Pictures and Stuff

M was so tired after school last week. I took them outside one day to ride bikes and they just kept whining and complaining, so after a few minutes I told them we were going in, and they both started crying, of course, and saying they were having fun (yeah, lots of fun!). So I had them go to their rooms for a break and after a while they stopped crying. I went to check on them, R was playing nicely, and this was how I found M...

One night last week R decided his closet would be a more comfortable place to sleep than his bed... with mittens and a hat on. lol He pulled all those toys in there around him too.
Look at how he's laying, I think he might have been sucking his thumb. He will do that every once in a while now, but I can tell he doesn't like it nearly as much as his bobi.

This was after I pulled him out and took the mitten off, he looked so cute I had to take one more picture before taking his hat off.

Today we decided to go for a walk on Trinidad head. It was windy, but not too bad (except on the very top).

I could not get over how pretty the ocean was! It's never this color here. I kept expecting to see white sand beaches instead of the gray sand, rocks, and greenery.

M took this one of Matthew and I, this is her in-camera crop, she's a natural!

M was holding her hat on almost the whole time, so R decided he'd better hold his head on. lol They were so cute holding hands.

We (Matthew) was going to BBQ tonight, but they got a call for a restaurant, so we picked up a pizza instead. I'm just being lazy with the kids now until dinner time. I bid on some Halloween costumes for them on ebay. M is going to be Tinkerbell, and I finally got R talked into Peter Pan, so I didn't want to waist any time because I'm sure he'll change his mind again. lol

Getting ready for busy week. I have a page I need to scrap for Britt before Friday, a session I need to finish proofing, there's a showing tomorrow morning, then I'm going to look at houses Wednesday morning, Thursday morning I have a doctors appointment and then I'm going to do some shopping in town on my own, and then Friday after school we're heading over to SIL's for the weekend. Yikes!!

Scrap Stuff

I've been a bad blogger this week. After 3 posts in 2 days all about school I was a little burnt out. I have a bunch of pictures on the camera to post, hopefully in the next couple days I will get to them. For now, here are a few LOs I've done for my CTs this week...

This one is with Britt's new template pack, Wide Open Spaces. It's an awesome pack, one of my faves I think! I plan to use it for many more LOs!!

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And this is with Andilynn's new kid Hot August Nights. This is something a little different for me, I'm still not 100% sure I love it, but I think it shows off a lot of the fun things in the new kit.

...And a Preschooler (picture overload)

R's first day was today. He was SO excited!! He got himself dressed this morning (even his shirt and socks, which he always says he can't do) and he was just so cute. We took M to school first and then I took him to school. When we were walking in he said, "is this REALLY my school?!?" He was so cute!! He went right in and put his stuff in his cubbie and then sat down to play palydough. He's such a big boy now.
Here's a bunch of pics...
The standard outside the front door shot(s)...

Being goofy inside before we left

And here's a bunch more of M in her new school clothes from the other day...
I just LOVE this first little outfit!

This is what she did when I told her to look over her shoulder at me... Guess she took it literately? lol

At the end we had some fun in her new Hannah Montana shirt (and Mommy had some fun post possessing this one!)

We went into the eye doctor here last week. We saw her old doctor who is in a small office right in town. Her rx hasn't changed, but her glasses are so scratched up and not staying put on her little nose anymore, so we're getting new ones anyway (and paying out of pocket... oy!). We had them order some little plastic frames and they came in yesterday so we went to try them on after school. They are so cute! They wanted to make sure she liked them before they sent them off to the lab, so we should get them sometime next week. We went with the lighter and scratch-resistant lenses, so hopefully they'll stay on a little better than her last two pairs have!

A couple first day funnies

I just picked M up from school and I was asking her about her day. She told me she ate lunch at the "lunch buffet" (instead of cafeteria), and then she said they got to "meet the prisoner." I asked her what she was talking about and she says, "you know, the thing Nana is." (ohhh... the PRINCIPAL). lol
Other than that she pretty much said they ate snack outside, played on the playground twice, and did lots of other stuff that she forgets now. She had fun though.

I have a Kindergartener

M started kindergarten this morning. She did pretty well. She was super excited all weekend, but when we got there she got shy. We hung out for a while, I wanted to wait until the teacher started class, but after waiting a while we decided to go. She knew one of the little boys in her class, but none of the kids she went to preschool with the year before were there except the one boy (who's grandparents also use to live across the street from us).
I'm glad today is an early day, I cannot wait to pick her up and find out how her day went!
Here are a few pics... Don't you just love the color of our front door? LOL It's a rental, what can I do?
Ready to go...


I convinced her to let me take pictures of her in all her new school clothes yesterday. Here's one (same outfit as today)... I'll see if I can get some more posted later, she's hard to get pictures of!

Tomorrow I'll be doing it all over again with R. He's pretty excited to go to preschool!

Just hanging out

I've been quite this past week. We're all fighting off something, and we've been tried. Nothing too exciting going on... The kids start school next week. I'm hoping to take some pictures of M in all her school clothes this weekend, we'll see...

Britt has a new kit out today, it's called Fairchild. For this week only if you buy the kit you will automatically get this super cute brag book with your DL! I did one of the pages (the yellow with the hanging 3x frame), it was my first quick page, and it was fun. :)

This is such a cute kit! Here's what I did with it this week...

I'm planning on using it again for some back to school pages next week, but it matched M's outfit so well I had to use it for her last day too.

I took some pictures of the kids playing in Piz and Papa's (my parents) pool last weekend, but I have yet to edit them. I looked at them quickly when I loaded them onto the computer and it looks like I got some good ones. I will post some later. :)
Hope everyone has a good weekend!!

Ahh... A Nap

Not for me, but the next best thing... R finally got too tired to skip nap today and he's in a MUCH better mood now.

I got a LO done today too! I've been so tired and have had such a creative block all week, I felt like I couldn't get anything scrapped. I decided to do the scraplifting challenge over at SM, and I'm very happy with the page I did (and the fact that I actually finished a page and I like it!).

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The kids went to the dentist yesterday and they both did great! No cavities or problems for either of them.

I forgot to post earlier, but M went upstairs at church last weekend for the first time. For some reason that seems like a big deal to me.

Not much else to report. Matthew's been in Redding, he's coming home tonight, but it sounds like he's going to have to go back again next week.
The kids start school in just over a week. eek!!