This Week..

and Holiday weekend...
Bill was in Russia and Logan had his last week of school.
Things went well with the boys, we were busy with our usual activities. Logan did have a rough night and got up several times, so when he came down yet again at around 5 am I wasn't getting up. This is the first time he's slept in our bed in a long long time.

I worked on teacher gifts and Logan handed them out on Friday, his last day.

 This weekend we had a going away lunch for friends moving back to Germany, our new office furniture arrived, we finished a puzzle and got much needed new luggage.

This week...

We had our last Art and Book Club at Aiden's school. Logan won one of the door prizes. The boys had fun making hats.

Logan had his last Chapel at preschool. It was superhero themed so he wore his Spider man shirt and a cape. 

 The boys had Doctor appointments. This was the first time that I made them appointments together. It was nice to only go in once but draining. Logan's was a real quick check and Aiden got his first x-ray (everything is fine).

We got some playtime in with Daddy before his work trip.

Today was a shopping day with the boys. Out of all this, only the Michael's bag in the back is mine and one other item. The boys made a haul. It was good to get the shopping done but wow, what a long day.

NSD 2013 Layouts

I finished 6 layouts this past week for different NSD challenges, five paper and one digital.
Here is my digital page with pictures taken just over a month ago.

This is the first time I really manipulated a template to get the layout how I want. I must be learning some of this digital stuff after all. This one and all the rest of my layouts can be seen here. 

This Week...

These last two weeks have been very busy around here.

I went with these lovely ladies to serve a meal to Ronald McDonald House. A service project my MOMS Club does every year. It is a wonderful experience that I could not do on my own.

Aiden's school had an Open House. It was neat to see all his classrooms. 

 May the 4th be with you! Bill took the boys to Toys R Us for a special LEGO Star Wars Build. They got the pieces there and put it together at home. I stayed home to participate in chats and challenges for National Scrap booking Day.

Our Cinco de Mayo dinner.

A little bird watching. 

Aiden had his Field Day at school. His class had 6 stations to rotate through.

 Happy mail, thanks to credit card reward points.

Treats from Aiden's Mother's Day Tea.
Bill had come home shortly after I left to get a nap. He's been working lots of hours to fix the leak on the space station.

Mother's Day gifts and a fun weekend full of family time.

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.