What did we do this weekend?

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1) Made this family thing- oh the wonderful things to pass time on the world wide web
2) Felt like crap and missed a girls night out :(
3) Made lots and lots of Pixo creations- the little guy really loves these and mommy does too because they are no mess.
4) cleaned
5) cleaned at the preschool (our cleaning night) = slave labour. 1 million toys + dishwasher = shoot me now.
6) scrapbooked a little bit. I need to keep my sanity somehow!
7) played in the water at the park (It really felt like summer!) and had a little picnic with the family
8) tackled Wal-Mart (needed groceries) and won!
9) time for bed because Monday morning is coming quickly nite!

some fun from my last crop!

Daddy took the kids to the Valley Zoo while I had to work :( But at least I got a cool scrapbook page out of it! Had fun using the collage feature in Picasa- love it and then off to Costco for printing- so easy!


Evan loves to show his bum for the camera. Drives me crazy, yes, but had to capture this moment in time. Afterall, he's bound to outgrow this stage, right? Let's hope so.


I just love this picture I took- isn't she lovely? I made her :)


Off to due some cleaning around the house!

Now that I'm done school

until September I have a list of projects I'd like to try over the summer. No I'll leave out the renos we SHOULD be doing and the fact cleaning my oven is a project in itself. Actually it's unlikely I will do any of THOSE projects because 1) I'm kind of lazy 2) I'd rather attempt (key word) something crafty 4) play is more fun than work

So here goes my list, in no particular order.

1) make a purse thingy (yes that's what it's called- check out this post and might as well check out the whole cool blog while you are at it)

2) Make some itty bitty cupcakes just because they are itty bitty

3) I bought 50 of these babies and then didn't even try to make one! (yes there's a bit of a pattern here)

4) take scrabble tiles and make jewelry! Seriously want to try this: and make purdy ones like this

5) I saw this project a while ago and I still *love love love* it. It's something I'd do and put away until baby girl is bigger. It reminds me of the cardboard houses my mom made us girls when we were little...

6) I bought a quilt pattern last month on an impulse "I-have-a-1/2 hour-to-spare-before-going-back-to-work-and-the-only-store-close-by-is-a-place-called-quilters-dream". The problem is I can't sew but I don't something like that should stop me from living out the dream ;) I'm thinking pinks and blacks and baby doll size to start

7) scrapbook

8) scrapbook

9) scrapbook

10) Drink a lot at the camp site while reading my books in the hot hot hot sun while relaxing on my lawnchair :)

king of the castle

haha! He *really* gets into it.

How long do kids play dress-up? sixteen-seventeen? ;) Because I really love this stage.

Happy love day!

Used 4 of the 5 prompts this time for the new Mission to Create - turquoise, cardboard, 5+ hearts, lace (used some pretty paper doilies). Yep that's number 0010 and I've done them all!

We had a romantic day yesterday- flowers and chocolate delivered to the house (awww!), heart pancakes by daddy (well not really but I stamped them with a heart cookie cutter!). Then we had the most romantic evening out- at Chuck E Cheese! Complete with a huge line-up just to get in (even tried to bribe them with buying new toys to get out of it but they were having none of it). The words of my nephew says it all "it's like a casino- for kids!"

These were the pictures from the sketch machine last night. And of course I had to scrap them right away.

A little frustrating with big girl last night. She was giving major attitude (and it doesn't help that we were getting lots of smiles because she is so cute when she is dramatic). See?

Valentine's Day

The little guy REALLY wanted to bring a treat for his class so we made these tonight. I'm so happy they turned out so sweet. The papers are double-sided so there is another pretty pattern on the reverse.

1 bag of "better for you" organic suckers (to make THOSE parents happy ;))
green pipecleaners
bee stickers
glue
treat bags & ribbon
heart punch!

I love that he wanted to buy boy AND girl Valentines (we also did pink flowers for the girls and blue for the boys). He even knew exactly which girl needed which princess card too (and got quite upset when I mixed him up) and did most of the writing himself.

I can't wait to do his first Valentine's page! (My plan is to steal all his lil cards once he's cast them aside a few days from now) ;) Does this mean I have issues?

Scrap happy

Another Mission complete for Mission to Create!

I used the fab sketch, book print (how fun and it's Valentine's paper too!) and the flowers.



And for JennC's challenge on skrapnchat- thanks Stacy for all the supplies for this one!