Talen

Here's Talen!

 Again I used http://www.scraporchard.com/! They have a free kit right now.

Digital Scrapbooking Here We Come!

First photoshop scrapbook layout! Thanks to http://www.scraporchard.com/ I was able to upload one of their free kits and follow along with them step by step on you tube! This was fun! More to come!

CREATE!

The Holiday Season of 2010!

I have SO been behind in getting my blog up to date so I thought I would start by just saying - I will get to it! More to come I promise!

 Top ten Cox best/most interesting moments of 2010:

1. Spent first day of 2010 in Utah. (kids learned to ski!)
2. Brandon was accepted into War College
3.War college was in Alabama...we moved...our selves.
4. Isable was baptized!
5. We got a new puppy "Maggie."
6. We splurged this year and bought something we've always wanted, a boat!
7. We went snow skiing in Alabama...don't ask.
8. Talen learned to ride a bike.
9. Spencer received his Bear badge in Cub Scouts.
10. Natalie passed her Anatomy and physiology classes, along with five others.

A Few of My Favorite Things...

I love girls night out and what makes it super fun is to have a party with a theme! Through my many blog stalking adventures I found this idea here a bushel and a peck of fun and decided to give it a try. It's called "A Few of My Favorite Things..." party. I couldn't resist such an easy laid out plan.



I have made the coolest and funnest friends here in Alabama. They have welcomed me into a new place with much love offering many creative craft ideas and delicious recipes. Alabama has some serious crafty folk! I wanted to give them a good night out for being so wonderful to me. I wish I would have taken a picture of all the ladies the night of my party, but my camera was not cooperating with me and I had to fall back on my iPhone. These pictures show the prep work involved and what the party was about.



Here was the back of invite I mailed out. I got it from Vistaprint.



 



This is what the "bar" looked like with our yummy Italian sodas, which were a big hit!



Everyone had to bring an appetizer or a dessert to share. This is what I made.



Napkins and silverware



I found these cute bags at the dollar store and then ordered these stickers at Vistaprint.
Everyone who came got a bag to put their 5 goodies in.



These post-it door prizes were found here Vistaprint.
I gave out five by picking the names out of the bowl before we began.

These were the items I was lucky enough to get!



We had so much fun!! I invited 13 ladies over and they had to bring 5 of their favorite things, all of which had to be the same and under $6. It was amazing the amount of things we love under that amount! We had a few creative favorite things like beautiful homemade earrings, and mugs filled with packets of hot chocolate with dipped chocolate spoons. There were a few easy yet completely note worthy items such as Warm Delights single serve microwave brownies by Betty Crocker and gift cards to Chick-fil-A. It was a night full of laughter and friendshipping. I can't wait to do it again in the spring!





Best Buds

Talen has become so close to our new puppy Maggie.

They wrestle together, chase eachother, play tether ball together, and swim together.

Here are a few pictures to show some of the love between them.

Sorry about the feet!



It's a girl thing

Isabel and I have come to an agreement that if she wants to paint her nails she has to paint them with me, on a tile floor, and using only cotton balls (not mommy's towels.) 

It was hard to keep Talen out of this, but we finally convinced him that knights don't wear nail polish. He took off after that.

 Here are the pictures that show why I must enforce the rules.

If you look at Isabel's fingers you'll see why!

I can't just sit back and watch!