Happy Birthday Angel Baby Kayden!

I can't believe she would be 5 today. :( If you want to read about her, here is the link to her page.

http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/k/kaydenmw/

My Kid's new Spring Break Restaurant! :0)

So today is the 1st day of Spring Break here & we are laying low this year! I am so tired of running like a maniac, we decided to stay home!

Anyway, my kids have been playing while I worked all morning. Softball, Tether ball, Wii, Board Games, etc. Haliee's friend Ally spent the night last night, & they have all been playing so well as a threesome "YAY"!! So a few minutes ago, in came Ally & Haliee to offer me lunch at their Restaurant! They created menus, made all the food and waited on Drew & I. Aren't they cute!!! In their pockets are order forms, napkins, and silverware. Drew's place setting even included a charger plate, lol!

Drew of course chose all JUNK for lunch. I tried to adjust his order but Haliee shut me down, claiming ownership of her restaurant. LOL, I guess once is ok. Here is what Drew ordered:

Hazelnut Italian Soda

Nachos

Pringles

Crackers & Dip

Samoas

Chocolates

He is also quite smart, he had his bill sent to my table, what a terd! Forgive his piggie shirt!

LOL, I guess since they literally ate 3lbs. of strawberries after dinner last night, I can let them slide right!? Ok, I am back to work, I just had to share! I hope they make you smile as much as they did me~ Look for some new Easter goodies this afternoon & some fun & games goodies starting tomorrow!

Mr. MacGregors Garden Bows & clip!

Ok...IT IS STILL SNOWING TODAY WAHHHH! At this point, we will be finding eggs in the snow! Here are some sweet spring garden bowsies & clippie! I LOVE how they turned out! Especially the stuffed bunnies & carrot clip! Thanks for peeking! I am off to an afternoon of craziness! :0)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390039675489

And the WINNER is...

Sorry for the delay, Haliee had softball practice after school, so we had to wait until after dinner. Haliee made the names & Drew picked it so there was no fighting (well almost, lol) Congratulations sweetie! Email me with your design wants :0) Haliee just did the cha-cha slide in your honor (and maybe to stall going to bed just a bit!)

HUGS Tab

Today is the BIG Day!! :0)

Thanks so much to everyone who posted! I had a few emails saying they were too late, I feel bad for them, but I have to stick the the rules! Guess I will have to do this again soon! I am going to be a bit awnry though (this is completely out of character, bahhh!) MUAHHAHAHA *Evil laugh* and make you all wait til' the kiddos get out of school to choose a winner for me! :0) GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! Tab

Lindsay...I would LOVE to make her some strawberry yummies! Keep me posted! XOXO

Free Bows Contest & New Bows for the launch!

Ok, 1st things 1st...I am leaving around 1 for the "tour" of the Middle School. WAHHHH! I cannot believe this. My Baby Girl. So, as a distraction...I need to do something FUN! So how about winning some FREE totally custom bows! :0) That's fun right!? All you have to do is leave a comment on this thread between now & Sunday at midnight & you will be entered to win! If you also bid on one of my auctions you will receive an additional entry for every bid & 2 additional entries for every purchase including store purchases & customs from today until Sunday only! GOOD LUCK!

Now, I finally got 2 things listed for the "Favorite Things" Launch. I have more to come, but aren't these yummy! I LOVE how they turned out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390038512912

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390038518643

Wish me luck this afternoon! HUGS Tab

A SURPRISE Getaway!! :0)

We had a great weekend! My Other Mom (step - mom sounds I don't know not important enough right?) was nominated for this awesome "Women Making Herstory" Award for her awesome commitment to society by Boise State University (SO AWESOME), so we decided to surprise her & drive down for it! You can read about it here...
http://womenscenter.boisestate.edu/content/wmhdetail.cfm?wmh_id=201

So we planned all week and no one knew! I called Boise State and secretly RSVP'd for our family :0) We got Drewy a suit and I worked my tail off to get my customs out before we left!!
We drove down Friday (it is about a 6 1/2 - 7 hour drive) and just walked in the house! She about jumped off the couch when she looked up & saw us standing in the living room!!! It was great fun to surprise her like that!

We had a fun weekend and I got to surprise my whole family as no one knew we were coming! The kids looked so cute in their formal wear and I guess I will have to go get their pictures taken because we were so busy, the photo shoot was cut out of the plan per usual. LOL, despite my best efforts, I am unable to squeeze 30+ hours out of a day.

It was so fun nevertheless and we are so proud of her for being chosen. It was nice to see her hard work recognised. My kiddos were excellent as they had to sit for 3 hours through the ceremony. I got to see my new niece who is 5 months old now, so I was so glad to meet her finally!!! We hung out with family, I had the pleasure of the wii fit deeming me "obese" thanks so much, lol. We went bowling which the kids LOVED, stayed up all night talking both nights, & My Dad even got up at 5:30 Sunday morning to make his spoiled brat daughter Prime Rib before we left. I am a brat I know!!! We begrudgingly got back in the car for the ucky drive home (man I should've flown, lol) and decided it would be fun to donate some $$ to the casino along the way.
:( We were feeling extra generous to the state of Washington as well and will be donating $154 to their cause for "excessive speed" apparently 44 mph is excessive!
:( Short moral to this story...When the parents want Red Robin, don't allow the 7 year old to decide otherwise and head to Olive Garden, there is an officer waiting in the parking lot of Toys R Us to ticket you. UGH! So feeling wonderfully FULL in our hearts and unfortunately LIGHT in our pocketbooks, we are home!!!

