Tuesday, June 10, 2008

We're back!!!

We got back in town this afternoon, and are glad to be home, but we had a blast!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much Linda and Jim for letting us crash at your place-we appreciate it so much! When we turned into our neighborhood, Aislynn protested and wanted to go to "Aunt Linda's house."
Our flight going there was delayed 30 minutes, and when we were boarded, it got delayed another 50 minutes, grrr...But she was pretty good on the flight. Aislynn warmed up pretty fast to everyone when we first got there, and she dug right in to the toys and playing Rock Band on PS2 with the boys, lol.
On Thursday we went to Shedd's Aquarium, which Aislynn of course loved.
Aislynn was not all that into the dolphin show, but she did like when they were jumping. She really liked the beluga whales, the lighting is so dark, it was hard to get pictures that are not just a big blur.
Here is Nemo:) When you first walk in to the lobby, there is a big round tank and there was a scuba diver cleaning the tank, and she could have just stayed and watched that guy all day, lol. She also kept insisting on seeing the sharks, or "Brucie," the shark from Finding Nemo.
This was right outside of the Aquarium-love the skyline!!!! And I swear that the color of Lake Michigan looks like the Gulf! Just missing the white sand!!!!! In this spot, the ramp to take wheelchairs and stollers was right here, so when Shaun took her up in the stroller-this bird attacked his head!!!! When we were taking these pictures, the bird came back (this is AFTER the Aquarium) and did it again, isn't that weird?

Aislynn loved playing Rock Band on PS2 with the boys, it was really cute! Even Shaun sang some songs!!! Aislynn liked the drums the best!

On Friday we just kinda hung out. Us girls went and tried on dresses for my Mom's wedding and Aislynn kept saying "I want my princess dress." All dresses are princess dresses now:) We took Aislynn to this little splash park they had and she had such a blast!!!!!!!! I cannot believe there aren't any of these around us in FL-kids love it! All the kids left when they closed without throwing a fit-except for Aislynn, sigh.

Friday night I got to meet 2 of my online girls from the Hard Core Critique Group on scrapbook.com. It was super fun, I loved meeting them!!!!!! We had dinner and went shopping at this super cool scrapbook store-thanks girls-it was fun!!!

Shel and me.

Candi and me.

Saturday we went to eat pizza with other relatives and then went to my Grandparent's house. Kacie is in the middle, and Aislynn was immediately drawn to her! She kept saying "She's my sister." Kacie was so sweet with her-thank you!!!!!!!!!! Aislynn misses you! When she was looking at these pictures she said "There's my sister!"

Aislynn giving her "sister" a kiss!

Here are the cousins, well my cousins-Aislynn's 2nd cousin.

Relaxing on the swing!!!!!!!!! We got those binoculars from the Aquarium and Aislynn thinks that they are a camera, she says "Say Cheese," and then she looks at them and says "that is a really nice picture."

Here are the girls-Aislynn wouldn't get in the picture and all the ones I do have-she looks like a big blur. This is my Grandma, me, and my Aunt.

I love this picture!! Sean is my cousin and he was so cute with Aislynn-she just adored him!!!

This is my Grandma and Grandpa with my cousin and Aislynn and me.

Here are the 2 Sean/Shaun's-being goofy...

then serious.

Sunday we took Aislynn to Navy Pier and to the Children's Museum. It was so scary when we were driving downtown b/c the weather was SOOOOO nasty. You could barely see the big buildings-that's how hard is was raining. Aislynn could have stayed in the first little room all day. It had a little ice cream shop, Pizza place, music stage, and other restaurants. She loves playing in her kitchen and with her fake food at home, so she really enjoyed this part!

Future singer maybe???

Here she is with an ice cream cone, she liked making them for Shaun and I, and she would pretend to eat them, lol.

This phone was to teach kids how to dial 911, but that is a little advanced for her-she was just enjoying talking on the phone:)

This exhibit was really cool-all about the water system in Chicago. She loved getting all wet!

This part was cool too, you stood in front of this shade and butterflies would land on your shadow-she was cracking up every time a butterfly landed on our heads:)

She was kinda scared of crawling through this tunnel, so I did and she had tons of fun looking for me in the holes!

