Scrappin' Snappin' Mama

Let it Snow!

2008-12-17T14:56:00.001-08:00

Well it's winter here in Oregon. We got about 2" of snow on Monday and it's been freezing ever since. We should be getting more snow later this afternoon and tonight. The kids love it! Colton woke up on Monday and said "It's Christmas mom, let's open our presents!!" LOL Elly loves to look out the window and talk about the "nose"! They went outside at 8:30 on Monday morning to play.

Elly wasn't too sure about the snow

Colton loved it!

She didn't like that her boots got "yucky"!

About five minutes later she decided to watch Colton from the porch.

We got all our Christmas cards mailed today. And I went to the fabric store to get some flannel. I found a great tutorial for making pajama pants. My plan was to have the kids wear their matching jammies on Christmas morning but I think I'll make them some instead. Colton's really excited. So I'll have to share the finished product for you all.

Just a random cute photo of the kids. Elly loves shoes and when Daddy got some new boots she had to try them out! Colton decided to join the fun and put on Mommy's boots too! So silly!

Well that's all for today. I need to get the pants started and I have more laundry to fold...does it ever end? Plus dinner. Busy, busy! Have a great evening!

Our Trip to See Santa!

2008-12-13T12:33:00.000-08:00

Elly has been so excited to see Santa. Every time she saw a picture of him or someone with a Santa hat she'd get all excited and yell "Santa!!". Yet when we go to the mall to see him she's scared! The people were so nice and just let me take photos instead of paying $15+ for theirs! Colton was a trooper though. He told Santa what he wanted and sat on his lap. It was so cute!

Telling Santa he wants a "loopty loop track" ....which Santa's helper got for him;)

Bummer about the glare on his glasses though

Santa loved Colton's Mater shoes!!!Elly with Kaili. Santa told Kaili she could sit on his lap with Elly...Kaili opted out of that one!! hahaha!

I got our Holiday Card all done this morning. I'm going to get them all addressed and out in the mail first thing Monday. I can't show you here though since I'd like it to be a surprise for the people getting them! Maybe in a week or so I'll post it. It's cute but sure doesn't top last years. Here's last years if you don't remember it...(you can click it to make it larger).

Ok, well I better run. I told Colton we would make some oatmeal cookies today. Yum!!!

Christmas Photo Shoot!!

2008-12-11T14:14:00.000-08:00

I took some photos of the kids today for our holiday card. I love how they turned out! Now to pick which ones go on the card...lol.

We got a tree!!

2008-12-08T14:48:00.000-08:00

So I hate fake trees but since our kids are so little we went ahead and got one last night. Maybe next year or the year after we can all go get a REAL tree!! But the kids had a blast putting it up and it actually looks good. Elly kept saying "WHOA" with every branch that Andrew put up. She still runs up to it and says "Whoa, tree!!". Here are some photos of the tree setting up fun we had.

In awe

Colton yelling Whoa!

DecoratingCheeeesssee!Colton hard at work Posing time!Hug!High fiveKnuckles!KissMy cuties!!!

Well, gotta cut it short. Elly's taking over my lap and making it hard to type! Hope you all have a great week and hopefully I'll be back before Christmas to post some more.

I've been tagged!

2008-11-04T12:39:00.000-08:00

By Miss Shawna Taylor!

*5 Things I was doing 10 years ago…

Oh goodness...I was 13!

1. going to school...I was in 8th grade.
2. getting myself into trouble...you know...smoking cigarettes behind mom's back :0
3. I think I was "going out" with Bryan Miller!
4. hanging out with Hannah and Rosita
5. ???

*5 Things on my “To-Do” list today…

1. fold clothes
2. wash the bedding
3. vacuum
4. clean up the kitchen
5. do some school work with Colton

*5 Snacks I enjoy…

1. chocolate
2. fruit
3. english muffin with peanut butter
4. oatmeal cookies
5. yogurt

*5 Things I’d do if I were a Millionaire…

1. buy a house
2. pay all our parents' homes off
3. invest in Andrew's business (I think he should open his own fabrication shop)
4. put some away for my kids to go to college
5. but all the little things that I want (serger, camera stuff, new minivan...)

*5 Places I’ve Lived…

1. the crappy red house with Mike
2. the two story house with Mike and Andrew
3. the teeny tiny house Colton was born in

4. the trailer next to Grandma and Grandad

5. Juli's house (and then the one we are in now!!)

*5 Jobs I’ve Had

1. housekeeper at a motel
2. dish washer/hostess/waitress at a resturant
3. cashier at a grocery store
4. waitress at a resturant
5. Mommy!

*5 People I tag

1. Lisa
2. Andrea
3. Rebecca
4. ????
5. & anyone else who might read my blog lol

Rules: Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment letting them know that they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person that tagged you know when you’ve answered the questions on your blog.

Another rushed post

2008-11-03T09:04:00.000-08:00

But at least I'm posting right?! We are just about to head out the door for a homeschool playdate. So here are some recent photos of the munchkins. Enjoy!!!

The crazy boy!He's a nut!

Aren't they sweet? They really are best friends.

Adorable!

Ellyana

Halloween costumes...Colton was a "nice" dinosaur!

And Elly was a ladybug

The goblins!

With the pumpkins

We went to the park so I could take some photos of them in the leaves.

Colton loved it!

We went to the pumpkin patch with Oma (ok, so these photos are in the wrong order!!)

It was really windy but a beautiful day

Ok, gotta run. Have a great week..or month if I'm not back till Dec!! haha!

Just a few photos

2008-10-07T19:46:00.000-07:00

No time for an actual update but here are some photos.

Crazy Colton!

The kids in Daddy's new truck

So sweet!!

He has to do some crazy pose if I want to take his picture!

On the phone with Nana

I made Elly her very own baby sling! (Yes, that's Colton checking out his tummy in the background!)

Ell Bell in her new hat I made for her

Elly testing out dad's truck!

Andrew's New Truck

2008-09-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

For Joe :)

Just a quick one

2008-09-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

Hello all! Just a few quick photos before I get the kids in bed. They are playing nicely so I should have a few minutes to get this done!

Daddy came home from work a few weeks ago with a new bike for Colton! He loooves it!

Big dude!

Pretty Ellyana

She loves to kiss her daddy!

Andrew went to Rubicon for work a couple weeks ago. He had a blast! Even wrecked his boss' truck! (Sounds like boss was more excited than A!)

Cheese!

Yelly Elly

Yeah, he was done having his photo taken!

I love this! She brought the sling to me and wanted it on. I think I need to make a smaller version so she doesn't have that long train of leftover fabric. She carried her baby around like this for about an hour!

Princess Elly!

We went camping with Andrew's family.

At the beach

Helping Elly walk the log

So cute!

Andrew's dad, Colton, and Andrew

Well time for bed!! Have a great evening!

For heaven's sake!!!

2008-08-11T09:50:00.000-07:00

My mother is harassing me to update this poor blog so here I am! I don't have much time though so I'm just going to let the photos do the talking.

Colton doing hopscotch for the first time...he did great!

Elly did great too!

Elly's learning to go down the step...here she is celebrating!

hahha!!

Mini photoshoot...Colton did wonderfully!

Only got a couple of the two of them

Then we went to WA for a visit with family. Andrew was off on a 4x4 run so it was just the kids and me.

My mom, brother, sister, me and my kids

Nana and the kiddos

Me and my momThe kids at Grandma and Grandad's

Elly at the beach

Colton and Grandpa

Colton and Grandma

Ellyana and Grandpa

Mr Colton

mad face!Playing around!And some scrap pages.....(you can click to make them bigger.)

Ok, I hope you're happy mom!! lol I'm off to take a shower and run some errands.

Not much to update

2008-07-16T19:43:00.000-07:00

But I thought I'd better blog anyhow before I get behind again!! We had a nice weekend. Very warm but nice! We spend a lot of time out in the yard playing with the sand and water table. Other than that it was pretty low key. On Monday I took Colton to the dentist. He was so good, I'm so proud of him!! Turns out they decided NOT to let us pay in payment for his cavities instead it needs to be paid in full BEFORE they fix his teeth. Very frustrating. So, long story short, I made him another appt with the dentist that our insurance does cover and hopefully he'll do well there and they can get him in to get the cavities filled quickly. Fingers crossed!

Yesterday we had a LLL meeting which was really just a parade planning meeting! We are going to walk in the Cottage Grove parade this weekend. So we made signs and got our shirts...fun stuff!!! Then we went and had lunch with Juli (my MIL) and Kaili (my SIL) and Mark (Juli's bf). Overall it was a really nice day. Today we went to story time at the library then came home and did some preschool and walked to the park. We "borrowed" half a bucket of sand from the park's sand pit for our sand and water table! The kids had a blast playing with that!! Afterwards they both needed a bath!!

Tomorrow we are meeting my mom at the zoo. We are very excited! Colton keeps asking me what animals we are going to see there! I can't wait! I'm sure we'll have lots of photos when we get back.

Have a nice evening!!

Preschool Today

2008-07-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

We had a very fun filled day today. This morning we went to the Dollar Store to find some "school stuff". I got a ton of stuff for only $15. Things ranging from a tray for sorting to sea shells! I've been reading some blogs of other homeschool preschool moms, most using the Montessori method which I really love. I have a million ideas running through my mind. I got a little note book so I can try and keep organized!

