Wednesday, March 18, 2009

You've Had a Birthday Shout Hooray!

We celebrated K's birthday on Saturday with a small party with her best friends and family. K wanted to have a Ladybug party, so I made her a Ladybug cake with little baby cupcakes. I also made a Pin-the-Dot-on-the Ladybug game for them. We also had the girls make some antenna headbands. They looked so cute with them on.




Ladybug cake and babies.


K and her friends.

Singing to K.

All of K's gifts. She had a wonderful time and can't wait to use her new sandbox. And no, we will not be keeping it in the house. We just need to have some nice days when we can go out and level the ground for its new home.

Monday, March 9, 2009

CKC Portland Scrapbook Convention

My aunt and I love to scrapbook, but last year we were so busy we never got a chance to do it. So this year, we decided to start out right by going to the annual Scrapbook show in Portland. It is three days of classes, crops, and vendors galore; a scrapbookers paradise!

We arrived on Thursday night to check in and attend the Simple Schemes Crop. We got tons of free product and put together 10 layouts using some new techniques.


On Friday we were up at 6:45 in the morning so we could get ready and eat in preparation for our long day of classes. Our first class was at 8:00am. Most of our classes were together, but the few we had apart we swapped notes on. We had a little time in between some of our classes to look around at the vendors, but we were mostly in class and our last one ended at 7:30 that night. Here is a picture of us at our last class. We were definitely ready to go to bed. A lot of people were staying for the 7-midnight crop, I don't know how they did it.


Saturday we were up early again for another early class. Although, we only had two classes that day and spent some time shopping afterwards. We got a ton of free stuff in all the classes we took and there were several make n' takes at the vendors booths that we did. We had a really great time and I am excited about all the great new techniques I learned. My scrapbook pages were starting to get a little stale and looked the same, now I can spice them up a little bit.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Visit from Hawaii

M's cousins, Heather Sapphire and Daisey, came to visit the family for a couple of weeks. They are staying with M's mom but came down for the day on Saturday. This is the first time in about 8 years since M has seen his cousins. They live in Hawaii so they don't see each other often. I have heard a lot about them, so it was nice to finally be able to visit with them for a while.
Daisey is 3 months younger than L. It was really funny seeing them interact. L got right up next to Daisey and would bend over to look her in the face. Then she would stand up and yell a happy yell. A couple of the times she scared poor Daisey. But they seemed to like each other pretty well. K really liked hugging Daisey. She did that a lot. Such a love bug with babies:)

K and Daisey

L and Daisey.


The girls playing with the toys.


Daisey is such a happy playful girl. Such a delight to have around.


K, N, Heather, Sapphire, Daisey, M, L. Grandma was here too, but we didn't get a picture of her.