show us your life - the chunky monkey

it is show us your life - what you make over at kelly's korner this week!

the chunky monkey specializes in everything FUN!

i create appliqued tshirts, bibs, dresses, day gowns, pillowcases...if it can be appliqued...i can do it!

here are a few examples of my work:

pillowcase with name...can match any room decor!

letter with Cars movie material...

pirate girl for a birthday party! i can make birthday shirts to match any theme!

crown with initial...


alligator on green shirt...the gator wraps around the shirt...


girl st. patty's day shirt...


boy st. patty's day shirt...

st. patty's day shirt with tutu and hairbow

dinosaur...

cupcake with initial...

easter bunny in a race car...

easter bunny...

back of the easter bunny...

peeking bunny out of an egg with initial...

you can find me on facebook under the chunky monkey!

if you have any questions...please email me at thechunkymonkey1@gmail.com

thanks so much for looking!!!

the windy city...

a week from yesterday...i will be here...

visiting my brother and his sweet girlfriend, jessica.

i am sooooo excited!!!

bertie b...

one of my good friends from college, julie, has the cutest little business...bertie b.

don't you love the name???

julie made this shirt for quinn and onesie for qualls. they are OFF THE CHARTS!!! love them!!! julie has started a blog with her tshirts, handtowels, dresses, flower headbands, etc.

go check it out...you will NOT be disappointed that you did!!!

teething biscuits, puffs and a little reading...

on thursday...qualls had his 1st teething biscuit. he is finally getting his bottom 2 teeth in and wants to chew on everything. he LOVED the biscuits!!!

qualls also had his first puffs (banana) this weekend! he is alot better with them than quinn was at his age. quinn would choke on them! who knows how...they melt in your mouth. he did it on a sunday morning at church and i thought the lady behind us was going to give him the heimlich. mom and i just looked at him because we knew it would eventually melt. :0)

qualls loves the puffs! he loves being able to feed himself!

jq giving the 1st puff over...

quinn is participating in the reading program at the library here in town. abbe, tobey and i always participated in it every summer and we all loved it. we completed our first "x" this weekend. quinn marked it himself.

grow with me...

we have been planting flowers around the dickerson house. my mom laughs because when i was younger i would always come out while she was planting flowers and ask "why do you do that...they are just going to die?" i still kind of think that but they are pretty...

front porch...

quinn helped too. he left his hand shovel behind...

pot on the deck...


lilies on the deck...





the garden is sure growing.

radishes...

peppers...

tomatoes...


quinn's garden tools. gigi and pops' got him these along with his wheelbarrow for christmas last year.

quinn and qualls' house outside. jq put outdoor carpet in it and moved it beside the rock patio that jq just finished. he also got flowers for the outside. quinn loves playing in there and i am sure qualls will in the future...

shopping, sprinklers, tball = a whole lot of fun!!!

we had a great memorial day. in the morning, quinn and i went with gigi to target and a couple of other stores before coming home to hamburgers on the grill. pops had them ready and they were great!!! quinn enjoyed some time in the sprinklers...he even got me running through them with him...not a good idea when you have on the clothes you wore out shopping earlier in the day. he had a blast and so did i...so, that is all that matters!

the three boys of the house!

qualls is feeling much better! jq and i are so thankful. he was a sick little boy for a good 4 days.



quinn running through (or around) the sprinklers.

quinn helping pops...

i LOVE this picture. quinn's face is priceless!!!

pops and qualls hanging out. qualls' bib was backwards like superman.

after the sprinkler fun...we had a little tball action. jq is teaching quinn the "correct" way to hold the bat.



this boy LOVES his pops. qualls wants him all the time!!!

one boy that had a lot of FUN!!!

build a bear...or in quinn's case...a dragon...

yesterday, we took the kids to build a bear. jessica's (my brother's girlfriend) parents gave the boys a giftcard when qualls was born so we went and used part of it. quinn has been before but he was much more into it this time than before.

jq and quinn getting ready to stuff quinn's dragon

picking out a sound...

sweet qualls watching his brother

stuffing the dragon...

sweet little foot...

qualls...his eyes are a little pitiful. he did not take a nap all day long!!! he is soooo very nosey and does not want to miss anything!!!

putting the heart in his dragon


telling the lady that his dragon is the dragon off of shrek...he is silly!!!


stories of the day...

we went to lowe's later in the day to pick up stuff for our backyard patio. we were checking out and everytime the cashier would scan something in our cart...quinn would clap...say "good job" and give him a thumbs up! jq and i were cracking up!!! quinn is very supportive! ha!

we always have supper with gigi and pops on friday nights. we went over their house last night. quinn was being a stinker about something...so, he said his usual..."i'm sorry" then hugged pops...then turned around and looked at jq and said "i'm so sweet." so funny!