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Monday, March 25, 2013

easter bunny!

saturday, evan went to see the easter bunny. he LOVED it!! he had seen the bunny from a distance earlier that week when we went to the mall and really wanted to go see him, but he wasn't dressed for the occasion on that day. so we put on a bright polo saturday morning and took him.

he immediately wanted to just walk up to him and once it was his turn, that's exactly what he did. he held his hand, let the bunny play with ramone (the car he brought), and just couldn't stop looking at him and touching him. i was worried that he wouldn't want to be held by him so i insisted that we wait until they were ready with the camera. well, i was worried for nothing because once we sat him in the bunny's lap we struggled to get him to look at the camera for the picture because he was just smiling up at the bunny and hugging him- he really did love that bunny!

sunday morning he asked to go see the easter bunny again. when we told him that it was sunday so we had to go to nursery and church today and couldn't see the easter bunny again, he fussed. he talked about the easter bunny this morning in the bath tub. i'm telling you, the kid loved the bunny.

this was great if for no other reason than the bunny photo but the fact that we are going to disney next week and plan to meet as many characters as we can makes it that much better! now we know he will like them too!! i can't wait.



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

kw's shower

as you all know, i spent all last week seriously cleaning my house. i like to think that i keep a pretty clean and tidy house but this was deep cleaning. i did it all in preparation for a wedding shower being held at my home this past saturday for one of my sorority sisters from college. my sister (biological and sorority) is one of her bridesmaids and hosted it with 2 other bridesmaids/sorority sisters. here they all are:

paige, lyndsey, katie w (the bride), and katie n

it was so fun to help them pull it all together. the house looked so pretty- they did a great job with the decorations. there was a lots of yummy food and everything just looked like a perfect little party was about to happen (and it did!)




katie's new last name is going to be hoy and her fiance is in the coast guard so it was "a-hoy" themed with lots of pinks and blues too. the favors were cute little messages in a bottle with candies and a pinwheel (which my katie made). we ate a yummy lunch and they even made boat shaped popsicles for us to all enjoy at the end!


we played some fun games, wrote down date ideas for her, and of course got to see her open all of her loot- she got a lot of great gifts.



it was just a really wonderful day. i am thankful to have been able to play a small role in it and am looking forward to playing piano in her wedding this summer (post baby). i wish i had more occasions to host things at my house! if anyone is looking for a place to have a small party, just come on over (i probably have most of the supplies you need already!)


Tuesday, March 12, 2013

disney prep

three weeks from today we will be in the magic kingdom! i cannot wait!! first of all, i love disney world. it is the happiest place on earth. but way more important is the fact that this will be evan's first trip there and i am just beside myself with excitement over taking him.

so i wanted him to get excited too and i know the best way to get him to learn anything is through a book. the boy has 4 books completely memorized (insane, i know, he's 19 months old) so i made him a book titled "i'm going to disney" and filled it with pictures of practically everything the magic kingdom has to offer. here is a pic of the front and the back covers:


i felt like i was back in 5th grade making these. i had all the stickers and the paper just in my craft stash from various free-be mailings/scrapbook efforts and i was just putting stickers everywhere! (you can't see the inside covers, they are really sticker-riffic!)

so it started out that i was just going to print out 36 pictures of various things in the magic kingdom that he would especially enjoy. but, in my typical style, nothing can be that simple. so i spent ALL. DAY. MONDAY. making 36 little 4x6 scrapbook pages of everything in the magic kingdom on word. here are some screen shots from my phone of a few of the pages (i will spare you the complete 36)



every page has a complement page in the same color, but i didn't line them up that way when i made them... don't ask. and yes, the book is set up as you would travel around the park. and yes, i did include the princesses, because i plan to use this book for future children and/or future nieces/nephews, hence the lack of personalization in the title. these are just a couple of examples of pages. i downloaded a trillion different fonts for the book and of course, the most time consuming task was finding the pictures i actually wanted to use.

so was the book worth all the effort? well, all morning evan was begging to go to staples (where i had the pages printed) so when i got the email saying it was ready around lunch, we went right away! i cut all of the pages down to size, put them in the book, and handed it straight to him. he LOVES it. his current favorite pages- the railroad ("ride that, ride that") and the mickey mouse page. he keeps saying "go there" and i keep telling him- we are! i am even more excited now that he is excited!