Mr. Mustache and Hot Lips Using Silhouette Cameo Paper Cutting Machine

Last month when we got back from our trip to BC Canada, Washington and Oregon Coast, I had a family dinner since we missed our family Easter. I hid eggs for the kids and then gave them mustaches and lips that I had glued onto sticks and the kids and even adults had a great time. It was a lot of fun and we had a lot of laughs. Try it for your next family gathering with the kids I am sure it will be a big hit with the kids and adults as well.
Here are some photos we took of our family silliness.

Rylan figure it our right away!

Morgan incognito 

As you can see we had a lot of fun!

I've been picking up Morgan from school this week having to go get her in the middel of the day all the way to her school, it's nice I get to spend the extra time with her but hard because I can't get into doing much hopefully it is just for this one week. It's hard to plan anything.

Until next time have a great day!

~Kat

Happy Mother's Day

A Mothers' Day Prayer

I thank you, Creator of us all, for my my mother.

I thank you that she gave me life and nurtured me all those years. She gave me my faith, helping me to know you and to know Jesus and his ways. She taught me how to love and how to sacrifice for others. She taught me that it was okay to cry and that I should always tell the truth.

Bless her with the graces she needs and which you want to give her today. Help her to feel precious in your eyes today and to know that I love her. Give her strength and courage, compassion and peace.

Bless her this day with your love.

I could not seem to Mom or Mother on this card enough! LOL!

This is the Mother's Day Card I bought my mom.

My daughter bought me these sandals and I wore them to dinner with some of my family at Olive Garden last night, I pose for the photo that Steve takes of me so I don't look horrible like I usually do when I don't pose. I am not good at that kind of thing normally. My daughter Kirsten picked a great color for me this is one of my colors.

These are super cute shoes, she got them at DWS. I think that is the name of the shoe store. Of course I got a lot of other things as well, but I love shoes so this is my favorite gift. 

What my daughter wrote to me on Facebook. 

Mom thanks for the ecard you sent me. So very sweet. I love you so much. Mom I know we have our difference sometimes, but your the best mom. I'm lucky to have you to pick up the peices when my real dad wasn't there and still isn't. You have been there for me in more ways than you will ever know. Your a wonderful Grammy to my son and step children. I'm truly blessed and so are they. I love you.

Happy Mother's Day!

I got the prayer from 

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Mothers/?pagewanted=all#LostChild

~Kat

How Does Your Garden Grow

Lizards in my Garden

One of my Lizards...yes he is a  big one, I have both male and female they were mating last week so I guess I should see baby lizards soon.

My garden is growing nicely and I think my and I have at least two lizards that are suppose to be good for the garden though some people are afraid of them. If you are afraid of Lizards you would not like my garden, they rustle through the bushes and run past when you least expect it right over my path to the garden. Lizards feed on insects, spiders, grubs, worm. Sounds delicious right....

Right above my garden I have discovered a birds nest, a black birds nest. Yup lucky me! that bird is trying to intimidate me and squawks at me every morning while I am in my garden. Now she apparently does not like me and when I go for a walk to the post box when arrive back to the house she tries to scare me away from my own house! I have tried to let her know I am paying the mortgage here but she won't listen to me.

I have not taken a photo of the black bird yet, but I will try to catch her this week while she is trying to dive at me. I ignore her. I adore birds and I am a sometime avid watcher of them, I love to photograph them, but black birds are not my favorite bird. 

How is your garden? soon I will post updated photos of my garden as it grows.

Visit with My Daughter and Grandson

What are your plans for the weekend, Mother's Day in particular? 

Today I went to visit my daughter we met halfway between our homes at a Sonic. My little grandson Rylan is growing so fast and so big. I just seen him a few weeks ago but he grows like a weed.

He wants more food that is why his hand is outstretched like that.

Yummy!

He is eating tator tots, he ate the whole time I was with them. He is a eating machine.

I just love him to pieces! precious baby boy will be 2 in August. 

~Kat

Welcome to My Herb & Veggie Garden

I wanted to put before and after photos of what the garden looks like in April and what it will look like at Harvest and into the summer. Unfortunately my photos did not get distributed in perfect order.

                                    

The herbs

Purchased Spikes from the Foothills Farmers Market in Roseville CA at the Fountains 

3rd section for herbs before planting

Oregano and more

Herbs

3rd section herbs

second section squash

First section veggies

there are two sides to the garden and 3 separate spaces this is the first one

Peppers, Green, Red, Yellow

In the small garden planted in April

Back to the patio

Flower garden

Path to garden

Path

Entrance

Have a wonderful Saturday!

~Kat 

Back From Vacation

It's been a busy life...back from Vacation to Canada, Washington State and Oregon, had a birthday, Easter after Easter gathering with the family. Planted a garden and made a fountain, planned a wedding anniversary party for Steve and I, it's going to be year 25 this year. Wew! we are busy....
All my invitations will have mustaches and lips on them. I have already cut everything out just need to make the invites. We are planning a dinner with family and a few friends in Old Sacramento.   

Life has finally returned to normal just this past week. I felt in a funk after all that and seemed to still be running here and there for shopping and outings with the family.

Steve updated my craft room on my birthday

Check it out.

I put all my vacation photos on Flickr we had a lot of photos and visited a lot of lighthouses.

Flickr Vacation Photos

We were in Victoria BC Canada on Easter it was almost 80 degrees, we had a lot of fun that day. That day and then the day we were looking at 5 lighthouses in one day in Oregon was my favorite vacation days. Great memories. We took a ferry to Victoria with our dogs and then a cab into Victoria from the Ferry landing. 

Right now I am woking on my garden a veggie and herb garden.

This last week I was out with a new friend her name is Kat as well, we are so so much alike although she is not crafty but super social. Anyway we went to lunch and to a farmers market where I got these Veggie garden markers made out of ceramic, she sells them on Etsy.

  

I am going back on Tuesday to get some more for my herb garden.  

I have been working in the yard a lot and have not made any cards. I have been working on as usual my jewelry and suncatchers.

I made some birthstone bracelets, 4th of July/Patriotic bracelets and a few new crystal suncatchers.

Have a great weekend! I got one post in during the month of April!

~Kat