Einstein Wrestles Clown at Dance Party, huh??

That is the headline as it reads featuring the activities at my house last night. Is it that is was a crazy Monday, a full moon, or just winter stir-craziness? We started with some cool science experiments. Lately, the kids have been running their own experiments by crushing all kinds of things (food, crayons, etc) into water. It is a mess. So, I decided to introduce them to real science. Last night, we were able to make an egg float within a glass of water. Noah and Sarh loved it...Hannah wasn't too entertained.



Afterward, Noah decided it was time to practice his wrestling moves. The kids have become obsessed with wrestling...watching WWE and the like. It is utterly ridiculous to me, but them seem to enjoy it. Noah pretends to wrestle with this huge clown that we got when he was only 2. I guess it is better than wrestling his sisters!!



Hannah and Sarah weren't too into wrestling a clown so we put on the Soundtrack to Spectacular (cute movie if you have 6 year olds who think they are teenagers). Dance party it was!! Check out Sarah's air guitar....



and Hannah bustin' a move...



and no dance party is complete unless we change into dance leotards and twirl!!!



It is now 24 hours later and I am STILL EXHAUSTED!!!

He Shoots, He SCORES!!!

It was his next to last ice hockey game of the season and he went for it.....on a breakaway, he skates to the left, he skates to the right, he has the net in his sites....he shoots, he SCORES!!! Noah scored his very first goal of the season!!! Where was I? On birthday party patrol.... at least his coach gave him a puck so I could get a picture of that. Noah was so very excited. According to him, it may have been one of his best days ever!! So proud of you buddy!!!

More Basic Grey Goodness

Another round of Studio Calico sketch inspiration....each Sunday they post a sketch to their blog and for the past couple of weeks, I have been fortunate enough to find time Sunday evening to put together a layout. Here is the sketch from last week and my version using BG's Origins papers. As you can see, I am totally in love with this butterfly punch from Martha Stewart!





A close-up of some of the dimensional elements:

Benefits of Winter

I may complain about the cold and snow but honestly, it makes for great pictures! The kids are always smiling out there as they frolic in the white stuff...and those pictures make for fun scrap pages. This is made from bits left of a Basic Grey Bittersweet Kit I bought over at scrapbook.com and a stamp I had gotten from Studio Calico.

Fly Free

With three feet of snow on the ground here, I am dying for spring. 30 degrees is just much too cold! Given my only recent pictures are all snow related, I decided to dig into my stash and find some good spring/summer pictures to lift my spirits (and to utilize my new MS butterfly punch)!



I had stitched the butterfly paths and added a ton of BG pearls as well as some Maya pinds.



All papers are BG Origins.

...is Life

Finally dug out from the big storm (we have about 3 feet on the ground) but sickness has moved in with us yet again! Sarah has been down with a 104.3 fever for three days now. The pediatrician says it is just a virus but we should anticipate all of us getting it. ARGH. We have been sick more this winter than we have been in the past eight years combined!! It just isn't fair!!

Although I was home with sick child, I actually had to do work from the office the past few days. Scrapping was not a possiblity. However, I have been dying to get to the latest Studio Calico Sunday Sketch. I the sketch on Tuesday after the Flyers Mites event and knew it would be a perfect layout to use to highlight some of the hundreds of hockey pictures I have taken this year....and Studio C's homefront paper was just the right color and design as well!!


You can't see it very well in the picture but I have black buttons with each of the hockey sticks as a hockey puck....

Proud Mama

My little man (and the rest of his hockey team of course) got to play a scrimmage at the FLYERS game tonight. It was UNBELIEVABLY CUTE!! In between the first and second period of the game, the "Mites On Ice" game was played. I think I may have been more excited than Noah! As soon as the boys came out on the ice, I was cheering and yelling, screaming at all of the fans around us to root for my boy. I was a bit of a lunatic I must say. I was "that mom", the one other people point at and say, "I'm not ever like her, right?". Oh well, I was so so proud of him out there! He did a fabulous job!! I think I may have scared the other hockey parents a bit as well but c'est la vie. I was still a bit loud and obnoxious when we were waiting to meet the team after their game.

Check him out....He is kid in the white jersey in the pictures below:

12 inches and counting....

It is still snowing hard out there. My dh is wroking his butt off shoveling and snowblowing, only to have things covered with snow again moments later. Not sure when the storm will abate but I'm not complaining....I get to play.

My "I Love List" for today:

1) Snow Storms
2) Cozy flannel pajamas
3) No scheduled activities
4) Homemade Cinnamon French toast (w/pure maple syrup, bananas, and confectionary sugar) YUM!!
5) Good Friends living across the street
6) My Scrap Room
7) IPOD downloads
8) My adorable children who don't fuss too much when I take their pictures
9) Sassafras Lass
10) Scanners -- having the ability to take this artwork from my daughter's backpack and make it into a layout without having to ruin the "original" piece of work.




Off to enjoy the rest of my "snow day"!!

Sunday Sketch

I found myself with a little bit of time this weekend -- unheard of with all of the kids activites -- so I decided to take part in Studio Calico's Sunday Sketch.

Toot, Toot

I must toot my own horn for a moment. I am going to be published in Creating Keepsakes magazine!! I have never submitted before but had a good friend suggest it. When another well known scrapbooker (some of you may know her as one of the amazing designers over at Studio Calico with the initials of S.H.) also suggested I submit my layout, I couldn't resist. So glad I followed their advice!! Look for me in the July/August issue!!