4th of July Yumminess!

Hello!!! So who is gearing up for the holiday on Wednesday? I know that we are looking forward to grilling out, eating some great food, and hopefully watching fireworks. This year, thanks to the magic of Pinterest, I am going to trying a whole bunch of new holiday recipes that are in the spirit of the 4th of July… here are just a few!

1. Red licorice wrapped in cute wrappers

2. Independence Sangria

3. Dipped Pretzels

4. Brownie fruit kebabs

5. Layered drink for kids

6. Flag Breakfast Toast

Yummy right?! I’m so excited for the layered drink and the brownie kebabs!!! Strawberries and blueberries make the perfect addition to any celebration I think. =)

Happy grilling and celebrating fellow Americans!

 

I Pinned It and Did It!

There are many things that I have pinned and then did, especially recipes and crafts.

This is probably one of my favorite ones so far as the kids could do it and the results were adorable!

This is the original pin and original post that the pin originated from:

… and these are the ones we made. The girls really enjoyed using the pipe cleaners to stamp and a brush to add blue and gold glitter!

Instead of using puffy paint we just plain acrylic since I have so much of it… the results are very pretty and I can’t wait for them to all sport their shirts this week!!

I think I am going to make this a series of sorts since I do make and create a lot of things that I add to Pinterest…

anyone who wants to add their own Pinterest experiments please do so!

Cheers!

Happy Easter!

Today was a wonderful Easter! Here at Casa de Krebs we woke up at the early hour of 8am, searched for baskets, ate a lovely breakfast, and then ventured to my sorority sister’s house for an Easter egg hunt and lunch. Yummo! At our house the two older girls got flower pots instead of baskets filled with seeds, a teeny bit of chocolate, plastic eggs filled with loose change, nail polish, small trinkets, and other fun stuff. They also got Easter Edition Hex Bugs, sunglasses, chapstick, and kites. Moira got some small books, bunny crackers, crayons, and a coloring book. (This baby loooooves to color with anything she gets in her hands!)

This is kinda how our day went… (photo taking and baby wrangling don’t mix too well yet!)

I hope you all had a very Happy Easter!

Easter Rewind

Last year I was on my game apparently! The girls had cute shirts made by me to celebrate Spring, I had coupons in their eggs, and they even had adorable little pocket bunnies in their baskets. Lol, how I managed all that with a very young baby is beyond me! Anyhow, here are some photos and ideas for last minute cuteness for your own little bunny:

This project is pretty simple: take a plain tee shirt, some brown fabric paint, and some freezer paper.

There are many tutorials online for freezer paper stenciling but the jist is pretty easy-

trace your image onto the flat (non-shiny) part of the freezer paper, cut it out with an exacto knife, iron the paper onto your tee shirt shiny side down, fill in your image with the fabric paint, wait for it to dry- voila!!

They turned out so cute and love wearing them even now.

I didn’t make a tutorial for this little pocket bunny, it is a pretty basic design though.

I made them on a whim and had so much fun embroidering the front with the girls’ names.

My favorite thing though is the little pocket I added to the back so that the Easter Bunny can leave a small chocolate bar or something yummy. =)

These are a set of printable coupons that would be cute to hide in Easter eggs. Last year the girls really enjoyed trading them in for dates and extra treats.

If you like them simply click on the image, view the largest size and download!

There were some other fun crafts in the mis as well, orange play dough as carrots, bunny soap, and crayons shaped like ABC’s.

Anyhow, here are some ideas that we are doing this year, I think the girls will be really surprised:

(click on the pic to go to the photo source)

 What is going in your children’s Easter baskets?

Top of the Morning!

I have been seriously trying to write this post for 4 days! Every time I sat down Moira climbed up and demanded You Tube (She is a big Katy Perry, Sesame Street, and Selena Gomez fan!) which makes it near impossible to type. So here I am, typing with her on my lap… not the easiest thing in the world.

Anyhow, we love celebrating St. Patrick’s Day here at Casa de Krebs. Between reading Irish folk tales, listening to Irish music, and crafting, its always a fun filled week. Here are some things we are doing or have done, enjoy!!

Ever (starting at the top, going clockwise)

Rainbow gelatin orange wedges

Leprechaun traps

Treat Ideas

Green paper carnations

Felt shamrocks

Lucky breakfast

Rainbow Scarf  (made this last year- huge hit!!!)

There is also a great list of books here!

How do you celebrate St. Patricks Day?

This is us last year, look how bitty Moira is!