Birthday Fun - for the whole month

I feel like we've been celebrating my birthday all month.  It started with a great family dinner and Mom and Kelly's.  We were celebrating Josh's bday too. 

Lee's birthday is also in March so we've been celebrating with them too.  Last week we went out to lunch at Tucano's with our birthday coupons.  I think I definitely ate the most.  Chayla was just so hungry :)   Afterwards we needed to take a walk and drag the husbands to look at a kids store with us.  (they are constantly at the mercy of the scheming women in their lives)  

Lee made me the cutest notebook cover! I love it!  And I can use it forever b/c it is a removable cover - not glued on like I've made before.  She is so creative 

Awesomemest Cupcakes Ever

Lee and I have been talking about doing a cake decorating project and we finally did!   We decided to make a cupcake display that looks like a Pac Man game board.  We used fondant for the tops and decorations.  We filled each cupcake with either peanut butter or chocolate filling and stuck everything together with chocolate frosting.  It took a while but it was SO fun!   What could be better than baking + girl time + surprising your hubby at work with chocolate cupcakes?  Not much, especially since Jake like the surprise ;)

Flirty Apron :)

I finally made an apron!  I've been wanting to make a cute/colorful one for a while.  I turned out pretty good I think and was quite a learning experience!    It is 2-sided which is fun and I only had to undo part of a seam before I realized the ties and ruffle were going to end up on the inside.

March updates Galore

There's been so much fun going on in our lives that I have to share.  Let's see... where to start?  Cooking of course!   Here's a yummy dish I made that started out as 7-layer bean dip and ended up more like a cafe rio salad :)  One of my new favorite meals and SO easy - just layers of goodness.  It wound up being more like 12 layers i think.

Bed Skirt

So here is another part of the bedding set.  It matches fabric from the quilt and I'm proud to say it turned out pretty good.  I did my very first ruffle - gather stitch and it was fun.  The picture looks a bit odd because it's just sitting across a bench with the wrapped mattress on top but you get the idea.  And yes I used black instead of the traditional white because I had a big piece of black cloth I wasn't using for anything.

27 weeks - getting huge in every direction.

Yes, I'm wearing the same shirt as the last picture on purpose.  Jake had this idea to always wear the same outfit and it would be easier to tell the difference from picture to picture.  The only problem is I probably won't be wearing this shirt much longer or else I will stretch it out too much.  It's pretty exciting though!

CHAYLA

Finally done!    I bought big letters and paper to modge podge for Chayla's name since we don't want to paint or put up wallpaper etc.  But I wanted something cute and colorful on the wall.  So this is what I made.  Each letter was an adventure.  Even Jake likes it - which means it turned out very good

 

 

 

 

Over due ultrasound pix

          So this ultrasound was taken on Dec 22, 2009.  A few months ago I know!   It was our 2nd anniversary actually and right before Christmas and so fun to see our little baby girl.  She's not so little anymore and I'm starting to feel huge.  She's been kicking a lot more lately which is soooo fun.  The best part about being preggo in my opinion.  So here's some shots from 19.5 weeks.

Baby clothes from my Idaho trip with Lee

One more - unfinished project

I also made a Boppy pillow case today.  I made my own pattern and everything!  It still needs a zipper but I LOVE it!  because I love the fabric mostly.

The belly pictures BEGIN! * 24 weeks *

Some great and one not-so-great experiments

I told Jake I would make him pajamas for Christmas, and now a month later they are done!  They were pretty simple actually and turned out great.  They are a little too big but thank goodness for elastic and comfy pj pants.  This is my very first item of clothing that I have sewn from scratch! 
                   

  Lee and I got fabric to make our own Moby wraps - its a baby carrier.  It's just 5-6 yards of stretchy knit.  She saw an idea to put a square of cotton in the middle for extra support, to help find the middle, and because its cute!   So here is my first moby wrap with the panel sewn on.  

My next project was to try making a collapsible basket.  They look so cute and handy.  I planned on making a bunch - for baby clothes, diapers, mail to look at etc....   But after several hours of frustration I'm giving up the basket business.   The corners are just too hard.   It looks cute from pictures but it has a LOT of character :)
Attaching the bottom was the hardest part and it just went downhill from there.   Maybe Lee can figure out a better way to do this, because they are pretty cool.