Little Whittle

So, after thinking about my previous post, I figured I should post where I got the vinyl. My sister works for a company named Little Whittle Vinyl, and you can visit her website at  littlewhittlelettering.com . (sorry I don't know how to create a hyperlink).  She has a whole gallery of graphics you can choose from. I think my next venture would be each state in different colors on my wall in the basement. Fun huh? Anyway, she also can draw up custom orders. Let me know what you think!

Polka Dot Polka!

Okay, So i have the most creative family. Everyone creates amazing things, but this one I was so lucky enough to reap all the benefits. Joanne is in North Dakota and has made a friend with a girl who does vinyl. Well, she has wanted to branch further than boards with words on them and stuff like that. You all know what I am talking about right? So, she and Joanne got talking one day and Joanne is helping her expand her horizons.

Joanne came in town this week. In anticipation of coming in town she called and asked if she could do one of her "sample rooms" for me! Hello, I was thrilled. So we thought of ideas. Mostly I wanted polka dots, Joanne envisioned more, she had the bird idea. I told her my conditions were the colors had to be unisex.... and that I totally trusted her and her skills.

This is what she came up with. She mingled the birds with the polka dots and made it all cohesive! I absolutely love it. When Kate came in for the first time, she said, "WOW!" It was too cute. Taylor loves having her room all decorated. Although I did wake up this morning with Kate coming to me with a big blue dot in her hand. I went in thinking that was the only taken off, but no there was a a nice even row of dots in the corner. After threatening them with... obviosely something that will not work, all my children promised not to touch them any more.... Needless to say I had to take the picture today so I could record what it looked like if any further creativity got sparked by my children!

Taylorina Katerina my soon to be ballerina

Taylor doing her "ballet." I told Taylor I would teach her "dance class." She is so excited even though she knows I know nothing about dance. Any suggestions? Well, I told her we would get a book and we could go through it together... Today however she just wanted to dance. My mom came over with 30 yards of tulle to make tu-tu's and they turned out so cute! Kate hasn't taken hers off all day, she loves it.

Luckily for my girls there was enough to make a tu tu for their mommy! I wasn't brave enough to sport it out for the picture and the girls didn't want to stand up, so this worked out better!

Kate adores her sister, as I have mentioned previously and was so excited to put on the same thing that Taylor had. I love watching these two.

Kate in the middle of her "tweel" as Taylor would say.

You Are a Yellow Crayon

Your world is colored with happy, warm, fun colors. You have a thoughtful and wise way about you. Some people might even consider you a genius. Charming and eloquent, you are able to get people to do things your way. While you seem spontaneous and free wheeling, you are calculating to the extreme. Your color wheel opposite is purple. You both are charismatic leaders, but purple people act like you have no depth.

What Color Crayon Are You?

A cut and paste from Heidi's Blog. I edited it a bit. Glimpses into my time in Vegas..

Kathy using her amazing talents to fix my forever thought to be retarded nails. Unfortunately I have bitten them all off. I will have to wait til they grow out again to try her filing method.
Jordan with his cousins, Mckelle and Madison pulling funny goggle faces.
He finally learned to swim....

Little sweet Ellie Jo! She is such a tender little girl.
Nice jump, Mckelle!
Night time hot-tubbin'

Ryan and Mike tease each other about having "kissing cousins" we'll try to keep it to hugging

Aunt Heidi and Taylor!
One night, we watched Narnia and Ella Enchanted on a projector outside on their basketball court! It was perfect temperature! Oh, that night was so great--so FUN!

Here's cute Tay-Tay and Jo-Jo! Bestest Cousins!

Here's just one of the times we decorated cupcakes! Kathy bought all the "bells and whistles" to making decorating cupcakes so fun!
More swimming....
....and night swimmng!.....
Madison- can't you just tell in her face how much fun she's having? I love it!
We were so sad to have this week end! But the girls, like I posted earlier got to have a blast out on the town!

My sister in law and her girls in their new back yard! They just moved to vegas and were so happy to find grass. You must know it is about as big as you see there! So tiny, they went from an acre in Indy to this!

~Me and Heidi~

I am so blessed to have you in my life.

Here we are at dinner at Claim Jumper--YUMMY! So here we are at ... LUCY!...My new favorite store!

Of course we HAD to take pictures! We couldn't believe all we purchased. So fun! So girl-like!

Oh, did I mention our TWINNER SWEATSUITS? Did we feel silly? Not a bit... well, I didn't anyway. But this was SO my kind of night! Good food, good friends, good clothes...

Okay the reason for so many bags is partially because we had to put the clothes that we came into the store in something... that gave us each an extra bag.

At first Kathy thought a disguise would be better...

You know when you're shopping so long that you just end up looking at everything? Even after you've finished up the transaction? Well, that happened to Heidi... We were all done, about to leave--finally--and then Heidi spotted them...."refreshing citrus towelettes" ...she started rubbing the tester all over her arms and neck...Mmmm....it smelled soooo good! Then I and Kathy noticed what I was doing, and looked at the bottle she was pulling them out of, they weren't for bodies, but for yoga mats! I didn't think they'd hurt her, but she still decided to RUN to the bathroom to wash it off. ...In our comfy, matching sweatsuits...we're finally ready for a good chick-flick!This was such a great night! A great memory made! I love you guys!

Sisters

All my life I have had best friends all around me. My sisters have taken care of me and loved me and I have done the same for them. Kate adores Taylor. Taylor mostly takes great care of Kate. Kate wants to do EVERYTHING that Taylor does. She wants to push the stroller, hold babies (stuffed animals) wear a purse around her arm, do her hair etc. Sunday they wore matching dresses, I guess I should have taken pictures of them for this post, but oh well, take what you can get right? They are excited for a new baby in the house, Jordan of course is hoping for a boy, but oh, sisters are priceless. It fills my heart to see Taylor and Kate enrich this relationship.

Mmmm. Something smells good.

To be finished around March 25.