a day in the life

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Once again the 12th came around on a Thursday, which is officially my busiest, craziest day of the week. I remind myself that preschool M-TH is only going to add to that craziness next year. And, Jack and I are going to miss Charlie like CRAZY.
1. Apparently Mick Jagger's favorite new place to play is in the toybox. Don't ask me why he is unzipped like that, but I think it may have something to do with Charlie as when I sent him upstairs to get dressed, his jammies were the same. Weirdo boys.
2. Ahhhhh-haircut! While the during is fairly awful and horrible, the after is much better (although I will miss those curls.) After the cut we stopped by to hang out with Grandpa and play a little hide and seek around Great Grandma Watson's chair.
3. Bj was home today with a horrible case of bronchitis. Now there is "man sick" and there is "wow are you being stabbed in the chest every time you cough" sick. He had the latter. Smoothies make everything better right?
4. After naptime. My goodness you are handsome Jackson.
5. And, your tiny feet are also very chubby. And the crib is dirty. Hey, it has been used almost non-stop for 6 1/2 years.
6. Driving again. Let me just recap. Drove to Charlie's school to pick him up. Got a smoothie. Back home. Drove to get Jack's haircut. Drove to M&D's house. Picked up Charlie. Home. Drove Lillian to dance. Drove home. Went back to pick up Lillian. Drove home. Drove to Cassie's house. Drove home. Lots of driving...
7. We actually arrived early and had time to stop next door to pick up a new skirt for Lillian (50% off, whoo hoo) and just hang for a moment before class. I love that she finally gets to take dance here. Makes me very, very happy.
8. Well bighugelabs cut it off, but goodness did I have Charlie laughing hysterically after I asked if I could take his photo. He is a bit INYOURFACE during photo time.
9. And again, laughing hysterically. I kept yelling at him NOT to look at the camera. He either thinks I am crazy or hasn't caught on to reverse psychology yet.
10. This is Lillian's "WHY are you taking my picture AGAIN" face. Because your Aunt Elizabeth said I had to honey. Now smile.
11. Thank you.
12. And me. After all that running around. Of course I looked this refreshed after a long day. Or perhaps I use a bit of Fotoshop by Adobe'. Perhaps. Just keeping it real here folks. Don't think I even had time to shower that morning...

Jack Henry

His very first real page. Only three months and I already feel behind. Ha. 
paper: emily powers, frames: paislee press, tape: pugley pixel
(Told you I loved that picture ;)

Happy Valentine's Day

Random Ramblings

1. We have all been sick this week. Charlie and I both have colds and Lily has bronchitis. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop and hit Bj on the way down. (Fingers crossed it misses.)
2. The quilt gallery has been updated. I predict this will be the end all of tutorials when it is finished. Every single thing you ever wanted to know about how to (or how not to, that is still to be determined) make a quilt.
3. I really miss taking photos every day. But lucky for me, A Day in the Life Photography is now booking sessions for 2010. And soon there will be a very cool and pretty website for you to look at. Whoo hoo.
4. I need to design a new banner soon. Love is in the air.
5. I don't even know what to say. He just really is this cute :)
I also don't know what to say about the color-again, it looks gray and flat here. It doesn't in photoshop. What is going on?

The 365 Project

Around Christmas Bj started looking more closely at my 365 album. He has always checked it from time to time, but now he started really thinking about it. Really considering what I had done. What I had documented. What growth he could see. And he got very, very excited. Suddenly there was a brand new excitement about my photography and a brand new excitement about this project actually manifesting into a book. He wanted to surprise me and make it into a book himself as a present, but then decided to let me in on it. Oh trust me, I have plans. So here it is. The first two pages of my 365 book.
I started out with only seven pictures on a page but quickly realized I didn't want to spend all of my children's college fund on this book, so a nice even three weeks on each page will have to do. That also means that the text for all the journaling is small...
But I really just want it here for posterity. I guess when I am old and gray...or until I actually get new glasses and can actually see ANYTHING, reading it on the blog will have to do. This will be a 12x12 book (so really the font will be a bit bigger than reading it here) so if anyone sees any offers for oh I don't know, a FREE 12x12 Shutterfly book, let me know. So 21 days down, 344 to go!

