Father's Day

I was really proud of myself this Father's Day.  I really wanted to do something creative with the help of the girls since they are actually starting to get old enough to participate in the gift giving.  My first idea I had had for a while.  Bonus was when Paul mentioned he needed an updated picture for his work desk. I saw this on Pinterest back when I first joined and thought it was super cute.  Turns out I have just enough kids to make it work.

I found a picture frame that holds 3 5x7 photos and printed out one of each of them.

Cute, no?

Okay for whatever reason the next gift I made (with Morgan and Rylee's help) I apparently didn't get a picture of.  I will and I'll have to add it later.  I got this idea off of Pinterest also and knew Paul would love it. So do the girls.

This idea is genius and super easy to make.  I bought a plain white T-shirt and some fabric markers.  On her blog she has 4 pieces of paper you can print off that combine to make the race track/town and you can trace it right on!  

Since it is Father's Day I probably shouldn't talk about myself the whole time.  I have to say I really couldn't do this whole parenting thing without Paul. When I say that I don't just mean any husband/father/male.  I specifically mean Paul.  He does just as much if not more than me with the girls.  He plays with them, he bathes them, he feeds them, he changes their diapers, he sings to them, I really could go on and on and on.  I think the faces of those little girls above show how much we all love Daddy!

11/18/11: Another Pinterest Project!

Morgan's school papers are taking on a life of their own.  They are everywhere.  I had them in our family binder for a while but that thing is so full I can't spare the extra room.  I happen to find this project on Pinterest but I also follow her blog: iheartorganizing.blogspot.com. This blog makes me want to clean and organize the smallest of spaces.

One of her posts was about organizing kids school papers.  She offered some awesome free printables to go along with it. She set it up for K-12 but I also wanted to add some extra folders for Pre-K and younger. I bought myself these awesome file boxes with some hanging and tabbed folders for inside.  I just started and still need to print out some things but I imagine when I'm done it will be pretty spiffy!

Hooray for all things organization!

9/11/11: Pinterest Project #2 - Family Binder

I'm not completely finished yet because I have to run out and get a few items but for the most part it's done. I found this idea on Pinterest to create a binder with all our important family information.  I figured with me going back to work, Morgan starting preschool, and the numerous other things going on we needed to be very organized.  The binder ended up having about 30-some sections plus a section in the back for each month of the year.  We've got all our bills, kids, insurance, addresses, etc. in one easy peasy place.  So far it's awesome not having things scattered all over and not having to go to the basement every time we need to pull something out of the filing cabinet.  Yay Pinterest!!!!

8/1/11: Are you pinning?

www.pinterest.com

Because really you should be. Although it might be more of a time waster than Facebook.  Pinterest is basically a virtual bulletin board for everything on the web that you want to remember in visual picture form.  Recipes, organization ideas, kids projects, holidays, decor, etc. etc. etc.  What I've realized most is that not only does it suck away most of my spare time BUT it is a double threat in the fact that it takes my time now and also fills my time later with all these new awesome projects, recipes, etc that I keep finding. Still, I can't stop myself.

I mean look at some of these genius ideas:

Why haven't I thought of this?

Milk jugs with Christmas lights inside and markers to decorate.

Who doesn't want to eat little cookie reindeer!?!?

Let me know if you want an invite!!!