I have been a little slack on getting my camera out the last few months, which is not a good thing since I have an 8 month old who is constantly moving/learning/discovering and has a ton of fabulous photo opps every day. I have seen this flyer on a couple of different blogs lately so I think I am going to try it out. Maybe it will get me motivated.

I read about this site in a magazine that I subscribe to and I checked out the site. It seems pretty straightforward. I am going to dig through some of my old books to see if they will take any of them. For anyone who may have college kids/friends/etc, this could be the way to get rid of the unwanted textbooks.

I was doing so well there for a while. I have just been to busy to update the last couple of weeks. T is loving school and baby K is just about ready to start crawling. she is scootin' around here like she owns the place and is rockin' on her hands and knees a good bit. I can tell she wants to move that knee forward, but is unsure of exactly how to get just one to move at a time. So she either moves them both at the same time or just flops back onto her belly and scoots to where she wants to go.
Not a whole lot going on around here. I got a couple of pics of them playing outside together. K just loves riding on this little digger with T. We bought this for T when he was about 18 months old and even though he is way too big for it, he still plays with it. I think its probably the best $35 we have ever spent on something for him. He has played with it just about every day since we bought it. And now she loves it too.

I haven't posted anything scrappy in a while so I thought I would share this one. I did this last night and love how it came out. It looks much better irl!

This was so simple to make since I used a transparant overlay from Fancy Pants. I just stuck my photo and mat down and then put the overlay on top and added a couple of rub ons and the glitter hearts, also from Fancy Pants. I think this one is my new favorite of her. I'll have to get a frame for this one for sure! Good thing I just got a coupon for Michaels!!

One more day of school and the first week is over. T seems to be enjoying it. We live close enough that I can walk him to and from school so that is what I did this afternoon. We may not be able to tomorrow, depending on the storm(s) that is/are heading our way. Hopefully, we won't get anything too serious, but we'll have to wait and see.

Woohoo! T is in school all day now! I do miss the little rugrat, but the house sure is nice and quiet and peaceful during the day now. Well, it's just easier to drown out the ga-ga, goo-goos from baby K, than T's random dinosaur/monster/wild thing noises. I can only handle so many of those in a year and my limit is quickly being reached. It's probably better for him that he is in school, otherwise I'd have to lock him in his room or something.
Anway, here are the pics. He just had to have one taken by the mailbox. Don't know why.

This is what he looked like when I told him he had to go to school ALL DAY. He had just asked me if we could go to Chick-fil-a for lunch after school. Last year, he got out of preschool at 12:30 so we would sometimes go get a little something then or meet friends for lunch. So he likes to eat lunch out. He was a bit disappointed.

So when he got home from school, he promptly asked if we could go to Red Lobster for dinner.
(No, we did not go out to dinner either.)

It's been awhile, I guess. We have just been busy with the end of summer and getting ready for school. T starts Kindergarten next week. I can hardly believe it! We get to go meet his teacher tomorrow morning. He is excited about that. We have to cart his pile of school supplies with us tomorrow. I don't remember having this much stuff when I was in school. I still want to know what they are going to be doing with FIVE packs of 8 count cranyons AND a 24 count pack of crayons?? My son just doesn't like to color that much.
Anyway, we went on a little camping trip a couple of weekends ago. It was a nice relaxing time. Except for baby K. She didn't enjoy not getting to sleep in her own bed. She was a pretty good sport about everything else. She absolutely loved being outside and playing with T.


On the way to the campsite, we stopped to see this:
It was really pretty. The campsite was called "Hidden Valley" and it was truly hidden way out in the middle of nowhere in the mountains of Virginia. We woke up to deer eating out in the field beside the campgrounds every morning, which was really neat to see. We went on a little hike to this swinging bridge that crosses the river close to the campground. T had a great time playing on that. I did not. I don't like heights too much and I don't care for bridges of any kind too much either.
That's about all I am motivated to write this evening. This whole "practicing getting up early for school" thing sucks. I never did like getting up for school-just ask my mom.

These are pics from last week:


Can you see the difference? He is NOT wearing a life jacket this time! He is so proud that he can "swim underwater now"! C says it is more like drowning with style, but hey, he's trying at least! SO proud of him!

And here is our little fishie. She LOOOOOVES the water! Any time she sees T in the pool, she tries to jump out of my arms & in with him.

I've had a cold for several days now so C has been taking her in and she loves every minute of it!
That's about all that is going on here. Getting ready for school to start. T starts Kindergarten in about a month or a little less. I can hardly believe it! He is ready and so am I. It will be a good thing for both of us, I think.