This Week

Logan and I got a walk around the lake in and saw this bird catch some fish.

Logan drew a family portrait. 

We went out to lunch for playgroup.

The boys went to a Birthday Party and stayed up late on Friday night.

Bill and I had a date night and a yummy dinner.

 Grandpa also had a birthday, more cake and ice cream.

We also had our last swim lesson till the Fall and Bill got out to play golf twice this week.

This Week...

or more like this month;

Logan had a play group at Chuck E Cheese.

We went to Art and Book Club. The boys are making bugs from their names. 

The boys got some game time in. 

 Logan did this 100 large piece puzzle mostly on his own. I helped with sorting and the edge.

 I help with the booth our MOMS Club had at Aiden's school Carnival. The boys had lots of fun playing the games there.

 A walk to the buss stop. Just love to capture pictures like this.

Chaperoned for Aiden's school field trip to the Wildlife Park. 

 Getting cuddles first thing on a Saturday morning.

 Moved our bird feeders to a new location. The birds seem to approve.

 Spent the weekend working in the yard. We now have the back yard pretty much done. The roses now look so much better with no weeks and fresh mulch. Now to move on to the front.

A sketch and a challenge

A couple more layouts.
First one of Shimelle's sketches.
Here's the sketch


and my layout, a two page spread.

Journaling:  Aiden,  when it came to your birthday it was all about the presents. I felt bad that we didn't have a cake but you didn't even seem to notice. You had doughnuts at school, playtime and frozen yogurt with friends, a fun day at the Museum, dinner with family and lots of presents.

 Next a title free challenge which was actually easy with this one. I didn't have a good place to put one or more to say then the obvious name of the Museum which is in the journaling.

Journaling: This was a really great visit to the Children's Museum. One highlight was the Grocery Store. We stopped by twice. Aiden had fun taking the list around, shopping for the items on it and checking out. Logan just grabbed whatever he wanted and played at the checkout. They both did a good job helping me put all the food away. 

The other main highlight was the Water Works. We didn't spend much time here on our last visit so the boys were happy to be able to play for awhile. Didn't even get all that wet.  

Layouts for the 2005 album

Here are two more layouts to go in the 2005 album I'm trying to finish for the play along.

This one was made to fill in an open space. I was trying to use up some old paper I had lots of. The background is overlapping strips with the bottom edges curled up a bit. It was a bit more work than what I was planning for this page. I do like the end result, lots of texture. 

These pictures came from a rare event. We came home from a weekend away and discover the branch had broke while we were gone. We were just glad that there was no damage to anything. 

I have one more layout from 2005 and that year is finished. 2006 is also in this album but that has a bit more work to get done. I'm very happy with the progress I've made even though I'm not completely finishing it. I'm putting it aside to work on more current stories but do plan to continue printing pictures needed and setting up page kits to work on and off on. 

"Am I 4 or still 3?"

Logan started asking shortly after Aiden's birthday in early February. So the answer was "still 3" for quite awhile and then the end of March came and it changed to "now you're 4".
The other one Logan would ask (and still asking) "is it March my birthday month?" thinking that the whole month was for him. He didn't get a whole month (though it felt that way) but the celebrations do spread out over the week.

 Wed - going up front for Chapel at preschool.

Thur - Having cupcakes with playgroup friends and getting a couple presents.  (We also had our MOMS Club Spring Party with more yummy treats.)

Friday (the big day) - bringing treats for his classmates

 and having yummy cupcakes at home. Lots of phone calls.

Sunday - party day - so that Daddy would be home (from work trip) and Grandparents arrived for a visit could join us.

 I was pretty excited about the cake and decorations. Logan pick out the cake and wanted Star Wars Angry Birds. So I took some of Aiden's Star Wars decorations we used (cut Darth Vader on the Cricut BTW) and some of their Angry Bird toys to have on the counter.

Found a 4 candle Angry Bird set (perfect) and some Star Wars cupcake toppers I saved (from Auntie Tina) and called it a success.

He seemed quite happy too.
Just glad that we were OK to drop the Dinosaurs...not sure how I would have fit them in :)

Monday - an additional present arrived

Happy 4 year old Boy!

Spring Break recap

Last week was Spring Break for us and a very activity filled one!

Monday -  Soccer practice and lunch at Chic-fil-a

Tuesday - trip to the zoo. Saw 1 yr old clouded leopards being given goats milk (a treat) for good behavior with the keepers.

Wednesday - lunch with daddy, naps and swim lessons.
Thursday - A day at the Rodeo

 A super fun way to wash your hands. Aiden is using the dryer. 

Loved the rides 

 and tried cotton candy for the first time. I don't think Aiden was a big fan after a few bites. 

Friday - We had lunch at home with daddy before he went off golfing and then after naps went to the outlet mall and then Lows to get a few flowers to plant. 

 Yeah for back to school. :)

An album reorganization and plans to finish in 30 days.

A few days after reading  Noell's  Paperclipping Play Along  post on completing a scrapbook album in less than 30 days and having Melissa's album post on my mind for the last while, I thought it was time that I did something about my albums. I have been using the LOM approach but something was just not working right with my albums so I pulled my Things We Do and Celebrations albums to put back together in a loose chronological order. I also pulled some layouts from other albums that didn't fit well there.

I had a big mess on the floor for the afternoon and evening but am really happy with the result especially for most of the pre LOM layouts (before 2009).  Those just didn't fit the themes well.  

So to play along and finish an album, I pulled the earliest album which has 2005-2007 along with some 2004 in it.

I am pulling all the 2004 layouts to put in the 2004 album I have (no idea why they weren't in there anyway...wow some really old stuff!) 

I pulled  what pictures I have printed from 2005 and 2006 and went through those years to see where I had gaps and what stories I wanted to add. Focusing on 2005, I have 5 open pages/stories and have finished 2 of the layouts. 

There are only a few anniversaries that I have documented in our early years so I'm glad to have the pictures even if I can't remember much of the details.

a simple page to fill in a gap 

It will be great to pull these years from my storage binders and be done, I need to empty it out anyway to have space for new pictures.