Carseat Safety Stickers

I am a Certified Child Restraint Technician and was asked this morning about creating some stickers that people could put onto their carseats with information about the children in the seat, in the event of an accident. Such a great idea! So I went ahead and created the following, which can be printed on sticker paper, filled out underneath with their personal info and attached to their seats.

Download the PDF for this sticker HERE!

Please keep in mind, don't place over another identifying sticker and also place somewhere easily seen by emergency personnel! 

Summer Fun List!

I keep meaning to blog on this so here I am!

On the day after the last day of school, Button and I sat down together and made a list of all the fun things we wanted to do this summer! We ended up with quite the list! Heres a copy of it to show you!

As you can see its quite the list! We're slowly but surely chipping away at the list ;) Today they knocked out another one! "Roll down a hill" check them out in action (sorry only a crappy camera phone picture)

They sure had fun! I think it was 5 straight minutes of this before they got bored and moved on... but it was good for lots of laughs!

And while they were doing this, I was enjoying this:

How did this happen!

Yesterday while I was trying to prepare a meal I had to dig through my casserole dishes to get to the one I needed. I stopped and looked around and thought, wait how did this happen! What a mess!  So it was put on my to-do list for today! Must fix up this cupboards!

So while Lemon napped today I set out! They started like this:

Supposed to be my tupperware cupboard 

Eek! What a mess!

And now my after photos:

This is going to be so much easier to get to! I even finally put my lid organizer to work! lol I bought it months ago and it had nothing in it all this time! Now I feel much better that Ill be able to just reach in and get what I need, without making an even bigger mess!

Next up - My lazy Susan and Pantry! But my little miss is now awake, so they'll have to wait! Stay tuned!

The Dresser Makeover

So Jaime and I havent had a proper dresser since we moved into our house. The last year Ive been watching peoples DIY projects and been dying to do a dresser! One day while shopping at Value Village I came across this beauty for sale for $20 and so the makeover began!

I had to get the dresser to my parents place as they have a garage I could fix it up in (we've had a lot of rain lately) and once there got lots of advice from my brother and my father. As I set out to sand the dresser, my brothers electric sander died and I had to hand sand it! Took me 3 hours to get it done!

Then came the painting. I did 3 coats of white paint on the dresser & drawers to get it perfect!

I decided to plurge and get the pretty glass handles I had been eying for months now! Im defintiely glad I did because it turned out perfect. All in all I spent around $90-$100 on material. For the price of real wood dressers these days I think I did great! I was able to buy material over time so it wasnt such a large about of money all at once, and in the end it was worth every penny!

And now, the after!!

Kids Craft

When Button was born I attended a moms class and as an exercise we did foot prints of our babies, I immediately hung it at home. Then when Bear was around the same age I did his prints and hung them. The other night at supper I thought Lemon is now similar age and I needed to do it soon or she'd be a lot older than them!

So I got a canvas and some blue paint to match the boys and we got to work... Lemon's thoughts on it:

And my children's masterpieces!

Reorganizing toys...

After Christmas I noticed that we had all these new toys and no where to put them, especially toys for Lemon! We had to make room for her stuff too! During the day I watch my 3.5 year old nephew (hes 5 weeks younger than Bear) so I have 3 boys, who have 3 different things they're into, so purging toys has been difficult lately. I look at things and thing, well Button doesnt play with this, but Bear and Seth do, etc... So in order to accomodate 3 boys toys, plus a little lady's toys, I had to brinig the shelf from the boys room down to the living and brought more toys down here. Its going to keep their room more clean as well cause they have less toys up there to mess up with.
Boxing day sales brought good sales, Zellers had a 50% off coupon which I clipped and managed to pick up a shelf on sale for $39, with taxes I paid $25 and saved $45!! Sadly they only had white so I got it for the boys room, it works! I still need to purchase some baskets for the shelf in the boys room, but for now, this will do...
So here is the boys room new set up!

Now for the livingroom, its still a work in progress... I need to get some new pictures printed for the wall above here. I'd love to get all new baskets that match better, but ya, thats a long shot right now to save money ;) These unmatched ones will do for now!

Every Monday...

I swear every Monday I come upstairs to clean this:

I dont know what it is about their room that they keep dumping everything out but its getting old and annoying. I know its Bear, he does this either when I think hes asleep at night or if he wakes up early in the morning before Button... Need to work on it with him apparently cause he makessuch a huge mess and I end up having to try and fix it... we really need to work on taking 1 toy out at a time then cleaning it up...