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Sunday, July 13, 2008

In need of a good subject...and good weather...

So after staying up REALLY late reading my camera manual Friday night, I was itching to dress up Aislynn and practice some of what I learned. 2 problems...it rained ALL day Saturday and off and on Sunday, grrr...Sunday we went with Brynne (sister) to try, but we had to run for cover from the rain some. The other problem is Aislynn, she is not a cooperative subject...at all...even when bribed with candy (I know, bad Mom). I have to take a cazillion pictures to get a few good ones. Brynne had to step in a few times to model for me:)

This one I love, except I wish the corner of the brick column behind her was not going through the middle of her head:( But I think she looks sweet here (even though she was trying to escape from me!).

I think this one is my favorite from the whole group, I like the angle on it...

I like the background on this one, but the lighting was kinda bad...a few seconds later it started pouring down rain:(

I like this one okay, but it's kind of blurry and I wish I wouldn't have tilted the camera so much.

So Aislynn is addicted to puddles...

Here is one Brynned took of Aislynn and me-I was tickling Aislynn and she always stickd her hand in her mouth when she is getting tickled:)

Becky sent me these super cute pictures she got of Aislynn and Riley on the 4th of July-aren't they sooooooo precious??

Can't wait to scrapbook these!!

I have a few cards and layouts to post, hopefully I can gt them up tonight or tomorrow...Hope everyone had a great weekend!!!!!!!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

One big post:)

So this is going to be a monster post. Just warning you ahead of time. If you want to go have a coke or drink some coffee, feel free;)

I have been playing around with some of my Freckle Friends goodies, but in an attempt to get healthy, it seems my scrap time has diminished:( Darn exercising! And cooking at home! Oh well, I feel good, have tons more energy...well, if Aislynn would stop waking up so early:) But we are on Day 4 of naps-YAHOO! It is so nice to have a well-rested child!!

Here are my crafty things to share:

I love this card! I think I am going to use all my Basic Grey tags in this way! And if you can't tell, I am IN LOVE with my edge distresser...how did I ever live without that thing, seriously.

This is using the Crate Paper Cowgirl collection. I love this picture of Aislynn and I, we were at Maclay Gardens in Tallahassee in January 2007.

Just a quick little card using some of the Luxe Flip Flop collection. I found the little metal tag (by Making Memories) for $1 at Micheals, it came with about 12 different sayings. I love them! Perfect for cards!

Now to the pictures...

Aislynn has this cardboard house which she got for Christmas and has hardly played in unless I initiate it. Well, after this weekend playing in it with Riley (Becky, why didn't we take pictures of them???!!!) she loves it. So here are a couple shots of her peeking out.

Poor sweetie has a scratch on her face. I am not sure what it's from:( But I love this picture:) I was tickling her here. Can't you tell she has the cutest laugh just from this picture?:)
I had opened the blinds and the light was nice and bright, so I took a lot of pictures. Of course, in this picture it is a little too bright, but oh well! Aislynn puts her easter eggs on her head (she makes us do it too) for birthday hats. Then we have to sing "Happy Birthday."

Here are just some shots of her playing with her kitchen, which she loves! I love to be the annoying customer who is forever sending her food back b/c it needs more salt or more time in the oven:) And if I ever ask for dessert first, she says (in her best Mommy imitation), "You have to eat dinner first."

Her face cracks me up in this picture.

The stools. We have one upstairs, and one downstairs, and this is the seat to her easel, which she uses as a stool. She is supposed to be using them in the bathroom to wash her hands, but she uses them for many other reasons. To turn the lights off and on. To "cook." To "wash the dishes." To look out the door and play with the blinds (that is what she is doing here). To do it just because she knows it annoys me.

Here she is standing on the stool by the door. I LOVE this picture, so I guess standing on the stool is okay sometimes:)

Here are my recipes I promised you Hard Core girlies.

This is an Asian Chicken Salad, and it is quite delicious.

Dressing: 2 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar

1 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce

1 tbsp dark sesame oil

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp honey

Whisk together in a small bowl.

Hmmm, can't figure out why it is double spacing everything. That's annoying.

For the salad, toss together:

6 cups salad greens

2 cups chopped cooked chicken

1 cup matchstick carrots

1 cup snow peas

2 tbsp sliced almonds

I add chopped green onions (scallions) and mandarin oranges. You can buy a lot of this stuff (including the chicken) ready to go, so this is a super easy and atcually pretty filling salad for lunch. It serves 4.

This is our yummy pork tenderloin, even though this picture looks weird. But how do you photograph food and it looks good? Maybe I will learn that in my photography class:) which started today btw. YAY!

We marinate the pork (about 2 lbs) in Carribean Jerk marinade for about 30 minutes. The first time we used a kind by Lawry's, but this time we used the KC Masterpiece kind and we liked it better, it was sweeter. We grilled the pork and made this salsa to top it:

Mango Pineapple Salsa:

1 cup chopped pineapple

2/3 cup chopped red onion

2/3 cup chopped mango

4 tsp diced jalepeno

4 tsp chopped fresh cilantro

4 tsp fresh lime juice (I used orange juice b/c I never have limes?)

We served it with rice and green beans. YUM!

Okay I'm off...

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Hardly any pictures:(

So I hardly took any pictures this weekend-AUGHHH! We were just busy having fun! We had a good 4th-good food, spent the day at the beach, tried to see some fireworks, but we had sleepy girls and got there late, then we couldn't really see them, oh well! Here are a few pictures that I got...

This is Aislynn's bud, Riley-isn't she a cutie?? Aislynn adores her, she kept follwoing her around trying to give her hugs and kisses:)

Cute girls!!!

Here are a couple pages I made featuring the Luxe flip-flop collection for Freckle Friends.

If you like what you see, you can purchase the collection here.

With my Luxe goodies, Debbie and Susan threw in a BUNCH of other goodies that I will be making stuff with and posting them within this week, so keep checking back!!! There were some Crate Paper and Basic Grey-good stuff!!!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

LONG catch up post!!!

This is going to be a long post. I had nothing to say...or share until today, hee hee. Actually this picture is from last week-this is my sneaky way of getting Aislynn inside from playing in the sprinkler-so far she hasn't caught on:)

Today we went to the beach, and sorry for all the pictures-you know me and narrowing it down to only share a few! Can't wait until Friday when we have everyone at our house for the 4th and we hit the beach! I am sure someone who is not scared of sharks and fish will take Aislynn in the water;) I kept saying "Hey, let's build a sandcastle:)"

I was taking pictures of my latest creations, and snapped these 2 of Aislynn.

Here is all my latest crafty stuff, cards and a few layouts....

This layout is for the DT challenge I am hosting on Freckle Friends, it is to scrap a how-to page and include instructions or steps in the journaling. If you want to play, come on over HERE. I am offering a RAK, so come play!!!

The Fabulous July collection is available at Freckle Friends-SO fun for the summer, you can see it and buy it here!

Sadly, I will not be getting the kit this month to play with:( But I will be getting the Luxe Flip Flop (does that sound like me or what!) collection to play with instead-can't wait to show it to you all!!!! If you want to see what the Design Team has created with the July collection, you cna look here!

That is all for now, we are having a bunch of people at our house this weekend for the 4th so I might be busy preparing for that, but I promise to post some pictures from the festivities after the weekend! Have a great holiday and be safe!!!