Christmas Card 2011

Thanks to our super photographer PAWPAW and our go to gal for all things card related.... KENDRA WHITE of The White Lilly. She always does an awesome job for us.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Twelves Hours of Twins.....

Twleve loads of laundry

Eleven temper tantrums

Ten hugs and kisses

Nine mini pancakes

Eight bottles washed

Seven drinks of water

Six bibs to wash

Five DON'T DO THAT'S

Four little handprints

Three dirty diapers

Two changes of clothes

~~~~AND~~~~

One life I would not change.

Trying new things....

So I am trying some new recipes these days. Trying to get out of a rut and try and get my family to eat healthier by making the foods that are good for them taste better. Tonight was one of those nights. I found a recipe on Pinterest that came from fortheloveofcooking-recipes.blogspot.com . You can get the full recipe there. I only made 2 changes. Her recipe calls for russet potatoes and I used red potatoes and her recipe called for parmasan cheese and I was out so I used Italian blend. It was really good. Bella and the twins still just ate the potatoes but with all the veggies and the olive oil at least Shayne and I got some good out of it.

Vegetable Tian ~ Belden Style

before cooking

after baking.

I served it with a yummy baked ham! I look forward to more new recipes and sharing them with you.

• 2 tbsp olive oil (divided)
• 1 large sweet yellow onion cut in half and sliced
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 4-5 new red potatoes , unpeeled
• 1 zucchini
• 1 yellow squash
• 3 large Roma tomatoes
• Sea salt, freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
• sprinkling of italian cheese

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Coat a baking dish with olive oil cooking spray. Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add the onions and saute until translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another 60 seconds. Spread the onion mixture on the bottom of the greased baking dish.

Slice the potatoes, zucchini, squash and tomatoes in 1/4 inch thick slices. Layer them alternately in the dish on top of the onions, fitting them tightly into a spiral, making only one layer. Season with sea salt, black pepper to taste. Drizzle the last tablespoon of olive oil over the top.

Cover the dish with tin foil and bake for 35 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender. Uncover and sprinkle the Parmesan cheese on top and bake for another 25-30 minutes or until browned. Enjoy.

another Pinterest idea comes to life

Saw this on Pinterest, my newest obsession, and made it!

Start with a plain clear ornament. Cut your wedding invitation into strips, curl each strip around a pencil and place inside ornament.

Glue on some pretty ribbon and wa la!

Christmas Crafting

So we hit the hobby lobby this morning and after putting the twins down for their nap we got our craft on.

Teacher gifts... Thanks Pinterest!

Santa ornaments.... Here's how to make them...

Start with plain clear glass ornaments

Next you want to get some floor wax/polish (pinterest said it had to be the blue top wax but I used the orange top and it worked fine)

Remove the silver cap from the ornament and pour in some pledge floor wax. Swirl it around until the inside is coated. The turn the ornament upside down and drain the remaining wax back into the pledge bottle.

Now make or use a premade funnel to pour glitter into the ornament. You need a decent amount. Then remove funnel, use your finger to cover the hole in the ornament and SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE. dump the glitter that didn't stick to the inside of your ornament back into the glitter bottle. Put the silver part back into the ornament.

Next comes the "belt". I used glitter velvet ribbon from the scrapbooking section of Hobby Lobby. .99 cents a roll and you get 4 ornaments per roll (they were also 50% off).

Using a couple of dots of hot glue glue your ribbon around the ornament to look like a belt.

These are brads also from the scrapbook section. Just snip off the stems on the back with household scissors and glue where they 2 ends of the ribbon meet for the buckle. Wa La. Santa ornaments!

Day 4

Tonight the North Pole is sending a gift. Its a microphone that makes you sound like an elf! Bella will think its funny and the twins LOVE microphones. (Bella has a karaoke machine and they play with it)

Day 3

Bernard put himself as Bella's wallpaper on the computer LOL. She got a kick out of that.

