Happy Thanksgiving

I can't believe I have a 4 day weekend. I really needed this! We had turkey day at our house and, as usual, Ozan made a feast...including the most delicious turkey. He is in charge of all the cooking in this household and he has nicknamed me his "Sous-Chef". Fancy word for chopper, dishwasher, and preper. LOL.

Got to do some scraping today with my favorite line of paper from Making Memories. These pics are from late spring 2006, when Kendall was just a 3 year old. Now we are planning her 5th b-day! Crazy!!! My scanner isn't so good these days...trust me it looks better in person.

Just before everyone came over, Kendall let me put on a girly holiday dress (dresses don't happen much in this house with her) and take a bunch of pics (that never happens as well). These pics are my next scrapping project. And here is a present to myself to hold my scrap tools and schtuff.

Lots Going On

First of all I want to say is that we have all been sick around here lately. Two weeks ago it started with Kendall's fever, then Aydan, then me. Both kids are fine now...well, kind of. I ended up in the ER with Kendall yesterday. She sliced her finger on the back of her dresser. There was a flap of skin and the bleeding wouldn't stop. Know what they did? Antibiotic cream and a bandaid. I could of done that! I just wasn't sure if she needed stitches. Aydan bopped his nose on something I think, trying to climb out of the pack n play during his nap. We don't know how and he has a bruised nose. I've been sick with bronchitis for 2 weeks. I finally went to the Dr because I couldn't hardly breath at night. He gave me a z-pak and some cough syrup with codeine. That's some good stuff! I'm going back to work tomorrow :(

This weekend I painted Kendall's room. It was all pink (think Pepto Bismol) with a white chair rail. I wanted to paint the bottom green so I took my favorite Bazzill cardstock with me (used on the layout below) and got a custom color. I gotta take pics. It came out cute. Then this evening Kendall and I made chocolate chip cookies. I can't have any because I've been on a diet. Imagine that?

I made this page this weekend and here is a pic of Aydan having his first choc chip cookie and you can see his bruise. Thanksgiving is coming up soon and we have a lot of prepping to do. Ozan makes a mean Turkey. Yum.

Ooops...I forgot Halloween pics. I didn't get good ones. Aydan had a fever so we took him out for 10 minutes and Kendall was running ahead. Aydan was a Caribbean pirate, but for the life of me, I couldn't get that cute hat on.

Lil Artist

Just a quick page I did. Aydan does not talk yet, he tries to say some words, but only Mommy understands them. He draws and hums like all the time, even when he's upset...its really sweet. He has so much passion. We have a lot of artists and musicians in our family...who knows maybe he'll be famous some day. Wednesday is Halloween so I'll post pics soon after.

Lots of messy mouths

Aydan is just so cute and he is a typical boy. Let me tell you! At snack time yesterday, I gave Kendall a mini cupcake that my MIL brought over. He just looks at me as to say, "You're not going to give me one?" Who can resist that adorable face. His face was just covered in chocolate cupcakes.

That morning he was eating dirt from the garden and later was eating sand from his sandbox! Why?? I don't get it.
Today we went to the zoo...all the kids were dressed up in their costumes. We forgot Kendall's but that was OK because it was too hot to wear! Aydan fell asleep in the car on the way home, what a sweetie!

Yesterday I worked on a couple of projects...a card for my manager for bosses day (yes, I like my boss!), which was last week (oops) and these layouts, which are a 6x12 format. It was so fun to use that size! On Aydan's page, I tied some tags together...I lifted that idea from Melissa.

Pumpkin Farm 07

So we loaded up the kids and went to our favorite pumpkin farm last weekend. Its just so nice there...activities for the kids, pumpkins, food, rides. Its so traditional mid-western. Here are some pics. I took a few...OK, like 140 few. I don't have time to tweak these so these are just some of them. That night my in-laws came to visit. They were in town from San Diego. Here is my father-in-law spending time with Aydan while he draws. Aydan is really an artsy kid...yeah. He loves to draw and he hums all the time, even though he doesn't talk yet.

Learn Something New Every Day

Someone on a message board asked how we all pronounce the letter "z"? Zee or Zed. I have never heard of that but after some Googling, found out that most of the English speaking world outside of the US say, "Zed". Someone on the board made a comment that she saw something on TV where the called the band, "Zed, Zed Top". Too funny. How did I not know this? Maybe because I never go anywhere...LOL. Here is the info I found on Wikipedia's website:
"Zed (IPA: /zɛd/) is the pronunciation of the last letter of the alphabet Z used by the majority of English-speaking people outside of the United States (where it is pronounced "zee" (/zi/))."

I always tell my students that I truely learn something everyday, its really amazing to me. Ok, I'm done philosophising. Have a good week.

WCMD

Yesterday was World Card Making Day and I made 4 cards. Two of them took a long time. The first one was from a card sketch for Create My Keepsake, designed by Daniela Dobson.

