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Back in town

The boys & I are back in town and we're already missing the beach. Hopefully we will all be there again july 4th weekend for fireworks, time with the grandparents and some RnR for joe.

I was slightly productive over there during the rainy weather, I finished 5 layouts. Well almost 5, I need to make a snail for a page. I didn't bring any felt/sewing/bling with me only papers, thickers & a few misc. stickers. I did forget cardstock so all the pages are put together with pattern paper that I had on hand.



Using up scraps of paper, cut out the subs for swimming embellishments.



Nico showing me how to skateboard like the big guys. I outlined the sun & the title words with Stickles, invisible in the picture.
H & drew looking for snails at Blowing Rocks during low tide. I'm making a felt snail to put on the snail outline.

H. Diving the ball.

Nico is determined to earn big slide privilege. He did 7-8 laps in the lap pool with a lapboard and is now doing swim laps.

Hot hot hot

Hanging outside watching. Nico zoom by.

Print fast

H is out of school & is officially under my feet. I have been able to squeeze in some moments to do a few pages.

Nico and his birthday scooter, he does very well with balancing on the board. I splatter the background with blue paint for fun.

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lets have some fun

Cool it works, I can now upload from my phone along with pictures. The pic above was just a test shot to see if I could actually get it to work.

Back online

My computer decided to take a blue dump and went bugnutz with error codes, some wonky vista update messed it up. Thank goodness for restore points.

Nico eating Pei Wei noodles for breakfast, I didn't notice the journal box had fallen off while I was taking the picture.



Morning stroll at the park.

The noise

I did 2 pages last night, one is of H sleeping in his "snake room" that he made out of pillows, blankets & a toy couch.

Then one of poor sick nick, he was so pitiful. He did not like being sick and he let us know that he was not happy.

365 Holiday ATC swap

Here's my swap, the card is missing something but I can't find anything among my stash that is small enough to fit on the 2.5x3.5 card. I know what I want to use but it too big dang it, so back to digging around my stuff.

out of the mouth

Walking back from the school program, H wanted to know what was that "machine you hooked up to your b00bies with the hoses" YIKES! where did that come from kid! That was 3ish years ago and you now bring it up! I told him it was a milk machine for babies, but he kept asking questions about it. Enough already!!! He wanted to know what I did with the milk, where is it he wants to see it. aye aye aye. I told him to look a the jug of cow milk its the same but from cows. He looked at me with bug eyes, he could not believe that I just told him he is drinking baby cow juice. He then wanted to know why big people didn't drink momma milk, I told him to ask his teacher tomorrow. HEHEHEHE!! I'm sorry but dang after an hour of questions I'm tired.

Kinder program

This is how it started...I guess they were raised in a barn by wolves. Nico decided to eat the program and M. feed it to him for giggles.
Tongue time...DS then
H's.
H and the crossed eye goofiness.

Signing a song??? do not remember, the program started really quick.


They all went back to their classrooms and what was waiting when we got there...a tote bag filled with paperwork, a mini year book made by H and a photo book of H. The bag is too cute, butterflies & flowers. End of year picture

Start of school.

From Off the wagon...

Memorial Weekend

Spent a wonderful time with the inlaws at the beach. It did rain a lot but the down time and view is so worth it. So now we're back home wishing we were still at the beach. I need to download the imgs from the big camera, for now here is a snap of the teacher gift that H is taking in tomorrow.

Little clip on the side that can hold notes, but now its holding a comical pic of H wearing his Indiana Jones gear while sitting in the mini.
Joe & I went into Hobby Lobby while away from the boys, we went in separate directions immediately while enjoying the kid-free time. Quickutz were 50% so I picked up this sweet apple die & joe found some rocket engines.
Oye, GNC closed early today so we are without Melatonin for H. He needs melatonin to go to sleep or he's up until 1am, its the hyper-activity end of adhd. The boy does not sleep, thus he is out of control the next day. GOtta get everyone in bed.

