This boy loves water...

It is true, Collin loves water....in the sink, the tub, at the pool, or just the hose in the back yard, he loves to play with water. It amazes me how he can entertain himself for hours with just plain old water! I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago, and just got them printed to scrap them....so look for them soon in a layout! Love the expression on his face...it was fun to take the pictures while trying to keep my beloved camera dry!

Love this kid!!!

A random thought...and A RAK Possibility for you!

Well, I am sad for one thing that school is looming in the near future! I couldn't believe that I got paperwork in the mail with school info on it! Yeeeegads....I am not ready for school, early mornings, making lunches, homework, and early bedtimes!!! I love the summer and the freedom that we have!!!!

We have had a wonderfully busy summer and the best is yet to come! We just booked our reservations to go to Gatlinburg, TN for 5 days in the middle of August right before school starts. Have you been there? Any suggestions of where we should go? We have only heard wonderful things about the county down there and I can't wait to soak it all up! Shall we take a guess at how many photos I will take? How about if I offer up a little RAK of scrapbooking supplies for the person that comes the closest to the actual number of photos that I will take. If you would like to guess to try to win the RAK, just leave a comment here in this post with your guess. I will give the RAK to the person who guesses the closest! What FUN!!!! Check out the picture below of the YUMMY RAK!!! Paper Crate paper, ribbon, Colorbok Cat's Eye Ink, buttons, Scenic Route Rub-ons, Daisy D's Rub-ons, and who could get a RAK without flowers!!!! So go ahead....post your guess! I will notify the winner via this blog on August 21st. Good Luck!

Live Love Laugh

Yeah!!! Here is a picture of me with my mom last Thanksgiving! I love the fact that we are laughing. Looking at this picture brings memories back about the great time that we had eating dinner with my parents and the great conversation. The after a great meal, we had a little photo shoot that I got the greatest pics from. This is a design team project for Paper Popsicle using her Urban Lily Mayella kit. I also got to play with the huge scallops from Technique Tuesday.....love these!



Happy Monday to all!

Well, we didn't win...

but the boys sure did play well! At one point after a comedy of errors, we were down 11-2 and came back to make the score 12-9, but it was just not meant to be! I felt awful for my little guy as he was the last batter and got the last out. He was crushed!!! I told him to hold his head up high and be proud of all that he accomplished this year!!! Once he got his medal and a cupcake with ice cream, he was smiling again though!!!

What a great season it was, but I am happy now that we have the rest of the summer to enjoy our evenings...baseball free!!!

Now football will begin in August....

Nerves of Steel....

For me not Collin!!!! LOL!! Collin was so excited to be chosen to play on the All-Stars team (see layout in previous post) and the games have been very good!!! They are playing a best out of five series and it is tied 2 wins for both teams. Collin was in a little bit of a slump at the end of regular season has really been hitting AWESOME!!!! He has also caught a couple of fly balls and made some great plays while playing second base. The whole team has played very well!!! Okay so we do have some moments where we look like the Bad News Bears, but they are 9 and 10 year olds so that is to be expected! I absolutely LOVE watching the games and cheering the team on! Brings me back to my own ball playin' days!!!



So the final game is either tonight or Thursday depending on the rain. I am sure that it will be an AWESOME game!!!!



Here is a picture of Collin at bat in an All-Star game....love my new camera!!!!

My First Paper Popsicle Design Team Project!!!

How excited was I to get a great goodie box from Melissa at Paper Popsicle filled with awesome scrapbook products!!! Well, I was so excited that I got straight to work! This project was done with supplies from her Happy Everything Theme Kit. I tell ya, Melissa puts together some awesome kits! I would love to see you over at her site!!!

So We All Fall Sometimes...

But yeah, I am talking about literally falling!!!! Let me set the stage for you... Our family decides to go to our local festival and they have all kinds of neat things to do. Collin decides to do the rock wall climbing, bouncy trampoline, and then he sees the helicopter ride. He says he wants to go and without hesitation, I say sure lets go check it out. Well, I didn't think it was that badly priced ($20 for 2 people) so I say let's do it! We wait in line for about 1/2 hour watching others come and go from the helicopter. Then finally it is our time....so the guy says "are you ready?" and then takes off running so Collin and I take off running towards the helicopter. I am thinking 'how exciting...I sure hope I don't trip and fall'. Then next thing I remember I am sprawled out like a pancake as I have fallen face first into the dry hard grass!!!!! I was in shock that I had just fallen and felt like I could not even get up! I was so embarrassed!!!!! Anyway, I got up and I had to keep running for the helicopter where I met my son and he is just looking at me. Of corse I am all right, just VERY embarrassed! It was hard to enjoy the ride, but I tried to force it out of my mind. When we landed, I didn't even want to get off and go back towards the crowd of people that had just witnessed my blunder, but I had to. Patrick (who stayed on the ground) told me that no one even saw me as they were all involved in their own conversations....I don't know if that is true, but it was nice of him to say that. We all had a good laugh over it later in the day!

Hope everyone has a great Monday!!!!

Okay...blog is not even one day old....

and I already changed the title of my blog. Maybe a little over zealous right now! We will see how good I am at keeping up and actually writing things down in my blog! I will say that I was super excited that I had two comments when I came to write this!!! Yipeeeeee!!! So I will show a couple of recent layouts here with this post as well. The All-Star layout was done for a challenge at Paper Popsicle...16 photos in a double page layout....talk about a challenge!!! The Being Silly layout was done with new Dude Design papers...they are awesome!!!!

Well Collin just asked to get the water hose out (his new favorite TOY) so I am off with the camera to try to get some good shots. I hope everyone has a great Sunday. I think we are heading off to the 3 Rivers Festival tonight for some good (but NOT healthy) eats!!!

I wasn't going to....but I just did!

I was not going to do a blog...who wants to hear....who would care....it would probably be hard to do! Well, I want to hear, I care, and it was so EASY to do! So here it is my official blog! If anything, I am hoping to just keep record of my crazy wonderful life! I love checking my friends blogs so that sealed the deal! So thanks for stopping over and I hope you come back often!