Weekend Recap

A very busy weekend around here. I'm gonna try to not be very wordy and just give some highlights with pictures.

Friday night was our monthly craft night with the girls. I actually got 3 pages done, which is pretty good for scrapping with friends. We usually do more talking and eating than scrapping.

My page for OLW this week. Got the background technique idea from EmilyMae Anderson.



June Sketch from DixiePieces:


Daddy's Girl Challenge at DixiePieces.



Saturday I had a few errands to run and John had to work, so my Mom kept Natalie for a few hours so I could go by myself and Natalie could get her nap. Quick funny story here: My last stop was at JCPenny's and I had been on my feet long enough and was feeling the pain of this extra 40 lbs I'm carrying around. So while I was checking out, I just sort of leaned forward over on the counter to rest my weight on it for a second. Well, not thinking how this might come across to the cashier, I totally freaked her out. She got this really panic look on her face and frantically says "Are you Ok?!" I must have really looked tired. Either that or she didn't want my water breaking on her floor.

That afternoon I went to a church congregational picnic with my parents. Natalie had a great time on the tractor ride and I got some really cute pics of her and my dad.




On Sunday we headed out to D&T's house for Alex's 3rd birthday. Telah really outdid herself with a carnival theme and I know a fun time was had by all!

No More Monkeys.....

Jumping on the bed.





The picture pretty much says it all.
Last night, the three of us were sitting on our bed, Natalie was saying her final night, night to daddy, while we were putting her pj's on. Since John and I got our new bed back in January, it has been a bit of a playground for Natalie. Although it's very high, it didn't take her long to figure how how to climb up. She likes to horse play with Daddy and just generally run and jump around. She wasn't even being all that rowdy last night, but she was standing up and took a leap/fall right into the footboard. When John picked her up, I don't remember exactly what it was he said, but something along the lines of "oh no". And just by his tone I knew something was more serious than a bump on the head. Within 5 minutes we had stopped the bleeding for the most part, dressed our selves (we were already in our pj's too) and headed to the E.R.

4 Hours and 6 stitches later, we were on our way home. Although it scared both of us terribly, I am quite amazed at how calm, collected and rational we both were when it happened, to handle the bleeding and get on our way. I'm very blessed to have a husband with a calm, cool, and collected temperament. And of course it helped that he's a nurse. If it had of been just me, I think the panic would have been much more likely to come.

Today she's back to her normal self and all is well. The picture was taken this afternoon on our way home from running errands all day.

On another note, head on over to Dixie Pieces! Ms. Natalie is featured on their home page! They are also sponsoring the latest One Little Word challenge, so if you'd like a shot at winning that kit that's also on the home page, head over to One Little Word and then get to scrappin'!

Hope everyone one has a safe and fun weekend!

Momma's Helper

After sweeping our foyer and kitchen I propped the broom against the wall to do something else. Turned around and saw I had some help.




Love that look of concentration in that last one. She loves to help me. When I unload the dishwasher, she really likes to help me with the silverware. She'll take out each piece one at a time and say "tank you" as I take each piece. She's also recently started taking our dirty clothes and putting them in the hamper for us. I'm going to enjoy every minute of it because I know a day will come that she won't like to help out.

Last night I worked on a couple of pages, and I am so in love with this page of John and Natalie. I know most dad's adore their daughters, but I am constantly amazed over the relationship John and Natalie have. Especially since he was so sure he DIDN'T want a girl before we had any kids. He loves her so much and I can't help but love him even more for it.

Anyway, used some prompts from a couple of challenges to get the idea for this one. This week's word is "Grow", and at Dixie Pieces there is a color combo challenge going on to use only black and white with a splash of "1" other color.

Also really trying to use up some older supplies I have on hand. So I used some older KI Memories paper for this one.

Scrap Catchup

So my monthly average in completed scrapbook pages has gone way down. There's just been too much other stuff going on that I haven't gotten to scrapbook. Well, we just can't have that!
I've had some time this week, so I got caught up on the OLW challenges. The last two word prompts were "perfect" and "gone". If you click on the layouts you can read the journaling.


I also have a ton of circle journal pages to catch up on. Luckily the group I'm participating with are all in town friends, so there aren't any time constraints aside from having everyone's theme done before the end of the year. Here's a page I did for "Practically family".


I have lots more pages to share, but I still have to take pictures of them, so stay tuned for more scrapiness over the next few days.