What? Who's Whistling?

I know as an aunt I am supposed to be an example to my nieces and nephews, but I find more often than not, they are the example to me! Case in point, my nephew, Kameron. Last night I took Lego Rock Band over to my parent's house to play with everyone. Now, as far as I know, the kids have never played Rock Band and so they were starting out on "Super Easy". Kameron decided very quickly that he wanted to try harder difficulties, including expert. He continued to select "Expert" on all of the different instruments and songs. He would "die" several times a song, but still celebrated his scores at the end and had just as much fun as (if not more than) the rest of us. Even proclaiming "I'm doing expert because I'm an expert kind of kid!" How great would it be to have that much confidence in yourself! To be able to celebrate your "scores" in life, even when they aren't great. To throw the "expectations" out the window and just have fun! To be a kid again!

crafts... Flowers: headbands, clips, pins galore!!

This post is a little late, but I wanted to show some of the fun crafts that I worked on this Christmas season. Kara had the idea to make homemade gifts and I thought I would join in the fun.

We decided to do cute Christmas paper, but you can use any paper to cordinate with your desired room!

My nieces and nephews were able to come to Thanksgiving this year because both Allyson and Mark had to work. My mom wanted some recent pictures of them so she had me do a mini photo shoot. Now, they are not great, but with the help of some editing, I can fake it!