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Erik's grandmother had her 90th birthday party this weekend. All of his family flew in from all parts of the country to celebrate. It was so nice!

As soon as Grandma arrived, I grabbed her and took a few pictures. I know, it was very selfish of me. ;)


Katrina and her Great Grandma.


The photographer lined all the great grandkids up and took their pictures. I like this one of her looking at Katrina. Note how Katrina has "Lil' Puppy" with her. Lil' Puppy has a rubberband around her neck. For whatever reason, the kids think rubberbands are the coolest things ever. I guess we need to get out more. She's also wearing her High School Musical shirt. She rarely takes that thing off. I have to sneak it out of her bedroom to wash it and then she runs around asking, "Where's my High School Moosical shirt?!?"



Trent and his cousin. Isn't she cute? They are the same age, just a few months apart.

Uploads for the 31st

Wow, I'm really caught up here!!! Incredible!

Peek's theme this time was Numbers.

Katrina never stops asking for food. Sometimes she has 3 breakfasts.

I swear, this is really the only thing I can remember from any of her picture days. Ugh!! She was and still is so stubborn!!This is Ashley, btw, my oldest daughter. She's 20 now. Had I not put some of those little pictures on pop dots, the whole thing would have scanned better. I guess you can get the general idea here.

I don't have much else to post. I have been working on new Technique Tuesday stuff for Memory Trends. heehee

New BasicGrey

Usually, BasicGrey takes a while to grow on me. For whatever reason, I loved these new collections right away.

More Layouts...

From Peek, July 30. The theme was "A Fresh Look at Old Products". Of course, you know in the scrapbook world, anything that is considered "old" has been on the shelf for about 30 days. ;)

I took a picture of Trent on the first day of Kindergarten and then I made him wear the same thing on his last day and took his picture. According to his teacher, there were 177 days of school. In this family, we say "kissing" instead of "biting". We don't want to scare the bunnies. Isn't that little bunny cute?? That's one of the new Technique Tuesday stamps (Dog & Pony show).

August 15, Multiple Photos:

The blue and the "notes" page is from the October Afternoon catalog. I can't wait for this release. Really, I can't. That's why I ripped the catalog up and used it.

My husband calls our new dog, "Broken". She just has a small anxiety issue. Well, ok. It's not so small. She has a therapist, a Rx for Prozac, vallium and a new pretty pheremone collar. We can fix her, I know it!

Can you read the journaling? If not, let me add it:

When asked about our plans for the summer, I always felt a little silly replying with, “We’re doing the Summer Reading Program at the library”, when it seemed everyone else had such elaborate plans. Their kids were going to camp, to dance lessons, swim lessons, Spanish class and more. We didn’t have a lot of money to spend on camps or lessons. I tried to picture us sitting on the back patio, reading together, sipping decaf iced tea and having lots of fun.

It didn’t happen that way.

School was out on May 24th. The fighting and whining started on May 25th.

We did sit on the back patio reading books. However, reality was much different than how I pictured our reading adventure.

I forgot about the bugs flying around us, trying to invade our ears and nose. I forgot how much Trent and Kat hated bugs and how much their shrill screaming about bugs bothered me.

I never pictured Trent and Kat fighting over who’s book we were going to read first, who got to sit in my lap while I read or who got to sit in the rocking chair closest to me, and other things that were obviously worth fighting over that I can’t seem to think of now.

I forgot how every time we sit outside, Zoe brings her wet, muddy ball over and sets it in our lap. If we don’t throw it right away she barks at us.

I forgot how tired my mouth gets after reading for 30 minutes.

I forgot about how HOT it was in May.

On May 26th we moved inside. I sat on the couch and both kids sat on either side of me.

On May 26th at 10:00 am we were done reading the books we had borrowed from the library. We thought they were going to last a week.

I had Erik set up the Nintendo 64.

It was going to be a long, hot summer.

While volunteering in Trent's classroom last year, I had the opportunity to take pictures while it was empty. The kids had left to practice for a program they were performing at the end of the year. I even took a picture of his little cubby.

