Birthday Gift Basket part-1

One of my goals this year was to make my family and friends their Birthday gifts.

I've been planning my Sister's gift for a while now and I came up with this.

A beauty gift basket. :)

-Shampoo

-Body wash

-Hand Cream

-Lip Balm

-Loofah 

Making every (but the loofah and basket) was pretty easy. And I think I'm off to a good start with my homemade gifts.


Lip Balm

I used a Altoids tin for the lip gloss, decorated with newspaper scraps and scrapbooking stickers.

Hand Cream

Easy as pie, mix all ingredients together. 

St. Patrick's Day 2012

Every year we get together and have a St. Patrick's Day dinner, this year was a little more special. It was Maybelline's first St. Patrick's Day. 

We waited all day and was tortured by the smell of yummy corned beef and cabbage, not really knowing what we were going to bring I remembered a fun little snack that I saw on Pinterest. I showed this to Jim and thought it would be a great snack before we eat the delicious corned beef and cabbage. 

 Corned beef made by my Mom

Veggies(cabbage, carrots, and potatoes) made by my Grandpa

and here's the little snack that me and Jim made. Strawberries, oranges, pineapple, kiwi, blue berries, grapes, and the pot of gold (Reese's mini peanut butter cups)

rainbow fruit skewers

What do you do on St. Patrick's Day?

One year ago today.

One year ago today, I got the most amazing and blissful news. 

March 18, 2011 I found out that I was pregnant. 

I'll be honest I didn't think the pregnancy test was telling me the truth, I didn't believe I could have been so blessed so quickly after trying.

So I did what any woman would do, I went and got one of those REALLY expensive pregnancy tests that says in print if I was pregnant or not pregnant. Sure enough in big black bold letters read PREGNANT. I jumped on the bed and whisper in my husband's ear, "You're going to be a Daddy." Never in our lives together have I ever seen him get up so fast. And I still haven't. ;)

Here's the blogs that I wrote after finding out and telling our families. 

Baby Felps

Telling the Family