Are those Girl Scout Cookies?

This is what has consumed me this week.... Girl Scout Cookies have taken over my living room!!  I picked up the entire troop order on Valentines Day and my living room now looks like a Girl Scout Cookie Factory!!! This year Lilly is as Daisy Girl Scout and I'm one of the troop leaders! I know I know .. I can never say NO!!!  But I love being one of the troop moms because I get to plan all kind of fun craft projects for the girls!!!    

notice the Barbie Dolls on the boxes?  Boxes are the best Toys ever!!  

Forget about that American Girl Doll Santa brought!! 

My favorite girl scout cookie hands down are the Samoa's or Caramel delights!!  Sad to say that yes,  I've eaten a box by myself over the past couple of days!! YIKES!!!!  Bad part is I"m the only one in my house who likes coconut so I'm doomed!!!  Good thing is I only bought 2 boxes!!  ;)  


What's your favorite girl scout cookie?  

What are you creating for Valentines Day?

If you wonder what I'm doing when I'm not posting on  The Preppy Strawberry, I'm working 2 PT sales jobs, I'm crafting with my 5 1/2 year old, or I'm on pinterest <---Yes I'm addicted!!!   Please follow me if you are on pinterest  - I would love more people for me to  follow!!   I probably have enough pictures on my iPhone to use for several blog posts the problem is finding that balance between everything Mom's have to do during the week.  Which leads me into my post..... 


What are you creating for Valentines Day?  


Tuesday, is Valentines day which means making Valentine cards for school and of course creating a Valentines Day Box!  I can remember as a kid decorating a plain shoe box and then remember kids coming with all of these cute boxes that sometimes a Dad engineered to do something crazy.  This being Lilly's first official year in school I asked her what she wanted to make for her Valentine's Day Box.  After tossing around several ideas she said an Owl.  So my creative wheels started spinning immediately as to how I was going to create the owl valentine box.  Ta Da -Here's our finished Valentines Day Box!  

For a class treat, we are making the mustache and lip sucker- Jolly Lollies you can find the idea over at Family Fun.  

I'm also attempting this evening the Strawberry Oreo Cookies, I found over here at Thirty Handmade Days.  How cute are these cookies?  I just finished baking mine and let me just say I need another round of practice on the making the heart shape!!  Let's just say my hearts --> Epic Fail!!  At my house w will be having just plain round or deformed strawberry cookies! LOL   But so far my family told me they are the best cookies ever! So they might not look as cute as the heart cookies at Thiry Handmade Days but they taste pretty awesome!  

Now I need to start thinking about what I can make for dinner?!  The only one thing I know is that it needs to be in the crock pot!!! Any suggestions??? Because by the time I get home from work, school valentines day party, and picking up my daisy troops Girls Scout cookies the last thing I'm doing is cooking!!  

Hello 2012....

First, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!!!  

I don't know about you but I'm so ready to put 2011 behind me!!  What a year this has been for me!!  There were way too many ups and downs the past few years I'm really ready for a great year! 


A recap of 2011 .... 


Positive Happenings of 2011 

• I finally got a job .. might be part time but in today's economy I'm not complaining 
•  Lilly started Kindergarten!!  I can't believe my baby is half way through her school year!!  What happened to my baby?  
• I finally found a doctor to figure out what was wrong with me.... Spent the past year trying to get my thyroid  working.  It's still a struggle but so thankful we found it and I can finally start to feel like myself again!!!  

Things I wish 2011 allowed me to do 

• wish my job wasn't so crazy that I had more time to spending on my blog 
• 2012 - I'm getting back to doing what makes me happy and living my life again!! 
• starting a craft and bunco club - these things make me smile!  

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!!!   

See you in 2012!!! 

Blogger iPhone app...

The other day on my last post it was supposed to read - What is your elf up to?  But when I used the iPhone app for blogger it some how changed it to

What's your elf up to?

What's up with that?  Anyone else use the iphone blogger app?  I was trying it out the other day because I was without my laptop and posted during my break at work?

When you type the subject in it looks correct but as soon as you hit post it turns all funky?  Anyone else have this issue?  

So this is just to say I wasn't crazy for that last post title - it was an issue with the blogger app!!  

Happy Saturday Everyone!! 

What&apos;s your elf up to?

This is our second year of doing elf on the shelf. I start it on Black Friday... I mean why not start it on Black Friday? Since the early 2000 Black Friday has become the start to the holiday craze! So why not kick off elf on the shelf?

Last year, Linus was a boring elf on the shelf... Find him in our tree, the mantle in living room, hanging from kitchen curtains, playroom mantle, ok now repeat all of the above. This year he's a little adventurous and playing games? Hehe... Here's what he's been up to the past few days at our house......

We found him swinging from the lamp? Today we found him hanging on the door knob to her room!!

Wonder where we will find Linus tomorrow?

What is your elf up to this holiday?

What is your elf up to?

You can read about Linus's arrival 2010 ..... 




Well Linus made his first appearance this weekend and boy what a SURPRISE it was!  It was a video moment that was not caught on video!  Lilly was so excited that Linus was back she was almost speechless Saturday morning!  So far, our Elf was on the stair railing, in the candy jar, and then today was sitting in Lilly's chair.   Today, Linus was in Lilly's chair - this was to give her a time out of the chair.  All weekend she was rocking in it, pushing the back down - you know doing all of the things you shouldn't do to the chair.  So after both of us yelling at her all day about the chair I decided that's where Linus will sit all day.  Boy what a bummer, she couldn't move him to sit in and she was mad he was in the chair!  It was comical but I told her he must have heard her all day getting in trouble and Santa sent him back to sit in the chair! lol   

The Grinch joined Linus - Lilly said it was so the Elf's magic would rub off on the grinch! lol

Wonder what Linus will be up to tomorrow?  


What is your elf to this Christmas Season? 

What is a Kindergartner Thankful for....

Last year, we made this Thankful Turkey and every day we wrote what Lilly was thankful for ... It was such a fun family project.  This year, Lilly asked me when we were going to do our Turkey again?  This year because of the crazy schedules we took some time out on Thanksgiving morning to sit down and work on our Thankful Turkey.  We did one together - brown turkey and then while I was getting ready she did the purple turkey.  She asked for help writing her "thankful" thoughts.  This year Daddy helped out and this is what a kindergartner is thankful for... 

1)  School 
2)  food on the table 
3) Justin Bieber (yes, you are really reading Justin Bieber!!!  And I can't believe Dad actually wrote it!!) LOL
4)  Family 
5)  Friends 




Notice on Purple turkey - she wrote school and Justin Bieber! lol   


These are the things that you save and pull out when they are teenagers and have a few good laughs!