Scheduling 3

How do you juggle the multitude of activites with 3 children? Yes, we allow our kids to participate in almost any activity they want to .. provided we think they can handle it and we can swing it all. Noah will not only be playing soccer this fall, which requires one night of practice and one Saturday morning game, he will also be playing ice hockey, roller hockey and has hebrew school. Each of these other activities is only an hour a week but they add up. Hannah will be continuting with her gymnastics as well as soccer and Sarah will have gymnastics. Luckily the timing works for everything and with a couple of car pools, this won't seem like so much but given the kids are only 3, 5, and 7 (well almost 5 and 7), I assume it will only get worse!!!

Anxiously waiting...

Noah and Hannah can't wait for soccer to start! Still over 2 1/2 weeks away, they are already out practicing with each other daily. Noah was given a list of possible sports to play this fall and soccer was consistently his top choice. I'm curious to see how it goes...he will be playing with kids his age as well as a year older (7-8 yr olds). Noah is an athlete through and through but by nature he is a reserved kid who doesn't like to be in the midst of any commotion. It will be interesting to see if he goes out on a limb and really gets involved in the jousling that happens in soccer. I will say, last year, he did not. He always hung back and in his words, played "d" when everyone else was playing "pack ball". You know what I mean, when every kid on the field runs for the ball. He does know a few kids on his team so hopefully this year they will learn to pass and really play as a team. He even has practice once a week in addition to his Saturday morning game.
And then there's Hannah....she will be making the other little kids cry. She is a tiny little girl herself but fears nothing and no one! She will most certainly be kicking for the ball regardless of who is in her way. She just loves her new cleats and shin guards. Doesn't she just look too cute? Now, who wants to wager on how many kids' parents we need to apologize to for Hannah being too aggressive. LOL :)

3 already!!!

We celebrated Sarah's birthday tonight...she doesn't turn 3 for a few more days but we wanted to have a party while her Uncle Larry was still in town. We just had the family over as well as a few close friends. Sarah's friend Sophie came as well. Sophie has basically been her friend since birth. They were born only a week apart but had been scheduled to be born on the same day by the same doctor...I ended up going into labor and having Sarah a week early. They have weekly play dates and are just the best of friends. As soon as Sophie arrived they each insisted on wearing their princess dresses..so off they went to bounce in the moonbounce with their royal attire. They had a ball! Here are a few pictures....hard to get a great shot b/c they just wouldn't stop long enough to get a good pix....must have been all of the sugar!

Club Libby Lu's

Over the weekend, my friend Robyn and I took our girls over to Club Libby Lu's for the first time. What a great time the girls had!! Aside from their begging for every item in the store, it was fabulous! They each got to pick some things to take home in their goodie bag, then each had their hair, make-up, and nails done. It was just too cute! Check out these pictures....

If you don't know what it is, Libby Lu's is a retail/kids beauty salon. They give the girls about 12 hairstyles to choose from and each get to have their make-up applied (which they then get to bring home). Hannah of course picks the only non-princessy hairstyle. She instead goes for the punk rock look --- only after me telling her she can't have the Hannah Montana style b/c I didn't spend $25 for her to go out with her hair looking exactly as it does every other day! The style totally matched her normal attitude though so in the end it just seemed too perfect. Sarah on the other hand picked a very cute princess up-do...if only I had dressed them in cute dresses like their friend Emma was wearing....oh well, maybe next time.

Big THANKS!!

I want to send a big thanks to Colette! She was nice of enough to send EVERYONE who participated in one of her scrap challenges a prize pack! I got mine in the mail yesterday...just before I went out scrapping with some friends. I couldn't wait to use it! Here is one of my creations...the papers are from the PDQ-tropical line. Thanks agin Colette!

Family Photographer

Hannah just loves to take pictures so this past year for the holidays my sister bought her her own little camera. She loved it! Of course she still to use our camera when we get it out but at least she now has one of her own!

Hoo's the Cutest?

I just love these owl papers and stamps from Sassafrass....thanks Michelle!!

This is a picture from last summer of my youngest.

Perfect Beach Day!

We try to get down to the shore at least once or twice every summer. It is only an hour drive and the kids always have fun...it is just so hard with all of the kids weekend activities - ice skating, birthday parties, etc. I took two of the kids down a few weeks ago but we still hadn't gone as a family. Well, Saturday, we finally got to go down together. It was the perfect storm....open day on the calendar and 85 degree weather! The kids had a blast. Noah and Hannah discovered boogie boarding and while Sarah didn't spend any real time in the ocean, she had a great time digging in the sand and collecting "She-shells" (as she and hannah call them).

Month to Date

I have scrapped a ton this month already -- 6 single page layouts and 6 double page layouts! Here are a few that you haven't seen ....

This first one is a layout of my son's Kindergarten Graduation. The front opens and there are pixs inside including a letter to him about his year and the wonderful boy he has grown to be.


These are pixs from three years ago of my middle daugther. Wasn't she just so cute?


These are pixs of my daughter's class trip to Smith Memorial Playground. She had such fabulous time!!


A simple layout....is it too plain?


We took a family vacation to Disney back in April of 2007 -- I am just getting around to scrapping some of those pixs!



Here are some more famiy pictures from our trip to my hometown in July.

Just a Boy and a Girl

For as long as I can remember, my son's best friend has been Ally. They started day care together and have been inseparable ever since. They have been placed in different classes, assigned different bunks at camp, become involved in completely different extracurriculars, yet, they still manage to be the best of friends. They don't even regularly get together, outside of an occasional family gathering or our annual Halloween get together. Not that we wouldn't like them to see each other more often, life just tends to get into the way....anyway, I thought it would be nice to collect a bunch of pixs of the two of them together over the years and create a layout for them.

All Boy

I was looking at my blog this morning and realized the last 4-5 layouts I have posted have all been of my dd. For the record, I do actually scrap for my other kids as well....Hannah is just so photogenic that it is always so easy to find wonderful pixs to work with. Besides, working with girly papers are just so much easier for me. Anyway, I wanted to share something I have done recenly for my son. He came in one day a few weeks back and asked when I was going to make him a little album. Han has a little album I made for her after our trip to the American Girl store last year. Even Sarah has a few mini's. So here it is, I made him a little accordian album....

Hoo's the Best??

My very good friend Michelle just RAK'd me!!! She was able to go to the CK convention in Valley Forge this weekend while I had to stay home and work. I was so jealous!! Anyway, she felt badly and brought me back some new stuff!! How cute are these little stamps? I am so lovin' the owls!! Thanks Michelle!!