Last night we mixed food coloring and water and put it in an ice cube tray and froze it with some popsicle sticks in the middle. Then we took a bunch of small toys, placed them in a bowl of water and froze that. So when we got back from running around we took the easel outside (which I got at a yard sale for $1!!!!!) and I let the kids have at it! I think Elly ate more ice than she painted with but she had a blast too!

After those had melted, we got out our big ice blob out and started trying to get the toys out. We used salt, spoons and water. Colton LOVED this!!!

He got a ball out first thing!

"I'm getting this screw out mom"

The spoon helps!

Then Elly needed a nap. I usually give Colton something to occupy him while I put her down since it takes about 30 mins for her to nurse to sleep. It can be computer time, a movie, his shape sorter thing (I know it has a proper name...just not sure what it is!), stickers...etc. Today we decided to sort beads by color into an empty egg carton. He did so well and it kept him busy well after Elly was asleep.

After Ellyana woke Colton wanted to use his sorting tray and "puffy balls"! So I put some balls in the middle and he sorted the colors (rather quickly) with some tongs and then I put one color in the middle and had him put 2 balls in each section and then 4 balls and then 5 balls and so on until we reached 10.

Doing 4

Elly dumped out the bag then put them all back!!

After that I printed out a template for a lacing card and put some contact paper over it and punched the holes. I gave Colton a plastic needle and some yarn and let him figure out what to do. He did AMAZINGLY well! So well that I forgot to take a photo of his work!!! I'll see if he wants to do that project again tomorrow and take some photos!

That's all we did today! I know if sounds like a lot but he kept asking me for "more school projects"!

Ok, off to put my kiddos to bed. Have a great evening!!!

Our Day

2008-07-10T23:11:00.000-07:00

We had a fun filled day today. We started with some school-ish activities. I taped a bunch of computer paper together (didn't have any larger pieces!) and then traced out each kiddo. They thought it was GREAT!!! Here are some photos of them coloring themselves.

Colton making his face

His shirt...

Great job!

Elly coloring herself

Colton making "sandal shoes"

Elly's work

Colton had to make "tiger legs!"

Finished!

El BellColton BugI just love his face! His shirt...the one he was wearing at the time had a hammer and screwdriver...that's what the little circles are.Then we made a cute little cow (cows are our theme for this week) out of a TP roll. I'll have to get some photos of him!

I was trying to get a photo of Elly for our frame that I'm redoing...she didn't cooperate (I have a certain pose in mind) but I did get some cute shots anyhow!

Aren't they sweet?!

EAR!

Tickling brother

Leaning on Elly

Her faces are too funny!

I just wanna kiss those cheekies!

Sissy Pants

Such a silly girl

....

Hey, where are you Colton?!

"HAHAHAHA!"

"Cheeese"

Blurry...but I love this!!

"Cheeese"

Again, blurry...but too cute to throw out

Blue eyes...

Goof ball!

We've been trying for a few months now to get our dental policy switched to one that a Pediatric Dentist accepts. The coverage we have now is very limited and we have taken Colton in several times for his cavities and they just brush us off and keep making new appts. It's very frustrating and his teeth aren't getting fixed. So I finally talked with someone who knew something about the dental and the policy I want is not accepting new clients at this time. @#!#!!!! So, we've decided to just bite the bullet and take him into the dentist anyhow and have them bill us with some sort of payment plan. I explained out situation and they were able to get us in on Monday. Hopefully all will go well and we can get Colton's poor teeth fixed soon.

A little update

2008-07-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

Hi all! I'm trying to cool down the house before it gets too hot outside again and makes my house an oven! Yesterday the house was cooler than the outside air but over night we got behind again.

Not too many big plans today. We decided to homeschool Colton for preschool so we are working on school work today. And we might go to the indoor pool down the road. Too hot for anything else!!

How about some photos....

I made Elly another "Mens shirt to girl's dress" again. I love this one!

See the little pants I made from the sleeves!

The kids keeping cool in the sand and water table.

We went to Saturday Market and Colton got his leg painted...aka a tattoo!

Silly boy!

Nursing my 14 month old!!! She always holds her foot like that. I call it nursing yoga! lol

My Prince

Elly at 13 monthsNature Girl"New" Dress

I think that's it!! I hope you have a nice day and stay cool wherever you are!!

Oh Mr Sun???

2008-06-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

I'm getting spoiled by this gorgeous Oregon weather! Today we woke up and Colton, who always opens up the curtains for me, says "Mom, where is Mr. Sun?". LOL We are both hoping that the clouds burn off and the sun shines this afternoon. He's been spending lots of time in his sand and water table outside. Which still only has water...no sand.
We've had a busy week so far. Yesterday we went to story time and then headed over to the Science Museum in Eugene. That was pretty neat. There was a big YMCA group there so it was hard for Colton to play with the exhibits so next time we go I'll call ahead to make sure it's not too busy. And after that we went to WIC and got some Farmer's Market vouchers. They gave us $40 worth so we can get fruits and vegis grown locally here in Oregon. Which is wonderful since I've only been buying local produce anyhow!

Poor little Ellyana is having a rough week. She's getting a molar and is really whinny and fussy. See....

And I did a LO of her! My mom used to (still does actually!) tell me "it sucks being 12...or 13...or 14....and so on!". And that's what these photos said to me.

It's hard being one!

And one of my monkey boy!Speaking of my monkey boy, he has been doing sooooo well with the potty training! I'm so very proud of him. He had one small accident the other day and nothing since. He tells me when he needs to go and everything! Such a big boy!!!

Well, I better go. We are meeting some friends at the mall today and need to get ready. Have a wonderful day!

After 3 months of silence

2008-06-19T14:42:00.000-07:00

I think I'll post!!! I've been so crazy busy and honestly have dreaded updating this thing. Just so hard when I get so far behind but I'm ready to give it another shot!

So a really quick update on our little family. Andrew got a job at the 4x4 design shop as a welder/fabricator. He loves it! But the gas was killing us so we decided to move closer to his job. We are now living in a nice little Duplex. About 1/2 mile from a park and really close to Andrew's job. We are very happy. Other than that we are just chugging along! The kids are getting bigger and are best friends.

Here are some recent photos of my two cuties.

Ellyana on her first birthday

With "crazy hair" as Colton calls it!

He loves his bike!

My sweet boy

Best buds!

Now hopefully I can keep this updated!!!!!

Colton Took a Break From His Photo Strike!

2008-03-03T11:08:00.000-08:00

He was so funny "posing" for me!! Check him out!

Getting sleepy!

Miss Elly Belly
LOL Colton getting jealous!!

Today I have a WIC appt. Well, not really an appt. We have "check ups" every 6 months but they only give 3 months worth of vouchers so we have to go in and get more after 3 months. So9 they have us sign up for a "class". The one I signed up for is Straight Talk About Breastfeeding. I guess we discuss the good and bad about WIC's breastfeeding support. Should be interesting. So, because it's at 3:30 and I usually have Arlet till 4 her mom just had her other daughter watch her today. And Oma (Andrew's mom) is going to come up and watch Colton for me since he gets restless at these things!!

Not much has been happening around here. I'm going to try and get some scrapping done today and tidy up the house. But that's about all!!!

Here's one page that I did the other day with Faith True's new kit Kiss Me and Candice Wong's Lightroom Preset.

Have a nice day!!!

Little Girl Barbie Gloves Aren't Thorn Proof!!

2008-02-28T16:59:00.001-08:00

Yep, I learned that the hard way! My hands are small and the Barbie gloves were the only ones that fit me. I was out in the flower bed weeding and raked my hand across a rose branch. I had to dig 2 thorns out of my hand. Youch!! But my flower bed looks very nice! I'm going to work on the veggie garden next. Hopefully this nice weather will stick.

So the kids are almost back to 100%. Colton ended up with a double ear infection. And my mom brought it to my attention that this is the first time he's ever had an antibiotic. 3 whole years...pretty good! Tomorrow is the last day of meds for both kids. Colton takes his just fine but Elly is a pistol and fights me. So I have to push it in her cheek and then blow in her face to make her swallow. Not a fun process. Arlet was back here Tuesday and she's feeling much better also. Colton sure did miss her. Although today they were back to fighting like brother and sister!!!

I snapped some photos of Ellyana this morning. Colton's on a picture strike! He just runs from me when I try and take his photo. So I don't make a big deal out of it...hopefully he'll be a little model again soon.

{Candice Wong's Lightroom Presets were used on all these photos}

And these were actually deleted from my MySpace profile today. Their reasoning was they contain nudity and sexual content. I'm very upset and uploaded them again. There is nothing sexual about these. Breastfeeding is completely natural and I'm damn proud of how long I've been successful!!!! Ok, end of rant!

Here are a few LOs I've done the last couple days.

Tomorrow we are heading to the library for story time. We haven't been in a couple weeks so it should be fun!

Well I better go fold some laundry and get dinner started. Have a nice evening.

Monday Monday

2008-02-25T07:39:00.000-08:00

It's been forever so I'll just get right into our re-cap!
**I'm on Kaili's computer because mine is being taken over by a little boy wanting to play Blue's Clues and Kaili's computer is too slow and he gets frustrated. Sooo, I will have to come back and edit in photos when he lets me! LOL** They are up!