Monkeys

Another page for the Alphabetica journal. This one belong's to Tricia Both.

What else would "M" be for?? I also added a sticker from the Clementine Katrina ate last week. I just can't throw anything away...

Layouts

Wow, I just looked and I haven't uploaded anything in a long time. :( Here goes. Let's see how much Blogger will let me upload:

From Peek, June 30, Summer theme:

Ummm, yeah...I wanted to do something a little different. Besides, I was inspired by one of Angie's super cool cards.


From Peek, July 15, Favorites from CHA-W

Mustard Moon, Making Memories, Bam Pop!, and of course Technique Tuesday!
BasicGrey


LOVE Daisy D's!



You do realize that anything with a monkey on it is going to be one of my favorites. ;)
This is taking too long. I'll add more tomorrow. Thanks for looking. :D

Finally, a lost tooth

It was loose on Monday. He wiggled it back and forth. Last night he had a hard time eating and he actually got a little blood on his shirt. It wasn't until after dinner, when he bit into his cupcake, that it fell out.

We can't find it. I think he swallowed it. Grrrr...

So it rained...

and it was discovered that Zoe really likes to chase the ball and splash. This is our backyard. Wow!

This is the driveway into the street in front of our house.

Erik is standing in the middle of the street! The water is up to his ankles!! Crazy, huh? It was only about a 30 minute rain.

I LOVE monsoon season.

Ewwww..

I haven't seen one of these since I was a little girl in Illinois.

Technique Tuesday in stock

at Peek!

YAY!!

Technique Tuesday Sneak Peek

I've been posting these at a few places, so maybe you've seen them already. I am just thrilled with their latest release.

New Big Timber Line size

Kickin' It
a wee bit of Ooh Rah! (the tiny stars on the wavy chipboard)
New Big Timber Line size, Rocket Man, Ooo-Rah! & Vroom!
In a Word: Love

Tool Time

King Me & Win, Lose or Draw

Thanks for looking. :D Buy them here! I'm pretty sure they'll be in on Monday.

New Baby Names

I asked Katrina tonight if she was going to have any babies when she grew up.

"Oh YES!", she stated.

"How many do you want?"

Without hesitation, she stated, "4".

"What will their names be?"

"Feef, Falingalaa, Fuff, and Fafina."

Wading Pool

We bought the pool for Liberty. She seems to really like the water. However, the kids seemed to enjoy it much more.

We call her Liberty...

We're told she was born on the 4th of July. Her name was Mollie, but we already have a Molly in our family (my parent's dog) so we had to rename her. We'll call her Libby for short.

Although we've talked about a 3rd dog, I had no intention of getting a new dog today.

The kids and I went to Petsmart for dog and cat food. We always walk past the dogs as we stroll through the rest of the store. When we first saw her, the first thing she did was roll on her back and show Katrina her tummy. Katrina dived right in and went to pet her and hug her and rub her belly. Then, Trent did the same thing and she just sat there. I liked her freckles.

I brought our other dogs down to meet her. Erik was in a meeting and couldn't come right away. Our dogs got along great with her.

I left to pick up Erik. Erik got along great with her. ;)

She'll be one year old on the 4th of July.
She has brown freckles on her front feet.
She has HUGE feet.
Her little butt wiggles when she walks.

Five hours later, we came home with her.

She already seems so much at home.

Pre-school Musical

So, how much do you like High School Musical? My kids won't stop singing.

Go "A" Go

I finished another page for my Alphabetica project. I'm having so much fun with this. This page belongs to Laura (link to come in a minute). Her theme is "Ladies A through Z".

This is a picture of my Great Aunt "A". Her name was really Alice, but we called her "A". The quotes are from "Go Dog Go". ;)

Summer vacation explained

Trent says to me, "Mom! Do you know why we have to wait to go to school?"

"No, why?"

"Well, because first graders are big kids. We have wait until we are a little bit bigger."

"Oh. ok. Well, that makes perfect sense."

"Yeah. We're just not big enough."