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Project Life Week 13

Here's week 13.  It's kind of  a mish mash of colors.  Not my favorite, but it's done.

and in the process of working on project life this week, i've become completely addicted to Downtown Abbey.  I had been watching all the seasons of Dexter while I Project life.  Sadly, I finished season 6 this week while eric was on a trip.  Note to self: watching shows about serial killers late into the night while husband is on a work trip is NOT really a sensible thing to do.  Let's just say I made sure the alarm was on and 911 was on my speed dial. 

Project Life Week 15

Still have week 14 to finish, but I thought this week would be fast.  It certainly goes much faster when using lots of 4 by 6 pictures!

This week was the 2nd half of the girls spring break-Easter prep--eggs hunts and egg dyeing. 

I was excited about my cute Easter printables from pluckymomo.com!

Jamega

The girls and I went to church this morning. It was, once again, a great service.   Our interim pastor rocks.  I was even able to use the message from today to explain something to Annie about an incident that happened last night--she was having a hard time getting over it. 

Anyway, with Daddy heading in to work and then flying out for a business trip later today, I decided to take the girls to breakfast.  And if there's one thing they love to do, it's go to breakfast.  

When Annie was 3/4 of the way through her toast, she noticed the jelly packs.

If there's another thing she loves...it's jelly packs.  This particular jelly pack was marionberry and not a generic brand like the photo above.  After I spread the jelly on the toast, she proceeded to lick the little pack clean. A feat she accompliashed so fast, I didn't even notice, let alone have time to stop her.  

Upon leaving, she got real sly and sneaky-like and whispered, "I'm taking one home to have on toast later today."

She put it in her pocket.  Which, in this house, is a scary thing based on what I've run through the washer. 

On our way to the grocery, Annie proudly pronounced that she was naming her jam "Jamega."

To which we all laughed. 

And then she said I'd better not take a picture of it and put it in project life.  

She's on to me.

It's a good thing she doesn't know about my blog.

Project Life: Spring Break

I am a little behind in my project life, but I couldn't wait to make our spring break pages.  A few of the days were in week 13 and some were in week 14.  My retentive, freakish mind let it go and decided just to make a two page spread of the trip with the rest of week 13 in a two page spread before and the rest of week 14 in a two page spread after.  

page 1

page two with an extra 6X10 collage page

page 2

page one with the other side of the collage

I just love the colors.  So cheerful.  It was such a great trip.  

 

I amaze myself and how did a penis get in that picture?

I finally found some blog inspiration.  It's not that I haven't had stories to tell, I just haven't felt like putting my thoughts down.  My feet issues have been kind of like a black cloud hanging over me and it's usually rainy.  It's definitely made me crankier than my usual cranky. But enough of my whining...

Today, I did personal yearbooks in Annie's class.  The feature was "Leprechaun Traps." The kids get a picture of themselves with their classmates and traps and then they have to write something about what happened that day. On the other page they get to draw a picture about the topic.

Annie wrote a great little narrative in which she used the "..." (yes, she used ellipses) .  She cracks me up. 

One little boy at her table is learning English as a second language so he hasn't quite mastered the grammatical aspect of the language. He gushed on and on about how well she draws..."you are such a good drawer...I amaze myself." I'm pretty sure he meant to say SHE was amazing. 

A bit later, one of the sweet boys called me over to his desk.

"Heather" he asks, "what is this in the picture?"

I lean over and look at it, not sure what he's talking about. "huh?"

"This right here," he says to me, pointing.

I study it for a bit and say, "It's xxxx's hand."

and then I look at it a bit longer, wondering what in the heck he thought it was. And, then it dawns on me.

It looked like a penis.  A teeny, tiny penis in the middle of the picture.  

I am too stunned to say anything but I look down and he's got this half grin on his face.  

"Yep, it's his hand I say," and walk away.

I can ALWAYS count on the kids for a good laugh. 

Yesterday, I did art docent in Gracie's class.  Apparently, all you need to make 3rd and 4th grade students happy is fresh drawing paper and new oil pastels.

 I always find it interesting who follows the directions but still maintains some creativeness and who doesn't follow the directions and ends up with a completely different product.  Needless to say, I made one kid start over. I don't know how I missed it, but at the end of the lesson (the kids were supposed to re-create VanGogh's sunflowers in a vase but with a variety of flower shapes) I looked at his paper and he had taken it upon himself to not only draw the vase with flowers but also a portrait on the wall behind the flowers.  Not the rules.  Try again.

 

Project Life week 10

Finally used some more 4 by 6 photos.  It was kind of blessing my feet were hurting and I didn't ski that day.  I got some fun photos.  And, I am thankful I took photos the first ski day because on the second day, I was holding Annie's hair back over the puke bowl.  

The pages are a little brighter than this but this is the picture quality you get when you take them in the morning with your i phone on a grey, rainy seattle day.  So happy to be keeping up...but what else can you do when you can barely walk around the grocery.  But that's a story for another day.  Maybe I'll have my pity party this afternoon and blog about it. 

the prize

Annie came into my room this morning and snuggled up with me in my bed.

 "I just love this blankie," she said, getting under my big, soft, blue blankie.  "I know you're thinking 'but she just left her blankie to get in mine.'..but this has another prize...YOU."

snuggle, snuggle. melt, melt.  

 

Project life: disney land

I've had printed pictures of disney land 2008 sitting in a draw in the den for almost 4 years now.  The thought of scrapbooking them seemed overwhelming.  I made a few pages 3 years ago, but stopped and never picked it back up.  Needing something to focus on for the girls craft weekend, I decided that maybe the project life method would be the way to go.  

I LOVE IT!!!!!

Here's what I've completed so far.

I kind of petered out on the embellishments.  The need to get them in the album outweighed the embellishing.  I am so happy that I journaled while we were there and saved some ephemera.  I also blogged quite a bit about the trip.  It was great to refer to that information so I could include journaling.

Bottom line...I am so happy I did it because the girls are absolutely LOVING going through the pages.  Annie doesn't even really remember it, so she is eating it up! I am looking forward to finishing th rest!

 

project life week 8 and 9

 

week 9

I got a little behind and wasn't feeling very inspired this week.  I kind of just threw stuff in. But, it is what it is, right?

PL week 7

Finally finished up week 7 today.  We were having too much fun over the weekend and through tuesday.  The girls had mid winter break, getting friday through tuesday off from school.  We had such a great time.  The girls did a great job skiing. Annie hit a big milestone...she finally, on the 2nd of our 3 days, rode the chair lift.

It only took her ski instructor asking her if she was ready for the lift.

Well, that and 1 1/2 ski seasons, bribes of big chocolate chip cookies baked in a cast iron skillet and topped with ice cream, tears, fits and roughly 10 private 1:1, 2 hour lessons.  

You know...that's all.

We had a very fun Valentine month. Lots of valentine making for all of our different friends and teachers.  

On Valentine's day, the girls toughed it out by getting up early and heading to the local doughnut shop to get doughnuts for the staff appreciation breakfast that morning.  We set up the breakfast, had a PTA sponsored fun run, Annie's valentine party, Gracie's valentine party, dance class and then a fantastic dinner at home with daddy. When he walked through the door carrying cutie little bags from the HELLO KITTY store, I thought the girls were going to pass out from the excitement.  He went out and bought them the sweetest little themed valentines from the HK store.  Tuxedo Sam  for Gracie and Hello Kitty for Annie.  For dinner we had a gluten free beef, cheese and noodle bake-minus the cheese for me.  pffft.  and broccoli.  For dessert we had fondue.  It's one of our perfect meals that every one eats.  Definitely not fancy, but it made us all happy.

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