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today's packaging with pink and red ♥

 

valentine garland LOVE...

i love pink and red! just finished taking photos of these yesterday. i made the small trek in the mud and deer poop to the old cabin in our backyard, we have no snow! all these lovely valentine garlands and banners are available in my etsy shop. thepolkadotbarn.etsy.com

for the love...

another round of valentine's this year!

what the february!

gulianna was excited to go thru all her valentine's. she weeded out all the sugar crap and just kept the chocolate. levi got home this evening from his trip.

 

 

 

 

 

these girls love to pick up jeremy like this into some cheerleader pose, it's so funny!

 

later we made oatmeal cookie bars for our family and a few neighbors. the girls came with me and brenda to go visiting teaching. well actually we secretly dropped off a plate her awesome sugar cookies. the second house was isabella's turn to ring the doorbell. but then she pouted and started crying because she wanted to say hi! we quickly tried to shut her up, so they wouldn't know we were hiding!

then after we went again to do the same thing but with our little family. when we went to jeremy's house, isa was laughing so hard when we were running back to the durango and then i realized it was because her boot was stuck somewhere in the mud! so i had to go back and look for it.

this was at rebecca's house. we left her a dictionary garland too. she wasn't home, and then i remembered that there was a valentine's dance as we passed the church. oops! 

 they had fun! we had planned to do it as a family, but anthony fell asleep waiting for me to go visiting teaching. and levi was tired. so it was just us girls. gulianna said "let's do this for every holiday!" so we just might.

love mini book kits...

just in time for valentine's day...a cute little mini book for you to assemble!

here's a little sneak peek...

check out my shop on etsy and visit http://thepolkadotbarn.com!

i hope to have more items listed by monday...

new {scrapbook} projects...

i actually scrapbooked this past week! even though i almost forgot how...i had everything set out and realized i didn't have any adhesives! kind of hard when all my scrapbooking is still packed in boxes.

anyway...i enjoyed scrapbooking again...it's been so long.

this is what i created with the february moments kit from express the moment.

 

these next couple of pages, i *scraplifted* from amanda, because i just loved them sooo much! you can see her layouts here.

i made a coordinating page for this one...

 

can't wait for some new photos to print and complete these pages!

valentine's...

gulianna's valentine cookies for her class...we got them at the bakery, she was so excited about her valentine party!

on her way to preschool...with a cough drop in her mouth!

after she got home i gave them their valentine presents from chelsey, thanks! isa...whining...too impatient to give me 5 seconds worth of photos, geeez!

 
poor anthony...still sick, but slowly getting better!

they loved the little valentine cards and the tiny markers...anthony was wondering where his were! and since the girls have been taking over his sickness, and not playing with their stuff, anthony's been playing with their markers coloring on himself and his clothes.

at least we still managed to have fun with valentine's despite being super sick!

isabella's quilt...

it's almost done! just need to drop it off to be quilted! i love this fabric so much!  i used most all the red + pink fabric from the Lost & Found collection. my favorite part of quilting is selecting fabric patterns and colors! i may not be a good quilter…but i’d say i’m a pro at colors, no fakin’ it here! i've been waiting for the perfect fabric to use. i knew that i wanted the same colors as gulianna's quilt: red, pink and brown, but i couldn't find anything until recently...thanks to jen! sometimes you just have to wait for something that perfect!

check out my guest post for the project girl HERE!

pattern used: shortcake

 

This red and pink stripe fabric is my favorite!

February 22nd pink + red...

m&m's...we fill this up for every holiday! i ♥ peanut m&m's!

 

February 16th pink + red...

i don't remember where i got this image from, but aren't these envelopes cute?

 

February 15th pink + red...

one of my favorite wrapping papers...oh i love wrapping paper!

and wishing i bought more rolls of this! 

Happy Valentine's Day...

my sweetheart girls! i ♥ them so much!

 

 

 

they are best friends! they are talking about how the hearts are so sparkly :)

 

"what do you want us to do with this mom?"

