Weeks 2 & 3 of 2012

Hi!

OK so it appears that I have already sort of failed my 52 weeks in pictures....so I am going to catch up with this post and do my best to keep up! It is amazing how everyday life can just get so busy, but with a almost 3 year old I don't find much time to myself. When I do have some down time, I am usually found playing in my craft room creating something new! I actually just celebrated my 1st anniversary of my busy craft blog yesterday! I love being able to share my creativity, and I love to craft, so it is a win win for me!

I guess I will give a little update on all of us:

Jaocb: growing like crazy! He is maturing by leaps and bounds each and every day! He has a pretty extensive vocabulary, and surprises me almost daily with what he can tell me. Just this past weekend, I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he was so cute...he said "um..."put his fingers on his chin like he was thinking hard, then said "I want waffles!" It was just so darn cute how he thought about it for a minute and then answered me. I can't believe that he will be 3 in just under 3 short months!

Hans: Busy busy busy at work and tackling small projects around the house. He was selected to be part of a leadership team at work, which will require him to travel to 5 meetings spread over the year. Each meeting will be over 4 or 5 days, and will be held here, in Sioux Falls, and in Montana. His first one is next week! He was very honored to be selected for this team, and hopes to get a lot from it. He is also working towards being ready to take the NERC certification test later this year to be certified to control high voltage power.

Me: Busy working for the 2 companies that I currently do contract work for, and keeping up on my crafting. I have made it my goal this year to attend at least one craft fair as a vendor. My craft blog has allowed me to reach lots of people, and also encouraged me to open my Etsy store. I am hoping to expand my items and increase my sales this year.

Cute story about this picture of Jacob....I was in my craft room taking pictures of something I had made and was going to post on my blog. He came to the doorway and notice my camera out. Usually when he sees it, he will run away from me, but this time he said "camera...mom...picture....cheese!" and wanted me to take his picture! He would then move over to where I couldn't see him behind the wall, and then pop back into the door way asking me to take his picture again! He did this maybe 5 times in a row.

Happy Belated Birthday to me!

HI!

Last week I celebrated my 27th birthday! We had to go to Sioux Falls for a eye appointment for Jacob and after that we headed to the Zoo. We had a great time looking at all the animals. We really enjoyed seeing the baby monkey!

We are getting the house to feel more and more like ours! Since we have the upstairs painting done, we pulled out our art and got some of it hung in the formal living room and dining room. I am planning on getting our family picture wall done this weekend! We plan on painting the downstairs hopefully sometime in the next few weeks and then we will be able to hang up the art we have for down here.

We have decided to have some minor alterations done to our kitchen, and have found a company to do the work! They are going to remove the 18in cabinet next to our fridge, cut the counter, remove the double cabinet on the wall above the counter they are removing. Then we will slide the fridge over into that space, put up a single cabinet on the wall, and then put a pantry cabinet in between the wall and fridge. The main reason we are having this all done is because with our new fridge the french door on the left hits the wall and doesn't open all the way.

I am really excited as I was chosen to be on a design team for another craft blogger to help showcase my crafts (if you want to see them, check out my craft blog!) For this, I will be making specific crafts that will be posted on both my blog and the persons blog who's design team I am on! I have already posted 2 times just this week (my first) for her and have seen a increase in the people visiting my craft blog! 

Visitors!

We are having a influx of visitors starting tonight!!!! Megan and Mike are coming to visit for the weekend!!! I can't believe that it has already been almost 6 months since Jacob and I have seen Mike, and 5 months for Megan! Then on Friday night, my mom and sister Kim will be arriving and be here until Tuesday! Then we will have a break for a week and a half, and then Hans' parents are coming for a visit!


I have been keeping busy with my normal work, but I also opened an Etsy store to sell my hand made cards! I received my first custom order for some baby shower invitations and they are going to be going out in the mail today! If you would like to read more about them go here....

Well I hope you all have a fun and safe 4th of July weekend!

Week 5 of 52 weeks in Pictures!

Hi! This weekend has been a fun one! Friday night we went to an Aces game with Megan and Mike. It was a GREAT game! There was a huge fight at the end of the game that ended in 3 Aces players being suspended and 7 of the other teams guys being suspended as well as both coaches! Saturday night I really wanted to go to the second game in the series since Friday's game was so good, but Hans was at work and everyone else that I called couldn't go...so I packed up Jacob and we went! I took the camera along and got some great pictures! He LOVES going to the games and cheers right along with everyone else! At Aces games, we ring cow-bells and he loves to ring 2 of them at a time!

Here are some pictures that I put together if him from last nights game! We have him wear the head phones to help protect his ears due to the noise in the arena. When we score, for horns are blown and are really loud, plus all the cheering and cowbells makes it for one loud place. He has been wearing them since he was 2 weeks old, so he is used to them.

Hans should *fingers crossed* hear back from the job in South Dakota early this week! They had to postpone the final decision as they had to reschedule one of the final interviews to last Friday thus pushing back the decisions until next week. I really hope that we will have good news in the next few days!

Today while Jacob was napping, I finished up some Valentines Day cards for some family members. If you would like to see pictures head on over to my crafting blog!

Hope ya all have a great week!

Week 4 of 52 weeks in Pictures!

Hi! What a week it has been around here! On Wednesday Jacob started going to a new daycare/preschool for 5 1/2 hours a day! He is really enjoying being able to play with other kids his age and it gives me time to be able to get my work done, so it really is a win win situation. On Thursday, Jacob finished his antibiotics for the sinus infection that he had. However on Friday I noticed the runny nose came back, and then he started to spike a fever at night, so today we went back to the pediatricians (yes they are open on Sundays!) and he now has an ear infection....so we are now on a new med for another 10 days. I really hope that this med takes care of the bugs and he gets back to normal here soon!

Hans is still waiting to hear back from the job in South Dakota that he interview for last week. They should get back to him by Tuesday hopefully!

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have started another blog for just my crafts! I am really excited about all the fun stuff that have been making and now have a place to showcase it all. I have really gotten into reading other craft blogs, so that is what gave me the inspiration to create it! If you would like to check it out the address is: www.samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com.

Now for the pictures of the week!

Jacob thought that it was funny to suck on his big toe.....

 He loves to pay in the bathroom....however look at his legs...he found his shorts from his PJ's and put them on over his pants.

 But Mom...I want to watch Barney for the 32134646 time today!

 OK that's it....I am just going to sleep right here!

New Blog!

Hi All!

I have decided to create another blog for my crafts only! I have been reading a ton of scrap-booking and crafting blogs the past week or so and it inspired me to create a blog that is dedicated to just crafts! If you would like to follow that blog as well please do! The address is http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/ . I will be updating this blog with family oriented activities and the other with anything crafty that I do!