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New Beginning by laurakathi at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com

Super Hero Tea Party Invitation

A friend's almost 4 year old wants a Super Hero Tea Party for his birthday so I helped make the invitation!

Action Hero Collection Biggie by Amanda McGee available at www.scrapgirls.com

Joyful Noise

Credits at DST

Dance

Everything* from Birgit Kerr's amazing grab bag available @ Scrapbook Graphics only March 21st (midnight EST) - March 24th (midnight EST) 2008. Don't miss it - there are tons of excellent goodies!

The best of 5

credits @ DST

I am so very lucky

LDD Apprentice Freebies:
MrsB - glitter shamrock
Bohemian Art - frames
JodyKnapp - lucky stitches

Stand Up and Scrap:
Gina Miller - lime swirl paper

Camellia Symphony

Gorgeous new Front Porch kit by Birgit Kerr available at Scrapbook Graphics. I am looking forward to scrapping pictures of Emme and Zachary dancing together with more of this kit.

Catching up on Digi LOs

Full size and full credits can be found in my DST gallery.

Stand Up and Scrap LOs







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Boys' birthday party invitation

Real, live LOs!

It feels *so* good to scrap again. It makes me so mushy about my family and gives me an outlet and release that I don't get in our day to day life. I have a couple of other LOs in the Stand Up and Scrap contest - they ended up being really special LOs to me, I can't share them now but I will post them later.

I am loving Christina Renee's goodies - I think I DL a freebie from her right before my digi break started. I never got a chance to use it (and I am sure it is gone now with a lot of the digi kits and LOs I hadn't backed up). Anyway - I just love this collab kit she has with Shabby Princess.


Another Christina Renee collab - this time it was a freebie! I did some recoloring to get a more kid friendly look to the background.


Some of those Stand Up and Scrap papers were just perfect for this simple page.


I am so honored to get to create for my long time friend, Chris Wasielewski who is making the leap from paper to digi.


Complete credits and journaling can be found at in my DST Gallery.

I like lime-y green

Is that obvious yet?

On a Whim by Julie Mead
Font - DB DIXI by Darcy Baldwin available at Blue Flombingo
“pee pee, pee pee” you yelled at me. you often do not have the words to explain what it is you want the world to hear but you still let your will be known. today you were proud. Some great accomplishment that involved pee pee. I was afraid. I followed you to the bathroom where you giggled and giggled as you showed me your baby on the potty, going “pee pee”.

I broke it...

I broke my laptop. It still works but I now have a giant gash through the screen that serves as a constant reminder of what a complete klutz I am. I was sitting with William on the couch, my laptop on the arm of the couch. William fell off the couch and in the process of trying to keep him from falling on his head I knocked my laptop down and it did something bad inside. I am glad it still works but now I have to type blindly when I hit the left side of the screen. Digiscrapping is ok because I can shrink the screen but sending emails is a pain. Blah. That stinks.

William spent the weekend throwing up and now has a cough and runny nose. I was so impressed with how well we all made it through cold and flu season but it looks like we may be suffering at the back end.

My first broken laptop LO:


All the goodies are by Corina Nielsen and available at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com. The font is by Darcy Baldwin and available at www.blueflombingo.com - full credits at DST.
The paper is from Corina's The Big Day Collection - look at these crazy colors!

William's Speech Evaluation

We knew William was behind in his expressive speech but we had little idea he was so behind. The preliminary guess of the Speech Language Pathologist we saw on Friday was that he will test at an 11 month level. He will be 26 months this month. His receptive language is fine but he is just not hitting that big language explosion that is expected at his age. Tomorrow I will start the phone calls looking for more info and services for him.

LO with Penny Springmann's Shoot for the Stars kit and 2 pager template - also a Darcy Baldwin font!

An Update!?

Wow, I have a blog! LOL!

We have been keeping busy. The weather has been nice and we have spent a lot of time outside or at the park.

Our preschool homeschool group has evolved a bit. Our Monday mornings are now an open park/playdate for all age homeschool families and on Thursday mornings 3 of us are getting together with our 6 kids to do more directed "preschool time". Each mom will take a turn of a month or so of teaching a group of lessons. H started a group of lessons about the 5 senses yesterday. She made "touching bags" with different textures inside and the kids felt the items inside and then described them. They made textured collages and then we played outside. A's house is perfect for our preschool time and my boys love being over there. In fact Zachary loves it so much that there is much wailing and drama involved when it is time to leave.

