psst I'm having a sale!

Just in case anyone isn't a fan on my facebook page, I'm having a sale this weekend (so ends tonight) for the long weekend. Just use the code SAVEBIG40 to get 40% off!!! Who doesn't like a sale?

Just head over to http://kristinscraftythings.etsy.com and have a look around. I've just added a lot of things the past few days!

Somewhere over the rainbow

Just getting a quick update in while Austin is finishing his nap (ok, maybe he's playing with his gloworm but he's being quiet still) We've had a busy few weeks. I only have 3 weeks left of my course, then I have to write my exam!! eek! kind of nervous. however all the assignments I've done so far have come back as 10/10 so maybe I shouldn't be? Plus, I got into a craft sale at a church last minute so I did that last weekend, managed to sell over half of the cards so now I need to make more. I only have a few birthday and no thank you cards left so I have to get busy! Our church craft sale is on May 8th, and the last day for my course is May 10th, so of course everything is squished in there. lol. I'm not too worried since I only have to finish up one assignment then read the next chapter and do that assignment.

Austing seems to be getting more words out. He says socks (sox) kind of says shoes, and I think he's saying what's that and points at things. Hopefully he gets a few more out there soon.

Today we weeded the garden in preparation to plant the bulbs I bought and Austin played with the weeds I pulled out...... until I made the mistake of showing him a worm. I thought, he's never seen one, lets see what he does. I put the worm on my hand and held it up for him to see. He walked over, bent over and looked, then picked the worm up and tried to eat it. Sigh. Of course I said no and took the worm away but he kept trying to find it in the dirt after that. I do have to wonder though what he would have done had I let him eat the worm. Can you die from eating worms?? lol. I know there is the book/movie how to eat fried worms, but still... no worms for my little boy!! (at least not until he's older and I don't know he ate it. lol.)

Well, I better get upstairs and get sleeping beauty changed.

an Update...

Yes it's been a while. I have been keeping very busy. I promise to share some adorable pictures of our little man.


Austin is getting bigger and bigger. I can't believe that somedays he's so big. it's crazy! He is babbling a lot more but also learning how to say words. I just have to keep reminding myself to enunciate words and encourage him to say everything now. He says mama, dada, uh oh, and just started saying - more, and grandma. I asked him to say please the other day and he gave me a kiss. I think that is a good alternative to please for now. lol. I keep asking though, can you say ______? Today I tried to get "fish" out of him however he only made the F sound of it.





Austin hates wearing socks. he keeps pulling them off all the time. However he doesn't just leave them lying around, he's been wearing them on his hands instead. It's really cute to see him trying to do things with socks on his hands.



Dave is home, back to work and we are settling into our ways again. I will admit, I do miss spreading out in bed some nights. lol. I'm trying to expand my cooking skills, we will see how that goes. lol.




Here are some pics of Austin. First up, some Easter pictures.


Austin getting ready to go out to GG's for dinner. lol.

















His super awesome pants.



















Not wanting to pose with Logan to see their matching cute Easter outfits. (this freak out was because Logan was touching him and also had some kicking and pushing of Logan. Poor Logan. lol)




















Cutie Pie!















Egg hunt!!

Chilling with mommy's sunglasses.

Trying to put on his rubber boots.




































Yay check out my good job!

















And, some videos for you.








101 in 1,001 update:

There is a lot to update here...

First, I finally set up my etsy shop. I don't have anything in it yet, but it's set up. the address is http://kristinscraftythings.etsy.com/ I have also set up a blog with pictures of my current craft things, it's http://www.creations-by-kristin.blogspot.com/ Feel free to check out the blog and leave some feedback!!

I've read 3 more books. I read Dave Ramsey's Total Money makeover. We are working on doing a money makeover in our house and hopefully this will help us out.

I also read Water for elephants by Sara Gruen. It was a great read and I loved the story.


Last book is Still Alice by Lisa Genova. It was a good book, however incredibly sad. Glad I was done it but like I said, I did enjoy it.


I also just started the Hour I first Believed by Wally Lamb. So far it's really good.

*We went to the Zoo a few weeks ago with My cousin Sarah and her kiddies. We had a blast that day. Only one more zoo trip next year to reach my once per year goal.

*Last week My mom, my grandma, helen and I went into Toronto to see Jersey boys. I loved it, so much fun!

*I bought myself flowers last week, just cuz. AND they are still alive. woo hoo!

*rearranged our bedroom.

A nice day

Even though Austin wasn't here last night I was still awake by 8:30 this morning. Dave went to get his tire checked because there was a leak and I laid in bed and caught up on 2 episodes of Parenthood. I really like that show!! Then We got Austin and met Sue Chris and Owen for lunch. Came home and Austin napped while I did homework and Dave unpacked some of his clothes. Then we had Dave's parents and Brian & Korrinne over for dinner. I made a yummy butter pecan cake and a cheese dip for dinner. Everything is all cleaned up and we're just relaxing. We were watching Cars before Austin went to bed and it's still on. Dave is watching it through closed eyelids while I type this. I'm going to head downstairs in a few minutes to finish up my organizing of the craft area so I can get started on scrapbooking etc for the Craft Sale through the church.

Growing!

