Dance Party

It's cold and dreary and we were supposed to do our dance party in January. We turned on the music and danced the night away. By the time I decided to take some pictures, half of our group had left.

Silly face picture where I'm the only clear one. This one had me laughing like crazy!

 Papa Hensley was kind enough to keep the building safe and was sweet enough to dance with me. :)

I love a good reason to get dressed up! we had a fun night with the ladies!

E's birthday Party

Aloha Friends!! Welcome to E's 10th birthday party! My goodness this party was FUN!

Decorations all ready to set the mood!!

The cake the had me in tears. Is it really that bad, absolutely not. It's just not our usual kind of cake, It's much more simplistic and really now looking back, it's beautiful. 

All of the stitch goodies.

 Friends dressed up! Kaydence, Naomi, E, Emma & Lucy. This is the first year that we have only had school friends over and honestly it was such a wonderful change of pace. Small group, the girls were all the same age. We had a great time!

 

 First thing we did was screenprint some tote bags. For some reason in my mind I saw this process going so much faster than it did. I planned a two hour party and we were almost an hour and a half in by the time we finished the totes. note to self.... give yourself more time!

 

Then we ca,e upstairs to make our little scrumps. This was a absolute gong show but it was so so fun!!

It was at this time that we started to loose girls because our time was up. We sent them home with a tote full of activities that we didn't get finished. Oops.  

Drinks while they worked.

Naomi and E

E and Emma

E and her bestie Lucy.

Our finished Scrumps! Holy Moses they are so dang darling!

Now I felt absolutely terrible because we ran out of time for E to have her friends sing Happy birthday and eat her cake. E was so dang sweet and posed for pictures regardless but it broke my Mama heart a bit!

WE made E a Stitch shirt when we made the totes. 

Making her water bottle.

And while the party was fun E got to have a "late over" with her bestie Lucy. They spent the day playing and Lucy came around the corner with a striped tiger. I asked her about it and she said that it's her favorite stuffy. Like Sprout's Elephant. I laughed and told the girls to wait a second while I headed up to the attic. I pulled down my Beanie Baby tote and started sifting through it. I have the exact same tiger. The girls were so stoked to have twinning tigers. Lucy's is named "Fluffy" so they named E's "Scruffy". 

And that's another wrap on a birthday. It's was busy and wonderful and I'm happy it's been checked off the list! Happy birthday E!!! You are so loved!!!

Snow Magetton 2022

Once again Jakob left for a business trip and KC decided to throw down some freak weather. Last month Jakob too the company jet to a meeting and they had to drive two hours out of town because the wind here was so crazy. It was terrifying having him travel through that. I was so relieved when he got home. This time, snowmagatton.

Usually when we hear we're getting 4-8 inches of snow in KC we say, "I'll believe it when I see it." This time they weren't playing around. It dumped and it dumped HARD!!!!

Those are the bushes outside of our house completely covered in snow. We got close to a foot of snow. Naturally this completely shut down all of the airports leaving Jakob stranded in Alabama.

They decided to try and drive to Georgia to get a flight in there but quickly realized they were shutting down all flights. So they drove the 13 hours home.

 

 The snow stopped as fast as it had started so I decided to head out and shovel the driveway so that Jakob could get in. Nothing like a good ol Canadian work out. My back hurt so good the next few days! 

And he's home!!! Thank heavens. He rolled in at 3:00 in the morning. I was so dang happy to have him home!

 We couldn't let all of this snow go to waste. While i shoveled yesterday the kids played and squished all of the snow so it wasn't going to work for igloo's but we could absolutely go tobogganing. 

Snow is magical! 

I mean look at those smiling faces!!

I love a baby in a snow suit.

It was a great storm and once Jakob was home, my heart was so dang happy! This also kicked off the start of a six day long weekend due to snow days. The kids haven't had much school this year so far.