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Ornaments instructions

I noticed a couple of you asked so Here is what I did..

I got the square ornaments last season at my Faovrite craft store The Hobby Center in Nampa (it's on Garrity) I took a small sponge paint brush and painted on modge podge coating the whole ornament except a small circle on one side for the face. I then rolled it in Twinklets Diamond Dust I also got that at the Hobby center. It's differant then glitter becasue it looks more like chunky broken glass. The face was a little tricky. I couldn't find beads that were flat on one side so I went to Hobby Lobby here, and I found a sheet of self adhehive crystals It's call "say it in Crystals" It has all sorts of sizes of crystals this particular sheet was swirls. It's just a scrapbooking embelishment (let me know if you want more infor about them and I will send a picture) Then for the nose. I thought "orange glitter" but I couldn't even find any of that so I took Stampin Up's Dazzling diamonds glitter and the only orange re-inker and made my own orange glitter. I took a tooth pick and dipped it in modge podge and "drew" the nose then put the orange glitter on for the nose. The just added the red ribbon. It sounds harder then it really is and only took a few min to make 4.

Enjoy!!!

My 2008 Jacobsen Family Ornament

I make a family ornament every Christmas season. This is the one I did this year. I'm just in LOVE with the way it turned out. Sometimes I get annoyed though. I only make 1 ornament (well 1 design but 1 for each member) but as I shop around getting the stuff I get so many ideas and it it so hard to choose. Then I say well I'll do this one this year and that one next year but then the same thing happens next year lol.

Christmas is my favorite time of year. I love decorating my house and counting my blessings and celabrating the season. This year has been really hard for me since we don't have our own space. We did go to the storage unit and I got a few ornaments and a small tree that I have and we decorated it and put it on the dresser. But at least I can still count my blessings and celabrate the season for what it truly is.

Pregnancy update.

Well if I'm counting right I'm about 30 weeks now. I'm HUGE! I asked Chad yesterday if I got this big with the other boys and he said I wasn't this big until I was about to deliver. I'm still planing on delivering in Idaho. I'm driving up probably on the 10th or maybe the 11th. So far I feel pretty good. I've noticed I get really tired ever few days but I think I've assoiated that with the baby growing. Since he's sitting so low my hips have kind of been sore but that's usually first thing in the morning. Once I get up and moving I seem to be fine. Same with my pelvis. if you remember with Corbyn from the time I was about 3 mo along I couldn't walk. Chad would push me in a wheel chair. This time it has only been sore for about a week and again it's only over night and first thing in the morning. We still don't have a name. We have 1 in mind but can't find a good middle to go with it so I'm still waiting for some suggestions.

That's about it. I feel pretty good. He's moving around quite a bit. and that is always fun to see.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORI!

I just wanted to wish Lori happy birthday today.

Something to think about.....

Who is your real friend? This really works...!

If you don't believe it, just try this experiment:

Put your dog and your spouse in the trunk of the car for an hour.

When you open the trunk, who is really happy to see you??

Getting my thoughts

Ok, This move as been really hard. I've had a lot of people asking me to update my blog but I have not been able to gather my thoughts about the move. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet and I don't think I would be able to talk about it just yet. So for now please be patient with me and I will post a few things about it in the future. For now here is a picutre of the Moving truck that Walmart sent. They really went all out to get Chad down here. The movers were super nice.

Pregnancy update

Everything is going really well with the pregnancy. I have not been sick at all. As most of you remember (it wasn't that long ago) I was SOOOO sick with Corbyn. I was sick for the whole 9 months. This one has been a breeze. I'm 24 weeks (I think) so I'm over 1/2 way done YEA!! We found out last week that it is indeed another Boy! I've been told that I'm going to have my own football team lol. Chad and I were indeed disappointed that it wasn't a girl everyone was so convinced that it was. This baby is sitting WAY lower then the 1st 2 boys. We found a WONDERFUL place to deliver. We're going to The Baby Place (it's blue because it's a link please visit their site) our experiences with hospitals so far have been nothing but awful so we're doing this. You're probably wondering how we're going to deliver here if we're living in CO...Well the Boys and I are coming back a few weeks before my due date. and will stay with family and friends here. and then When I go into labor Chad will hop a plane and hope he makes it. The decision was not taken lightly. My due date is Jan 26th so I will be back around mid Jan.

Anyway, we are again on the hunt for a Boy name that starts with C and a Boy middle name that starts with E so if you have any suggestions please feel free to leave a comment :)

2 More weeks.

I havn't really announced this on my blog yet but most everyone knows anyway so it's not "new" news. Anyway Chad's last day of work here is next friday 1 week from today. We have finally got the moving truck scheduled. We load the truck here on the 17th and we unload the truck in CO on the 19th. So I have 2 more weeks left in here. And that is a LOT more time then what we origanlly though lol. We were supposed to be gone last Saturday. It's all still a bit overwhelming but I'm trying not to let it hit me until after we're gone. It's going to be so hard to sell our house. We've been here for so long. But I'm trying to remain positive so it doesn't take away from how happy Chad is right now. But this is defently a chapter in our lives that we just need to close the book and walk away and start over. we're really hoping that with this move we will be able to get ourselves out of a mess that we've put ourselves in.

Wii Time.

It's so cute when Carsyn gets to play the Wii after his chores are finished. He sits on a little cube that we have. Well Corbyn likes to get in on the fun and he drags his own cube over and gets his own Wii wheel and plays along with Carsyn. It's so cute.