Dress Up Armoire

 

How fun would this dress up Armoire be?!! LOVE it!

How to: http://aboutfamilycrafts.com/dress-up-armoire

Eventful Ride Home

It would figure that I spend the the trip home telling the girls to be quiet and not wake the baby up, when 15 mins from home I look back to see a spider crawling down Kileys blanket. Needless to say I reacted first, thought later and woke her up. BUT at least he died a horrible death by book.  Normally I wouldn't even think of going near one but I knew if I didn't he would be hiding, lurking, waiting for me when I was driving and THEN come out.  For the rest of the ride I was watching the laptop bag like a hawk, once upon arrival hubby immediately checked for the carcase.   Though it might have been mainly to get me to stop whining. 

Kalahari Here We Come

After 3 years of working non stop we finally took a break and had a family vacation!  This was our youngest(Kiley) first ever vacation, unless you count the 1st time we went when she was in the womb.  We went to the Kalahari Resort for 2 days, 3 nights, and our trip ended up being even better then expected!  As we were checking in my husband casually asked if there was an possibility for us to be upgraded to the bigger rooms.  After speaking with the manager and much to our surprise they upgraded us to the lodge(FREE).  They had a deal on their Kalahari Facebook page for free tickets for the 6th, but we weren't going to be there that day, so they threw in tickets to their NEW adventure park too!  I'm pretty sure the room we were in was bigger then both of the apartments we lived in before buying a home.  The room came fully equipped with all the basics you need to cook, your only job was to stock the fridge.  We had an awesome view of the Resort from the balcony.  Vince & I were suppose to take turns making breakfast, but he surprised me and made breakfast both days.  The only downside to the trip was me forgetting the cameras at home.  These photos were taken by hubbys phone, I swear I'm really not that terrible at taking pictures lol

Bugs be gone

I really want to start a garden. It's nothing something new; it's always been on my mind. Though I have one eensy-weensy little phobia stopping me: 8 legged creatures from the Nightmare Abyss. If I see a spider in the room, it only takes about 1.8 seconds before I am no longer in the same zip code.

Maia proudly told me she killed a moth today. To which I replied, "That’s great! Now you can kill all the spiders for mommy."

Bragging now, she said, " I killed a bug yesterday with my finger." I gagged. She laughed.

After our conversation it hit me: now that I have my mini bug hit man—woman—what's stopping me? I could find something to bribe her with, and then unleash her to annihilate every creepy-crawly in the neighborhood! Hahahaha! All this power could go to my head. :)

Maia Haircut

After months of fighting with the girls to chop off a few inches, and Miss Maia watching Em with her short hair, she to decided she to wanted short hair.  Since the fabulous Rachel Notle was already doing mine she went ahead and cut Maia's =)  She went even shorter then her sister!  The look on daddy's face was priceless.

Not one to be out done, Miss K insisted she get her hair cut too!  We did a fake cut for her ;) 

It took FOREVER to finally find a great hair stylist down here, but I found Rachel 3 years ago and we will be using her for good!  Rachel works for the Jcpenny Salon in Roseville, MI.  She is a FT SAHM mommy of 2 beautiful babies and works alternating weekends at Jcpenny!  For limited time, make an appointment with Rachel, let her know Kemaily referred you and you will receive your choice of 1 complimentary treatment FREE!  Call 586.296.2907 ext 3 to set up your appointment!!

Haircut

Glossing Treatment

Deep Conditioning

Eyebrow Shaping

Hair Cut

We almost made it 8 years before the whole 'so and so did/has/wants this so I have to have/do it too!  Today Miss E chopped off her hair and donated it to a good cause.  Now she looks even more grown up.....I'm not ready for this!

Notes........

Now that Emily's old enough to spell and write she loves to leave notes around the house for me =)

Valentines

Happy Valentines!  Yes, I am that annoying person(just ask my husband!).  I figure Valentines Day, Sweetest Day, & our Anniversary are 3 days out of 365 he can romance me with sweets, flowers, cards, or something along those lines.  Some people think what is the point when you can show it all year round.  In our house, when your spouse receives 2 days off a month its easy to forgot those things that a certain someone might like since days just blur together.  The girls and I are at home ALL day or at least it feels like it so for us it's easier to whip his favorite cookies or dinner.  My husband is an amazing provider for our family and is gone most days into the evening hours and goes to school on top of it.  So for him being 'romantic' is a bit more of a challenge since he doesn't know when he will get home or get another day off, etc.  Monday I jokingly told him, pick up my favorite cake and Breaking Dawn and I will be ecstatic.  After the kids went to bed he disappeared to his car and came back with those 2 items!  Since I guessed my gift I received them early =)  Perfect Valentines for me!

