Baking muffins with Logan

Needed to use up some bananas so Logan helped me make muffins. Tried this recipe. 

My little helper

yum Banana muffins!

Take Twelve

My layout for August. I ended up changing one of the items on the list just so I could include my new, super cute bird house. 

Products: Persnickety Prints Sun and Sea Free kit, Ella Publishing take-twelve-guided-inspiration-kit 
Find more Take Twelve info and link ups on the ellapublishing.com blog.

Ten Things

For this month's Ten Things I'm going to do a highlight of our recent vacation.

 Picking veggies from the garden. The boys were really impressed with the garden (don't think they ever saw a real one) and was asking what each plant was.

 Having fun at the Mall of America.

 Sea Life at the Mall of America.

 Helping Grandpa plant some flowers

Checking out the Dino's at the MN Zoo. It was only like 98F this day. So much for getting away from the heat.

 Visiting the puppies and Uncle Kev.

 Hanging with cousins...Elizabeth

and Carmine

 Helping Grandma and hanging outside. Temps are much better.

Seeing the Twins at their new stadium.

Ten Things is part of Shimelle's10 Things.

A new recipe

I came across this recipe for Tortellini and Spinach Soup on the Disneyfamily.com site. It looked really easy and had some veggies, things I'm looking for. It was a hit. Logan didn't eat it but he only eats like five things, but Aiden ate it even with the spinach which he previously wouldn't touch. Yeah for small victories. Check the link for a better picture.

Dimensional Details

As you may know, I have taken a few classes at Big Picture Classes but usually only one of the bigger classes from their 4Experts series each year. So I missed Nic Howard's Dimensional Details workshop in 2010. Then this year it was being re-run with expanded material but I still passed and took Twelve instead to  help me work on layouts to fill in my Library. So it was to my great surprise to notice as I was linking my July Take Twelve layout to the Ella Publishing blog that I WON the challenge in June (see my winning layout at the bottom). I won a spot in Nic's workshop. The only problem was that the class had already started at the beginning of July. It took a week (very long week) to get everything worked out and placed in the workshop which happened last Wednesday. So I had one day to catch up on 3 weeks of information before the new week 4 material came out Thursday. So here are my first layouts from the workshop based on the week 4 material. I may eventually go back and do some layouts from the material I missed.

I tried sanding the edges of the pictures to get a white border and the middle picture is popped up a little higher then the other two. 

This went together really quick since it's papers are from the same kit as the first layout. They were laying out on my table and worked so I went with it. I added the buttons in last and before hand it just didn't look right.  This is a great design to showcase these random photo shoot photos.  

Take Twelve

My layout for July
Aiden was helping me and picked out the yellow background paper.

Products: DHD- iNSD 2012 kit, Retrospect
Ella Publishing take-twelve-guided-inspiration-kit 

Ten Things

For this 10 things I thought this would be fun.


10  Dr. Seuss Quotes
"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

"If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good."

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. "

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

OK, so there are 11. I just couldn't take one out. 

Check out where the 10 Things started at http://www.shimelle.com/

So, What is your favorite Dr Seuss book or quote?