My First Owl Creations!!

I love how these cute little owls turned out!! Thanks Su-B for sending me that cute owl for some inspiration!!

Week of Birthday Celebrations!

This week has been one big birthday celebration. I started celebrating Tuesday night having dinner with my parents and then ice cream cones from BR. I had a card on my desk at work with an owl on it (they know me too well already) and also had some sweet kiddos tell me Happy Birthday throughout the day. Mom had Bible study on my actual birthday, so my dad took me to Picasso! Yum! We then went back to BR, so I could pick out a cake...it's not a birthday without a cake!!

Most Yummy Birthday cake from BR!

Mom and I went to my favorite place Thursday night for soup!

Friday night, I celebrated with friends! They were so sweet to have this yummy cake and ice cream for dessert after dinner. We ate at another one of my favorite places, made a quick trip to Target, talked, and watched the most disturbing movie ever.

Cheesiest picture of the year!

Thanks for a fun birthday celebration!!

Today, we went to Memphis to do some shopping and had dinner with my brother and sister-in-law. It was fun to visit with them and go shopping. I did some damage at Gap and then at the scrapbook store for Disney scrapbook items and also some owl scrapbook paper...so cute!

With Jason and Jessica after dinner!

Thanks for meeting us for dinner!

Goodbye 25

Hello 26!
25 was great...hoping 26 will be even better!

I did enjoy being 25 but am excited to see what 26 brings. A lot has happened this last year as I closed the books and in a sense ended a chapter in my life with graduation and then entered into a new chapter with a new job. I had the opportunity to do lots of mini trips on the weekends to catch up with friends and family and finally made it back to Disney! I changed jobs after only 5 1/2 months in my first real job and feel so blessed to have had that opportunity. I attended my first Alabama/Auburn game with Alabama winning!!! I have had time to work on some of my favorite hobbies and even added some new ones. It has been a good and busy year for sure but definitely one to remember.

Sew Much Fun!

I am having so much fun sewing! The bib is for a friend's nephew. This was the first time I tried embroidering and while it was not easy at first, I think I have the hang of it.

I love how this blanket turned out. It is going to a friend who has a baby shower to go to this weekend for one of her friends to welcome little Easton. They like Tennessee, so she asked for a TN burp cloth as well.

I had another last minute in house order...thanks, mom. :)

This is for baby Elizabeth! These fabrics are just so fun and happy!

I also embroidered the E for Elizabeth's bib!

Weekend in Alabama

This weekend we went to Alabama for the gymnastics meet and also a basketball game.

The gymnasts come out between these letters and then are introduced with fireworks. It is quite a show before the meet starts.

Unfortunately this was the worst home meet in years, and they lost to LSwho? I didn't even know they had a gymnastics team!

The next day we made a quick appearance at my cousin's 4th birthday party for more gymnastics fun.

Her favorite part was the pit or in her words, "blocks."

Another loss for the Tide this weekend as AL lost in the final seconds after having the lead most of the game.

We had dinner with family and had time to visit last night and this morning before heading back home. It was a great weekend despite the outcomes for both sports.

H is for Hallie

I have been sewing some more this weekend. Here is something I made for a friend from High School/Church who had a little girl in October. I never sent her anything, so I decided to pull out some of my new fabric and make something for sweet baby Hallie.

Another taggie with the pale pink minky dot fabric on the other side.

This might be some of my favorite fabric!!!

More coming soon! I have new fabric coming in this week to finish up a gift for one of my cousins and have to wait to post a few other things!!

Happy Birthday Christy!!

Today is Christy's birthday, but we celebrated Friday night at a Japanese restaurant in town and then had dessert at her apartment. Christy was my grand big in XO and is still one of my good friends. I hope you have had a great birthday!!

Making a wish...we didn't have candles for the cake...oops!

I found a recipe on a blog and decided to try it out...brownie mix with cookie dough added to the brownie batter. Also, chocolate icing on top! It was soooooooo good!

Sarah, Sara, and Sara

The group!