Bernard Day 2

Bella had a sleepover at her mawmaw and pawpaw's house last night so apparently Bernard got cozy and waiting for her.

Let the Christmas season..... BEGIN!

Thanksgiving was sooooo good. All that prep I did the night before payed off. It was so layed back, no one stressed out no rushing just popped that bird in the oven and relaxed with my kids.

Little parade action...

relaxing morning, little basting, little laughing alot of thanking.

Then the moment of truth......

My turkey! It turned out so great. Everyone ate and had good conversation. No drama or nonsense just a great family day with a great family. Momma and Annie, (THANK FOR THE ROLLS ANNIE) Shayne and the kids. It was great.

Then we journeyed over the river and threw the woods, (or over the Nicholasville Rd and through the shopping center) to Mawmaw and pawpaws house. Had some dessert and sat around and talked and laughed with Indigo and Niki and Mawmaw and Pawpaw while the kids had the run of the house.

Got home (after making fun of the people camping out of Best Buy and Toys R Us, Running out of gas *pretty sure that was Karma for pointing and laughing at the shoppers camped out* and got the kids to bed.

Little movie time for mommy and daddy, finished cleaning up the meals and went to bed.

Bella found a suprise we when got up....

And it looks like Bernard knows how to work the camera because his picture was on here when I loaded the pictures from Thanksgiving. He's a tricky elf.... can't wait to see the trouble he gets in this year.

The things I am thankful for!

Today as we prepare  for tomorrows holiday its a little quieter than it will be tomorrow and I wanted to look back over my grown up life and the things I am thankful for.

Aug 3rd 2007. That is the day I became Mrs Shayne Belden. It hasn't been all roses and rainbows but there isn't a second of my life that would make me take back this day. I am more in love with this amazing man today than I was then.

October 30th 2001. Isabella Peyton Belden. She is the light of our lives and I am so thankful we were blessed with her.

She has grown up so much.

Wyatt

Willa

June 18th 2010. Never in my 34 years have I been as afraid as the moment I saw them for the first time. Willa Grace born first weighing 4lbs5oz and her twin brother Wyatt Grayson weighing 4lbs9oz. We spent 11 days in the NICU praying and waiting for them to learn to breathe, eat and survive on the outside. They were so small and sweet.

Boy are they growing fast. They make me laugh all the time.

My mom and my sister. We are all a little nuts (some of us more than others LOL) but no matter where we are or what is happening one phone call and we are there for each other. It a wonderful feeling.


SO as we prepare for this Thanksgiving look back at your life and remember all the things you are thankful for.

What is the biggest sign Christmas is around the corner????

People can hang lights, stores can pipe the music, tree's can go up but for me its not Christmas time yet until she comes out..... CRAZY TARGET LADY! Best Christmas Commercials EVER

It just doesn't get funnier than this!

RAOK

So I was playing around the other day on Pinterest (instead of you know my kids, doing laundry, cleaning up toys etc LOL) and ran across a pin titled "YOU HAVE BEEN RAOK'ED. I opened it and it was all these ways to commit Random Acts of Kindness. So that's what our family started yesterday. That is our goal as a family to commit RAOK's as often as we can. These opportunities present themselves so often in our lives like that little angel sitting on your shoulder and most times we just don't listen.

Yesterday I was in line at Kroger checking out and the man behind me was buying like 8 boxes of Cheerios and 8 boxes of juice and I thought maybe he had several children or ran a day care of something. So I got done and the coupon that printed out was for $1 off General Mills products. So I just turned and gave it to him. He looked at me like he had a couple of heads but said thank you and I moved on.

Cut to after school and after playing at the park we ran out to Barns and Noble to get 2 books for Bella, Shayne had found a gift card in his wallet he had forgotten about and Bella is in LOVE with this series of books called "I Survived...." and we are in LOVE with her wanting to read so off to the bookstore we go. As we are walking up to pay the young man working behind the counter asks the young lady with him if she had a dollar, he wanted a paper and he was going to have to put .98 cents on his debit card. So as he was ringing up our books I asked for a paper. He finished I payed and then handed him the paper. He got this stunned look on his face and grinned from ear to ear and said WELL AREN'T YOU THE MOST! it made me giggle. I just said you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  and we left. He was still talking to the girl about it when we left. It made me feel so good to see that look of surprise and excitement on his face.

