Sunday Scrapbooking (5/22)

I’ve got SEVEN pages I could share this week. But, I don’t think I will share all seven, maybe just four or five. I’ll link the rest of them at the bottom so, if you want to, you can see them also.

Before I share my pages this week I have some sad news (dealing with scrapbooking) to share. I decided that it was time for me to step down from the Shabby Princess Pre-Team. It wasn’t an easy decision at all, I love working with SP and the other ladies on the team. But after a year I felt I was ready to try my hand at applying to other teams again. I actually started missing the energy and pace needed to keep up with multiple designers at once. SP was lovely about all of it, and as I told her, she is hands-down the nicest designer I’ve worked with.

Now… this week’s pages!

made with this week's Product Spotlight on the Shabby Shoppe blog, CLEMENTINE

made with Kristen Cronin-Barrow's Here Comes Trouble (lift – loose copy – of my friend Kellie’s layout Stay Little)

made with Gina Marie Huff's Every{DAY} Life the Kit

made with Sahlin Studio's This Moment elements, and Grunge and Valorie Wibbens So I Never Forget Page Protectors

The other pages from this week are 32 Songs, My Belly Pie, and So Beautiful.

Saturday Snapshots (5/21)

Can’t you tell he’s so impressed by his uncle’s high school graduation ceremony?
lol

Despite what my mom always said…

A neat bed does not make for a neat room.

Sad part, that’s actually pretty clean for their room.

See, it’s gotten to the point where I refuse to clean up the boys’ room. They’re big enough to do it themselves. They spent all of last Thursday cleaning their room (as they do every Thursday or they can’t do sleepovers on the weekend) and then since Ryan was grounded Friday I made him clean it up some more by himself. They both did sleepover last weekend, but came home a few hours on Saturday while my parents went out somewhere and in those few hours they destroyed their room again.

Yesterday I washed their bedding and remade their beds, thinking, hey even if the room is slightly on the messy side, having neat beds will make it look a little better. Or at least that’s what my mom always told us growing up.

Yeah… it still looks messy.

Sunday Scrapbooking (5/15)

Got four pages to share this week! And surprisingly pages for the boys outnumber the pages for Ms. Pudding.

First up is a page for my girl from when we were gardening Monday.

made with Jenn Barrette's Grow Something Good

Next up are all pages on the boys, and all from a set of pictures I took Tuesday.

made with Lauren Grier's Not What I Expected, Darcy Baldwin's Story Telling Accents, and Jenn Barrette's Journal Bling

made using Shawna Clingerman's Carefree and Traci Reed's Slip-Ins Vol. 2
 
made with Jenn Barrette's Boyish Charm, Grow Something Good, Adventures in My Backyard and Traci Reed's Slip-Ins (bubble wand, bubbles, and chalk from Shawna Clingerman's Carefree) This page is actually a lift (loose copy) of my friend Kellie's layout Slip and Slide

Saturday Snapshots (5/14)

Today we…

Drew with chalk.

Threw a fit.

Went to the park.

Played in the tunnels.

Learned to climb up to the slide alone.

Got stuck on the slide because we went to high up.

Played with a bubble wand.

And chased said bubbles.

Jumped off things we shouldn’t.

Drew with some more chalk.

Raced in the backyard.

Swung too high on the swings while standing on the swing.

And we did other important non-fun stuff too.

OK… I lied. We didn’t.
But I did cook dinner.

Mother’s Day, Surprises, Shots, and Flooding

(The title isn’t in order. lol It just sounds better that way.)

I hate surprises.

Because of that, when John called me Friday and told me that all three kiddos would be doing sleepover – whether they wanted to or not – at my mom’s I was on the suspicious side. John doesn’t make plans for the kids to do sleepover; he makes plans for the kids not to do sleepover. I tried calling my mom to find out what was up and she had no clue.

Saturday John woke me up at 8 am. He said we needed to get up eat, and get ready for an early day. I’ve mentioned this several times before, but I doubt anyone appreciates the depths of what I’m about to say. I. Am. NOT. A. Morning. Person. Expecting me to get up and do anything is, well, stupid. lol Despite what John and my mom kept telling me about cheering up, that I was in for a surprise, I remained in a bad mood. I kept that bad mood up when the first part of the plan got cancelled due to rain, then in a worse mood when I first spent an hour in Taco Bell then an hour in Walgreen’s as John tried to kill time.

We eventually arrived downtown and that is when John sprang his surprise. For Mother’s Day he got us tickets to go see Spamalot. (He knows I’ve wanted to see it since it came out) I felt so bad for being angry at him a good chunk of the day, especially since I know there is no way in hell he would have ever gone to see it just because he wanted to.

We figured while we were downtown we might as well go see history as it’s happening. We walked over to the walking bridge thingy that runs next to Riverside to see the Mississippi flooding. It was just astounding seeing it then, even though – hello – I live here, but the fact that it’s even higher now after just a few rain-free days blows my mind.

I’m far enough from rivers (which is not that far lol) that the main thing I see near my house is flooded crops, but even so this picture was about a 10 minute drive from my house. (It’s supposed to be a cotton field)

Told you I was getting a lot of rain.

We did Mother’s Day at my mom’s. We cooked out, had lots of dessert (seriously, my mom made strawberry shortcake AND banana pudding just for our family, her and my step-dad, and my two younger siblings), and just hung out. I got some pictures of the three kiddos together while we were there.

And lastly… Monday.

My poor boy had to go and get his last shot before his kindergarten registration could be completed.

I think it’s so silly that I have to go and register him at a school he already goes to, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. I’m not worried about him getting in since they do the kindergarten test every 9 weeks as their 9 week testing. (To see how much they’ve learned each quarter) And technically Ryan has had passing grades on it since the first test. Last time he took it he only missed one thing, recognizing the lower-case letter m.

He was sooo big during his shot. He didn’t even whimper, though he did give the nurse a glare that should have evaporated her to dust when she stuck him with the needle. She made up for it by giving him a band-aid covered in piranhas and a new red toothbrush. He is very happy to know that he isn’t due anymore shots for the next 6 – 7 years.