Happy Easter!

Although Easter was later this year, I was in no way more prepared for it than if it were in March.  :(  
Easter day was busy, and we didn't even have time to give the kids their baskets.  They just got them last night!  Plus, I have been more stressed and frustrated than usual in the last week, so that made it even harder.  I'm glad it's over!  Hopefully there will be less stress around here for a while :)
The kids had a good time on Easter, and I made sure I took lots of pics.

The fam

(River wasn't smiling because I told her she couldn't have chocolate before the picture)

Wyatt loved picking up the eggs, but didn't understand he had to put them in his bag so he could pick up more :)

Coloring eggs

And a few scrapbook pages:

Wow, two posts in one month!  I think that's a record for me. LOL

Hopefully I'll continue and post more often :)



TFL!

My Little Easter Bunnies.....

Since Easter is right around the corner, I thought I'd share a few layouts I did recently with last Easter's pictures. 

I still have one more layout to make for my 2nd daughter's album!  I am so far behind in my scrapping, too.  I wish it was only since last Easter, but I have tons of pics from 10 years ago that I haven't gotten to yet :(

The time goes so fast, it seems every month that goes by puts me another year behind in layouts!  The kids are getting big, school is almost out for the year... so many changes coming our way!  My oldest starts High School in August.  Wow!  DD#2 turns 10 next month and is going into 5th grade.  My youngest daughter will turn 4 this summer!  And my sweet little boy is almost 15 months old already!  AND, this summer we will welcome another little one!  Hopefully another boy ;) 

I'm almost 24 weeks and the time is flying by.  It seems like last week I was only 15 or 16 weeks along.  I'm big as a house already too! LOL 

Well, that's it for a quick update... hopefully I'll blog more soon!

TFL!

It's been a while since my last post.... but, I have some scrappy goodness to share with you!  I have been busy the last two months making mini-albums for baby shower gifts.  This first one was for my friend who is due to have a son in December.

The 8x8 chipboard cover has a layer of batting and covered with light blue "baby" print fabric.  I added blue and white tulle, ribbon, feathers, and a few small blue flowers.  The larger flowers were made by me from white felt.  I hot glued them then sprayed them with Glimmer Mist.  The album was bound using the Cinch, then I wove a length of white tulle through the wire and tied it at the top with an added "baby" charm.

This is the first interior spread, meant for newborn pics.  The others are for each month, up to baby's first birthday.  I didn't post all the pages because there were so many! (26 pages per album!)

The second album was for my sister-in-law, who is having a little girl in January.

This cover was also padded with a layer of batting, and covered with pink "baby" fabric.  I also added some lace ribbon on the outside of both front and back covers.  I only put it on 3 sides so it wouldn't interfere with the binding.  White tulle, ribbon, feathers, and hand-made felt flowers (sprayed with Glimmer Mist) complete the front of the album.

While they both turned out cute, the girl one is my favorite.  :)  After the pages were done, I didn't want to give it away!  But, I have more of the paper, so I can always make another one for me... and since I have 3 daughters I would definitely use it. :)

I hope everyone had a great Halloween!  We did! :)



My first scrappy video!!

Okay, so last Monday I got my Cinch.  I really wanted to open it and play with it right away, but I didn't have anything to bind!  So, I got to work on a 7x7 mini album for my son.  When my 3rd daughter was born, I made a mini album for her, and I used that one as the inspiration for the one for my son.  The pages are basically the same layout, but with different Basic Grey papers.  For the girly one, I used Urban Prairie, and for the boy themed one, I used Offbeat. 

I didn't even take my Cinch out of the box when I got it!  A friend of mine asked if I was going to make a video using it, so I thought about it, and decided I would, but I wanted to show people just how easy it is to use straight out of the box.  Before I decided to buy one, I watched a 5 minute video online showing how to use it.  It looked soooo easy to use I thought I would be able to use it right out of the box without any problems.  Well, it was just as easy to use as it looked!  The video is kinda long (15 mins) because a) it was my first time making one, and b) because I wanted to make sure I was doing everything in a way people watching could see clearly.  I had a hard time positioning the camera, so at the end of the video, when I'm doing the actual binding, my head is in the way almost the entire time! LOL  SORRY!

So, here's my video.  Please leave a comment and let me know how you liked it.  I had fun making it, so I hope to make more scrappy videos in the future.  (NOTE:  I had to turn up my computer volume and my speakers to full in order to hear myself.  I took the video with my regular camera, so the mic isn't that great :(  Next time I think I'll use the video camera.)  Another note: to hear the video, you will need to pause my blog music :)

And pics of the finished album:

Here's a few pics of the girly album I made that I used for inspiration.

I hope you liked the video.  Again, sorry for the sound and my head in the way at the end!  I will find a better place to set up the camera next time!

TFL!

Hello, Goodbye

Yesterday, my little girl turned 3.  Where has the time gone?  As kids, it seems time doesn't go fast enough, but once you "grow up" and have kids of your own, things really do happen in the blink of an eye!

Three years ago, I had my 3rd daughter.  She was 9 lbs 2 oz, chubby cheeked and just adorable!

Before we knew it, she turned one! Bald as could be, but still adorable!

And when she turned two, it was hard to believe.  But she had grown so much in that year so having a two year old seemed "right."

 But three?  THREE?  When did that happen?  Especially since I have a new little one, it's easy to look back and compare him to how River was as a baby, which makes it even harder to believe how old she is!  LOL

So yesterday, I said goodbye to my two year old toddler, and hello to my three year old preschooler. 

Now if only she would get the potty training down...

Wyatt also reached a milestone this week; He turned 6 months old on the 2nd.  We weighs 19 lbs 6 oz and is 28.5" long.  Big boy! 

I started him on rice cereal about two weeks ago, but he doesn't get it everyday.  Usually once every other day.  He seems to like it well enough.  At his checkup, the Dr. said he could go to solids 3 times a day.  So yesterday, he tried carrots for the first time.  I think he liked them better than the cereal though. 

Next week, the older girls go back to school.  Sigh.  I am not looking forward to setting my alarm for 5:45am.  We spent most of the summer being lazy and sleeping in! LOL 

And last, I have a few 8x8 layouts I did for a swap on Scrapbook Bingo.  The themes were chosen by the other people in the swap.

(the title of the last one is My Fave 5 @ Thirty-something.  Since I don't know exactly how old the recipient is in the pictures she will put on the page, I am also including numbers 0-9 for her to add to the title)

Overall, our summer has been nice.  It's been really nice to sleep in, but unfortunately that usually means I've stayed up way to late the night before.  It will be hard getting back into the swing of things, but it will be nice to be back on a schedule again.  Are you glad summer's over?