Blog Catch Up

Ok it has been a very busy time in our household so I'm hopefully going to play a little catch up this weekend. So lets start with my 12 project. Here is my day in 12 photos from the 12th of February in my house.

Q isn't allergic to dairy anymore (he grew out of his allergy) so he has been trying every dairy product under the sun. For his birthday my mom and dad got him tons of cheesy stuff to try. He starts his day with dairy and ends it that way. He loves it!!!!

 Olivia's new favorite thing is to watch Disney parades on Youtube with her siblings and dance along to the music

This is probably the #1 parade of choice. "Move It-Shake It-Celebrate It"

 Of course you need to kiss your sister after watching and dancing to several parades.

 Then its time to get ready for the day....and this is how she wants to do it.

 And we thought she was not going to be girly....we are proven wrong.

 A new cupcake shop opened up in our area. And now that Q can have dairy and Grace can have wheat (she grew out of her wheat allergy) we can get normal cupcakes for the majority of us. Olivia will still need a special one but hopefully she will someday grow out of her allergies as well.

 She was really mad at Gracie for not getting her the right snack from the cupboard. She has quit the personality!!!!

 Showing daddy that she can now eat with a spoon. Such a big girl. My kids love rice with spaghetti sauce.

 This is Qs 100th day of school project that he made. He put 100 tiny photos on it.

After the kids got to bed mommy got crafty.  I have been working hard on a new project called Mouse Ideas. Stay tuned for more on this. Cant wait to get it all set up to share it.

 I finished this layout today 11 months ago on the 12th of March we got engaged. We have a thing for 12.

Guest Designing in February at Scraptastic Club

Hearts A Flutter

 A Boy's Life

These kits are on their way to my house right now!!! I cant wait to get some time to play with these great kits. I have my pictures and sketches all ready to go. They also have an add-on kit that coordinates with each kit. I will keep you posted with my projects and in the mean time go check out their blog!

I LOVE THIS PICTURE! I just had to share it :-)

Yes, I have jumped on the Project Life band wagon. But, I am going to do it my way. I am using a mixture of the divided page protectors along with standard 12x12 ones. I tried it with just the divided ones and then I tried with just 12x12 pages and I didn't like either. So, a combo of the two is what I will use and I love it. Above is week 1and week 2 is currently on my desk ready to be completed. What I love about this project is it is forcing me to get out my camera more and really focus in on the little things in life.

 My day in 12 photos.

My hope is that on the 12th day each month i take 12 photos. We shall see if I can keep up with this.  

Good morning its time for coffee.

Its starting to snow, we are supposed to get 4-6 inches by the end of the day.

 Time for breakfast for Livie.

 Grocery shopping.

 Gracie finished her beautiful autobiography.

We met her at school to celebrate

Nap time.

 Its still snowing.

 Id like to scrapbook...but its just one big mess on my table.

 Trucks work best on hard wood floors.

 I love her crazy hair when she takes out her bows.

 I dislike folding socks! I think I will head back to the scrapbook table.

 Top 11 Crafty Projects of 2011

Olivia's Crocheted Flower Hat

 Baby Love Layout

 First Birthday Wreath

 Reverse Applique Onesie

 Love That Smile Layout

 Vegas Mini Book

 Thanksgiving Place Cards

 Stay This Way Layout

Smash Book for kids

 The Luckiest Layout

2011 December Daily

Is it Spring?

Last week when we had a tiny bit of snow it made one little boy very happy. He played outside for hours in the course of the two day time span that the snow stayed in my yard. There was not much there to play with but he made due. Now this week he has no snow anymore and it is almost 50 outside. 49 degrees according to the weather app on my phone to be exact. While I am relishing in the no snow factor this season there is one little boy who is really hating it. He asked me today if it was spring. When I replied with a no, but it sure does feel like it, he got a little weepy.

Meanwhile I am plugging away at getting my house tidy, finishing up that December Daily that has become a thorn in my side and starting on my very first Project Life Album. Crafty projects keep me sane. I have many more I'm working on and look forward to their completion so I can post them soon.

 Just so you know I'm Real

I try really hard to keep my blog on the positive and focus and all that is good in my life. But, that leaves a lot of me out. I bet that there is a lot of "me" that some of you out there can relate to so I am letting go for a minute and giving you some reality in my life that isn't so super! Below you will find pictures of our playroom and our island in the kitchen. After all the gifts were open and the kids were home for a week my house got a little out of hand. I am not even sure were to put all this new stuff. My scrapbook table is even worse. It looks like a December daily explosion. I am extremely anxious to get myself dug out of this mess so I can get to crafting more. I hope that it will get cleaning up soon, but in all honesty it will probably take me a while to get it done. I will do a little each day until it is all back in order. It gets me wondering How do others do it? How do they keep it all under control around and after the holidays? Are there lots of people out there like me or are there more people that can keep it all together no matter what gets thrown their way? Just makes me wonder. I would like to think that the "me" type people are the norm but its the ones that keep it all together that just talk about it more.