I think this is so important to do year round but more so as we head into this holiday season where people seem to have forgotten about Thanksgiving and the reason its so important to sit back with the people we love and reflect on how blessed we all really are and then moving into Christmas where it seems like its more about this and that instead of that sweet baby born all those years ago who gave everything He had to save us from ourselves. I think its so important for our kids to see us doing these simple things that make others happy just because. Its not a special occasion or a tip or whatever its just because this little thing, handing someone a coupon, paying for a paper, buying someone a cup of coffee, giving a scarf and a pair of gloves to someone who is cold, handing someone standing at a bus stop in the rain a poncho things that are easy to do don't take to much time and don't need to cost a lot of money but to that person, that moment well that moment could change everything. We all walk through our lives telling people we are Christians but a lot of times don't show people we are Christians and that is my challenge. Not only to those few of you who read this blog but to all my friends and family and mostly to me. Live the words, be that light in the world be that change you want to see. so go on get out there and commit some RAOK!

Not my best day

Ok so maybe I was a little flustered yesterday. I hate when we have a great day then the next one is rainy and yucky. The kids have such a good time playing outside and get so crazy locked up in the house. So Monday and Tuesday were such great days, grilled out Tuesday night AWESOME. Then comes Wed. grrrr. Rain, Wind, Clouds. YUCK.

So cut to 4 o'clock. Run pick up Bella from school (she has Squires Singers) run to the post office, then hit Kroger. I only needed a couple of things but its still a production with all 3 kids. Get to the checkout, decide I want a coke, grab one out of the machine and just keep walking. Bella was like Um mom??? OH hand it to the cashier. Then we get everything taken care of bagged up and are heading out the door. I am telling Bella I can't beleive I almost walked out without paying for my coke. Look down at Wyatt and right next time him in the cart is 5lbs of ground beef. Yep. Didn't pay for that. Thankfully I had no left the store yet so no crime had been commited, swung wide into the self check and took care of that.

So moral of the story well don't steal. LOL no matter how tired you are.

We earned out title yesterday

Ok Happy Thursday everyone. As you all know by now the name of this blog is Welcome to my Crazy Life. Well we earned that name yesterday. The weather was amazing yesterday so we were outside playing. Running around the yard. Playing with the ball's from the ball pit, filled the water table with the ball pit balls, just enjoying one of the last pretty play outside days of 2011.


THEN


BAM



SCREAM


I spin around and Willa Grace has  fallen  jumped off the Adirondack patio chair face first SPLAT. Concrete meet Willa Grace's face. Willa Grace meet concrete.

In the time it takes me to go from one side of the patio to the other her eye is black and there is a knot on her forehead. She stops screaming when I pick her up, simply lays her head on my shoulder and closes her eyes. Oh no little girl, no sleeping on a head injury. So I pull her away from me to look at her and run inside telling Wyatt to "follow mommy" yeah right, and hunt down my phone. Call the doctor.

Nurse: Is she bleeding?

Me: No

Nurse: Did she loose consciousness?

Me: No.

Nurse: Ok is she slurring her speech or stumbling as she walks

Me: Um she is 16 months old so yeah.

Nurse: (giggle) no more than normal though?

Me: No

(at this point I am starting to feel better)

Nurse: ok well doesn't sound like we need to see her. She could develop a black eye over the next couple of hours.

Me: um her eye was black before I even picked her up off the ground.

Pause....

Nurse: um....

Pause.... (no body likes the pause people)

Nurse: Let me talk to Dr Hawse and call you back.

wait wait wait, call them back an hour later

Nurse: I am so sorry I thought someone had called you. Dr Hawse says you need to get her to UK hospital NOW. An instant black eye can be a sign of a skull fracture.

