No Scrapbooking

I went to a crop at my friend Nicole's house last night, and I am pleased to say that I did absolutely no scrapbooking. I spent the entire evening chatting, eating and laughing. I did not even open up my supplies and paper. And I am 100% okay with that, I had a great time!

Park Day

Thursday after I picked up Elizabeth from school, I took the kids to the park for awhile. I like this park because it has wood chips instead of sand. Which seems cleaner simply because we don't take quite as much of it home with us.

A couple park photos


After the park, baths were in order. This is a cute one of bubble boy.

Decoupage

This was my first ever attempt at decoupage. I am posting it because I didn't take any new photos today and I just wanted a photo to post. This is a wooden tray that I made for my Grandma Bonnie for Christmas the year she went on a summer trip with my Dad and Step mom. I think it turned out cute, but I never did get the knack for the decoupage.



So today I drove to Victorville to help my brother return his U-Haul truck. He just moved into my neighborhood and I think it is pretty cool. It is going to be a much better commute for him to go to work, and we are probably guaranteed to see him and his family more often.

I also spent a frustrating portion of the afternoon trying to remember how to use the embroidery sewing machine that my mother has loaned my indefinitley. I only use it once in a great while for any kind of sewing, and I use it even less for embroidery. So, I was on the phone with her several times today trying to get the thing to do what I wanted. I managed to an extent, but I will be calling her tomorrow for some more tips.

Socks and Butterflies

Two days in a row I have something to post. Whoo Hoo! I am going to start carrying my camera with me everywhere just for the heck of it.

This morning while getting ready to walk out the door to catch the school bus, I grabbed the camera to take a photo of Elizabeth's socks. Why would I take a photo of socks, you may ask? Because my Mom took the time to hand crochet a special edging with beads on to her socks per my specific request (what a Mom, huh?)

This is one pair.

And of course as soon as Liam saw me pull out the camera to take Elizabeth's photo, he wanted in on the action. I took this photo just to appease him, and it turns out to be one of the best photos I have taken of the pair of them in a while. Go figure!

We also freed our pet butterflies today. My friend Nicole had gotten us two caterpillars last time she went to the Kidspace Museum (they have an annual butterfly thing). By the time I finally got around to picking them up from her house, they were already in the chrysalis stage. So we made them a butterfly box home, complete with page protector windows. Sure enough, after about 7 days, they broke open and we got to watch the miracle of transformation, or whatever it is that they do. It was pretty neat, and the kids just loved it. Listening to Liam talk about the butterflies and their chrysalis in his little three year old voice was priceless.

We took the butterfly box to the local park and managed to safely release the butterflies even in the practically gale force winds. Elizabeth was even able to let one sit on her finger for a few snaps of the camera before the wind whipped it away. Both butterflies seemed to do fine, and we wished them well.

Gotta Love the Eighties!

One of my Mom friends, Nicole hosted an eighties themed Bunco party last week. We had a really fun time dressing up and listening to 80's music while we took goofy pictures of ourselves. We didn't actually finish playing Bunco, we were all ready for bed by about 9pm. (Oh, the life of Moms).

Just a few photos.

My new goal

I recently had my computer crash and I lost several months worth of photos that were not backed up. While this is unfortunate, I actually had very few that were worth saving. I just need to track down a couple of photos that other people have (family and friends) of things like Halloween and Christmas.

To get to my new goal... I want to try to take photos everyday, even if it is just a few shots. Something to remember the time.

Paper Doll

This is a poor photo of the paper doll I created with my new cricut cartridge - Paper Doll Dress Up. This cartridge is going to be a blast!