Saturday, June 19, 2010

Template 62 and P365

I have lots of pictures and pages to share today. But first, I gotta say...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!! We hope you have a great birthday - you deserve it! I purposefully will refrain from divulging her age...but I WILL say there is a song about it.

And while we're on the subject of holidays, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. I am blessed to be married to the best dad ever. My dad's pretty cool, too;)

Life is good here. The weather's been a bit psycho; cold and rainy one day, gorgeous warm and sunny the next. But that's just how it is around here in June I guess. Or at least, this year. Last year it rained all of June, so it's an improvement, right?

Anyway, we've done some fun things lately, as you'll see from the pictures.

But first, more Emma-isms:

"Where's your pants?" while I was in the middle of changing
"I love baby hugs." ♥♥♥
"That's not a foot, that's a sock" while pointing at her foot
"I don't watch that one. Maybe I older."
"Daddy have poopy diaper."
"Don't be sad, Tinkbell."
"I need my baa baa black sheep have you any wool yes sir yes sir 3 bags full."
"Don't touch my bum, Hyrum." They were next to each other while I changed her diaper and Hyrum was wiggling his arms around everywhere.
"I'm a temple." ♥♥♥
"Thanks Mommy, make my sandwich."
"I go to crap store." She meant CRAFT store LOL.
"You wear diapers, Daddy."
"Tinkle tinkle little star." LOL, that's how she says twinkle...yes I have a 5th grade sense of humor.
"I play bubbles after my nap."
"Take care of my brother."
"Take my neck off." LOL, I had just taken off her long sleeve shirt.
"Mommy have poopy diaper."
"I love you, Hyrum." She says this a lot, but today she went right over to him as soon as he woke up and said this ♥
"You're getting married" to John after she put a blanket on his head. LOL, guess he was the bride?

I'm starting to catch up on my Project 365 pages. Here are the new ones:

February 12-18
Kit: Love Sweet Love, geniaBeana Scraps

February 19-25
Kit: Love Sweet Love, geniaBeana Scraps

February 26 - March 4
Kit: Lavender Breeze, geniaBeana Scraps

March 5-11
Kit: Lavender Breeze, geniaBeana Scraps

March 12-18
Kit: ShamROCK, geniaBeana Scraps

March 19-25
Kit: ShamROCK, geniaBeana Scraps

March 26 - April 1
Kit: Spring Sunset, geniaBeana Scraps

April 2-8
Kit: Spring Sunset, geniaBeana Scraps

Haha, now I'm only 2 months behind on my P365 scrapping.

But I will be all caught up with pics at the end of this post! Here we go!

June 5
June 5
We spent the day cleaning. Emma was my little helper!

June 6
June 6
Getting ready to go to church. Emma loves to give her brother toys!

June 7
June 7
Happy Hyrum ♥

June 8
June 8
We went to the zoo and had a blast looking at all the animals.

June 9
June 9
We walked over to the nature park to feed the "ducks."

June 10
June 10
Hangin' out at home.

June 11
June 11
We went to the farmer's market. It was kids' day and the fire department let kids fire the hose and climb up on the firetruck! Emma LOVED it!

June 12
June 12
I made these cute signs for the kids' room:)

June 13
June 13
We had some friends over for dinner. I made chili from scratch - yum! - and we put it over gourmet hot dogs.

June 14
June 14
I love this boy!

June 15
June 15
We had lots of fun at the park! We rode the carousel and swung on the swings.

June 16
June 16
Aaaaaw ♥

June 16 - b&w
I LOOOOVE this in black and white!

June 17
June 17
"I have often walked down this street before;
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before.
All at once am I Several stories high.
Knowing I'm on the street where you live."
LOL, yep - this is our street, right in front of our complex. You can see our building, but we're on the opposite end of it.

June 18
June 18
Emma playing on the swing!

And we are up to date on pics! As you can see, we've been doing lots of fun things lately. We're really enjoying our summer!

I have a free template today, too. It's based off my Feb 26 - March 4 LO. Template 62 is a 12x12" PSD file. Here's the preview:

Template 62

You can download it here.

Haha, I just noticed a typo in the template, repeated several times because copy/paste is my friend. I'm too lazy to reupload everything, so please ignore it!

Enjoy!! I love to hear back from you and see what you do with my templates:) And now for some sleep. G'night all!

Friday, June 4, 2010

Major Project 365 Picspam and Update

Yes, you read that right. MAJOR P365 picspam. I have 64 pics to post. SIXTY-FOUR. Can you see why I kept putting it off? But then that just makes my workload bigger. So now I'm FINALLY all caught up!

