Good weekend overall

I'm just now getting a chance to sit and type about the weekend, so sorry if it's a tad bit late. My girls are killing me with this naptime business! SK goes down perfectly, but C is at the stage where she's not "sweepy" so I let her play in her room. That's the rule though. She has to stay in her room and play quietly. Well, today after about an hour of being in-and-out of her room for various reasons, I found her in SK's room at 1:30. She woke SK up, so as punishment I made her lay in her bed. Of course then C fell asleep, and I'm left with a very awake and cranky SK who was woken up! UGH! So I've yet to really have time "to myself" to get anything done! Sorry, didn't mean to go into all that, but I knew some of you mommies would understand.

Anyway, we had a good time this weekend. Not only did we attempt a yard sale, but we also made it to the Ronald McDonald Autumn Children's Festival. Obviously the Children's Festival was much more fun, as we didn't really plan or organize a yard sale. We just threw stuff in our yard and stuck a sign out front. And though we didn't bring in as much as we'd hoped, we definitely got what we deserved having thrown it all together at the last minute. And it's nice that the attic isn't as clogged up with junk.

So after the yard sale we went to the Children's Festival, which is our way of supporting the local Ronald McDonald house. (We had to stay in one in Cincinnati when we were going through our ordeal with SK and Claire, so it's a charity close to our heart.) The girls did great! SK was too little to do most of the activities but she enjoyed the free Mayfield ice cream, and the inflatable slide. We also snuck her in to pet the pony in the petting zoo, to which she kept saying, "moooooo". Caroline painted a pumpkin, went through the entire petting zoo, jumped on her 1st moon bounce (after 4 attempts because she didn't like the feeling at first), rode her 1st horse, and also flew down the inflatable slide. We had a great time, and I of course was so excited to get some fun pictures!

SK enjoying her ice cream


painting her pumpkin


moon bounce


My big girl looked so little on that horse!


Fearless--but we already knew that!

I'm telling you that slide was STEEP! She went down it once with Daddy, then the next time, decided she didn't want to wait on him to climb the steps! She took off down the slide before he'd even reached the top. Seeing that he was no longer needed, he decided to take SK down with him.


Yes, she LOVED the slide too! Can't ya tell! Looks like we've got another daredevil on our hands!

Another Daddy picnic

Well, in true me fashion, I've been taking more Fall pics. This time I got some at our picnic with Josh. For the 1st day of Oct. I dressed the girls in orange, and of course Josh's co-workers gave him a hard time! LOL! Living in Tennessee, and thanks to UT football, there's orange everywhere here all year 'round. (It's a wee bit obnoxious) So being the true fans that we are, we never dress the girls in anything remotely orange until Fall. And even then we (I) make sure it's got NOTHING to do with football! LOL! sad but true. Anyway, here's what I got:

Sarah Kate running towards us


Caroline went on a leaf hunt


loooking at a frog in the swampy water


It's also time for me to post my LOs from my Color Me Daisy! This month I got to work with the fabulous papers from Pink Paislee, Vintage Moon. Also in the pack are some yummy Amer. Craft papers! So fun! Here's what I did:

Pumpkin Painting



some AC embellies upclose


Title, AC Sprinkles, and deconstructed AC flower

Who's your Daddy?

Those silvery rub-ons are sooo cool! I used my CM silver pen to highlight the bigger owl more.

Fall banner

I used the Maya Roady keychain mini as a fun little banner. The journaling spot looking embellishments are actually more of those AC spots I deconstructed. I tore those things a part!

Last day of September

With the last day of the month here, I realize that some things are coming to an end, and others are just beginning. And I'm not just talking about the seasons, but yes, I'm so happy they're changing too. No, I'm referring to the end of yet another volleyball season, my "big" girl is in fact growing up, and much to my dismay her little sister isn't too far behind. Here's some pictures I caught recently documenting the fact that life IS passing by, and a bit too quickly for my taste.


My baby with her "beers". I promise it sounds like that's what she's saying! LOL!


Taking care of her babies. (She can say that one correctly.)


One of my absolute all-time favorite shots of Josh, and of course Little Miss is making silly faces/gestures in the background. Isn't that the way it always goes???



The conversation went like this:
C:"Mama, we're washin' da dishes"
Me: "You go right ahead babycakes! Don't push your sister off the chair!"
(which has happened more than I'd like to admit.)

