Tell me Tuesday -LINK UP!-

Last week was wonderful. We hit over 100 LINK UPS!!!  Thank you all SO much who participated. It truly means a lot to see our little linky grow!! 
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dear beautiful

Do you have a blog....A favorite blog?? The one that as soon as you see they have a new post your heart flutters in excitement??!! That is how I feel about Lucy and her beautiful blog at dear beautiful.

the DIY dreamer

Um ok, this picture could not be any cuter!! I LOVE IT

and those cookies look pretty yummy as well

 family home and life

mouth watering deliciousness right here....

violet imperfection

Thanks Leslie...I will TOTALLY be making one of these SOON

for my Lil Miss. 

 nap-time creations

Valentines is SO close...and I think I may surprise my sweetie with something this sweet!

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Pioneer Woman lasagna

The Pioneer Woman has met our house again.

This time while I was visiting my family back home we decided to whip our lasagna up together. Ember was such a big help. . . ---She was only up there for the picture!!---

We decided to make them at like 7 at night. So we wrapped them up to freeze and eat another day.

Mom and Dad could never eat theirs alone and neither could Jayson and I. So mom and Dad will invite grandma and grandpa over and Jayson and I will go to Heathers and share with her Betsy and Derek!!! 

 We served it up with garlic bread, salad and corn. Ty and I LOVED IT!!!

Heather and Betsy also gave it n A+.....Jays and Derek didn't get in any pictures but they went back for seconds ;)

5 months baby girl

Ember is 5 months now.

She is so curious about everything.

Always reaching for objects. 

Staring at new faces and places. 

She is actually a bit camera shy.

She is all smiles every moment of the day....

then I put the camera in her face and she gets serious and curious.

She doesn't know what it is 

so she stares fascinated by it. 

She has perfected her rolling skills. 

back to belly 

and 

belly to back 

with no problem

Loves baths 

Loves eye contact

Loves being sang to

GREAT napper

Ok sleeper through the night

great eater

I haven't started Ember on cereal yet. 

I know the normal is around 4-6 months.

I keep putting it off....thinking she is too small.

But I think we will start in the next week or so. 

She is ready. 

Watches some baby einstein.

LOVES snuggles by daddy mommy and ty

Already has a funny personality.

and the cutest chubby rolls 

I have ever seen.

TEll me Tuesday. LINK UP

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Tell Me Tuesday!

I loved so many links from last week..

Here are my favorite...

but don't forget to check out Tori's features..

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and our guest hosts

the first year blog 

and

la petite lulu 

 with a blast

 inspiration cafe

 southern scraps

 tales of a trophy wife 

 whats cooking love

 we like to learn as we go

 meeha meeha

 

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Tuesday 1/22

Pioneer Woman Me

A while ago I mentioned Jayson got into the pharmacy program in Colorado...Yup looks like were moving to Denver. I am so beyond excited for this new adventure for our family. We will be living there for at least four years, most likely five or six. 

With that being said, its still OK for me to be really sad too right?
My family and I are very close.
My mother, two sisters and sister in law...I don't even know how to describe them other than saying they are angels. Besides Jayson they are my best friends.

We tend to get together a lot for craft days...cooking days...sewing days.
When I start to think about missing out on these memories I get rather sad. 
Picturing them gathered around laughing and giggling with out me...I feel so left out. 
Don't get me wrong, I am so happy to be moving and want them to continue to do these things even with out me...Just the thought makes me sad from time to time...

Now with that being said my wonderful sister Lauren thought of an idea.
We are all in love with the Pioneer Woman... 
So once a week we will all be taking the same recipe...making it...taking lots of pictures...then of course blogging about it. 

Yay, I wont be left out. A simple fun way to stay connected. 
My family rocks right. 

We decided this week to start off we would make meatballs.

I hate touching raw meat. Seriously I gagged during this whole process. 
(but I knew the end result would be worth it)

This step was a little fun. The meatballs looked like snowballs. Ty wanted to eat them like this. I had to convince them they were ewwie and we needed to wait for them to cook.

This step...I was glad I had a apron on and stood back.

Drizzled the sauce on and ready to put in the oven.

Both kids stayed busy while I cooked, Ty played in the sink with soap and water..and Ember slept.

Pioneer woman suggests to put it with noodles, so I did just that...added some toast and corn and we were set!

Even my picky eater loved it. Just not me snapping pictures in his face.

I was all excited and telling Jays about how we will be doing this once a week....
he smiled...and said "how about every day?!"
haha 
I think he loved it! 

hop scotch DIY

I got this lovely idea from the fabulous A girl and a glue gun blog.
Pretty fantastic right!!???

My niece LOVES hop scotch. So this little beauty is what I made her for Christmas! It was so easy and way fun to make. As soon as the kids went to bed I whipped up the front. (the hop scotch part). 

The red felt is just over two yards long

 The number sheets are the pre-cut felt pages

 The actual numbers I traced out of white felt I had by the yard

The dots are just extra felt I had laying around

All hot glued on

 The back has tic-tac-toe on it!! So fun.

The Pieces are 3" by 3" squares of felt 

with the X's and O's sewn on

The white grid is hot glued on

 Jayson and I played a few games just for fun!

I also put a matching game on the back side. I use to love these kind of games so I hope Allie does as well.
Everything is hot glued on here as well. 

 

The only bad part about the matching game is its hot glued down so after they play it a dozen times they will have it all memorized and wont be as fun any more....next time I would probably just give them the pieces separate so they can shuffle them after each game.

I think Ty is going to miss it, but its in good hands. When he is big enough to play with one ill make him one as well!!