Crazy Crafts

So, this week I've been ALL about crafts and making them, or finding them on a blog and doing my version of them. I want to share a few of them with you because I feel that they turned out pretty great, if I do say so myself. And I guess I did just say so myself, so there ya go! :)

Also, I pulled out my sewing machine that I got for Christmas {read Christmas 09} and I've done like 2 tiny projects but you won't be seeing those on here. Only a few select people have seen them...and that is how it will remain!! Once I practice a lot more, maybe those projects will make the blog. Maybe.

Here we go for this weeks stuff.

A wooden "D" that sits on our table was repurposed. Sporting a little design and a grey. i love it.

Next i bought some 3 dollar frames from Walmart and reused one I had, grabbed some felt and made some sweet little Valentine frames. a little love to the kitchen island.

this is a repurposed frame i had also. i put a blue piece of paper in and cut out our letters and voila! a master bath decoration was born!

This next baby is what I'm SUPER proud of! I found this here and LOVED it! I have made a part of this for 3 sets, but only completed one, as it took about 1 1/2 to do. this is burlap, mouse ears black paint from home depot, and some ribbon. all of the directions are on that blog
*which is my favorite craft resource at the moment!*

My FAVORITE part of this project is you don't use the typical "X" and "O", you use the first initial of each child's name. I changed it up a bit and added an "M" and "D" for the Mom and Dad, because I figured that we might just want to play too!! :) I LOVE it and can't wait to give as gifts!

Those are my projects this week, but I'm sure I'll be churning more out this next week!! Hoping you have a very Happy Valentine's Day!!!

what!?! twice in the same month!!

Don't be too shocked, but I'm blogging twice in a month!! GASP!!!! It's a miracle!!! But I'm sticking to my New Year's Resolution of blogging more often. And my other resolution about starting a diet...but I'll tell you about that in the next post.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the snow!!! And since this is my blog, I will post just how happy I am about it snowing and being so cold the past few days. I realize a majority of people probably don't agree with me on loving snow when Spring had been flirting with us for the past few weeks, but I love it!! I honestly think I would enjoy Alaska full time. Maybe not the getting dark and staying dark part, but the cold and snow, yes.
It's crazy to think that our temperatures were actually COLDER than the North Pole!! I think that is bizarre!! Santa Clause must be really happy about that fact!!

On another note, I'm about to begin a few new "crafty" adventures. One involves a Christmas present from last year that still has not been pulled out of the box, and the other involves a picture frame and pages from an old book. I'm going to attempt to learn how to sew and start making some fun things. Like seasonal shower curtains, or place mats and table runners. Maybe some clothes for Zoe's dolls. Someone stop me before I get in over my head!! I'm guessing that hyperventilating before I even take the tape off of my sewing box isn't a good sign is it!?!?! Yikes!!! The other craft will be easy and oh so cute, and I will post pictures during and when I'm finished with it.

Until next time, I would be interested if you have any fun crafting blogs you would want to share with me. I am always interested in seasonal crafts or making some really great new permanent decorations for my home. I look forward to hearing from you!!

round and round we go

Let's move on from the fact that it's been almost 6 months since my last post. It's not for the fact that I've not typed out a beautifully written blog, inserted witty pictures of my adorable kids, and basically posted the best blog entry known to the blogging world...all in my head. But let's be frank, well actually, I'll be Amy and you can be whomever you want to be. I have a busy life. You have a busy life. So I'm sure I won't have to beg your forgiveness on not posting each day or week, or heck, month since July! Let's play catch up!

July: This is what went down...

My hubs and celebrated our 3rd year as Man and Wife. I love this guy more than you'll ever know, or more than I'll ever be able to say. He's incredible. He has taught me a ton, and has shown me more about myself. Hubs, I love ya!!

The next day after our 3rd year celebration, we welcomed a little boy into our life.

Joah Wilson Detwiler

**8 lb. 2 oz - 21 inches long**

He's incredible and I really didn't realize just how much more cuddly and huggable my little boy would be than my little girl. I love it!

Here is Joah's debut picture.

Here is an unsure big sister and a very proud Daddy

Here is my little man. I LOVE this little guy!

Zoe was actually trying to give her week old brother rocks. He'll appreciate that one day

I hope our children always love and care for each other as they do now.

A little bit of August.....

Our sweet Zoe turned 2 at the end of August. We celebrated her big day with an Ice Cream Buffet. We had two kinds of ice cream, lots of different toppings, sprinkles, cupcake cones, and dairy queen cups and spoons to make it even sweeter!! I was asked were I got my inspiration for her party from...my answer...that's what happens when a very pregnant mama plans a party!

here is Zoe's 2nd birthday invitation and her cupcake with 2 candles!

