A Date With Tron

I come from the first video game generation. Atari anyone? So my brothers and I LOVED the original Tron. Yes it's slow moving (to today's standards at least) but it was just so cool. I knew my son Sam would love it too. He did. So when the new Tron movie came out I promised him I would take him. We finally went yesterday. Was the movie good? It was okay. The best part? Spending a few hours with my Sammy ♥.

Merry, Merry Christmas!

Just want to wish those who celebrate a wonderful Christmas! It has been quite a week filled with celebrations and each one has turned out great. And we're not through yet! We are actually packing up right now to leave tonight to visit family in Southern Utah. It will be a nice cap on a fabulous week.

 Have a wonderful weekend, and here's to New Years!

Christmas Tree Card Holder & an Anniversary!

My Christmas Tree Card Holder tutorial is now at Moda Bake Shop! Go check it out, yay!

On another note: 14 years ago today I married this wonderful man, Chris. 

We have been through so much together, but I'm just glad we've been together. I love you honey!

One Wonderful Week!

 With Christmas on Saturday, I'm sure this will be a busy week for everyone! I know I have lots of last minute things to make, things to buy, things to send, things to wrap and things to do. But to compound the busy-ness I also have my daughter's 2nd birthday tomorrow (the 20th) and my 14th wedding anniversary on Tuesday! All I can say is what were we thinking getting married so close to Christmas? And my poor daughter is always going to get the short end of the stick having a birthday so near to Christmas.

In order to simplify things we are going to go to our favorite local restaurant, Ruby's for Charlotte's party. We'll just have family and her friend, Lily. Along with Lily's family whose mom is my best friend. I won't have to worry about decor or going all out (like I tend to do:). It will be fun.

Not sure about the anniversary...it's nice now that my son is old enough to babysit. Probably just dinner and movie! Which sounds wonderful as we havn't had a chance to even do that in a long time. I'm thinking Harry Potter...

Though the week with be crazy, I'm looking forward to everything. The weather here in SoCal has been rainy and it's so cozy. It's about as close as we get to winter weather so it's perfect! I also have a project on Moda Bake Shop that will be up on the 21st, so watch for that!
Good luck with getting everything done this week!

No Peeking Emily!

First of all, Christmas is coming way too fast! I am just getting as much done as I'd hoped, grrrrr. But I am still loving the season.:)

Next, my husband has four siblings, so we rotate each year and exchange gifts with each family. There are two families that each have 3 little girls and this year we got one of those families.

I love matchy sister outfits, so I couldn't resist. I also have an obsession with fruit fabric and have been dying to use this Robert Kaufmann print. Each girl has a different but same polka dot fabric on the border and waist.

I cut out individual fruits and appliqued them onto t-shirts. Each center fruit matched the borders on the skirts. I can't wait to see them wearing them, they are the cutest little girls!

Last, I am bumming because my camera is on the fritz! The edges of most of my pictures are blurry and the pictures are darker than normal. I am so not in the market for a new one, I'm hoping I can figure it out. Maybe I need to read the manual...

Rodon Strikes Again

I made a shirt with this applique for my brother's newborn son. It's a robot named Rodon that my brother drew and made a story about when he was a little tike. He loved it. So...I thought I make one for him for birthday on the 15th. Grown men can where robots right?

Speaking of December birthdays...my 1 year old will turn 2 on the 20th. I don't know what bothers me more - that my little baby isn't so little anymore or that for forever I'm going to have to think about a birthday party right before Christmas? (insert scream here:)

'Tis the Season

Every year I get each of my kids little chocolate Advent calenders. They wake up each day excited to open a new window and see what shape the chocolate will be in. A little chocolate in the morning never hurt anyone right?

This is my almost two-year olds first experience with this. She caught on real quick!  Hey, there's candy in there! So she asked my older daughter for her calender one day and this is how it looked five minutes later.

 Guess the meaning was kind of lost on her. But who could say no to that face, right?