Valentines!

                     So as a small child my mom made every special event and holiday memorable and I loved it. Now its not so much fun because I have a legacy to live up to and with her creative mind it is hard to be creative and come up with good ideas just like she did for us. But with some help from family fun, I was able to make Autumn's Valentines day unforgettable!

I strung pom poms up with some needle and thread. These were sparkly pink and purple for her. I then attatched them to the top of the door with push pins. This was also all done at night so that when she woke up on valentines she would wake up to the sun hitting these and be completely surprised!

Another View

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As much as I would love to take credit for the cupcakes, my mom actually made these for Autumn for Valentines day. They were her present to Autumn and the cupcake stand was her present to me......She still has the magic touch!

However! The valentines that you see under the cupcake stand was all me. I had these in a trail all around the house starting in Autumn's room and leading all the way down stairs to her valentines day card and present which was a purple and pink unicorn pillow pet (there is no picture becuase she would not unhand that thing!)

I loved this card so much so I had to take a picture of it. This was our card to Autumn!

For dinner I prepared a DELICIOUS pot roast, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy and a salad. This was more for Jon than for Autumn, but she enjoyed it as well. And for myself there in those glasses is Dr. Pepper which is the key to my heart ha ha!

This is another view of the dinner table that night!

I wish I could have gotten a better picture of this, but this was our desert for the evening. This was a simple Great-grandma thing that I was taught and it is so simple yet so good. It is a twist on strawberry shortcake. Instead the cake that you see is actually twinkies. I then chopped up fresh strawberries and mixed them in a strawberry sauce. Top with whip cream and chocolate sprinkles and you have yourself one happy three year old!

I Got A Job!

                  So as if school and being mommy was not enough for me, I decided my plate was not full enough and went and applied at my favorite clothing store of all time, Maurices! Jon and I have been doing extremely well financially but we have plans for this summer for a lot of rennovations in our lives and we wanted to start paying off our Jeep completely and saving up some extra cash! We both decided that I should go back to work at this point, not just for money, but to give me an opportunity to get away from being a student or mother and having some time away. I was so unsure about it at first, not that I dont like to work but just that I guess I was worried the house and family would die without me............I was SO wrong, life goes on, but now I have a happier demeanor and I love coming home and being with my husband and little girl. Not to mention I LOVE working at Maurices. It is like a dream job for those who love clothes, and just ask my closet, I so love clothes. The hard part about this job is going to be trying to bring home a paycheck without spending it there.
                    Working again also means Autumn going back to daycare, which was actually the most hardest thing for her and I to do. This past eight months or so we have been together every day, so it was hard to have to take her to someone else and trust her with them. Luckily my sent from heaven Daycare provider was still available. I do not know what I would do without Elaine. She teaches Autumn so much and she just puts my mind at ease. Plus we run our houses a lot alike so there is no confusion for Autumn. Autumn had a hard, HARD time the first day back and did not want me to leave but once she remembered all her friends there, she begs to go there everyday! I love it.

My Little Gymnast!

                Once again I am so slacking at updating this thing, which is no good because I sometimes forget about what I want to put on here and then my poor blog suffers from that. But anywho in other news we have a lot going on and all of it started just this month!

                My little three year old Autumn is now a gymnast. She started a program that is called gym-n-dance at our Recreation Center here in town and now is a dancin', and cartwheelin' fool! There is thirty minutes of this that is devoted just to dance. The first half of the dance class is tap dance and different manuevers and the second half of the dance class is ballet, which Autumn just cannot get enough of. She loves wearing her little ballet slippers and jumping and spinning all over the place. The first day of this she was so excited and could not wait to get away from mommy and daddy and then about fifteen minutes into the class out came miss Autumn with her teacher saying she was scared. My heart just melted. So I walked her back to her class and did the stuff with her. She whispered in my ear "I thought I was doing gymnastics" I then explained that first she does ballet and then she does gymnastics. Her eyes lit up as she exclaimed "ballet just like Angelina Ballerina!?!?! (A cartoon mouse that does ballet). I said thats it and then she was gone again telling me to leave the class that it was just for girls and not moms. Ouch! Then the second half of the class is all gymnastics. They do tampoline and tumbling and watching all those little preschoolers is the cutest and funniest thing I have ever seen. They all try so hard and they are all popping their little bums in the air trying to flip over and raising their hands over their head with such enthusiasm when they have landed a move! Autumn absolutely loves it, she is getting so many new friends and learning so much just like her awesome nieces Calli and Cienna! And at the end of it all, she finds it "awesome" to get a stamp on her hand and a treat for her hard work!