Ok staying calm YEAH RIGHT.... What happened next is sort of a blur I know my neighbor Shannon was there and so was my sister and I was driving and I hate the new layout of UK ER.

Get her back to a room, torture her through vitals, wait for daddy who is moving his car from the ER to the parking garage 2 blocks away then running back and getting my car and repeat.

1st doctor comes in checks her, makes her mad, tells us they try and avoid radiation at this age so they want to keep her there, give her a drink and snacks and watch her for a few hours.

1 hour later, enter doctor 2. He is the ER pediatric attending. He does the same things to her, again makes her mad, and again tells us they don't like to expose them to radiation at this age if they don't have to so they want to watch her for another hour and if she is still eating ok and walking around ok we can go home. So we spent an hour playing peekaboo, pawpaw and cousin Abby came to keep us company, we rode the little red car up and down the hall, ran around after a nurse who thought it was super funny. A little after 6, a little more than 2 hours after checking in, we got to leave. No fractures, hard head, no more monkeys jumping on the bed (or patio chair).

This morning I found on standing on a diaper box. Lord give me strength.

Birthday Weekend EXTRAVAGANZA Days 2 and 3

For the 2nd half of Bella's birthday weekend we took her out to lunch and gave her the tickets to the Taylor Swift concert. Nana then took her shopping for a new outfit to wear.

We had a great time. Taylor sure can put on a great show!

Then yesterday on her actual birthday we went to the Orchard.

All in all it was a great weekend. I will leave you with 3 things I learned this weekend.

1. I do not own near enough sequined clothing items
2. even 10 year old's need a nap before a concert
3. Darth Vader and his storm troopers have to wait for a table at Ramsey's just like everyone else.

Birthday Weekend EXTRAVAGANZA

Day 1.

Tonight started the big 10 birthday weekend. I mean we have to do it up big right?

The big 1-0


a decade old


double digits

My baby is now 3 short years away from her TEENS! OMG.

So.... Tonight was suppost to start at the corn maze however it rained for 3 straight days and was like 40* so we scratched the corn maze. Then it was suppost to be this big suprise when we headed home from the corn maze and I said "SUPRISE Abby's spending the night!"

Well can I tell you the reason I don't do suprises often.... On the way home from school on WED I say, so what do you think you and Abby would want for dinner when she spends the night. Yep thats right. I did. So cat was out of the bag on that suprise. Oh well.

So instead of the corn maze we hit the movies, Puss in Boots 3D, well if you are going to sit through 90 minutes about a talking cat in a little outfit it has to be in 3D right? Then we ran into Kroger got a couple of things needed for a good sleep over, rented some movies and a game from the redbox and came on home. Bella and Abby made cookies and watched a couple of movies and are sacked out on her floor. Sound asleep.

And can I give a big shout out to Pinterest for the great idea for "decorating" for her birthday. Cheep but she LOVED it.

just 15 balloons in colors that match her room just let loose. Looks crazy festive and Bella was so happy. Abby thought it was pretty cool too.

So.... stay tuned for Day 2 where we will have more suprises that I have actually managed to keep as suprises.

Cheese, Chocolate and Hurricanes

So Mommy has been feeling a little strangled lately. Monday I got some relief. Dinner out with my Mum's girls at Saul Good.

Starting with CHEESE! Saul Good has a seasonal cheese fondue. UMMMMMM So yummy.

Then lots of girl talk, we talked about kids, families, tv, riding your bike in a hurricane, ENT appointments, etc, you name it we talked about it. It was about 50 feet short of heaven. What got me closer to heaven you ask?????


CHOCOLATE FONDUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Now some of you who know me know I am allergic to chocolate. It gives me bloches and a headache if I eat more than a bite or 2. However let me just share this little tip from me to you......


Chocolate Fondue is NEVER a Fondon't. I popped a couple excedrin extra strength when I got home and all was right with the world.

