Decorating the apartment with Mr. Sam

Cohen is obsessed with decorations and LOVES it when we get to decorate our house for a new holiday! Luckily, he has a grandma and an aunt (Grandma A and Auntie Harmizzle) who supply him with all the goods he needs every time a new holiday rolls around. A couple of weeks ago a package showed up with a bunch of 4th of July decorations in it. Cohen was so excited about the flags (he's totally a little Sheldon Cooper!). Auntie Harmizzle sent us a little Uncle Sam decoration (Cohen calls him Mr. Sam) and I had to put him up high cause Cohen kept grabbing it and I was afraid he would break it.  Cohen told me he wanted a flag and hat like Mr. Sam so, naturally Auntie Harmizzle sent him his own to help him get into the patriotic spirit.

Easter-Palooza 2017: Decorations!

I've decided to name Cohen's obsessive Easter celebrations Easter-Palooza! This kid is obsessed! Cohen and I have been working for the past week on a little paper garland to hand in our apartment, but I decided to wait until it was actually April to hang it up. :) Cohen has turned into such a big helper when it comes to decorating the house. Grandma Anderson sent him some window clings and he and Auntie Harmizzle had a grand old time putting them up. The bunny may be missing his arms but he sure has a great view and clearly Auntie Harmizzle does not know how to spell Easter.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Cohen and I are celebrating this morning with Lucky Charms cereal (Fruit-loops for Daddy cause he doesn't like Lucky Charms) and then heading to a special St. Patrick's party at the church for play group.

Like I mentioned before, Cohen has really gotten into decorating the apartment for holidays, so I made sure we did some St. Patrick's day crafts this month to display in our house. Cohen really got into it!

Decorating for St. Patrick's Day

I have not really decorated my house for holidays in the past (some years I would decorate for Christmas). This year I totally decked out the apartment in Christmas decorations. Cohen LOVED it! He was upset when I took them down. I left the little paper light garland up to make him happy. Well, it's almost March, so I decided I would make another garland to put up so Cohen wouldn't be upset. I make a rainbow chain with shamrocks. Cohen helped me cut and staple the chain. He was so excited to help and now I'm totally inspired to do more crafts with him. He was thrilled beyond reason in the morning when he discovered the finished product hanging up in the windows. Makes me want to work on other St. Patricks Day decorations with him.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Kari helped me decorate the house this year. I really didn't have many decorations so we had to go out and buy a few. It was fun transforming the house. Special thanks to Mom for making my stockings (new one for Cohen!), tree skirt, matching throw blanket, and wall hanging!

While decorating the tree I noticed that almost all my ornaments were given to me by family members and a lot of them were homemade! It looks like Grandma A gets the award for the most ornaments and she made every single one she gave me! Grandma A use to make a new ornament and attach them to our gifts. I'm just so glad that my mom saved them in a box for me over the years. Mom saved all the ornaments that people gave me and the ones we use to make on Thanksgiving (We use to have a tradition of making an angel Christmas ornament on Thanksgiving)

I think the tree looks a little bare, but it's ok. We will work on filling it slowly over the coming years.

and the best Christmas gift this year…

Girls Camp 2012: Eternal Rewards "ER"

The theme at camp this year was Eternal Rewards or "ER." Our decorations were all medical themed. Our banner had pictures of the YW in scrubs and our center piece was a build-a-bear dressed as a doctor. It was a cute theme, but I was surprised by how many wards didn't really go with the theme and made up their own. Oh, well.

Here are some pictures of our decorations and other random things I saw around camp. I also took a few pictures of the YW before dinner on my last day.