1/30/2011

Well as the month of January comes to a close I am blinking and trying to figure out where it went! It has been a busy and productive month for me. I have two new tutorials up at Get It Scrapped, completed a lot of challenges. Including this card to the right. It is the current color challenge from iCopic. I spent the past two days making a stack of Valentine cards with Copic colored hearts on them. I'll do a short lesson to go with them in the next few days. I taught in Lori's classroom this past week about artist Milton Avery and even managed to squeeze in a couple doctor appointments around the other business.

The girls are busy as every we wrapped up our cookie sales with 135 boxes sold not much by today's standards but quite an accomplishment for us. Most of it was door to door by Sara so I am very proud of her.

Rumor is we are expecting another pile of snow. But we are still smiling as of yet since the comparison to last year is still so much nicer!

Happy Sunday to you all and have a great week!

Hugs!

1/23/2011

So here is part two for today. Three dives from our future Olympian he he. No really we are just so impressed our timid little girl keeps coming back for more. We have a simple jump from the high dive, a back dive and a flip! Sorryh the high dive is sideways!

1/23/2011

Just in the nick of time here is a little card that fills two challenges again. Both Sassy Lil Sketches and iCopic.

This week has been a busy but productive one and next week promises to be even busier with a few extra appointments and meetings. I did manage to get a couple little clips of Sara diving and I will post those in a day or two.

Happy Sunday and Hugs to all!

1/20/2011

Here is another version of my Copic "new year" numbers. The layout is for the next round of One Month at a Time at Get It Scrapped. You can find the directions for the Copic new year numbers there as well.

The photos are from my birthday ice cream, gotta love Cold Stone. I think these shots of John and the girls will be the true indicators of our lives. I am not sure how many we have at this point looking just like this all snuggled together over Dad's bowl of ice cream but it is a lot.

In the meantime the weather is holding tight with below zero at night and with wind that take it that cold during the day. We did however manage to get one snowman made though before it all froze solid and he is standing firm in the front yard as I type this.

Hugs!

1/16/2011

I just could not come up with a creative title so I might just resort to dates from now on :-). this week has been a busy one as usual with activities and general life keeping us at a busy pace. The addition was a lot of snow on the ground and bitter temperatures. We almost had forgotten we were in Iowa but we are right in the midst of a more typical stretch of weather. Sara and I braved the weather two evenings (with Lori in tow) to sell Girl Scout Cookies for the first time. She did a great job and looks like she will achieve her goal of 100 boxes! We were lucky and were the first ones in our neighborhood to hit the houses. I think that just means we were the only ones nuts enough to brave the frigid conditions! On Tuesday I celebrated a birthday! My youngest brother said happy 33rd, hmmm... i think he is just a tad off but oh well. Our family celebrated with ice cream the Sunday before, an Ipod and some wonderful hand made gifts from the girls. I started the actual day teaching at the Y and being sung to then I had a wonderful lunch with my friend Tiffany at Cheesecake Factory, Thanks Tiffany! I finished this little layout playing at my friends Heather's house on my B-Day. The sketch is from Sassy Lil Sketches again. I topped the day off meeting with Club Copic so lots of friends and fun. 39 is so fine and the Houghton's here in Des Moines are doing very well!

Hugs!

2011 Starting off right!

Well here we are starting off another year. I am not sure how this one can top 2010 but I am sure excited to see all the new adventures. I am completing a year long challenge at Get It Scrapped with this layout. We completed one layout each month that summed up the month. kind of like a month in review. I am thinking about continuing the challenge myself it was so much fun and just using the sketches at Get It Scrapped.



I was also working on this weeks color challenge over at iCopic. The three colors were red, cream and brown. I drew the 2011 and filled it in with my Copics. If you are interested in having your own page of 2011 and 2010 to color I will have a tutorial ready at get it scrapped in the next week or so.
As for all of us here in Iowa we are right back up to our eyeballs in activities. Sara and Lori are trying Wavemakers this session which is a pre-team swim group. Woosh lots of swimming but they both did great their first night. Sara is back to diving and is the strongest in her level 1 group. I love watching her and how hard she tries to listen to ever little detail and correction she is given, she is an amazing little sponge! It feels like an Iowa winter at least for a couple days as we have had bitter cold for a couple days again. The season has been so mild though that it is hard to complain! Signing off for now.

Hugs to all!

Back Home

Well we are back home from an amazing stay in Denver! No surprises there, Grandma and Grandpa Weaver always spoil us. The girls and I played games, visited the American Girl store, saw Tangled, went to the Children's Museum to celebrate New Year's and in general had a grand time. John shot himself an Elk! Yep he went on a hunt and had a grand time as well in sub zero temperatures and waist deep snow, no joke! But came back to us with coolers full and a grin on his face. Before he left on his hunt we got in lots of great family time visiting with the Houghton siblings and families and even got a basketball game in and two Mexican food meals Yum!

So you can see we were busy and having a great time. The layouts above were from my quiet time in the evenings and are both sketches from Sassy Lil Sketches. Thanks Ladies!

Hugs to all!