Big girls and little girls scrappin'

We scrapped at the south branch library and Chloe wanted to go so bad. After spending the night with hemi-charger papaw - Scott brought her around 1 or 2 and her and Mya had a great time. And the big girls had fun too. Krista had left before I thought to get a photo - sorry Krista!!

My office before

I bought new book shelves for my office so this is the before picture I took. And as soon as I have the shelves organized the way I want them I will post the after picture.

Sugar cookies from scratch

Jan. 1 Making sugar cookies from scratch - something I don't usually do. Chloe got a cook book from the library so I tried it. And the kids loved it and made great shapes with the cookies cutters.

365 photo a day challenge

Ok I tried this last year but am going to try harder this year. For those that don't know what it is there are some others who have done this below.


http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/

http://365photosin2009.wordpress.com/ (if you go here and click on the tab of themes you will get a bunch of ideas to help you on those days when you think what could I possibly take a picture of today.)

These are just a couple of good ones I found if you find more leave them in the comments section. Thanks and good luck.

Merry Christmas

I kind of forgot about this thing. I am going to do better next year. Ya right!

1st in Kata

I just had to take a minute and say how proud we are of Gavin. He received 1st in Kata Saturday at the tournament. I believe there were 9 or 10 kids in his division. And what made it even better for him was they gave away trophies for 1st and 2nd and he really wanted one. He has gotten a metal and a plaque before so this was big time for him. Very cool and of course I took some pics.

And the smile that only first place can give you...

Dance recital

I can't believe tomorrow is Chloe's dance recital and I haven't posted any pictures in her dance dress. Its so cute. She is dancing to the song that goes -- "sugar pie, honey pie, you know that I love you... I can't help myself I love you and no body else. You know the song???? I will have to get the title. Well she preforms at 1 and 7 tomorrow. It will be a long day. Oh ya and to top things off I took her to the doctor this morning and she has strep throat. But since we got in this morning she will be fine by noon tomorrow. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

handmade beads!

Two posts in one week wow! I just had to brag on my mom and I. We took a bead making class at Heart and Soul beads and had a great time. Here are my creations. I can't wait to go back and do some more.

Our new kittens

Poor Chloe I sometimes thing she was born into the wrong family. She loves animals so much and Gavin and I are sooo allergic. But Smokey (our current cat who we have had for about 10 years - outside) is really starting to show his age and we thought Chloe would love a new kitten. So we found two free black kittens. They are Boo (Chloe's kitten) and Luke (Gavin's kitten). They are so cute and fun to watch. When we got them home Gavin said something about the kitty and Chloe corrected him and said he isn't a kitty he's a kitten. I am not sure what the difference is but Chloe does.

Birthday month

Well I have to say this has been a really good birthday month for me. I think I have celebrated since April 12 until yesterday. Yesterday 5 friends came over and scrapbooked all day. I worked on thank yous and the kids books from disney. I am making them each a book with the pics of each character and the signature. Gavin even got up this morning and went downstairs (where my scrapbooking area is) and while I was finishing up a last page wrote on a few of his pages. Very cute. I am hoping to get them done before they forget we went there.

I got some new lights and what a difference they make. Here are a few from Gavin's small session this morning...


And not to leave Chloe out I got a new chair and she helped me test my new lights also.