These two are for Sketch This Cards. They are looking for some new card designers for their card sketch site.

Surprise!

Here is my surprise...this is Kando. He is our newest member to our family and he just arrived today.

Kando is 7 years old and I've known him since he was 2. I worked with him for 5 years. Kando is a retired seeing eye dog. My co-worker, Jim, had to retire him early because he really wasn't being a good sight dog. We went to Jim's house this morning to get him. It was really hard leaving the house and taking Kando away from Jim.

Kando is FULL of energy!!!

Fall is here finally...I really don't like all the heat, I wish fall was longer. Next weekend our favorite Pumpkin Farm opens up so we'll probably head there. They have everything traditional that a Pumpkin Farm should. This is a 2 page layout I made this weekend...the pics are from 2005. Aydan was only 6 weeks old! Did a ton of stamping on this one.

I have a surprise for you on Saturday!! Its really good.

Have a good week.

Whew...its been a while. We've been so busy lately that I feel like I literally running all day and evening. Friday I worked at the hosital from 7AM until 7:30 PM and I was pooped on Saturday. Its hard to catch up with your rest. Anyhow, I managed to finish up some loose projects on my scrap desk. So I feel better about that.

This is a LO of our trips to our favorite local zoo. We went there with my in-laws last time. This was a very easy one for me, took about 30 minutes. Yeah!

And this card is literally 2"x3", its so cute....

This is the card on made for our 9th wedding anniversary...I never got a chance to post it before. I've already been telling Ozan what I want for my 10th next year!

I did this LO a couple of weeks ago, my poor Kendall. I'll scrap just about anything! Its those little things that create a page like this.

Aydan has been a bit behind on his speech but recently he has been saying a couple of things. Like last Saturday he said, "momma" but now he calls me"mom-mom"...it makes me weak in the knees {be still my heart}! You know I have to scrap that!

Have a good week.

Happy Birthday Ozan

First of all, happy birthday to Ozan!!! We celebrated this weekend with his family and today it was leftovers and cake. We certainly are party animals. LOL.

Wow, we were busy this weekend, I'm SO tired. Monday, we went with my in-laws to a local zoo ( I love this llama picture), went out to lunch, went swimming in the neighbor's yard, went out for dinner...I've had enough. Aydan wasn't served cake, but helped himself to my portion. He's such a cutie!

nada

3 day weekend, nice weather, who could ask for anything more?Tomorrow my in-laws are coming over and Ozan's going to cook. We are celebrating his b-day. He was kind of whinning about cooking for his b-day and I offered to cook...he replied with a quick "no!". What? He doesn't want burnt hamburgers for his b-day??

I made a couple of cards and I have more to post. Ozan's b-day (and his twin, Seyda) is Tuesday and our anniversary is Wednesday.

A Little Mishap

My poor Kendall. She was playing in the house and tripped and fell on the front of our family room chair. Its soft, but somehow she got a shinner. There's a purple bump also that you can't see in the picture. She was pretty upset this morning but now she's OK. I had to post this picture though because her eyes look so gorgous! Her baby blues are green now. Have a good week.

Happy Birthday Aydan

My lil bubbie turned 2 yesterday and we just finished up his b-day party tonight. We had a smaller party...I was not up for a big hoop-la like last year. Our village had fireworks tonight as well and we could view them clearly from our backyard. That was nice. Check out Aydan's green face. I love it!

{Wee}

Just a quick post tonight. I am going to bed early tonight...SO tired. But I had to post a cute Kendall pic. She is such a goof on the slide!

favorite quote

So we had a good weekend, somewhat. First of all happy, happy birthday to my BFF Tracy (which was on Sat, Aug 4)! I'd put her pic in but I don't think she would like that. I made her a card but shipped it off before I took a pic. Made about 7 cards this weekend and a LO of Chloe and I with a pic taken 10 years ago. The quote states, "when no one else cares, my dog still loves me". Its just the best quote ever because its so true. Scrapping is such good therapy for me!

Yesterday, I literally just sat down for my nice steak dinner that Ozan made and the tornado warning alarm goes off...that happens at least 4 times a summer, so I'm used to it. So we carry our food down to the basement. And I find out today that we had a tornado in our city. But with 2 toddlers running around, who could hear that? I didn't even know about it until my co-workers asked. They were like, "So I heard you had a tornado". And I'm like, "We did?" LOL. So I get to bed around 9:30 last night because I have to work at 6AM this week and its an hour drive, including Starbucks. Kendall woke me up at 2:30. Came back into my room around 3 and my alarm goes off at 4:15. I am like a zombie. I felt like I was intoxicated driving to work this morning! And I get home today, take a nap. Now Aydan has a 102 fever...the drama never ends in my house.

Hopefully I can take some pics of my cards when the weather lets up. Its storming again. Ooops..gotta go. I think the alarms are going off again. Crap.