Workout

Remember the days when Friday nights meant you were going out for a date, possibly to dinner and a movie.  Now it consist of a crabby toddler waking up from nap and trying to get dinner into them as soon as possible.  Or pray daddy gets home fast with whatever he picked up to eat.  Then begins the bathtime fun while you wait and wait......and wait some more for each child to bathe which feels like an eternity.  Then after all that is over with you can work out.  Now our girls are insisting in working out with us.  We were doing P90X, I'm sure you've heard of that torture work out at least once.  It actually wasn't bad after awhile, you started to enjoy it, but then it becomes boring and their voices become annoying. You can only make fun of the voices so much before it becomes old.  So we(I) decided to try Insanity.  WHAT a nightmare, between dodging 1 kids feet and another running into me and the baby trying to knock you over w/ hugs and keep up, it's very interesting.

Water Wars

You always know kids are going to come up with something they are not suppose to do when you are not looking.  Though you bury your head in the sand hope that for once they will ACTUALLY do as they are told, today.....was not that day.  After waking up late, rushing to dress baby, feed kids, jump in the shower just to hear a bunch of giggling going on.  Not the 'oh my sisters are funny' haha kind.  The 'this is so much fun mommys not here' kind.  Apparently the girls were having a squirt gun fight in the kitchen WITH the water bottle that can spray 12ft in a steady stream to nail your target.  Except in the hands of 2, 6, & 7 y/o's they don't have much aim.  They're reasoning for all this?  The baby started it! I did in fact witness K taking the bottle and her sister grabbing it in which became a tug a war.  K won, she fired the water straight into her sisters face and yes we all giggled.  After the bottle was put away or so I thought I left and it turned into an all out war.  Kids....you just never know whats going to happen next. 

25 Best Mom Confessions of 2011

This will put a smile on face and possibly a giggle or 2 ;)

http://thestir.cafemom.com/healthy_living/130638/25_best_mom_confessions_of

Kids and Baking

My husband has been telling me for months that people are requesting cookies. To all you working moms who can handle working 40 hours away from home and come home and be a domestic diva, I bow down to you.  I can barely keep up working from home running a business and all that entails,  homeschooling, house duties, errands, and kids!   So today since I no longer have an excuse the girls and I baked over 12 dozen cookies.  Nothing says let's kick off Christmas break and the end of Christmas orders like standing in a kitchen with 3 little helpers(2 helpers, 1 pint size tyrant) and baking, baking, baking, and baking some more!  The girls of course loved the dumping of the contents and and opening the bags of Hershey's kisses, while Kiley just snuck them by the fist fulls trying to destroy the evidence.  That didn't work out to well since she had chocolate drool all down her shirt and around her mouth.  After dinner I finished up making the cornflake wreaths and I made the mistake of leaving the gate open.  We learned that mistake when baby shrek entered the room. 

Christmas Cookie Fun

Today was our annual frost a million sugar cookies day.  It is impossible to walk away hungry with all the temptation to lick off the frostings on ones fingers.  There might have been a few instances where we purposely frost fingers*looking around innocently*.  Now my wonderful girls are hopped up on sugar and running around like wild animals! 

Just woke up from nap and digging into all the sprinkles

Friendly Roaring Baby

In our house daddy is the celebrity.  So whenever we hear the back door rattle it doesn't matter where the kids are at or what is going on, it becomes a sies and desist and race as fast as one can to the hallway to hide.  While waiting*giggling* for daddy to open the door while they pop out like a jack in the box to say hi!  Kiley hasn't quite learned to just say hi, instead she likes to ROARRRRR as loud as she can over and over.  Not sure where it came from or started but now even mommy gets the cute lil roars. 

Fall Fun

After one of those days of running errands and children being stuck sitting in waiting rooms at Doctors offices the girls needed to run off a lot of energy.  What better way then to play in the crisp fallen leaves of fall!  To watch them run and jump into a full pile of leaves and giggle with delight is music to ones ears.  As you can see from our youngest she was the one to catch most of the leaves.  She giggled with delight the entire time while her sisters chased her.

Halloween!

