Help is Needed

My dear friend Kris is trying earn money to go to Peru with her sister on medical humanitarian trip. She is having a Pampered Chef catalog party:

Now, here’s the cool part. I am going to have a mystery host. For everyone who places an order of $30 or more, your name will go in a drawing and before I close the show, I will pick out the winner who will be the host and get all the free products, ½ price items, free shipping, and 10% off for a year. Now, the bonus about doing this in January is that the host special is 50% more free products than usual. So if I have a $500 show, instead of $90 in free product, you get $135. Make sense?

Also, as always, I will pay ½ of the additional shipping if you are an out-of-stater. For those interested the current guest special is: spend $60 and get the mini-serving spatula OR the slice-n-serve OR the large serving spatula for free.

I have to close this show by Monday at the latest so I can use the awesome January host special for our winner. So please let me know soon if you have questions, need a catalog, or want to make an order. You can also see the products at www.pamperedchef.com.

She is also making these super crocheted flower clips:

So if you want something leave a comment and I will get you Kris's email address. She can make them however you want- color, size, etc. Help her raise money!!

And I had to steal the cutest picture ever of another friend Kris and her adorable girls sporting the flowers:
Kris is getting so busy with her new photography business- and she should, she is amazing!! Isn't that photo precious?! Check her work out too.

Food Fun and a Little Photo Shoot

Our cute little Everett is just getting bigger and bigger. He now LOVES Cheerios and he is proud of himself that he can pick them up and eat them without any help. I love this smile.

While I was feeding Everett the other day, Jamison came and sat in a chair right next to him to talk. I thought it would be fun to see if Jamison could give Everett a few spoonfuls of food. Man was Jamison loving being able to help- he adores being a big brother!

I keep trying to get this cute picture of Everett with a towel on his head. I think I might have been able to achieve a good shot. He isn't the best model to work with now that he is mobile. I just love naked babies!! Mine have never been 'chunky' babies, but I love the little rolls.

Then I talked the boys into going to park today so that I could get some new updated pictures. I need a new picture of Spencer to put on my mantle. They did OK, but it was a bit cold, so they did a lot of whining. I didn't get a great shot of the three boys together but I did get a few of Spencer- my big 7 year old boy!!

My Baby

I did 2 new layouts today (and yes I did work and do laundry!) that I wanted to show off. The first one are some pictures I took of Everett with the Christmas tree lights. I had this vision, and I think it turned out pretty good. I could not keep them out of his mouth, but hey he is only 8 months old and everything goes in the mouth still. I just did this layout for a speed scrap. I changed a few things that I didn't like, but were instructions. I really like how the layout turned out.


This second one is to show off Everett's latest moves. Down below is the journaling on the layout.
I think Everett has mastered the ‘army crawl’. He can very easily get from one place to another. Spencer likes to get Everett to follow him. I just thought it was so funny to see Everett sticking his toungue out while he crawled. The drool was all over the floor. He can get his legs up underneath him and rock back and forth, but he has yet to figure out how to put one leg and hand forward at the same time to achive the full crawl. However we all know it will only be a short time until he does figure it out and he will be all over the place.

New Years Eve

We kind of celebrated all afternoon and then late into the 'morning'. Because our friends Robb and Kris were leaving for the Dominican Republic on New Years morning we did our count down at 6pm. The kids had a little sparkly juice, cheered glasses and yelled Happy New Year. Then we left shortly after to let them go to bed.

On our way home we stopped and grabbed a sitter, then went to another party. Chris and Jolayne hosted a 'rockin' good evening. We did a little game playing, gift exchange and some Rock Band. I have never played before, but it was so fun!!

Finally at 1am we thought we had better go and get our poor little babysitter home. Happy New Year!!