Christmas Card 2009

Here's our card. It took about 3 hours to make... we were fighting kids, editing photos, trying to get a good set of digital papers... (long story short) Plus, we aren't that good at our PSE skills anymore. Anyway, hope you like! We took a bunch of other pics as well, but those will have to come another day, for some reason I can't get them to upload. xoxo, Chelle

Monster of all monster updates!! Part 1

We're are in need of a major update, so I'll just post a bunch of random pics and get to it soon... I hope!!! Enjoy!Not in any order, these events happened in October. Punky Boy FINALLY got a bike! Both he and lil' C were thrilled, him b/c he got the bike he's waited over a year to get, her b/c she got his old trike!!
Sorry, tilt your head!
So there's this FREE children's outdoor theatre that shows a show at least once a week, usually twice! They were showing Alice in Wonderland so we skipped school on a Friday and went to the theatre!! FUN! This is Jace's BEST little friend and his fam, who we met over the summer, and also we go to church together and the boys have team teachers at school! So great!

JACE CAN READ!!!!! He earns Daddy Dollars to spend in the Mommy-Mart when he reads to Campbell! Camper earns dd's when she sits through a book!
Carving punkins for FHE before Halloween. They were rotten after 2 days sitting on the counter so we put them outside and then tossed them the next night when they were completely black and furry on the inside. We had no punkins for Halloween... next year we'll learn to wait till the night before like everyone else! It's so darn humid here!
Playing in the backyard on Halloween morning. Still so nice outside!!!
Jace had a school Boo Blast/Fundraiser. It was so much fun! All the kids were dressed up, There was a rock climbing wall Jace got to do for free!
Completed Costumes! We ended up going to party city and having the boypunk just pick the first one he liked, then we bought it and took it out of the packaging so he couldn't change his mind... next year we'll do the same thing, only sooner than later!
E. Frakes (next to Cameron) served in our area for a few weeks. We stayed at his house in Wyoming when we were first married and got snowed in on the roads one Christmas. His Dad changed Cameron's diapers when he was little!!! FUN! He got transfered as soon as he got here so we only spent a little time with him...
Another one of the free shows at the theatre. This was TapKids. They perform on broadway, they're all in HS, and the kids really loved it!





These last pics came in a little wonky... Poor Gepetto finally kicked the bucket. We really thought he'd live forever, but alas, he died over Halloween. He survived two bowls breaking on him, never had clean water to swim in, hardly ever got fed, was left for weeks at a time in a cold house while we were out of town, and somehow he survived! We loved him as much as you can love a fish. The kids were pretty sad until we got a new fish! (Beta fish really do last f.o.r.e.v.e.r.) our new fish, pictured at the top is named Mr. Stinky Pants (MSP for short) I'll get around to November in a little bit!

Costumes

I LovelOveloVelovELOVE Halloween!!! I have tried to do a theme for our costumes each year but this year, Jace wasn't having it! Which helped, cause I'm a little out of ideas (well, not really... I just don't want to do all the work involved in most of my ideas!) SO: Campbell is going as Rainbow Brite this year, complete with boots and a White Sprite. Jace is undecided still, but is shifting mostly between BumbleBee and Spiderman. I think I'd make Spidey, but order BB.

So we went from this ^^^ to this vvv in a matter of hours! It's also a family tradition of ours to have our costumes done close to the beginning of October, so I usually bust them out between GC sessions on Sat. and Sun. This year was a bit harder to get them done, which is why I only have Camp's done! Anyway, I'll get to finishing up the rest soon so you can see!! xoxo, Chelle
(As a side note, that brown rug {above} is covering our big paint spill, and the mess below is a GC tradition, we get out all the Geotracs for the kids and build and rebuild amazing set-ups!)
PS: The rainbow/star is appliqued on. I love the look but it's so darn time-consuming... oh, and I realize this costume is missing some key details, but I'm too lazy to add the rest!! Enjoy!

