Our Fun New Years Eve!!

We have had a very fun New Years Eve day! It started out with the tradition breakfast out. We didn't take a picture, but we went to Ihop. It was adequate. We ran a few errands in Salina and then we headed off to the Rolling Hills Wildlife Museum!! Thanks Mom for the tickets! It was sure fun. Jason did a puzzle.

Paisley played with the legos and the animals.

Then she put on a puppet show for us! After the museum we headed to the Russel Stover Factory store to get some chocolates for our part tonight!

This is Jason and Jarom partying it up with a sippy cup. Jarom went to the doctor today and she said it was time he start learn to drink from a sippy cup. The cup makes him a little frustrated because he can't get anything to come out in his mouth.

We made some yummy carmel bugles and Paisley is loving staying up past her bedtime, eating bugles and watching Fern Gully. We are having a super fun party at our house!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The Exploration Place

The day started by making Paisley's hair cute! Then we headed down to Wichita to use our super fun Christmas present from the Cornwall's of tickets to The Exploration Place!

It was FREEZING today but we had to stop for a quick picture!

The traveling exhibit was "How to make a Monster" which featured monsters from several different films and the process they went through to make them. This was a monster was used in a cell phone commercial.

There was an incredible castle to play through. It was multi-leveled and had a lot of different rooms and activities within the walls. It was pretty fun!
At the end of the monster exhibit there was the crocodile from the Peter Pan movie from 2003, this cute poster was next to that exhibit. Jarom and I would make a tasty dinner.

Paisley would make a yummy snack.

And Jason would be a delicious feast!!

Jason was brave and took a whirl in the tornado simulator. Winds got up to 78 mph!

Meanwhile Paisley was building a tower.

We all took turns flight an airplane in the flight simulator. We all crashed the plane, instead of landing it. We'll leave that to professionals!!

We had a SUPER FUN time today at the Exploration Place!!

Our Anniversary Recap

For Our 7th Anniversary we had a lot of fun!!! We ran a lot of errands all over town. Then in the afternoon our friend called to see if we were interested in going out to dinner for her birthday and we said SURE!! We were already planning on it for our anniversary. So we had a good time going out to eat with a lot more people than we had originally planned. It was a good time!

Reminiscing

I was going over old videos we posted on youtube a couple years back aqnd found this really cute one of Paisley!!

A House made of Candy!

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It must be Christmas because we made some really cute gingerbread houses on Sunday evening! We threw a surprise baby shower/ girls night out for a friend and made these super cute gingerbread houses. If you think back 2 years ago I made one then also. Last time I didn't let anyone pick at it and eat it, but this year it has been fun to snack on this fun Christmas project!!

Christmas Came Early

After the nail biter of a BYU - Utah game this evening and finally winning in overtime I decided to give Jason his Christmas present early!! Stay tuned tomorrow for some great church wear... we have been promising to wear our cougar getup if BYU stomped on the Utes (maybe stepped on is more fitting), which they did, so we will come through. There is a hardcore Utes family in our ward, so victory will be grand tomorrow!

For Traditions Sake

If you recall when Paisley was almost 1 month old we spent our first Thanksgiving alone. as we were getting the turkey ready we noticed that she was smaller than our turkey so we got a picture. Now as we have another baby near Thanksgiving we thought we should compare Jarom to our turkey this year. He is definitely bigger than our bird! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Email Orders

It has recently come to my attention that most people probably do not have an Etsy account. So in order to reach more people and be as successful as I can be, I would love to invite anyone interested to order an I Spy Bag through my email. If you have seen an I Spy Bag on the store site (thepurseplace.etsy.com) that you would like please email me the description and I can sell it over email. If there isn't one on the site you like but would still like to order one please email me. I have a lot of really cute fabric that is in the process of becoming an I Spy Bag, they just aren't finished. I am preparing for this busy holiday shopping weekend and for Cyber Monday. If you would like to specify that the I spy bag is for a girl or boy so the choice of fabric is appropriate that would be great! Please send your email orders to purseplace.etsy at gmail.com (email broken up to discourage spammers) Also, please feel free to tell your friends, family and anyone you think would be interested!

