I really love this time of year!!
I especially love the way the house looks when it's all aglow from the christmas lights!!
I love the children's faces light up when they open thier gifts christmas morning!!
I love the wonder and the magic this season holds!!
God bless all us this joyous time of year!!
I can't believe a year has past since my my little man was born!
We had a beautiful cake made from our favorite store and they give babies a smash cake along with the birthday cake.
Fall is in the here and that's the time I get in the mood for some apple cider, nice comfy throws and pumpkin scented candles. The kids and I decorated the outside with scarecrows
and pumpkins, while indoors are more subtle colors and pink and white pumpkins. 
Have a lovely weekend my friends!!
When we first made over the kitchen I made some brown curtains. I should have known I wasn't going to keep them very long!! I am lace lady and the light colors make me happy!!
This is a cannoli cake I made. Pretty simple too. Just made 2 round cakes from cake mix and made a cannoli filling from this recipe here:
Let's have some cake!! Yum yum!!! I just had to have the cake die cuts from Jenny and Aaron at
Here is a peek at my kitchen window. I get in these phases where I want it all cleared away and open, and then I decide it looks too empty and start filling it up again!!
I know I haven't posted in a long time!! I just don't think I have anything interesting to say sometimes. I am on my blog daily and read other blogs daily as well. 
I love the way it looks!!! And it was done for under 10.00$$ !!!
So come on in and see the sweet Mother's Day gifts I got from the family.
And the balloon and huge card! My oldest is know for her big handmade cards and I look forward to them for every ocassion!!
And this here is from my youngest daughter. Her class put on a very lovely Mother's day brunch.
Welcome to Pink Saturday here at whinenroses blog. I decided to jump on in and participate in Pink Saturday. I just want my posts to be pink and pretty and hope all who visit think so too. 
I finally got around to putting some easter decorations up. Just a few things. Some wreaths, pink eggs, and a few bunnies here and there. The kids love to add the wondow clings to the front door. I let them decorate that! We've been working hard on more projects. We got the rest of the beadboard panels up in our foyer. That was part of our 25.00 craigslist find back in august. It looks great in the foyer too and eventually we will do the living room too. Little by little. I would love to do more with the beadboard wallpaper, but I have textured walls. Thats limets me to what I can do with it. 
We also added some thin molding on the door that leads out to our garage. It is a big heavy wood door and I really like it, but too plain. The cost of a new door is just not in the budget right now. So we bought some molding for 5.00 a piece (we needed 2) and hubby used liquid nail to glue it on the door. Looks great!!! Above the doors we added thick molding and rosettes. Too bad even with all the custome wood and decor our house is still not worth much!!! This weekend we are taking the kids to see the easter bunny for pics. I managed to bribe...uh.. I mean talk the girls into getting the pic for thier baby brothers first Easter!!! We'll see who cries this year...probably me!! Hugs, Jenn
I haven't blogged much lately. Same old boring stuff around here. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, whining, crying, poopy diapers and hormones!!! Ah- life with 5 kids!!! Somehow I managed to put together this play area for Matthew. Little guy is surrounded by so much girlie stuff with 4 sisters and shabby mama! To add a little balance around here, we gave our little man his own play area decorated with birthday pic frames of each of the kids and framed kids artwork!! Yes, I have a lot of artwork collected over the years so it's hard to showcase just certain pieces, but what can I do with all this stuff?!?!? 
Well a few years ago while reading through old Parents magazines, I found a great idea!! For many years I gathered artwork and put them in big plastic bins. Eventually all the bins add up and take a lot of space. So every once in a while I go through the bins and take a picture of each of the pieces. I then print up the pics and put them all in a photo album. If you want, you can add the date and name of child on the back of the photo for easy identification, and then throw out the pieces. Yes I said throw out!!! We all know we can't keep everything!!!! I got a little more caught up the other day and then about had a breakdown! I just could not throw anything else out!!!! It is a process- and it must be done when your in a purging mood!!! Although this idea may not be for everyone- if there are any better ideas out there for storage and organization I am open to them!!! But this seems to work for me and maybe it could work for you too!!! Hugs, Jenn
ok..when I say we made over our super cheap- I mean we did it SUPER CHEAP!!! 
