this weeks layouts

I've been scrappin a bit this week- actually did 2 layouts yesterday! that's rare! Hoping to get another one done tonight - but we shall see...I'm on a mission to use the Creative Scrappers Sketches - I was going to go in order, but I'm all over the place right now -- I've downloaded them, and will print them off and cross them out as I do them...I like that I can go to the blog and check out ones that are already done with the sketch....

For Xander's baby album Sketch #97

Saturday's Basic Grey Page of the month Class - I kinda screwed up a bit - the left hand 'purple' piece was supposed to be wider..but she was giving the measurements to someone else while I was cutting and cut without thinking...ugh...turns out it worked better for my pictures this way - oh - and I used this really cool journaling think from Creative Memories that the instructor had - it looks like a ruler with wire loops at the top - anyone have one? better yet, anyone know how I can get my hands on one????

Sketch #93 Xander's baby album is so close to being finished!!! I can't wait!

this lo was for Tracey's April Challenge at SNC

Sketch #76 but I lifted Mia Caniza's take on the sketch
this one was for Janet's April challenge :)

Day 3 - TGIM

while most people look forward to Fridays - I usually look forward to mondays! I can get back into my routine, put things back in their places (once I find them!) and have a bit of time to myself!

some of us have a hard time getting up on Mondays, while others enjoy books for breakfast and a peek outside to see what's happenin

time for the project to go back to school - goodbyes (through the broken screen!) for the kids, and the beginnings of lunch :)

pause from the busy work of playing to say hi to the deer...after lunch scrappin...after nap falls - it was bound to happen - he never stops - he finally fell off the couch and cracked his head on the floor - just before the kids came home - is it horrible that I wanted to go get the camera? Kayin knew though - he grabbed the camera and snapped a few pics for me :) I don't normally get snuggles...

back to playing! gives me an opportunity to start dinner - Monday is fish day - Lemon marinated Sole, asparagus with dijon dressing and rice (brown for me, white for them) A little pre-dinne playing when daddy gets home - it was friggin windy and cold - the boy has no socks on - when I came back in I saw him walking around..bugger! Dinner conversation - Roald Dahl books - kayin just finished Charlie and the Chocolate factory, starting Fantastic Mr Fox -- dinner clean up - compliments of Fred and the dishwasher tonight

some after dinner hockey with dad - Montreal wins...before bed reading..love that my kids love to read :)

Day 2 - Sunday

Day 2 - typical Sunday!!

waking up to Xander in the bed - he's a menace! Up to clean clean clean the upstairs - straighten all the rooms, gather laundry, dust, clean bathroom, vaccuum - phew...

came down to coffee and a muffin from my boys :) making a grocery list and after cleaning myself up a bit it was off for groceries - superstore and Thrifty's today - back home for lunch - the usual grocery day whole wheat Kraft dinner for the kids and sushi and salad for Fred and I - the one time we eat in the living room too - after lunch is was back to that laundry...

mid afternoon coffee break...writing the week down on the calendar - I asked Fred to take a pic and I got about 20 of these crazy ones! lol most we're blurry...and the pic of Xander's kicks give a whole new meaning to 2 left feet - the poor boy doens't stand a chance when daddy gets him dressed!

there's some of that FUN laundry! with a break midway for a diaper change...I spent an hour this afternoon fixing our duvet cover - our duvet is a queen, but they only had kings in the one I wanted, but that's what I have a sewing machine is for :) I also got two pairs of Em's jeans hemmed that were bugging me!!


dinner tonight was roast pork, potatoes, carrots and gravy .. mmm - table topic - Xander! He was not a happy camper - though he did manage to eat a fair amount off *my* plate instead of his...we almost always have desert on Sundays - it's our splurge day - Em made us vanilla shaker cupcakes with chocolate icing - yum. Sunday is also the day when Fred gets his salad stuff all chopped up for his lunches for the week, so he does dishes :)

Hockey - game 6 - Van at LA -- Fred couldn't handle the stress...went upstairs to shower and shaved his head cause he 'looked like an old bald guy' - and shaving it helped in this how?? lol

the game had just finished when he came down, so he promptly rewound it and watched...I don't get it...and I'm not going to try!! lol

A Week in the Life - Saturday

So today was my first day of doing Ali Edwards a Week in the Life project -- I wasn't sure how I was going to get enough pictures to be able to do 4 pages a day - but omg - I may need 10! this is just a glimpse of our day - I've been trying to get in front of the camera!


We were up bright and early on Saturday and off to Sidney by the Sea after the mandatory Timmies stop! :) We were really early so we made a pitstop at the park before heading to the Shaw Ocean discovery Centre - the Vancouver Aquarium it is not - but still fun - I wish it had stayed without people, but a few minutes after I snapped this pic gad of people showed up Xander loved the touch pools - he didn't want to leave

some new artwork on the green - the kids had to pose - lunch (breakfast) was at the Spitfire grill right beside the airport runways :)

home for naptime and I was off to my POTM class - the cardstock order just came in...look at all those yummy colours!!! TP run! We had run out (hasn't happened in forever!) and I forgot to grab some on the way home..oops. Spaghetti, salad and garlic bread for dinner...running late - forgot to cook noodles! oops! waiting for a pot to boil is excruciating! table topic - nuclear energy! lol


after bath (by daddy) and snuggle time (by mommy) - adult Saturday night started - Fred plays WOW with his friends and I usually plug into my ipod and get 'scrapalackin' as Fred would say - I started, but I just wasn't into it, *GASP* so it became a PPP night - Pepsi, popcorn and PVR :)

March Faves

This months fave layouts :) I'm still in love with the pictures that we had done in 2006!!!! and still scrapping them! The photographer is no longer in business :( and I can't find another affordable one *sigh* I've noticed that I'm stuck on brown - almost every lo I do lately has a brown background - I just can't help it - but then I did the santa one in white - and I LOVE it - may be an all-time fave - and I think I may use white more often!

boy is it tough to get a good pic of layouts in the dreary weather!!!!