I love my little boy

Some days scrapbooking really helps me to feel better. Today I'm feeling extra grateful for my little Jacoby. He is such a good boy, handsome, and so fun to be around. I'm so grateful to be his mom or his Missy, as he likes to call me. I love these pictures of Jacoby and Tyler's dad taken during Thanksgiving. Terry is so sweet with Jacoby and I love how he calls him "little man."

post my projects-button shoes

I got these shoes not too long ago, but wasn't a fan of the rhinestone on them and thought maybe I could just pluck them off, but they didn't look very good after that and had little holes. I thought it would be really fun to glue white buttons all over instead. I had my mother-in-law pick up some buttons for me in Idaho Falls before they came to visit. I hot glued them on and while I was doing the second one, I looked at the other shoe so they would be pretty similar. I like them a lot better now.

Here's a before picture, but they were white. After
I finished Jacoby's birthday pages so that I could get his second year scrapbook made. It's should be arriving in the mail soon and I can't wait to get it!

the countdown has begun

Well the countdown has begun and it's a very bittersweet one. We have less than three weeks until we'll be down in Arizona. We're really excited, but really sad too. We're going to miss Idaho and all our family so much. We both love doing things with both of our families. I'm glad that Tyler is so happy and willing to spend time with my family and that I like being with his family too.

We've been busy working on some projects for our new apartment. These are things I've been wanting to get done for a long time. It's been great to have Tyler be able to help me. I will post pictures of everything when we move. When we get there, we're going to put Jacoby in a bed and so my mom helped me make a duvet cover for his new bed and Tyler painted his bed for him. We have been working on a bookshelf for him and need to paint it and do a few things to it still. I'm really excited about it because I have all the stuff to put in it already like baskets and pails. We also painted a rocking chair pear green; I love it.
I'm pretty excited to be able to decorate our apartment since I haven't been able to do much of that at this house we're renting.

Jacoby loves baseball now too. He likes to take his mitt and ball to Tyler's softball games. Also, he brings me his mitt and wants me to play catch with him. I'm pretty sure he would do it all day if I didn't quit, but I guess I'm not that nice of a mom.
I found a frame that was a 10x10 that I painted to go in Jacoby's room. I'm going to put a scapbook page in it and occasionally switch it out.

baseball and things

Tyler was able to play in a couple Hillcrest alumni baseball games. It was really fun to watch him play since he loves baseball so much and I was never able to watch him play in highschool. He even pitched and I loved watching that. It was fun to see him with all his old buddies. He said he's pretty sore today though. :) I've been wanting to make these fabric flowers I saw here, but have been searching high and low for the perfect, cheap vase. I finally found it at D.I. I love this line of fabric by Riley Blake and searched several fabric stores to find this pattern in every color so that it would match our room. I'm a little obsessed with this fabric, eh? I also used to for three basket liners in Jacoby's room in orange, turqoise, and green, and I'm going to make some bunting for his room with my scraps too.

These are better than real flowers. I originally had them on Tyler's nightstand and he sarcastically said, "Those are just what I wanted on my side." I decided to move them to my side because I would definitely appreciate them. :)

I wanted to share a couple of my favorite new recipes I've discovered. This lemon cream pie is awesome. It's very fresh and summery and light and oh so tasty. I made it Wednesday and already want to make it again.

These ribs are so moist and tender and have such a great, classic flavor. Tyler really liked them.

We're also having a giveaway on Make Your Tastebuds Dance soon, so stay tuned. It's gonna be a good one.

My good buddy Lyndsi came over last week to have me help her make an invitation for her sister-in-law's bridal shower. It was so fun to see her and her little girl, Maecie. Jacoby was pretty sweet with her and just loved looking at her and saying, "Baby." He looked so huge next to her. Lyndsi always has her dressed so cute. Little girls are so fun.

Jacoby has loved going on bike rides around our neighborhood, but I wish the weather would cooperate so we could get out more. Come on summer, where the H are you?

seven days of outfits

This is probably not a very exciting post for most people besides Jacoby's grandmas, but I got this template with the days of the week and got the idea to take pictures of Jacoby's outfit everyday for a week. These are some of my favorite clothes, too. He started to figure out what I wanted him to do everday I took the camera out and would stand up next to the wall in the same place. Man, I've trained him well.