Bubbles and Art

Here is Spencer blowing bubbles this afternoon. It was such a beautiful day today. The temperature got into the low 80's! This is my kind of weather.

I thought this next one turned out neat with the bubble right over his one eye.
Last night Connor's preschool had an art show. This is one of Connor's masterpieces. :-D
And then they had a little area where the artists could dressed up in the full attire and have their picture taken. He looks so handsome!
I'm still working on painting Spencer's new room. I had to take a couple of days off from it because we have been busy with other things. I'm hoping to get all the painting done this weekend. And then I can start moving things in next week.

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The painting has begun!

I started painting Spencer's room yesterday. And I will admit it. I am a really slow painter. But I do think I am a good painter. I tape everything off and make sure the floor is covered and if I do have a drip I wipe it up right away. Unlike someone who shall remain nameless, but let me just say that painting a room a deep, dark red without a drop cloth on the floor is just asking for trouble. (Cough, cough, Chris)

Spencer was home sick from school today, so he helped for just a little bit. Yesterday I got a call from the school nurse that he was running a fever so I went to pick him up and she said he couldn't come back until he was 24 hours fever free. Well he is feeling much better today and no fever, so tomorrow is back to school.

He was very proud of his artwork on the wall. And I think he was very disappointed when I told him it wasn't staying.

Operation Room Redo

We have begun the Operation Room Redo: Version 2009. These are the supplies to paint Spencer's new room. And yes, I said new room. See for the past year or so, every time I walk past the guest room I think how terrible it is for that nice room to go unused. We do get overnight visitors but only about 4 or 5 times a year. So for the most part that room doesn't get used.

So I talked Chris into moving Spencer to that room and moving me to Spencer's old room! Woo Hoo! I get my own scrap room with windows and a door. And I get to make it as girly as I want to. I'm thinking pink walls and flowers.

We are then going to make the part of the basement that I was using as my scrap area into an art area for the boys. Since they are older now, I'm not so worried about crayons on the walls. And then this will give me a closet back in my kitchen that is now the boy's art closet. And since I have limited cabinet space in my kitchen, more closet space is going to be awesome!

So I have a lot of work to do to get this all done. I got Spencer's new room taped off today and I hope to start painting tomorrow. Since the bedroom he is moving to has it's own bathroom, it will still serve as a guest room when we need it. That was the main reason I didn't take that room for my scrap room. I wanted to still have that as a bedroom for when we have overnight guests, (i.e. our parents).

As I get each room done, I will post pics. I won't be getting much scrapping done for the next month or so though.

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The Future's So Bright,

I gotta wear shades.

We finally had a nice day today!
Now if only this weather will stick around.

Easter

Sorry about the lack of blogging but I just haven't had much going on in the last week or so that would be blogworthy. : D

But this last weekend we went to Kansas City for Easter. It was a short trip but we had a great time.



This is pretty typical for us on a holiday. One of the boys not wanting to wake up. This time it was Connor. We stayed at my Mom's house and the boys wanted to sleep out in the living room on the couches and Connor did not want to wake up.

I'm guessing that since the boys were sleeping in the living room, the Easter Bunny decided to just drop their basket right by the front door.

Spencer got his basket and you can now see Connor coming to life in the background. It was like, "Hey, I think I smell candy...."

And there he goes collecting his loot from the front door.



These are some pictures after Church. These are my three handsome guys. Unfortunately it was cloudy, cold and a little rainy.

This is the four of us. Right after this picture, I went and changed into some warm sweats! It was really chilly. (Plus I had to drive home after dinner and I wanted to be comfy.)

And here is Grandma Linda and the boys. You did say I could post this pic Mom! : D

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

A card and a picture...

I haven't really done much creative in the last few weeks. So I thought I would share a card I made about a month ago. I saw this idea somewhere a long time ago and I apologize because I now can't remember where. But I have made a few of these cards and I always love how they turn out.

I just cut some yellow cardstock into the shape of a glass to represent the lemonade. Then cut a piece of transparency the same size and shape. I ran the transparency through my Cuttlebug to emboss it to give it the look of a glass. To adhere the transparency to the cardstock I used jumbo glue dots. They are suppose to look like ice cubes. :) Then cut a lemon shape with my cricut and used a regular ol'straw to complete it! It is really a pretty easy card to put together.


And this is one of my pictures for my Project 365. Spencer came home with these silly straw glasses for turning in some addresses for a magazine subscription fund raiser at school. He couldn't wait to try them out, and I absolutely love this picture of him!!

Thanks again for visiting. I hope you have a great weekend!

Some more Disney pics

These are some scenery pics from Disney. Just some different pictures of things I found interesting or really pretty. No people included. ; )

This is on top of the building where the Toy Story Mania ride is. I thought the barrel of monkeys were too cute!
This is a little building in Canada at Epcot. I'm not sure what it is there for but it looked so peaceful and pretty with the flowers.
This is in Morocco at Epcot. It is funny because this is the third time we have been to Epcot but really the first time we have ventured through the countries. In the past we always just walked the perimeter and didn't really go back into each country. There is a lot of fun and interesting things to do in each country.
A pretty shot of the Spaceship Earth at Epcot.
And a giraffe. We saw him during the safari ride at Animal Kingdom. And this is the first time we saw giraffes there. We saw more animals this time than we had in the past visits but the truck driver was fast! I hardly got any clear shots because every time we came up on animals, he seemed to put the pedal to the metal and I ended up with mostly blurry shots. At least I got this shot of the giraffe. And we really were pretty close to them because I just had my 18-55 mm lens on the camera. So no fancy zoom here.

Thanks again for visiting me! I'm still in the process of going through all my pictures from the trip. And I still can't decide if I'm going to do a traditional scrapbook with them or a Shutterfly book. I think I'm leaning towards the Shutterfly just because I think it will go faster. Any opinions out there in blogland? I love how my scrapbook turned out last year, but it took me about 3 months to complete. I'm not sure I want to commit that amount of time this year.