Being Crafty!

 I  was working on my scrapbook of Daniel's 1st year (which I plan to finish this week!) and couldn't decided how or where to use this paper my sister in law bought for me. I didn't want to cover up all  the cuteness that is this paper with pictures never to be seen again. I also thought about cutting it up like I do sometimes and use parts of it as accents on other pages. I didn't really want to do that either though. I liked it too much as a whole.

SO I found an old foam picture board I had made years ago but don't use anymore and had this great idea. I took the ribbon and fabric off and cut the board down to the size of the scrapbook paper, glued yellow crape paper to the edges of the board to help hide the rough cutting job and decoupaged the scrapbook paper to the board. Since the ribbon on the origional board was blue I decided to use it instead of finding something new. Now, I can enjoy the cuteness of this paper all the time!

finished product!
 (Yes, I know. I didn't use a ruler and the ribbon isn't exactly evenly spaced but I don't really care.)

With pictures in it!
 (These were at the top of my scrapbook pile)


And here's a video of Baby D!
 He pretty much lives in this little corner. He's always climbing up there.

CMT was on so he's watching a music video.

HAPPY 4th of JULY!

Walked to the brownies beach boardwalk to wach the fireworks!

We had fireworks on July 3rd

Matching!

IT IS HOT!
Pool Time! He loved getting squirted with the spray bottle fan. 

Sparklers!!!

Dancing with Daddy!

Daniel loves to dance!

 He accidently turned on this beat on the key board and had a blast dancing to it when daddy came over to play with him!

First Hair Cut!!!

Baby D got his first haircut today.

This was bitter-sweet for me! It means he is no longer a baby but a little boy!

This morning. Long and scraggly.

Getting ready for the cut. He is watching the olympic swim trials.

there goes my baby's hair!!!



You can't fool me daddy! I know you're cutting my hair!!!



His poor hair sticks out on this side now...hopefully it will learn to lay flat!

It's gone!!!

All the hair we cut off! (And yes I intend to keep it!)

I sang to try and keep his attention in my direction so Davey wouldn't cut him...it didn't really help much!

Berry Picking!!!

Today Yesterday, Daniel and I picked fresh wild rasberries in our back yard! (Well, I did the picking since the bushes are prickley.)

beautiful berries

up the hill to the other rasberry bush

picking clover

eating clover



Mommy's evening treat!!!! YUM!!!

Who needs a bathing suit?

Today we went out to play in the sand box and Charlie decided to take a dip in the pool...fully clothed! All the way down to her socks! Then very shortly after Daniel followed suit! They had a grand ol'time! Who needs a bathing suit!?

ONE YEAR OLD

My baby is ONE YEAR OLD!

Here are some pictures and videos of his first year of life.

Baby D on his BIRTH-day!

Daniel at about 3 weeks old.

1 month old!

This is the 3rd time I saw him roll over! Such a strong little boy!

3 months old

6 months old and begining to crawl

Gurgle gurgle gurgle

7months old

Daniel digging in to his cupcake at his first 1st birthday party!

 At Daniel's second 1st birthday party!
Dig in Baby Boy ! 

Happy First Birthday Monkey Boy!!!

For his birthday I made Monkey cupcakes that I saw on Pinterest. (I would link to the origional page but the browser can't find it.)
here are pictures of the ones I made!

I made Daniel's cake in a pot pie pan. I didn't want to make a whole cake just for him to destroy but wanted something a little bigger than a cupcake. This worked out great. I baked two pot pie pans of cake and stacked them, frosted them, and created a monkey face.

Below is the idea I got from pinterest! They turned out so cute! I made chocolate buttercream icing. (Way easier than I ever imagined!) Then decorated with Nilla Wafers and jell icing. I mad them the day before his party and the only issue I found was that the nilla wafers became a little moist. I took the cookies off before eating my cupcake but the kids still loved them.