I did it! 7 layouts in 2 days!!

Whew, I think I'm going to need a scraping break! Today is the last day of the Queen of Scrap contest on Scrapmatters. While I didn't get close to winning (some ladies did over 100 LOs this month!!), there was a participation prize announced yesterday for everyone who did at least 35 LOs. I was at 28 thinking I would like to get to 30 when I read that, but I really liked the prize, so I decided to go for it. Here's the fruit of my labor...

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Last Day of PreK

Today was M's last day of preK, I cannot believe she's done with preschool now. Here's her first day/last day pictures...

We were at her school all morning today doing a school wide "track meet". The older grades set up fun little events for the younger grades and preschoolers to compete in. M placed 2nd in two events and got ribbons for both. It was fun, and I got a lot of cute pictures of her with her friends (and the boy she says she's going to marry!).
I think we're going to make a scrapbook together this summer of all her school stuff. The books I've been working on are just family books, so I think it would be a fun summer project to do one of just her school stuff together... friends, parties, field trips, ect... I might try doing a hybrid chipboard album, but I'm not sure yet...

Here is a LO I did today for an 8 simple rules challenge over at ScrapMatters. I'm really loving the way it turned out!

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I'm off to watch the Lost marathon in a bit. We missed last week, so I'm going to catch that at 8 and then watch the new one after it. I still can't make up my mind on how I feel about that show. It drives me crazy, but I keep coming back for ANSWERS!! lol

I forgot one (and a small house update)

I meant to upload this one last night, but I missed it. Check out R's hair! It did that on it's own while we was swimming and then it stayed that way all night. lol

I talked to the relater today. There's been another relater who just drops by without an appointment and comes on in even if we're not home. His card appeared on our kitchen counter last week with all the other cards, and neither Matthew or I could figure out when he had a showing. Turns out he didn't. He came by again yesterday morning while I was home with the same client. I let them look around, but I really wasn't comfortable with it (and my house was a mess!). So, I told our relater about it and he called the other relater. Turns out his client is "interested" in our house. We'll see if anything comes of it since we've had interest in it before, but it's a good sign!
We also had another showing today, I made cookies (just the break and bake kind) so the house would smell good and now I'm trying to to eat all of them. I better hold off, I did promise the kids they could have one after dinner.

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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