I really need to get on here more often...

Tomorrow is Austin's 6 month birthday!! I will make sure to get some pictures and get them up here with his 5 month pictures. I am going to try and remember to take the pictures a little more than 30 min before bed...sigh. I did a huge load of laundry yesterday. It took me 45 min to fold it all. I got out all of Austin's 12 month clothes. Some of his PJ's are getting a little small (he's ripped the seams out of 3 sleepers in the past month!) and Dave's mom bought him a 12 month old outfit to keep at their house and it fit him perfectly. Austin also wet through his diaper and we had to wash the blankets sheets and matress pad so that did account for the load being slightly larger but 90% of it was his new clothes. The downside to him being in 12 month clothes is that a few pairs of shorts went into the too small box today. Some of them were 6 months and there are a few 9 months shorts I have to try on him and see if they fit before they get put away. It's just too cold still to put him in shorts. I am kind of excited to get him dressed tomorrow though because now we have a whole new wardrobe to pick from!! What shall we wear??

Austin has spent the weekend recovering from carpet burn on his forehead. It's kind of funny. He's been trying to crawl and his arms will give out on him and his head will hit the carpet. Then when he gets really frustrated that he's only going backwards he will put his head down and try to kick his feet. I'm sure it hurt a bit but once he stopped doing it and it started to scab over it didn't seem to bother him at all. I think he's also going to do yoga. He's been putting his head down and raising his bum up in a downward dog sort of pose. I will try to get pictures of it tomorrow if I can. So adorable.

I have been keeping up with my reading. I decided I wanted to read Jane Austin since I've never read anything of hers. The library only had Mansfield park and Emma. I chose to start with Mansfield park. I'm a little confused and having a hard time staying with the story. I will keep trying though! I also just picked up 3 more books at the library so I will be adding them to the list.

We had the craft and yard sale at the church this past weekend. It was a disaster. We got all set up and the day seemed like it was going to be good. Then the rain came. It got so bad that everything was soaking wet and we were packed up and home by 10:30am. I was selling pacifier straps and home-made cards. I sold one card and one strap. Totally not fun. I have been working for a few months making cards and straps... I will just have to do another craft sale!!

I'm excited to announce that I have kept my car free of garbage for 23 days now!!! I don't think my car has ever been clean that long. Although I will have to wash my windshield. Tonight I hit the straw of my slushee and it flung slushee on the windshield. It's not so bad that you can notice it but I should still clean it.

Happy may!

Wow, It's May already. I have been falling behind with my internet stuff. First there was easter, then I had a card workshop, then I went to a all day card making event and then next thing you know it's May.

This past weekend I had my cousin's baby shower. I would say it went over fairly well. I think I may have planned too many games. I found so many games that I want to play at another shower, possibly with a younger crowd. I know that my great Aunt's wouldn't really appreciate some of the games I wanted to play. (although I was getting the feeling that some of my great Aunt's weren't appreciating the games we did play) But over all I'm sure that the mom-to-be liked it and most people had a good time, even if the taco dip never did make it to my place.

This weekend coming up is the church craft and yard sale. I have been so busy every night after Austin has gone to bed making cards for the sale. I want to try and have aprox 60 cards to sell so I have to go through and figure out what I have. Unfortunately I don't have any mother's day cards which I think would have sold well. I may just have to make some.. and yes, I know I'm running out of time!! I'm just in the middle of packaging up the cards I have made so far. I bought zippered sandwich bags from the dollar store and I'm going to put a card and envelope in the bag and tape it up so it's tight to the card. That way there if it rains, something gets spilled or lots of people pick up the cards to look at them they still stay in half decent shape.

I've decided to quickly update tonight and I think tomorrow will be a strictly work day when Austin is sleeping. No watching TV (even though the new episode of 90210 is waiting for me) no surfing the computer and no chatting. Work work work. Thankfully Dave is off Friday so he can help watch Austin while I work if needed (I'm hoping to have it all done by then) Friday is going to be busy. We just had my car in for it's annual service a few weeks ago and they checked the brakes. Ever since then whenever I brake they are squeeling. Every.single.freakin.time. It's starting to drive me nuts. When I called to make an appointment to have them checked again I was told it's just coincidence since they didn't do anything. Really? then when something happens and you don't cover it under my warranty because it wasn't checked then I'm going to flip because part of the annual maintenance is to check the brakes. I really want to go down with Dave to fight them on it but we have our stroller fit class from 10-11:30 and the appointment is at 10.

101 in 1,001 update: I have read 3 more books, The manny, Every boy has one and umm.. I can't remember right now. Also, my car was cleaned out (ok, not by me but...) It's been almost 2 weeks and it's still clean! I can't believe it. It's definately a record! Also I will be working on the walking for at least an hour a week goal because of stroller fit on fridays now. I've been trying to take my cloth bags with me shopping for a month but once I get them in the house I forget to take them the next time and I haven't put any bags into my car. We have enough bags now (I've managed to gain 5 re-usable bags in the past 3 weeks for free!) so I am going to keep at least 2 in my car... maybe more. I just need to get into the habit of returning them to the car and taking them in the store. Maybe I will keep them in the cargo netting on the back of my seats. That should help me to remember them a little more often.