I will be bowing my little fingers to the bone this week and I have a fun launch coming up tomorrow themed "My Favorite Things" with LemonLime.

ANYONE have any "Favorite Things" they would like me to create bows around this week!? Just let me know & stay tuned! ;0)
HUGS, here's to a great "GREEN" Week!
Tab

New Spring Bowsies & an AMAZING Charity...

This Morning in Church these amazing kids were brought up on stage to be thanked for their kind hearts. These kids were so little I would say 4, 6, 9 if I had to guess, I am not totally sure. Anyway, they visited a rural medical clinic in Mexico and were inspired to help sick children, so they started a lemonade stand. After realizing they weren't quite making the money they were wanting, they came up with the idea of selling dish towels. Interesting choice I know, but these little selfless entrepeneurs are doing something right! The middle daughter designed the logo & they basically have been selling them just on word of mouth. They are only $5 each. They have raised over $15,000 selflessly selling these towels! Here is a brief bio of the kids which comes attached to the towel when you purchase it. Sorry it's kind of blurry & small, I tried to enlarge it, but it was cut off when I posted. Needless to say after hearing these little kids speak there wasn't a dry eye in the place. How amazing that such little kids could make a difference! I thought I would share! Here is a picture of my towel, of course somehow between church & now, it is dirty, lol, apparently I spilled lunch on it?~ I think their email is kidshelpingkidsfixbrokenhearts@gmail.com They posted it on the screen but I didn't pay much attention (oops) :0)

***Ok, so no sooner than I posted this & walked away to switch the laundry...my Miss. Thang Tech Savvy daughter found this on u-tube. Man, I feel old, lol. Anyway, here are the kiddos if you want more info! Thanks Miss. Haliee Girl :0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QjRW3_sOA

Also, here are some new spring bowsies as I sit in my snow filled world, lol! I hope you like them! The 1st one is already listed, the link is below. I will be listing the last 2 tomorrow. I hope everyone had a great weekend! I scrubed my house today, ugh, but it is all sparkly now, YAY!! HUGS Tab

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390035384814

My Baby Girl!!

Do you ever have those moments where you just realize how quickly time flies. I notice little things all the time, but man, life really does just keep flying by. It seems like Haliee should be 3 or 4 and she is going to be 11 soon. :( This is her last year of elementary school and this Momma is just NOT READY! It is so neat to watch all her triumphs and she is such a good girl. I am so proud of her & wouldn't trade a minute, I just wish I could TIVO life so I could rewind and freeze when I need a moment to hold them as babies again. How did my binky clad bow wearing baby turn into a loud music texting preteen???? WAH! NO FAIR! I lost my little baby somewhere has anyone seen her? Good thing she was replaced by the best 10 year old around! Ok, off to watch LOST and pout, lol!My Baby Haliee at 15 mos.

More Easter Pretties & made 2 match Jottum!

Here are 2 more pretties! More coming this week! Thanks for peeking! Tab

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My Sweet Son & some new bows!

Wednesday while I was cooking dinner, my kiddos decided to make a video!! I know I am biased, but I have the best kiddos! I sure love my little man! Isn't he sweet!

Here are some sweet & funky new bows for LemonLime's Retro & Easter launches, I love them & I hope you like them too! The easter bows are the 1st of many for this season, so stay tuned! Thanks for peeking! Have a great weekend! Tab ;0)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390033626040

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390034183650

Happy Anniversary to me!!!! :0)

Yesterday was my 13 year Anniversary!! Since the weekend was Valentine's Day, we decided just to have the kids go to my parents house & hang out. We run 24/7 so we decided not to have an agenda this year. Drew had a game on Saturday, so we just said out goodbye's after that & headed off to The Davenport for lunch. Hal surprised me 3 years ago with the Cutter ( he was the architect for the hotel) suite here and it is an amazing hotel. You can check it out here...

http://www.thedavenporthotel.com/

I was so surprised...Amidst a spa day, a dozen roses, chocolate covered strawberries & appletini's waiting for me in the room when I got back, it was an awesome time, so we go revisit the restaurant as much as we can. Awesome food & ambiance!!! Of course we ended up at the casino, Hal ended up winning on a $1 machine at the end hooray, so our whole weekend was free! We had already shopped a little, we were weirdos this year and just shopped for our gifts together. Then we ended up just hanging out at home watching movies and eating out! Yesterday, we hung out all day too, we went to a yummy restaurant which actually floats on the water here on Lake Coeur d' Alene! A nice relaxing weekend, I SO NEEDED! Anyway, I thought it would be fun to look back 13 years at our wedding photos, we were such babies! I especially love our hair (Not so much!) Enjoy the laugh! :)

This was in one of those dorky booth's at the beach! :0)

And...here was are a little more recently, I think this was a year or 2 ago, it was the 1st pic I found in my very unorganized pics online, lol! 2 kids and a few years later, better hair and not a lb. gained *wink*!!
Ok, here are 13 things, I LOVE about my husband!!!

