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Our garden is surviving, though its had a few hits. We ended up with a ton of tomatoes and it seemed the only thing left to do with them was to can. Canning tomatoes is kind of fun but messy, since tomatoes squirt. They turned out looking nice. Canning recipe from Well Preserved, which you can see in the background there.

I think we can all agree that chalkboard paint is the coolest. There are so many projects you can do with it. I guess this one is more artistic than useful. It took some work to keep the kids from destroying it before it was finished. » Read More

Gorgeous birthday gift for me, Essentials of Baking. I love cookbooks with pictures! Mmmm make my mouth water. I haven't made any of the recipes myself yet, however, I have tasted some of them and they are quite good. Maybe I will actually learn to cook now.

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I don't have baby girls, but I have nieces. These onesies are the gift I gave my baby sis at her shower. The shower, by the way, was totally fun. Thanks to everyone who help me put it on, and to everyone that came! I have often lamented that I can't buy girly dresses, yet here I had a opportunity to and didn't. I thought personalizing onesies would be much more thoughtful and unique than picking a random dress from the usual places. Or maybe I was too lazy to drag myself and my kids to the store, haha. Oh, life.

My little sister and my mom made my wedding invitations for me. I never forgot that. I'm sure my sis didn't either, now she's getting revenge. She sent me a list of invitees that had 80+ names for her baby shower. !!!! Apparently we're going to have quite a party.


I've never planned a shower before, and I'm glad to have help from others (for better or worse). We're getting ready to have one pretty party for one pretty baby girl.

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Yo Gabba Gabba. The show kind of scares me. But the music is good. It was raining earlier. We put on the CD and danced. Like really danced. No distracting video, just dancing to the beat. This is good work out for mommy and make babies tired :)

The Music

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Boys and Band-aids go hand in hand. With all the playing and bouncing around, I've had a lot of injuries to kiss better just in the last 24 hours. Sometimes when my kids fall and start to cry I just roll my eyes instead of being the concerned mom. I'm so bad. But you can't always take the site of blood too seriously. Hope they get better soon.

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Here's a look at the Mother's Day craft the Nursery 'kids' made for their awesome moms.

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A little paper therapy. Been saving some ol' cans to use as containers. I use some plain and simple used cans with their paper cover torn off to hold my paint brushes and things. While I like the silver of the uncovered metal, I had some pretty paper and it spruced these cans up nicely. I just needed a happy paper craft to do that only takes about 2.3 seconds. A little glue and Bam! I think it makes a real nice decoration.

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I'm not complaining. I think its adorable. Ephraim thinks that his Leap Frog Math Circus video is about his brother, Math. How cute is that? Being a mom is so fun (aka not). Oh my gosh, I'm boring! Sorry, I've been so sleepy lately, yawn!

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