Archive for the ‘Family matters’ Category

I’m working on re-doing my blog….and I have to do it in between dinner making, toddler fit-throwing and various other household pursuits.

Stephen and I have gone back and forth for a while now about whether to get another dog. The answer was always no, too much work, too much mess! Well, one of my customers this week brought in his lab puppies and that’s it, my heart was gone! This is my new puppy:

Kit is from Ziggle Designs and Irene Alexeeva, Happy Tails.

Isn’t he GORGEOUS? I really don’t need another dog, but I just fell in love. We don’t have a name yet, anyone have any suggestions?

I’m off to Disneyland this morning, woohoo me!

Don’t miss me too much though, I have a couple of pre-published goodies for you this week!

Good thing I have scrapbooking as my stress reliever and creative outlet….there has been a lot of 3 year old attitude and 20 month old screeching in here the past few days!
I have resolved this year to do a Project 365 of photos; take a picture everyday no matter what! I hope to scrap a weekly layout with them so that at the end of the year I will have an amazing documentation of our year as a family.
Yesterday I was snapping a few of the family outside in the snow and I got one of Lilah that I just love:

Today I turned it into this layout which is now my reining favorite:

I hope you like it too! Click HERE for credits.

I have been working so much overtime that it was really nice to have a weekend off to spend together as a family. On Saturday we hit the pumpkin patch and then went to the local mall bookstore for a Halloween story time and some ice cream. A couple hilights:

Perfect Pumpkin
Kit: Harvest Hayride by MommyMedic
Template: #240 by Andrea Gold

Ice Cream Happiness
Kit: Boys will be Boys by AWP-designs by Vicki
Wordart and button: Ice Cream Dreams by ScrapShana
Template: Template 6 by Céline031
Stitches: Shabby Summer by Christie Lemmon Designs
Staples: Plaid freebie by Pineapple Plantation Designs

On Sunday we went out for breakfast and then hung out at home. Lilah got to paint (her FAVORITE thing right now) while Casey napped, and then we all carved pumpkins in the afternoon. Or rather Stephen and I carved pumpkins while the kids  got covered in “pumpkin brains”. But the effort was worth it, behold the super cool pumpkins:

Can you guess what the pumpkin on the right is? How fitting for our household!

We had beautiful weather this weekend and I had the picture taking itch, so off to the park we went. Here is my page from tonight’s scrapping:

And a few cutie-patooties from the picture taking itch:

Casey taking in the wonder of nature.

Aren’t they the cutest things you’ve ever seen?

Yay! We got the remote to work and everyone looking at the camera!!!

A trip to the zoo this past weekend with our friends Jen and Alton:

Kit by Tabrizia, Sweet Emotion.

Speaking of Jen and Alton, here they are:

I’ve been playing with my photoshop actions a lot lately, from Pioneer Woman and Doug Boutwell too, and they make such striking photos! Now the SOOC (straight out of the camera) shots looking boring comparatively!

Here is one that Jen likes to call, “Potato Chip Shangri-La”

Playing with the lighting and the color makes his lovely blue eyes pop even more!

And here is one of my handsome men of course:

And finally my little princess (well, my dirty, wet, playing in the pool princess anyways!):

Ok, I admit it, I’m addicted to edge burn. I’m sure there is a 12 step program for me somewhere!

Thanks for checking us out!

No scrapping to post today, darn job always gets in the way. But here are a couple of photos from Stephen’s graduation on Thursday night:

The red rope means he graduated with honors:

And my favorite, it looks like he is bumping chests with the president of the college!

Haha while I was posting these, my 2 year old daughter saw them and said, “haha, daddy funny, daddy in a costume!”

I’m so proud of him for all his hard work, it was wonderful to see him walk across that stage. Congratulations Stephen!