CRAFTSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

While I was visiting my sister this past weekend we did crafts, crafts and more crafts! Krissy and Nicole you would have been in craft heaven! Here are pictures of things we did and things we screwed up. It was our first time with many of these things, so they arent the best but I sure had fun and wish I had more time to do it. My sister has the best set up for it. She has one whole room well ok 2 whole rooms devoted to sewing and crafts. Her husband made her this huge craft table that is just great!
I made those to the left and made a 'coursage' tank below and my sister made the 'coursage' gray shirt.

my mom made this button below

my sister did this so cute ruffle shirt

I turned this rust color shirt into a scarf

I tried to make a cute ruffle shirt to the left, but it isnt so cute

I also did this 'coursage' shirt below

I have no idea what happened with these pictures. They placed themselves like this so it is kinda hard to follow. Here are some of the tutorials we used...

coursage tee here, but we altered it and cut out circles and kinda went with it

i want to try this next

scarf

and i cant find the one with the ruffle shirt but let me know if you are interested

catch up....

playing catch up...i feel like that is my life...never on track, always playing catch up...oh well...



Brotherly love....nothing else like it!

It is a rough life being an infant....the picture below is Cy falling asleep while he was playing....TOUGH!

We celebrated 5 years in Jan.! I love you more now than when we said 'I do.' I can't believe how far the Lord has brought us in these years. He knew what He was doing when He brought us together that Halloween night years ago. You have loved me through thick and thin, when I am difficult to love you have showed me grace. My heart melts when I watch you love on our boys and I am so proud to stand beside you as you follow our dream of reaching these baseball players. I love you hubby shakes!!

Chris is very thoughtful in the gift giving area....I want quality time and he gives it! He surprised me with dinner at the Partridge in and The Wizard of Oz at the Bell! I love broadway!

Happy 5 years honey...looking forward to many more!

Krisal came south for a few weeks and took a few hours out of her time to come visit! She was meeting Cy for the first time and that boy snuggled with her! Sweet Maria and her mommy Nicole came over with her...love them! We are secretly praying Maria and Peyton fall in love YEARS down the road!

watching TV

So as you can see from the last post that we are potty training, well we went to the store and P got to pick out any under roos he wanted. On the way home I heard him in the back taking out all of them and telling me what pictures was on every pair. By the way, if you know my son at all you know he picked out Lightening McQueen! Anyways, I then heard him laugh, so I looked in the mirror to see that! Oh how I love his humor!

This past weekend, the 2 boys and I went to visit my mom and sister. Chris was out of town and we needed to get out of the house!

Auntie M loving on Cy and Cy talking up a storm back.

My mom bought P these fireman rain boots for V-day. Uncle Joe thought it would be fun to change up his outfit...rolled up sleeves, pants tucked in, Peyton loves him so he was eating it all up! Oh yeah and it was maybe 830 or so at night and Uncle Joe was giving P some chocolate, got love the family!

My precious little snuggle bug on his Nana.
I could just eat those rolls up!

little man

Cy is now 2 months old! I can not believe how the time has flown by! He is adjusted into a nice routine/schedule now and things are a lot smoother in the Wilkins household. Cy is just a precious little boy. He smiles at us all the time and is now talking. Morning is his happiest time when he has the most to say. He is probably telling me how he is so mad that I made him cry it out through out the night. His sleeping is ok, usually wakes up around430 or 5, last night 630am! Cy is an eater! He eats 5oz every 3 hours, chunky monkey is his nickname around here. During the day, he likes to nap in his swing, NOT his bed, it doesn't bother me where he sleeps as long as he DOES sleep. I love watching Peyton just look at him. Yesterday morning I looked around and saw Cy just grinning at Peyton. It melted my heart. God has blessed us with 2 wonderful boys and we are so thankful!
I will post some pictures soon, I promise!
Life has been a little crazy the past few weeks....closed in room at house (a post to come soon), house on market AGAIN, potty training....oh and the joys of baseball season starting this week. My new single mom friend (her husband coaches also) is Riki.

the adventures in potty training

Yeah, so this is our 3rd week! Peyton has done great, which tells me he is ready! We have had to use many different techniques....m&ms, cookies, toilet targets, big potty/little potty, nakedness, pull-ups, thomas underwear, spankings, peeing outside. He likes to use his little potty and wants to be rewarded, I let him choose his reward. He likes m&ms or cookies. In the beginning he wanted those toilet targets but I think he got frustrated because he couldn't hit them so now he doesn't want anything in his potty. He is now to the point where he will tell me or Chris instead of trying to go every 30 mins, which ends up in a long drawn out stand off with lots of tears and yelling (done by both me and P). We are so proud of our big boy taking the next step of growing up. Next thing I know he will be going off to college :o(

Happy Birthday Jesus!

This year a tradition we want to start is celebrating Jesus' birth with a party. Peyton is at an age where is understands and remembers things very well. We want our children to grow up knowing why there is a Christmas and that it is not just about presents and lights. Peyton and I made a cake and we had so much fun. He more licked and asked if he could eat the batter than he did help, but it was still fun!

The Holidays

This year was a very relaxed and low key Christmas. Having a newborn limited our going out of town and actually it was nice!
Chris has been home almost 2 weeks, it has been nice to have extra hands around the house and it is always nice to see his handsome face more!

My family came to us and we had fun! Peyton got lots of gifts and we are now closing in a room so we have a place to keep them, haha. (That is true but for another post) My mom got him this amazing train set that he LOVES! We had to record his reaction when he walked around the corner Christmas morning because we just knew he was going to be so excited. We gave him a set of tools, every boy needs some tools! He also got more cars than he can handle! Cy got some diapers and formula, haha! Well, he needs it!

There are WAY TOO MANY pictures to put them all on here but I will just post a few below...

This is the beginning of a long night....

...but it was worth it!he loved it!

Christmas with the cousins......

...and another cousin...

couponing and swagbucks

I might be really late on this, but I signed up for Swagbucks today. Anyone heard of this?Check it out over there on the side! You can earn swagbucks for searching on that particular website and cash them in for giftcards or paypal cash. I am still looking in to it and trying to figuer it out! Also, I am going to a couponing class January 9th, let me know if any of you want to go! It is here in North Augusta and should be a lot of fun, very informative!