So to sum it up

CHEESE - CHECK

Good friends- CHECK

Good laughs- CHECK

Momma's Sanity returns (well there isn't enough cheese or chocolate on the planet to check that off)

Chocolate Fondue.... ALWAYS!

Oh how they make me laugh

So the twins newest trick is showing off their bellies. You say Where's your belly? and up their shirts come and they try and bend down to see their belly.

So the other day Wyatt wanted to watch an Elmo dvd and so I said "I think sissy has it in her room. Where's Bella?"

He looks at me, looks down the hall, back to me where he raises his shirt and points to his belly button. This continued over and over about 5 times then I said where's ISAbella. He thing ran down the hall and knocked on her door.

Mommy Guilt

So I am dealing with an extreme amount of mommy guilt. I cannot tell you the last time I had 10 minutes free of kids and pets and Kroger. Yes I get to go to Kroger free of kids and pets. WOOHOO I know it does smack of a Caribbean holiday doesn't it. NOT.

So why the double guilt? I worked SOOOO hard to have my kids. Years of blood work, exams, shots, tests, heart break, heart ache, miscarriage, more shots, more exams, more, more, more. God blesses me with beautiful healthy twins. I already had a beautiful daughter. I am so blessed. So whats my problem. I should not feel trapped or suffocated. I am blessed with 3 amazing honest to goodness miracles. I am blessed with a husband who works super hard so I can stay home with these blessings. Yep.

Home.

All the time.

24 hours a day.

7 days a week.

52 weeks a year.

So I won. I hit the infertility lottery. I don't have the right to complain. I don't have the right to feel like running away from home.

I don't have the right....

To Wish...

To Dream...

To Pray...

for 1 hour. just 1 hour where I am not smelling for poo, listening to screaming, answering questions, folding laundry, unloading/reloading the dishwasher, sorting coupons, making lists, packing lunches, wiping noses, cleaning every surface I see.

Just 1 hour.

So why do I feel so guilty?

This is just to make you laugh!

This is for Kristy!

Yep

Nuf Said

Worst Dr EVER and Assault Rifle Yes Please

Ok so let me preface this by saying everything turned out fine... that being said....

My sister who moonlights as my bff came over this morning before her dr's appointment. We hung out had breakfast played with the kids and she went to her appointment. See she found some lumps in her right breast.. I sat here and told her everything was going to be fine. Fast forward to 12:10. Phone rings and its her. She is being sent right away for a mammogram. She is 31. She is in good health. And when did they stop making you wait 2 weeks before you can get in? I met her there and within 15 maybe 20 minutes we were done waiting for the doctor to read the results.


Enter WORST DOCTOR EVER! We are taken back to the little room where the bad news is given. The we're so sorry news. Only moments later enters say it with me THE WORST DOCTOR EVER. He has this super serious sorry your dog died face and this low monotone sorry your dog died voice. He starts by saying they didn't find anything in the right breast. shoo. but WAIT FOR IT.... then he takes this big breath, sighs and says "Your left breast" and PAUSES! yes you read that right he PAUSES. I am thinking OH MY LORD PLEASE NO! My sister cannot have cancer. I promised her it would all be ok. He begins to run off at the mouth about misshapen milk glads and one foot smaller than the other until my sister sits straight up and in a loud but clear voice stops his ramblings and says " DO I HAVE CANCER?" We then get this look from yes you got it THE WORST DOCTOR EVER like we are idiots and he can't believe we didn't read between those lines and know already that she did not have cancer. I mean who doesn't get from misshapen milk glands and one foot smaller than the other to no cancer on their own? Stupid people I guess because he was clear as mud to us.

So this has been bugging me most of the day until I hear on the news about a raffle in Paris ( Yes Paris KENTUCKY) to raise money for a kids football team where you buy tickets and the prize is yep an Assault Rifle. I mean nothing says lets help the kids like something that can fire several hundred rounds of body piercing bullets per minute. So I go back and forth on what to do about this doctor.....

Scathing email to Lexington Clinic or


Drive to Paris and buy me a raffle ticket?