We are looking for dinosaur bones here:)

This is outside at Navy Pier-it finally stopped raining so we got to do some of the outside things!! The carousel was closed, but we distracted Aislynn with other rides.

She loves Thomas, so she loved the train ride! She wanted to go on it again and again!

She loved the lighthouse ride too. We were pretty high, but she wasn't really scared, she just kept waving to Shaun!

Monday we took her to the Brookfield Zoo and she loved that-and they had a carousel there, she she rode the panda! I think she liked that better than the animals, but she enjoyed them too.

Every time we passed Shaun she would wave to him!

She was scared of the Sea Lions at first- she thought they could get her though the glass, then she was laughing every time one would swim by.

This is one of my favorite pictures from the trip.

Here are Aislynn and Shaun looking at the tiger. This was her spot to see the animals:)

Silly girl! She kept poking and tickling Shaun!

A baby Kangaroo!

They had a seasonal butterfly exhibit and Aislynn loved it! I loved it too b/c I played with the macro setting on the camera!

So that was our trip! We had fun! Aislynn is going to be bored without everyone around or us going somewhere. I had some fun things waiting for me when we got home. My Scenic Route contest prize-LOVE the Liberty line!!! Thanks for the paper Kathy-that was really sweet of you! Hope everyone is doing well, I figure after a couple days I will be back to scrapping-I can't wait to play with all my goodies I got!!!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

June Freckle Friends Layouts and another WIN!!!

Just wanted to post really quick while I am waiting for lanudry to end-then I can pack. I got an e-mail from Scenic Route and one of my pages was chosen for their May Monthly Product Challenge-woo hoo! I am going to get one of their new lines, can't wait! If you want to see it, click here. Then click Designer Last name and then Product Challenge-Die Cuts. Woo hoo!
I also wanted to get these layouts posted before I left, these are my pages using the June Freckle Friends kit. Everything is fromt the kit in this page except for the chipboard letters. Can you believe how young A looks here?
Everything is from the kit here except the "L" in July and the little alpha stickers.

Everything is from the kit here!!!
If you want to buy the kit, click here.
If you want to see the other design team creations using the kit, look here!
Okay, we will be back in a week!!! Take care!


Sunday, June 1, 2008

It's June!

Wow, where has this year gone? It has flown by. I know I was really bad at posting this week. I hardly took any pictures, but I do have a lot of crafty things to share with you! Here are the pictures first...This is her new haircut-the one a professional did, lol. She had a lot of fun getting her haircut-when we were leaving she said in the CUTEST voice, "Mommy, I had fun getting my haircut." After that we walked over to the Cat Clinic next door and she went crazy over the cats they had, she even told me she doesn't like dogs anymore. This seems to be the only we can get a nap in-she just conks out in the car. How could I resist a picture of that sweet face?
This day we had gone to the mall in the next town over and Aislynn got to ride on the carousel-she had so much fun!!!!!! We also went to the book store to pick up some skinny light books that will travel with us to Chicago! She couldn't wait to look at them when we got home!!!!!! Some Curious George, Little Critter (this is her new favorite) and Thomas.
Here are my latest pages:
This one is about my current weight struggle. Seems like I keep going 1 space forward, 3 spaces back, so once we get back from Chicago I have got to get my act together!!!

Here is just a quick Thank You card. I am really getting into the whole card thing...love that I use up my scraps and it kind of gets my creative juices flowing!

I really love how this page came out. This is one of the new Scenic Route lines, that I am totally in love with-love the colors!!!!!!!
Here is a page I did with some of the lyrics from My Wish by Rascal Flatts, love that song and I thought of it right away when I saw this picture of Aislynn! I have never scrapped this picture before, and it's so cute...and I really wanted to use these Crate Papers-love them!
I really love how this one came out, one of my favorites I think.
Another Thank You card....you can see I have been enjoying my sewing machine!
That's all for now, my sister and her boyfriend are coming in town tonight and tomorrow we are going to look for a place them to live. Brynne got promoted and they will be moving closer to us (WOO HOO!!!!), and then Tuesday I probably won't post b/c we will be packing and running errands. So we get back the 10th (a week from Tuesday), so look for a GIGANTIC post on Wednesday with lots of pictures from our trip!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sneak Peeks...

Here are some sneak peeks for the June Freckle Friends kit...

Can't wait to share them all with you! The kit was super fun to work with!!!