 
"oh, hold the letters up, like this?"

"oh, hold them up, and smile!"

yeah, this were the best ones that i got! isabella was more interested in playing with their ribbons in their hair...and trying to grab Gulianna's...while she yelled "isa, don't touch ME!"

 

happy heart day! 

February 13th pink + red...

i love decorating for the holidays! it makes it fun!

i made this banner from the Valentine's backgrounds kit on Hof3!

they have another kit that is already precut, but i already had purchased that when it first came out!

i ♥ pink & grey together!

i backed the paper onto chipboard, and i was going to use my tiny attacher...but i couldn't find it, so I sewed them onto twine, and then tied tulle and strips of fabric, since Gulianna took my valentine fabric garland apart! i added some turquoise, pink, & white tulle...

i need some matching decorations now ;)

switched out my Christmas stuff on my shelf...still no family picture in that frame! why is that so hard to do :)

my L♥Ve letters, i've had these for.ever!

 

i wish i had bought more of those hydrangea balls...i didn't know that they would be gone in a week! they would have been perfect on my Raggedy Ann tree!

 
 i lOvE my Raggedy Ann doll with the little kitty...Levi gave it to me on our first Christmas together...11 years ago!
  

February 12th pink + red...

A special lunch for my sweetheart!

Isabella had hers later, she was taking a nap!

And I never buy cheetos...Isabella was trying to fit as many as she could in her mouth! Gulianna loved them too, I think the last time she had some cheetos was when we were camping a couple years ago! Maybe I will give into messy cheesy cheeto faces every now and then :)

 

February 11th pink + red...

 

Well...this was supposed to be red JELL-O, but Levi changed is mind at the last minute and made orange instead...oh well, not my fault :)

it looks red right?

February 10th pink + red...

A new blog header, just in time for Valentine's Day!

I ♥ Hof 3!

I liked this one, but Levi liked the other one better...

 
{and I've been slacking on red + pink posts, only because we've been having some fun!}

it's been spring weather here! i ♥ it! now that Levi works from home, he spends day and night on the computer, so when he has a little bit of free time, we leave the house...and go somewhere! Anywhere! Out to eat, to the mall, to Tai Pan, Walmart...Target...new stores and fun little boutiques! We will miss the convenience of being so close to everything. We are getting ready to move soon, maybe next month if the home we are looking at will work out, and it is in the middle of nowwhere. Which I don't mind living somewhere secluded...but I would rather be out in the middle of nowwhere in Idaho, not Utah, despite the long winters and cold weather!

♥ red + pink backdated posts are coming soon! ♥

February 9th pink + red...

Today Gulianna got all of my Raggedy Ann & Andy ornaments and lined them up underneath the hutch! All the girls on the left, facing the same way, and all the boys on the right facing the same way again!

she likes things in a certain order!

{and we finally found these...I always decorate a Raggedy Ann tree for Christmas...and they weren't with my Christmas stuff, I thought they were lost, but they were with the Valentine's decorations, which makes sense now, since I leave it up for Valentine's Day too!}

remind me at the end of the year if I forget again :)

 

February 8th pink + red...

We went to the movies to see the Princess & the Frog!

I packed these Valentine m&m's for our movie treats, and a pink and red bowl for Gulianna & Isabella's popcorn, it is better if they have their own!

Gulianna constantly talks about going to the movies and eating popcorn and 2 m&m candy treats and sprite! She talks in a certain voice and has the cutest expressions every time!

it is so hard to get a decent picture of these two! these were the best ones!seriously...she has to pick her nose in every picture!

February 7th pink + red...

{red}boxes of Cap'n Crunch! I am going to miss Albertson's when they close down here!

I ♥ cereal on sale! Especially Cap'n Crunch!

February 6th pink + red...

a couple of pink + red etsy finds:

{AC ribbon...they have the cutest ribbon, and it's perfect for tying knots!}

i need all of these!

 
  cute handmade buttons! how do you even make buttons?

from TessaAnn

now just looking at those make me want to scrapbook!  

