SCRAPPY OWL FOR AMELIA

I have wanted to make something cute for my brand new niece who arrived a few short weeks ago, but couldn't quite figure out what.
Until... I saw a tutorial for these ADORABLE scrappy owls.
I couldn't pass it up, so, here she is!!

Congratulations to Casey & Tori on your beautiful new addition!!

WHO COULDN'T USE AN ADORABLE OWL?

PRETZELS... YUM

A little while ago, a few of my friends and I decided to have a pot luck finger food craft day,
and I had wanted to make soft pretzels for a while.



I figured this would be the perfect opportunity!!



I used a recipe that I found in my Woman's Day magazine, that can also be found here.

They turned out great!! I made 3 kinds, and loved all of them!

WHAT A GREAT DAY!!

SEWING FUN!

I found a super fun sewing contest online through one of my blogs and I thought that it would be SUPER fun to enter!!

 

A while back my AMAZING sister-in-law called me up and said that she had found the PERFECT outfit for her daughters 1st birthday party.  However she did not want to spend so much money for one adorable outfit.  I told her I would look at it and see what I came up with.  

Complete with matching hot pink and zebra ruffled bumkins.

I bought a clearance dress from Target to get measurements for the chest and length, and dug deep inside to remember all the things my mother had taught me years ago about sewing.
For the bumkins, I did adjust a tutorial I found at Just Tutorials to use a non-knit cotton, and then added ruffles.

  

I think it turned out adorable!!

I am pretty sure most of the cuteness comes from the model!! 

DAY 1: EPCOT...

 

We decided to start this vacation a day early and spend the day at Epcot in Disney World.  Andy and I have decided to go back in the spring for a week, and when we priced everything out it ended up being more cost effective to upgrade our Disneyland Season Passes to the Premier Pass.

We are official DISNEY CRAZY!

We started the day in Future World and then headed back to the World Showcase for the afternoon.  Julia had not been the future world in a very long time and was experiencing many of the attractions for the first time.  I LOVE LOVE going with first timers!!

As we headed back to the World Showcase we OF COURSE had to stop to share a pastry in Norway.   They are too good to pass up!

 

 

We then made sure that we caught the show in the American Pavilion, which I had never seen before.  

It was great! I left feeling like the 4th of July!

What a great feeling!!

 

We then had to hurry, so we could make our dinner reservations at 'Ohana.  It is our favorite restaurant on Disney World property, and always try to stop there on our way through Florida.  Since Andy told them we were celebrating our 10th anniversary, they ran out of Anniversary buttons and gave us Just Engaged buttons.
 
 They also gave us a table with the view of the fireworks and brought the table lei's and gave us cupcakes with candles in them.  It was really fun!!

WE'LL SEE YOU SOON!

FAVORITE THINGS...

This ended up being Andy and my FAVORITE thing this cruise!

We were INSTANT ADDICTS!! Sad, but true.
By the end of the cruise were were finally kind of getting the hang of it. It is MUCH harder than it looks.

Thanks Royal Caribbean for putting the Flowrider on your boats, and thanks to the AMAZING sports staff that helped us SO much!!

WE WILL BE BACK!!