Wednesday Feb 13th: Ellyana and I went to see The Business of Being Born in Eugene. It was phenomenal! I loved it! I got to see both the midwives that were at Elly's birth. I hadn't seen either of them since her 6 week check up. If you get a chance I totally recommend watching that film.

Thursday Feb 14th: Arlet was here and sick. Poor thing was clingy, whinny and her nose was running. I called Karen and she was able to come get her about 30 mins early.

Friday Feb 15th: Arlet was home sick. My kids seem fine so far. We went to story time at the library and had a great time. Afterwards we went to McDonald's and Colton played in the play area for the first time. That was so cute!!! ~~**Photos to come...**~~

See him in the center square?

Saturday Feb 16th: Elly starts to feel yucky. Her nose was runny and her little eyes were gunky. But we went to Eugene to get groceries and last min things for Colton's party. Then we went to the park and played before we had to pick up Andrew so we could sign the papers for our taxes.~~**Photos to come...**~~

Sunday Feb 17th: HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY COLTON JAMES!!! His party was at noon and Nana (my mom), Dan, Uncle Drew and Aunt Kylie Jo came down. He had a blast!!! We made star cakes and pizza and had balloons everywhere. He got lots of cool presents, including a kid's camera.~~**Photos to come...**~~

Monday Feb 18th and Tuesday Feb 19th: No Arlet. Karen said that she had to take her to the ER and they diagnosed her with pneumonia so she would keep her home all week. Elly was feeling pretty yucky by now and Tue night we had quite a scare with Colton. He woke up crying and Andrew ran in to find Colton on his hands and knees struggling to breath. Andrew said it was like he was under water gasping for air. He finally got him calmed down and Colton just went back to sleep. So we put him in our bed and called the oncall DR at the ER who was an idiot! He said he could say for sure what was wrong and it was our choice to take him in or not. DUH!!! We decided to let him rest and take him in in the morning.

Wednesday Feb 20th: We call the kids' pediatrician to make an appt but she is all booked for the day. So we decide to take the kids to the ER (they have insurance so it didn't cost us anything). Elly had been coughing so badly that she would throw up and on the way to the ER she threw up in the car. Thank goodness it was Andrew's day off and he was able to be there with me. So we get in to see the ER DR and we explain what Colton went thru the night before. She said niether child had fluid in their lungs (we were worried about pneumonia obviously). She said that Colton sounds like he may have croup and Elly has an ear infection. We didn't want Colton to have more breathing issues again that night so we opted to give him a shot of steroids. He, thankfully didn't have anymore breathing issues.

Thursday Feb 21st, Friday Feb 22nd, Saturday Feb 23rd, Sunday Feb 24th: Thursday and Friday the kids and I just stayed home. They were still feeling really yucky. Poor Elly hates taking her medication so that's a struggle. Saturday my brother and two good friends of ours stopped by. They were on their way to California to work. It was great to see them all. Sunday the kids were feeling a bit better. Starting to get back to their normal selves. But in the middle of the night Colton starting crying and said his ear hurt :( Poor guy.

Monday Feb 25th: I'm hoping to get Colton into the DR today. His Ped doesn't work Mondays so I have to take him to the little clinic. But as long as I can get him in and get him meds if he needs them, then I don't care!!!! After we go to the DR I want to go to WalMart and pick up some seeds and bulbs. I'm cleaning out our front flower beds to get ready for Spring and then I'm making a small vegetable garden in the back yard. Oh and I want to have a medium sized pot with herbs in it as well! Can you tell I have Spring Fever?!!

Just a few random photos

Well I think that's about it! Hopefully my kids start feeling better soon. I hate that they are sick and I can't help them. Ok, gotta run...Colton wants me to get out some paints for him! Have a great Monday!!

Almost party time!!

2008-02-16T08:12:00.000-08:00

Colton's 3rd birthday party is tomorrow!! So today we are going grocery shopping to get some last minute things. He's very excited!!

No photos today cause blogger's being a pain. I can't seem to get it to upload. And I'll update more later...gotta run!!!

While I Have a Minute

2008-02-06T19:06:00.000-08:00

Man, it's been a crazy week already. The kids (Colton and Arlet) have been fighting over everything and poor Ellyana is teething like a mad baby. All she wants to do it nurse...all day and all night. Today was better than the last few days so maybe we are on the down slope.

Nothing else is new...main reason I haven't updated this thing. We went shopping this weekend. Got one of Colton's birthday gifts and his plates and cups for his party. I get sad every time I think of him turning 3! Just doesn't seem possible. Anyhow, that's about all we've done! And that was actually the first day the kids and I had left the house in 12 days. I don't know how we didn't go mad!! With us being sick and then having Arlet here we just stayed home.

I watched Arlet today till 7:00pm since her foster mom had parent/teacher conferences at school. So it was a long day for all of us. Tomorrow will be just as long. But Friday there's no school so no Arlet either. We are going to the library (haven't been to story time in about 3 weeks) and then the kids have their well baby check ups in the afternoon. and Sunday I'm going to ATTEMPT to take our family portraits. LOL I told Andrew not to make any plans and to be expecting to get his photo taken...needless to say, he's thrilled!!!!!

Here are some recent photos of the kids and some layouts I've done. Oh, I made another tote bag but no photos of it yet. Maybe I'll get some of it tomorrow.
Ok, onto the photos....

Miss Ellyana in the tub. She loves taking baths with her brother!

The many faces! (click to make larger...)

Over at Heather Manning's Blog her CT is doing a challenge and this is my page for that.
{Crash}

{Scrunch Face}

{Happy and You Know it}

{Daddy and Ellyana}

{My Baby}

{Giraffie}

Well I better get to bed...another long day tomorrow! Have a great night!

2008-01-30T14:56:00.001-08:00

Howdy! I know, it's been forever but I have a good excuse this time! Last Wed night Colton woke up around 10:30 and threw up, Andrew brought him to our bed and not 30 mins later Ellyana was throwing up. So we all migrated to our huge couch and TRIED to sleep out there. Colton finally stopped around 3am and was able to get some sleep but poor Ellyana threw up all day long. I think she threw up for close to 24 hours now I that I think about it. Poor baby. Then Sat Andrew came home from work early and threw up that evening. He was sick all night and rested Sunday. Then Sunday evening Kaili threw up and she threw up close to 16 hours. I never did throw up but I felt like poo. Sat night my stomach hurt so bad, I could hardly sleep. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that I don't throw up...there's nothing I hate more!!!

Ok, enough vomit talk! How about some photos?!
I got these cute ones of Andrew and Elly today. (All the photos are edited with Candice Wong's Lightroom Presets)LOL This is her "I'm Cute, Scrunch Face!" And see that hand? She's waving!!!

Daddy being tough!

AWE!

Here's Ellyana and Charly last night. Agian...waving!

And some of my sweet boy!

I told him to make a funny face!

I made some more hair pretties. Elly can't wear any of these just yet so I think these will be gifts. They are super fun to make!

And some LOs
{Discover}

{I Love You}

{Charly}

{Mad Face}

Well, that's all I have! Have a great evening!

I've been tagged!

2008-01-22T17:42:00.000-08:00

Shawna Taylor tagged me last Sat!

*The rules are to link the person who sent this to you…and leave a comment on their blog.. so their readers can visit yours.
*post the rules on your blog
*Share 7 strange/weird facts about you on your blog
*Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, linking their blog
*Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blog…

So 7 random things about me…

1. I love water. I drink it all day long. I used to drink Ruby Red Squirt but stopped when I got preg (although every now and then I'll have one!). But now I hardly drink anything but water.

2. I've never broken a bone. Well, I'm pretty sure I broke my pinky toe when I was 15 but I tell people that and I look like a wuss!

3. I would love to give birth again! No, I don't plan on having anymore children but giving birth was such an amazing and fulfilling feeling. I just want to savor it! I think that's why I'm so passionate about natural childbirth.

4. I hate wearing socks and shoes. First thing I do when I come inside is take off my shoes and socks! Even if I'm cold, I'll layer on clothes but never put on some socks.

5. Our kid's middle names are family names. Colton James is after my dad, grandpa, poppa and brother. And Ellyana Violet is after Andrew's grandma. If Madison hadn't been so common that would have been Elly's name. It's my maiden name.

6. If I scrap 3 pages of Elly, I have to scrap 3 of Colton and visa versa! It must be even!!

7. I like my french toast, waffles and pancakes with butter, peanut butter and syrup. Andrew thinks it's the craziest thing ever but that's that way my grandma and grandpa ate it when we were little!!

Ok, I don't know 7 people who read my blog....how sad! So I'll tag....
Andrea
Rebecca
and anyone one else who wants to do it!!

Happy Tuesday!

2008-01-22T13:39:00.001-08:00

How was your weekend? Ours was nice. Slow...we didn't do much at all. I had a WIC appt on Friday and Arlet stayed with her foster sister. Colton weighs 30 lbs and Ellyana weighs 16 lbs. And they are perfect...not that we didn't already know that, huh?! Saturday Kaili got a puppy (keep reading for more about that). Sunday we all just lazed around the house. Monday was Kaili's birthday and Andrew had to work. And today Arlet is here with the kids and me.

Here are some recent Layouts: (click for credits)
{capture}

I used a lightroom preset by Candice Wong (who's preset CT I'm on now!!!) for the photo in this one.
{new hair pretty}
{mohawk lady}

My new favorite LO!

