Pictures!

Here are some pictures from while we were down at Nana's...
Before you yell at me for R not having a helmet on let me explain that we got the bike while we were down there, and all he really did was sit on it a few times. He does have a helmet, and he will be wearing it whenever he rides. :)

Checking it out for the first time...

And pretending it was a motorcycle. lol

Here are some from playing out in the yard. Just some fun snaps. :)

And a few LOs I did today. I hadn't scrapped in a week I don't think, so I had to dive right in. That 4th of July LO was for a speed scrap at Scrapmatter's tonight. I'm not 100% happy with it, but I ran out of time. It feels a little too cluttered to me. Oh well...
This one was for the Tuesday Template Challenge over there. Fun stuff.

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Now I'm about to fall over, so I'm off to bed!

Does It Rain Everywhere On Memorial Day?

Seriously, is it just a California thing, or is Memorial Day always rainy for everyone?

I hear it rained a lot here over the weekend, we weren't here, but it was still not great weather at MIL's. Not that it mattered, we spent almost the whole weekend laying around inside watching tv and movies and playing games. It was great! The most exciting thing we did the whole weekend was a trip to Toy's R Us for the kids to spend some gift cards they had. Boy, was that overwhelming!
Nana and Zack got R a his first bike there too. It's very cute! I can't believe my baby boy is old enough for a bike though. I took some pictures of him on it and of both of them playing, I will post them later.

Just trying to play catch up today. I need to get to Target and the grocery store, but Matthew's van is dead so he's using the car to charge it right now (darn! lol).

This is M's last week of school... where the heck did time go? My babies are growing up way too fast!

What a difference a year makes

First of all, yesterday was the one year mark of when we moved over here. I'm not sure how much different things really are there. We've grown a ton, but as far as where we actually are, things don't feel much different. lol

But, I have to say I'm SO PROUD of M!! The kids started swim lessons this week. Some of you may remember how M was last year. She screamed. The whole time. For two weeks. She did not want to go in the water for anything! We got her goggles after the first session, and that helped a lot, but she was super dependent on those goggles and still pretty timid about the water.
Well, not anymore, she's doing awesome this year! I had them put her in a lower class because I wasn't sure how she'd do, and she definitely will need to move up for the next session. It's just R and one other little girl in their class, which is really nice. The other little girl doesn't listen well and is a little bit like M was last year, and it just makes me smile to see how far she's come.
So... here are some pics!

It was cold today... well, not COLD, but when you're wet and sitting on the side of the pool in the WIND it's cold. They were shivering here, but still oh so cute!!


Just look at her, I cannot get over how far she's come!


That's my baby girl UNDER the water!

And doing a glide...


R is doing really well too, but I didn't get many good pics of him during the lesson. At the end they turn on the play structure that sprays water and let the kids play, he LOVES the slide! Last year he wouldn't go on it when the water was spraying, but now it's no problem. :)

And one of him hanging on the wall. :)

Little Odds and Ends...

We having a showing tomorrow morning at 10. Our relater called 10 minutes after I got off the phone with my mom. I had just been telling her how we hadn't had a showing in over a week and that my house was a wreck because of it. We've been busy and when we're home we've been outside (or I've been scrapbooking during nap!), and if nobody's going to be seeing it I just can't make myself keep it "show ready". I wiped down the bathrooms tonight, and we'll give it a quick go over before we leave for church in the morning, but I'm so over it being perfect.

I'm not sure what the actual high was here today, but it got up to 110 on our back patio. I bought a new pool at Target, it's huge! It's 72"x120" I think... It took FOREVER to fill it not even half way up, but the kids had a blast running and jumping and "diving" in it all afternoon. Matthew and I even got in.

No pictures today. The kids get annoyed when I pull the camera out and I didn't feel like dealing with it. lol
Here's a layout I did during nap today though. I'm having so much fun scrapping all our Disney pictures.

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Splish Splash

It's HOT! lol
The kids have been spending a lot of time in their pool(s) outside. I did just have the little baby pool set up (the one in the first two pictures), but yesterday I thought I might blow up their bigger pool with the cool rain canopy. Yeah... it didn't work at all. The canopy just kept falling over. So, Matthew cut the pool up and threw it away. So today I go get out our other bigger regular pool (the one in the last 3 pictures). I get it all set up and it worked okay before lunch. Then we went back out after naps and it was a mess. I tried to refill two of the rings with air (while it was full of water hahaha), and then when I tried to pull the plug on the bottom to let some of the hot water out the plug ripped off taking some of the bottom with it. Nice... So the kids played in it for a bit today while it had a slow leak, and now it's drained and going to be put in the garbage too. I think the kids and I will be hitting Target tomorrow in search of a bigger pool that might work.
Anyway, here are my favorite pictures from the last two pool outings...


M is such a goof. Last year at swim lessons she would scream and cry every time she had to put her head under water. We finally got her some goggles and it completely solved the problem. But now she wants to wear them anytime she does anything having to do with water (like last summer she had to wear them while running through the sprinklers). She looks like a goof, but at least she's happy.



And here are a few layouts I've done in the last two days. I'm really happy with this teacup one, not so sure about the Ariel one...

Fun Field Trip

M had a field trip yesterday to this big blow up party equipment place, so R and I tagged along and we had so much fun! Great exercise too, I'm sore today!! Here are a few (really bad) pictures...





I've been wanting a new p&s camera for a while just because they've gotten so much better in the last 3 years sense I got that one, but after looking at these pictures I REALLY want a new one NOW!! I wonder if I can talk Matthew into letting me use the Christmas money I just found in an envelope for one... Probably not, but maybe I'll ask anyway. lol I don't even know what I want, I need to do some research. I love my SLR (although I want to upgrade that too, but that will come out of photographer money when I start working again), but I don't want to have to drag the big camera around with me on field trips and things like that. I want a nice little camera that I can toss in my purse and go. Anyone have a great one that they love?

New Plan

Seriously... if there's one thing I should know by now it's that I don't know anything. Every time I think I'm up to speed on what Matthew's thinking we should do with this move he changes his mind. I'm so use to it I usually tell people that I have no clue what's actually going on, and surprisingly that doesn't really bug me.
So, he came home today and said maybe we should give it until the end of June to try to sell the house instead of the end of May. That's fine by me. I'm not sick of this 100+ degree weather yet, and I can come up with a whole long list of things I want to do with the kids before we move. Swim lessons, the Pirate and Princess party at the public pool, the "water park", the real water park, lots of time in the kiddie pool in our backyard, and I think I even want to brave tent camping with the kids... somewhere close to start with though.
Of course, if the house actually does sell before the end of June I'm going to have to change my plans again, so I guess I still don't really know what's going on.