Catch up

Got around to doing a page late last night. Crazy nekid nico and his boots.


Close up of the tone on tone versamark image - Inque Boutique bug stamp.


Also we have the first official cold of the school year! H is complaining of a sore throat & his nose is running non-stop.

Use as directed

I have been dealing with this yucky cold/congestions for almost 2 weeks and I'm ready to for it to find another victim. I've felt like crud and stopped taking my allergy meds, big mistake. I started them up again yesterday and I'm finally feeling better - at least the headache & drainage has taken a leave of absence. Now if i could get rid of the congestion and aches.

I've been busy at night, was able to complete 2 pages while Joe took over parental duties. This page is about how I would find H & joe in the morning for over a year, all tangled up in each other. I cut out some sassafras lass paper for some cuteness and made a photo block with scraps of daisy d & ki memories. The edge of the paper needed something so I edged it with brushed corduroy ink.



A page using up scraps & misc. embellishements floating on my desk & the floor.
The boys outside painting the sidewalk or so I thought.

Fine weather

The whole city is shut down except for 7-11 and Walmart, we went out for slurpees at the 7-11 across the street from wally's. Not a drop of rain, been mostly sunny and a slight breeze.

I did 2 pages yesterday while H was in school. Preschool picture of H mugging it up for the camera.


Page about nico's obsession with coffee. He asked for coffee, I said no more -under his breath his says "coffee pot says give nick coffee". Good thing I was sitting at the table playing with the camera to catch these shots.

First day of school

We got a late start this morning, I did't wake up until 7.15am. I slept right through the 6.30 alarm. We did make it out the door at 7.3oam, don't know how we did it.
H. has major bedhead going on, he wants to grow out his hair and that boy has a mophead.

I thought there was a class size limit - there are 24 kids in his class! His cubby is on the bottom row, he has to store all of his stuff in there.

He signed in and went to his assigned seat, this was the look on his face - priceless. He was excited to go to school & ran most of the way but once he sat down he had second thoughts.

He puts his head down and says "i'm still tired, can I go back to sleep".


Joe & his new toy - NOT. Henry had to help put it together, he says his dad is super strong. The mower weighs at the most 15lbs, silly boy.

10 year timer

Ten years is the mark -the mark when half of your appliances decide to die the same week. We've been in this house 10.5 years - in the last 10 days the water heater imploded, the dryer fried, the dishwasher is circling the drain and joe walks in and says the lawn mower seized up! He looked up mowers & headed back out the door with Henry, they've been gone almost 3 hours, I hope henry didn't convince joe to get that riding mower he's (henry) been eying. 8.)

On Monday we have to have $30 for pictures, $10 for dues & $5 for supplies on top of the roughly $80 buying consumable supplies & his backpack. The boy is due for a haircut & will need new boots by the end of September, it just doesn't ease up. I know he'll have a pile of fundraiser flyers in his bag the first week.

Alligator

Nico just drew this picture - it's an alligator! An artist at 3 years old.

a little project

This a challenge from M2R, create a hanger using Cosmo Cricket Strip Teasers. I did a little sewing for texture, threaded some buttons on the Twistel & some bling.





Then I covered a cigarbox with Fancy Pants papers & diecuts, H picked out the photo of himself and then promptly filled up the box with little toys. I created this keepsake box as a prototype for a Whimsodoodle Fall Festival that is a few months. I need to get busy creating.

Meet & Greet at school

Open house at H's school this morning, he was so excited he was up at 7am and chopping at the bit to leave. The meeting didn't start until 9.30 am, so it was a long morning - every 2 minutes he would ask " is it time?".


Here is a super shot of one of his teacher Ms. F, she is so cute. We lucked out that h. was placed in her classroom, she was his integration teacher last year. They start to integrate the pre-k kids into kindy classes halfway through the year.


To keep the kids busy while the parents filled out the paperwork, they had a scavenger hunt set up - find your seat, find the helping hand chart (h's job for the week is special helper, what could that mean???) , meet your classmates and finally...



sit on the carpet, play with manipulatives and be quiet. That was super hard for H, he was so excited to see everyone - especially Jacob & Ms. Debbie (j's oma).

Watching the olympics

We've been having our own olympic trials in the house, last night the boys were swimming across the kitchen floor - doing the backstroke no less - they would jump from the carpet edge onto the linoleum, make a splash noise and then push themselves across the floor. I didn't get any photos, but I think I'm going to prompt them into doing it again so I can get some pics. Too cute of a moment to not document it.

Then this morning I hear Nico call out - "Look MOMMMY! I'm doing jumpastics!" as he's bouncing across the couch. No pictures of that one!

More beach pictures

At the beach for 4 days and took over 700 pictures!

We went down to Ft. Matanzas Nat. park, you take a float over to this tiny fort in the middle of the river. Read more about the site by following the link, it will do a much better job than my cr@ppy grammar.