{love}

Then some photos from the last couple days.

I made her this hair pretty! They are so fun to make. I can't wait till she has more hair so we can use clips! (all these are edited with Candice's presets as well)

And lastly, the puppy! Meet Charley. She's 1/4 Husky and 3/4 Australian Shepard and almost 10 weeks old. Colton's kinda scared of her if she's next to him but if he's on the couch then he's fine. Ellyana loves her! She's like a giant moving stuffed animal!

Ok, gotta run! Have a nice evening!

Playing Catch Up

2008-01-15T09:13:00.000-08:00

Hope you had a great week. We did! Arlet had her first day with us on Tuesday. She did great. Her and Colton and best buds. On Wed. Ellyana woke up and was sick. I don't think she had the flu though. Her nose was runny and she's still working on that tooth. She slept a lot that day but was her normal happy self. Then Thur poor Arlet is sick. So she stayed home and went to the DR. She had a double ear infection, which caused her vomiting. Fri we all went to story time at the library. Boy that was crazy! Crazy good though. 3 children under 3! I get looks all the time with my two since I look much younger than I am and with 3 little ones people probably thought I was nuts!

Speaking of younger, my 23rd birthday was on Sat. Hard to believe I'm 23...that just sounds wrong! It was a nice birthday though. Andrew had to work but Colton and I made me a cake and when Andrew got home we lounged around and watched some movies. Then on Sunday we went to the mall and used the gift cards we had got for Christmas. It was a fun day. Just the 4 of us. We both got some pants, I got a new bra, Colton got a game, Andrew got some socks. I think Elly was the only one who didn't get something.

I was super excited though. My pants were on sale and they were a size THREE!!! YAY!! That's my pre Ellyana size. I still have 5 lbs to lose before I'm pre Colton weight but I figure that's in my chest...all that breastfeeding! Anyhow, here's a pic showing off my new pants!!!
Colton took that! He's become the little photographer lately.

Ok, how about some layouts?
{Crocodile Lake}

{Ellyana 8 months}

{Hat Like Elly}

{Mohawk Lady}

{Snow Run}

{Snow Princess}

{Sweet Dreams Ellyana}

{Those Lashes}

{Snow Girls}

Well, I better run! Have a great day!

Hives, blind racing, snow and baths!

2008-01-07T14:03:00.000-08:00

Boy I have a packed post today!! Grab a drink cause it's gonna be a long one!!

First, Friday evening Colton breaks out with these horrible hives. We have no idea what was causing them. He had outbreaks all day Sat and Sun and so far is good today. Andrew and I think it's something viral. And this is the way his body is reacting to it. It's not an allergy and he's acting perfectly fine. Just bizarre!
Here's a photo of his leg Friday night...If you'd like to see a video of Elly crawling, you can visit this link to our DropShots page
http://www.dropshots.com/ShawnaMama#date/2004-02-06/19:56:36

We went to Larry's race on Sat. Larry, in case you don't know, is the owner of a mechanic shop in town and lost his vision in an automobile accident about 6 years ago. He, Andrew and Mark (MIL's BF) are all good friends. So Larry drove while Mark sat in the passenger seat and spotted. It was GREAT!! I haven't had that much fun in so long! The first heat Larry was doing great till the 3rd corner and the radio that they were using to communicate shorted out. So he scrapped the wall. I about wet my pants!! It was very intense. But he pulled out of it and did awesome the rest of the race. Poor Mark was horse from yelling directions to him! Larry raced in 3 races and didn't come in last in any! Pretty flippin good for a blind guy if you ask me!!

Sat night on our way home from the race it snowed. It snowed all the way up to our house. But we were the only place without snow on the ground! We were mad! So Sun we got up and got in Andrew's 4Runner and went to find us some snow! We had a blast!
Here are the photos

My little marshmallow!

Down the road

Up the road

The Toy!

Here we go!

Oh no!!!

Ah! Colton's face right into the snow!!!

He thought it was hilarious!

Having so much fun!

Here goes Colton

Haha! Daddy just got stuck! So tubing for him!

There goes Oma!

Little Snow Princess

Snow flakes hitting her lashes!!

Elly's snow angel! AWE!

A branch fell behind us!

There it is!

Blankenship family

Silly Oma!

Ready to go home....Colton's mad!

Art time!

The kids always take baths together now but I've never taken photos of them. So I did last night. They are so funny!

Check out those lashes!

He wanted a "hat" like Elly!

I was going to start watching another little one today but with the snow they delayed the teacher inservice so tomorrow is our first day...if all goes as planned! I'm excited. She's very cute!

Well, I better run. I just realized that it's 3pm and I've yet to have lunch! Have a good one!

Well hello!!

2008-01-04T17:03:00.000-08:00

It's been forever...again! I swear! I hate it when I'm behind cause I have to upload a gazillion photos and LOs all at once...but I just can't seem to post regularly!

Anyhow, hope everyone had a nice new year. Hard to believe it's 2008 already. Lets see, what's new in our home......Last weekend we went and met with Andrew's dad, step mom, sister and grandparents. It was very nice. We meet halfway so it was easy on all of us. The kids had a blast seeing everyone again. It's been too long.

Today we went to story time at the library (we are doing that on Fridays now instead of Gymboree. The weather is too yucky to drive all that way. Besides, I got a library card for Xmas! Thanks mom!!!). Colton loves story time...even though he rarley sits and listens to the story. He has a new little friend who is 2 months older than him and they play so well together. The little girl's dad brings her (he's the stay at home parent) and we are both always shocked that they are sharing and play nice! Since they ARE both so close to 3!! Ellyana also has a buddy there. She's 10 I believe and just adores Elly! She's on Xmas break so she gets to go to story time for awhile till school starts back up. She always wants to hold Elly and try and teach her new things...like walking! LOL

After story time we went to Juli's (my MIL) hair salon so she could die my hair. She did Kaili's (my SIL) last week and it turned out so cute! Here are some photos I took of her...it's she beautiful?!So here are my before and afters. Not the best since I'm doing it myself and too lazy to set up the tripod! LOL

Boring brown....

Fun high lights!!!

I'm going to try and get better ones when there's another adult home. Don't think Colton can do any better than me....maybe!

In other news....Ellyana is crawling now! She JUST started yesterday. She's progressed so much in just the last couple days. I'm going to try and get a video of her. Hopefully she'll co-operate!

I pulled out this toy that was Colton's when he was younger for them to play with. After I washed it all up...it was so gross from being stored in the container (our semi truck trailer that all our stuff is in). I was so surprised that Elly would just stand there with no help! I didn't know she could do that!!!

How cute is she!! Look at those thighs!

How about some layouts?!

Ellyana and Grandma Violet. Elly's middle name is Violet.

LOL! So Andrew's dad got Colton this awesome track for Christmas. It has cars that run on batteries and they drive all around this track. I'll have to get a pic. Anyhow, this is Colton's reaction after Andrew put it together and turned it on. He loves it!!

Tomorrow we are going to watch Andrew's friend who happens to be blind race a car! We are very excited. So is Larry!!! I hope to get some photos from that.

Better get dinner started! Have a great evening!!!

Well, we didn't get a White Christmas but.....

2007-12-26T10:02:00.000-08:00

We did wake up to about 2 inches of snow this morning!!! The kids have runny noses still and Colton doesn't have any snow gear so we won't be playing too much in the snow today, but I might take them out in it for a couple mins. Colton keeps begging me to go "touch the snow!".

I let the kids open one gift each on Christmas Eve. Didn't take much of Colton asking me to open a present! I think I get more excited about Christmas than him!

Christmas Morning!!!

Kaili (Andrew's sister) and I went shopping a week or so ago and found this adorable little stuffed puppy. He was so soft. I loved him. But Elly didn't really care for him and I wasn't going to spend $16 on a stuffed animal that she didn't even like!! Well the little puppy was sitting there next to my stocking on Christmas morning!!!
Elly's learning to love him!

"He's so soft!"

I got a baby ring for Ellyana to go with the one for Colton. Thanks mom!!!

Colton opening a gift from Rebecca!!!

He loves it!!

Daddy got Colton a cool track launcher thing! Boy stuff!

"Oh this is yummy!!"

Little booties! Robeez knock offs from Target...just as good!

They pass the taste test!

mmmmm!

Colton had to put all Elly's babies ni ni!

The kids playing in the playroom

Elly and Oma

Elly and Uncle Levi

It was a nice Christmas. I did all the prep work for dinner the day before so that I wasn't rushing around on Christmas. We had Navajo tacos. It was my first time making them. My grandma and mom make them all the time and they are amazing!!! Anyhow, so Christmas morning we did our thing with the gifts and then just played with the kids. Then around 3 Juli, Mark and Mark's son Mike came over. I got dinner done and we ate and chatted and opened gifts from Juli. Everyone raved about the dinner...especially Andrew who had never had Navajo tacos. He needs to go see Grandma Sherry!!! Mine were good but not as good as hers!

So last Saturday my mom, stepdad, brother and sister surprised me and drove down to meet us. It was so fun! Colton loved spending time with his Nana and Elly has this fascination with her Uncle Drew!!! It was great to see them all. Here are some photos...

