How to Train Your Dragon

I saw this movie with Colin today! WoW!! It's awesome!

colin's 6th birthday and easter sunday

we had the nicest weekend! it started off with colin's 6th birthday on saturday. it was an indiana jones themed birthday with balloons and an awesome indy cake! colin was super excited and the could hardly wait to open the presents. i got him 3 ps2 games and he loved them all. he also got a wii game with an indiana jones game and a star wars game. he loved it!!! then we played the sports game on the wii. it's really cool! they played bowling and boxing. it was alot of fun.
on sunday we all went to 9:00 am mass. then we went back to chris' house and the kids had an easter egg hunt! that was so nice. they had a riot running all around looking for the eggs. we played games and talked until dinner. the lamb was so good and so was the yummy chocolate bunny cake for dessert!!

39 Steps

I just watched the 39 Steps on Masterpiece Classics, oh was it good. Suspense, twists and turns...very edge of your seat television!! I love anything having to do with spies and this was full of spies, Scottish country side, thrilling escapes and a very handsome leading man!

The Divine Jane

The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen from The Morgan Library & Museum on Vimeo.

Winter Song

I just think this music video is beautiful and so is the song.

My first column on ScrapJazz!!

Here's my very first column on ScrapJazz!!

January 2010 Sketch Challenge!!

Once Upon a Princess

OMG...I love this and have to have it!!

a christmas layout

I love this photo! As Colin and Catherine were throwing the reindeer food I happened to get this super cool shot. I love how you can really see the handful of reindeer food (oatmeal) that Colin is throwing out!!

The patterned papers are K & Co and Heidi Swapp. I used my Christmas Solutions for the reindeer and the title is Storybook and A Child's Year font.

I turned the photo to sepia tone to see the reindeer food even better!!

Scrapping and Quilting

Today Erica is quilting and I am scrapping. It's sooo cold out side. Brrrrr! So, we are staying in with the kit kit's and just getting things finished before Christmas. It was a super fun busy week with Mom and Dad in town and then having to drive to Ft. Edward for BOCES. I can't believe that the holidays are almost here...WoW!!
Merry Christmas!!

a Winter Wonderland

Today Erica and I took a drive to Saratoga Springs and Shuylerville. I wanted to drop off my resume at the elementary school there.

Well, on the way we took so many photos because it looked like a fairy wonderland. Everywhere the trees were frosted with white, glittery snow. It was so beautiful. About 1/2 way back, Erica said, "oh, that would be a gorgeous photo!" So, I turned the car around and we drove back to this little frozen stream with trees gracefully arching overhead. Erica took a bunch of photos and WoW am I glad we turned around!!

Oh, so many Gingerbread houses

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Yesterday was my Birthday!!

Disney Albums

Colin and Catherine are in Disney tonight. Im so excited for them and hoping that they are having a good time!! Before they left I gave them these little autograph albums that I made. Inside are pages for the different characters to sign, as the children meet them. I did all the "Mickey" characters and all the "Princesses" with a few pages extra for any other characters they might run into!!

a visit

i just talked to mom and dad. they are coming to visit for a couple of days. i cannot believe we havent seen them in almost 2 weeks. ~~**crazy**~~ i can't wait for them to pack up their house and move. we need to be closer.
ive been working on colin and catherine's disney autograph albums. they turned out so cute. i really think that they will love them. and i am hoping that they get alot of signatures next week from the characters at disney.
i love the mickey and friends cartridge. the cuts are so cute!
well, off to tidy up a bit and to put on some stew for when the parents arrive!!
xo

Halloween

Today is Halloween and every year the Aunties (my sis, Erica and I) get the kids costumes. This year I made Colin's costume, he wanted to be a skeleton. It was really fun and easy to make. I downloaded a pattern from the internet, cut it out and pinned it to a black sweat suit I bought at Walmart. Then I stitched it on to white felt with the sewing machine. Erica had to hand stitch the small bones near the cuffs b/c I couldn't get to those with the machine.


The leg bones were a little low b/c Colin is so slim that the sweat suit was to big around the waist and it hung to low. (He still looked adorable!!)

A Birthday

Last Saturday was mom's birthday, so we had a nice dinner and some cake. It was our first celebration in our new home.

Our Move

Well the big move is over. It was hellish to say the least. We are just beginning to get over the trauma of it all. I still have a few boxes to unpack and I haven't been to the storage unit yet to see it. Im a little afraid to see how it is all packed in. Im missing one box and hoping that it's at the unit. Hopefully next week I'll get up enough courage to go and find it.

Today was very tiring but good. We got a ton of stuff done. My scrap room is 95% packed, Gary the junk guy carted a couple of loads of junk away, I sold the pet carrier on Craig's list and Chris lifted some very heavy stuff for us. Also a friend came and took some of the preschool items. Im glad they are going to someone we know. Im still feeling very overwhelmed and nervous but things are really moving along as they should. I know that in a couple of weeks we will be settled for the most part and feeling better about the move. After all we haven't moved in 15 years and we had considerably less stuff!! It was a good day.

This is too cute!!


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It's been so nice "puppy sitting" Prancer. She is such a sweet pup!! We've had some good bonding time but she misses her daddy. Only a few more nights then mom and dad will be home. They are having such a good time in Virginia. More packing tomorrow!!!

today jordyn ashley and her mom came to visit us. it was so nice to see her. she was a tiny bit shy at first but then warmed up to her old self in no time. she is such a sweetie, we miss seeing her every day. we realized that it's been about 4 years since jordyn came to honey bear for the summer. it seems like just yesterday but time really files. she is as tall as me. unbelievable!!

more packing tomorrow. we've got a huge chunk of the cellar packed. i have to pack all my teacher stuff tomorrow. by friday we want the cellar to be done!!! we can do it! :)

a brand new look

I found this lady who lives in Utah who makes templates for blogs. Her templates are amazing. I love this one, the colors are perfect for falltime.
Ok, I promised myself to go to sleep early tonight...whoops, that didn't work out. I'm definatly going to try to go to sleep earlier tomorrow night.

remember this one???