Testing my iPhone

I finished the Christmas Mini Album that Nikki sent me last month. I thought I would see how it looks with me doing everything from my Iphone. I took the pics on my phone, edited them on my phone & uploaded it all to the blog from my phone.
I know that it probably won't look as good, but wanted to give it a try!

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-- Post From My iPhone

An Exciting Week of Firsts

We have had quite the exciting week here! It started off with Connor losing his first tooth, then Maggie getting her first pair of doggie booties, and ending with Spencer participating in his first Spelling Bee. (If you want to see pics of Maggie and Connor, scroll down to posts from earlier this week.)

Last week I went back to the Apple store and took another class on making movies. I still have to practice and learn some more, but this time it only took me about an hour to make the movie. And I added some bells and whistles to it. So I'm making progress!

So for your viewing pleasure, I present you

SPELLING BEE 2010

starring Spencer.

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Maggie is a Trendsetter....

Here is Maggie modeling the latest in doggie footwear. She went with the classic and eye-popping red for her doggie booties. I think she looks smashing, don't you?


Actually I think Maggie is thinking "I look so stupid, why is she doing this to me?" Well Maggie, I'm trying you in the doggie boots because I am so tired of having mud, leaves, mulch and everything else tracked through our house. This is just the latest in my quest to control the mess of Maggie. Right now we are just putting them on her front paws. I thought I would let her get used to them before I tackled all four paws. I just started this yesterday and she is slowly getting used to them. The first time I put them on her, she just stood in the yard. She wouldn't move. Now she is running in them and I think getting adjusted to them. I sure hope so! I think this may be my answer for the rainy, snowy weather!!


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Connor Lost His First Tooth!!!

Finally! This tooth has been wiggly for the last month. 

His permanent tooth actually came up behind his baby tooth. You can see it in the above pic.  Last month we were in for our 6 month cleaning and the dentist showed us the permanent tooth coming in behind it. She said he would need to really wiggle that baby tooth to get it to come out. 
So I kept reminding him to wiggle it but he didn't like to. He said it felt weird and hurt sometimes. I was starting to get worried that if he didn't get it out himself, I was going to have to take him back to the dentist and have her pull it. We had a talk today about it and thank goodness he got it wiggled out tonight! 


The Tooth Fairy is coming to our house tonight!!!


And sorry about the terrible lighting in the pictures. I had a very excited little boy who didn't really want to wait around for his mom to figure out the right settings. :-)

Happy Monday

And happy Martin Luther King day. The boys have the day off of school today and we have a birthday party to attend. 


We have been busy just doing the normal running around type of things. Spencer started playing basketball this year, so yesterday we went to the mall to find him some basketball shoes. Connor was wanting to ride the big carousel there and while we were waiting in line to buy a token, a nice woman offered us one. She said they were from out of town and didn't need that one. I thought that was so nice of her to offer it to us and I want to say a big Thank You to her!  So here is Connor on the 2nd floor of the carousel ride. 

This Thursday is going to be an exciting day for us. Spencer made the finals for his school Spelling Bee! Twenty-six kids from the 4th and 5th grades will be competing. They had a party for all the finalists last Friday at school.  I think it made him feel really special that he earned this spot and that he would really like to win.  So we have been practicing and practicing spelling words.  I just hope he doesn't get too nervous. He can spell really well and the only thing that might trip him up is his nerves. I will let everyone know how he does on Thursday! We are very proud of him!


I'm also working on the Christmas mini album that Nikki Sivils sent me. I wrote about it in this post. I hope to have it done in the next day or two and then I will post it. 


Thanks again for visiting me and have a great week! 

A Fun Card

This is a fun card I made today. I love this stamp on the front of the card. It is so cute and I think it has tons of possibilities for different cards. 


But since I'm in the hating winter mood right now, I thought I would make this:

The title "Winter got you bummed?" is a combination of a stamp and rubons. The winter stamp actually has "wonderland" underneath it and I just used a post-it mask to not stamp that part. Although you can see a little speck of black there from the top of the "d" in wonderland. 

I used my Copic markers to color the snowmen's hats and scarfs and a little Diamond stickles for the snow accents. And the glitter white ric-rac ribbon came that way. I'm not even sure where I got that, but thought it looked cute as "snow drifts". 


And now for the inside of the card:

Does that make you feel all warm? Or does it depress you because summer is 5 looonnnnng months away!? 

I stickled her grass skirt. I didn't realize until I stamped her that the skirt came out black. I wanted it to have a brownish type tint to, so I used Cinnamon stickles. And the sand is an embossing power called Golden Sand. Added some rubons for my title and the Copics for coloring.


So that is what I did today. I hope you like it!


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My Attempt at Movie-Making

When I got my Macbook, one of the items I was really excited about was to be able to make and edit little movies. I took a class at the Apple store last month to learn how to do this. I need to take another one because when I tried to edit this movie, I forgot most everything I was taught. I have a feeling this would have taken the Apple girl that tutored me about 15 minutes to make. It took me about 3 hours.

I hope you enjoy my very novice attempt at making a movie. Make sure you have your sound on. I added a song to it! And if it is cold where you live, Stay Warm. And if it isn't cold where you live, I'm really, really jealous of you right now!

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