Sneaky sneaky!

My sister, Tiffany and her husband Rick brought over a plate of cookies this evening. Of course Liam was eyeing them all night and ever so politely asking for some. He got lucky and was given a few crumbs. When we weren't looking though he climbed up and grabbed a cookie off the plate and took off. I heard him running down to the hall laughing the whole way to his bedroom. He was hiding in the dark room in the corner behind his crib! What a sneaky little man!

Snowboarding!

I learned something this weekend: Dixon genetics + snowboarding does not = success.

My sister has the pictures on her camera so if I ever get copies from them I will post some! Our camera died on the mountain so I don't know how many "action" pictures we have.

Justin took me snowboarding for the first time on Saturday. We went up to Copper Mountain with Crystal, Mark and Dave (my brothers and sister). It was so much fun but probably the most frustrating thing ever. During the portion of the day that I was actually on my feet I was going down the mountian sideways. I am happy to report that I only face planted 3 times to whole day. Those three falls were enough to bruise my knees up pretty bad! Justin had a few pretty good falls. I looked up (from my own crash) just in time to see Justin do three somersaults down the hill! Thank goodness for helmets- we definitly needed them!

Getting off the chairlift was pretty much impossible. They never had to completely stop the lift even though the guy in the control room had to oame to my rescue. It was pretty embarrassing but we all survived. My last time getting off the lift was my most graceful. I still fell but happened to land on the board so I was able to slide out of the unloading zone!

Snowboarding was definitly harder than people make it look and I don't think my body has ever been this sore! It was totally worth it! Hopefully next year we will be able to save enough money to go again!

Liam's room!

I am almost completely done with Liam's room. There are a few things, like the empty picture frames on his wall that need filling and the really crooked curtain rod that the tenants hung, that need to be fixed but other than that his room is complete! It is nice having a safe place for him to play that is out of our tiny living area.

Liam's room was the first to get set up! I was just so excited to hang the decor that I had made for his room!

Liam's room is as big as ours-lucky boy!

I made these from ribbon, srcapbooking paper and styrofoam. I just velcroed (is that a word?) them to the wall!

moving with a toddler

So 4 months ago I posted that packing with a toddler was impossible but man was I wrong! Unpacking is so much worse. I decided this afternoon as I sat on my couch, a big bowl of ice cream in hand, with Liam's screams from his crib to seranade me that we will forever live in a half moved-into diaster zone. I am ok with that though- for today anyways.

Newest Creation

I am getting really antsy to move into our own place again! To keep me busy I started making and brainstorming new decorating projects! The first on my list was a plaque for Liam's room. His infant nursery was blue and brown contemporary stripes so I thought I would go with a theme this time! I am set on not painting the walls because it took so long to undo it just wasn't worth it. I have some other things planned for his room but can't really work on them until we live in the house. Hopefully I will have his room finished in a month or so!

Sorry it is not a very good picture. It was really easy to make. I just cut out scrapbook paper and glued it onto a piece of wood and voila!

Christmas Crafting!

I am so excited for the Holidays this year! It seems like I am more excited than usual- maybe because Liam is old enough to have some fun this year. I have finished two of Liam's presents this past week! We are moving back to Greeley in a few weeks and am I so excited to decorate and organize Liam's room! I keep thinking of different storage ideas for all of Liam's toys that are in storage. He seems to have turned into a little boy overnight! He doesn't need a nursery anymore- he needs a room for him to play in!

These were the easiest things to make! The plastic ABC magnets at Walmart were quite what I was looking for so I decided to make my own fridge magnets! I found these cute wood cut outs at Hobby Lobby the other day. I just put a sealer over them and slapped a magnet on the back so I have easy to clean fun magnets for Liam now!

His ABC blocks took a little (and by a little I mean a lot) longer than the magnets to make! I just bought 1.5 inch wood blocks and painted them with arcylic paints. I put some stickers on them because my drawing skills are horrendous, and sealed them so they can be washed! Hopefully he will have fun stacking them and putting them in and taking them out the box!

Fall Happenings!

Sorry the pictures are sideways. I can't seem to get my computer to save the rotation so just cock your head to the left and then it will appear to be normal!


As you can see, Liam was a fierce tiger for Halloween! We were all sick and grumpy on the real Halloween and since Liam is still so young we just skipped it! We had to dress him up later for pictures just so we had them!

Justin snuck Liam his first chocolate chip cookie ever! Liam doesn't look guilty at all!

This was Liam's favorite part of Anderson Farm! It is this huge rabbit pen. They had alot of baby rabbits that were fun to watch.