{New Page, Finally}

I've been too busy to scrap and with the weather getting nicer, there isn't much time to do much scrapping. This is a two page layout, which I haven't done in a long time, I did of Aydan and how he is becoming a little boy. The second layout is a little dark-bad scan. Sorry.

Hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day. I know I did :)

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{Beautiful Boy}

One of two reasons why

I love Mother's Day

more than ever!

Happy Mother's Day

I'm a couple of days early but I wanted to shout out Happy Mother's Day to my mom and mother-in-law, my sister, friends, grandma, all of you. Besides my children's b-days, this is my favorite day of the year.

What do I want to do this Mother's Day? Nothing. Rest and spend time with the kiddies.

These are the cards I sent out...

You think he likes spaghetti?

Not too much going on here. My in-laws were in town the past two weeks and I've been tired with work, etc. I don't even have the energy to scrap. It took me one week to make a small card. Arg.

Anyway, I took this of Aydan last week...unfortunately for me, spaghetti is Aydan's favorite food. Next time, he'll be naked when he eats it :)

Easter Eggs 2007

I didn't get much craft time this weekend. I started this last night and I knew if I didn't stay up late tonight to finish it, I wouldn't sleep. Yes, I admit it, I can't fall asleep if I'm thinking of a project! I have to be up in 6.5 hours and I'm scrapping and blogging {too much coffee?}. No matter how tired I am sometimes I have to give up sleep to have "my time". I need to wind down. OK, I'm done!

PS...I love turquoise, I think I use it in most of my LO's. This was too fun! {Scan is off, sorry}

Easter Egg Dyeing

Yesterday Kendall and I made our Easter eggs while the little guy was sleeping. She was a bit tired so she just quieting moved them around the coloring dye, nothing too exciting. I got some great pics! She looks so much older with her hair pulled back. The other two pictures is a small book that I made to hold my mini acrylic stamps, I putting those pics on 2peas to show my scrap buddies. Have a nice holiday!

Rice Boy

Hey you all. Weekends go by SO fast. Too fast. Yesterday my sister-in-law, Gulcin, came over to watch the kiddies so the hubby and I could go to a movie. We saw, "The Lookout"... it was OK. Just nice to get out but the whole time I think about them. My poor Aydan has been on and off again with this diarrhea. He cannot have dairy nor meat so we've been giving him a lot of broccoli and rice. He loves it!I did this page today while Aydan was napping. Had to move quick though! Have a nice week.

Oh, and I made this card last week. Just wanted to try out my Cuttlebug embossing plate.

Love Album

March is the birth month for my mother and my mother in law. So Happy Birthday! Last year I made them both albums that were pretty similar, but different pics. Here are the pages...have a good week. Oh, forgot, the album is made with 4 lunch paper bags folded in half. Not my idea, this has been a technique scrappers developed a few years ago.

Bloom Into You

Its amazing how much Kendall has grown since August...I did this page today to show that. I'm not 100% happy with this, its just unbalanced!

Bedtime Routine

Kendall takes FOREVER to get ready for bed. Its such a project and on top of it, she only wants me to put her to bed. Its like a 45 minute routine. I love reading to her and laying next to her, but the fighting about bed...and she takes her time. Its just a bit too much. I need to make our lifes easier, not harder. This page is not my regular style, but it was a chance to have a lot of journaling and use my new punch.

Happy Birthday Nathan

This is my adorable nephew, Nathan. He is four today. Here are some pics from his b-day party on Saturday...

Nathan and his Mommy, Chrissy {my sister}

Nathan and his Daddy, Marc


Kendall and Nathan are very close...lots of hugs all the time. They are only 6 weeks apart.

{Nothing}

See what happens when Kendall and Dad go to a football game and Aydan takes a three and half hour nap? Mommy locks herself in her craft room and scraps her heart out! I finished a page, two cards, and started another page.

The card is for my co-worker, who had his first baby last week.

Hat

It was a very rough night for us, Kendall was absolutely refusing to get dressed for bed tonight. She didn't go to sleep until almost 10:00! I had planned a long night of scrapping. Thank god this page only took an hour. I guess I'll just have to do more tomorrow!

Blue Eyes

Kendall had these HUGE blue eyes when she was a baby. A stranger once asked me if she ever blinked because she would just look around with these eyes and you hardly ever saw her blink. This is probably one of my favorite pics of her during her first year...so of course I had to scrap it! {sorry for the bad scan}

Its been a crazy week for all of us...busy at work, busy at home! Kendall is being more defiant and Aydan is still a good baby but he is into EVERYTHING he sees. Opening and closing every drawer and door in the house, climbing on furniture, playing with the dogs water bowl, trying to eat the dog food. I spend most of my time with him pulling him away from something. With working and being a mom, I literally am on my feet working 14 hours a day. I'm SO glad its Friday. I'm off Monday so I can have a long weekend. My students are off for spring break so its a good time for me too. Tomorrow is my nephew's 4th b-day party so I need lots of rest tonight...LOL!

I made these pages last weekend of Aydan's first year. Each picture is from each month. I'm not too happy with it, but what can I do?

What a beautiful day

We have had 50 degree plus weather the last few days. I took the kids outside after dinner tonight so they could play on the swingset. Got some great shots of them at sunset. I'm so ready for winter to end!!!! Having the time change is March is the best. I never see daylight with my job so now I can spend more time outside with the kiddies. Why didn't the government think of this before...

Kendall is actually posing for the camera...that never happens!!! And Aydan, well he's always a ham:)

Aydan is Sick

My poor Aydan has been sick for 2 days...he has a bad stomach/intestinal virus. He can't eat or drink. He has a temp and a very bad diaper rash that required a prescription to heal it. This house has been turned upside down to say the least and I feel so sorry for him. He's so limp and weak. Its so sad. He took a five hour nap today and I worked on this page. The right side is clipped so pardon the scan.

Shampoo Sculptures

I love playing around with the kids hair during their bathtime. This weekend, I grabbed the camera to get a shot of Aydan's punk shampoo hair. Kendall says he looks like a dinosaur...that's a 4 year old for you...seeing things in a different light. I really love how this picture came out of Aydan. What an angel!

Anyway, I've already planned my scrap layout for this pic so hopefully I can work on it this weekend. American Idol is taking me away from my scraptime during the week!!!

Happy Valentines Day

Today was great because Kendall got to really celebrate Valentine's Day. She took her cards to school and put them in the other kids mailboxes. Then she came home with a bag of her own. I made this card from all of us and Kendall got to give it to her Daddy.

Snow Day

Well, we were stuck inside today with another mini blizzard. I tried to go to work...even got several miles into my commute and it just started getting more windy and dangerous...so I turned around, came home, and hung out with the kiddies. Kendall went sledding too. Got some pics of the snow and some cute ones of Aydan again. He was wearing this "rock on" t-shirt that he looks so cute in...and then I tried to put on this black cap. He looks like he's trying to be a tough guy, but the binky kinda of spoils that! He wouldn't keep the hat on for me so it was hard to get good pics. Then later on he lost his binky, so he used a pot lid from Kendall's kitchen set and sucked on the lid handle, what a goof! That's him with the big silver circle on his face!

Second Post Today

I had to post these pics of the kids I took today. Aydan with his baby blues and Kendall, who fell asleep on the chair just before we were heading out to dinner.

Kendall's 4th b-day

Well Kendall's b-day party was on Feb. 4-The Superbowl-and I've been way too busy and tired to post some pics. These are pics of her first through 4th b-day parties. Kendall had her first "kids" birthday party at our park district. She had a blast! She is really growing up!