Some pages

Finally a little sun came out so I ran and took some pictures before it started to rain again.


Picked up some K&co borders pack that has this cool grass that I cut up in chunks.
I've given up on trying to adhere felt with adhesive so I use the sewing machine to make sure things stay where I put them.
I had lots of fun with this page, 16 2x2 pics of H. puttering around in his mini coupe. He was hysterical playing around and zooming around the driveway. He's getting to big for the car, his legs hit the dashboard but he can still crank out some speed.
I used a stamp & white paint to create the background, all papers are scraps from the bin.

Teachers

I covered a few notebooks for teacher appreciation week, love love love the QK office supply dies. They are perfect for notebook gifts.

Haircut 100

Here's a young indiana jones wanna-be. A free haircut by aunt cissy (jen), she did a good job.

Nico's this many now

This is how the day started off, mr. contrary not wanting to pose for a snapshot.
He picked Chuck E. Cheese for his birthday, we got there around 10.45am and the place was jumping. If I had known that CEC opened at 9am I would have shown up earlier, the boys were going insane waiting for me to get to moving.
His first game, the dance machine.
Then it was skeeball, he spent a good 45mins playing token after token and coming back with 200 tickets.
Pizza arrived and we were ready for some yummy pie.

Back to vids. Cake time...He was so excited to blow out the candles.
Opening of gifts....well Jen & kayla tried. They gave him books that he loves but I guess he was expecting something "more fun".

He got mad and climbed under the table. Party over. We were not even out of the parking lot and he passed out in his seat.

my socks

So that's where all our socks have gone!


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ACKK!

I totally forgot to update this here blog. Lots of pics & projects too. oye. Now its 9.37pm and I spent the last few hours hanging outside talking to a new friend, drinking some brews & letting the kiddos wreck the house. At least I found M's shoes, she lost her sparkly shoes in the house and joe was going nutzo trying to find them. He didn't want the new neighbors to think we were kleptos.

Tomorrow morning I'm teaching the "Daughter's reminsce" class at the doodle. So sometime after that I get some pics upload (sorry grandma).

Nothing

Time zips by.....

I finished 3 projects and forgot to take pictures before giving them away. ugh.

Washer is on the fritz again, dang it. A huge pile of clothes are waiting to be washed, I'm out of shorts & h needs his school clothes.

Easter

I forgot to post some Easter pix.

We were over at the beach Easter morning, so I was out of sorts for my typical Easter basket on the stoop trick. I didn't tell the boys but just let them find the baskets at the bottom of the stairs. It took about an hour & half for someone to spot them and scream out "MOMMY EASTER BUNNY!" Nico was happy to find Madagascar 2 & Spiderman underoos from the Bunny, he took off out the door shouting "thank you easter bunny".

A spontaneous cheer from the boys.

They were so cute holding hands & singing a made up song about the bunny & sunshine.

IT's a girl

Yesterday was a "shower" for Kayla, boy was she overwhelmed. There was so much pink stuff & H.S. Musical items that it looks like a BB&B exploded.

We "tortured' her with boas & a blinking princess crown (we had to hold back dianne) and took lots of photos. She wouldn't even turn around, she was so cuuute.


My favorite idea for gifts was the Trash Bin filled with goodies. Hands down the best gift, she kept reaching in and pulling out stuff. Way to go Dianne!Jen giving her the squint-eye when she pulled out her phone to check a message.

I had a great time and I hope K. did too.

Socks

At the store picking up some presents for kayla's shower and nico spotted these Hello Kitty socks in the girl dept. He had to have them, he even choosed the rainbow stripes & polka dot set over the solid & stripes. He said grandma would like them too.

Field day

H. had field day on Friday, no rain and it was perfect weather for running around. H dragged nico around with the class activities. Whether nico wanted to go or not.

First year H would do the bag race, caught him in mid-air.
A bunch of boys breaking out to the funky music - old skool.
Heading home after an hour of running & crying.

swimmmmm

Henry earned his slide badge yesterday, he had 2 swim 2 laps in the pool. He really really really wanted to go down the water slides so he just went out and swam. Go henry!
Ecstatic, got his wristlet for the slides.
wheeee green pipe is the best.

