katja kromann has two gorgeous new digi kits in her shop. the "spring in your step" kit totally inspired this page of e. notice i said, "when you are happy this is how you are." i really, really need to do a page of the flip side. lol! we love her no matter what mood she's in. hee! ;)
what that last post was about, apparently ella was playing on the computer and posted that all by herself!!! i have NO clue how! lol! look for rosadita stories coming soon! ;)
sunday we took wilson to his first baseball game - the omaha royals were hosting the albuquerque isotopes. everyone had a great time! wilson always loves to clap along whenever anyone else is clapping - whether in person or on tv. the girls enjoyed the game too - ella was really quiet and just took it all in and anna was busy trying to learn all of the rules of the game. we made a quick stop at the zoo afterwards.
this morning the girls were in such a good mood! we bought them matching pink nightgowns and ella said it was her new favorite. they colored together, said they love each other, and even let me take their picture!!! never fear, though. they started bickering and arguing about 10 minutes later. lol! really most of the time they get along so well. i wouldn't think they were normal if they didn't argue every now and then. ;) ooh and ella declared that really she didn't like her new pj's and wanted to go back to her old pink nightgown. i tried!!!!
the IT kit!!! i'm so excited! kelly has amazing taste and i can't wait to see her unique compilations of wonderful scrappy things. Click here to find out more! http://www.itkitstudio.com/
but i actually got a chance to scrapbook again. finally! funny how inspiring deadlines can be! ;) i've been working with the "in the mood" cd from digital scrapbook memories. so fun! the first one was kind of unintentionally inspired by miley. her pages are so amazing! this one must have really stuck in my head - it wasn't until after i finished mine that i realized mine was kind of like it. (i soooo love hers more - so many perfect little details!)
while we're kind of on the subject of the bagels, please keep becca and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
thank goodness. ha! we've had a blast, but my patience ran out, some time around about 2-ish. hee! we skipped the art museum because everyone was still tired and wilson was quite a bit cranky. well and me too. ;) anna had a playdate, too, so that was good for her. she let me give her a french braid this afternoon and i think she was just a little proud of it. she let me take her picture and gave me all kinds of poses. i'll post a few more later, and pictures of her on her bike, but this is my favorite so far. except that she looks sooooo old!!! :( :( :(
well, no pictures from spring break day 4. mommy needed a jammie day. ;) i've been so tired lately! so we didn't make it to the art museum as planned. hopefully tomorrow! i did get to go to dinner with the bagels and it was soooo fun. those girls are just the best!!! becky novacek took pictures of kurt and i before our ball on saturday. she brought them to me tonight and it made me teary seeing them again. she's sooo talented and has such an incredible knack for capturing people's personalities through her lens. here's a picture of my dad and wilson that i just love. i love them all!!! (thank you so much again, becky!!!)
at the zoo! we went to bagels and then straight to the zoo for the whole afternoon. phew! i am beat!!! we all had SUCH a great time!!! it was really the first time that wilson knew what was going on, and he was so excited!!! we got to see a baby orangutan and it was adorable! (thanks again, denise, for telling us about it!)
(these pictures are not the greatest. i really needed my other lens, which of course was in the car. bummer!)
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i can't believe it's been 6 years since my little sweetheart was born. it seems like yesterday!
hee - ps - i made this collage with picasa and it repeated some of the images. oops! didn't know it would do that. back to lumapix for me. ;)
oh my!!! day 1 of spring break. we went to fontenelle forest for "mud pies." it was so fun! the kids made little crafts to go with animal sounds - plastc eggs filled with bird seed to resemble rattle snake sounds, toilet paper tubes covered with wax paper that vibrate and sound like cicada's... stuff like that. fun times! after craft time a lady brought out a snake for the kids to touch. anna was so brave! she said it felt like a washcloth - actually soft, not slimy. as the lady was getting the snake ready to leave the snake climbed into her shirt and wrapped around her. holy smokes! i smiled and acted non-chalant trying to be a cool mom, but inside i was freaking out!!! lol! we grabbed lunch at mcd's and then went back to explore the trails. well we only made it around one trail because we had to stop and read EVERY placard along the way. anna is her daddy's girl! ;) we learned A LOT about lewis and clark. hee! the girls are outside enjoying what is supposed to be the one warm day of the week. and i'm about ready to drop. and it's only monday! eek! lol!
you know how when you start getting rid of things you have the urge to buy more to fill the space? well - i took more pictures - and they took up way more hard drive space than i managed to delete yesterday. lol! but i did get some fun ones! anna got to celebrate her birthday at school today so i brought the camera along just in case anything special was going on. she was too embarassed to let me take her picture with her teacher, but i finally convinced her to let me take some while they were looking for 4 leaf clovers. :) willsie wasn't so cooperative because he was ready for a nap. but i did get one of him with one of his favorite new expressions. i'm afraid he might give ella a run for her money!
for a slew of blog posts. maybe even more tonight! hee! i am running out of hard drive space on my laptop so i'm finally forced to sort through pictures and delete some. what would really be a GREAT solution would for me to install photoshop on our new computer upstairs with a widescreen true color monitor and a 320 gb hard drive. but that would involve me finding the mysteriously vanishing photoshop disk. ;) so here come the pictures. hee! this one was taken of ella just a few days ago in her new favorite dress. she has worn it at least 6 times in the past two weeks. and not always clean, obviously. i even resorted to spraying febreeze on it one day. ew!!! it seems to have replaced the shredded pink nightgown for during the daytime, though, so that is a GOOD thing! ;) and also, her flip flops are 2 sizes too small and her little heels hang off the end. i haven't managed to get a picture of that yet. they are her absolute favorites, though. i took her to two shoe departments including von maur and shopped on zappos and piperline online with her, and i still can't find any that she likes more. that girl!!!! i do love her! ;)
eta - i did find flip flop pictures, but not a view of the back heels. hee!
ha! i did find a picture of her heels hanging over. see - i told you my pictures were unorganized! ;)
this morning willsie climbed up next to anna at the table while she was trying to eat. so she so sweetly got some cheerios for him and they had breakfast together. but he kept trying to sneak a bite of hers. because, really, who wouldn't rather have lucky charms than cheerios? :)
the next round of making memories idol has started and my friend miley has another AMAZING project!!! if you can please take the time to go vote. and tell your friends! :D
click here to vote!
i've finally found some actions that work in photoshop elements. i could spend all day playing with them. these use the orton technique. they are quite a bit overdone but these pictures were pretty blurry anyway. and i cut off the arch! ack! hee! i can't wait for spring to go back to that park to take more pictures!
our ducky bathroom has the worst light. it's on the loooooong list of things that need updated. so i had to take these with a very high iso. next time hopefully i can convince kurt to move the inflatable tub into a more well lit room. hee!
that was the name of anna's get together at school tonight. both kindergarten classes got together and sang some of their favorite fun songs and played math games and had yummy munchies. to sing the songs we all stood in a circle and all sang along. that was perfect for anna, who isn't always exactly excited about putting on a performance. ;) it was a fun, laid back hour. wilson was the life of the party. he was very enamored with mrs. anderson, the other kindergarten teacher. ella did a great job too - she joined in the activities and sang. i'm so proud of what a great job anna is doing at school. not only because of all of the things she's learned academically, but because of all of the friends she's made and how much she's overcome her shyness. saturday she is receiving an award for her writing. we're not exactly sure what that's about so i'll have to post more about that later. sorry, no pictures! no other parents had their cameras so anna asked that i didn't take any. :( maybe next time! ;)
ps - thanks to everyone that voted for miley! she made it to the next round! stay tuned for the next voting date! :)
