Recap of our week

So I know I have been horrible at blogging lately.  We have been trying get lots done and enjoy our time with Daddy before the fall semester starts.  This week has been busy, but I am sitting here trying to remember what we have been up to.  Ha.  I did have to work Monday and Tues. later than normal, but the payoff for that is that I will have Friday off.  Woohoo.  Last night we got a surprise visit from a friend from Birmingham.  I say friend, he was actually my Sunday School teacher way back in 7th grade with his wife.  They were always very involved with the youth (and still are...) and were a big influence on me.  He happened to be in town for business and he had last night free and offered to take us to dinner.  We had so much fun catching up with him and having a fun treat eating at The Elephant Bar. 
I have also been crafting and sewing too.  I have found so many ideas on pinterest, that I don't know where to start with all of the things I want to try.  This week I am working on making SK some things for the fall including a smocked top and a turkey outfit.  I have ideas running in my head for making curtains.  So many things :)
I have also been getting some great recipes off of pinterest too.  Wanna see what has been on our menu....

Buffalo Chicken Mac-n-Cheese
Want the recipe?  I highly reccomend it.  It made a huge casserole, so 2 meals worth.  It was delish too!
Here is the link.

Other things on my list to make tomorrow:
Homemade yogurt
Homemade Protein bars

So fun right :)  I am excited about the clothes I am working on for SK.  My plan is to finish them up tomorrow and hopefully have a blog on Friday with pictures of them being modeled by the lovely Sarah Kate.
That's if for now.  I am off to enjoy the rest of this naptime...

More on Alabama

I did not mean to take so long to blog again, but such is life right now.  This week has been filled with to-do lists, catching up, clean, sinus headaches, and just plain old busyness.  O well.  I haven't been feeling too hot this week, so I am just trying to keep up with life and working and such, therefore blogging has taken a back seat.

On to the rest of our trip.  I know most of you have probably seen the pictures from our trip on facebook.  I didn't take tons of pictures, not near as many as I should have, but we had so much fun each day.  It was so nice to be back at our parent's and friend's homes.  It was such a whirlwind of a trip and not near long enough to be able to see enough of everyone that we wanted to see.  We are so blessed with an awesome family and incredible friends that love us and care for us. 

So there are way too many stories to tell about the trip (esp. with my headache...), but I will try to tell some.  SK got a special treat of getting a slumber party at each of the grandparent's houses while Michael and I got to spend some time together with friends.  She had so much fun having that quality time with Mimi and Nana and Papa. 

SK is so blessed to have her grandparents.  She is so well loved and we love seeing her face light up when she is with them.  So thank you Nana and Papa and Mimi for loving our baby so much.  We love seeing her with y'all and even more than that seeing how each of you are helping us point her to Christ.  It truly blesses our hearts.

So I know this post probably is a bit jumbled, but that is the best I got right now.  We wish our trip to Alabama could have been longer, but had so much fun while we were there.

We also got to have our dear friend, Virginia take our family pictures one morning, which was so much fun!  We are so excited to have some new pictures.  It is fun to look back each year and seen how much SK has grown.  Thanks Virginia for doing such an awesome job!  We love them!

Hopefully I can get back to blogging more.  Michael is in between semesters right now so we are trying to enjoy this down time (somewhat down time at least...) as a family before the busy fall begins!

Alabama trip part 1

We are back in St. Louis after a fun filled week in Alabama.  We had so much fun I don't even know where to start.  To keep this from being a majorly long post, I am thinking I will do it in bits and pieces each day.  We left last Friday after Michael finished greek and I finished work and drove 8.5 hours to Moody, Al. where we stayed at our friend's poolhouse.  It was so fun to stay there and have a pool to have fun in.  The car ride went quite well with SK.  She watched plenty of movies, played her leapster and read and colored those whole way.  Plus we had plenty of snacks to keep us all entertained too :)

 This is how the princess took her nap in the car :)

Sat. morning started out with Mimi taking us to Cracker Barrel then some swim time with family and friends at the pool and finished off the night with some good Mexican with Nana, Papa, Lauren, and Jeremiah. It was a great day of fun and excitement.

 We went to worship on Sunday at Community (our home church) and eat a Milo's lunch with Nana and Papa then had some rest before heading to see Act of Congress (fun surpise to have them playing right down the road from where we were staying!) then had community group time back at the pool house!  (yep, we got to do lots of fun swimming)

SK with her "best friend" Maddie!

Ok, that will do it for tonight.  We are still getting settled back in.  Laundry to do, groceries to buy, things to accomplish before the fall classes start back up.  We have 2 weeks and a big list of things we hope to get done.   Hopefully tomorrow I will get part 2 of our trip.  Lots of pictures to come with telling more of our trip and some family pictures we had done while in town done by the awesome Virginia :)

Sweet Home Alabama!