Slowly slowly said the sloth

I haven't updated in 2 weeks, things are slowly getting back in order. We're still out of town through the weekend, Joe will start a new job on Tuesday and H goes back to school on Monday. Maybe I'll get my mojo back once I'm finally settled back home.

Joe looks better and he says he's finally feeling a better, he hates change.

Had a blast in Savannah, need to get photos from all ya! My little camera is acting up so I left at in the hotel while out walking around. Next time I am definitely taking the big camera.

Need to start packing

The Savannah trip is next wednesday and I am not ready. The house needs to be cleaned from top to bottom, clothes set aside, food bought, menu prepped and meds refilled.

In the meantime, I've learned to knit backwards! Now I don't have to purl and my tension is more even. so jen...have you learned to purl yet?

Another set of fingerless mitts, mitts are easy & quick and satisfy my need to do something with my hands & mind. I have a couple big projects like scarfs & sweaters started, i pick them up and work on them every once in while. I have found if i work on something for a too long I start making mistakes. So dropping the work and picking something else up breaks up the knots.

HOme again home again

We spent a lovely 3day weekend at Disney World, thanks to my wonderful inlaws. The boys came back with tans & I came home with loads of laundry. Henry helped pack his bags....he dumped out his clothes and replaced them with a powerranger outfit & a first aid kit. Yes, what every boy needs at disney world. Anywho he wore the same outfit for 2 days and swam in a pair of shorts, don't ask about skivvies.

I spent most of the day at the store scooping up new product (sassafras lass, Prima, quickutz), nico decided he wanted to stay the rest of the afternoon with Jen. She said it was okay, so I headed back home around 4pm. Crazy boy. He likes to hang out with the woman folk and play stockist for a few hours.

Another set of fingerless mitts I made over the weekend, these were real fun to knit up. Lots of yarn overs & knit 2 togethers to keep me entertained. I only had orange wool to play with, I need to start making a stash of yarn when its on sale.

Weekly tidbits

Here are some of the "stuff" I've been working on.

Who am i

Who knows what I've been doing the last few weeks but its definitely not scrapping. Having the printer out of commission created a brain blockage that I can not unclog. Hopefully hearing some good news this morning will help with the creativity.

3 printers later

So I call dell again and explain what is going on with the printer, I tell them its the printhead just send me a printhead. Thirty minutes later I get a dispatch notice that "something" has been sent via FedEx. Thursday morning I get a call from Joe "there is a huge box from Dell" so they sent a printer. I get home and unpack the printer, there's nothing in the printer - no carts or printhead. So as a trial I take out the printhead from the original printer [op] put in the replacement printer and run a test print - no go, same issue -not printing all the colours just cyan & magenta.

I chat Dell again, state the problem & case numbers associated with the 3 previous chats/calls. This time the guy says they'll send out a whole printer package not just a printer chassis. He stated "why did the previous agent just dispatched a printer when it looks like its a printhead issue", he was reading the chat session log and thinking outloud. So again today FedEx dropped off a HUGE box, the guy was like "what is in these huge boxes that I have delivered everyday". Luckily, the agent included 2 new ink cartrides to replace the 2 that I used up while they tried to figure out the problem.

I didn't even open up the printer box, I just popped in the printhead into the original printer and bam it works beautifully. So now I'm printing up a bunch of pictures, I haven't scrap in 2 weeks!

HahA!

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ARGGGHHH! My printer is not printing colours correctly and I need to print a bunch of 3x4 for some layouts. Dell is sending a new cartridge but that is not the issue, its the carrier but the guy at dell india could not understand what I was explaining. So tomorrow I'll spend another 30mins with dell trying to get someone else to understand that the print head is busted not the ink carts.