But October brings my favorites in life--mmmmm...fall football, the crispness in the air, visits to the pumpkin patch and Apple Festival in Elijah, Halloween, and the anticipation of the leaves changing color. (Here in the South, they usually don't actually hit their peak until the end of the month or 1st of Nov.) I've already purchased my first cans of pumpkin in anticipation for pumpkin spice muffins, pumpkin squares, and pumpkin pie. Followed closely behind will be the apple cider and roasted pumpkin seeds. I plan on cooking more with Caroline this year. Maybe we'll even make it down to Mom's so they can do Fall leaf sugar cookies together (one recipe I haven't mastered yet. But then I haven't master very many! LOL!) Yes, I'm excited FAll is around the corner, that the holidays aren't far off, and that this blasted summer humidity is finally creeping back toward the equator. I'm ready for Fall I just wish it didn't mean my kids were growing faster too. Oh well. Ya can't have both I guess!

1st "fall" picture--Caroline and her leaf!


Happy Fall y'all!

Hottty Toddy folks!!!!!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO REBELS!!!! Woooohoooooo!!!!!! I must admit that I didn't give them a chance, but I'm SOOO happy to be wrong!!!!!

HOTTTY TODDY!!!!

A whole lot of randomness

It's been a really busy week, one that this mom of 2 toddlers isn't used to. I've been in the car a TON this week, back and forth to volleyball games. I'm definitely not in the life stage of "mom taxi" yet, but whew! It sure felt like it this week! My goodness that's a busy life! I don't envy anyone who has to spend most of their day in the car driving back-and-forth transporting kids and running errands. That's a busy life!

On the scrap scene, I've not gotten too much accomplished. Each night I've pulled my stuff out to work, spread it all out nice pretty and organized, then failed to touch it. I've either gotten wrapped up in the new TV premieres or fallen asleep on the couch! So I hope that today (with football) and tonight I'll get a lot more accomplished! I've got 3 different kits staring at me, and their gorgeous! I just gotta get to work. We also plan on to go to the County Fair this afternoon. (We have to watch our Rebs get assaulted by Florida first.) I'm excited about going to the fair. Hopefully, I'll get a lot of fun photos! Fall photo op season has officially begun as I bought mums for the front porch yesterday, so I'm ready to give my camera a workout! Now if only my girls will cooperate!

To finish off this otherwise random and boring post, I'll post some pics of the girls. They tend to behave better when Holly (our 10yr. old little friend) has her camera rather than when I have mine. Here's what she got:





Okay, so maybe not a WHOLE lot of cooperation, but at least they're both in the same frame looking in the same direction. That's better than what I can say for the time being!

Happy weekend everyone!

Latest LOs!

Some are DT requirements, others are challenges, and a couple are just for fun, but overall I'd say it was a very productive weekend!

Little Explorer


Game Day Attire


matching card

I'm always in need of another Thank You card!

Budding Artist


I've still got a couple more, but I'll hold them back and save then for another post in a day or two. On one of them, I'm changing the cardstock, and the other turned out a little blurry, so I'll correct those and be back soon!

Crop Suey Layouts!!!!

Woohoo! I can finally show you my layout and project I did with my Crop Suey kit! Yay! I had SOOO much fun playing with this kit! I had Camille's kit, which was loaded with Oct. Afternoon and Basic Grey's Off Beat! I also loved the paper doll, and knew I had to use it! So here's some old(er) pictures of Caroline when she got her first baby doll.

1st Baby Doll (real original title, huh?)


upclose

I added some pom pom fringe on top of the kit's vintage lace.
I also added a Dymo label and some Pink Paislee Holly Doodle sticker alphas.

"Fave 3" CD frame

Okay, who doesn't have a million CD cases laying around? I decided to convert one of mine into a picture frame. And now I'm completely addicted to making these! It was fast, fun, and easy, but I love result!

CE taken apart

As you can see, I inserted the paper "LO" inside the case, and then layered the ribbon, flowers, heart tag, and rub-on title on top of the case. If I want to I can change out the picture with other ones simply by making a new insert!

So there you have it! My first official work with Camille's kit. But since then, I've also completed this one:

Lakefront

Here I used some of the BG Offbeat, and the Riff Raff wildflower chipboard. I flocked it and added it to the brown cardstock. And in keeping with Bree's love of recycling stuff, I used some corrugated cardboard, and some sequins too!

So there you go. Fun stuff from Crop Suey! Stayed tuned in, because I've been scrapping all day today, and there's more to come! ;)