Nana and Ellyana

Ellyana and Uncle Drew

Colton playing in the play areaTime to go...Mean mama!!Poor Colton!!!EllyanaWhat a happy girl!!Me and my babiesThen last week we went to the grade school Christmas program and Santa was there afterwards. Colton was soooo excited to see him. Yet while we were waiting in line he freaked out and started crying!! He did not want to sit on his lap or even come near Santa!! Elly sat on his lap though! I was laughing so hard at poor Colton that the photo isn't the best.

And no scrapbook pages since my last post. Can you believe it?! I'm going to work on some today. I have tons of photos that just NEED scrapped!

Oh, but you know what I do have?! Photos of the gifts I made for our family. All our parents and grandparents received one of these little board books. Nine in all! They were so fun to make. Took me forever but it was worth it!!
Well I better run! Have a great day!!!

I'm not meant to have a WordPress blog!

2007-12-19T13:43:00.000-08:00

LOL! I posted a week or so ago saying that my blog had moved to shawnablankenship.com. Well I can't get it to look right and now I can't login to update. grr! So I'm back here! LOL

So, it's been forever once again since I've posted last. Ellyana is now 7 months old. And Colton is 35 months old...lol!!! They are both doing wonderfully! Elly's still not crawling. She just realized that she can scoot backwards though. So maybe soon...we'll see! Tonight we are going to the grade school down the road for the Christmas program...Santa will be there after! Colton's so excited to see Santa. He keeps asking if it's time to go yet. We got the kids a few little gifts for Christmas. Something to open on Christmas morning. They have so many toys between the two of them that it was really hard to find something they don't already have! Especially for Ellyana. We ended up just getting her a cute little baby doll...can never have enough of those! I finished up all the gifts for our family. I can't show you yet though cause most of them read this blog!! But watch your mail guys!! I really think everyone will enjoy what I made.

So, how about some photos?! Colton wanted nothing to do with our last photo shoot so there are a ton of Elly and a few of him! I didn't haul out the back drops or anything this time either. Just sat her in front of the window and made funny noises at her!!

Colton not cooperating!

Elly...distracted by her "buba"

Notice the hair pretty?!!!!Check out those teethers!I love this one!!Buba again!Look at those cheeks! Colton and I made a city...it HAD to be around Ellyana!

I have this love for Baby Legs. I bought a pair that was on sale...they are normally around $15 (yikes!) and then a friend of mine gave me another pair and then I found a tutorial online on how to make adult tube socks into them! So I tried it out and it was soooo easy! I found these socks at the Dollar Store. And it took me about 15 mins to whip these up. I'm in love!! So everywhere I go I'm watching for cute sockies!

Totally doesn't match but that's beside the point!

My goofy boy!

We put up our tree (a fake one :( ) a week or so ago. Colton had a blast helping!

The kiddos! (Notice the baby legs?!)

Daddy and the babies (baby legs again!)

And here are my recent scrapbook pages.
(click to enlarge)

Elly just woke up...I gotta run! Have a great evening.

The best oatmeal cookies!

2007-11-29T16:18:00.000-08:00

The recipe I've been using would leave my cookies really fluffy and sort of dry. Not good. So I went on a search for chewy oatmeal cookies. Tried the first one I found and it was perfect. I'm in love! I made another double batch last night. Everyone's addicted. So I thought I'd share with you...

2 1/4 C Flour (I use bread flour...cause that's all I had :) )
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
1 C Shortening (I use Butter Flavored Crisco)
1 1/4 C Brown Sugar, Packed
1/2 C Granulated Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp Water
1 1/2 C Oats
2 C Raisins

Stir flour, baking soda, and salt in bowl. Cream shortening with sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and water. Slowing stir in flour mixture. Stir in oats and raisins. Drop spoonfuls onto ungreased cookies sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 12 mins.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

So my son is in love with tunnels. Everything is about tunnels. And a tunnel, according to Colton, is anything that goes over his head. A blanket, mom's legs, a chair, his train tent...anything! He loves to put the blankets over his head and latley that's the only way he'll fall asleep...in his tunnel. Crazy to me cause I HATE having anything over my head! The only problem is he can't seem to get the blankets over his head the way he wants. So he will either come ask us to "tunnel" him or flip out and throw things! Yes, he's 2 1/2!! So all day I spend putting a blanket over him so he can play in the tunnel...or putting his chocolate milk (which is really just white milk...shhhh!) in the tunnel with him! Today he decided it would be great to put sissy in the tunnel with him. She thought it was a blast too...of course Colton could be spitting on her and she'd think it was grand...as long as he's paying attention to her she doesn't mind!

Speaking of sissy...how do babies know when mom's about to eat? What is it? Both my kids were like this. I'll lay her down for a nap, take a shower and then start to make a sandwich and she cries. Never fails! I eat with her in my arms...and she's trying to grab at whatever I'm eating. Crazy thing!!

We've been placing bets when she'll crawl. Colton crawled at 6 months...right after he started sitting on his own. She hates to be on her tummy though. She will sit and try and reach for a toy and topple over, ending up on her tummy and scream and holler for me to come help her! I say another month, Andrew says 2 weeks. We'll see!

I think Colton is afraid of Elly when she cries. The slightest whimper and he will run and hide. Seriously. It's very strange! He will hide under the table or chair or just run into his room. Even if she's not crying because of something he did...which is what I thought was happening at first. And she thinks it's hilarious when he cries! I made him try a bite of a carrot last night and he was crying and she was just cracking up at him. Then he got all upset and yelled at her to "stop funny me" translation...stop laughing at me. LOL

I need to wrap this up because Colton wants to watch a "Colton movie". He's in love with the web camera! We will talk to my mom on MSN and she has her web cam on and we have ours on. So it's just like talking on the phone but you can see each other and it's free. He's ask to talk to Nana first and she's usually at work so then he wants to watch himself! Silly boy!

I have just a couple photos to share. I ended up not doing the 2nd take of Christmas photos today. Too lazy to drag everything out again!! But I got a couple snapshots of the kids.

Enjoy your evening!!!

We have teeth!!

2007-11-26T09:51:00.000-08:00

Yep, my little girl has her first two teeth!! I've been trying to get a photo of them but no luck yet. So far she hasn't bitten me while eating...fingers crossed it stays that way! I was talking about it at my last La Leche League meeting and they helped ease my fears a little. Especially the women with 2+ year old children still breastfeeding.

Another fun milestone for Ellyana. She had her first bites of solid foods! Banana!! I was very reluctant to start solids with her. I wanted to stay her only source of nutrients for a little longer. But she was showing a lot of the signs....lunging at my food while I ate....sitting up alone....TEETH....chewing motions....so we decided to give it a try. So loves them! Next we are trying Sweet Potato. Here are some photos of her second time eating...

Oh and these are from the other night. Super cute!!

I took some Christmas photos of the kids today but I'm not very happy with them so I think I'll do another session later this week.

We went to Gymboree on Tuesday. I have a Leader Applicant meeting for La Leche League Friday so we went Tue instead. It was Family Gym day. So there were lots of little kids and some bigger ones too. Colton had a blast. He was very OCD that day though. Some one had taken the little foamy shapes and mixed them up. Colton was very angry. He got them and matched the shapes and colors back up and then guarded them for a good 5 mins! LOL And then, a boy had the oddasity to use the basket balls for something OTHER than basketball!! LOL He grabbed the ball out of the kids hand and put it in the hoop! I had many talks with him that day about not taking things out of people's hands. But he's learning and it's good to keep him interacting with other kids. This will be our last month there for a while though. With the weather getting worse I don't want to have to risk it.

I only have one LO to share today. This photo is 2 years old but I love it. It reminds me of many good things. It was taken at my Grammy and Poppa's house before my Grammy passed away. I took it with my FILM Canon camera! Look how little he was *sniff*!

My friend Andrea posted this on her blog and I want to do it as well. I think it's important to remember the good/positive things in my life. And seeing them on "paper" makes it that much better!
So, here are 10 Things I'm Greatful For....
1. My children. I have been blessed with incredibly beautiful, healthy children.
2. My husband. He knows me better than anyone. He knows all the good and bad things about me and still loves me for me. He's my best friend and my soul mate!
3. MY good health. One of my biggest fears is not being able to care for my family.
4. My husband's mechanical abilities! I'll never have to take a vehicle to a shop as long as he's around!!
5. My family. Everyone from my mom who is always there when I need her, to my sister in law who keeps me laughing and sane, to my mother in law who has taught me to sew and given us a roof to live under. Everyone in our family has helped us so much and has a very special place in our hearts.
6. Chocolate. Because on some days (like today) you might think you might just rip your hair out and chocolate saves the day! Come on, you know what I'm talking about!!!
7. My camera. I love that thing! It helps me capture those precious (and hilarious) moments in my family's life that I never want to forget.
8. Ellyana's snuggles. She will wrap her little arms around me and squeeze...sometimes it does hurt...but it's so very sweet!!
9. Colton's sense of humor. He cracks me up all day long with the things he says.
10. The fact that my children never ever go hungry.

Have a wonderful evening!!!!!!

Morning!!

2007-11-24T07:16:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Our's was nice. Long but nice!! I swear, next year we are just having pizza though! Too much work for me! LOL

So I'll just start with some LOs...since that's the way I uploaded everything and I'm too lazy to rearrange!

This is a Advent Calendar

Colton loves to change the numbers everyday! He's so pumped up about Christmas and Santa!

