Year in Review

A trip down memory lane and what we were up to this year…

January

We played in the snow…

Sami donated her hair to Locks for Love…

February

Matt went back to work after being laid off for 4 months…

Sami started ballet classes at IBT

March

Skylar learned to pull herself up and stand…

We had a fun little trip to Bellaboo’s

April

We had some Easter fun…

May

We went to the Ft. Wayne Children’s Zoo

Sami graduated from Pre-Kindergarten

June

Sami had her first dance recital

Skylar turned ONE…

July

Sami took her first airplane trip to Texas with Nana!

Skylar went to her first parade…

We celebrated Matt finishing his apprenticeship…

Sami went to dance camp at IBT…

August

Matt and I celebrated 8 amazing years of marriage…

Sami started Kindergarten…

September

DISNEY WORLD!!!!

October

Sami turned SIX…

We trick or treated…

Sami lost a tooth…

November

We started Disney Family Movie Nights!!!

December

Sami danced with IBT in The Nutcracker

Sami had her first Love Notes performance at church…

Christmas Fun…

Happy New Year everyone! Can’t wait to see what 2011 brings!!!!

Disney Family Movie Night- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Our big New Year’s Eve plans were to stay home and eat snacks and watch movies. I thought we should just do our movie night plans. Snow White was Disney’s first full length film, so I thought it seemed to fit as we approached the first of the year…

Sami dressed up in her Snow White costume, and wore a little apple clippie in her hair.

She made a magic mirror for our activity.

We went light on the decorations. I did put up some yellow and red streamers. And put a table cloth on the table…super fancy I know!

On the menu:

Dwarf food!

-Mini tacos

-Mini Muffins

-Mini pizzas

-Mini soft pretzels

-For dessert: Apple pie and ring pops (like the jewels in the mine)

-Witch’s brew punch (red Hawaiian punch)

We ate our “dwarf food” while watching our movie…and Uncle Micah even stopped by for some movie night fun!

Up next week…Pinocchio

My new hobby….

I have been wanting a sewing machine for awhile now. I have no plans to make anything fancy, but there are some simple things that I would like to try. So I used some money I got from Christmas and bought a nice little sewing machine from Wal-Mart.

Okay okay…let me be honest now…I really wanted a sewing machine so I could make the girls cute shirts and dresses for Disney World. Ugh…is there a 12 step program for people like me??? Ha!!!!

I haven’t sewed more than a button since 7th grade sewing class, but with some encouragement from my friend Jen from church I decided to try it out. I bought some fabric today and decided to see what I remembered. Thankfully the machine came with a nice little booklet otherwise I would have been stuck once I got it out of the box!!

This is what I made tonight…

Nothing fancy…just a little cover for my machine. But it got me back into the swing of things! Tomorrow I plan to make one for my Cricut! Once I feel comfortable I will start making fun projects for our Disney trip…wahoo!!!