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Wow

It has been almost a week since my last post, no excuse other than just slacking on the job. A few more cards and some knitting too. I stitched up some fingerless gloves for my cold fingers & made a roll brim hat for the boys. The hat is barely big enough for nico, methinkest the pattern is off, it states the hat will fit a head circumference of 20". Nico's head is barely 19" so I've been summoned to knit up another hat but bigger.






I love the waffle pattern in the fingerless gloves and the bubblegum pink wool yarn is really flashy.

Cards cards cards

SOme cards I putting up on Etsy in a bit. I think I've made 30 cards in the last few days.

House cleaned

The house has been shoveled...literally...a big whomping snow shovel. I can see the floor, the counters have been declutter, the school/art work put away into appropriate bins, floor swept, workspace cleaned up and items put back into bins/spots.

So here is a few more pics of the big bag from Ravelry.com - if you haven't joined you need to (if you are a knitter..coughcoughjen). Here is a shot while on the circulars -13us bigguns w/ double strand of wool yarn (cascade 220), it needs to be wool if you want to felt/full it down.

A close up of after felting, see the difference? The knits are "gone"! Felting firms up the knits & shrinks the object. Ask Joe about felting the wool soaker when Henry was a bub, oye that one stunk. The soaker (cloth diaper cover that looks like woolen unders) was brand new and he didn't know not to throw it in the diaper bin and I didn't look before I dumped the nappies into the frontloader. We only lost one soldier during our diapering days. I so wished I picked up the needles years ago, I thought it was so hard to learn. WTH! It's been great for my ADD, keeps my hands busy.

Here's nico holding up the bag after felting, big difference in sizes. I love this bag, it stands up by itself and holds a decent size knitting project. I got stopped twiced today and asked about it, that was a nice ego stroke. So jen, you game???

Next project some felted bowls for kitchen clutter in style.

Rocket boy

Here's a few pictures from Friday's Space restaurant adventure. Here we are getting scanned for proper ID.


Taking off for the "far far away 5months space place". Yes that is mold growing in behind the dang clear caulk, time to dig out the tools, bleach and some alone time.

No use

I worked the Friday crop at the doodle - 6pm to midnight - worked hrs 5pm to 12.45. So I spent most of Saturday laying around the house trying to recover. I also goofed up and sent joe & h out to a park for a birthday party, well....joe calls and says "what is today's date?" DUH, the party is planned for Sunday. They had a fun time out playing on the big playground and some dad & H time.

The house is a wreck I need to get out of my room and start picking up the clutter, 2 days of not picking up behind the boys sends the house into a mess that I do not know where to start.

This is what I was working on, it was contagious. I couldn't stop working on it.
Nico has already claimed it as his lego bag, he's filled it up with Legos and is dragging it around the house. I guess that means I need to make him a little knitted bag. ;*). Next step is throwing it in the washer and felting it somewhat.

falling behind and I can't catch up

I've been making cards and little projects, I have a pile of pictures to take and upload.

Nico is being super cute & funny this morning. He has turned the walk-in shower into a rocket ship that goes to different restaurants. His favourite place to visit it turbo or something and they serve BBQ indian food (??). So far we have been to three different restaurants - hamburger place, indian and onion rings store.

He uses the scanner to scan in your footprint and then validates your ticket for the rocket ship. We just got back from "choco-roll" that has yummy food.

A week!

Survivor man AKA Henry AKA Goofball. He's crossing his eyes for the camera and he's wearing the ear muffler I knitted along with his survivor man gear in the backpack - towels, Gary, medical kits, snake bite kit & grandma's pillow.

This is what I walked in on...mr nico trying to sit in the little red chair that is hanging off the dresser.
The little camera bag I knitted up this afternoon, I used Noro Kureyon yarn for this quick project. No pattern just off the cuff and using the camera for measurements.
The skein of yarn - I didn't have a clue what colours I was going to get while knitting. The next project I'm currently working on has hit the violet-indigo colours, who knows when I'll hit the turquoise-gold line.

Off for a few days out of town....so lets see what has been happening.