Community Helper

At Cam's work they had a 'meet the doctor' on a Saturday that the office was closed. Free hot dogs and hamburgers, sodas, and chips! He got about 20 new patients so the day was worthwhile. Mostly it was fun to get to know the staff on a non-professional basis. Every time I go in on a work-day, everyone is busy and running around. These are a few of the people Cameron works with.
Jace had a week at school where they learned all about different types of community helpers. His teacher asked Cameron to come in and talk to the kids about being a dentist and how he helps out in the community. Cameron did a great job! The kids were so interested and funny to listen to. Cameron taught them how to brush correctly and had everyone smile at him. Then a few kids got to come up and practice their skills on Barry the Bee. Jace showed everyone how to floss! He *loves* to floss his teeth! ^^^ Sorry for the blurry pic. I was in the back trying to control a little wiggle-worm named Campbell!

Notice the two clips on Jace's shirt? In his class they start out with 3 clips and lose them for not following rules, talking or being disrespectful. By the end of day, if you've lost all your clips, you lose out on playcenters. By 8:30a, Jace had already lost one for talking!! Nice...

Some Crafties!

Hello, hello! So these are some repeats and some stuff I've been working on in the last little while. There were a few other things, but I gave them to Jace's school auction for the fall festival already so I have no pictures, sorry. They were a coupla tutu's, some fall decor stuff and a bit of vinyl lettering... you could click through and find similar stuff from the boutique I did with Teri B last November... blah blah blah, you get it. So these top 2 pics are some stuff I am doing for Jace's & Campbell's rooms, respectively. Got the frame and butterfly from Michael's, paper is Hobby Lobby, bird is my own design. Jars, buttons, & ribbon are thrifted. You've seen the birdies (behind the frame) before. The watermelons below are an old craft, but I'm changing my kitchen a bit. Disregard the letter B you can see, it isn't quite finished. I'll be putting Jace's initials on his wall... coming soon!
This 'to do magnet board' is lifted from a sweet present I got from Ms. T! The colors in this are what we have going on in Punky's room. I am giving a coupla these for the auction as well.
Recently we have been having all out craft nights for family night and have some cute pictures over the last month or so. So we decided it might be fun to display the fun we're having... hence, this little craftie. The clips on bottom are papered and cute so we can inter-change pics as we take more. Now to just get some pictures printed off! It isn't the paper I'd like, but it was on hand... anyway, I like how it turned out, just wish I had chosen cuter paper to add to my stash. {Note to self: Don't overload on paper way ahead of time. Inevitably, you don't like it a year later!}

The seasonal blocks are old news, but we had a little craft party and I made the pumpkin and the fall block so I decided to switch out my decor sooner than later! The pumpkin has since been given to the auction, what a trooper! I wanted to add some rusted bells and cute trinkets to it, so I'm making a new one with a friend next week! I have a few other fall things, too, but those are being gifted so I'll post those next month!! Look forward to it!
I *love* little cuppies! A friend designs graphic vectors for cutting vinyl so she sent me the graphic for this sweet little cupcake and I cut it out with my scroll saw for us! I just love it! I think I may keep it out all year! The stem is some wire and makes it perfect!
The cupcake is about 5 inches tall. The birds are lifted from a craft night my girlies did right after I moved... oh the sadness! I couldn't exactly remember what theirs looked like and I was too lazy to look it up, so these are a bit different, but I still like 'em!
This is a mess-up that I got over eventually. It was supposed to go on the backside of the Pumpkin Patch, but I wasn't paying very good attention so it's on a black background instead of brown, I didn't feel like peeling it all up... oh well!
Spooky Treats is on the back side of The Witch Is In. Let me tell you, switching out vinyl colors for designs is A LOT of work! Now I know why they charge a bundle for those cute things!
Some of my summer decor. This has been seen before. Blocks are my design, paper from HL, stickers from HL, clearance! Green photo clips and silk flowers are dollar tree!

Got the jelly bean idea off of Make it and Love it, she is on my sidebar. She makes the coolest things! Enjoy!! Off to get at least something done so Cameron doesn't realize that all I do all day is craft!! :) HA! xoxo, Chelle