Little Bird Tales

 Ok my Family, I have found the cutest and most fun thing!  This last weekend at my teacher development day, we had a workshop on ways to incorporate technology in our classroom.  One of the teachers gave us this website to use as a way to publish student's writing.  It is called Little Bird Tales and it is so much fun!
It is a website to create and publish stories children write.  You can upload pictures, write text, and record your child reading their story.  Once you have created a story, you can share it with others or even purchase it and have it printed.  I just spent a long time creating this fun story!
Our Love Story
(it is a little cheesy and Garrett was laughing at me the whole time!)

I am planning on using it with my class this year and I thought it would be fun to give to you moms out there.  My wonderful nieces and nephews are so good at writing and telling stories, I thought this would be a fun project for you to have.   It is really easy and really fun!

Day at Gardner Village

This Friday, we decided to take a trip to Gardner Village with mom, Heidi, me, Jeniel, and her kids.  (Actually, I got a message from Jeniel on Thursday saying that she was going down and then I called up my mother and wondered why I hadn't got an invitation?  She graciously let me come. Thanks mom!)  It was a lot of fun and Gardner Village is one of my favorite places to go especially in the fall!  The girls all dressed up like witches and looked so cute!  The best witches there!

 We had lunch at Archibald's (which is always good!  Mom really enjoyed the fried green tomatoes!) and spent the afternoon looking at all of the shops.  I really could spend so much money there, but I did take my camera and took pictures of some cute ideas to make on my own. 

Look, I found my new crush!  Actually I was showing Makenzie how to take a funny picture.  I love Heidi's face in the background!

 Colton is so much fun!  He is just a hoot!  It is so cute to listen to him sing his ABC's.  Halfway through he will start singing twinkle little star!

Part of the decorations at the villages are these fun witches.  They are all over and in all types of positions.  Makenzie had a paper to find all of them so that was fun to look for them with her. 

What a fun day!  Happy Halloween!

Birthday and a Baby Shower!

What a wonderful weekend!  We drove home to spend time with family, watch conference, celebrate my 24th birthday, and have a baby shower!

Friday night we celebrated my birthday with gifts, a cake, lots of fun.  Casey's kids were over and they are always so much fun.  Of course they had to help with unwrapping the presents and even Hallie helped blowing out my candles.

Saturday was by Baby Shower!  My wonderful mother and sister Heidi planned and put together the best baby shower ever!  The decorations were so cute!  They used the colors from his baby room, blue, green, and orange and of course Trucks everywhere! Even on the darling cupcakes! 

It was so great to have loving family and friends there for me and little Ronnie!

Everyone there designed and made a onesie with fabric, buttons, and paint.  They all turned out so cute!  There were some fun games including guessing the size of my belly with yarn, remembering all of the baby stuff in the basket, and trying to remember nursery rhymes.  As always there was really delicious food!

I felt so spoiled with all of the wonderful gifts everyone gave me.  Cute outfits, diapers, toys, socks, essential needs, and blankets!  Beautiful, beautiful blankets! This baby is going to be the best dressed, most loved, and definitely warm little guy!

I want to thank all of the wonderful family and friends that came and shared such a great day with me and also a HUGE thanks to my mother and sister for putting on my baby shower.  I love you all!

Grandpa Milen's 80th Birthday

On September 25th, Garrettt's Grandpa Milen turned 80 years old.  We were so fortunate to drive home for the weekend and attend his birthday party.  Garrett's mom and all of his aunts put on a great party at the church.  The decorations were beautiful, the lunch was delicious, and the day was wonderful.  Each Grandchild shared a memory they had of their grandpa and we watched a great movie of pictures of his life. Of course we had cake and ice cream and his cowboy boot cake was absolutely perfect!  It was so wonderful to spend the day with family.  Grandpa Milen is a wonderful guy.  He always hugs you so tight like he is never letting go and always makes you feel so special.  We love you Grandpa Milen!