Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Sleeping with a Picture


My sweet boy fell asleep while looking at a picture of him and his Granddad playing baseball. I bet he's dreaming of baseball!


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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Fun T-Shirts

Somehow I ended up on Cafe Press browsing t-shirts. I found many that I love for a variety of different reasons. Let me share a few with you....


(If you want to see a particular shirt better you can click on the title below each shirt to be taken to that page.) 



(my fave of the photography shirts)
Peace, Love, Photography
































(Loving this one too)












Sunday, November 15, 2009

Quote of the Week: Enjoy the Little Things


"Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were big things."
~ Chinese Proverb



Photo note: This is an old photo but one of my all time faves. 

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Miracle League Medal

Noah and his Miracle League Buddy, Granddad, showing off Noah's Miracle League medal at the last game of the fall season. 





Tuesday, November 10, 2009

BFF's Bridal Shower

This past weekend I traveled to my BFF's in the Atlanta area to host (along with the other bridesmaids) her bridal shower. We chose a fall theme for the bridal shower and I had a great time planning all the decorations, centerpieces, and what not. I think that everything turned out very nice and Lani loved it all. And of course, I have pictures to share! 

The centerpieces were (fake) pumpkins filled with (fake) flowers. They were sitting on a some scattered leaves and each pumpkin had a framed engagement picture of Lani and Clinton sitting next to it with a tea light candle on either side of it. 

Beautiful Cake

Bride to Be with the Cake


I love to watch Lani open gifts. She gets excited and animated. She makes each person feel like their gift was the best gift ever. You could give the girl a pencil and she'd make you feel like you just gave her a diamond ring or something. 

Lani pinning a "Mother of the Bride" pin on her Mom. 
Lani with her soon to be MIL on the left and her Mom on the right.

Me and my BFF or "the sister God let me choose" as Lani so eloquently says it.




Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Noah and the Giant Dino

 Noah received this GIANT dinosaur as a birthday gift.
(Thank you Mary!)
The other night he was in a great mood and playing with it before bedtime and I snapped these photos..............

 







Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Birthday Pictures - Finally!

I know, I have been so slow doing a birthday recap but we've just had so much going on lately! So, Noah's 13th birthday party while very small (on purpose - too many people = sensory overload) was fun for him and all involved. My Mom commented on what a good host he was as he had to make sure that everyone had food and drinks. The only sad part was Uncle Andy and his dog-son Hansel were unable to attend because Andy was stuck in VA for work. While Noah barely ate any of the (cookie) cake he did enjoy the blowing out of the candles and for the first time actually blew out one of the candles himself!

Ok, on to the pictures............



I love this one - I call it "Where's Noah?"



What's in here? 



He takes a little break from opening presents to read a book
that was one of the presents


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Look, a dinosaur!



Moving on to the cake shots.....





 



Sunday, November 1, 2009

Quote of the Week: Autumn Mosaic


"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Stanley Horowitz 


I love trees in the fall! Aren't those trees just gorgeous! I took that picture at a lake/park near our house last week.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

No No the Clown

Noah was in a terrible mood today but I did manage to get some decent pictures. Our dear friend Mary made Noah's costume once again - thank you Mary!

 
 

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wordless Wednesday: Cheesy Pumpkin Patch Photos

When we were at the Pumpkin Patch on Saturday, they had one of those cheesy photo op displays and we just couldn't resist having a little fun with it......




 
 
 

Not all the shots were cheesy, this is my new favorite photo of Noah and Paisley.....






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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Frankenstein Popcorn

Noah isn’t a big sweets eater but he loves popcorn so I came up with this little Halloween treat using a mini bag of microwavable popcorn. They come together pretty quickly so you can easily whip together a few for a last minute treat for your child’s class, teachers, your co-workers, etc. They’d make a great party favor too!


You'll Need:



Microwavable popcorn (I used the mini bags.)

Green and black cardstock

Scissors
Pinking shears (scissors with a zig zag edge)
Googly eyes
Pom Poms (I used green)
Tape (I used my tape runner)
Glue (I used my favorite glue ever, E6000)
Scrapbooking adhesive/glue stick


What to Do:




1. Mark the size of your popcorn on your green paper and then cut it accordingly.
2. Tape down the ends of your popcorn bag.
3. Using your scrapbooking adhesive or a glue stick put glue on the back side of your green cardstock and then place your popcorn bag in the middle of the paper.

4. Fold the paper around the bag so it overlaps using more glue or adhesive as needed.

5. Now to decorate the front and make the face, cut out a strip of black cardstock using your pinking shears. Glue on the strip of hair, two eyes, and a pom pom nose. Draw on and crooked mouth using a black marker and you are finished!



After I made a few, I realized that a black pipe cleaner would have made a good mouth too but I didn’t have any so I just stuck with my black marker mouth.




Enjoy!
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