Fighting sleep

I just wanted to share something that has become a nightly routine at our house recently. Ryan has always gone to bed really well. We never had a difficult time with him getting out of bed or anything. Well recently he has been getting up, turning on his light and playing after we put him to bed. He is really quiet about it and we usually don't hear him, until we walk down the hall way 30-60 min after bed time to find him playing on the floor. Well the other night I checked on him before I got in bed and found him asleep on the floor. It was too funny that I had to take his picture. He had taken all his blankets off his bed so he could play with his cars on the mattress and eventually fell asleep on the floor. 

New Websites

So the past few days I have been addicted to searching for new crafting websites and ideas on the internet. And I have found some good ones. Make sure to check them out <------------------- One, called the Scrapbook Lounge where they have weekly crafting videos that you can have delivered right to your email box. Make sure to check them out!

Paper Bag Album

This little paper bag album was another class I taught. It was so easy and so cute! I got the directions off of a youtube users site. www.youtube.com/users/angik08 It uses 5 brown paper lunch bags. You can also buy these bags in white from the store. I cut cardstock at 4.5 x 7 to use as the cards inside the paper bags. You can put 2+ in each bag so this little album can really hold a lot of pictures. I hope you try this album, it really has cute results. 

Umatilla County Fair

We had a great Day at the Umatilla County fair a couple weeks ago. It wasn't too hot and there were lots of things to do. I think Ryan's favorite was the bumper cars. He was just tall enough to ride with Mom and he thought this was cool! He steered a little but mainly enjoyed driving around and bumping into people. 

Jaiden wasn't tall enough to go on the rides by himself so Daddy went with him on the balloon ride. Jaiden seemed to have fun, but tipped over a couple times as it was spinning. 

Ryan and Jaiden both liked petting the animals. They would bend down and say hi. 

Ryan had so much fun on the roller coaster. He is still talking about it. Here he saw other kids putting their hands up, so he did too. 

Rose Card

Creative Memories came out a great paisley shape maker. This card was an idea that came from the Paisley Shape maker section of the Creative Memories project center. I love all Creative Memories shape makers but I think this one is my favorite. The paisley can be made into so many different things. (angel wings, flower petals, lion manes) 

What a big boy!

Jaiden will be 2 in a month and Todd and I decided it was time for him to move out of his crib before he learned to climb out and hurt himself. So last monday we took his mattress out of his crib and placed it on the floor. The first couple nights we had to redirect him to his bed when he wandered off, and occasionally we hear him playing with toys instead of sleeping but for the most part he has done really well. He is such a big boy! Time to buy a big boy bed!

Explosion Box

I made this box for a workshop I taught at my house. I found the directions in the Creative Memories project center on www.creativememories.com . The only change I made in the directions was in the lid. We found that if you score the lid at the distance they say to, then the lid doesn't fit, but if you score the lid at 1/4" less than the directions say, than the lid fits well. It can hold up to 10 photos. Everyone who has seen this box has really liked it and it looks great on a table of shelf. I found the directions for the bow on top on Youtube. It was a easy process and am excited to try this technique on packages during the holidays.  I am really happy at how this project came out. I would give this project a difficulty rating of Medium. 

explosion Box