This is for the Blog Challenge over at ES. We did a photo swap. This is Erin (snazzy)'s little guy. Isn't he cute?!

{Goofy Boy}

Man this was forever ago!!

{Snow Buddies}

{Beginning}
{Just Me}

{Shawna Mama}

{Bowl Head}

{Baby Girl}

{My Favorite Flower}

{Just Colton}

{Adventure}

{Colton's First Christmas}

{5 Months}

Things have been pretty busy around here! Elly's now 6 months old! She had her well baby check up and is 15 lbs even and 26 1/5" tall. She's already into size 6-9 month clothes. Her growth is so much different than Colton's! She's 2 lbs heavier than he was at this age. She outgrows clothes muuuch faster! Anyhow, she's healthy and perfect! (Like we didn't know that already!). Colton went with us (Daddy had to work) and he was so mad at the nurse for "hurting sissy!". He cried longer than Ellyana did!

Juli cleaned out her room for the kids and now it's a playroom/sewing room. Colton loves it! I'll have to take some photos and share them. It's much nicer for all of us too because now the toys aren't all over the house.

A few weeks ago Joe and Elissa (Andrew's dad and little sister) came down to see us for the day. It was a great visit. Colton and Elissa played so hard! He was pooped by the end of the day!!! Here are some photos from their visit...

The kids eating Cheetos

Sleepy Elly and Poppa Joe

Goodbye hugs

Father and Son Hugs from Auntie Elissa!

(right after this they kissed and Colton wipes his mouth ans says "GROSS!!" LOL)

A close up of Andrew...I just love this photo of him!!!

The kids and I the other day

Goofy Colton with rings on his face!!! He does this to himself all the time!

And sweet Elly!!!

Well I better go. Colton's asking for eggs and toast! Have a great weekend!

My Stand Up and Scrap Layouts!!

2007-11-06T14:36:00.000-08:00

So I only did 5 out of the 6 LOs! LOL The 6th just did not inspire me and I didn't want to do a LO that my whole heart wasn't into, know what I mean? But I love the 5 that I did do! I'll share them with you and then I'm going to put them up in my galleries over the next few days.

I was #17069!

Week 1 {My Dream}

Journaling Reads

When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up I always said a mommy. I have been blessed with two of the most beautiful children and not to mention one amazing and loving husband. But one day, when I’m not needed as much from my family, I dream of opening my own photography business. I love taking photos. My poor kids always have a camera in their faces. Ahh...to be a professional photographer.....

Credits::::

Background paper--Blog buds By Gina MillerFlower--Perfectly Pastel Cottage Breeze By Gina MillerBack Splash--Stand Up and Scrap Mega Kit By Susan Bartolini"One Day" alpha--Beaded Alpha By Kimberly GiarrusoString Closure--Stand Up and Scrap Mega by Heather RoselliDark grunge border--Zoo Crop Freebie By Lauren GrierWhite grunge border--Absolutely By Lauren Grier"Dream Big" stamp--Express Yourself By Shabby PrincessDistressed Stamp--Skippy DoDa By Lauren GrierHeart Cluster--Heart Freebie By Lauren GrierRed Bow--Grayson By Lauren Grier"Dream" Alpha--Punky Mom By Lauren GrierBubble Wrap Stamp--By Emily MerrittFont--Pea Gretchie

Week 2 {How Sweet it is}

Credits:::

Pink Paper-Express Yourself-Shabby PrincessStriped Paper-Curly Cutie-Melanie ColosimoGrunge Flower Paper-SUAS-Christina Renee3 Squares Papers-Skippy Do Da-Lauren Grier"Sweet" alpha-Punky Mom-Lauren GrierGrunge Border-Lauren GrierTied Ribbon Wrapper-Christina ReneeBlue Flower-Urban Buds-Christina ReneeShooting Stars-Christina ReneeScratchy Paint Alpha-Gina MillerAlpha-SUAS-Gina Marie Huff

Week 3 {What a Beautiful Mess}

Journaling at the top reads::

"Getting a photo of the 3 of us is impossible!"

Then by the photos...

"Over here guys"

"Ummm....Elly?"

"A good one of mom and Elly spits up!!"

"Is that you Colton?"

Credits::

Fonts are Pea Stacy Doodles Pea Steph Ra's Hand

Lauraskathi:: BG Paper, Bow, Tag, Heart Jeni Cantrell:: Flower Kay Miller:: Flower Swirl, Scalloped Border, Flower Doodle, Felt Flower Shabby Princess:: Button Flower, Jeweled Flower Lauren Grier:: Staple, "What a" alpha Stand Up And Scrap Mega Kit:: Jell Flower, Screw Flower, Blue Flower, Stamp, Felt Flower, Swirl Flourish, Loopy Flower

Week 4 {Seeing Red}

Journaling reads:

You are so cute when you are mad. I can't help but smile at you.

Credits:

Black Paper, Red paper for alphas, and border by Lauren GrierRibbon Fastener, Glitter Spots by Christina Renee'Circle by Gina Marie HuffCardboard Tag By Robin CarltonBubble Wrap Stamp By Emily Merritt

Week 5 {Innocence}Everything by Christina Renee Designs

Thanks for looking!!!

I hate it when I'm behind!

2007-11-05T16:59:00.000-08:00

I have a ton of LOs and a couple photos! My internet has been acting up latley so it takes forever to do anything, that is if the darn thing doesn't freeze up. Which reminds me...I was supposed to call the ISP today...oops!

We had a fun Halloween. I had gotten Colton a bee costume and Rebecca sent me a flower one for Elly. Well Colton didn't want anything to do with his. I have no idea why!! So Halloween night I decided to just put his Tigger jammies on him and paint his face. He loved it!! And Ellyana was just so darn cute!! I loved her costume. Thank you again Rebecca!!!!!

Here are some photos of my cuties!

Nothing super exciting has been happening here. Andrew's still chugging along with his 4Runner. He's got to get 2 bolts and then he can put the motor in. So fingers crossed that it all goes well! We can't wait to get it out in the snow and play.

In scrapping news....Sat was Digital Scrapbooking Day. So there were tons of sales and games and all kinds of fun all over the digi world. I went to a couple chats and scrapped like crazy! It was really fun.

Since I can't remember what CTs I've told you about I'll just give you the whole list!! LOL How's that!!

So, Elemental Scraps, Rebecca Gold (veryscrappy.com), Angela Niehaus (digitalcandy.ca), Faith True (oneofakindscraps.com), Isabella Mancini (sophiassarducci.com), Ziggle Designs (digitalcandy.ca, gottapixel.com and scrapoutsidethebox.com)

Then my Guest spots!!

Nov is

Heather Manning and April Staker

Dec is

Chere Kaye and Micheline Martin

Jan is

Lauren Grier!

Woo Hoo!!! I love all of them and am super excited!!!

So, ready for some LOs? I'm going to give you the link to my gallery and you can check out the credits and leave some love if you'd like http://www.elementalscraps.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/12

Phew! LOL Ok, I better go get some dinner going. Have a great week!

Fall photos!

2007-10-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

Good morning!! I had a heck of a time with Blogger yesterday. Took me forever to upload photos so I gave up! but I got them all done today...thank goodness! Yesterday I took the kids outside and got some fall-y shots of them. I think they turned out cute. So here ya go....

{Isn't she sweet?!}

{Mad at me cause I'm taking photos and not pushing him!}

{Smelling the leaf!}

{Such a cutie!}

{Cool boots!}

{OK, now for fun...these photos were taken EXACTLY a year ago (Oct 25th, 2006)...crazy huh?!}

{Check out this sitting up action!}

{Getting so big!}

{Ack, don't eat that leaf!}

{Why hello brother!}

{My little princess}

{Truck driving}

{Slobber Monster!}

{Then I took them to the front porch for some shots with the pumpkins}

{Aren't they sweet???}

{LOL His face!}

{Punching the pumpkin}

{Again, LOL at his face!!!}

{I love this one!!}

Now for some scrap pages....(Click for credits)

{Grandpa Jim}

{Pumpkin Punch}

{Sisters and Friends}

Ok...gotta run! We have to leave for Gymboree in 10 mins! Have a great day!!!

Are you ready?

2007-10-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

For a picture packed post?! LOL We had a wonderful weekend! My dad and step mom came to visit. The kids had a blast! Dad and Sherrie stayed at a motel in town and it had an indoor pool. Colton loved it! He was so funny! Here are the photos that we (some by me some by Sherrie) took.

{Covered Bridge}

{Colton loved the "tunnel"!}{Ellyana and Grandpa}{Colton and Grandpa}{In the motel room}

{Pool Time}{Grandpa jumping in!!}{I love this one!}

{Elly got to dip her toes in}{Colton loved jumping in}{Chubbs!}{Back at the house...Elly loooves her Jumperoo!}
Today we got a nice package in the mail from Nana (my mom)!! I love getting mail! Thank you Nana!!!!!!!!!Check out Colton's new bed! Juli (andrew's mom) gave the kids her bunk beds. So we set this one up in his room. He loves it! And look he's NAPPING!!! LOLSo, today I had a leadership meeting for La Leche League. I'm thinking of being a leader. And after having that meeting I'm 100% sure I want to go through with it!! I think it is so right for me. The process takes a few months (sometimes a year) but I'm ready to get started!! I'll keep you updated!

