SUYL - Show us What you make or sell

I love to buy from crafty women. I think etsy.com is one of the best inventions ever! I have no creative bones in my body - but thankful other people do and will share with me!

I also love to support small businesses and women who have little side shops to help their families. For this reason - I love to do this every few months. I hope if you have a little etsy shop or business - that you will share it with us. And if you do or don't  - I hope you will shop, shop, shop!!!

And I want to spotlight the 3 "sponsors" I have on my sidebar.  I'm featuring 3 (or 4) small businesses a month for free to try and help women help their families. I'm starting small and maybe I can make it bigger in months to come to help more!

Polka dot posies.com is one of the BEST places to get your big bows for your girls! They are AMAZING prices, great quality and ship freakishly quick! She has all sizes and colors! I have bought from her several times and you will too if you try her once! My favorites are the 6.5 inch bows. They are the perfect size!

I don't think you can have ENOUGH Scripture in your home. I love having God's word in every room of my house.  NapTime Diaries makes awesome scripture prints that you can take and frame how ever you want. She has tons to choose from or you can work with her on a custom design. I love these prints you can have made for your children or as a baby gift!

When I was looking for Harper's first birthday outfit - I found the cutest little site called She She Made.  And since then she has become a friend and I have had her made a lot of cuteness for the girls.  A lot of the baby gowns Hollis wore her first month or two came from She She.  She makes the CUTEST things for both babies and kids.  And lots of cute boy things too.  She just had a boy - so her boy stuff has become even cuter! Isn't the gown above the sweetest? (I'm looking back and I think I may have over used the word "cute" but I can't help it. I should have thrown in a darling or precious somewhere. ha!)

PLEASE ONLY LINK ONCE PER BUSINESS.  IF YOU LINK MULTIPLE TIMES - I WILL PROBABLY DELETE ALL BUT ONE.  I WANT TO GIVE ROOM FOR EVERYONE!

Under the Weather

We've been a little under the weather the last few days - both literally and figuratively. Yesterday Laurie and I had a little out of town antique shopping trip planned but Hollis was up a dozen times in the night and I woke up to it pouring raining and I cancelled our trip.  I even kept Harper home from MDO because she had been a little sick earlier in the week and I didn't want us to get out in the cold rain.  I'm not going to lie....it was a LONG day.  People have been telling me for months that 3 is WAY worse than 2 and I didn't believe them but GOOD GUSSY they were right.  It's going to be a long 355 days. :-)  It doesn't help that I'm a little hormonal right now (not pregnant - just normal stuff). 
THANKFULLY - Laurie and I had a night out planned for last night.  Our husbands planned it for us actually.  Laurie's cousin had given them tickets to a few razorback games and Laurie's husband thought it would be good for us to go and let them keep the girls. They knew they owed us after they went to all the football games this year. Plus Laurie and I love basketball games.  Back in the mid 1990's we lived near the U of A campus after college and we used to go to almost ever game.  So last night was like a step back into our single years.

We went and ate sushi before the game. SO SO good!

I love Bud Walton Arena.  I haven't been to a game in a long time and the atmosphere has changed for the better. It was a very fun atmosphere and we beat Auburn! I miss going to all the games.

Laurie and I laughed and laughed and had SO much fun.  It was a late game so we got home late. It was a fun night out!

My girls are both a little sickly today.  We went to speech this morning while Hollis stayed home with our babysitter and I'm taking them to the doctor this afternoon. This is our first time being really sick this year so I'm counting that blessing.

I've had a few prayer requests sent my way that I thought I would share - I also have fixed the prayer blog so you can go and add more to it! Please do share your requests and pray for each other!

1. Please pray for Dakota. he is 8 been battling leukemia since he was 2. He now has meningitis and is in ICU!!

2.  http://mommyofthree120.blogspot.com  Just had a baby a month early

3.  http://babymorrison2.blogspot.com/  Pray for this baby

 4.  http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/thegardtwins/mystory  Please pray for Wyatt

5. Please pray for Trisha and her unborn baby Elias who has hydrops http://www.thepoppinslife.blogspot.com/

6. Pray for this family who are expecting baby Mary Amanda who has Trisomy 13 http://staggfamily.wordpress.com/

Good Girl Bed

This is one of those posts I'm doing for myself so I won't forget the milestones in our lives. I love being able to look up almost any milestone on my blog. Thank goodness for that or my poor girls would have no record of anything because I certainly can't remember to write anything down.

On Harper's 3rd birthday weekend - she started climbing out of her bed.  She started appearing in the living room after we would put her to bed.  I was hoping to hold on to the crib a little longer but honestly - I'm shocked it took her this long to climb out because she's a wild little monkey.

So we knew it was time to give her a big girl bed or as Harper keeps calling it - a "good girl bed".  I was going to get some kind of neat twin bed and then I decided it would be easier to just take the day bed out of Hollis' room and use that and that would give more room to play in Hollis' room.  I also moved most of the toys out of Harper's room into Hollis' room and put her table and chairs into our family room.  I feel like they have a lot more space now! Yeay!
I was so sad Saturday night because we knew it was her last night in her crib.  That seemed so sad.  She's officially a big girl.  She's basically potty trained, she is so independent and now no crib.  I told Scott it wouldn't be long until it was the last night in her room before she left for college. Okay.....maybe we have a little time.

We took some pictures so we could remember her last night ever in that crib.  I remember how excited I was to pick out her crib and bedding. I had waited so long and it was so exciting to put together a nursery.  I can't believe how quickly three years have gone by.

Here is Harper the very first time she took a nap in her crib at almost 2 months.  Was she really ever that little?

She slept in her new bed Sunday night but we didn't take any pictures until tonight.  She has had a cold and has been SUPER fussy and tired. I didn't want to push her by taking any pictures.  It worked to our favor because she was so exhausted the last two nights she hopped in bed and went right to sleep and slept all night.  I don't know if it will continue to go so well but it has been a great transition so far.  I have found with everything we have changed......we are usually a little slow to make changes (paci, bottle, potty training, bed) BUT each change has been super easy because we waited until the time was right for us. I'm not saying that's the way for everyone - but I'm thankful it has worked out so easily each time.

That makes me sing that old song "In His time, In His time.....He makes all things  beautiful In His time.."