Busy Busy

Well things around here have been busy. I have been scrapping like crazy. I am on 3 Creative Teams now which is great! There are so many talented designers out there and I am honored to be able to work with their kits. Some nights I am up til the wee hours of the night trying to get pages done, but I have been lucky because when Mathew Sleeps I get time to play! That is probably the only time I am going to be able to do my pages once Mat is home. We must enjoy Family time also!

Mat Sr should be coming home soon and we are very excited. Paige asks for him each day and wants me to pick him up each night. It will be nice for him to be home so that he can tuck her in at night. We were able to talk to him on the computer a couple times and he was able to see us, but we could not see him = ( It was nice to have him see the kids though.

I am trying to work on getting Mathew to sleep through the night. So far it is not happening . We had a couple nights where he would sleep from 12 til 5 which is excellent for me lol.. but now he is back to wanting to be up a few times in between. He must be hitting a growth spurt! He is doing great with eating table food. He loves anything with some texture that he can pick up with his fingers! He is not liking his Babyfood as much because he can not hold it! He is becoming more confident on his feet. Today he was pushing around Paige's Baby stroller. I was impressed. Just a few more days and he can take off... he just needs to wait for his daddy to make it home! I'm afraid though that we have hit the shy stage with Mathew. He will not cry if someone talks to him, but he does hide his head into my chest of shuns away. I hope he doesn't do that to daddy for too long!

Paige is learning a lot at school. She just learned all about Johnny Appleseed. Her class made applesauce with apples we sent in. They are also learning about comparison (big and small) And order.. biggest to smallest. They were working on their names also. Paige has known the letters in her name for a while now and has been able to write the letters. They are working on doing the upper case 1st letter and the rest lower case. She caught on to that on Sunday, the monday before she went to school to talk about it. She is so smart and loves to learn. We have been doing adding and subtracting using objects and fingers. She can add and subtract using the numbers 1-5 now. Pretty good for a preschooler! She is very interested in Reading. We read every night to eachother.. first me to her and then we choose a page to read together..I help her sound out the words and she says them one by one. I am sure by the end of the yr she will be reading more words. Another thing that they are going to work on with them this week is letter sounds. I believe that they are going to do the sounds of the letters in their names. Paige and I were going over the alphabet and I would ask her... what sound does ____ make. and she would respond. Most of the time the sounds were correct. But, she has a hard time with the vowels (e,i,o,u - she knows A )though so I guess those will be the ones we work on here at home. On Thursday we get to do a Family project!! I can't wait to find out what it is going to be!! I just hope Daddy is home to create it with us!!!

Bath for 2

I used the kit above to create this layout of the kids in the tub. They love taking a bath together and helping eachother out. Look at their Soapy heads! LOL

Some new Pictures of Miss Paige

It seems to me that I post more pictures of Mathew on here maybe because I am with him all day while Paige is in school, but I do have pictures of her too. If you check out the layouts that I create, they both are definately my main focus. The one problem I have with Miss Paige now is that she does not want her photo taken. I guess I have taken way too many of her since she was a baby and now has become annoyed easily when I break out the camera. Oh well .. take what you can get! Here they are.

New layouts..great kit!

Check this out!1 This is one HUGE kit! It has 99 items in it! WOW! It was created by Nandimha Menezes and is called All Vibrations! It can be found at http://www.digiscrapboutique.com/ or just click on the picture.

Here are some layouts that I made using the kit above!
Aren't these kiddies cute??

A few random layouts I did for fun

I created this using Ameliescraps freebie pink paradise

I created this using JCrowley evelyn pp I also used Christina Wall's megamallfreebie gotta pixel

Leaves by Xntrin Creationsbottom paper by JCrowley -dimitri pptop paper,tag,buttons, and mesh from Falling for Fall kit by Christine StoneRibbon by Raspberry Roads Gold Plated Elements

Mathew's Appointment

So Mathew had his Appointment for his 9 mo check up. He is now weighing in at 21lbs 12oz and is almost 29 inches long. If you compare him to Paige at a yr, he is 1lb 3 oz heavier and 2.5 inches longer. So he will not be a little shrimp like she is. Everything looked fine with him. No shots! Thank goodness! And he did very well with no crying until we were leaving the clinic.

Some new things he is doing...

1. Saying HI and waving.


2. Waving bye bye


3. Lift's his arms when you say "SO BIG"


4. Claps his hands to music


5. Dances to music


6. Crawling on Hands and knees (no more low crawl)


7. Stands unassisted for short amount of time


8. Cruises furniture


9. Eats table food and hates many of his Babyfoods


10. Sats MAMA and DADA


11. Smiles and waves to himself in the mirror


12. Plays tag down the hall


13. loves the vacuum/helps clean with it


14. Walks holding onto mommy's legs


15. Plays with his crib toys, turning music on and off

I am sure there are a lot more but I just can't think of them right now.

Some pictures

Talking to Daddy on the phone!

I used the above kit to create these layouts. I just love the chipboard letters! The papers are nice and bold for a girl or boy layout!

Freebie Paper Pack on Angela Niehaus's Blog

Here is the paper pack that I have been talking about below.. check it out! Great girlie colors but just use swapshop and you can change them to almost everything! Click the photo to go to her blog!

Here is a layout I did using the papers above and swapping the colors...

You need to pick these up!

These frames are great! I love them... they are already put together and it makes it so easy to use. Check out Angela's blog for the paperpack that matches them!

