Phew!

Not long ago I was looking forward to the end of April with almost equal amounts of joy and fear. 3 HUGE events were drawing closer and all were set to occur within the time frame of about 2 weeks. Well, I'm here to say I survived the stress and I have she'd many tears of joy these last couple of weeks.

Wedding:
So glad to have Daniel in the family! He and Morgan are the cutest couple and love each other SO much! I will post more about their wedding later.


Mission:
I really love this picture of Dallin saying goodbye to his little brother for two years. I'm so proud of Dallin and I am excited to hear about his experiences with the people in Russia.


Rachel:
Wow. I'm pretty sure my life just changed forever! I wondered what it would feel like to be a grandma. Would I feel an instant bond? Would I feel like she belonged to me? Would she melt my heart like my children did? YES, YES, and YES!!! I adore this little sweetheart! She is sweet and healthy and oh so beautiful!!!!
(I will share some projects that we did for her nursery in a later post.)


I return home in just a few days and I don't know how I'm going to leave her. Life will be a little different with just 4 people living under our roof. All 8 of us lived together last year. May is always a busy month with the school year coming to an end. Then I can take a breath and enjoy summer which is always over WAY too fast!!

Come back soon,
Suzy

Campfire Cupcakes

Okay, people are so clever! My daughter Morgan sent me this picture of these adorable cupcakes that the Girl's Camp Director brought into Young Women today. I think they are SO cute. I'm assuming that the camp director came in to make an announcement about an upcoming camp meeting.  It looks like the original idea came from HERE.   Anyway, I just thought I'd share.

Come back soon,
SUZY

Easter Baskets 2013

The Easter baskets are assembled and ready for the Easter bunny to put them out on Easter morning
Dollar Tree is my first stop every year.  I always find SO many choices for baskets and I love the fact that they only cost a dollar.  I found these plastic buckets and decided to do them all yellow.
I also found these plastic bags at Dollar tree.  I filled the buckets with goodies and then placed the buckets in these cute plastic bags.  They are plastic and they don't stand up like cellophane.  : (

So I folded them under...

and secured it with the twist tie that came with the bags.

I think it looks kinda cute!

I made these tags with my cricut.  The bunny is from B is For Boys.

This is how I tied the bow.

1. Thread the middle of your ribbon through the hole.

2. pull through to the back.

3. Make a big loop

4. Place loop over bag.

Cinch the loop around the top of the bag.

Tie your bow and trim the ends.

I like this method for attaching tags.  It makes the tag lay flat and I like the way the bow sits on the tag.

Happy Easter everyone!!!

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Easy Mint Chocolate Brownies

Who loves anything chocolate mint?  I do!  Mint chocolate chip ice cream, Girl Scout Thin Mints, Andy's mint sandwiches and mint truffles are all favorites of mine. My daughter told me about these brownies and this recipe is SO easy.  I just had to share it.


First bake your favorite brownies from a mix or from scratch whatever you prefer.  Thick or thin...it doesn't matter.
After the brownies are done cooking melt 1 cup of chocolate chips in the microwave.  Slowly add 1/2 can of sweetened, condensed milk to the melted chocolate chips stirring as you go.  Take your time or the chocolate thickens too fast.  You can add  more if you like.  The more you add the thinner the chocolate will be.  I added a little more than half a can and mine turned out like frosting.

Spread chocolate over warm brownies.

Top with broken mint Oreos.  You could use any flavor or color of Oreo   This would be cute for Halloween with orange filled Oreos or for Easter with pink ones, but I like mint the best!  : )

ENJOY!!! Come back soon,
 

March Madness

March is a nice month.  The snow melts, the sun comes out and you can see the signs of spring as the trees start budding and the tulips and force their way through the cold earth.  It just makes me SO happy!!!  There is another event that takes place every March...The males in my house go "mad"!   Yes, March Madness is an annual occurrence at the Burningham home!  The guys fill out their brackets and head somewhere warm that they can live basketball for a few days.  Kind of a "Fathers and Sons" deal.  I am always glad to have the time to catch up on projects and have a night or two out with the female side of the family.  Last year I attended the Scrapbbok USA Expo with sister Shannon and my daughters and I painted the kitchen.
    This year, my husband convinced me to come along. I really wasn't sure I wanted to come.  With the wedding, Missionary farewell and new granddaughter coming soon I could really use a few days to myself to get some projects done.  Well, I really can't say no to my husband and I somewhat reluctantly agreed to come along.  We decided that San Diego would be our destination and I have to say that as the trip drew closer I grew more and more excited!