But first, a little update.

We're still going on lots of walks - often MORE than 3x a week. We've recently walked to the library, the store, and of course the park. We all love it! I just wish the weather would improve; it's been raining a lot. I've also been eating lots of yummy healthy salads lately. I still eat more junk than I should, but I've been cutting back. Any progress is progress!

We're really enjoying the "summer" so far. We have lots of fun things on our summer to-do list, like camping, swimming, spray park, picnics, lots of walks, Yellowstone, and the zoo. We're planning to go to the zoo on Tuesday since John has the day off and it's supposed to be 74. Hopefully the weather will cooperate!

Emma says some of the funniest and sweetest things! For instance, in the last week she said:

"I don't eat breakfast. It's gross. I need marshmallows."
"Hyrum doesn't eat chips. He's too little."
"I can no have peanuts. Peanuts make Emma sick." (allergy - still need to go get that tested)
"You're so cutie, Hyrum."
"I need it. It's chocolate."
"Here Hyrum. It's a toy for you."
"I don't need nap." - HA! Nice try!

And my current favorite. I asked Emma if she wanted a sandwich or chicken nuggets for lunch today. Her response? "I have poopy diaper." ROFL! Ok, so she was just informing me that she had a poopy diaper, but the timing was impeccable! She said that every time I asked until we changed it, too. I jokingly said, "You want your poopy diaper for lunch? Ew, that's gross!" to which she replied, "No! I don't eat diaper! It's gross."

Hyrum is 5 months old today!! He's getting so big! He can roll over both ways, sit supported for an unlimited amount of time, and he can almost sort of sit unsupported. For like 3 seconds before he topples over. He recently started rolling around to get to things he wants. Looks like it's time for me to really watch what toys Emma leaves around the living room! Especially since he puts EVERYthing in his mouth. He LOVES to play with (read: eat) toys. He still wants to be held most of the time.

BUT he is now sleeping in his crib in the same room as Emma! We're in a 2 bedroom apartment, so giving the kids their own rooms isn't exactly an option here;) I can't even begin to tell you how much I LOVE having him in another room at night. Of course, inevitably, they wake each other up sometimes, or one kid will wake up and the other will sleep through it. We're still working out the kinks. But he will sleep through the night in his crib some nights:D Naps he always wants to nurse to sleep and I'm usually stuck underneath him. But today and yesterday I nursed him into his nap and then put him on my bed (they nap at the same time), so I currently have both hands free:) Don't worry, he's right behind me, so I'll know when he wakes up and starts wiggling.

Hyrum is still in 3-6 month clothes, but I'm not sure how much longer that will last. He's in size 3 diapers already! He could still technically fit in the 2s, but they're a bit snug and he blows out of them. Yeah, so, we went up a size. Not exactly a fan of the blowouts, you know? Aaah, only a mom would write about her kids' poop on a public blog;)

Aaaanyway. That's what's up with us these days. The pics will tell you everything else:) So here we go!

April 2
April 2
Hyrum hanging out in his swing.

April 3
April 3
Emma building a snowman! Yes, we really had snow in April. Lame.

April 4
April 4
Family pic on Easter at Nathan and Jessica's. Hyrum turned 3 months.

April 5
April 5
John and Hyrum sitting on the bed. Emma was hiding behind John.

April 6
April 6
Sleepy baby:)

April 7
April 7
Our friend Sally gave us these gorgeous lilies because her cat kept trying to eat them. Cats and lilies don't mix. We got to enjoy them for a few days before our vacation. They died while we were gone:( Ironically, so did our fish.

April 8
April 8
We moved Emma's toys OUT of the living room and into the new "toy corner." Here's Emma playing in her new toy corner.

April 9
April 9
Hyrum wearing Daddy's glasses! Don't worry, he only wore them long enough to take a few pictures;)

April 10
April 10
Aw, cuddles:)

April 11
April 11
Nathan's birthday present. Isn't she cute?

April 12
April 12
Uh oh, driving and coloring! Don't worry, we were parked. One of many stops on our road trip.

April 13
April 13
Driving in the sun. Almost home!

April 14
April 14
Sleeping Hyrum. Think the road trip wore him out?

April 15
April 15
Emma LOVED running around my parents' yard!

April 16
April 16
Grandma V gave Emma a movie. She's looking at the pictures on the back of the case in the car.

April 17
April 17
My niece Alex just LOVED holding Hyrum!! She was so sweet with him ♥

April 18
April 18
Hyrum in his blessing outfit that Grandma V made for him. Of course, he spit up immediately after the photo shoot. But the blessing was wonderful ♥

April 19
April 19
Hyrum fell asleep in Lisa's arms. Wedge, MY cat, then jumped up on Lisa's lap ♥

April 20
April 20
Emma coloring at Grandma V's.