Monday, May 26, 2008

Happy Memorial Day!!!!!!

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!!!!!! We didn't do much, just kinda hung out at the house, ran a couple errands yesterday and we can definetly tell it's summer!!!!! Something is wrong with Blogger, so rather than trying to figure it out, the pictures will just be out of order:) I decided to cut Aislynn's bangs tonight since they were so long. I don't think I did a very even job, but she still looks cute:) I might take her tomorrow to get them fixed:) She got this new bubble toy, here she is trying to figure it out...
She did it!!!!! This thing just keeps blowing bubbles-she loves it!!!!!!!
Here she is jumping up and down, one of her fave things to do-I like it too-it gets out lots of energy!
See how long her bangs are? She needed them cut!!!!!!
Taking a bubble bath:)
I got my fabulous June Freckle Friends kit and have played with it a little, hopefully I can get some more done tonight and then I will post some sneak peeks for you all tomorrow!

Oh, I have to share a cute story-we watched this show on the travel channel about Disney World (we are going in December-YAY!) and when Aislynn saw the tea cup ride she said "Look, they're riding in a coffee!" Then she said "I want to go to Disney World and give Goofy a hug and ride in the coffee." SO cute-she is going to have a blast, I cannot wait!

Okay, that's all for now!!!




Wednesday, May 21, 2008

In 2 weeks...

We will be headed to Chicago!!!! Woo hoo, can't wait!!! But it will be June!!! Seriously-where is time going? 2008 is going by sooooooo fast! Nothing much going on here, you can tell the tourists are starting to trickle in, traffic is getting yucky here, and after this weekend it will be bad through August. Man!!! Aislynn went to the bathroom on the potty 5 times today-and she told us when she had to go!!! I am so proud of her! She told me everytime she went potty in her diaper that she went, and she is repeating lines from some of her books/videos, so maybe she is on her way-YAY!
Here are some pictures from yesterday-this one is just blowing bubbles-her FAVORITE thing to do outside right now! We made Orange Cranberry muffins and she was a big help! Her favorite part was licking the bowl-just like Mama!



Thanks Grandma0she loves her green apron:)
Tonight after her bath, Aislynn decided to dress up like a "princess." What a goof-I need to get her a wand and a feather boa-she would have so much fun:) Oh, maybe a tutu too:) Here is my latest page...
Off for now, hope everyone is doing well!

Monday, May 19, 2008

Some cute pictures...and some annoucements!!!!!!!!!

For the announcement, one of my layouts won a contest!!! It was for using Pink Paislee products (a brand new company) and the contest was held by Just Let Me Scrapbook, you can see my page here. I got a $25 gift card to their online store. Woo hoo!!!
Nothing super special to report, I took these 2 pictures of Aislynn after she "helped" me make our bed yesterday, and by helped I mean she kept trying to tuck her huge Elmo doll in. Finally I said he wants to sleep in the crib and she put him in there with Baba (her little lovie who goes to sleep with her), turned on the fan and turned off the light:) What a good little Mommy. Anyways, I just LOVE this picture, what a sweetheart!This one is blurry, but still cute!!!This next set is from tonight, there is this really cool neighborhood by us that is being developed, there are only about 3 house being built so far, and it is gorgeous! They have this little lake and we decided to take some pics there because it was so nice outside! This one was my favorite!!! Gotta love the action setting! Love this one too!
This one is kind of funky b/c of the sun, but I still like it:)
She's so cute running all over!

I KNOW you just want to kiss those cheeks!
Here is another one with the funky sunlight, but I like her expression. She looks so old, lol.
Giving Daddy a hug!!!!!!!
Even though she is not looking at the camera, I still love this picture!!!!!!!!
Here is my latest page, it is my week to host the DT challenge at Freckle Friends and this is my example page. The challenge is to use a photo that stretches the entire width or length of the page.
Also, Freckle Friends is having a HUGE Memorial Day sale going on right now, so check that out here.

If you want to see the June Collection Sneak Peek, click here. I love the colors!!! I cannot wait to play with it!!!!!!!

Okay, that is all for now, at least I was good about blogging and playing outside-but eating? We ate at Cracker Barrel for dinner, but I got a salad, so maybe I did okay, that was the only boo-boo I made:)