Free Walgreens 8×10 Collage!

Today September 30 and tomorrow October 1 you can get a FREE 8 x 10 collage from Walgreens.

I already ordered one! Can’t wait to pick up at the store. When you choose in store pick up, there are no fees, so a totally free 8×10 collage. You can use up to 20 photos and either have a title or not. I picked out some pictures from our trip to go see Toy Story 3 on Ice! How fun to have a FREE 8×10 collage of our trip to see Toy Story 3 on Ice for FREE! Thanks Walgreens and Radio Disney!

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Little Monkette’s Birthday Outfit

Soon…..very soon….it will be Little Monkette’s first birthday!!! We are just having a small family party but we are having a theme of cupcakes! Mimi will bake her a mega cupcake cake (Thanks to Joe and JC for letting us borrow the cake pan!). I made her a dress to wear with some cute Heidi Grace Cupcake fabric.

I got the idea for this onesie dress from Blue Cricket Design. You may recall that I had posted about them before in my Want To Make List 4. I based mine off of theirs but did not make it quite the same way. (I did an applique, one piece bottom skirt and no cuffs.) I had already planned to make her an appliqued onesie, but then the idea to make it a dress came up and I remembered their dress. I used their tutorial to help me with figuring out the adding the skirt. I can’t wait to see her in the dress!!! I showed Little Monkette the dress and she was very excited about it!

Birthday Dress!!!

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Little Monkey Medical Update

Today is day zero. Day zero out of who knows how many in a drug trial for Little Monkey. We are trying out Kuvan to see if it will allow him to liberate his diet a little bit while still keeping low phe levels.

To start out, we had to go to Quest for a blood draw. Our lab orders didn’t make it yet but I was able to get the doctor’s office to fax over a copy of the orders to Quest. Quest was VERY busy this morning. I was very thankful to have an appointment! The nurses there always freak out that it will take two nurses to draw his blood. I had to assure them that was not the case and that Little Monkey is quite the pro at this process. He was a little nervous today, but I think it was because this is the first nurse he has had at Quest that was black. (His nurse since he was 10 days old is black and he has been nervous/scared of black women ever since.) He did a great job though. No tears, just stuck his arm out and waited to be finished.

We got home and crushed his pills and he drank them right down in his ‘juice.’ I filled his juice back up with more juice for the day and he sat down for some breakfast. If only I could get him to eat!!!! One day he will want to eat I’m sure of it! Tomorrow morning we will do the same thing, go to Quest for a blood draw and then back home to take his medicine. We’ll see how things go!

Water Bottles

Coming soon…….

These:

Plain old water bottles

Will be turned into something much more fun.

Want to take a guess????

Toy Story 3 on Ice!

Little Monkey won tickets from Radio Disney AM 990 (Thanks again guys!!!) to go see Toy Story 3 on Ice when it came to town. About a week before the show, we found out that we were going to get to meet some of the characters before the show! Little Monkey was very excited to go see the show. When the day finally arrived, he went to school and then we hung out around the house for a bit before we left for some Chick-fil-a for dinner. Little Monkey is able to have Chick-fil-a’s fries, so we thought that would be a nice addition to the evening for him. Little Monkette is a big eater these days and she happily ate chicken nuggets and fries. (I was pleasantly surprised when my 8 piece chicken nugget meal had 10 pieces instead! Perfect for sharing with Little Monkette.)

So excited for his new 'ears'

After we finished our dinner, well everyone but Little Monkey who took his last fry with us, we headed down to the arena. We actually got there a bit earlier than we thought we would but it was fine. We also invited Aunt K to come along since we had four tickets and Little Monkette didn’t count as needing a ticket. Before the show started, we got to go to a meet and greet. We didn’t know how many characters or which ones we would be meeting. We all got checked in and followed the others (maybe 50 people total) to the meet and greet room. Each family got a goody bag. We were not expecting this but I was excited to see it. (It also made it much easier to tell Little Monkey no to other toys and items they were selling.) Inside the goody bag was a Mickey ears hat, Woody doll, Jessie doll and two single use cameras. Little Monkey ended up using the cameras during the show and did a great job (once we taught him how to use an ‘old school’ camera).

After a few minutes, Buzz and Woody came in to meet everyone! Little Monkey was SO excited. We waited in line to meet them and have our picture taken with them. Little Monkey loved it, while Little Monkette wouldn’t take her eyes off of Woody. He was so tall and she just wasn’t too sure about him. She never fussed or cried at all but she watched his every move.(Check her out in this picture!! She would not look at the camera!!)

