TKD--- Yellow Belt

Blake had testing Thursday night for TaeKwonDo!! They have been working really hard these past couple of months on their moves so we were excited to see how testing would go!!

Blake really had no idea what the testing meant really, he just thought he was going to class like usual!! We practiced his moves before we went and he was doing good, I was nervous because I didn't know what to expect or what they were even going to do really!!

Blake did AWESOME, he is the youngest one in the class and the instructer said he was doing really good for being so young!!

The kids did their normal stretching, then worked on their moves a little... Once done with that the instructor seperated the younger ones from the older ones and they had to do their steps!!

All the kids did so good... They even got to BREAK A BOARD!!!!!! This came as a complete surprise to all of us new comers!! We had NO IDEA!!

Blake was the first one up... I was super nervous, I didn't really know what he would do, if he would get nervous and not do it or go for it, and sure enough he walked right up there, listened to the instructer explain what he needed to do and he BROKE THE BOARD in the FIRST hit!! It was AMAZING, I was on cloud 9 just watching him, he was beyond EXCITED!!!

After all was said and done, the whole class graduated up a belt, from white to white with a yellow stripe!!! I am so glad Blake likes this and hope he sticks it out for years to come!!

CAKE BLOG

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have started a cake blog to keep up with my gallery of pictures!!! Jamie's Sweet Creation's is now up and running and hopefully I will get to some cake making and decorating here soon to add some more pictures!!

Sneak Peak.....

...... of Blakes new 'BIG' boy room!!

About a month ago I decided that Blake needed a change in his room, he is getting to be such a big boy now I thought we would go with something a little 'big' boy like!!

It just happend that one of the blogs that I follow Kelly's Korner did a Show us Your Life- Bedrooms post a couple of Friday's ago, so I literally went through everyone that was titled like a boy and came across one that I LOVED!! I showed Blake the picture and he liked it too!! We had our colors picked out and the bedding just needed to figure out what to decorate with!! Blake kept saying Spiderman, Lightning McQueen, etc. but I had to step in and persuade him into something that would grow with him!! I mentioned skateboards and he was all about it, he has never played with a skateboard nor does he even have one, but to a 4 year old I guess it sounded cool!! I wanted something that could grow with him until he is older to decide what he wants to do in his room!!

We have the room 95% done... My sister Jodi over at Vinyl Expression is working on some skateboard vinyl for me, that we will have to wait and put up in a couple of weeks as we just painted and its best to wait!! Plus we just need a few more finishing touches, but its SUPER AWESOME!! I was very proud of myself on this project, because let's face it, if you know me I have no taste in style AT ALL!!! HAHA!!!

So here is a sneak peak of what it looks like now... I will add some more pictures once we get the vinyl up and the new curtains and a couple of other things!!! Just couldn't wait to post!!

BEFORE

AFTER

The room before was blue and that was it!! There was NOTHING on the walls the whole 3 years we have lived in our house!! HAHA!! His bedding had cars and trucks and tools on it!! His new bedding is something I have been looking for for a long time!! I wanted stripes with a little color but could never find anything!!! I found this set at WalMart.com!!!

We left the blue on the bottom because it almost matched the blue in the picture I found!! We painted the top half gray and added an orange stripe around the room!! We got him this funky chair and lamp to make the room look a little 'older'!! He LOVES it, well as much as a 4 year old can I guess, LOL!! I guess I LOVE it more then him!!! We hung up some skateboards for shelves, super easy and cheap!!

Thinking about CHRISTMAS!!

As the holidays are approaching I have been thinking about my Christmas cards for this year!! Since having children I have gotten even more excited about Christmas cards and figuring out something new every year for them!!

For the past few years I have been using Shutterfly for all my printing needs, whether it be for pictures, birth announcements or Christmas cards!! So I was super excited to find out that Shutterfly is offering 50 free Christmas cards to bloggers for writing about this offer!! Click here to find out more!!

Shutterfly has a TON of different cards to choose from here is a link to their Christmas Photo Cards!! There are soo many fun ones its hard to choose which one I like!!

Also for those of you that host holiday parties they have fun invitations as well here is a link to their invitations!! So wish I had holiday parties to use these invitations!!

And for those of you that aren't into the Christmas card idea Shutterfly offers so much more, they have some fun holiday gift ideas as well, their desk calendar's would make great gift ideas!! With pictures on each page for each month your sure to brighten someones month with pictures!! Click here to see more!!!

Can't wait to get started on my card, I am still looking for the perfect outfits for my kiddos and hopefully can get pictures in the next week or so, while the weather is still nice!!

I will share our card when it gets closer to Christmas!!!

Steam Mop

For years now I have been so disgusted with how dirty my kitchen floor gets!! I have purchased a swiffer wet jet, swiffer sweeper vac, mr clean magic eraser mop, and LOTS and LOTS of mops and I always felt like it was still disgusting after I would mop!!

Since starting daycare in my home a couple months ago my floor has gotten WORSE, with 4 extra kids eating in my kitchen everyday, was really taking a toll on my floor!! It was HORRIBLE!!

So for the past couple of weeks I have been looking around for a steam mop, I REALLY REALLY wanted the Shark Van then Steam mop, but the price was a little over what I wanted to spend:(
I reached out on Facebook to get some advice and looked at a ton of sites reading reviews and finally went with the Dirt Devil steam mop!!

I got it in the mail today and I instantly took it out of the box, it took me 2 seconds to put it together and read the instructions and I was on my way to steam mopping my floor!! I only did a little part of my kitchen just to test it out, and waited until after lunch to do the WHOLE thing!! OH MY LORD it was AMAZING!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! I don't know why I ever waited so long to get one, but totally worth it, and a lot cleaner then when using chemicals!! Plus I don't feel bad now for the little ones crawling around on my kitchen floor!!

So if you are interested in getting something for your hard floors this is it, I chose the Dirt Devil because of the price, but there are lots of others ones out there that I'm sure would do great as well!! I think no matter what steam is the way to go!!!

LOVE my Steam Mop... I'm going to use this think like every day!! HAHA

Little Learner Daycare Openings

Little Learners Daycare now has 2 part time openings available!!

Ages 1 and up as my infant age is full!!

Little Learners offers a safe and fun place for your children!!

Please email Jamie at corbinjamie@gmail.com for more details!!

Thank you!!