Happy Valentine's Day

This is what I received this morning:

A mix CD of some of my favorite songs and handmade cards! This is an awesome Valentine gift! 

Here is the inside of my beautiful cards. 

And the songs on my CD. The boys have been paying attention in the car to what songs I like and came up with this idea all on their own. Chris helped them out with getting songs on Itunes and burning the CD. 


Thanks boys! I love my CD!

Spongebob Valentine's Day Boxes

I love my Cricut. Love it! I recently purchased the Spongebob Cart because I have two Spongebob loving boys and I thought they would have some fun with it. Who knew I would have so much fun making Valentine's Day boxes with it!


First up is Connor's Box. He wanted Spongebob's Pineapple house. I plugged in my Gypsy with the Spongebob cart loaded in and started cutting out my pieces! Easy Peasy! 

I think it turned out so cute! I painted a shoe box black and then added my cut pieces to it. 

The heart was cut from the Gypsy Wanderings cart already loaded onto the Gypsy. I then just stamped the Happy Valentine's Day to make Spongebob a

little sign. 

The door opens and that is where the kids can drop their valentines for Connor into it. 

Spencer chose the Krusty Krab for his box. This wasn't quite as easy. There are lots and lots of pieces to the Krusty Krab. It was like putting a puzzle together after I cut everything out. 

And I made a Valentine sign for Mr. Krabs too. The hole is on top of the box for the kids to drop their Valentines in. I was afraid the doors to the Krusty Krab would be a little too small to accomodate the Valentine treats Spencer will be getting. 

I have been busy all week making these boxes and a few cards. I will post the cards later this week or weekend. I have to wait for the recipients to receive them first! 

Thanks again for visiting me! And Happy Valentine's Day! 

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!!


Thanks again for visiting me! And please leave a comment for Maggie and tell her she looks great! I need all the support I can get. Thanks!

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!