Baby Names....

So we have had baby names on the brain lately...

then I was tipped off about this cool website where you can see the top baby names at the hospital where you will give birth! {Baby Namescape}

Here are the top names at our hospital:

Girls

Emma

Victoria

Ella

Scarlett

Lucy

Isabella

Addison

Brianna

Elizabeth

Hailey

Boys

Daniel

Isaiah

James

Preston

Oliver

Andrew

Jose

Noah

Aiden

Caleb

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Featured!

I'm so excited that Avery's Owl Birthay Party

is going to be featured today at this fun blog Belleza e Luce!

{she also designs super cute invitations & party accessories}

Head over and check it out!

{you can see my original post on the party here}

toddlerhood...

Avery's favorite phrases lately are:

"let me do it"

or "Avery do it"...

I walked out of the room today while Avery was eating breakfast & about a minute later heard some rustling around. I knew that couldn't be a good sound so I rushed back to the kitchen to find this:She poured herself a bowl of cereal...

and the counter,

and some on the floor for the dogs!

For those of you that think leggos are just for building,

think again:

they also make a lovely pedestal cereal bowl...

with built in storage underneath!


Avery had been on a cleaning kick lately!
She LOVES to wipe off the counters...
and really goes to town!


Do you need some free entertainment for your toddler?
Check out this cute {& free} I Spy coloring printable!

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17 weeks...

Here are a few belly shots to compare Avery & Baby P

Boy, that belly really pops out quick the 2nd time around!

{doesn't help that I hadn't totally gotten back in shape after Avery either!}

Valentines Weekend

We had a nice, relaxing & laid-back Valentine's Weekend. Saturday, we had breakfast at the Central Market Cafe and then grabbed a few groceries before heading home.

That afternoon, Avery helped Mommy make heart shaped cookies, using this yummy recipe from Southern Living!

I iced them with lemon-cream cheese frosting,
and Avery added sprinkles.

Avery couldn't WAIT to eat one!

Sunday {Valentines Day} we had a HEARTy breakfast (ha ha!)

Heart shaped waffles, using my favorite Alton Brown recipe here.

along with heart shaped strawberries & bananas,

and chai-spiced apples (recipe here)

For lunch we had heart shaped PB&J,

and dinner was tortellini in red sauce.

Mommy got pretty pink roses

and Avery got a giant pink peony from Daddy.

Monday, Daddy had the day off work {yippee!!!}

we took Avery to her first movie theater movie...

The Princess and the Frog

She did surprisingly well!

And loved her first taste of popcorn too!!

Hope everyone else had a wonderful Valentines weekend!

LBB Design Challenge - Entry #2

So I got inspired and decided to do another last minute entry into

the Little Blue Boo / Dharma Trading Design Challenge Contest.

So here she is!

I've been seeing these cute floral embellished details on everything lately and kept thinking to myself "I can do that!" So I finally decided to attempt it on another dress for Avery.

I love the way it turned out!

I used one of my old shirts to make the entire dress. Just one shirt to keep it simple and not take away from the embellishments. Then I used scraps of that shirt along with scraps of an orange t-shirt and white tank top from other projects...exactly why I hang onto all those tiny scraps! You never know when they might come in handy ;)

I added the floral detail all along the front neckline.
(I also added light interfacing to the front/top dress piece to reinforce the knit and keep it from sagging.) To create the flower, all I did was cut circles of fabric, twist them in the middle and then sew over them a couple of times to hold the twist and attach it to the dress.
Last, I added buttons from the original henley shirt to the sleeve of the dress.

I used the LBB Sienna Dress pattern again, and this time just altered the sleeve length.

No pictures yet of Avery in the dress since I finished after she went to bed!

Hopefully I'll get some tomorrow.

Update {2/16}

Got some cute pics of Avery in the dress this morning!

LBB Design Challenge

So here is my entry for the

Little Blue Boo / Dharma Trading Design Challenge I used the LBB Sienna Dress Pattern

with a couple of alterations and additions.

I shortened the sleeves to make a short sleeve dress, lengthened the top piece and shortened the bottom piece and added a ruffle!

The dress is made of an old pink t-shirt and white tank top, then I used a cute pink floral fabric from my fabric stash.

Here are some details of the dress:

I have been wanting to try reverse applique, so decided to go with that technique for the heart {and I don't know why I didn't try it sooner because it was SO easy!!}. I also added the pocket after the dress was finished because I felt like it needed just a little more punch. I LOVE the ruffles along the edges of the pockets. :)

I tried to get a couple pictures of Avery wearing the dress, but she didn't really feeling like cooperating for a photo shoot so these were the best I got!

So there you have it!
Wish me luck!!!

snow, snow, snow...

...12.5" of snow at DFW!

{that broke the previous record of 7.8" set in 1964!}

Avery couldn't wait to get outside and play in it again

throwing snowballs...

sledding with the neighbors ...

and snow ice cream...

with hot chocolate!

It's a marshmallow world...

Here is what we woke up to this morning and they are saying 4" more
we do still live in Texas, right!?

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love is in the air...

I saw THIS tutorial...

and had to make this adorable heart banner:

which inspired me to make this heart wreath:
& reminded me of these cute PJ's I picked up for Avery at Costco:

and THIS cute clip I just got for her in the mail!!!

Do you feel the love???

Wordless Wednesday

I've seen this Wordless Wednesday post on a few other blogs and decided I would like to incorporate it into my blog, so here is the first official "Wordless" Wednesday post!

{After this one, they really will be wordless!}

But, I just have to say that this picture cracks me up!