs to do here in a few weeks!

 Camryn LOVED the cake.

 Ellie requested a picture with Maddie girl in Cammie's chair.

 Ashtyn wanted a picture too, and Miss Kaidyn snuck in.

 Maddie and Ash.

 Maddie and all the Big girls.

 The Yanez girls, sisterly love.

 Weebles! She screamed when this was handed off, and at that point she lost interest in opening presents.

 So Amie did the rest, with lots of help of course!

So excited!

Meeting Friends, Old and New

When I went to Indiana University I made some wonderful friends! Unfortunately they all live a little too far away to see all the time. My friend Katie, also a teacher, lives in Columbus, OH, and had a daughter in February. My friend Holly, a nurse, lives in Indianapolis and is about to leave to become a travel nurse. Her first location looks to be Wyoming.

In December Madeline and I headed up to Columbus to go to Katie's baby shower and for them to be able to meet little miss. Now that Holly is leaving we all wanted to get together so she could meet the girls and I really wanted to meet Paige. We decided to meet in Cincinnati last Friday because it was about a 2 hour drive for everyone.

We originally planned to go to the Newport Aquarium, but they have a stupid stroller schedule and we weren't allowed to bring strollers in that day until after 4pm. So we decided to visit the Cincinnati Children's Museum first, and then head over to Newport for lunch. The museum was ok, it would definitely be better for big kids. Madeline had a place to crawl around and push things so she was happy. But we were inside in the air conditioning on a hot day so that was good.

Flashback!

Tonight we attended the wedding reception (we skipped the wedding part, I didn't want to have THAT baby on the video) of an old friend of mine from dance, our mothers also work together, so it was a family affair. The best part was that it was held at the Culbertson West, where we got married almost 4 years ago. It was great to be back there after a few years and Madeline just loved all the sights and music. 

 Madeline and Grandma played and played. 

 She also chewed and chewed (Side note, we are working on our FIRST tooth)

 BIG Grins!

I had to have a family photo out in front of the house. This is where most of our wedding photos were taken, and I wanted to add a new updated family picture to the collection.

Gender Reveal Party

Tonight we headed over to the Wardlaw's for a party to reveal the sex of Baby Wardlaw #2. They had the technician stick the ultrasound photo in an envelope and then they passed the envelope off to Danielle and she made cupcakes for the big reveal. She would put a pink or purple candy in the middle if it was a girl and a blue or green piece in the middle if it was a boy. Bill and Brittney took the first bites and...

BLUE! It's a boy! :-) Congratulations Wardlaws!!!

We were wearing blue, I had a feeling this one was a boy. Check out Kaidyn's expression, she wanted a sister and was not excited about a boy at first.

PS-Totally stole the picture from Britt's blog because I didn't get my camera out the entire evening. Thanks Brittney!

Pajama Party

On Monday we headed over to Brady and Cooper's (The Day's) for the first official day of Winter Break pajama party. It was fun to get the Parkwood babies together and just hang out in our jammies all morning, make crafts, and enjoy great food!

Madeline crashed after breakfast.

All of the other kids played.

Kaidyn liked the train table.

Ellie watched some cartoons.

Sabrina held a baby (her favorite thing to do).

I grabbed this picture of Jill because she always takes so many pictures I wanted a picture of her! (And look, a camera in her hands, haha)

Ellie holding Camryn, Ashtyn holding Madeline, and Brady holding Cooper.

Babies! (And a few moms)

The Three Amigos

Happy baby!

Best buds!