Scrapbook Friday (er... Tuesday)

I'm a little late on getting this posted.
Britt put two mini kits in her shop last Friday, and she has a design team grab bag (today is the last day for it) from when I was gone that I still wanted to play with.
I did a 2 pager, but I couldn't get the first page to look right, and I haven't had time to go back and mess with it, so here's page #2 for now...

The list of credits is long, but you can see it here.

Monday Menu

I thought it would be easy to plan this week because we already have a lot going on, but I'm still getting stuck for ideas. Does anyone else feel like they eat the same thing week after week?


Monday- pasta of some sort, salad, & garlic bread
Tuesday- pizza with my family
Wednesday- tacos
Thursday- group
Friday- orange pancakes and eggs
Saturday- 4th of July food (bbq chicken & potatoes maybe?)
Sunday-

I'm not too sure about this, but oh well, I need to get to the grocery store, so I guess it'll work.

Trying to get back in the swing of things...

The problem with going on vacation 2 days after school gets out is that I'm not quite sure what the swing of things is now that we're home. When we left we were still in school mode, and now we're in summer vacation mode, which is great, but I think it makes it harder to get back to "normal" life.
I got a lot done this week though.
Monday I had to go grocery shopping, unpack, and do laundry. At the end of the day I was exhausted, but my house looked like I'd done nothing all day. Oh, I had been planning on cleaning the bathrooms really well later in the week, but R moved that up on my to do list, so I had to scrub the kids' bathroom that day too.
Tuesday I had my GD test in the morning and then I did some shopping in town before getting back to it at home. I can't remember exactly what I did, but I do know that my house finally started to look a little better by the end of the day.
Wednesday I cleaned our master bath and that's it. I was tired! lol
Thursday we had a play date with friends and then I had to get some scrapping done for Britt (which I still need to upload).
Friday my mom took the kids up to her house for the night. I listed a bunch of stuff on ebay and then went to Target to try to finish my registry. That's totally frustrating me. I started the registry online, but nothing online is available in the store, so I went in to finish it, but none of that stuff is available online.
Saturday I went up to my mom's to swim and pick the kids up.
But anyway, I had a busy week, but don't feel like I got that much done really.
I did manage to go through some of the pictures from our trip, for those not on FB I think you can go here to see them all. Let me know if that doesn't work and I'll post some to my blog.

Okay, I'll be back later with my scrapbook page(s) for the week.

Monday Menu Madness

We're home.
We got back Saturday afternoon from a week in Tennessee at my grandparents. It was a nice relaxing trip, just what we wanted. Of course, now that we're back home I'm not so relaxed... I have a ton of laundry to do, the house is a MESS, we have no food, and we leave again in less than 3 weeks. Never mind the fact that I'm creeping up on my 3rd trimester (or maybe I'm already there, it depends where you look) and I still have baby stuff to take care of...
Anyway, we're home, and I need to figure out what to feed my family this week.

Monday- parmesan baked potatoes (leftover from last night) with salad
Tuesday- waffles with fresh fruit & scrambled eggs
Wednesday- BLTs
Thursday- fettuccine alfredo with chicken & broccoli and garlic bread
Friday- out
Saturday- pesto pasta or something easy...
Sunday- hot dogs & brownies

In scrapbook news, I totally missed all of last week, but Britt has a bunch of fun things out, go check out her blog for all the details! I'm hoping I can play with a few things later in the week. :)

Okay... off to switch the laundry and head to the grocery store. I've been adding trip pictures to FB for those of you on there, I'll try to get some up on my blog later in the week.

Scrapbook Friday & The Last Day Of School

The kids' last day of school was yesterday. Here they are before we headed out. M had beach day at school, which is the only reason she's in capris and a tank top, it was not very warm yesterday!

I thought these last two pictures were funny. Right after that second one R started yelling at M and then our morning went down hill very fast, there was lots of yelling and I'm very glad the construction workers came to work late and didn't hear us (just keeping it real).

Here are their first day pictures for comparison...


Now onto the Friday stuff...
Britt's new kit this week is called Hooligans. It's a fun boy-ish kit that's JAM PACKED!!
As soon as I saw the alpha I thought of this picture I had of R and knew I had to scrap it.

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Remember last week how I posted about Britt participating in the Foster's Wish colab? Well, everyone who bought it in the first week got put into a drawing for $90 worth of gift certificates from the designers, and guess who won?!? ME!!! I just found out this morning, and I'm so excited, I never win things like that, and I honestly forgot about the drawing after I bought the kit. I can't wait to shop!!

Anyway... that's it for my Friday post, I'm off to finish the laundry, clean the house, and PACK!

26 week appointment

I had my 26 week appointment today. Everything looked good with the baby... heart rate was in the 150's like always, gained 4lbs, measuring fine, ect... I asked about inducing before my due date due to my blood pressure stuff and he said he was going to start weekly monitoring at 32 weeks to keep an eye on the baby and the placenta (he didn't use the phrase "non-stress test", but I'm thinking that's what he meant??). He also said he wouldn't let me go past my due date, which I was already counting on. lol I got my paperwork for the GD test, but he said I could do it after we get back from vacation, so I need to remember to do that when I get home! lol I have one more appointment in 4 weeks and then I go to 2 weekers (or maybe I'll go right to one week ones with the extra monitoring, I'm not sure how that will work...).
So all in all a good appointment. I had to take the kids with me and they both did really well, so that was nice!

