My Crazy Kids

My baby girl is gonna be tough. She has to be with two big brothers.... they do love her, though, and last night at dinner Scott asked for 2 more babies. We'll see about that, but I doubt it!


A couple days ago we asked Scotty to go upstairs and get out of his pj's and get dressed... he came down looking like this - it's a wonder he didn't fall down the stairs!!!

Goodbye 3 - hello 4 !!!

Scott said goodbye to being 3 today. He is a big 4 year old now! He got to go out and look at shrubs with daddy, then to DQ for a treat... the Manager even came out to say happy birthday to him. He picked out a Lightning McQueen birthday cake (Steve was going for the much smaller icecream logs, and then Scotty spotted the LM cake... there was no turning back!) After DQ, they picked up some KFC to bring home to eat and we all feasted on fried chicken and french fries, then topped it off with ice cream cake... hmmmm, that's a statement of health.... so glad the birthdays are done for another year! We should have gone out and gotten the icecream cake yesterday because we had Steve's brother and family over for dinner last night and their daughter just celebrated a birthday too. So last night we had the 3 kids' birthday party. Oh well, last night we had cupcakes and BBQ ribs.

Flowers for Mom

Today is my mom's birthday, and this is the card I sent her. I know she already has it, so it is safe to post! Scott wanted to give it to Grammie, so I took a pic of him holding the card too! Happy Birthday mom!

It's a big day!

Happy Birthday Louise!
Here's a blast from the past for everyone to enjoy!
Have a great day!
Love Sarah

Louise at around 8 years old
Louise as a beautiful bride in '99

Another blog to browse

Just a quick note to say I have added Allison's blog to my list of stamping inspiration. Allison is the ultimate source for what's happening in blogdom. She has daily updates on blog candy giveaways, and some really cool links that she shares. I have found lots of great treasures on her blog. Check it out!

Happy 8th Anniversary!

Just a quick "Happy Anniversary" to my big sister Louise and her dh Miles. Have another great year you two!

One of a kind card

Well, my dad is into card making now.... but he's boycotted the stamping industry. Nonetheless, this is a masterpiece and shows great creativity! Thanks Dad, the kids love their card.

Scrap Map and Pages

Last night was the first night of my new scrapbooking club. There are 8 people and so we will go for 8 months. Before we scrapped, we talked about colour. You may know this already, but the colour wheel is based on 3 colours called Primary colours. They are red, blue and yellow. We often associate these colours with children because they are so bright and energetic. But these are the colours that all other colours are made from. Secondary colours are made by adding 2 primary colours together, and Tertiary colours are made by mixing a Primary and a Secondary colour together. Here's a basic outline of the different Colour Schemes you can use in scrapbooking, and any other place you need to combine colours. (please click on the pictures to enlarge them)


Here is the page layout that we did.... First you see the paper placement. The background was Tempting Turquoise and the other colours were Cool Caribbean and Brocade Blue. Then there were bits of patterned paper as well.


The second map shows the photo placement. You can choose to use all these spaces for pictures, or you can put journaling in one or two of them as well.




We used a Monochromatic colour scheme in hues of blue. The pictures are from the surprise 120th party we had for my inlaws in 2005 when they both turned 60.


I have punched a bunch of circles to coordinate with our "Circle of Friendship" theme. And a quick tip is - when you have extra photos that you want to show, but don't necessarily want to use the whole photo, you can punch out the image and use it as an accent on your page.


Here's the layout together and in my scrapbook. To make the large circle in the middle, I traced a paint can and cut the circle out. To make the circles on the lower left I used a Coluzzle cutting system.

Roller Skate Fun!

Scott and Todd got roller skates and all the gear for their birthday from Xander. They tried them out tonight, and instantly loved it. Todd took a couple big falls, but he was all decked out in a helmet and pads so he barely noticed!

Party Time

We had a housefull of 2-4 year olds this morning, and what a fun time it was! It was Scott and Todd's 3rd and 4th birthday party. "Miss Darcie" from The Little Brown Music Studio came to sing and make music with the kids for an hour and everyone loved it. We had pizza from Costco (thanks Andrea for the tip!) and b-day cake from Safeway (I had a cake made, ready for icing, and my "helpers" helped themselves to it while it was on the cooling rack... thus the store bought cake). The theme was "Transportation" and all the songs so perfectly fit! Even Elise loved all the attention, and a couple of her little friends came too.

New Decor

When we moved to our new house back in the summer, our Realtor gave us a gift certificate to a great store called "Silk Tree Warehouse." The other day when I was out and about without kids, I went exploring there and found some great sales! I got a whole bunch of white and light yellow flowers and put them together in an arrangement for our bathroom. It sits perfectly on a white cabinet that I got from Home Sense awhile back. I also got the "Bathroom" sign from Home Sense, and some people have commented that they were really glad I had that, otherwise they wouldn't know where they were. Funny.

Birthday Boy!