Wonder what I should do? LOL

Sickness and the art of the Dance

Poor Willa Grace. I know its just a cold but she is so miserable.

However I will say as sad as she looks and as sick as she is she still can make you smile. Last night she would dance then lay on the floor and cry.

But what can I say when the rhythm gets you it gets you and you just gotta dance.

Double Post Monday... Our meal plan for the week.

I know there are weeks when I sit down to make my menu and nothing comes. I draw a complete blank. Don't know what to buy, don't know what to make. This was not one of those weeks so I thought I would share so that others who are hitting that same menu making wall may be helped and may then help in return.

Tonight its Crazy Cheesey Mac and Cheese plus Smoked Sausage . I added the sausage to the recipe to make it a main dish and then we are having broccoli with it.

Tomorrow: Crock Pot Chicken over Rice...
3 cans of chicken broth, 2 cans of cream of chicken soup, 1 stick of butter, 4 chicken breasts...throw all of that in crock pot on low for 7 hrs. Take chicken out and shred. Serve over hot rice.

Wed: Meatloaf and Mashed potaotes and peas. Now I had made the same kind of meatloaf for YEARS until I had surgery a couple of years back and Shawna Bivins brought us dinner. I will never make meatloaf any other way ever again.

Thur: Crock Pot Beef Stroganoff over noodles

Friday: Baked Potato Soup with bread.

Saturday: Slow Cooker Pork Chops with Soy Sauce and Ginger

Sunday: Baked Parmesan Garlic Chicken with Broccoli

So there ya go. A weeks menu.

Running and the word NO.....

There is a word I need to practice....

NO!

I was going through my calendar and thinking heavens I have a lot to do. Then I opened my email and typed "if you still need me I would be glad to help with Walk to School Day". This was only after I agree'd to make 3 different treats, 10 of each minimum for the cake walk at the carnival.

Then I opened another email to say yes to a Mum's outting but questioning how on earth I am going to do a hay ride and petting zoo with 2 yes count um 2 babies. Maybe just maybe I have lost my ever loving mind.

So in addition to not being able to say no to anyone or anything that includes my own dumb ideas. Thanks to my sweet friend Jenna I am now the proud owner of a double jogger. I love it I really do. So easy to push, Willa Grace isn't kicking Wyatt in the back, and it looks cool. lol. Soooo sure why not I can run. no big deal. WRONG! I was never a big runner before hand and let me just tell you people you think having 1 baby wreaks you try having 2! This will pretty much sum it up.

Yep, your welcome people of Chadwick, Windy Knoll and Summerhill. That laugh was for you! Oh well onward and upward I suppose.

Back to Square 1!

So lot of mothers will tell you that CIO (cry it out) works but is heartbreaking at first. So once we do it and our babies are going to bed without that fight and are sleeping through the night we don't ever want to do it again. Well we got to do it again last night.

In the hopes of selling our baby swings because they take up so much room and the twins really have outgrown them I put them in the Rabbit Run consignment sale. So last night we decided to cut out the bedtime bottle. Wyatt was ok with it. Willa Grace, not so much.

We put them to bed, (well Shayne put them to bed I was off trying to help my sister who had lost her keys somewhere on Abbywood Dr.)

After about 5 minutes Wyatt was sleeping but Willa Grace started yelling. This went on for 45 minutes. Got her up, considered bottle free night an EPIC FAIL and gave her a bottle. Well just to prove that she OWNS US she took about 2 oz of milk, tossed the bottle away, climbed out of Daddy's lap, walked over to the shelf and started taking all her toys out. Yep thats right, she OWNS US!

Daddy picked her back up let her know it was bedtime which was followed by her crying and trying to yell without spitting out her binky.

She screamed and yelled in her bed for another 40 minutes or so before finally giving in.

So what have we learned from this

1. They may not be ready to give up those bedtime bottles
2. Willa Grace is strong willed
3. SHE OWNS US!

In over my head?????