Teacher Gifts

Here's what we ended up doing for the kids' teachers this year...

The flowers say "Thank you for helping me grow" on one side, with the picture on the other (all digi products are Britt's).

Playing Catch-Up

It's been a crazy weekend and this week I'm sure will be just as crazy.

We had lots to do over the weekend, but Saturday our niece in Redding went into the hospital and was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, so we headed over there. She's doing better now that they have her on insulin, but it made for a quite a crazy weekend for the whole family, and we didn't get home until last night.

While we were in Redding I went out to the outlets with the kids (there's only so much you can do with little kids in a hospital waiting room), and as we were leaving there M lost her first tooth! She waited until last when we were home to put it under her pillow, here's a picture from last night...

This morning when I asked her if the tooth fairy had come R came running in and asked if the tooth fairy brought her a new tooth. lol

So, we didn't get anything done over the weekend that we had planned (although we did take the kids to see Up earlier Saturday), and now we're trying to figure out how to get some of it done this week (which is totally crazy).

It's the last week of school for the kids, and we missed Monday, so today is feeling totally off to me. Here's our week...

Tuesday- R has pajama day today, I have to go grocery shopping and meet Matthew at Costco tonight. Oh, and the kids and I have to paint 5 pots for their teachers this afternoon.
Wednesday- the Crabs will be at M's school to sign autographs (note to self: get baseball for her to bring in), and she has her end of year party (root beer floats and t-shirt signing) that R and I will be going to. Then I have an OB appointment in the afternoon.
Thursday- the last day for both of them. M has beach day at school (should be fun in the rain and fog), R has an end of year picnic (which should also be fun if it rains...), and then M gets out early (meaning I have to run from R's picnic to her school to get her). We have group that night and I'm going to hit Target one last time before we leave town.
Friday- I think I may declare it pajama day here at home. lol Laundry and packing are all I have planned so far, we've leaving on a jet plane early Saturday morning. :)

So, this week's menu...

Monday- Taco pie (I had everything thawed out before we left Saturday, so it had to be done asap)
Tuesday- Costco food court probably
Wednesday- Something with chicken, I pulled some out before I knew we had to do Costco tonight... Matthew working late, so something easy with it... lol
Thursday- Group, pizza!
Friday- something really easy that won't leave leftovers...

Whew! I was hoping that writing that all out would make me less stressed about the week, but I don't think it did, my head is spinning!


Oh, and look at my ticker!! I'm in the double digits! When I first got that thing there was something like 250 days on it. Yikes!!

Scrapbook Friday

We've reached the end of another busy week!

Last night was the preschool graduation, and while R didn't graduate, they had a little part of it for the kids who were being "promoted". He got to sing a song and it was pretty cute! Bad mommy that I am didn't even bring my camera, I just didn't want the stress of trying to get a picture with all the parents there trying to get pictures of their graduates. I will take pics next year!
T-ball is now over too. M was supposed to play her last game yesterday, but it was too wet. Now we're just waiting to see when her team party will be.
So things are starting to calm down. One more week of school, and then our crazy summer will start!
Today M has pajama day at school, and next week R has pajama day on Tuesday, M has a party on Wednesday, and R has a picnic Thursday, which is their last day. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by!

But anyway... today Britt has a new Inspired By template pack out: Inspired By Wendy. I always love the template packs, they make it so easy to scrap!
Here's what I did with it...

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Britt also participated in a huge charity colab this week that you all have to check out! It's called Foster's Wish and it's HUGE! You can read more about it on Britt's Blog.
I'm DLing the kit now, and I can't wait to check it all out!

Okay, I'm off to get some stuff done, I hope you all have a good weekend!

A couple pictures

Just a couple pictures from the game that I took with my camera for now...

My cuties with all of their stuff (the bears were the free promo thing they did that night, the $50 worth of clothes and accessories we bought the bears at the build-a-bear shop were not).

I thought it was funny that "The Lou Seal" (as R calls him) was stretching with some of the guys, and I thought it was even funnier that I caught this action shot of him getting his hat knocked off. lol


Okay... that's if for now. I'm still waiting to find out if M is supposed to play t-ball tonight in the rain and thunder...

Monday Menu

Whew, we're back from a crazy busy whirlwind weekend down in SF! We drove down Saturday morning and met Matthew's mom and Zack at our hotel. I had just under two hours to shop before we headed into the city for the game. Giants lost (it's Matthew's fault, every time he goes they loose lol), but we still had fun. We got back to the hotel just before 10 and pretty much just went to bed. Then yesterday we hit Trader Joe's and Ikea before heading back home. It was a fun trip, but there was really no down time other than when we were driving (which is not too relaxing when you have kids with you lol).
M puked in her bed last night. We think she just has a sensitive stomach, she's fine today, but I kept her home anyway (which would be the second time in less than a week that I'm sitting at home with a "sick" kid). The kids are playing nicely though, so that's good! :)
I'll post some pictures from the weekend later. I took a few with my p&s, but Zack brought his Nikon so I used that mostly and I'm waiting for him to email them to me still.

Okay... on to the Monday fun of planning the menu...

Monday- chicken something...
Tuesday- (t-balll) twice baked potatoes
Wednesday- umm... lol
Thursday- (t-ball & preschool "graduation") pizza
Friday- out
Saturday- taco pie
Sunday-

Because I have both kids home today I'm not going grocery shopping until tomorrow, so I'm not under pressure to actually get my menu planned. lol