"Now what's cooler than bein' cool?"

I love Texas in April!! Today the high was 91 and we played outside until the sun went down. We plan to spend the weekend cleaning up the patio doing some major yard work and getting ready for entertaining!!!

That is why I am SUPER EXCITED to see Lark and Lola's Drink Cooler Coolness!!!!



I am not a fan of the hubby's HUGE cooler that he drags out, whenever we have friends over. Now, I am inspired to make a little something to cover it up. Texas Tech fabric, perhaps. ;)

Cheers!
Tara

THIS is my life......and I LOVE it!

Hugs,
Tara

"Someone's Knocking at the Door!"

All the beautiful Texas weather has inspired us to work on our curb appeal and I am SOOOOOOO ready to paint our front door. This post has me inspired to paint a few more while we are at it...

Paint our front doors....and then some!

I LOVE this idea!!

SWOON!!!

Hugs
Tara

"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”

Of course, we chose...


and sledding...
(I love that Bug was calling it our "sleigh.")
and we all had FUN!!!


It's hard to believe that YESTERDAY we were rolling around in the leaves..

That my friends is why I LOVE living in Texas!!!
Hugs,
Tara

THE Ultimate I LOVE BEING A Girl Party!!!!

WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!!! I think that this party from Couture Parties is THE most beautiful GIRL CELEBRATION EVER!!!!

First, being a chip and dip girl, I LOVE the individual dip cups idea. SO COOL!!! Hello, lipstick on the mirror!!! SWOON!!!!

I might just pass out at the sight of this dress made of carnations and magazines & the "chandelier" made of Christmas tree icicles.! DOUBLE SWOON!!!

Stephanie's "THIS IS ME" wall has sent me over the edge and into a river of triple SWOON SOUP!!!!!!!!!!

YOU MUST my bloggy girlfriends go check out all the SWOONY details at Hostess with The Mostess Blog and then check out The Couture Parties Blog!

I LOVE BEING A GIRL!!!
Big Hugs From Texas, Tara

"All You Need is LOVE!"

Happy LOVE DAY bloggy friends!!! I hope you and yours have a WONDERFUL DAY!!!

Big Hugs From Texas, Tara

Grocery Shopping Made Easy??? Yes, please!!!!!

I ran into a mom from "Bug's" dance school at the grocery store, a few weeks ago and she shared with me her SUPER COOL shopping list, idea. I came right home and typed up my own and it has made grocery shopping MUCH more quick and organized. No more doubling back to the other side of the store, right after my lil ones have decided they are DONE with the store. WOO HOO I simply typed up a list of the usual grocery store "suspects" and then put them in order by aisle's at our Target. I saved a little room on the side for extra stuff we might need.
See.....

We highlight things as we run out and I underline the items that I have a coupon for!!! Cool, huh? (Ok, Im sure this idea is allllll over blogland but it was the first time I had ever seen it and I LOVE it!!!)What other FABULOUS organizing ideas have I been living without all these years????
Hugs,
Tara

"Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful...But Inside Its So Delightful!!"

Its been a crazy weather week for us here in Texas. Tuesday night we got hour's of freezing sleet, which turned into streets covered in ice. Basically our entire area has been shut shut down for 3 days. We have been having tons of fun...

<br>making copies....

doing freezing experiments..



making stew...
hanging with daddy...

and having a toilet paper party...


The low for tonight is 8 and more snow is expected SO I am sure we will be having lots more family fun!!! What do y'all do on your snow days???
Hugs from Texas,
Tara

This Post Brought To You By The Letter P!

This week Bug is learning about the letter "P" at Preschool!!! Tomorrow for show-and-tell she wants to take POPCORN!!! We decided to package some up to share with each of her friends. I think she did a FABULOUS job on the "P" labels!! Learning is so fun!!!

Big Hugs from Texas!
Tara

Minnie Mouse Birthday Party Invitations

Hot Dog!!!! Plans for Baby K's Minne Mouse Birthday party are underway.  I wanted to share  how I transformed these bargain wedding invitations that I bought at MJ Designs for $14.99 (Gartner Studios Tall Fuscia Floral Invitation Kit SKU: 86191) into SUPER CUTE MINNIE BIRTHDAY PARTY INVITES!


I started with my Mickey Ear Paper Shaper!

I used it to punch out the flower!



Then I attached the black card stock included in the set!

Then OH TOODLES....I opened my brand new Silhouette and he cut out cute lil Minnie Bows on The Paper Studio's Hot Pink w/ Polka Dots Paper (item # 466268) from Hobby Lobby! Added some text and the bows and Meeska, Mooska MINNIE MOUSE!!!! We have SUPER CUTE MINNIE MOUSE INVITES!!
I'm even using the reply cards, included in the set, as THANK YOU's!!!

More fun times in Mommyland!!! I love it!! I'm thinking with the left overs, I might have to make some fun Valentines cards!!
Hugs
Tara