from boys to girl.. part 1

When we found out we were having just one baby instead of two, we gave away one of our car seats.

When we found out we were having a girl and not a boy I wanted so badly to doll up the car seat we had.  I have kind of left it on the back burner along with everything else baby girl for a while because the past few months have been insane!!!  My neighbor got an adorable car seat cover on line and while all of them were SUPER cute, they just weren't the colors I was looking for.   So I did what I always do and searched on Pinterest... and found this tutorial and got to work.  I waited for a sale at Joann's and got some fabric that will match her room (grey, pink and white...surprisingly not easy to find!!)  , plus a little extra to work on some things for her room  all for $20,  (car seat fabric alone was about $15 but there is plenty left over to make a scrappy blanket or throw pillows)  and I also got matching thread and binding from walmart for only a couple of dollars. 

 

Here is the car seat before.. cute and gender neutral but not exactly what I wanted for my girly-girl I plan on having ;)

 

 

 

I spent only a couple days on it because it ended up being a super fun project and I really wanted to see if it would work out!!  I just followed the directions on the tutorial and because her car seat cover and visor on the tutorial were a little different then mine I took tons, and I mean TONS of pictures as I was pulling the seams apart so I could make sure I put it back together correctly.    I also wanted the cover to be two fabrics and when I pulled it apart it was just one big piece so I improvised and made my own pattern and sewed it all together so it looks like it was meant to be that way~

 

AFTER!!

(not the best lighting in the pictures, but you get the idea)

 

Now baby girl can come home in style in 3 months!!!!!!

What do you get when you mix two 2 year olds, monster trucks and Halloween!?!..... This post!

My baby boys turned 2 on Halloween!!!  the last two years have just flown by and the boys aren't babies anymore  :(  But they sure make two cute little toddlers!

For their Birthday we decorated their bedroom door the night before so when they opened it they would have balloons fall down on them.  Around 7 am Kole and I could hear them talking so I grabbed the video camera and we booked it to their room just in time to see them finish opening the door!  At first they were confused but then they spent a good 20 minutes playing with balloons and having fun ripping down the streamers.

 

 

For breakfast we had our birthday chocolate chip pancakes in the shape of mickey mouse requested by the little ones:) 

And then the boys got to wear their B-day shirts!

 

 

We had a pretty laid back day, hanging out and running errands.  We took Kollin and Kleyton and cousin Lucas to del taco for a birthday lunch so they could play in the play place for a while:)

 

Later that night we had a BIG Birthday/Halloween bash With some close neighbors and family who were able to make it:)

 

We had the house decked out in Halloween/ Birthday decor!

And their birthday theme was 'Monster Truck'  because thats what our two little ones wanted!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Their monster truck cake!

 

 

A few of the guests.....

 

 

Playing in their new Wagon we got them for their B-day!

 

For dinner we had soups and bread sticks again this year, because it is so yummy and perfect on a fall day.

 

 

After dinner we all got dressed in our Halloween costumes..

 

Our little ones were Harry and Lloyd off of Dumb and Dumber.  Kollins broken Lloyd teeth inspired us and after a few weeks of working on their costumes they turned out pretty good I think;)

 

Kole is not a fan of dressing up but he did get into the spirit this year and let me make matching skeleton T-shirts!

 

Getting ready to go trunk-or-treating!

 

 

I didn't get pictures of every one  :(  dang it~~  next year I think we need a photo booth set up so we can see all the fun costumes!!

But here is

Ava and her crazy mamma outfit!

 

Devil fairy Corrine, pumpkin Hannah, and Ava

 

Mad Hatter Mary and Alice in Wonderland Trinity.

 

After we got buckets of candy we all headed back to the house for some cake and presents!

 

 

Playing with their loot!

 

My outfit wouldn't have been complete with out our soon to be baby girl!

 

Happy (Late) Halloween!

The Headless horseman and some pumpkin guts!

For FHE at the end of October my friend told us about a farm in Hurricane that was putting on headless horseman themed activity nights. (sort of like Staheli's in St. George, just a smaller cheaper version)

 

When you get there you take a wagon ride to the farm area while the headless horseman follows behind..

 

(The boys feeding the sheep)

 

Playing on the playground

 

Right before going into the corn maze.  The kids wanted to go through this a ton of times!!

 

Waiting to ride horses.. but then they got scared and didn't want to anymore.

 

The fam with the headless horseman..

 

The next night (the day before Halloween) we carved our pumpkins.

 

The boys loved playing with all the seeds and guts!  yuck!

festival of ORANGE

WELCOME to our new blog!  After 4 and 1/2 years of my old blog it wont let me post any new pictures... Bummer:(   But here we are with a new blog, a new blog name, and hopefully a bunch of new posts that are actually updated.!!  I'm starting back in October because there is so much to catch up on that I can't bare to skip, it's just all so exciting!

Deer Hunt this year was an extra special one!  It was the first deer hunt in 3 years that Kole and I have been able to go together and the first one with all 4 of us:)  in 2010 I was on bed rest in 2011 Kole was in Iraq but in 2012 we were all together in our old(new to us) family blazer huntin' us some deer!

 

 

The boys loved it this year!  They loved to be outside all day and get as dirty as they wanted.  They ate tons of snacks and took tons of naps and we all had a blast!

 

 

The older Ramsay kids made a flagpole for the club this year and were very good at their flag duties.

 

One day it rained and while the boys and I were inside the cabin by the fire....

 

The big kids were out playing;)

 

 

Kollin and Kleyton helping daddy skin the deer.

 

 

 

The whole Ramsay Crew!!

 

The boys and their knives (butter knives that is)

 

Daddy's deer..

 

 

 

Kollin wanted to be a big boy and use the outhouse so bad!

 

Kleyton and Kooper playing in the sticks!

 

Kole, cousin Kooper, and Kleyton all tuckered out!

 

Gotta love fall sunsets

 

 

 

Headed home after the 2nd weekend of the deer hunt!  Boy was it a great 2 weekends:)