Project Life - Week Fifteen

Here is my Project Life page for Week 15!

I used the A Spoonful of Sugar free kit by Libby Pritchett.

My Birthday Outing with the Smith Girls

This past Saturday, the Smith girls (My MIL and my 2 SIL's) took me out for my birthday. This is a tradition of ours. For each of our birthdays, we plan a day out/in that is a surprise for the birthday girl. Here are some of our past birthday parties/outings, here, here, here, here, and here.

This year, they surprised me by taking me to the Painted Zebra.

Its a really cool place where you can pick a piece of pottery (plate, cookie jar, picture frame, piggy bank, etc.) and paint it to your liking. They had different examples and many of them were soooo cute! It was hard to chose what you wanted to paint. I ended up choosing a plate and painted it like another plate I had seen there that had different holiday themes around it and in the middle, it said "Celebrate with the _______". So once you figured out what you wanted to paint, you got started drawing it all on with a pencil. They had some stencils you could use and all the paint brushes and paint you would need. After drawing it all on, you painted over it with the colored paints you wanted. It was so much fun and very nerve wracking too, Ha! Here are each of us with our "masterpieces". ☺

And here's a close up of my plate all finished. I am by no means an artist. (The colors are a little off because the paint is lighter than what it will look like after its been put in the kiln and glazed.) We pick them up on Wed. or Thurs., so I'll have to show you all the real finished product when I get it back. ☺

And here we are all finished with our projects.

After we were done here, we went to Dewey's Pizza for dinner. It was very good.

After dinner we went back to my MIL's house for drinks and we just sat and talked. 

We had such a fun day together. I look forward to the next birthday!! :-)

Project Life 2013 - Week 14

Happy Friday everyone and Happy Birthday to me. :-) I'm celebrating my 4th - 29th birthday today, Ha! It seems like after I turned 30, I've just kinda lost track of how old I am. I had to figure it out in my head last week to see what age I was about to be.  I'm working today and then going out for Chinese tonight with my family. There's noone I'd rather be spending this day with than my wonderful family.  ☺

I got all caught up, and finished up this double layout for week 14. With Easter in there, I had an abundance of pictures I wanted to use and just couldn't seem to make it work with just one page. So I decided to make a double layout for this week. ☺

Here is a close-up of page 1

and a close-up of page 2

For this layout, I used the Flowers After the Rain Tiny Kit from Wishing Well Creations and a few things from Picmonkey.com.

Jackson, what does the chicken say?

Jackson is learning all the animal sounds and can say quite a few of them. He knows the sounds for the birdie, doggie, kitty, dinosaur, lion, pig, cow and our favorite sound... the chicken. 

Here is a little video of him making the chicken sound and flapping his arms. ☺

Signs of Spring

When the snow melts away, 

And it's rainy and gray, 

And the birds are beginning to sing...

 Trees have tender green buds,

And the Earth turns to mud-

Thats how you can tell it is Spring!

No more mittens and boots,

No more bulky snow suites,

It's too warm to wear all those things!

Flowers bloom everywhere,

Their perfume fills the air-

That's how you can tell it is Spring!

Poem found here.

I just love Spring. These pictures are of one of our Bradford Pear Tree's. I took them this morning. They are so pretty when they bloom. ☺

Project Life - 2013 - Week 13

Here is my page for week 13. I am a week behind, so I'm hoping to be caught back up again soon. ☺

Week 13

I used the Springtime Mini Kit from Connie Prince.

Weekend Recap

We had a very busy, but very fun weekend.

Friday night, Jake bowled on a friends' league team, so Jackson and I went to dinner and did a little shopping together. We had a fun night. I always love getting some one on one time with him. 

Saturday, we got up and took Libby and Max to get their annual shots. We dropped Jackson off at Jake's Mom's house to make things a little easier.

After that, we worked and played out in the yard for a little while. Jake got rid of as many gumballs in our front yard as possible and then layed some dirt and sod down in some bare spots in our back yard. Having 3 big dogs really does a number on your yard. :-( 

Then Saturday night we celebrated my nephew Landon's 6th birthday at Pantera's Pizza!! We had a great time, minus chasing Jackson around the whole restaurant all night. Please tell me I'm not the only one who has to do this. He does NOT like to be still for very long. Ha.

Then Sunday, we went to church. We have lunch and fellowship in our church dining hall the first Sunday of every month, so we stayed after for that. Then we went on a little double date with my sister and brother in law to see Oz, The Great and Powerful. I had been really wanting to see it and it was pretty good. I loved the little monkey. :-)

After that, we picked Jackson up from Jake's mom's and then headed over to some friend's of ours house for dinner and game night. :-) Its always fun to get together with friends and let the kids all play together.

So that was our weekend. I hope you all had a great weekend as well.