Papier Mâché Piggies

Two weeks ago when I took the girls to my parents house, we Papier Mâché 'd over balloons to make Piggy Banks.

Then, this last weekend, we painted and decorated them!

^Even Tom got in on it!

This was the end result!

The green one will go in the baby's room. The purple with the skull (Tom drew the skull and I painted it) went to my SIL who likes pirates.

Since Lilly wasn't with us, Tom painted her's blue.

Sarah painted the pink one and Ashley painted the purple one with the flowers.

Halloween Fun!

Last weekend we had all the kids, and well, they needed something to do, so we went to the pumpkin patch and picked out a few pumpkins. The girls did a wonderful job designing them, and they looked pretty spooky!

Back in IA.. and many changes..

Wow! So many things have happened in the last I-don't-know how many months, I don't know where to start!

I am hoping that now I will have time to post more scrappy things.. as I have a lot of exciting things to start scrapping..

In a nutshell...

Andre and I broke up in June. It was pretty much a mutual thing.. He didn't want to move that far from his family, and I didn't want to move that far from mine. We are still friends, and usually play "catch up" once a week or so :)

I then was planning on moving back to MN, as I wanted to have more time with Lilly. Well.. in the 2 months that I was there, I had seen her about as much as I did when I was in IA. Her Dad had many different things going on with her, including a 2 week road trip to California, and a week in Wisconsin, that I only got to see her about 4 times (every other weekend, since I was working during the days) I also was making about half a third of what I did in Iowa, which with child support, insurance and taxes I would end up with less than $100 each week... so I explained that to my ex husband, and he said that he understood if I needed to move back to Iowa..

2 weeks before my move, I started dating Tom.. We've know eachother for over 5 years, and finally thought about the what-ifs and such.. (and looking back, we wished we would have hooked up months ago!)

All my weekends off were spent in IA when Lilly was with her brother and sister, and Tom would come up to MN on the weekends that I had Lilly. Lilly and I went to IA for a weekend together as well.. She LOVES him!

On Aug. 21, I found out that Tom and I are expecting :) It was then that I decided to move back to IA, and in with Tom. "Baby H" is due May 3rd, and all the kids are super excited to meet their little brother or sister. (this has not been posted on FB yet.. Most of my family still doesn't know..)

(Picture is of Lilly, Tom, myself and his younger daughter, Sarah)

I am sure that I will have tons of REAL posts from now on, as not only does Lilly like to help with the crafting, but Tom's two daughters love to do it too.

Fun Filled Weekend!

This past weekend, I went up to my parents house. I am actually there right now as I type this! Lilly and I have been having a blast - we made tons of paper dolls, and she is an expert on the cricut now too! I told her to tell her Dad that's what she wants for christmas LOL :) We cut out the Princess, Bride and Groom, Pixy, Mermaid and Genie. Those pictures are still on my camera, and will post them once I get home. We also made pumpkins, spiders, Cats, skeletons and Ghosts and decorated Grandma's (my mom) house! So glad that I decided to bring my cricut! We have been having so much fun! Below is Lilly showing off her Cricuting skills. She was VERY good with the machine, and could figure out which buttons to press that matched the handbook. She is 6 1/2. (and she loves glitter glue.. used that on EVERYTHING. LOL)

Had dinner with my brother and his wife too tonight. And My dad decided that now was a good time to take some family pictures. (of course he could have told me that BEFORE I washed my hair LOL, it looks really flat in the pictures)

Below is Me, my dad, My mom, my brother Eric and his Wife Katie, and Lilly is in the middle.

And here is me and Lilly.