Winter and I are fighting...

Yep, winter is soooo not my friend. Thank goodness it is now Spring that I have to deal with! Winter has brought way too many germs into my house this year, including the Flu for my little guy. We ended up at the ER last week and have been battling high temps, coughing and vomiting since then. Actually, I think we did turn a corner yesterday, as both yesterday and today, Lucas has been fever free - whoo! Let's keep fingers crossed...

AMM's march kit is sooo pretty. Lots of MME's beautiful new line, Stella and Rose. I made this LO of my little guy. Remember when we took him to that open casting call back when he was 8 weeks old? I just had to scrap it, and this is the photo the amazing photographer, Jodie Otte, sent me.

And whoops, I realized i never posted this one from last month's kit. Like everything else these days, i'll just blame it on sleep deprivation ;-)
Funny story of the night: The kids love the song "freeze dance" and asked for it tonight after dinner. So, knowing they would want it over and over and over like they always do, I pushed the 'repeat' button on the stereo. Well, they got it in their heads that they were using "the force" to keep making the song start over. Noah even went and put his star wars costume on for full effect. Heee. Kids are so much fun.

Thank you GCD Studios!

I was super excited to find out today that I got one of the Guest Designer spots for GCD Studios - I can't wait! I'm really loving their new lines, and I know it will be so much fun to guest design for them :-) You can read the GDT announcement and see who the other lucky ladies are here. They also announced each new DT member one at a time on their blog today - lots of great talent! Here is one of the layouts I submitted for their DT call, using lots of their beautiful products:
And yep.... she really is going to be trouble!! ;-)

Got my gorgeous March kit in the mail from AMM - it's full of lots of the new gorgeous My Minds Eye Stella & Rose line. You can check it out here.

Catching up on some layouts...

So, although I haven't blogged much in the last month, I have still been scrapping :-) Here are two of my AMM layouts with last month's kit. That sun was made from the awesome tulle-ribbon in the kit, and I have a quick little tutorial on how I made it on the AMM blog here.

Gosh this girl has come far! It's only in the last year or so that her independence has really grown - she was such a little cling-monster to me for the longest time!

These aren't the best photos as they're off my phone, but they're all pretty recent pics of the kiddos. This was taken of my sweet, smiley boy the other day:

And this was taken of Chloe's new haircut today :-) They took about 5 or so inches off, so i'm excited that it will be easier to brush lol.

And for the 100th day of school, my big guy made a belt with 100 lego on them (with mommy's help of course ;-)

I can't believe it's already March! My birthday is right around the corner, and then summer vacation will be here before we know it. We're starting to make vacation and camp plans - I can't wait! And, of course, I'm SO excited for the nicer weather to come!

So, I started doing Jazzercise a couple of months ago. When I first went, I had visions of headbands, legwarmers and big 80's hair lol, but it was nothing like that. The classes are a great workout, and they incorporate high impact cardio with strength training. Anyway, i'm really enjoying it, and I signed up for their "Jazz it off" challenge this past weekend. It's basically a 3 month "biggest loser" contest of sorts. I'm excited as I needed something to motivate me to get back in shape... wish me luck :-)

We now resume our regularly scheduled program...

Hello, friends! I guess you noticed that I decided to take a little blog-cation ;-) I needed a break for a bit so that I could regroup, and the time away did me some good! I'm now back with lots to catch up on! I'll start with a mini I made last month (with AMM's Jan kit). I know you all have heard me talk about next-door Lisa. Well, next-door Lisa is now very-far-away-Lisa :-( as our neighbors and good friends moved many states away. I decided to make lisa a little mini to capture some of our many good memories we had made over the last few years...



Soooo, i'm very excited to tell you guys that the new AMM message board is finally up! you can find us here. I've so missed having a message board!

Anyway, I promise to be back very soon (at least much sooner!) as I have more new projects to share and, of course, new pics of my babes :-) Hope all is well, thanks for sticking with me while I took some time off - I missed you guys!

Just breathe...

That was my motto this week as I went back to work (thankfully still part-time) while also continuing to try to be the best mom and wife I can be (though this part still needs lots of work, i'm sure my family will tell you lol).

It was definitely hard leaving the littles (especially the baby, as i'd gotten pretty used to leaving the others ;-), but my transition back to work was pretty successful. Although i'm sure other areas of my life will become more neglected while I try to balance it all, hopefully I'll have the hang of juggling both my professional and family life soon!

My MIL got here today and is visiting for the next couple of weeks - the kids were pacing back and forth in front of the window all day today waiting for her arrival lol. Unfortunately, Lucas came down sick today, and it seems to be a stomach bug :-( Hopefully it will pass soon so my MIL can get in lots of snuggles with what is normally a happy baby!

Sorry to be so behind on posting my recent work - here are the last two layouts from the gorgeous Jan. kit from AMM, and i'll be back to post my mini-album I made soon.

I apologize for terribly neglecting all my friends' blogs! I plan to catch up veeeery soon. Happy weekend, everyone! Hope you all have some fun super bowl parties planned :-)

AMM January kit

I've been working hard with this month's AMM kit - i've gotten 4 layouts and a mini-album completed, whoo! :-) Here are two of the layouts i've done:
We started Lucas on cereal this morning - he was really into it! So cute! I also started a mommy and me Gymboree class with him today - I did one when Noah was a baby and it was so much fun :-)

I saw Black Swan last night - definitely dark like everyone has said! I liked it a lot, but I didn't think it was amazing like some opinions i've heard. Did any of you see it?

Ack, the little guy is back up, so this short post is coming to an end. Will be back soon with more scrappy love and some photos :-)

Sick of my photos yet??

I feel like i've been in photo overload on this blog lately (perhaps because I have been? lol). We had another little photo shoot this weekend - I crocheted a Sock Monkey hat for the little guy, and I just had to get some pics of him in it! The bigs wanted in too, of course!

Before I get to those, here is a painter's tray I made with Webster's Pages products. I've been hoarding that gorgeous big flower paper for soooo long, and when I saw this painter's tray, I just knew it would be perfect for this! I am really happy with how it turned out - I have it hanging in my entry way :-)
And now, drumroll.... on to the pics ;-)
Chloe decided she had to try on the sock monkey hat, too, and Noah thought it would be a good idea to bite her shoulder. Those two are wacked out, I tell ya lol.




This one cracks me up - can't you just see Lucas thinking, "Mommy!!! Get these two to stop hugging and kissing me already!" Hee.

Today was a snow day here. Pardon me, it was actually an ice day. We had freezing rain last night which made the roads really slick, so no school for Noah. We kept ourselves busy by finally breaking out his science experiment kit, doing crafts, watching a movie, and hitting up target. I think i'm ready for bed now ;-)

So, the kids started asking me a ton of questions yesterday about how Lucas got in my belly. Eek! You'd think I would have been prepared for this, but no, they totally caught me off guard lol. Luckily, they were satisfied with me discussing the whole egg/seed thing, but i'm sure the next questions will dig deeper hehea. I'd love to hear any input on how you all explained this um, delicate subject matter!

Well, friends, time for me to go relax since all three kids are finally asleep. Happy almost-hump day, everyone!