Big Monkey, Buzz, Little Monkey, Little Monkette, me, Woody and Aunt K

After we met Buzz and Woody, we hung out for a bit and played with our new toys. Little Monkette loved Jessie and played with her a lot. Once it was time to go find our seats, we headed out to the arena and sat down. We still had about 45 minutes before the show started, so we decided a bathroom break and stretching break may be in order. Aunt K hadn’t had dinner yet, so she grabbed some food too. There were tons of gizmos, gadgets, shirts, toys, etc for sale but we refrained. I almost bought Little Monkey a Buzz Lightyear mug with a sno cone inside (The cups were SO cute.) but since it was $15, I decided not to! (I said it over and over again…I wish I was Disney. I wish I had their marketing ability. Everything is so perfect and they seriously do everything just right. They have it figured out. I wish I was them.) We came back to our seats and waited for the show to start.

Little Monkey LOVED it. Every time a new character would come on stage he would take a picture with his camera. Big Monkey actually took lots of pictures too. At the intermission, Aunt K and I decided to go to the bathroom while Big Monkey stayed behind with the kids. I almost gave in to the cotton candy (I LOVE cotton candy and there are few places you can actually get it.)-it came with an alien hat and cost $10. Oh my. Yes, no cotton candy here! Little Monkette had a snack and everyone was ready for the second part of the show. The first half of the show was bits and pieces from Toy Story 1 and 2 while the second half was all Toy Story 3.

Lotso!

Little Monkette could not take her eyes off of Lotso whenever he was on the ice. She sleeps with a little Lotso every night and loves him (She doesn’t know that he’s the bad guy in the movie!). She was excited to see him and always keeping her eyes on him. She also tried to do the Hoedown Throwdown…but doesn’t know the moves. (Not sure how the Hoedown Throwdown fit in with Toy Story, but they made it happen.)

Little Monkette trying to do the Hoedown Throwdown.

A big thanks again to Radio Disney for a fun, mostly free night out! (We only had to buy our dinner–we could have eaten at home. Parking $10 and drinks in the arena.) We would not have gone to see Toy Story 3 on Ice if we didn’t win the tickets, so it was a nice night out with the kids. They both loved the show and both fell asleep on the way home. Everyone enjoyed meeting Buzz and Woody and the kids love the toys they got in the goody bag.

Baby Gift Set

Recently I was asked to make a baby gift set for a friend. She wanted to give it to her sister-in-law for her baby shower. I agreed to help her out. She wanted a bib (I’ve only ever made one before), an initial onesie and a matching burp cloth (Never made one before). I agreed to help but let her know that she would be a guinea pig. She was okay with that, so I went to work. She provided me with the fabric, onesie and burp cloth. I really just had to make it all happen!

Much to my surprise, making the burp cloth was easier than I expected it would be. I looked at some online and checked out some tutorials and then picked what I thought was the best way to do it. I love how it turned out and will probably be adding these to my standard baby shower present. Hopefully the mom-to-be also likes her gift.

Initial Onesie, Burp cloth and Bib

Happy Birthday!

Recently one of our little friends, S, had a birthday. We were invited to her party but we were out camping when it happened. This week we were finally able to go over for a play date and to deliver her presents. I had decided to make her a shirt and then her mom had also asked me to make her a broken heart shirt, so I added that to her gift. I think she liked them and I know her mom did.

I have been having fun making these shirts and have had a few more special orders in our shop!

"S" shirt Long sleeved for winter!

Broken heart-Florida Gators and Miami Hurricanes!

We Won Again!

Almost everyday I enter giveaways at GiveAway Today and eventually it paid off! Recently I won $20 to Say it on the Wall. I emailed back and forth for a bit before I finally decided what I was going to order. Laura was very helpful trying to help me decide what size I wanted to get. Once I decided, I ordered and just a few days later I had my vinyl in the mail.

I was very excited to get it put up on the wall in Little Monkette’s room. I read all the directions and got it positioned on the wall. I went to peel off the top placement layer and this is when things got a big tough. I have put up a few other vinyl projects and this one was the most difficult to get on the wall. I did it a little bit at a time and eventually got it all done. I LOVE it on Little Monkette’s wall. Hopefully when she gets a big girl bed, it will still be okay to have the vinyl in this location.

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Anastasia State Park Camping Day 3

We got up right around 7am thanks to Little Monkey and Little Monkette. Our friends weren’t up yet, so we tried to stay quiet and just get dressed and feed the kids. Z came over to hang out with us for a bit when we were making breakfast. Big Monkey made us pancakes and sausage. Z thought we should make him a Mickey Mouse pancake, so Big Monkey made him one. We let him know that he could eat it but that he must still eat breakfast at his campsite when the time came. (Did you know about this one D and M?) He pulled Mickey’s ears right off and ate him. And he even ate plenty of boyscout breakfast with his family when they had breakfast. Little Monkette got to have her first Mickey Mouse pancake too. She ate the entire thing and seemed to love it. (She had eaten pancakes before, just not a Mickey Mouse one.)

Chowing down on Mickey Pancake!