We are t-minus 1 hour (hopefully) till we get in the car and head to Alabama.  I am not sure how much blogging will take place while we are there, but if I don't get around to it, just know I am having too much fun!  We are so excited to see our family and friends.  It is hard to believe 7 and 1/2 months have passed since we have been back.  Hope y'all have a good weekend, I know we will!
I promise lots of blogging when we get back to town.  Michael has officially finished up greek (took his last test this morning!) and we will have a couple weeks of recouping from that till fall classes start. 
Pics and posts to come sometime soon!

Fun Weekend!

Sk and her buddies at the Science center on Friday morning!

Playing in the discovery room at the science center!

This weekend has been quite a fun one I must say.  After our fun morning at the science center with some friends, we went home and got all dolled up (well, maybe just mommy and daddy, but Sk ended up in a cute skirt too so she could look like mommy!).  Michael and I celebrated our 5th anniversary on Friday.  Woohoo!  We were thankful to have a friend watch SK for us to get to go out for the night and celebrate.  We had so much fun trying out a new yummy place and just getting to enjoy hanging out just the two of us.  We haven't had a date all summer, so we were long overdue. 
Saturday morning was a lazy one, starting with sleeping in till 8 (even SK!) and then heading out to Soulard Farmer's Market.  We love this market and don't make it there often enough.  The prices are crazy cheap and really good produce.  SK got to pick a treat (strawberries) and went to town in the car chowing down on them which was fine since the carton only cost $1!
Saturday night, we were actually able to go out again (I know, crazy--2 nights in a row!!).  Another sweet friend came and watched SK and we headed to meet some friends to hang out.  We had fun getting to know them more and playing cards till after 10!  (2 late nights in a row for me--not normal at all!)
We have had a good weekend and are looking forward to heading to Alabama soon to see family and friends and have a week off from work and school here. 

Of course, I didn't take any pictures this weekend of us and our fun nights out, but got this one of SK loving her strawberries from the farmer's market in the car.  I will try to do better this week...

My sweet hubby got me these roses too at the farmer's market :)  Aren't they pretty!

Sewing like crazy :)

I know I have been pitiful on blogging lately. I guess we are just too busy having fun this summer :) We are continuing to get settled into our new home and loving living where we are now. I have also been doing lots of new projects lately too. So after finishing the shower curtain (ok, so technically it is not finished since I didn't hem it before hanging it, but maybe I will get to that sometime soon...), I have found some new ideas for SK I have wanted to tackle. It all began with this little website/thing (what do you call it???) called Pinterst. It can be quite addicting, but oh so fun. I have found so many fun ideas for recipes, sewing, crafts with SK, and just plain fun

stuff. So far, I have tackled 3 things...

First I finally tried my hand at these reusable snack bags. I knew they would be a quick fun project and easy. I also wanted to figure them out before having some friends over tomorrow night to show them how to make them :) I can't wait to make more of these. SK loved it too, which was fun. I used this tutorial, but came up with the idea to use a nylon material that was easily cleanable without having to thow it in the wash after every use. I have to give Michael the credit for coming up with using a shower curtain liner, and it worked wonderfully and was really cheap, considering how many liners I can get out of it!

The next project was for SK's new bathroom. I needed something for her walls to match the new shower curtain that I made. I came across this canvas at the free store that had something on it that didn't necessarily go with our decor, but add a little spray paint and some fun flowers and we have a free art piece for her bathroom! I got this idea here.

Lastly, I made this little dress for Sk today. I used this tutorial for it, which was super quick and easy too. After I made it, I realized it reminded me of something...Sk's nursery :) The walls were the color of that sash and had black and white on everything. I loved that nursery...anyways, back to the dress. So simple. You use a t-shirt and make a bubble skirt to attach. Fun right :)

SO that is what we have been up to this week outside of the normal stuff. I has been too hot here to get outside much. We are on the countdown now to our Alabama trip. Michael will finish greek next Friday and then we are off for a week of fun! No alarm clocks, lots of hugs and laughs, and good times :)

Were going on a treasure hunt...

So I decided that SK and I would have a girl's morning out while Daddy needed to do some Sunday School prep. We got up this morning and headed out to some garage/estate sales. Sk got her purse all ready this morning with her money (all of $2) and we set out for some "treasures" as Sk said. It was fun to hang out with my girl and see her get so excited to find some fun things. So after 4 sales, Sk spent a whopping .45 cents which got her a fun flower, a book, and a spin top thing. I spent $3.20 which got a lamp (with shade), a picture (I got for .10!), a mason jar, a cork board and a copper cake pan thing (I am sure there is an actually name for this, but I can't think of it...). I have some crafty ideas up my sleeves for these finds. I was happy to find the lamp since our dining area really needed better lighting and it seemed to be just the right size. After some hot glue and ribbon, I think it turned out pretty cute :) Maybe I will get around to the other projects this week and show you, but for now here's the lamp and of course, this blog would not be complete without a picture of SK, right :)

And, I might as well throw in one too of our fun last night at the seminary picnic. Sk had a blast playing in the sprinklers and pools and some swinging too! Can you see those dirty piggies! She was covered head to toe in dirt after that night, but she had fun and that's what is important!

We are loving living on campus, now if we could just get there weather to chill a little (hehe) we could enjoy some outside time some more.