wish i had thought of that!

check out this project from Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls....
check out her post and look at more detailed photos of this adorable quilt.

new

baby!


my sister Sarah went into labour on her own on Friday. and by the end of the afternoon baby Violet Renelle was born. yay!! nine pounds five ounces and twenty inches long. 6 days overdue. and i may be in big trouble if i report my sisters' size.....



and an update for us. Aidan woke up with a fever yesterday morning. he's had sniffles and coughs for a few days already. fortunately we were able to catch an appointment with our pediatrician. so now both of the kids and myself are on medicine. Kristian has managed to stay healthy despite all the germs being passed around. Aidan had his first throat swab - in case of strep...and he handled it very well. (and it did too...thanks for asking!) of course we have to be so sick during the few months that we are without our health benefits.


and a fun update for me. my class at Urban is now scheduled for June 14 at 2pm. you can go here to see my class listed and a couple of others that are going on too. i am very excited about this!!


and did you check out "webisode" #70 at ScrapInStyletv? i asked - ummm, i mean, forced - Kristian to watch it.


i got this one on facebook this week.

getting ready for

spring!!!!!

Aidan is outside wearing his rubber boots and mittens and shoveling snow and mud into a cardboard box. apparently it is a rescue heroes mission. very important stuff.

this morning both kids wore their spring coats and rubber boots. yay!

Kiara was not pleased with her cute little pink boots that i found at Old Navy last year for $1.99.


these are her friend, Christopher's boots. not pink. (this is where Chris breathes a sigh of relief!)

she put them on all by herself.

sigh.

maybe she will start to like her cute little pink ones...

because how often can a mother find cute ones at an amazing price?!

i spent yesterday on the computer (no, not all day) looking at photos for Kiara's next baby page. and today i'll need to do some more photoshopping. good word.

i do actually (well....some of the time) plan ahead and sketch out the sizes of photos i want. inevitably i can never find the sketch when i actually put the page together. yes it would make sense to have a little book - or something! - to keep all the sketches. but that is too easy.

i have a few envelopes of developed photos that are duplicates or just left-overs from pages and projects. sometimes i will put a page together using some of these. so handy when i just want to do a page and try something without pressure of it fitting any theme. if that statement makes any sense! i came across some photos of my nephew, Malachi last night. (he is in the photos from blog pages in February.) he is now a 2 year old.

i especially love this photo. i was about as pregnant with Kiara as Malachi was weeks old. it was also the same time that i had some complications and wondered if i may miscarry her. thankfully all went well after that and Malachi and Kiara have met and played and fought and found trouble together... so cool since i didn't realize that all this would happen at the time this photo was taken.

this is a sneak peak of the next project i'm planning.

this morning we made magnets (or coasters) with stone tile, rubber stamps, staz-on ink and chalks. so simple. and they look awesome. and now i realize i forgot to take a photo of the masterpieces.