Here we are getting off the plane.  We really made this to send to our daughter Hayley who is serving a mission in England right now so excuse the personal message, but I thought it would be fun to share.



I absolutely love this city!!!  It's SO beautiful!!!

Look at this cool tree!

The weather wasn't the best this morning, but we enjoyed the beach anyway.

The water is SO cold!

Much warmer in the hotel pool!

Kade finished filling out his brackets at the hotel.

I am SO glad I came.  I really did need a break and since there is a lot of down time while everyone is watching basketball, I have a chance to blog a little.  I hope to share a few things with you the next couple of days that I have been working on.


Come back soon,

Kade's Valentines 2012

I found these pictures of Kade's Valentines from last year.  I never did post them so I thought I'd share them with you today.  These were very simple.  I bought them pillow boxes at Michael's in the wedding-ish section.  They were meant for a baby shower.

I filled them with candy and added a red band made with card stock.  On top of that was a red circle with a white scalloped border.  I punched the heart out of glitter card stock. ( I was kind of in love with glitter card stock last year.)  I typed up a label, printed them out and circled Kade's name with a heart.

They were pretty simple, but I thought they turned out cute.  Don't you love pillow boxes?  Whoever invented them is a genius!!!

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Valentine's Day 2013

 These are the Valentines Kade gave his class this year.

 I cut the boxes out on my Cricut using the Artiste Cartridge.  Kade wanted them filled with tootsie rolls.

You can print the tags HERE

I just printed the first page, then turned over and printed the second page so it would appear on the back.

I added a googly eye and tied attached the tag with some curling ribbon.  For Kades teacher I wrapped a Strawberry Ritter bar in the same paper and attached the tag with tuelle.

 I also made some boxes for Visiting teaching, but they have Dove chocolate hearts in them.

This year Kade's class made Valentine's boxes.  He really wanted to make a volcano box.  This is what he came up with.  He had the right idea, but it wasn't going to work.  He was so cute.  He said, he didn't really want to take it to school because he'd be embarrassed.  I asked him if he wanted help and he gladly accepted.

The next night he was going to a basketball game with his brother's so I needed to get a lot of it done on my own, yet I wanted him to do some too.Honestly, as I racked my brain trying to think of how to make a volcano box.  I could not come up with anything.  We started looking online and Kade really liked this pirate ship. 

 We had to finish it in one night with supplies we already had on hand so this was a great choice.

I used a Kleenex box.  I covered all sides with tan card stock.  Made the little trap door for the valentines.  Added the saisl using wooden skewers (You would be surprised how often I use these). And used my Cricut to cut out the skull and crossbones, waves and sea creatures etc. Kade totally got the "Yo Ho me Hearties, but he was the only one.  Hahaha.  Whatever!

 I used my xyron to make stickers out of the sea creatures and left those for Kade to embellish with.

I forgot to take a picture of the box when Kade finished with it.  He just put the stickers mostly where the water was.  He was happy with the way it turned out.  

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Pray For Me. It's Going To Be A Very Busy April!!!

 Sorry I've been a little AWOL lately.  I have a very good excuse...

First of all...My Oldest daughter Morgan is engaged to Daniel Newbold!  Yaay!  We are SOO excited to have Daniel join our family.  They will be getting married on April 13.
Morgan found her dress today.  Big relief.  She got it HERE.

The dress fits Morgan to a "T".  Pretty, simple and elegant all at the same time.  

Look at the beading at the neck  So pretty.  

I love how the buttons continue all the way down the train

Morgan is so happy with her dress.  It's absolutely perfect!!!

So Morgan and Daniel are getting married on April 13,They will have a dinner the night of the 12th instead of a wedding breakfast. Dallin has his missionaryFarewell the following weekend on the 21st and enters the Missionary Training Center on Wednesday April 24.  I fly to Jacksonville Florida on the 27th to help my daughter Madison welcome her daughter into the world. a pretty busy couple of weeks huh?  But all good things!

I will try to keep you posted, but I've been pretty busy working on centerpieces and plans.  I will share with you as I go.  Tomorrow I will post some Valentines projects I have done.

Come back soon,