I want this!

I love digital scrapbooking. I am officially addicted to it.

A site that check out a lot is Digiscrap101 and they are giving away a FREE Bamboo Craft. What is a Bamboo Craft you ask? Well, it is only the coolest thing EVER that I WANT and must have (but can't afford!) Click on the link if you want to see a better explanation that that!

Anyway, one way to get an entry to win the Bamboo Craft is to post on your personal blog about the contest. So, I just got an entry! YAY!

Month of January, summary page

I made a template!! I'm so proud of myself! I got the idea off of an internet site that does pages for the Project 365 and didn't want to pay for the template, so I made my own! Yay me! :)

Here it is filled in for January....

January Week 4 layouts

Week 4, page 1

Week 4, page 2

February 2 photo

Morgan got a responsibility chart for Christmas that we have been using every day since then. My friend Lee (who is an elementary school principal) gave us a great idea on how to use it. Morgan's new bedtime is 7pm and for every magnet she earns she gets to stay up 10 minutes later. She has 7 magnets so therefore she has the opportunity to stay up until 8:10 (which is also 10 minutes later than her sister and therefore a HUGE deal) However, if she misses any magnets, then she does not earn the extra time. Seems to be working like a charm so far!

February 1 photo

Superbowl Sunday....here is the Nintendo Superbowl Cardinals vs. Steelers.... pre the real Superbowl!

January 31 photo

did I mention it was flippin' cold outside?!

January 30 photo

ok kids, I need help. Not a whole lot happened today...and I can't decide between the pictures of things that didn't happen. If I knew how to insert a poll, I would but that is too fancy anyway....if you care (and I know you really might not, but humor me) leave a comment and tell me which picture I should use for the photo for January 30.

And the finalists are:

1. Cold weather clothes...it is so cold outside and with 13 inches of snow we require a lot of extra gear and it is just not practical to put it away in the coat closet every single time, so we've taken to just leaving it all in the sun room, hence the pile of coats, snow pants, boots, scarves, gloves, socks, and a blanket or two.

2. Bingo's Potty Path: Poor Bingo doesn't have enough uncarriage clearance to get through the snow, and since the poor thing is almost 10 now, he doesn't so much have the agility he once did to frolic through the snow to go potty. So, his caring Daddy shoveled this path for him to his favorite tree and a little extra past it for some extra business.

3. Friday Night Dinner: I would have done this one if I hadn't already done one almost identical a couple of weeks ago...except that was Pizza King and this one was Mancino's....almost as good, MUCH less expensive!

4. Four Weeks Status Post LASIK!: I had my 4 week check up today for my LASIK and my vision is officially 20/15!!! I had originally planned to take a picture in the exam room of my prescription written on something but the opportunity never presented itself, so instead, I took this picture of the myriad of eye drops she wants me to use so my flap doesn't roll up.

5. Cookie baking!! What better way to end a meal of Mancino's pizza and breadsticks than with fresh baked chocolate chip cookies?!?!? (really it was just an excuse to stand next to the oven with the door open to warm up...did I mention it is Booty Butt Cold outside???)

facelift

My blog needed a facelift. I don't know about you, but I was tired of looking at the same out of focus pictures on top. So, since it is a lazy Saturday and we are all just hanging out doing various forms of nothing, I thought I'd play. The banner at the top is my very own creation and I think its pretty cute! Anyway, I've been in a winter induced funk lately so its time to spruce things up and put the funk away! (now if I can just get and then keep everyone healthy in this house, we'll be in business!!)

Funk be gone!

Week 3 Project 365

Here are my layouts from week 3

January 30 photo

Bingo's Potty Path: Poor Bingo doesn't have enough uncarriage clearance to get through the snow, and since the poor thing is almost 10 now, he doesn't so much have the agility he once did to frolic through the snow to go potty. So, his caring Daddy shoveled this path for him to his favorite tree and a little extra past it for some extra business.

Week 2, Project 365 layouts

January 29 photo

Snow Day #2....Miss Sydney Cook came to play with us for a couple of hours (she is almost exactly 1 month younger than Morgan) and when her mommy (Kristen) came back to get her, her little sister came in to play for a while too. They had fun on the bouncy house, but it was already deflated for this picture. They still look pretty happy.

Week One Layouts for Project 365

Here are my scrapbook layouts for week 1 (pages 1 and 2) of my project 365 pictures. click on them to make them bigger...

January 28 photo

playing outside in the 13 inches of snow with our neighbors, Carly and Wilson.

January 27th photo

We're getting some snow tonight!!! Should be interesting!!! We are right on the line between 4-8 inches and 6-12 inches so who knows how much we'll really get. We are also under a Winter Storm Warning.

January 26

Carter's first haircut!!!!

January 25 photo

laundry day!

Today started out as a lazy Sunday. We slept in until a little after 8 and then got ready for church. When we got home from church, we decided to finish up the laundry. My mom took Morgan to a Ball State basketball game and when they got home, Morgan was really complaining of her ear hurting. She also had a fever so I took her to Primetime Pediatrics where, sure enough, she had an ear infection in the ear with no tube.

January 24 photo

Lazy Saturday....making cookies! (I don't know what I'm going to do when Carter figures out that he wants to lick the beaters too! Guess someone will have to get a spoon!)

January 23 photo

I can't decide which picture I like best, so I'm using them both! (My blog, my rules!) My friend Kristen and I met this morning at Panera to do some digital scrapbooking! We didn't get a lot done other than sharing some files (shhhh, don't tell!) and eating some ginormous chocolate chip cookies that Kristen bought and then forced me to eat against my will. Anyway, we thought we'd be arty and take the first pic of our laptops, but I am a have-to-have-a-person-in-my-picture kind of gal, so the second one is starring Kristen!

10 Things We Love About You book

Here are the pages to the book I made my mom for Christmas from the kids. I asked the girls what things they loved the most about Grandma and used as many of them as they gave me and then had to come up with a few more. Then I tried to find pictures I had that related to those topics. I made the pages on the computer and then I just uploaded the pages to Shutterfly and they shipped me a beautiful book all hard bound. I will do this for every gift giving occasion now, I think!