School starts this week...

Blue Eyed boy

My baby is 2

I can't believe how big he is getting...he is IMPOSSIBLE to get a picture of, most of the pictures I take of him look like a big-dirty-sticky blur.


I did get a couple that aren't perfect photos but show his personality so they make me smile every time I see them.

From Jul 15, 2011

From Jul 15, 2011

From Jul 15, 2011

Happy Birthday "Hamburger", we love you!

December Daily 1-4

I've got my December Daily album almost ready to go...I know December is already started, I'm a little slow *sigh* I'm blogging the journaling so that it's ready when I'm ready to finish the album.
December 1st
December not only kicks of the Christmas season for us, it also means birthday time at our house. Cole's birthday is December 2nd so today we wrapped birthday presents and got groceries for birthday breakfast and dinner. We also took a few minutes to *try* and get a photo of all 3 kids sitting in front of the Christmas tree for our Christmas card....let's just say that it didn't go well. We got one semi-OK shot and TONS of not good at all shots. So, we're opting for the individual pictures on our Christmas card this year.
December 2nd
Happy Birthday to my favorite 9-year-old on the planet! I can believe Cole is 9 already. He's such a great kid and an awesome big brother. Today he wanted to take cookies to his class for his birthday but he didn't want mom to bring them (ahhh, entering the "not cool to have your mom at school phase")
. The two little kids and I did take balloons to the school BUT we had the secretary deliver them to his class. This is the first year that Cole is having friends come to his birthday party. He wanted to have his party on Friday so that he could stay up later and have a longer party.
December 3rd
Party DAY! Cupcakes...presents...balloons, we spent the day getting ready for Cole's party.  At 6:00 the friends arrive and they mayhem begins. The activity of choice is a nerf gun battle downstairs. At 7:00 the Grandparents arrive for cake and ice cream. Cole wanted a race car cake so we came up with the idea to make big cupcakes for him and his friends and put a matchbox car on top of the cupcake. Then each boy could take their car home with them.
We started the tradition of having a camp-out under the Christmas tree a few years ago. Cole and Kay were so excited for the camp-out they got their jammies on and curled up under the tree. When I was tucking them in I asked them each what their favorite part of the day was. Cole's response, "playing with my friends. I had a really fun party, mom." Kayleigh's response, "I like playing games with Colin the best." Such a sweet response from both of them! I sure do love my munchkins!
December 4th
Can you say Christmas Party? Today we have two big Christmas Parties. The Adams Family Christmas Party and the Ward Christmas Party. The Adams Family Party consists of Grandpa Adams his siblings, their children,  and grandchildren, that translates to a lot of people. This year Grandpa Adams was in charge so we spent time cooking, setting up, cleaning up, and the infamous raffle table.
The ward party was a Grinch themed party. Cole got to be a part of the play "Whobilation." He was really excited about it until he got backstage and they put some make-up on him. He was furious! He did make it through the program but he came off the stage and immediately announced that he wanted to go home NOW and take a shower. Poor kid, that's the last thing any 9-year-old boy would want. We hurried home so he could shower.

Imaginisce

Well, I decided to put myself out there and send in an application for the Imaginisce Design Team. I've had so much fun focusing on their products this month. Here are a few of the projects that I submitted with my application and a few that I created just for fun. Get ready...its going to be picture overload.

The first project is a Christmas card. I used these adorable clear snowflakes.

I cut a circle in the front of my card and attached the snowflake with white thread to the top and the bottom of the circle so the circle twirls in the card....how cool is that?

The second project I created I've shared on my blog before but it's one of my favorites and I want to show it with a little more detail.  It's the layout that I created for Austin's first birthday.

I had a difficult time choosing what I wanted to enter for the 3rd item on my application. I decided to go with the "favorite books" holder that made with garbage...yup, you read that right, garbage! Can you guess what I made it out of?

Any guesses....?!?!?

When I finished this project I asked Kay if she liked it. She said "oh, Mommy, I love this one!!! It is for me?" When I showed her the bottom of it she said..."you maked that out of a cereal box?" Yup, I made it out of a cereal box that I dug out of the garbage.

This is another Austin layout. I've been trying to get caught up with that lil guy's album. I've gotten a little bit behind with child #3...oops!

This layout is one that I blogged about before. It's about the our trip to the pumpkin patch. I love how this one turned out. That tree is my favorite!

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The last project that I have today is a mini-album about celebrating Austin's first birthday. I got some great photos and I wanted a way to use them all!

Whew...I told you it was going to be picture overload! Guess what, I'm not finished. I still have some cute hair bows that I made but I'm out of time so I'll have to save them for tomorrow. (I'll just put them at the bottom of this post so check back tomorrow :)

November 15th (Attitude of Gratitiude)

I finished this layout a few days ago, I had it sitting on an easel for a few days in my living room and I think I'll put it back because it makes me smile every time I look at it.

 

The picture is a little fuzzy but this layout shows one of the things that I am most thankful for. I am so lucky to live within a few minutes of my entire family (and my husbands entire family). So, we see each other often and our kids get to play together all the time! In fact this week they were able to play with every last cousin (all 12 of them). Sometimes they act more like siblings than they do cousins but I'm so glad that they have the opportunity to become best of friends with their cousins. I grew up living by a few of my cousins and we are still great friends and enjoy spending time together whenever we get the chance.

This layout is of my oldest boy and my sisters oldest boy. They were born 2 months apart and spend a lot of time together! Most of the time I say they are "my boys."

Some simple things I'm thankful for today:

1. A washer and dryer...man, life with 3 kids would be miserable if I didn't have a nice washer and dryer to do laundry with.(Yup, lots of laundry to do today...Monday is here!)

2. Bountiful Basket Saturday is my favorite day! I love going to get my bountiful basket and all the yummy fruits and vegi's we get for the week.

3. The nice warm bed I have to sleep in...nuff said! :D

 

 

November 11th (Attitude of Gratitude)

Yesterday was my birthday so when I went to the grocery store I decided to treat myself to some of this:

 My favorite thing in the winter...I tell you, it's heaven in a cup! All of the Stephen's hot chocolate is good but...the chocolate mint truffle is the BEST!
So today I'm thankful for:
1. a nice warm cup of hot chocolate (with a little whipped cream on top, of course)
2. a nice warm clean house.
3. I'm thankful that all my kiddos woke up happy today. So far we've had a nice quiet morning without any lost shoes, unfinished homework, and without too many tears when daddy left this morning.