After breakfast, we all headed out to the beach for a bit. This time it was low tide, so there were some small tide pools to play in. The kids had a great time digging in the sand, playing football and soccer and throwing the frisbee around. Little Monkey got buried to his knees in the sand and then helped M to bury Z totally in the sand. The only part of Z that we could see was his head. Little Monkette liked the beach and the ocean a little bit better this morning. D brought her super nice camera with her to the beach and got some great shots of Little Monkette.

Little Monkette playing in the tide pool.

Eventually we all decided that it was time for some lunch and a nap for Little Monkette. We washed everybody down and climbed in the back of the truck to go back to camp. We got there and Little Monkey and Little Monkette both needed to be rinsed off a bit better before getting dressed. We decided we would rinse Little Monkette in the shower and Little Monkey with our garden hose. I headed to the bathroom with Little Monkette and told Big Monkey to let Roland out of the camper. I saw him open the camper and then saw Roland over at our friends’ site. I asked Big Monkey if Roland had run out but he said no. Then I noticed that Roland was in a crate at our friends’ site. Oh Roland. Not again is all I could think. We checked out the camper to see how he must have escaped. Since the windows had been closed, he didn’t escape the same way that he did before. I don’t know how he did it, but on the same side that he escaped before he managed to tear part of the canvas that was connected to the bottom of the camper and slipped out the side. Later on we found out that our other neighbors found him wandering around at our friends’ campsite. Our friends have dogs too but they were both in their camper while we were gone. They had a big dog crate under their camper that the other person set up and put Roland inside. Roland pooped in the crate (could have told them that would happen!) so Big Monkey ended up giving both Roland and the crate a bath. We weren’t sure if we should be thankful that he was just wandering around our campsites and that they locked him up. I mean really, this darn dog. I told Big Monkey that Roland would be lucky to ever come on another camping trip again. Now we have to decide what to do with him and how to go about fixing the camper. (Thankfully we didn’t already fix it from before. It is no more cost to fix it now since he did it to the same side that he messed up before.)

Our Geocaching Group

We all had lunch and put Little Monkette down for a nap. Some of us headed off for some geocaching. The first one was very close to our campsites but took us awhile to find. I think everyone in our group had even touched it before we found it. M ended up figuring it out. Then D’s iphone got stuck and my gps’ batteries were too low for it to work. We headed back to our campsites to get more batteries and for M to set up his gps too. We dropped Little Monkey back off at the camper with the other kids to watch Up! Big Monkey decided he would come with us. The older girls stayed back to keep an eye on Little Monkey and to take care of Little Monkette whenever she woke up. We ended up on quite the geocaching trek. I got bit by a lot of mosquitoes. We found all the caches we were after and two parts to a multi-step cache. We didn’t go after the rest of the multi-step cache because we had been gone a long time. We thought we might go after it on Monday before we left. (We didn’t because we needed a canoe for step three and an eight mile walk on the beach for step four.) We ran into another person who was geocaching and we let him tag along for one that we were after. Once we found that one (the last one we were after for the day), we tried to go back to our campsites but ended up backstage of the Toby Keith concert at the amphitheater next to the campground. The roadie security man shooed us away and we headed off. We weren’t really trying to get into the concert we were just tired and trying to get to our campsites in the shortest possible way. On our way back to camp, the long way, we found a gopher tortoise. He was very friendly and let me get close to take his picture.

Mr. Tortoise

We managed to find a short cut to our campsite that went through the woods. As we are trying to find our way, a police officer passed us and turned around to come back. He didn’t care that we were trekking through that way, (even though we had to climb over a fence) he just wanted to warn us about rattlesnakes. Oh yay. Thankfully we didn’t find any snakes but four of us ran into some plant that stung all of us. We had to spend some time washing our legs with dish soap to get rid of the sting. We came into our camping loop just a few sites down from our campsite. Unfortunately, there was a big scary dog watching us, so we snuck around to the next site and got back. In total we had walked/hiked 4.5 miles!

After some showers and getting the fire ready for cooking the corn and potatoes, we got the rest of dinner ready. We had a nice big dinner and Little Monkette proceeded to be D’s best friend since she would feed her whatever she wanted. Little Monkette has turned into a great eater. We spent some time around the campfire and D made us her famous yummy croissants. It was another fun and successful day of camping with our friends (minus the Roland versus the camper part).

Etsy For Ava!

Etsy for Ava is well underway. Have you checked out the offerings yet? Click here for all the current Etsy for Ava listings.

In the Two Florida Girls shop, we picked out a special “Ava” fabric that we are making coffee cozies and custom initial onesies or shirts from. We have already had some orders for custom initial shirts. I was excited to work on those today. I hope that when the little ones wear their new shirts it will remind their parents of Ava and the Hunter family. I hope that each time they wear the shirt that they will think to stop and pray for the Hunters too.

"K" Onesie

"S" Shirt

Interested in your own custom initial shirt in our “Ava” fabric? Check out this listing in our shop for more information!