Donkey Ollie

I decided I had to blog about this special donkey.. .
since i find myself singing along these songs with or without the dvd going...
thats how much we have been watching this dvd...
yeah I hear ya.. letting your kid watch dvds all day ( its not really all day) but
who could denie letting their child watch a Christian based singing donkey!!!

You think I've lost it but seriously check it out.. its very cute it was created
to thank people for donatiing their cars to charities.

Kailtyns preschool teacher gave this too her after her Christmas recitial.

We watch it everday at least once and its her favorite to bring in the car.. she did this when we had the boys with us for a 2 hour ride... they didn't want to get in the car... by the time returned home they too were singing the catchy christian songs!

I tried to find more but haven't had anyluck.. but check out donkey ollies site...

www.donkeyollie.com

ps those of you in the flat panel world... as you can see I haven't made it there yet!

Finally C-A-K-E

Yes we finally cut into the cake my dear friend Shauna brought me on Saturday..
since my guest on Saturday were more interested in finishing off my french toast casserole than Chocolate cake... can you imagine that!!!!
Gloria and Carole ;)

So when we cut into the cake of course I had help from my girl blowing out the candles.. thankfully the boys put one candle for each decade... how sweet huh? I guess if I had all forty on there I would NEED Kailtyns help blowning out the candles!!!

The cake was SOOOO YUM-O as Rach would say!

Turning Forty!!!

Ugh... with all the hipe about this 'magical" moment. I felt nothing!
I keep repeating to myself that todays 40's are more like 30's!!
Ahhhh not saying I would want to go backward by no means.

I requested the celebrating was kept quiet... what is there to celebrate?
its just another birthday... just another number!

I had a great gathering of scrappin friends and it was a great day!
I got to teach a project of mine that everyone loves and it was so gradifying sharing.

Monday my actually birthday I took off with my friend and scrappin buddy Gloria and raided some
scrap stores. I found the coolest new paper trimmer finally... LOVE IT!
and even got a lead on a teaching position... thanks Gloria for giving me that nuge!

All in all turning forty was NOT a huge event thankfully... now Fifty that may be the event forty use to be ;)

Birthday Crop

For my BIG birthday I had someof my favorite scrappin friends over
to scrap for the day. We had lots of fun talking, scrappin and eating.
I also showed my friends how to do a canvas project.
This was fun. Thanks girls for making a fun day!!!

My french dancer

Every since seeing the Childrens Dance Theaters version of the Nutcracker Kaityln has been dancing around the house. I couldn't resist snapping this pic in her pink beret dancing away.

new pixel happenings

Heres a few new digi lo I worked on this week
they are of my daycare girl Samantha... the lo are part of a christmas cd I'm making for her mom.
Next week I will be creating BOY lo... what a change .. little boy layouts that is for my other two daycare guys.
Enjoy... I used CK free digi kit.. its on their website.. check it out.. the ck Jan mag even give step by steps for new digi scrappers.. its so much fun and SOOO inexpensive....

Kaitlyns Chirstmas recital

Friday night was Kaitlyns first Christmas recital, her class sang Little Town of Bethlehem... it was too cute. The church was packed for standing room only. All the groups did so well, it was really so nice.
Kailtyns group was the last to sing and she was SOOO patient sitting and waiting for her turn it amazed Sean and I.

Chirstmas paper candy dishes

These are so fun to make... 3 sheets of 12x12!
I made some for friends for Christmas...

Altered CD Case for Christmas cards

Altered a cd case for a few special christmas cards...
you can take the cd piece out for more room for the accordian folded mini photo album
great for wallet size photos... which you can get four wallets to a print at Costco for 37 cents!
so making these is very inexpensive, fast and fun!!!

(sorry the pics are sideways.. not sure why this happened.. as photos are orginally correct)

Altered Checkbook covers

These were some Christmas gifts I made for a friend of ine to give away for presents.
They make great gifts....

Christmas Cookies

Its starting to feel a little bit like Christmas, although we have no tree up and no shopping done. We did get some new cookie cutters to play with when we got home from our first shopping excursion to the mall this holiday.

Kailtyn and I cranked the Chrsitmas music and rolled out the dough... she was a good little helper and we had a very nice time..

the cookies were great too.. the recipe on the cookie cutter was awesome and rollled out like a dream! AND they even tasted great!!!

I'm sure Santa will enjoy them!

