Livin' it up!

January 17, 2011 4 Comments

What do we do on our anniversary get-a-ways? Just the two of us, without any children?

Why we eat smiley face pancakes with chocolate milk filled goblets and jump on the bed of course.

We also watched “Despicable Me” for the first time. All the way through. In the middle of the day! *sigh* I loved the film. It shows just how children can change people for the better. Even a crusty old villain. We had rented it from redbox. When we returned it at a Walmart we walked right in to see if they had the blu-ray. They did, for a good price, and it soon became ours. I can’t wait to watch it with our little ones.

eta: While we were gone 3 of our 6 watched the show in two different houses. Fun! Our wonderfully sweet 93-year-old grandma also liked it. I guess it was the week for Despicable Me. 🙂 Now there just needs to be a sequel so Gru can find a Mrs. Gru and those adorable girls can have a mommy!

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"Gee, do they still make wooden Christmas trees?"

January 3, 2011 2 Comments

Of all the trees in the world, ours is the Charlie Browniest.

Perhaps because it’s licensed. 😉

“Isn’t he the cutest thing?”

I saw this adorable tree in the Shopko ad for Black Friday. Beautiful and wonderful. Only 7 dollars, but I wasn’t willing to fight the crowds to pick up one item there. Jim Bob found it the next week online. 8 bucks shipped. That we could do.

Our Christmas tree took a little while to get this year (another story for another time). This one came just in time to help us celebrate the season. When we got the large one for the living room, this Charlie Brown tree moved to our bedroom. I loved how it helped me focus on the simplicity of the true meaning of Christmas.

A few days later we added something:

It just needed a little love.

Another year we will add this to the bottom of the tree:

Family Christian had it for $24.97 this year, but ran out. They have 25% off coupons often too, so here’s hoping for another time. I can be patient.

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Mr. January

January 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

Happy Birthday to our New Year’s babe. Mr. January himself. 🙂

A year ago today he was born into our family. I think the bottom two photos show his personality oh-so-well. Mostly sugar and a little bit of spice. That’s our Caleb.

Happy Birthday little mister! We all adore you.

Supplies:
Cosmo Cricket: Early Bird papers and elements
Calendar overlay by iKari
Calendar template by Michelle Filo

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silhouette stockings

January 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

A little decor…

The plan is to switch these out each year as those adorable mugs change.

Two done so far. The photos for all are taken. I just haven’t sat down long enough to finish up the photoshopping part of it. The tutorial is so easy and fun to boot. I think there might be some silhouette valentines in the near future. 😉

Who can resist such kissable profiles?

Not me.

Splendid Tutorial #1 – silhouettes

Silhouette – alternative inserts

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Wings tucked in…

December 20, 2010 Leave a Comment

Speaking of Katey, she is just adorable lately. She has a ginormic imagination. I think she always has, but now she also has the vocabulary to let us know what she is doing. Beauty. One of the latest is tucking the wings from her Tinker Bell doll into her clothes and flying around. She just flits about – so cute!

My featured designer at Jessica Sprague’s site this month is LIV. She is such a sweetheart. I adore her creativity too. I used a lot of her product on this one. For complete credits go here.

The squiggle glitter line reminds me of a hostess cupcake swirl. Yum!

One of my favorite parts of the layout is the lilac colored washi tape. In the description Liv says that Washi is “Japanese masking tapes made of rice paper. I hand-tore each one of these and extracted them with love so that we can bring all that wonderful hand-crafty goodness to our digital creations!” Beauty. I love the crumply ones especially. The semi-opaque ones are my fav, but it’s nice to have those and opaque ones. I also love all the different sizes and shadowing options on these yummy tapes. The tapes come in blush color too, so far. More colors are promised. 😉

It is brand new in the store today! Because it is new you can get it for 20% off. However, the whole store is 20% right now for the holiday sale. Sweet.

My layout is also featured on Jessica Sprague’s home page today. Fun!

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December 20, 2010 2 Comments

“You can tell a lot about a kid by what’s under their pillow.” – Jim Bob

Said after discovering Lego magazine under Jacob’s this evening. A while ago we found a fun discovery under Katey’s pillow:

2 pink containers of bubbles.

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yummy secrets

December 11, 2010 2 Comments

Katey’s secret for me tonight:

Said in the deepest gravely voice she could muster:

“I love you more than candy cane pie.”

Mmmm, she might have something there.

p.s. Katey had her Strawberry Shortcake doll sitting on her milk sippy tonight while Daddy was tucking her in. Every time she took a sip her doll went for a ride. She told Daddy, “mmmm, i love strawberry milk!” I don’t think I’ve heard both of them giggle so hard in a long time.

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Drewby-isms

December 9, 2010 Leave a Comment

I have been collecting Drewby quotes. It’s one of my favorite pasttimes. Here are just a few from the last six months:

How I adore this little guy. He can be soooooo mischievous. Full of curiosity and downright fun.

p.s. I love adding a heart to each of my layouts. A little “find my love” if you will. Can you spot the one on this page?? heh.

Chalkboard Paper Collection by Kitschy Digitals
font: chalkduster

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Our interview treat last night:

November 22, 2010 Leave a Comment

Mmmm… creamy yummy. The french vanilla is a yummy flavor. Two stick thumbs up from all the snowmen in our house. Katey kept calling them “sticky snowman”. She liked pulling the snowmen apart. Two sticky thumbs up from her.

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