Almost crawling, Biter Biscuits and other photos

Here are a few pictures from the last week.

Abby is pushing up on her knees, rocking a little and trying to figure out how to crawl. She's done a bit of an army crawl on her tummy but still rolls most of the time. My baby girl will be crawling in no time, though. She's progressing every day and seems more and more determined by the minute. Probably because Joshua keeps all the good toys just out of her reach. :)


I started to give her these biscuits to chew on while I am cooking or in between bites at meals. She loves these things. They make a complete mess, but are so worth it because she's happy as a clam with one in her hand. Well, until she hangs it over the side of the chair and Rocky grabs it.


We were all just hanging out over the weekend and I tried to capture a shot of us all together on the ground. Didn't quite get it just right...but I still like it. I included one of the blooper shots to show you typical Joshua. He waits until I am about to take apicture then covers his eyes, looks away, makes a face or in this case kisses Abby. I wouldn't mind except he'd do it right as I was taking the picture so it made them all blurry.

Sketch and two announcements!

I have a new sketch for you today!

But first, I wanted to let you know that you still have until midnight tonight to submit for the Guest CT member position at Feeling Scrappy! (Scroll down to a previous post for details.)

Also, we will be having a Scrap with Us on the message Board at Feeling Scrappy on Tuesday. A few challenges, lots of chatting and just hanging out while we scrap. I hope you'll join us! Even if you've never been over to FS, I hope you'll join and spend the day scrapping. We had lots of fun last month and so I am really looking forward to this one. :)

And here's my sketch! I hope you like it. Let me know if you use it! :)

Deadline extended til Sunday!

Due to the board being down the last couple of days, we are extending the deadline for the Guest CT call until Sunday at midnight. Scroll down to see the sketch and read the instructions for submitting!! Good luck everyone! :)

Layout-Kitchen Keepsakes

I love my Kitchen Keepsakes album! It is filling up with family recipes and other fun things about our kitchen and traditions. We have a monthly KK challenge on Feeling Scrappy hosted by Jayne each month. This month is about casseroles. This is a recipe from Jeremy's grandma that we really love. The papers, rubons and letters are from the store at Paper Popsicles.

More Sketchapalooza layouts

Here are some more layouts I did during the Sketchapalooza class on Feeling Scrappy. Hope you like them!! Sorry I haven't posted much lately-been super busy!

Two birthdays!

We celebrated my birthday and Joshua's birthday last week. Not a great photo of me here but I thought it was so cute because it looks like Abby is giving me a little birthday kiss. Awwww...


Then Joshua's birthday was the next day. And the following day. LOL We had a party for him on Saturday (his bday was Friday) so he got to celebrate for two days. :) I did a couple of little special things for him on his actual birthday such as give him a train he's been wanting (Gordon) and decorate his door with streamers. Then we took him for ice cream when Jeremy got home.
Our THREE year old!!!


Then we partied with friends and family on Saturday. The theme was Thomas of course. joshua was Go Go Go Go Go the whole time. I am lucky to have even gotten the photos I did. Many of them were just blurs of color. I tried so hard to get a good shot of him...didn't happen.


Joshua has Thomas stuff coming out of his ears. Here's the kids checking out his trains in his room. Notice how the trains are NOT on the brand new train table grandmas and grandpa D got for him? (They made it there later...mostly by my hands.)


Last but not least, Abby with a party hat...clearly not as amused with it as we were.

Guest Creative Team Member Call for Feeling Scrappy

Guest Creative Team Member Call for Feeling Scrappy

Feeling Scrappy, an exciting spot on the web that offers on-line classes for every level of scrapper, has an opening for one Guest Designer on our Creative Team! We are seeking a creative, fun, scrapbooker who has the ability to inspire and motivate others with their work to serve a one-month term in May. No previous design team experience is required – we encourage all styles of scrappers to apply!

Here are the details-
1. Join and be an active member of our message board at www.feelingscrappy.com during the call. Being able to interact on the board with our members is very important.
2. Complete a NEW layout (focusing on the creative use of embellishments) using the sketch shown below by Friday, April 18th.
3. Please do not post your layout anywhere else on the web until the winner is announced.
4. Winner will be announced no later than April 21st.
5. If you are chosen to be our first ever Guest CT member, you will be expected to publicize the class and Feeling Scrappy before the class begins and during the class on your blog or any boards you belong to if allowed.
6. Guest CT Member will receive 3 assignments for the Feeling Scrappy May Embellishment Class on April 21st and will have up to two weeks to complete them.
7. As a thank you, Guest CT member will receive the May Embellishment Class for free! ($25 value!), special recognition on the Feeling Scrappy Home Page and a special award blinkie to display anywhere on the web.

Send the following to feelingscrappyguestctcall@yahoo.com
1.)Your basic information: name, e-mail, and username at Feeling Scrappy.
2.)Your layout created using our sketch.
3.)A link to your blog and/or image hosting site (if applicable)
4.)A brief paragraph about yourself that includes the answers to the following questions:
How long have you been scrapping?
Are you active on any message board and if so which ones?
Are you on any design teams? Which ones?
Why do you want to be a guest CT member?
How would you be able to promote Feeling Scrappy classes?
How much time during May can you devote to Feeling Scrappy?
What do you feel you could bring to the Creative Team at Feeling Scrappy?

Create your layout based on the following sketch that I created.
Remember to add your own style and use embellishments creatively!!

A few layouts

Wow!! March was a crazy fun-filled scrappy month. We just finished up Sketchapalooza for Feeling Scrappy and I completed 20 some layouts!! I don't think I have ever done that many pages in such a short time. I am not posting them all, but I'm going to post a couple of favorites today.

Also, Feeling Scrappy's next class will be starting May 6th. It is called Embellish It! and will be all about using all of those embellishments in your stash. It's going to be a blast! I hope you will consider joining us. Here's the info.

Need to edit...my fingers got happy and hit the publish button too soon.

Tagged!

Angie tagged me!

I am supposed to list 7 random facts about myself...

Here's how it works:

1. Link to the person that tagged you and leave a comment on their blog, so that their readers can visit yours.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share 7 Random facts about yourself on your blog.
4. Tag 7 random people at the bottom of your post, linking to their blog. Let each person know by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 random things you probably don't really care to know but I'm telling you anyway.
1. I am addicted to Google Reader and have waaaay too many blog subscriptions.
2. I know all the words to the Thomas the Train theme song.
3. I hate it when my toenails are not painted.
4. I'm going to be 32 this week!!! Yikes!
5. My husband and daughter share the same birthday. (Mine and my son's are only a day apart!)
6. The first thing I do every morning is make coffee.
7. It takes me almost two hours to get myself and the kids ready to go and out the door.

Denise, Emily, Melanie, Christine, Lisa J., MichelleP, Jeanne**Sorry- Need to run...no time to link to the blogs. I will try to do it later. :)

Bucket List

We had a fun challenge over at Feeling Scrappy to do a page with 10 things you'd like to do before you "kick the bucket." I picked 10 things that are pretty much in my control anywhere I am. I already have a page where I listed places I want to visit so I didn't include any of that. This is a sketch from Pencil Lines. I had fun creating this one!


Sorry- I deleted the original post due to some spam...Go away spammers!