Baby Shower Gift and Card

Moving a little slow today. We took a family vacation this weekend and the drive back yesterday was bitter sweet (as is most trips back home from a vacation.) It was bitter because I had such a great time and I could have stayed a bit longer. Also, because I knew what the house looked like that I was returning home to. Trust me, not a pretty picture. But on the other hand, I was so happy to be returning to a schedule, which makes the OCD side of me very happy, and also because I was exhausted. It's amazing how much work two kids are on a vacation. Sheesh!


The car ride up there takes about 6 hours. At one point, the kids were both getting a little antsy so we decided to take some silly pictures.

Watching her brothers' photo shoot tuckered out E so she fell asleep. Not for long, though. L started poking her with a Thomas Train and 10 minutes later, she was awake again.

E is still in one of those gargantuan life jackets that has the big flap on the back with a handle. The thing looks anything, but comfortable, so when we have to squeeze her in this wretched thing it's so sad. She goes from this:

Happy Boat Baby

To this:

Mad Boat Baby

That's D trying to pull the part that cuts in to her face away from her so it's a bit less uncomfortable. Not working too well. Then, when she's so tired of crying and being mad she finally does this:

Sleeping Boat Baby

Then, she wakes up, we tell her we're heading home for dinner and a nap and she looks like this:

Excited Boat Baby

She did really well, though. Considering we strapped a device to her that, for all she knew, was trying to suffocate her. She handled it well. 

Okay, on to crafty endeavors. A friend of mine was having a baby shower and I wasn't really sure what I was going to get her, but I knew whatever it was, it had to be packaged cute. I saw these tin buckets at target in the dollar section (are you seeing a trend here?) and knew exactly what I would do.

I took the tin bucket and put a vinyl decor sticker made by Stampin' Up! on it and Voila! A super cute tin that the momma can reuse for storage in the baby room. 

I also thought it would be cute to stick the paper plane on the back. I rolled up some onesies, pants, and a sweater and stuck those in the bucket with a cute little book and paired it with a handmade onesie card. The momma loved it and I was really happy with the way it turned out, too.

Here are some more pix from our trip:

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