April 21
April 21
John and Emma sword fighting! She LOVES the swords! She even says, "en garde" when she plays with them.

April 22
April 22
We had lunch at Small Fryes. I LOVE their slogan! John used to work for them and we had dinner at the owners' house that night.

April 23
April 23
Target! We went to Target several times during our vacation. Each time we did, Emma said, "it's Target!"

April 24
April 24
We went to Snoqualmie Falls. It holds a special place in our hearts since that's where we got engaged and spent our honeymoon. It was fun to take the kids there! Of course, it started raining as soon as we got out of the car...and stopped when we drove away. Ah well.

April 25
April 25
Hyrum playing with his blanket in the car seat.

April 26
April 26
Kimi came over to play with us! She took lots of pictures for us. Getting Emma to hold still was difficult at best. She was more interested in running around with Kimi's boys.

April 27
April 27
Hyrum learning to drive. We teach 'em young;) Actually, it's a little tradition we started when Emma went on her first road trip at 4 months. Notice the car door is open, so we're definitely stopped;)

April 28
April 28
Emma watching TV with her cousins Liam and Alex. Notice they all have swords to play with.

April 29
April 29
Beautiful riverside scenery on the drive back. And look, you can sort of see me in the mirror.

April 30
April 30
Swimming at the hotel:) It was Hyrum's first time swimming! We all loved it.

May 1
May 1
First full day back home! We babysat Noah and Anna. Here's Noah rubbing Emma's back:) Emma rubbed his first, but of course I didn't have my camera handy. Pardon the unpacked mess in the background!

May 2
May 2
Tummy time!! He rolled over, but of course he wouldn't for the camera;)

May 3
May 3
More tummy time, this time with big sister's help. She kept telling him to roll over ♥

May 4
May 4
Bwahaha, hilarious. But...if you're going to deface public property, the least you could do is SPELL IT RIGHT!

May 5
May 5
Emma imitating the baby. Silly girl.

May 6
May 6
Just hanging out:)

May 7
May 7
She climbed into the cooler...she's SUCH a goof!

May 8
May 8
Hyrum wearing the outfit Lisa bought him while we were visiting.

May 9
May 9
Emma loves playing in the canal at Nathan and Jessica's. We went over for a Mother's Day picnic. We had yummy sandwiches, floated paper boats down the canal, and just had lots of fun!

May 10
May 10
The kids and I walked to the park for a picnic lunch and some play time. Hyrum LOVES the stroller!!

May 11
May 11
Poor little guy's face is all chapped and irritated from all the drooling:( Here he's sporting his Eucerin cream style.

May 12
May 12
Having a blast at the park!!

May 13
May 13
Just hanging out at home.

May 14
May 14
Family picnic dinner at the park. So fun!

May 15
May 15
Aaaaw, Emma loves her baby brother!

May 16
May 16
My constant companion for the day...

May 17
May 17
We walked over to the nature park. So gorgeous!

May 18
May 18
Hyrum being cute:)

May 19
May 19
Some pretty cherry blossoms on our walk.

May 20
May 20
Emma helping Daddy stuff chicken enchiladas. She LOVES to help cook!

May 21
May 21
Emma loves to hold Hyrum!

May 22
May 22
The AC unit our apartment complex installed in our bedroom. Sweet! Ironically, it snowed that day...and it hasn't been warm enough to use it yet.

May 23
May 23
Hyrum chillin' on the couch. I love these overalls!

May 24
May 24
The path at our favorite park. It started raining shortly after we walked out the door...

May 25
May 25
I love his startled look!

May 26
May 26
My lunch. I've been eating lots of salads lately.

May 27
May 27
I put braids in Emma's hair. So cute!

May 28
May 28
Some cute hair bows I've made for Emma.

May 29
May 29
On our way to the park!

May 30
May 30
I LOVE this picture of Noah!! We had a Memorial Day BBQ at their house:)

May 31
May 31
Just hanging out with Dad. Look how chapped his poor chin is!! We keep putting cream on it, but he's constantly rubbing or drooling it off.

June 1
June 1
Playing at the park:)

June 2
June 2
Pretty building at the park. LOL, and it's the bathroom.

June 3
June 3
Aw, isn't he adorable?

June 4
June 4
I ♥ this!! So sweet!

Phew! All caught up! And now my poor pinky is sore from all the copy/pasting. Enjoy the picspam! Now that I'm up-to-date with posting pics, I can go scrap them!