Maya Angelou : The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

growing so + a layout

How is it possible Mr. O is already 4 months old? Yesterday we had the 4 month well check at the doctors along with shots. Yay for shots, they are always so fun! Anyway, Mr. O needs to eat some fattening food because he is only 11lb 13.5 oz. He's right on the 50th percentile for height but weight he is only hitting 10th percentile. This boy needs some food to stick to his bones. Why can't I have this issue? Here is my daily pic (did I mention I am trying to do a picture a day for the whole year, 365. Let's emphasize the word try...I am doing great so far but we are only a couple weeks in!)
Just to put something scrappy in, here is a layout I did a while back. I don't like to spend a long time on one layout and my style is pretty simple. I haven't added the journaling in yet but here it is...

This is from our trip apple picking. Mr. B was very excited and was walking ahead of us because he really wanted to pick apples. The picture on the right is a black and white photo. I printed one color version and one black and white. Using a circle punch, I punched out Mr. B and used pop-dots to adhere the picture right over the black and white. this way he really stands out and I like how it isolates him.

Since I only have one child at home right now I need to take advantage of it and get something done so, off I go! Have a great day!

So because of all the stuff and busyness going on in our life right now I have not had time to do many creative things. My brain is spinning with ideas and every time I walk by my desk and see my half done projects my fingers are itching to make and create. I have a new sewing machine I got for Christmas that is still in the box that calls my name as I walk by. Will I ever have time.....

Here are the things that are making my brain spin right now

apple pillow

love the use of the cutouts in the flowers from retrospections blog...

the butterflies from Pottery Barn Kids...so cute!

I want to make these canvases for Kennedy's room...





I think Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas would be perfect for this project. I have two packs waiting for me to play but like I said, I just haven't had time.

P.S.- I found the Wii!! Yay for us and ya for the kids. It will be shipping soon. can't wait to have bowling tournaments! Dorky, I know. What can I say.

enough said

sickness + holidays= neglected blog

Never a good combo those two. My poor blog has suffered dearly and I apologize. I don't want to bore you all with the longest blog post ever about our holidays so I will just say they were very nice. My aunt and uncle from New York flew in and my aunt from Pasadena came down so we had quite the crowd spending the night at my parents house. I think there were 13 of us spending the night.

New Year's was fun as well. We went to our friend's house and played games and just had a fun time! The kids played Wii ALL night. They are now begging for one

There's the quick holiday recap.

Now we are back in the swing of school and all the other goodies that go along with it.

Happy 2009! Great things are in store for the new year!