Zoe about to blow out her two candles with cousin Harleigh watching

the cupcake cones, brownies and a few of the toppings

three kinds of cones (waffle, waffle bowl and regular cones), toppings, nuts, cherries, whipped cream, and several kinds of syrups. YUMMY!!!

Party favors in cone style paper, dq spoons, and ice cream flavored candies

It was a great time had by all!! Happy 2nd Year, Zoe!!

September was this......

My 26th birthday was on September 26. 26 on 26. I loved it! My hubs got me a Kindle, which I think is probably one of my all time favorite gifts. A few days after my birthday, Zach was offered a job in Amarillo at BSA. It was too good to not take, so we packed up all of our earthly belongings and headed North, or whatever way Amarillo is from Childress. We have continued learning what depending on the Lord really means. Daily we are taught and stretched beyond what we ever thought, however, we are also learning communication in new way with each other and with the Lord. It's a very sweet time right now, and I'm reminded how blessed I really am.

Here is October....
We moved to Amarillo a week before Halloween. Here are a few pictures of 2010 Halloween

the Detwiler family

MaMaw and Papa with all of their crazy grandkids

we have a Roadie, The Queen of Hearts, a Rockstar and Alice from Wonderland.

here is our Rockstar Zoe. Will sing for snacks.

here is a close up of our Rockstar's Roadie. Joah made a pretty cute Roadie.

November - December

Ours were busy just like yours. We settled into our new home, are currently trying to sell our home in Childress, and celebrated lots of holiday's with family and friends. We are now facing 11 months of 2011 and so far this year is shaping up pretty nicely. I'll make a belated resolution, and that is that I will try and blog more!! However, here are two recent pictures of my tiny tots.

Zoe's "princess cape" (a.k.a a tea towel on backwards) and her ketchup after supper. She's fun.

Joah sitting up by himself for the first time!! He'll be 6 months old in 3 days!! Wow time has flown by!!

babies & anniversaries

Tomorrow we will be welcoming Joah Wilson Detwiler into our family around 12 noon. Even though I've "been here, done that" it still makes my stomach feel like I'm on a roller coaster. I can't even imagine what this little guy looks like, much less what he's going to be like. This is totally my opinion, but I really think he'll have his sister's (and Mom's) round face. I also think he'll have her little button nose. But those are obviously just guesses!! I am hoping that he is small like his sister was. Even though I am having a c-section, I would like to use some of the newborn clothes that we received, and not have to go straight into size 0-3 months. So, we will post pictures on here and facebook just as soon as that little fella makes his big arrival!!

In other news....

Today we are celebrating 3 big years. I guarantee you that 3 years ago when I became a Mrs. I NEVER expected that I would be a day away from having our SECOND child. I promise we aren't trying to set a record, but 2 kids in 3 years is a good start on one!! I love being Zach's wife. I'm even ok being called "Zach's wife." He is incredible. My Mom always prayed that her two children would marry people that had a financial mind, because let's be honest, I can go (and may or may not have at one time) 6 + months without writing anything down in a checkbook register, and yes, I'm ok with it and don't feel guilty. However, my husband monthly balances our checkbook, down to the penny. I married my Mom. Which yes, I am also good with. I like my Mom. :)

Zach Detwiler - I love you. More than yesterday and less than tomorrow. You're my other half, and even though you have the life insurance planned out, to the penny, please don't go anywhere soon. ;) I love that you are helping me raise our children, and that you don't mind cleaning the house every once in awhile. And that I don't mind eating so much ice cream in front of you. That truly is refreshing, as that would be a hard thing to keep covered up!! HA!! You ROCK!!

Also in other news.....

We share our anniversary with some of the SWEETEST people. Randy & Haley Allen, and the whole reason I am calling them out like this is because I want you to venture here and you can see what they are doing on our special day. They are amazing and I am incredibly blessed to call them some of our good friends. You guys are amazing!! And yes, Haley is in the top picture, holding the precious little girl. I know that was incredibly hard for her, since they have their own sweet little girl they left in the US while they are in Honduras.

My Life....

I've been a little absorbed in summer and life to keep up with my blog lately. You'll have to accept my apologies, but I would like to invite you into our world to see what we've been doing lately. I'm HORRIBLE at capturing the summer on film, even digital film. However, I will use words to describe what we've been up too!!

