crafts and cooking.

school starts next week and i want to make sure we finish up the summer with some fun things :)

sunday i used the last of the eggs for egg salad with aidan, so we decided to make caterpillars out of the crates. after they colored them, i put on eyes and used pipe cleaners for antennae. :)








yesterday we made chocolate and PB rice krispie treats.
i buttered a baking dish.


then in a pot, melted

1/2 stick butter
5 cups mini marshmallows
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter


then add 6 cups of rice krispies.

mix it all up. then put half in your dish. cover with melted chocolate chips. then the other half. then more chocolate chips! hurray!


its so rich i can only have a tiny piece at a time. LOL

we also made pulled chicken sandwiches for dinner. which were delish. i dont have pics of that, but here's what i did.

in a crockpot, i put:
2 defrosted chicken breasts (i could have put more, but i knew the kids would likely not eat this for dinner)
16oz (2 little cans) of tomato sauce
1/4 c. cider vinegar (to be fair, i think it used white wine vinegar? heck i dunno)
2 tbsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. dry mustard
sprinkled some cayenne and garlic powder over it

cooked for like 4hrs? then shredded it up and let it sit on "warm" for another hour or so.

put on a bun with BBQ sauce and pickles :) delish.

today we made blueberry muffins for breakfast.








reese was silly while she ate some cereal!


(sidenote: im trying NOT to use my SL indoors, but my kitchen srsly does suck. the grain in these is making my head spin. i just need my SL lol)

i heart faces. white.

i love white. so clean. so crisp.




check out I Heart Faces for more great entries :) https://www.iheartfaces.com/

it's a.....

GIRL!!!!


LARGER - https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6089/6086598203_85c5408c12_b.jpg


4 girls. sigh and swoon at the same time. im so excited.

name = Miller. i dont know middle name yet.

from the u/s :)




look! she knows she's #4!!


we are just over the moon <3

eta for clarification since i seem to be getting comments that say "maybe next time!!": i feel like this is where i need to add that we were not hoping or trying for a boy :) there's no "oh man... maybe next time" no "oh boo. another girl?" only "OMG ANOTHER GIRL!?! yessss!!!!" there's no reason to assume that there is anything but excitement here :) ive always said i wanted another girl and now my dream has come true!!!

anniversary and other cell pics.

a few cell pics to catch up.

thursday was EJ and my 4th anniversary :) we went to eat pizza with the girls :)


dance dance revolution!




we wore them out


yesterday. the bane of my living room.


look for a super fun post later today!!!

16wks, bath, and trouble.

so tuesday.

this is how i saw sawyer in her room. she had taken her mattress off of her bed, clothes out of her drawers, toys strewn (is that a word?) around. and was sliding down saying "weeeeee!!!"



after chicken and sketti last night - silly bath girls.






and 16 weeks today!! yahoo!!

oops.

been over a week. thats my bad. lol lets catch up.

tuesday - sawyer fell asleep in an, erm, odd place LOL


wednesday - aidan's the best bedsharer ever :) cell.


thursday - 15 week belly shot. we find out the gender this saturday!! vote on the top right on what you think baby 4 is!!


friday - EJ after he gets home - he's like the baby whisperer :) cell pics.




saturday - EJ worked on our gender reveal pic set up thingy :)






sunday - took my new banners out from https://www.etsy.com/people/freshsqueezedbaby







monday - part of our gender reveal photo set up :) cell.

faux bed.

so while on pinterest, i found a link to milk & honey's sneaky "faux bed" post. basically, you use seamless, a big comforter, and IDEALLY - huge pillows.

but my kids wanted their own pillow. and pillow pet. so alas. a few tips that i learned while doing it will be posted on my photo punk blog later :) next time ill do some things differently

here's the set up though -



and some pics :)






like her new nails?






i just love them.








all of them. swoon. haha