I am starting to think this whole super mom thing is WAY over rated. Between staying home with the twins, PTA, Girl Scouts, all of Bella's clubs, keeping up with the house, menus etc, its starting to get overwhelming.

This morning started with Bella's nose bleeding. Got that stopped and got her off to school.
Wyatt woke up with a cold but happy.

Todays TO DO List
Clean up kitchen
4 + loads of laundrey
Vaccume the house so I can clean the carpets in the morning
Run get baggies to get the rest of my small items ready for the consignment sale
Finish tagging and start loading the car
Run open the Girl Scout bank account
Head out to the girl scout office to register our troop
and make it to Story Time guess not with the cold well I guess its a blessing LOL


I was thinking about it and the one thing I don't do enough of is drink. Yep I think maybe I need to find a time to schedule that into my life. Maybe that could keep me sane LOL. Well I guess I better get to it.... Yep this is my CRAZY LIFE... and I love it!

YES PLEASE

Well... Isn't that crafty

So Sunday night while watching Sisterwives I started my first Pinterest inspired craft project. As you know by now I have twins. Well with a twin pregnancy comes maternity clothes almost the moment the stick turns blue. Now if you are me you have a sweet sweet friend who paved the way before with a TRIPLET pregnancy and gives you a TON of great clothes to wear. 89% of these clothes survived, the other 11% should never see the light of day again. There are spots where the bottom of my belly was and they are stretched farther than I am sure the makers of the clothing ever thought possible so... these shirts became my crafting medium.

Now, remember that little book I mentioned before entitled "People I want to Punch in the Face"? Well you may also remember my husband earned his spot in it. He did so by laughing at my creation. No its not perfect, its a first attempt to recreate but twist the design of something found on pinterest and I think its cute. So HA.

Then last night after my 9 year old tells me she is IN LOVE WITH THAT NECKLACE MOMMA, I sit down to watch more mindless TV or as Style Network calls it Giuliana & Bill I made Isabella a headband. I think it turned out really cute as well.

So crafty right? So my next try will be to make several flowers of different sizes to go down the front of a tshirt. But that will have to wait. I do believe I hear rumblings coming from down the hall.

Ohhh BLOGGING?!?!?!

So you know the old saying, "BUT MOM.... All my friends are doing it!" Well that's me! Welcome to my crazy world. I have all these thoughts swimming around in my head and for a large chunk of my day only my 15 month old twins to tell them to. So that's where you come in because quite frankly as cute as they are I don't think they "get" me. So who am I? Well, I am the following....

1. A daughter of Christ. That is my number 1.
2. A wife of 14 years to the love of my life. The man I prayed for, the man I kissed far to many frogs to find, my best friend, and the one person who can make me laugh when its all coming down around me, Shayne Belden.
3. A MOM! I am the mom of 3 amazing blessings. Isabella who is 9 and Willa Grace and Wyatt who are 15 months old and we also have 2 sweet angels in Heaven cradled in the Fathers arms waiting for the day I will hold them.

So that's who I am. Oh I guess I can add 4. A BLOGGER LoL but I think that would indicate I take this in some way shape or form seriously. To be honest my #1 reason for starting this blog was so I could post my creations to Pinterest, or as my husband calls it "my new obsession". A friend of mine (SARA CORMAN) lead me over to the dark side lol and I have been lost ever sense. I have however taken it a step further and instead of just pinning every cute or funny thing that I see (did that for about 4 days) I start CRAFTING!

Well lets be honest idle hands are the devils workshop right. And I figure if I am going to watch crap on tv like Sister Wives , Giuliana and Bill, Tia and Tamara and Real Housewives of EVERYWHERE I need to be doing something other than eat! So I started crafting.

Now none of this is to say that all I will talk about is my crafts, I will ramble about my children, my husband, my desire to buy strange but wonderful things like a book entitled "People I want to punch in the face" who by the way my husband earn entry into last night and just the wackiness that follows me where ever I go.  So hold on to the seat of your pants, and WELCOME TO  MY CRAZY LIFE!