Brotherly Love

All right Mom P~here are your promised pictures! Just a few more weeks and then you'll be able to see these boys in person! James is already telling me every day that we're going to see you. He's pretty excited!!

Here's Peter with the "wave" hairdo. :)

And his first time in the Bumbo. He wasn't too crazy about it, so we'll have to try again when he gets a little older.

John

The last two are my favorite from the day. The boys both love little Peter (even though we have to keep an eye on John. Apparently "gentle" doesn't mean much when you're not quite 18 months old yet!!) :)

Another Layout

I finished another layout for the Snap & Scrap monthly challenges, and I think it's one of my favorites so far. I just love this picture of Peter; how often do you see a baby with enough hair to do this? ;) I took some more pictures of the boys yesterday, so as soon as I sort through them all I'll put up some new ones for you Mom P!

Two More Layouts

I finished a couple more layouts the past couple of nights that I thought I'd share with whoever reads this (I guess that's assuming someone actually does!)


The first was for a challenge that gives you a list of things that must be included on your page. I love these pictures of John, so it was fun to scrap them!

























The second one is a picture I took of my niece Chloe for a project I made for my mom and Simon's mom for Mother's Day. [I still haven't mailed out yours Mom P (reference previous post regarding my inability to get anything out on time!), but I promise it's on its way!)] I love the way this turned out and the photo is one of my favorites of her.

I just wanted to say

Happy Mother's Day to you Mom and Mom-in-Law. You've been so instrumental in my life and Simon's life respectively and we appreciate and love you both! Consider this to be your on-time Mother's Day card!

*May 14 Edit ~ Well, I guess even when I have a card made, it uploaded to the site, and the blog post already written, even then I still can't get anything out on time!! So, the Mother's Day wishes are just as sincere, even though they're late. :) Happy Mother's Day Moms!

Good News! (and a layout)

Well, the good news is that after a day of eating barely anything (due to tummy trouble), I've dropped two pounds! It could be that I've discovered the next miracle diet! Now all I need is some clever marketing and dh and I can retire to Hawaii, rich, happy, and twenty pounds lighter! LOL What? You don't think it'll catch on? Oh well, back to the daily grind for him, and back to the pantry for me!

Finally finished a page this morning that I've been working on all week. I just couldn't seem to translate my mental picture of what it should look like onto the computer screen. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out now.

Just when you think it couldn't get worse...

...it does! Well, unfortunately, the spilled cup of water was not the end of the day. Oh no, not even close! At eleven o'clock, just as I was halfway through feeding Peter, we heard a horrible noise coming from the boys bedroom. Simon went to investigate and I heard him say "oh no!" When I asked if he needed help he said that James had gotten sick. So, I put Peter down (who apparently wasn't full yet since he started to scream!) and went to help. Sure enough, the bed was a mess, his clothes were a mess, well, you get the idea! After getting everything cleaned up, the sheets changed, and Peter fed, we got ready for bed. By this time, I wasn't feeling so good either. I spent the whole night alternating between sweating and freezing, and fighting off the urge to vomit. The boys and I spent Thursday camped on the couch in our jammies. I only ventured off to make them breakfast and lunch, and to change diapers and feed Peter. I was afraid I'd given us all food poisoning, but I talked to my sister and she said they had it too, so I'm guessing it was just a nasty bug we picked up somewhere. I'm not eager to repeat that experience again!!

What a Week!

It was a week of ups and downs. Down because our pomeranian puppy Boo got underneath our fence into the neighbor's yard and his pit bull killed her. The same thing happened to the pomeranian that I'd had for nine years just six months ago and we thought we'd taken care of the problem and secured the fence line, but apparently not. The neighbor refuses to even consider getting rid of the dog, and needless to say, with three small boys we are concerned. We asked a friend at church who's a lawyer to see if there's something we can do, but since our dog got into his yard, I'm not too hopeful. I just don't understand what kind of person would want to keep a dog that he knows is dangerous. Our dogs were under five pounds, not really a threat!

On the up side, Saturday was National Scrapbooking Day and I was able to shop, chat with others who enjoy scrapping, and even finish a couple of pages! It was so much fun, and I'm already looking forward to Digital Scrapbooking Day in November.

(I just knocked a whole cup of water off the desk, luckily it missed the computer, but it seems like a fitting end to a long day! The boys were fussy, John was sick, and I still feel terrible. I sound like a bullfrog :( Oh well, I'm sure a good night's sleep will work wonders! )

I'll exit on a positive note: the layout I finished tonight for a Snap & Scrap challenge:

























Night all!