The place is crawling with HUGE Golden Orb spiders (typical web spans 5feet!) these suckers were some of the biggest orb spiders I've seen in long time. This particular one was not that big but you can see her web. Female Golden Orbs are roughly 25mm (leg span of a avg. human hand) and like to create their webs at face height from the ground - [shivers] but they do not bite or sting.



The boys tucking under the webs, poor nick was catching all the webs.

Saturday night Joe & I went out to Caps on the Water, a very tasty seafood restaurant down the street from the house. We had a shrimp pastry appetizer, oh my gosh it was good. I do not even know what exactly it was, joe ordered it - good job. It was a puff pastry filled with saute shrimps with boursin cheese or something.

Here joe and his dinner of pan-seared Tuna filet on a black bean cake. I had the St. augustine shrimp (fried shrimp) that was sooo yummmy. My sides were plantains & miso cucumber slaw (cuks, red pepper strips, carrots strips), the slaw dressing was perfect for dipping the shrimp. I'm not a cocktail/tartar sauce person, give me some other dip or just plain lemon & horseradish.

This is the cool thing about the beach up here in north FL, its all shell. The boys couldn't make a sandcastles like they do in St. Pete.


Surfer boy Henry, he took to boogie boarding like he's been doing it for years. The surf is perfect, low long sets that just roll in along the shallow beach.

Heading out to the fort, about a 5 minute ride on a pontoon boat.


Nico decided that he was not going up to the top of the fort - half way up. The opening is about 30inches by 24inches wide & straight up.

Henry heading back down, the wall around the top was about 4feet high. We had to wait about 10mins while person after person headed up to the top.

Guard station on first landing.

Joe pointing out big spiders as we head down the natural trail on the mainland.

At the beach

The boys & I are hanging out at MIL's beach house for my 40th birthday! (did i just say that out loud) We're enjoying ourselves -especially H, he loved doing cannonballs into the pool.

The view down the beach with Joe & H in distance.

Henry enjoying the surf, the waves were crashing over his head and he just giggled.

Me & h watching the tubes coming in. It was almost high tide, the surf was picking up & the riptide was really working on the legs.

Joe caught me skipping through the surf.

More funnies

Where's Henry?
There he is!

Nico showing off his new shinner, the boys were jumping from the coffee table to the couch (thanks dad) and nico hit the edge of a toy hiding in the couch.


Another disaster in the makings - joe pulled the boys pants up to their shoulders with their arms tucked inside - h took a header into the wall and busted his lip.


Nico watching the rain, he pulled over his little chair to watch the water rise around his toys on the porch.

2 funny pages

More pictures of my days as a SU! demo and hanging at conventions. Shh! page is about 4 of us crammed in a little hotel room at the 2002 Leadership meeting in Utah. Julie liked to go to bed early while the 3 noisy-makers stayed up talking. Julie would sit up and yell - GO TO BED KIDS! She has 4 kiddos and has a great mommy voice.

I had all these misc. pieces floating around my desk from the last few layouts that I did - sticker & paper scraps. The sticker border up in the right is the negative border from a sticker sheet. It's cool looking so I used it as a decorative element.

This was my favourite & only winter time cap, I lost it a few years ago. The girls thought it was the funny thing that they have ever seen on an adult.


Used up leftover sticker strips & pieces of paper. That October Afternoon bookplate is mighty handy.

Last day of summer school

Last day of school for H and this is what I found when I picked him up. He fell an the way to school and skinned up his forehead & nose. Then he tripped in the hallway and skinned up his knees, what a mess. He did say he had a great day at school despite the boo-boos.

little swimmers

I did not do one scrappy thing this weekend, just hung out with the boys. The pool has recovered from the frogs, they kept claiming it as a nesting ground - ICK! All the rain we have been having threw the pool chemicals out and the froggies were enjoying those 2 days of low chlorine. I double-dosed the pool and ran the filter for 24 hrs, that did the trick.

This little pool has been a lot of fun this summer, the boys are finally swimming around like frogs.
Nico does not like it when H gets near him, gee I wonder why.

baby chopsticks

Nico eating his leftover Pei Wei noodles & chicken. He loves using the chopsticks & the "squeaker" - nico's name for the chopstick holder. If you have a Pei Wei locally and haven't tried it yet, YOU HAVE TO GO! I had the orange peel tofu & veggies, oh my yummy-licious.



And a picture of Henry in his latest Doctor ensemble, goofball.

2002

Found this picture while digging through a box, its me & SU! sisters in St. Louis 20o2 convention.
Stamped the background, cut out a frame, used a strip of hambly & some leftover stickers.

Got this page back from the store did it over a year ago, look how cute nico is with those curls.

Toot toot toot

I got an email from Scrap Street asking for one of my layouts for their September issue!!