Business

As you all know since I posted it on this very blog, that I have been making and trying to sell purses online. Well I have expanded my online store to include I Spy Bags. Mom and I made a couple while she was here. I listed a couple of them on my store on Wednesday and on Friday two of them had sold!! In the meantime Jason and I were selling something on Craigslist and the lady that called and wanted to buy it owns a children's second hand clothing store in Salina. During the conversation I asked her if she would be willing to carry some of my I Spy Bags to sell in her store. She was really excited to do that for me! Today we took up three bags (I wanted to put most of my finished bags on my online store because I was excited to have sales) Anyway, by the time we got home from doing our shopping in Salina I had a message on our answering machine from her saying two bags had already sold!! She asked me if next time I brought up bags if I could bring about six!! YAY! It is nice to finally have success since my purses didn't go too well. Since it is the holidays however I have slashed prices on my purses and we are having a Holiday Sales Event!! Fell free to check it out... thepurseplace.etsy.com

This is the outside of the store where my bags are and here they are at the cash register in the store. She just opened her store a few weeks ago and the major advertising for her store begins Tuesday... I gotta get more bags up there!!

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My first sale!

So today I received an email saying that I have received a payment and I honestly was thinking "What kind of scam is this?" I almost deleted the email without looking at it. when I did decide to open it I noticed it was a paypal paymeny for 2 of my I Spy Bags on Etsy!!! I was very excited! I've had my purses on Etsy for over a month with nothing happening, but the I Spy Bags have been on for a couple days and BAM-O! Two sold!! I've just put up two more that I finished today with high hopes for success!! Go ME!!!

I Spy Bags

If you notice on the right hand side bar in my Etsy Store I now carry I Spy Bags. This is a fun little project my mom and I took on while she was here. She is a lot better at making the bags than I am but we pushed out a few and now I'm taking over - practice makes perfect right?! They are really cute and really fun. Paisley loves her bag. It is excellent in the car. It is also a great quiet toy for church! Also along with the I Spy Bags the purses are now having a Free Shipping sale!!

So funny!! Love it!

Happy Halloween!

Here is our family picture. Jason designed the Cornwall Zoo logo. I thought it was fantastic! We sure love our cute little zoo animals!

We hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween night!!

Paisley's birthday and our fun week

Okay get ready for a long post. This week has been very fun but very busy. We first start out with Jarom being as cute as can be!Monday night we carved our pumpkin for FHE. It was a lot of fun. We went with a simple design this year since we had a couple nights of frost and made our pumpkin a little bit squishy.

On Tuesday the kids were able to wear their costumes to dance if they wanted, so Paisley decided she wanted too. She makes for a cute leopard!

Wednesday night was our ward party. We all got dressed up for the occassion but we unfortunately didn't think to take a picture since Jason and I were in charge of the activity we were a little busy doing other things. We are going to put on the costumes again so we can get a family shot. (SPOILER ALERT: since you have seen the kids costumes, this years theme was the zoo. Jason and I were zoo keepers, Paisley was a leopard and Jarom a giraffe.)

This is Paisley with her best friend Maisie at the ward halloween party.

Today Paisley had a great birthday. She loved all the letters and phone calls and especially all the sing to her. She was very happy to turn 4 and now considers herself to be "big". Here she is with her pile of presents.

She was much more than thrilled to get a lot of princess things for her birthday including a lot of dress up things!

Later in the evening our town had the annual trick or treat on main street and town carnival at the community building. Before heading to the festivities we went to Papa's favorite place (Braums) for ice cream!

Despite the rain this town party's hard for Halloween. We went trick or treating to all the stores even in the rain.

The carnival was a blast! Paisley loved all the games.

Paisley got some cute new jammies for her birthday and decided to wear them to bed tonight!

After a long day of celebration we came home to sing "Happy Birthday" and eat her princess cake. After the huge amounts of ice cream we had consumed earlier we all had very tiny pieces.

And I just wanted to show off how cute Jarom is in his "I love my mummy" outfit!

We've had a great week, with lots of fun. We are so happy to have Nana and Papa here. Paisley had a fabulous birthday, and we are excited to see how year 4 goes!

Autumn Activities

Last Saturday we drove out to the middle of no where and went some a corn maze. It was pretty fun. After the maze they had a fun slide Paisley and Jason went down and then a hay ride. We had a great Autumn day!