 

February 5th pink + red...

Levi is always talking about sushi, and how much he loves it...and although I haven't ever tried it...I know I don't like it! So last Friday we went to eat lunch at Tepanyaki. And he made me try it. And what do you know, I didn't like it. I wasn't a fan of the seaweed wrap, it drowned out the taste of what was in the middle. He said there are other wraps...blah...I don't like it. I did still eat it, just picked out the middles :) And since I didn't like it, it wasn't filling. I did have teriyaki chicken and rice. He says he usually goes to a different place, where the sushi rolls are much bigger...but he wanted to try that place. I wasn't impressed...

We were going to look at a couple houses afterwards, but then they couldn't keep their appointments...so we took State St. and drove, and drove...the girls were asleep. And then we ended up at the Provo mall...without a stroller, I hate not having a stroller. I told Levi to rent one...but they only had single ones and he didn't want to pay five whole dollars for it! lol! So he carried Isabella everywhere...I have done that before with Gulianna, and being pregnant with Isabella, and I was not going to do it again!

Our first stop...Levi gave Gulianna the experience of those candy machines...and the ones with the little toys and such in them! I have walked past those so many times, because I don't want her to beg each time we see one! She got a neon orange friendship bracelet, and a little sticker and a koala bear that looks like Toli on Ni Hao Kai Lan, she loves it! Although it is lost now... You know how they come in a little plastic bubble? Well...I told Levi to get her a bouncy ball, but he didn't want to, and she heard me, so now she calls the plastic bubbles 'her bouncy ball' and then Isa had to put it in her mouth and bite it...so she says that "Isa broke her bouncy ball" lol, so funny!

Next stop... riding the little rides!

Isabella is so funny! She had to stand up the whole time the car was moving, and then she had to go and stick her leg out too! What a funny girl!

And these are my pictures for 28 days of pink + red too: 2 girls in pink & red outfits in a pink ice cream truck!  I wanted to take some cute pictures of them at home...but we left in a hurry and then got back late!

 
Gulianna's face in this picture is so funny! I don't remember why she was doing that though!

And we couldn't pass up Hot Dog on a Stick! My favorite! And they have the best lemonade!

 
and since I am sharing my favorite things that I love: this is my favorite ever...the little crusty end of the corn dog...when I was little I used to pay my brothers Rene & Anthony for their corn dog sticks! lol...now that's funny!

 
and Levi had to get an Orange Julius...{Isabella's cute little finger}

 

and of course Isa hogged it all...

 
and we let her, because technically she's been jipped for six months! We went to Jamba Juice a few weeks ago...and I decided to get Isa her own little Jamba. {until then she wouldn't use a straw, I should have known better, if you want to have your kids use a straw, give them a Jamba and they will learn real quick!}

Well she took one sip, and then made the funniest face ever, like "holy shit...you guys have screwed me over this whole time!" and then she took another gulp...and wouldn't stop sucking! I think that moment she had flashbacks of all the times we went to Jamba Juice and she didn't get any! Awww...I really feel bad for her! I have given her some sips of mine everytime, but she is such a messy eater, that I never wanted to give her one for herself! I was looking back at pictures...and Gulianna was only 6 months old, and drinking her own Jamba! I went back and found this post of Gulianna and her Jamba.

Poor Isa, we really did screw her over! But Isabella and Gulianna are so different, but the same. Gulianna would eat anything...I now remember that she would eat her own grilled cheese sandwiches from Arctic Circle, two if she was really hungry, and a whole crisp bean burrito by herself! She was perfect at doing 'dip its' with her fries, almost never made a mess! And she was 10 months old!

