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happy independence day!

hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday weekend. we're going to spend today with Richard's family. his sister is in town from PA so the kids will be able to get to spend some time with their aunt jen.

and here is this fridays layout:

supplies used: heidi swapp ghost letters, american crafts papers and making memories flower embellie.

one of the boy and my favorite hat and the fact that i don't really care that it's a girlie hat-just one of the hazards of having hand-me-downs from two older sisters.

:)

not to worry though...it won't fit him by this winter so I'll have to retire it from his wardrobe. 

so sad...

have a great weekend!

a little obsessed.

this is what the girls have been a little obsessed about thanks to YouTube

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

a friend of mine had sent it to me after charlie was born. make sure you listen at the end. that's the best part.

nothing much else to report.

oh, i have no phone service. my home phone is dead and my cell phone has been disconnected. Richard's been in the process of switching our cell phone service and I guess he did.

and failed to get me another phone.

:P

happy wednesday!

birthday recap

katie's birthday went well. she got her cake with the purple icing...

and then the rest of the weekend was spent at the pool. the weather was a little dicey with chances of thunderstorms but we managed to not get drenched :) it was actually pretty nice because it wasn't overcrowded with people and i could keep an eye on the girls easily.

MOMMA'S NEW LOVE:

in other birthday news, i got this for my birthday:

even though my actual birthday isn't for another few months, it falls into the category of "birthday gifts" because it was purchased in a warm month. Had it been purchased in a cooler month, it would've been considered a "christmas gift". Are ya gettin' the idea?

:)

i love this thing. it's cut my laundry loads in half. HALF! 

I love this thing... 

the shortest post evah.

it's katie's fifth birthday today so i've been running errands, getting ready for our family dinner tonight. luckily, she's not high maintenance and all she asked for is a white cake with purple icing.

charlie, on the other hand, didn't want to take very long naps today which brings me to the layout part of this post:

 

hope everyone has a great weekend!

friday's layouts

What a week. I'm glad it's over. Three out of the five of us are on antibiotics. All for different reasons. Charlie has an ear infection. Maddie has bronchitis. And I have yet another sinus infection. I think I'm going to try a neti pot. I've heard they work and if it can help, I'm willing to give it a whirl. Since Maddie has issues with allergies, I'm hoping that if she sees me doing it, she'll be more willing to try it out too because it does look a little odd, pouring water into your sinus cavities and all :)

I managed to get a couple layouts done this week...

This was inspired/craplifted from this wonderfully talented designer:

www.feastsonscraps.com

(my link option on typepad isn't working...hmmm...what's up with that?!)

I found her on another one of my friend's blogs I frequent (thanks mel!)

I am loving SEI's Dill line of papers. So fresh and gender neutral too!

Here's the next one:

 

I wanted to use the BasicGrey paper for the entire background but quickly realized I didn't have enough to cover it so I had to improvise. Not completely crazy about how this one turned out but it finished and that's what really counts, right? "Baek-il" is the Korean term for the 100th day of a baby's life and often celebrated. Even though we didn't celebrate it for Charlie (nor for either of the girls) I still wanted to make note of it for his album.

It's raining here today and we were hoping to go the fair to fill up on all its deep-fried goodness and sugary concoctions but now we're going to have to wait until tomorrow. I'm sure my arteries are breathing a sigh of relief right now.

:)

little ballerina

This week, Maddie and i've been busy with her dance rehearsals and all that goes along with that (leotard rehearsal, dress rehearsal, dance pictures, etc...). the day of her group pictures, i snapped a few of her in full get-up.

unfortunately, she will not be returning next season because she doesn't enjoy it even though she has a very good friend in the same class. I'm a bit relieved she doesn't like to do ballet because I don't know if I could go through another season of recitals. it's over 5 hours each night. i know there are a lot of moms out there that can and do but i'm just not cut out for it. Besides, Maddie doesn't exhibit the grace of becoming a dancer in the future. Think baby giraffe. minutes after being born. That's what she always reminds me of when i see her move on stage :)

I guess we'll try gymnastics next.

If that doesn't work out, we'll move onto piano. 

fridays layout

I took this picture a week ago for this layout and as i suspected, it's already "outdated"

:)

supplies used: making memories paper and a 7 gypsies arrow brad

it's 8:00 am and the girls are still asleep. Maddie is usually up at 7:00 and she always accidentallywakes Katie up too at that time. Charlie usually wakes up at 7:30 but today, he decided to wake up at 7:00. It's a freaky friday, i tell ya.

the day before friday.

I worked out yesterday. I knew I was running out of excuses...

I'm not pregnant.

I'm not recovering from being pregnant.

I don't have any lingering problems from being pregnant.

I have a babysitter for the summer.

I have all my laundry done (but not totally put away).

My house is clean, thanks to my cleaner that richard found for me as a mother's day gift (thanks honey!)

So I did the elliptical machine for 30 minutes. (hated it) And then i got on the treadmill for 20 minutes (I hated that too). I'm not trying to lose weight. I'm just trying to redistribute the weight that i already have. And more importantly, I'm trying to fit back into my regular pants. I'm tired of wearing swishy pants.  I refuse to wear swishy pants for the rest of my life.

A CHARLIE UPDATE:

I found him sitting up in the crib this morning. And then he started to crawl when i got him out of his crib. And then he clapped his hands. All for the first time.

 

but he still leaks...

I wonder if this is still covered under the warranty.

Oh, the girls put the horns on him and it seemed to match his outfit  :)

happy thursday, y'all!

friday's layout

a really, really, REALLY simple one of my boys.

supplies used: American crafts chipboard punctuation and letter rub ons, 7 gypsies pattern paper, making memories heart brads, date stamp, and my beloved rounded corner punch.  

dusting off the ol' white seamless paper.

decided to pull out the white seamless paper yesterday and get some shots of the kids. i don't use the white backdrop as much in the cooler weather because the lighting is bad in my house and makes my pictures come out on the blue-ish side...but then i remembered that i usually convert to black and white and wouldn't make a bit of difference anyway :P

one of the boy...

wearing his nudie-pants :)

and another...

he's wearing one of maddie's hats. I love this hat. it has ears and braids. :)

I also took Katie to get her hair cut yesterday. 5 inches cut. <sigh>

she looks like such a big girl now. she also looks a lot like...

her older sister, maddie. :)

notice something new about maddie's smile? that's right. she lost her top tooth the other day. <sigh>

today's maddie's last day of school and she had an award ceremony this morning. her teacher emailed letting us know but that she was keeping it a secret from maddie because she didn't want her to stress about getting in front of the school to accept her award. she knows her so well...we really lucked out this year with her teacher. she is so awesome and maddie loves her. we didn't know exactly what the award was for beforehand. i like surprises. richard and i had a running bet on what we thought it was giong to be. he thought it was math related and i thought it was reading related.

she was the top reader for the entire first grade.

:)

i'm so very proud of my girl...