- Lots of cartoon watching with the little soon-to-be 2 year old

- Lots of rearranging and redoing of the little soon-to-be 2 year old's room - it's now a "big girl" room. if we are friends on facebook, go take a look at her new room, there are pictures on there

- Lots of rearranging, painting, organizing and creating a sweet nursery for soon-to-be born little boy

- Due date is set for August 2nd, early morning. Unless he decides to come on his own. Let's be real here, I really wouldn't mind one bit if he DOES come early.

- Several day trips to Amarillo, which I love because I get to see my favorite 5 yr old and 2 1/2 yr old :)

- We have gone to the specialist twice for little man, and the second appt confirmed that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with little man's kidneys!! This is exactly the news we wanted to hear, since we had to go much further with his big sister's kidney problems.

- The Mr. took a new job in May, so we've been adjusting to Daddy's new schedules and new duty's. He loves it, and since he loves it, I love it!

- Baby shower and washing of baby clothes....the second part will NEVER end. But, they are such little clothes that it's really pretty fun to do that laundry

- Lots of birthday's have been celebrated, with more to come before the summer closes out. Including a certain soon-to-be 2 yr old that lives in our home.

- Her party is going to be an ice cream party. I'm trying to get it all planned, organized and set-up since her little brother will be about 3 weeks old when her party happens. I'll be very sleep deprived and won't want to work at that point, so I'm trying to stop the stress before it starts!!

I know that there is a ton more that I could put on here, but honestly my mind is fairly blank!! I'll definitely post when little man gets here in a few weeks, but it's no guarantee that it will happen before then!! :) You understand I'm sure!! However, until then have a blessed summer and hopefully a fairly cool one too!!

answered prayer

Something pretty great happened. The Mr. called me from work yesterday and told me he had spoken with our Dr.

Sounds pretty normal right....

WELL....

We DON'T have to go to the specialist for Joah!!!

Our specialist in Amarillo looked over all of the sonograms and said nothing was out of balance and all is normal!! Praise Jesus!!! We are thankful that we won't have a high risk pregnancy and that for once, out of 4 pregnancies we will have a completely normal one!! Other than little man being a bit on the "line backer" side of the scales, all is looking really good!!! But honestly, I'll happily welcome a little "line backer" into my arms this summer rather than have to pass him off for testing like we did for Zoe.

Thank you all so much for your prayers and know that prayer does work. Maybe this was a tool to help boost someones faith in Christ, or maybe this was a reminder to us all that prayer is still very effective and that it is still just as powerful as it was in Bible times and when your Grandma was sitting at the breakfast table lifting you up to Him. Mine did that at least, all 30+ immediate family members each morning. She still does that. It's pretty incredible to listen too.

Anyway. Thank you again for lifting our son up to our Father for protection and healing. I can't wait to meet this little guy and to thank Jesus once again for sparing us from the aches and pains of the "unknown."

Here's to hoping you have a blessed Memorial Day Weekend!!!

welp.

There are times in life that make us question. There are times in life that make us doubt. There are times in life that make us wonder. And then there are times in life that make us do all three. I think that I am in this time right now. I am amazed at how quickly I can slip into this particular time.

We went to see Dr. H yesterday to have our normal check up, sonogram for 28 weeks and the ever so delightful glucose tolerance test - YUM! :) Everything is looking good so far. Joah is measuring really long, but look at his 6' 4" Daddy!! He is weighing in at 3 lbs and is healthy and a wiggly worm and all that fun stuff.

However....isn't there always a however!?!

While the sonogram was being done our sono guy pays particular attention to the kidney area since Zoe had problems before and after birth and even into her first year of life with her kidneys. The last sonogram we didn't see anything but healthy kidneys. This time we saw healthy kidneys with a few extra things inside of them. So I don't bore you with details we are being sent to the same specialist we saw with Zoe in Amarillo for a level 2 sonogram. The radiologist and our dr wants to make sure that the "few extra things" aren't anything other than part of development.

Here's what I'm asking from you. Pray. Pray that the Lord's protection and hand will be over Joah's kidney's and will give our Dr in Amarillo clear vision to see what is there. I'm asking as Joah's Mom and the Mom to a daughter who has already gone through this.

It's not as scary this time, but it's still unnerving to not know what is ahead at the specialist and for our son. The Lord didn't give me a spirit of fear, but of a sound mind. And we must walk by faith and not by sight knowing that He has gone before this situation and He is still holding it together.

Thanks for listening/reading my ramblings. But most importantly thank you for praying for our baby boy.