Today Todd turned 3. Wow! Where does time go, really? I remember the moment he was born. Todd picked McDonald's for lunch (what kid wouldn't!?) and then we went shopping for a cake for tonight. Also, to honour a long tradition on my dh's side.... Todd got to pick a box of ice cream. This is something that Steve's grandma used to always do, and I am ALL FOR IT! Of course, he doesn't get the whole box.... but it was his pick! And he picked this cute little Black Forest Cake for dessert too. Scott will get his turn in 2 weeks when he turns 4 :)



My two 3-year olds!!! (for 2 weeks :)



Ice Cream and cake... perfect birthday meal!

Sermon Notes

Yesterday the sermon was on Patience... here's a thought -

"Some of us have a lot of patience because we

haven't used any for a long time!"

Rub a Dub Dub!!

Tonight before bed we gave the kids a bath (ya know... gotta be clean for Sunday!). Since Elise has been sitting up so well in her blue bathtub, I thought we could just save some time and bath them all at once.... the boys loved having Elise in the tub with them - she had fun too!

Guitar Lessons

Well, I took the step and started guitar lessons a couple weeks ago. Today before my lesson I was running over my songs again and the boys really wanted to "practice" too. So, Scotty ran and got my old ukelele from Elementary school and Todd got the toy uke we picked up in Hawaii last year, and we all made some pretty beautiful music - let me tell ya!! Steve took some shots of us....

A Special Visit

On Tuesday afternoon my Auntie Marit, Cousins Maren, Mathew and Tammy came over with M & T's kids. We had a great visit and dinner together. Then Marit and Maren stayed with us and Mat, Tammy and the kids went to stay with friends.

We have had so much fun together - gabbing, stamping, shopping, cooking and dying each other's hair! Maren is off to India tomorrow for a nursing practicum... she's going to do so awesome! So, once I figure out what colour my hair really is, I might post a picture (the box says light mahogany, but it doesn't look like the girl's hair on the box!!!) Steve took a pic of us all during the "set" time, but he deleted it before I could upload it. Although, there are several digi cameras in the house right now due to company... so maybe he just grabbed someone else's camera by mistake! Won't that be a treat for them to discover!!!

stamping the night away....
Maren and Elise

Last Minute Stamping....

I feel the pressure... gotta just get a couple more things done before the kids come home. I mentioned yesterday that the kids have been away this week at my parents. Well tomorrow that all ends. It has been a great week, and I know that the kids have had as much fun as we have...

Some household things got accomplished this week, and we got to go on 3 dates. And I even did a bunch of stamping too! Here are a couple projects I did yesterday.

A crazy watercolour of my new Doodle This set.



A birthday invitation for my boys who will turn 3 and 4 in February and March. They are 2 weeks apart... yep, that makes them under a year apart!

Sleepy Todd

Some of you know that my kids are on a holiday this week! My parents came over last weekend to see us and they took the kids back with them for the week. So, since I don't have any new pics of the kids from this week, I wanted to post this pic of Todd. He was so tired last week that he fell asleep on the bottom step 2 whole hours before naptime! He slept there for close to an hour. He's a perfect fit for that step, eh?! Then he woke up and rolled onto the floor! Good thing he was on the bottom step!

Buddies!

Scott and Todd sporting their new $1 Walmart finds... guess they kind of look like pj's, but I thought I couldn't go wrong for a buck! Don't they look like such buddies in this picture?


And just now Todd came to me and said, "here's Mater - he's in the dark... I can't see him anymore!" That's creative. If you look closely you'll be able to see a bit of Mater, and his name in the bottom left corner.

IT's TIME!!!

That's right.... it's time to tune in your rabbit ears to Global TV (or whatever station brings you my favourite show) for the season premiere of SURVIVOR FIJI. Tonight at 8:00 pm. Tomorrow you can leave a comment about how you thought tonight's show went!


ps- if you have cable, or HDTV, or Satellite, those options will work too!

Flower RAK!

Thanks Aunt Esther for stopping in the other day with these pretty tulips - they sure brightened my day!

Over Too Soon!

Well, my first stamper's club has come to an end. I have really loved getting to know this awesome group of ladies and I will miss getting together with them each month. Some of them will join me again next month to start a scrapbooking club, but we won't be this same group anymore.

So, at our last club (last night) we all did a card swap. I love the creations that these gals made, and I'm so excited to share them!!

Aren't they awesome?!! Thanks ladies for a great time over the last few months.

Found a new Stamping Blog...

Just wanted to mention that I added a new blog for stamping inspirations to my list on the sidebar. Amy from the US has beautiful work and I just found her blog and wanted to share it with you!

Memory Lane Again!

Since I put a pic of me and my siblings on here the other day... (yes, the baby was me, then my brother and sister... but most of you guessed that!) I thought I would take you down memory lane for those of you that knew Steve growing up...


Makes me wish I had the "Lifecycles" stamp set from a year or so ago! The tricycle from that set would be perfect to scrap this pic on a page!

Zoo Day!

This morning I went on a "date" with my boys. We had a great time at the Zoo. The boys even put on a show for me at the Radical Raptors stage (the show only runs during the summer) and then had a snack at the Grizzly Bear (Shadow) outlook. We got to see Hazina take a dive and play in her beautiful home. The zookeepers waved at us as they drove by to feed the animals, and the boys got to walk on the train tracks because the train is not running this month while the track gets serviced.