1. He is so much fun, he is a jokester and always makes me laugh, even if I want to beat him while I laugh!
2. He is the most loving father!
3. He cries at sad movies and then gets mad at me for making him watch them :0)
4. He is just as OCD as me in so many ways, sorry to my kids!
5. He has this funny lip thing going when he tries to lie to me, I have learned this from years of being gullible to his tall tales and jokes!
6. He is addicted to the lint roller!
7. He is such a family man, he loves spending time with us!
8. In 15 years we have been together, he has never once complained about 1 penny I spent, seriously!!!
9. He has amazing work ethic and integrity. He is an awesome leader.
10. He always remodels or build things I dream up or find a picture of and complains the whole time, lol!
11. He has a great relationship with my family & somehow manages to be a smarty to my Mom & get Me & My Step-Dad blamed for it "EVERYTIME"!!
12. He will help me anytime I need extra cutting and heat sealing ribbon! :)
13. He loves me for me in every light, I can totally be myself without reservation! I am so glad I found him! I love him so much!

PS: I put the songs from our wedding in my musicbox, they are songs 2 & 3! The 4th song I can't even find to upload, here are the lyrics, MAN I feel old!

NEXT STEP IN LOVE

Solid gold candle holders And an old bottle of wine

You let your hair down on your shoulders

And you pressed your lips to mine

The rain beat soft against the window

As the night turned into dawn

As I looked deep into your eyes

I knew where my heart belonged

I´m ready for the next step in love

Girl, you´re all that I can think of

Isn´t my love good enough

I´m ready for the next step in love

Solid white wedding dress

And a long white veil

We put all our fears to rest

And we let this ship set sail

I placed the ring on your finger

Then you looked at me and smiled

The we sealed our love with one last kiss

And I walked you up the aisle

I´m ready for the next step in love

Girl, you´re all that I can think of

Isn´t my love good enough

I´m ready for the next step in love

I´m ready for the next step in love

Girl, you´re all that I can think of

Isn´t my love good enough

I´m ready for the next step in love

I´m ready for the next step in love

By: Clay Walker

***Thanks for letting me be sappy! Looking back, we really did grow up together! I am so lucky to be married to my best friend and love! I look forward to the next 50 years! Tab

Haliee's Winter String Concert!

Haliee had a strng concert a few days ago and they sounded so awesome! I couldn't believe how well it came together!!! Here are the ONLY pics I was able to get as these girlies thought they would be cute and hide behind their stands everytime they saw the camera. Preteens *SIGH* I could beat them! They were so tickled at themselves no matter how much of a Mom Face I had from the audience, they kept hiding everytime! They are terds! Anyway, in the 1st pic Miss. Haliee is hiding, I have 2 barely pics, and the final blurry pic was one Drew took. This is why is she making the awnry smile face. She only would let him take the pics, but he couldn't hold the camera still enought to get a good shot, lol! I deleted about 10 of his too blurry to keep.

I love this girl, even though she is a stinker sometimes. She must've gotten this from her Daddy because I never was anything less than perfect, bahhhh! *wink* :0) Thanks for letting me share!

Abby Cadabby and Social Butterfly Bows!

Hi everyone! I have 2 newbies today! Thanks for peeking! I am so ready for spring, I have been inspired!! I love how these turned out! Tab

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390030401080

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390030404048

Some Sweet St. Patty's Treats :0)

Hi everyone! I have these new bows for St. Patty's I just listed on ebay! Thanks for peeking! I hope you like them~ Tab

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390029107254

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390029111174

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New Spring Pretties & Drew's Basketball Pics :0)

Hi everyone! I am excited to share some new bowsies I made over the weekend. Some bright fun euro and some made to match gymboree's new Happy Rainbow line with more to come! Here they are :0)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390028453133

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=390028460271

Also I finally took pics of Drewy in his b-ball game, they aren't the best but it is hard to keep up with them, lol! Here are a few pics the game~! I love the one of him running through the tunnel slapping everyone's hands. They run through the fog that is why the 1st pics looks blurry and they all think they are ready for the NBA! It is so cute!

Look for some more made to match gymbo & some St. Patty's day surprises later in the week!

HUGS, Tab

More Valentine's Pretties!

Ok as I was uploading new bowsie pics I found this...We took this pics one night in Vegas last year waiting for the water show. Man it makes me sad to realize another year has flown by. Gosh I love these babies! They are growing too fast.

Here you go! I love how they turned out! :0) I am uploading the pics right now & will be listing in a few, If I can't get them finished beofre I get the kiddos, I will list them in the am. Tab