I think I wrote that Elly had this horrible rash on her bottom last week. Well, it got quite a bit worse over two days and I took her back into the Ped. They decided that she has eczema, cellulitus (sp?) and a yeast infection. Poor thing. So we got some meds for her and it is sooooo much better now!!! Poor little thing!!!

In my scrapping life things are going so well!! I got accepted to Isabella Mancini's Creative Team. If you haven't seen her stuff you HAVE to take a peek! I love it!! Also, Heather Manning has asked me to Guest for her in November. Loooove her stuff too! She's a fun gal! Plus she just opened her new shop. You have to check it out!

Here are some of my latest LOs (images are clickable)

Well, I'd better go finish up dinner! Enjoy your evening!!!!

Quick Post

2007-10-19T17:05:00.000-07:00

Hi all! Just a quickie! My dad should be here any minute and I need to get dinner started. But I just wanted to show you what Colton got today

Have a great evening and I'll be back Sun (I hope!).

New look

2007-10-14T17:29:00.000-07:00

I was hoping to have a new home for this blog (thanks to my dear friend Rebecca Gold) but my ISP is having troubles so I'm still here. But stay tuned cause *hopefully* I can get it working and moved soon!

So to satisfy my need for change, I've made a new blog header and changed up my colors. I like it and hope the orange isn't too hard on the eyes. Let me know if it is and I can easily change it.

So, not much is new here. We have a play date tomorrow and I'm taking Elly in because she has a horrible diaper rash that just won't go away so I need to get that checked out. Andrew's been working on his 4Runner today. We are hoping to have it up and running soon so we can go play in the snow! Colton's doing good. He's got a cough that only bothers him at night. So last night he was up ALL night long. Poor guy! He did nap today though and is his chipper self. So hopefully tonight will be better.

I'm very excited! I got accepted to Oh Chere Designs team as a December Guest!! I have some more exciting news but you'll have to wait a few days for that!

A few Layouts.... (Images are clickable...)

That's all I have! Hope you have a great evening!!!!

Yikes!

2007-10-08T14:59:00.000-07:00

I'm horrible at keeping this thing updated! But I finally have a minute so this will be a long one! Grab a drink, here we go!!!

So, we went to our first week of Gymboree waaay back 2 weeks ago and had a blast! Ellyana had just as much fun as Colton did! Oma met us there and played too.

Photos of that....

In the tunnel

Very pissed at me for taking his picture while he was playing!
Elly and Oma

This week we didn't make it to Gymboree because Colton had a cold. So hopefully this Friday we can go and make up some day soon for the one we missed. We've been going to a Primary Connection group latley and loving it. It's very much like a preschool but the parents stay there. Lots of kids C's age. And even some babies too.

We sold my van. It was giving us some problems and we just took the hints and got rid of it!!! It sold fast and we bought a 1995 Volkswagen Jetta. I loooove this car. It's a 5 speed and I have missed driving a stick so bad. It has the V6 motor and is a speedy little thing! I will miss the room the van had but this is so nice. I actually got checked out today in town! LMAO....and it was me not that car they were looking at! hahaha!!

Wanna see why I get NO sleep these days? This is how I wake up every morning. When El wakes to eat I just stick her next to me and nurse and then at 4 or 5am Colton comes in and gets in bed with us. Poor Andrew sleeps right on the edge and I'm crammed between two kids!

Look at my 3 couch potatoes!!! Colton's so funny!!

Last night Juli and Kaili were making cookies and we look over to see this....

He had pulled his stool over and was drooling over the cookies!! Smart little guy!

Push-over Daddy!!

A sweet one of Kaili and Elly
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In scrapbook news...I was accepted to another Creative Team. Sunflower Designs!! Anja's work is so beautiful! Check her out at Hot Spot Scraps.
Here's my first LO with her Garden Fun kit
{Grandpa Sam}
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And one with Angela's Frame It Up
{Love My Daddy}
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And look what my little girl is doing!!!!!! She is getting better and better everyday. She's growing up way too quickly!
{Sitting Up Already}
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Elly's 4 Month page...just in time since she'll be 5 months in just a couple days!!
{Ellyana 4 Months}
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This last Wednesday I hosted the blog challenge over at ElementalScraps. Shandy Vogt was the sponsor. I looove her designs! If you'd like to check it out you still have one day to get a LO in to be get Shandy's PhotoFX for free and be eligible for the random prize. Challenge #10
Here's my LO for my challenge
{Fall it Will Be}
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I just completed my 3rd LO for the Stand Up and Scrap contest. I have so happy with my pages so far. But there are a ton of amazing people in this contest! I don't expect to win at all. But I cannot wait to show you all my pages once the contest ends.

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I've been working on the kids' Halloween costumes. I really need to kick it into high gear though. The days are getting away from me!!

We watched a few movies this weekend. It was Homecoming and Kaili decided not to go and stay home and eat cookie dough, ice cream and watch movies!! How could I argue?! One of the movies we watched was Knocked Up. Now, if you know me personally you know how much of a birth junkie I am! I loved this movie!! I was yelling at the TV when they told her she needed intervention! LOL And the main male character....just like my husband!! I was cracking up! I think that movie will go on my "Need to Buy" list!

Oh I think that's all the exciting stuff that has happened since last time!!

Have a great evening!

Thought this was fun!!!

2007-09-27T14:24:00.000-07:00

I always thought they looked more like daddy than me!! LOL

Mini update and 2 Layouts.

2007-09-27T13:38:00.000-07:00

So Andrew went back to the Urologist yesterday and I'll bear you the gory details but he's going to be fine! The Dr gave him an antibiotic to make sure he doesn't get infected while he's healing and then he's supposed to go in next week and then the week after to check the healing progress.

I'm still feeling icky but not too awful bad. I'm hoping I'm on the downslope of it and the kids don't catch it as well.

Colton is all signed up for Gymboree!!!! We went in to talk about the class and times and he remembered what it was! It was so funny, he says "Shoes off mama!". He wanted to go play so bad! We left with him bawling cause he wanted to play at "Jumporee". But tomorrow is our first day so he'll be excited. I'm going to throw Elly in the sling and hope that she just sleeps through it! This means that we won't be going to story time for a while though. But I think a change of pace might be nice.

We are in the QUESTIONING stage in the Blankenship house. Yep, everything out of Colton's mouth today is Why or What! "What's this for" "Why are you doing that" "Why mama why"!!! Ahhhh!!!! I'm being patient though and explaining things to him. But like just now he asked about a broken crayon "What's this for?". LOL

Kaili (Andrew's sister) did a Digital Scrapbook report for her photography class this week. (Yes, I am proud!!!!) She had to do a Power Point presentation as well so I made her a new page to go first (she also used some of my other pages through-out the presentation). This photo is one I took a few months ago of her and her on-again-off-again boyfriend John.

{Fun Funky Love}

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And then this is a Layout for the Sugar Rush Chat Layout Challenge at DigitalCandy. They have a chat every Thursday and I got my LO from last week done just in time!!! I took this photo the other day of Colton in the leaves. Stay tuned for more of those photos!!!

{Mater Jockies}

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Have a great day! I hope to have some photos from tomorrow's fun at Gymboree....hopefully!

Hellooooo out there!!!!

2007-09-24T16:03:00.000-07:00

Gosh it's been awhile! Things have been pretty crazy here. Andrew had his surgery and isn't healing well so hopefully he'll go in to get checked out on Wed. He was sick on top of that and now I have the cold as well. And it's kicking my butt!! My dad and his girlfriend came for a visit. That was nice!

I have been scraping quite a bit. I joined a challenge as well. Here's some info on it Stand Up and Scrap I finished my first page for that and LOVE it. I can't share it since the contest is all anonymous but once it's over I'll be sure to post it. Here are some recent LOs

{Big Smile}

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{Jumper}

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{Welcome Ellyana}

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{Sweet Angel}

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{My Elly}

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{Smellyana?!}

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{My Girl}

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{My Guys}

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{Breastfeeding is Beautiful}

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{Sweet Siblings}

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{Blessed}

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Here are some recent photos. Hope you Enjoy!!!

Colton's new favorite snack AppleJacks and milk!

Elly got a Jumperoo (I found it on Craigslist.com for $15!!)

My dad and his girlfriend Caprice

Us with Andrew's Poppa

Colton fell asleep before we could do group shots!

Today we went to the Park. Colton was chasing this squirrel all over!

She loves watching Bubby

Weeeeee

His butt was wet from the slides! LOL

Well, after all that I'm exhausted!! LOL We have a busy week planned already. Tomorrow we head to Springfield for a MOMS Club meeting and then I'm going to try and find some items to make the kiddo's Halloween costumes. Then Wed we have a WIC appt in Eugene. Thur or Fri we are going to Cottage Grove. Thur is this fun playgroup that meets and Friday is story time at the library. I just haven't decided which we will go to. I think going all 5 days this week would be too much for all of us!!! I'm going to see about signing Colton up for Gymboree classes again. He really enjoyed that and I think he needs a little more interaction with children his age. We'll see though!

Well I better get off here. Colton keeps telling me to "push the X" which means close the page!! LOL

Have a great evening!!!

Oh man what a day...

2007-09-11T18:49:00.000-07:00

It started out pretty boring so around 1pm I loaded the kids up and drove 3/4 mile to the bike trail head and we walked to the little store which is about 2 miles and then walked back. It was so hot by then...not sure what I was thinking! Pushing a double stroller in the blazing heat! But it was good for me and we needed ketchup!

