Shower & Friends

Here are some pics from my shower last weekend. It was soooo fun! Check out this super cool blanket Belinda made me! We are so blessed by our Church Family!


Another favorite is this froggie humidifier given by Barbara and Jackson! How fun is that????

Pregnant Friends! :)

Dani came into town on Sunday and we had a blast running around town, telling old stories (and she let me talk about the baby as much as I wanted!), swimming, and we went to visit Jeni on Wednesday. At Jeni's we had a great time at her beautiful cottage home--seriously, it should be in better homes or something! So should her cooking.... :) Anyways it was such a fun time to catch up! Here's a pic!

Fudgey's Back

Remember those t-shirt quilts I was making a while back? Remember how I said how great it was to clean out the closet and be rid of all those shirts we never wear? Well, I didn't mention that I saved the scraps--traded in the shirts for several bags of cut up shirts. So, tonight I decided to put them to good use. These pants were soooo easy--seriously! And the bibs were pretty simple too. The 2nd one I made a little bigger, as I have heard that little people can make big messes.

Finger Painting

Inspired by Erin's post, I decided to try a little finger painting today. Try this with your sugar cookies. Our baby is too young to help, but I am sure kids would love helping with this, or just eating them.

Put cookie dough on pan and flatten each cookie (or make a big pan-sized cookie and flatten it out well). Cut a design out of wax paper (heart, star, letters, etc....) In a shallow dish, sprinkle some cinnamon and sugar. Lay paper on cookie and use your finger to "paint" over the design.
The following recipe is great for doing this since the dough is a little oily. It is also really, really easy.

My Husband's Favorite Cookies
Whisk the following together:
2 eggs,
2/3 Cup of oil (canola or vegetable),
2 teaspoons vanilla &
3/4 Cup sugar.
Now stir in:
2 Cups flour (all-purpose),
2 teaspoons baking powder (or "powders" as my Meemaw likes to say:))
1/2 teaspoon salt.

Chill about half an hour or longer. Scoop onto pan; sprinkle tops with sugar (or fingerpaint them as mentioned above).
Bake at 400 degrees.

Swim, Swim, Never Give In!!!!!

We're back home after spending some time at Camp teaching the Lifeguard class. We had a fun week and great weather! Only one cold day and the rest were HOT! No wetsuits, no raincoats, no blue lips.... No snakes either (although David did have an encounter with a fox who was chasing a cat.) The class did great and look like Olympic swimmers now thanks to Coach Dave's expert training. They did great at "the pond" too--the water was super low, so that made it pretty gross--lots of slipping and sliding in the mud and attacks from weeds. This was our 7th time to teach the class together! Time flies! We didn't get any pictures, so I added a picture of my mom-in-law at a swim meet last year. How fun is that???

Mr. T didn't help with the class--he went to puppy camp and had a lot of fun. We brought him by Camp on the way home and he got to play a little for old times sake. No getting muddy though--we skipped the creek and popsicles. Anyone remember Word of the Day with Mr. T?


We have a shower this Saturday and only about 2 months til the Baby's estimated arrival. We had a good Dr's appt. yesterday and then fun at Family Night with live music and the cow. We came home and swam some laps after that. The baby loves it and is going to be a swimmer for sure. Flip turns here we come!!!