This morning we did salt painting and smooth painting and talked about the bumpy and smooth feeling when we touched it. Zachary painted a "T", "H" and an "A"! We had 3 big letters and talked about what word we could make from them - now we have "HAT" spelled out on our kitchen wall in big bumpy letters! I am so proud!

William is really, really 2. Now when you ask him how old he is he says "FIVE" and holds up all 5 fingers. Stinker. He thinks he is sooooo funny. Well he is pretty funny but we like hearing "two" also! He has no fear. We have had to move the loveseat in front of the fireplace to keep him from pulling the glass insert out again. When we are outside he will chase the cat anywhere - including off the side of the high deck. Yikes. William wants to keep up with everything his brother does. It isn't even that he wants to be like his big brother - he just doesn't want to be left out. As a result my 25.5 month old peed on the potty this week! He also pees on the floor many times a day since he won't leave any clothes and earlier in the week he peed in a toy bin and then brought it to me! At least he is getting the idea, I guess.

Zachary's new skill that he is so proud of (besides painting letters) is peeing in the bushes. He has been successfully using the potty for some time now but is terrified of the toilet and peeing standing up - so this week I have encouraged (yikes) him to pee in the bushes outside which after some hesitation he now finds wickedly cool. And success! We have had toilet peeing now too!

I have been in a bit of a scrapping funk but I did complete this page of Emme at her 2nd birthday party: (ACOT Spring Fling collab kit and a new handwriting font by Darcy Baldwin):


Last week I did a page about a quick clean with Traci Reed's new boy kit


Full credits for both on DST

We are family!

A small part of my big family at Thanksgiving 06. The credits list is HUGE and can be found at DST.


We have started taking afternoon walks with William actually walking! He loves his bear backpack harness thing - which is awesome because if we didn't have that he would be in the street in moments! Thursday afternoon we took a puddle walk during a break in the rain. I took my dSLR with us and the battery died! The boys LOVED splashing in the puddles and I loved watching them love it.

This weekend we have plans to visit our city's big brand new library! It looks gorgeous from the outside, I cannot wait to see inside! I am very anxious to go to Costco tomorrow to pick up my first big set of printed LOs. I am printing at 8x8 size... I hope it works well! A $20 experiment!

Scallop recipe - it was from the cookbook "How to Cook Everything" - I will try to get the recipe tomorrow and post it!

Happy Friday!

The week sure flew by! The boys and I had a tough Valentine's day - they were just super crazy and a trip to the park was disastrous when William kept trying to run away down big hills (straight towards the road) or in to muddy ravines. I gave the boys a bath after the park (about 50% of the bathwater ended up on the floor) and then an early picnic dinner on the livingroom floor. When Carl got home we put them to bed and then had some nice time together - interrupted by both boys waking up, screaming a number of times.

Carl made us scallops in a lemon glaze, fillet mignon and crusty hot bread. Our fresh asparagus was left out because of the multiple wakings. We had dinner and watched American Idol in between tending to the boys. We had a rare treat of mid-week wine, it was good stuff - 7 deadly Zins.


My valentine and I with Traci Reed's New Black Lace collection available at ACOT:

Corina's Papa Collection

This beautiful and very special collection is 20% off today at www.funkyplaygrounddesigns.com.






Kid = Kimberly Geswein
Kit = Corina Nielsen

Spring Chicken LO

full credits
William was so little! These pictures are not excellent and I have had them sitting for a long time waiting for the right kit to work with them. This fun kit compliments the vivid colors in the photos - and my cute kids!

Thursday already?

How is that possible? This morning we have William's hearing test and we are hoping to pick up the Odyssey this afternoon. Hoping. The Kia dealership has really low balled the trade in offer so we are going to try a couple of other avenues first. At the least we need to get back what we owe on it- although it would have been nice to make $$ on it like we had the potential to do before the accident.

Last night I finished my first LO for Penny with her gorgeous Chirp set (see yesterday's post for the full kit and link). Full credits in my gallery on DST

"It is Spankish for Naughty"

Full credits on DST

journaling....
“Liljack” was all you would say when I asked what you were doing in the bathroom. You had been in there a long time and I peeked in to see if you needed help. Over and over you stated “liljack” as you continued to pump foam soap all over the sink, counter and floor. Finally, as I grew more frustrated you told me “Liljack, it is Spanish for naughty”. Spanish or not, naughty you were.