St Louis

We went to St Louis from the 19th-24th for My grandparents surprise birthday party. My grandma was turning 80 and my grandfather 84. It was tons of fun! Here are a few pictures.

4 generations:


The house my parents lived in when I was born (lived there till I was 3):

From 2009_02_24

Here is a slide show to more pictures, if you click on it you can see it bigger. I have a lot more pictures but I will load them on snapfish and send them out so everyone can print them.

Another long overdue post......

Totally slacking on this but oh well.... Not a whole lot to update. I have some new pictures to share of different things we have done over the last month or so but my hard drive on my computer is full so its so freaking slow to do anything and I just get annoyed so don't bother. I have an external hard drive that everything is backed up on but I want everything in two places so I need to get another external harddrive so I can have a backup.

But here are some pictures that I do have to share. My SIL and niece are here from NY for the week. Last night I took some pictures and this was the only one I was able to work on b/c of the slow computer issue. I think she looks really pretty:



Here is the same picture but converted to black and white:




I have tons more pictures to share b/c while they were here we went Ice Skating (here is a link to a short video of Izzy iceskating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al2NsJIm6zU and to Gatorland zoo but I have to drive to Jacksonville tomorrow for a meeting for work and then Thursday, Izzy and I are going to St Louis for the week so when I get back it will be picture overload.

Here are the few scrapbooking projects I worked on. These are for swaps:

Sea World 1-19-09

Went to Sea World on the 19th. It was a beautiful day. Izzy enjoyed it like she normally does.



Have not done any other loyouts for scrapbooking this year except for the one I posted a few weeks ago. I did just book a trip to a town about 45 minutes outside Atlanta to goto a scrapbooking retreat for the weekend in March. I plan to do lots of LO's there. I went to one back in November and did like 25 layouts but my goal is to do even more. I have TONS of recent pictures plus I still have a few from her first year to do in order to finish that up.

I have been doing some swaps lately - here are some of the stuff I have done for those:

These are called "inchies" - basically they are about 1" and they are just little decorations to put anywhere on your page.






These are all journaling tags:

Izzy Painting and Baking

She loves to paint. I like these picture b/c she looks like a little kid when she is wearing her diaper. She can look so grown up when she is dressed in clothes. These are from last weekend. We had a busy weekend so far so I'll update pictures from Sea World and the Zoo throughout the week.



And these are also from last week. Izzy wanted to bake a cake for Daddy. She is wearing an adorable apron that Julia (scrapbooking friend) made from here. Julia has an etsy site where you can see some of the other stuff she sells (www.thelittlestshop.etsy.com)



Last is a picture of Izzy in the dress that the two of us made together:

From 2009_01_19

Love these pictures of Chelsea

Its SO much easy actually taking picture of a non moving object :). Here are a few that I have so far. I have tons more to sort thru but wanted to share these b/c it will be a few days till I have time to work on them. (chelsea - you can save these but don't try to print them b/c they wont turn out).

Pillowcase Dress Izzy and I made (and some pictures)

Yes, Izzy helped me sew this dress. She sat on my lap and helped me pull the needles out and cut the strings. Unfortunately she wouldn't wear the dress for me to get some photos of her but I am going to try to have her wear it tomorrow to Leu Gardens.







And here are two photos from today at the park (Aunt Tina got her the adorable sweater and hat - there is a matching scarf and hat but it was like 70 degrees so even these were overkill):

Not doing such a good job :(

So, I am not doing such a good job keeping this updated. Guess that is something I will have to work on. I haven't been doing too much lately. We (Izzy, myself, Monica, Scott, Elizabeth, My Mom and My Dad) did all goto Busch Gardens on Saturday. Izzy and I were going to stay at Jodie's that night but Izzy was very tired when we got there (so also very tired) so we spend about an hour or so hanging out with her before heading home. On Saturday, Izzy and I had a picnic at the park up the street. I brought my camera and took some pictures.

Check out the picture from Busch Gardens and the park here:


As for my "crafting". I did one layout so far this year and worked on a few items for some swaps (in case you are wondering, thats when you make a set amount of each item and then swap them with everyone else who made stuff so you get more back). Today I sewed some curtains together for Vickey's apartment. Is till have to sew some fringe onto a valance and a pillowcase for Chelsea's room. Maybe tonight??

Here is the one scrapbooking layout I have done this year. I did it for a one hour layout contest.



And last for right now is a really cool thing created by Micah at VIP Signatures. I love it.