Ashley graduated from Pre-K tonight. I can't even believe it. I wouldn't mind so much except that it means she'll be going to Kindertarten next year... Yikes!! That has me a bit squirmy. She's always looked so grown up. Even when she was 18 months old, she had so much hair that she never looked like a 'little baby' she looked like a cute kid. She already looks so grown up to me and she hasn't even started school yet. Where's the chubby cheeks? Well, this evening was not only a celebration but also a HUGE photo op. for me! How could I resist? The grass is green, the sun was out, my children were happy they were up way past their bed time. So, now I have about 20 more photos that I can't wait to scrap. It really was an eventful evening and I do want them to remember it!!!

The Homeless

I know that all you scrappers out there have a homeless stack!!! A few things happened yesterday and today that brought my attention to the 'homeless' stack sitting in my room. First off, I read on a few boards about people who just have these stacks and stacks of LO's that have never made into albums... I thought to myself...'ya, I'm guilty' and moved on with my day. Then this early this morning when I was still in a dead sleep, Kelsey screams at the top of her lungs, "MUMMY, come here! MUM, come here, hurry!' I thought for sure she had poured milk all over my previous nights project or SOMETHING like that! I JUMPED out of bed, only to find that she was sitting on the couch flipping through her album. She pats the couch and says 'Here sit. Look!' And she had to tell me about every single page. It was precious. Thirdly, I was trying to clean up my room a bit today, looking for my white pen (which I still haven't found!) and I saw THE STACK of Homeless ones. How sad that nobody is getting to enjoy them and that they are missing chipboard pieces because they are not in proper protection. Sooooo, I took the plunge tonight and got at least half of them in a 'new home.' I didn't really worry too much about the order or if I didn't have the second LO done. I just wanted them 'in' and album or a year from now, I will have boxes and boxes like some people I read about. I want to have albums and albums, not boxes and boxes!!

Here is the LO I did last night that I need my white pen for!! I wanted to journal right on the photo. Now what??? Where is that pen????

Heavy hitter!!

Yesterday Ashley got to play pitcher in her t-ball game. She loved that position and stopped the ball everytime!! It was also the first time she struck out which was a bit sad for her but she handled it well. Since when do they let 4 and 5 yr. olds strike out? Anyway, had to share the photos because I think it so hilarious that they now have to incorporate a bit of 'pink' into the sport!!

Today we've been having fun playing with Thomas the train. She wanted to take a photo of the track we built together so I told her I would post it on Mommy's new 'spot!'

eye candy

Last night I had fun getting crafty with this new line that craftwarhouse sent me for my DT project. I LOVE this new paper from American Crafts. It' SHWEEEET! I can't wait to be working on my LO today. Next will be a calendar which should be lots of fun because there are so many pages to it!

I have a bit of eye candy to share today!!! I just recently got a package from making memories. It was quite a surprise for me! I don't often visit that site but I just happen to be browsing around one day and I noticed that they were asking for people to upload photos of how they store their stuff. Well, I feel like I have the BEST storage solution that there is and so I HAD to upload it. I even thought that I was too late to get in for the RAK but I wanted to share anyway. To my amazement, I got an email in an hour saying that I was one of the winners!! HOW FUN was that! Even more fun to discover the box that came was full of their new travel themed goodies. I LOVE their CLEAR CREATIONS which are transparencies (overlays). So much to play with, not enough time! LOL!

Part 2 - Sunny Day at the beach!

It's a new day and it's sunny, yippee!! I wanted to post the second part of the story about our sunny day on the beach. So, here we are at this gorgeous beach in Seal Rock (5min. from our house) when we climp up the ridge back to our car and notice further on up the beach some people gathering. So, we decide to go explore the situation. Sad, sad, sad. It was very strange, rounding the corner and seeing this HUGE animal laying on the sand. As sad as it was, and even though it was dead, I don't think my kids will ever get that close to a whale again. So, it was a bit of an educational experience.

remembering the sunshine

Today was a pretty relaxed day in our household. The Berry kids were over to play so Kelsey didn't take her nap. I think she is already asleep. What a miracle!! I worked a bit on updating my blog some more. I'm most excited to post the pictures of the beach trip from a few days ago. It's raining now. It was so hot last week. I can't even believe the kids were wanting to go splash around in the water! Of course, I had to take a million photos! Now, that it's back to cold and rainy, maybe I'll get some scrappin' done.

This one is my favorite even though it's a bad photo (so much dead space in the middle!) but she is CLEAR off the ground jumping away from the wave! I love t! I don't want to edit it because you have to see the wave to get the whole story!

I got this mosiac from Ali's blog. The colorful fabric really caught my eye. It reminds me of Scenic Route paper. I was playing around, just seeing if I could add this one picture of the fabric to my blog (needs a little color) but up pops the whole thing! I don't mind, I love it all! Is there such a thang as 'blog photo liftin'?' Cuz I feel a bit like a thief!! LOL!

Time to Release

It's finally happening!!! What an exciting day. First off, my fantastic hubby has taken the time to walk me through how to actually make this blog my own. It's still a work in progress but I'm so thrilled!!! I'm definitely much more motivated now!

Secondly, it was an exciting day for A.J. because he got to watch all six of his butterflies fly away to freedom. At least that's what we think. Last year his very favorite butterfly got brave enough to fly away and then right before our eyes a great big bird swooped down and gobbled him up. A.J. was devistated! This time we released them in the back yard so they could fly off into the forest and then A.J. went to the front of the house and set up a bird trap to catch the crows. It was pretty funny! The kiddos are already talking about the next set of butterflies that they want to get! What an experience!