Guess What!?

I am going to be featured as a guest designer on the Making Memories blog! I don't know quite when yet, but as soon as I know this is where you will find the link. I am really excited since I am such a huge fan of Making Memories products, especially the slice (as you all know already!).

On Sunday, we decided to go for a walk and loaded the boys into the stroller and we walked around our big block and stopped at the baseball field. Neil ran around with the girls and Gabriel tried to run too. Zach for some reason even though he had shoes on wouldn't move because he was on the grass. He just stood exactly where I had set him and put his arms up and whined so that I would pick him up! While I was holding him and taking pictures I got this shot of the two of us.

And I am already not looking forward to the day that we have to bring a drum set into our house! The boys love banging on the drums and the girls in the High School youth group (here it is Brianna) love taking them onto the stage to touch the guitars and hit the drums and make lots of noise! I can hear the banging now!

The Best Picture of All

I couldn't believe it when I was crouched down and I suddenly saw through the lense a perfect profile of Zachary and Gabriel was in the background. Luckily, I had my camera on the AV mode and that is what made Gabriel blurry. This picture just makes me smile!
Here it is! I gave you a sneak peek at the things I had made with the cricut and the Hello Kitty cartridge, well this is what I made on Wednesday. On Thursday I took the pictures of the girls with their Hello Kitty rain boots on and I made the page really quickly. You can't see very well but there are rinestones on the corners of the pictures and there is one as the dot on the eye and one on the top of Hello Kitty's umbrella. I used my favorite border punch the Fiskars Threading Water punch on the top and bottom of the white cardstock. Other than that the page was done since I had made the rainbow and Kitty with the cricut. Oh yeah, the diagonal strip paper is from the dollar section at Target!

More Great Pictures

I love this one of Zachary that I took not even looking through the lense. I just held it down and pointed it toward him. I love it when things like that work out!
Kaley helping Zachary go down the slide.
Madison was having so much fun taking Gabriel down the slide, you can really see it on her face.
Zachary looks so grown up in this picture! I know, I got more great pictures of Zach than I did of Gabriel but Zachary stays still for a moment here and there, Gabriel never stops moving!

Some of the Great Pictures

On Friday I took some amazing pictures of the kids. I had a lot of fun snapping away while they played. I love that Gabriel's tongue is hanging out to the side! He looks just like his Daddy.
My other very handsome boy. Zachary was really attached to this red spiky ball.
Madison with her new haircut. It is really nice to be able to see her face!
I could not believe how great this picture is! I took it just to make her happy since she was posing with Zachary who I was trying to get a picture of. It wasn't until I got home and uploaded the pictures and I zoomed in on her face that I saw how gorgeous she is. Is she four or fourteen?

A sneak peek and a shout out

I wanted to give you all a sneek peek at what I have been working on this week. My totally awesome grandmother let me borrow her brand new Hello Kitty cricut cartridge (borrow, HaHa!)
And I have been playing with it every chance I get. These are some of the pieces that I made on Tuesday (took me two hours!) but soon I will share a page I am doing with them (or others, I can't decide!) They turned out really cute, this might be my favorite cricut cartridge of ALL time!!!

And I wanted to give a shout out to the Paper Craft Planet group that I joined called Swappin Scraps! If you haven't heard of it before Paper Craft Planet is like facebook but for crafters. You can make friends, keep up with each other, join groups, participate in challenges and all sorts of stuff! It is definetely a great place to get ideas and be inspired by others all over the world. I encourage you all to check it out and join!

Check These Out!

Just wanted to let you all know that there are some giveaways going on from women on their blogs. Here are two of them that I heard about from a friend in Sweden http://handstampedbylacey.typepad.com/my_weblog/ and then the other is http://bevscrafts.blogspot.com/ so check them out and try to win some great stuff! Plus get some inspiration from other parts of the world! Hope you are all doing well!

The Hippo Song

Last Wednesday before youth group Kaley and Madison talked Katelyn Grabel into doing their favorite sunday school song with them. I just happened to catch it all on video! (Ha-Ha!)
Check it out, even if you can't understand all of the words, you will have a good laugh watching the motions. I should get Katelyn to write the words down for me so I can share them too because it is really cute!