So I've been scrapping of course! Colton and Ellyana had their first bath together the other night. They thought it was great! Here's the page I scrapped...

{First Bath Together}

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I used this awesome new kit from Angela Niehaus called Panda Love

This photo is pretty old but I needed to scrap it and it fit perfectly with the kit
{Snuggle Boy}

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I used this awesome kit by Rebecca Gold called Grape Punch

These photos are pretty old too but I love them!
{Be you}

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I used Juli Bullock's Savannah kit from ES
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I was putting some photos up on craigslist for Juli and her boyfriend and on her camera were these photos...so I took em!
This is Levi (Andrew's brother), Cousin Zach, and Andrew!!

This one cracks me up!!

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So today Colton hit Ellyana with his brown hammer (not hard) and got put in time out until he could say he was sorry. Being the stubborn little boy he is (not sure where it comes from!!) he refused to say sorry to her and ended up sitting there for a good 20 mins. I would take him out and bring him to Elly and tell him to say sorry and he wouldn't. So there he sat. Until I heard him stop crying and then a few seconds later start again. So I go spy and he's nodding off in his chair!! I scramble to find the video camera, trying not to pee my pants from laughing so hard and he falls asleep for good.

Here are the photos of my goofball! Stay tuned for a scrap page!

Well, I better get this house cleaned! Have a great night!!

Oh my aching head....

2007-09-09T09:54:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning my darling son fell backwards into my forehead. I thought for sure I would pass out! It hurt so bad! And the little toughy didn't even cry. So I had this wonderful goose egg on my head all day and then today I wake up to a massive migraine. Ick, I hope it goes away soon.

Ok, enough whining! I think I've got my scrapbooking mojo back! I've done so many layout this month already.

Here are my latest!!

My first one with Angela's Kit "All Things Girl"
{Bright Eyes}

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Another with "All Things Girl"
{My Family}

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This one is using Julie Bullocks Savannah Kit in the ES Shoppe
{Great Big Brother}

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Using Baers Garden Desgins' 123 Scrap Template in the September Candy Box
{Baby Toes}

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Well, I better get on with my day...maybe a shower will help my head!

EVEN More exciting news!!!!!!

2007-09-07T08:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I got an email from Angela Niehaus welcoming my to her CT! How exciting is that?! I'm so honored and can't wait to get started. The girls at Digital Candy are so sweet!

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Yesterday's photoshoot went really well. Colton was bribed with chocolate chips and sat still for me and even smiled! And Elly is just a perfect little model. Take a peek at my favorites...I took over 200 shots yesterday!

**And notice the hair pretty?!! It's holding on my like 3 strands on hair!! LMAO!!**

She spit up! LOL

Well, I need to jump in the shower and then we are off to story time at the library.

Have a wonderful day!!

Totally Excited!!!

2007-09-06T08:48:00.001-07:00

So I was on DST the other day and ran across a CT call for Angela Niehaus who designs at Digital Candy. So I applied and followed her ad to DC and found Rebecca Gold (also a designer at DC)!! She used to design (and co-own) at ES back when it started. She's an amazing photographer, designer, scrapper and person! After about a year and a half we've re-united! So we were chatting on Hello and she invited me onto her Creative Team. I'm so thrilled and honored!

Oh...and Angela's call is thru the 7th so I should hear back by next week. Fingers crossed!

So Rebecca sent me her "I Adore You" kit and I did 2 layouts last night.

{Blowing Raspberries}

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{Potty Training}

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So while I'm on the subject of scrapbooking, have you checked out Elemental Scraps new challenges?? Oh man! They are awesome! They are now doing blog challenges twice a week. With amazing prizes might I add!! And they a tons of yummy new products in the shoppe. Check it out! You won't be disappointed!

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So Andrew has decided to sell his Sidekick! He seriously cracks me up with how many vehicles he goes through! I guess better that than women, huh?! One day I'll post photos of ALL his different vehicles...just since we were together! Anyhow, he did another price comparison of Sidekicks, Jeeps and 4Runners. They went in that order of expense to get them they way he wants them. Soooooo....he put the Sidekick up on craigslist and plans to buy a 4Runner when it sells. A lady (who only has a motor home for transportation) went and looked at it yesterday now she is just trying to get her credit union stuff straightened out. He doesn't want to get his hopes up but it looks like it's sold!

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Hahaha...Ellyana was just crying and Colton ran over and stroked her face and said "it's ok seetheart!" He's such a cutie!!

I'm going to ATTEMPT to take some photos of them today. It's been since Feb that I got any *good* ones of C. And I don't have any of the two of them together. So hopefully they...well Colton...co operates!!

Well I better tend to my baby girl!

Have a great day!

Videos

2007-09-04T21:31:00.000-07:00

So I can't get the little icon on blogger to upload my videos so I'm trying dropshots instead. We'll see if this works!!!

First we have Ellyana trying to sit up in her bouncy seat

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Then is Elly blowing raspberries

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And finally is Colton giving his sister kisses!

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I hope it works!! Let me know what you think!

Night!

While Colton is Watching...

2007-09-04T07:15:00.000-07:00

...the "Tatoe Head Movie" (AKA::Toy Story!) I'll update this poor blog.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Andrew had Monday off so he had a nice 2 days weekend and then works today and has tomorrow off. We didn't do much this weekend. Stayed home. Andrew's cousin Zack came down and is stayed for a while. He just graduated last year. Colton's been having fun playing with someone new!!

Speaking of Mr Colton, his potty training is going so well. It's been a week today and he's done so much better than I thought he would. Yesterday he had zero accidents. He was so proud! We went to the dentist on Fri (he has a cavity....ugh) and he went potty in the toilet the whole time we were gone.

So about his cavity...it's on his front tooth. I figured that's what it was. The dentist said that he will take some x-rays the next time he sees him (Oct) and go from there. He put some floride sealant stuff on there so hopefully it won't get worse. I feel awful. I brush his teeth twice a day and never let him have drinks while in bed.

Andrew was supposed to get some teeth filled Fri but the air wasn't working correctly so they weren't able to get him in. Kinda frustrating. He has 5 cavities and one tooth is super bad...has a hole it in. So they rescheduled him for Nov....

We woke up this morning to rain. It was so darn hot yesterday that this rain is very welcome! The other day it was so warm that I got the sprinkler out for Colton to play in. Here are some photos of his fun!

I had to show him how to jump over it!

Then he was jumping all over the place!

Telling me to put the camera down and come jump with him!

I recently found this awesome program for organizing my scrapbook kits. I spend the better part of 2 days using ACDSEE to get organized but it was WELL worth it! I'm in love! I have the trial version right now but I'm defiantly buying it once that is up. It's so nice!
Here are some of my recent Layouts...

This is Ellyana's 1 month page...not sure if I shared it or not.

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Her 2 months page...again not sure if I shared!

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3 Month page
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"Adores"
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"Finger Paint"
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"Breastmilk Bliss"
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I just saw that blogger has a video upload option! Too cool! Stay tuned for some videos!

Have a great day!

Potty Update!!!!

2007-08-30T12:09:00.000-07:00

Colton has totally exceeded my expectations with this potty training! Here's the play-by-play of Tuesday...
8:30am- C woke up and I took his diaper off. After a chocolate chip I got him to sit on the potty!

Noon- So far he has peed on the floor twice and in the potty three times. I have the timer set for 20 mins and we go try and pee when it goes off.

1pm- He started to poop on the floor and flipped out!! I explained to him that it was just poop from his butt and he looked at me with big eyes and said "nother big one" so we ran to the potty and he finished in there!

2pm- I put a pull up on him and laid him down for a nap. He never fell asleep but I took a shower and ate lunch (about an hour) and he didn't pee in his pull up. Went potty in the toilet after I let him get up.

7pm- Daddy's home. C's yelling out the window that he went pee pee in the potty!!

8:30pm- Bedtime. I put a pull up on him and told him NOT to pee in it. If he needed to go pee, come get mommy.

So only 2 accidents all day! AND he woke up Wednesday morning in a DRY pull up!!!!!

Wednesday daddy was home with us. Colton wanted some jockies on and started to poop in them and ran to me saying "poop mama poop" so he finished in the potty. He went naked the rest of the day. No nap. And no more accidents! Went to bed with pull up and again, woke up dry!!

Today, he has jockies on and has made it to the potty every time. Even told me he had to pee!!! He hasn't pooped yet though but it's about *that* time so I'm watching.

I'm so proud of him!!! And so is he!

We have dentist appts tomorrow...I think I'm going to put him in a pull up while we are in the office (I have a feeling the dentist is going to be a little traumatic for him) and then undies while we are driving and out and about. Yikes...we'll see how it goes!

Here are some photos from Tuesday...

Colton and Ellyana

What a Big Boy!!!

Yay! A Potty Prize!

Sweet!!!

Another Prize

And Today...in his "cool red jockies"

Here are some other random photos. Andrew and the kiddos on Sunday. Can you tell Colton is telling me to put the camera down?! That's his new thing....crazy boy!
Miss Ellyana found her footsies!! She loves to grab them!

And my embroidery "homework" from Crafty Daisies lessons.

Well that's all I have! I need to go watch for signs of poop! LOL What a glamorous life I have! Wouldn't trade it for the world though.