Tim Holtz inspired Christmas cards

I made these cards at my favorite Scrap store in Berkley.. Scrapbook Teritory...
this was so much fun. I wasn't a fan of these ink pads, my friend Gloria talked me into taking the class... at the end of the class I bought two new ink pads and add four more of them to my christmas list...
I loved blending them, like on the santa card.. it was so much fun...
and the snow flakes in the snowman card was a kick too.. not that I would make them for just anyone....

Black Friday Riding day

We didn't join the California and the nations masses and flock to the Mall to do holiday shopping, instead we headed to the local ORV park and rode for the day.

Kailtyn got to wear her stylin fox gear Daddy bought her last Christmas.. we we're very thankful that she could she fit into it!

She enjoyed playing model for mommy's camera all the while yelling to me to 'Click mommy, click" this one is definately not camera shy. She has actually taken some good pics as the young budding photographer.

Gave the new camera a workout taking pics of Sean and friends on the motorcross track.. think I'll be putting a new telephoto lense for the new Rebel xt on my list for Santa.

The weather had been great for Thanksgiving and friday. It was sunny and 65-70... better that the grey skys we had for a few days.. it was good to be outside soaking up the sun rays and working off the turkey dinner.

digi scraps

my new found love is digi scrappin...
I just love that everythings at your fingertips... papers,embellishments, photos and the ability to journal on the page as you create... LOVE IT!

Its the best timesaver to create and journal your feeling and thoughts right at that moment.. you don't have to wait for photo development .. you can even crop and ALTER the photo as your putting it on your page.

I have posted up a couple of my first layouts here .. but new stuff is coming soon.
And those of you that know my croppin stlye... yes I can distress just as well on the digi pages just wait and see!!!
AND NO I'm not giving up my supply of paper and other REAL scrappin stuff ;)

Philps Farm; Pumpkin patch

This trip to the Pumpkin patch wasn't about the pumpkins at all.. the biggest hit was seeing the farm animals. My daughter is such the animal lover. She went righ up to these turkeys to pet them. These turkeys were great. The farmer walked around the whole crowd of little kids with these turkeys.
It was an awesome experience, just loved the place. Definately going back next year.

its not all about Kailtyn...

These are the other furry children we have. Maverick is the lighter golden and is a typical adolsent male. Sierra is our sweetheart she turned five this summer, its hard to believe. They are a major part of our family and Kailtyn just adores them.

Kaitlyns Birthday Celebration

Kailtyn celebrated her fourth birthday with cake and presents..we also dined on her favorite... McDonald's chicken nuggets,, happy meal stlye of course.
She is the queen of Polly pockets and got several new additions to her kingdom.

We had a small party for her at the bowling alley . It was the first time she bowled and loved it.

First Time Ice skating....

Kaitlyns first ice experience was one to be remembered because I doubt she will be back on the ice anytime soon. She loved the ice skate itself but wanted nothing to do with them being on the ice. after snapping this pics.. she was off the ice and wanted to go home!

guess I got myself a California girl!

Its been a month

Wow can't believe the month of October has gone by.
Kailtyn is now offically FOUR going on 14 it feels like sometimes, its amazing what little ones pick up from older siblings.

Kailtyn celebrated her birthday for a whole month, saying happy birthday to everyone and demanding cake everyday! Birthday was then replaced by Halloween and Kailtyn was replaced with the Fairy Witch.

no more insomnia

okay its been a while, I got a sleep aid from the dr just before labor day weekend and started using it.. and as you can tell I haven't been posting in the middle of the night....
I slao have been down with a sinus infection.. that the doctors don't think I've suffered enought for.. hmmmm

anyways...
Kailtyn had her first offical day of Preschool.. she loved it she's such a soical butterfly.. we've been getting some rainy weather already so she got an umbrella this weekend and insisted on bringing it to school this morning... so of course I had to take a pic... I will have to post .
She's going two am a week to gear up for kindergarden next fall.
I can;t believe she's turning 4 next thursday!!!
my baby girl... ahhhh time flys!

making it thru the teenage years with twins is certainly trying.. for being twins they boys are so night and day, I survived the school shopping.. now we're trying to impress the ladies we now listen to moms fashion sense. Matt's struggling with grades still and Nick is flying thru the college prep track.... its definately different to look UP to your son... they just past me height wise but I don't think they'll be 6 footers.. but they are definatly to the size you want to mess with.. now my little boys are men.. voice and all! no shaving yet but we gop thru enought cologne to warrant it!

well hope to get back on track and even post some pics very soon...