Isabella is almost 13 months now...and I am still nursing her! I hope to be done next week! She is a picky eater sometimes...if she doesn't like it, well then she doesn't like it. I still give her whatever we are eating, but then if she doesn't eat a lot, I give her baby food and yogurt. Plus she is constantly swatting her hands and waving her arms in the air, and then yogurt or baby food goes flying every where. She is difficult, that is why we don't like to feed her! And maybe she doesn't have that many teeth? I don't know...I can't remember if Gulianna had more or not. Isabella hasn't started to walk yet, although she knows how! She did stand up by herself on her birthday! Gulianna was walking a week after her first birthday, so it seems weird for her to still be crawling, and walking around things. I know, all kids are different! But we still love her the same, she is so cute!

February 4th pink + red...

one of my favorite pairs of shoes that Gulianna wears: PINK!

One day we were out shopping, just shortly after she got these, and she tripped on the sidewalk and scuffed her shoe, I was going to mod.podge it, so that it wouldn't spread, but apparently I still haven't got to it!

February 3 red + pink...

Last year we made so many of these I lost count! I ♥ them...because you can make them yourself, and they are one of a kind, no one will have the same one as you! The color combos are endless, Cherry and I would call each other back and forth coming up with different schemes, and then we would dream about them! I love the perfect mix of beads!

I still haven't picked up another pink watch face...a couple days after I bought this one, Isabella dropped it on the tile, and it shattered! It's been dropped many times, it's so scratched! My girls go crazy over these bracelets, Isabella has even thrown some serious fits, when I don't let her hold them!

 
  And if you do own one or two or three, you need to be cautious while driving, they can almost cause you to get in a wreck...because they are so beautiful, you end up staring at your bracelet on your wrist instead of DRIVING! lol! We've had some close calls!

February 2 pink + red...

We had something RED for lunch...

I ♥ spaghetti! In the past, if we didn't happen to go out for Valentine's Day...we always have spaghetti for dinner, along with a salad + Chiz' ranch {which I'm really missing right now}, garlic bread {from Broulim's, my favorite} and sparkling cider! The perfect dinner!  

February 1 pink + red...

I am lOviNg my black & pink make.up bag! I lOvE that it has polka.dots too! My favorite ever!

 We were suprised with the best package ever all the way from Japan...from a good friend! We were loaded up with everything Hello Kitty! I claimed this cute little bag! And I was in need of a make up bag, since one of the girls lost it...I think they threw it out of the stroller, the day we went to visit Santa at the mall! It is not fun to have to replace your make.up all at once...and very expensive! All my brushes...my brand new eyeliner & mascara...I did have my mineral make.up at home, along with my broken bronzer & bits and pieces of blush...

Any way...something PINK for day 1 :)

pink + red...

 

I loVE February...mostly because there are only 28 days, even though it's still only 2-3 days shorter than a full month, technically it's a 2 week month, which goes by so fast. And one month closer to summer :)

This month always seems to fly by, I guess as most days and months do anymore. I wanted to do something fun, since last year I missed out on all the fun holidays...I was super sick all winter long. {I bet I had the worst case of the swine flu, but I'll never know, because I didn't go to the doctor, okay I did go in one time, but that was after the worst of it}

I love Valentine's...mostly because of all the chocolate, Valentines, and fun stuff, people being happy and spreading the love for one day, really it should be like that everyday. I would say roses & flowers and such but I'm not big on flowers, they die anyway because I forget to water them. But I do love Gerber Daisies! I remember when I was little, and I got to pick out which Valentine's I wanted to give out, and I would carefully read each one to make sure I signed it and gave it to the appropriate person...I didn't want to send out any wrong messages, lol!

And I love pink & red! So I will be sharing something for every day of the month of February, all things pink + red! I don't even really know what I'll be sharing, just going with each day!

So come back and check daily for some fun inspiration! And I am still catching up on some posts, so they will be here and there...

Also...I think it's time for another 'blurker' roll call...because I know you are lookin'...so what's stopping you from saying hi ♥... so let me know that you are here and leave a comment :)

I will send something fun that's pink + red to the 14th person!