Here are some of the layouts I made using them and some of Angela's other products!

Above I used the frame from the kit abover as well as her papers from her freebies on her blog.


For this page I used the frames above and again used the paperpack freebies from her blog. I just used an overlay over the papers placing the brown on top and then burning it down to create the deeper colors.

For this page I used Angelas Savannah Suset paper pack... see below... and the all Framed up frames... I recolored them using Swapsop.

Savannah Sunset Paper Pack

Take a look at these papers. WOW. Aren't they just gorgeous! I love that she includes the pattern papers with much needed solids! It allows you to make so many more layouts.. This paper pack is great for just about anything..girl layouts and boy!

Take a look at the pages that I created using this paper pack!



Templete for this page was by Simple Girl at Digital Candy!

Who needs elements when you can take them right off the papers?

Thanks for looking!

A few new layouts- Bannerwoman's Simple Love Kit

Both of these layouts were created using Bannerwoman's Simple Love Kit.. isn't it so romantic and full of love???

Love Love this Kit!

You can find it Here

Check out the layouts I have done using this kit!

Aren't they great??? I have some many more Ideas on what to create next with this... What a great Birth Annoncement this kit would make or what about a Birthday? Of course for patriotic people this would be a must as well. SO many options!!

I made this layout using the cluster frames by Manu, Coz I can Paper by Kylie Clark, Elements from Dive into Summer, Flowers,cardboad,& swirls from Delightful kit by Krista, and word art used to make overlay was created by Drehi.

I had so much fun with the kids today. With Daddy gone I wanted to get some good shots to send him while overseas and boy did I get a lot!

My Precious Babies!

Made using My Discovery Kit by Alexiz

some new layouts

This is a two page layout I made using Bannwewoman's Little Merissa Kit found at scrappinfreestyle. I altered one of Becky Flecks PageMaps to create this layout.

The layout is of my daughter who is now 4 and has a huge attitude most of the time lol but she is such a joy and I know that it is just one of those stages she will be going through.

New Layouts

Created using Gina Millers Letter
Created using colorization
Created using Heav's American kit
Created using Miss Mint's Party Pants

Updates on Us

Well Mat left yesterday for overseas but then came home last night becasue his plane was broken down. Again he left today and I got a call a few minutes ago from him stating again that his plane is not ready and they should be leaving tomorrow. They did get a hotel so that it will not confuse the children anymore.

Mat Jr is a handful now! He is moving all over the place and getting into everything! He is standing up and holding onto the furniture and walking! I can't believe that we have come to this already! It took Paige so long to get this down and Mathew is learning so fast! He went from learning to sit last Sunday to standing on Monday and then by the end of the week he was cruising! We caught him standing by himself not holding on to a thin the other day!! He is going to be going soon enough!

Paige is 4.. attitude and all. She definately feels like she deserves all the attention and everything that comes along with it! She doesn't want to go to school somedays and can't wait to go others. Sh will start at the Elementary school in a week and I am excited for her. It is going to be hard though since Daddy is not here and she is already dealing with that! I hope that she transitions pretty easily though.

Vacation

So we had a great vacation with my Father and his wife and kids to Niagara Falls. We stayed at a little motel on Lake Ontario for 3 days and then headed across to Canada to finish off our trip.

The hotel in NY was awesome. The people there were great. They owned the motel and lived right across the street from in. They were full of information. They enjoyed telling about the a rea and the differnt Canadian Booze lol. The offered my father and my husband drinks many times while we were there. They held a campfire for all of the people staying at the motel one of the nights. It really was home away from home. I'd highly recommend a visit to see them.
In NY we visited the American falls. We purchased the Passport to see the 6 attractions they are famous for there...Maid of the Mist, Cave of the winds, The Aquarium, The movie about the falls, The Gorge Discovery area and trails, the scenic trolley ride, and the observation tower (Part of Maid of the Mist tour). It was great to revisit the Falls. There is so much that I did not remember and some that I did.

While we were in NY we also went on the Lockport Cave tour and Boat ride. That was very neat to see.

When it was time to go to the Canadian side, we were worried we would not get through and back. My father thought that we needed our Birth Certificates as well as our photo IDs... but luckily just our IDs were needed and we were fine.

We stayed at the Skyline Brock and had a gorgeous view of the falls morning noon and night. It was great to see them all lit up at night. We were able to see the fireworks twice while there. We walked through some of the gardens they had there, ate at Planet Hollywood, Rainforest Cafe and Hard Rock Cafe. WOW... expensive! Taco Bell was over $9 just for a 2 taco value meal! We went on the BIIIGGG Ferris wheel and had an awesome view. We also went to the Water Park that was above our hotel actually on top of the parking garage.


Paige Celebrated her 4th Birthday in Canada. We decorate the room after she fell asleep and then laid her presents on the bed in the morning.. woke her up singing the Wiggles song .. Have a Happy Birthday Paige... and then she unwrapped her presents. We went to breakfast came back and the housekeeping were coming out of our room giggling. When we reached the door it had been decorated.. we went in and the ballons that we had blown up were hung up and the room was decorated with those and toilet paper streamers! There was even a gift from them on the bed! HOW THOUGHTFUL!

Paige also learned how to swim while we were on vacation... I guess she thought that she should learn one more trick before turning 4! She got in the water faster than I could and off she went treading water for the 1st time! I was impressed. She did not even get nervous about not being able to touch. She got brave wnough to even jump from the step...go under... and come up treading! WHAT A BIG GIRL!