Trick or treat, smell my feet, oh wait.....I got off course there for a minute.  My 3 beauties had a blast tonight trick-r-treating.  I thought for sure we would have a toddler meltdown since little miss is not a fan of talking to outsiders.  Needless to say after the first trunk-r-treat she started to get it down.  Then she was flying from the stroller before we even stopped to run up those steps!  It was like watching someone climb Mt.Everest watching her tackle all the steps and shove her way past all the lil kids.  All for a few pieces of candy.  Between the candy, jack-o-laterns, singing decorations, and leaves on the ground she was in Heaven.  Running and kicking through the leaves, who cares if mommy and daddy say to get off the lawns a 100x's.  There was no stopping her.  She held her own with her sisters and walked most of the way on her 2 tiny feet.  Now everyone is tucked away all cozy in bed exhausted from all the fun =)

One of 'those' weeks....

This has been one of 'those' weeks where you feel like your going to break!  All 3 girls have taken turns having some form of a cold and cough.  When the baby gets sick, everyone pays.  It doesn't help matters shes in this phase of hitting and scratching.  E & M have so many battle wounds from lil Miss this week alone.  It's funny how when you have kids you forget these awful stages. Then again I suppose if we remembered everything as if it was yesterday no one would procreate. It has also dawned on me December is right around the corner with a craft show, and......I'm no where near ready!  I will not lose it I will not lose it.....Miss Maia's birthday is next week and has informed me of her mile long list that she would like.  What she doesn't know is I purchased her birthday gift back in July =)  We have been horrible at following a school schedule this week so next week will be a fun catch up week.

Best Vacation Ever

SOOOO enjoying this wonderful break from usual life!  My gift for Sweetest day this year was a break from my 'job' ranging from scrubbing the toilets to cooking dinner!  I enjoyed it immensely. It worked out perfectly that my husband was taking a 4 day vacation. Of course when the idea was first mentioned I will admit I laughed thinking to myself 'yeah right'.  Shockingly I was proved wrong and loving every minute of it!  We are now on day 3 and I can't recall one thing I've had to clean, cook, or bath the kids!  Anyone that knows me know that is a big thing!  I'm the one that goes crazy if there dare be a spec of dirt on the floor or a stain on the childrens clothes, an item not in it's place, the baby rearranged my pantry.  Mind you it rarely happens that my house is anywhere near to what I would prefer, but when you have 3 children and a husband it's not always possible.  Except now HE's the one taking care of everything!  To know that I won't have to go downstairs and clean the kitchen after the dinner mess, bath the kids, do laundry, clean the house, divide up the chili he made into future meals is so.......peaceful. Did I mention he even bought me my favorite cake and the biggest bag of Halloween candy he could find?  Now thats true love =) 

Santa Rocks!

Is it bed time yet?  Todays fun adventure was grocery shopping, in a down pour, w/ 3 little kids.  I wasn't really paying attention to what my child was wearing to the store.  I seen they had appropiate clothing for the weather and we just ran out the door.  Pink floral sweatshirt, turquoise boots, orange floral shorts, and the best for last..............

Santa Rocks shirt in September =) 

As soon as we get home from grocery shopping I get out, jump over the big puddle praying Kiley doesn't see it(yeah right), drag her out of her seat and set her down since we are all carrying in grocerys.  We make it 6 feet away, 1/2 way to the house now and your about to have let out that sigh of relief when you senses send you a warning message, and then it happens.  She sees the water and you know you've lost and nothing good could possibly come out of it.  Kiley pivots around like some basketball star doing a last minute fakeout and runs and jumps in the big puddle, score!  As we were leaving for soccer she decided to up her game and sit and splash =) Besides it was only the first game of the season and we were running late, what better way to make an impression then a muddy toddler =)

Our New Family Business

For over a year I’ve had friends and family telling me I should sell the baby blankets I make and how much they love them.  Last September(2010) I finally started doing just that!  I have officially started a website called “Kemaily”, it is a combination of all of our girls names.  Now we have a Facebook page and it has been a huge success!  The girls and I LOVE it! Going to pick out all the cute fabrics for blankets, burpies, or hair accessories is so much fun.  The possibilities are endless!!  When I first started I only had blankets, now I am up to minky burpies, minky blankets, taggies, lovies, crochet headbands, kufi hats, hair accessories, & many more ideas in the works!  We recently had an order for a cell phone case cover, kindle cover, boys tie, & more!  I love the unexpected, to be able to create anything from just a few yards of material.