Scratch that, try these

As I was actually using the template I created and apparently prematurely shared I realized boy this isn't exactly easy. So here we go, take two.


http://www.mediafire.com/?yrmk4yymykn and this one http://www.mediafire.com/?vx2zd3kzxjr You still have to do the "control g" or "open apple g" to put your picture in, and just highlight the text goes here and type in your new text. There. I feel better now.

365/52 weeks templates

So here they are-VERY simple templates for your 365/52 weeks of pictures. I hope they work because lets face it, I don't really know what I am doing here. Now these are very simple so (I hope) anyone who wants to can use it, but you may also adapt it however you wish. Just in case you aren't familiar, to get your photo to "fit" into the rounded corner spot drag the picture onto the template, and type control g for PC's and Open Apple g for Macs. I created one for 4x6 photos and one for 6x4 photos and it should fit nicely into a Shutterfly 7x9 book. Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/?njmmvy5bkgy http://www.mediafire.com/?nimigtelz2m

Ten on Tuesday

1. 365 is updated and oh my goodness there is only one month left. Whatever will I do with myself when this is over?
2. Tonight I suddenly got a whiff tonight of Charlie. This sweet, yummy, wonderful scent. But, Charlie was already in bed. So what was it that tickled my nose? Kettle Corn Popcorn. So now you know what Charlie smells like. :)
3. I think I may attempt to blog every day for the rest of the year. Because it sounds so impressive. We shall see.
4. Thanksgiving was absolutely wonderful around here. It was so fun to cook and cook and cook, and then have room on my counter to put it all. Oh and this? AMAZING.
5. I have worked almost the entire day getting caught up and finishing up clients for 2009. I will be scheduling soon for 2010!
6. I am almost completely done with Christmas shopping for this year. At least that is what I am telling myself.
7. This is what Charlie and Lily looked like last year. Wow have they grown.
8. Scrubs is back. I haven't decided if I am excited yet or not as it was all wrapped up with a nice neat bow last year.
9. Anyone have any new Christmas music selections? Not remakes as I really like the old classics, but brand new. And yes, I already have Sufjan Stevens.
10. And with that...I am going to bed.

Friday five

1. I had my first "time change mix-up" this morning since Elizabeth moved. I accidentally called Katherine a bit earlier than I realized as I put her two hours behind instead of three. As soon as I realized I hung up quickly-really helpful. Luckily no one was disturbed by my mix-up. But seriously? This whole doing math to call my sisters-I don't like it.
2. More digi scrapping...
and 3. Hopefully not related to my recent digi scrapping spree, my back feels like it is in a vice grip today. I am getting old.
4. Today is my parent's 44th wedding anniversary. How about a round of applause for that.
5. In exactly one week Lily is turning 4. My baby. FOUR. And she looks so grown up to me-all toddler is gone and now she is just a little kid. My baby? I mean the real baby of the family? Oh my. I think that he may be part of the #3 problem. The back pain, not the scrapping spree. It's a good thing they are *both so cute. *It is near impossible to get a picture of the two of them-Lily either looks crazy or is strangling Charlie.

Ten on Tuesday

1. It has come to the point in the summer when I am done with the crazy heat and I just want to wear jeans and light sweaters and well, not sweat to death walking to the mailbox. Is it that time for you?
2. I am scrapping with Tina tonight-you know what that means, digi! I hope that she can teach me how to get rid of the number boogers coming out of Lily's nose. And yes Katherine I laughed OUT LOUD when I read that.
3. Anyone out there have a biter/hitter/pincher? Any advice? I'm not so happy to see this coming out of my sweet baby boy. So far I have tried "gentle, gentle;" "NO!" and yes, even the trouble chair.
4.Tina is now here and look what I did!  

No number boogers! And yes, it is slightly different, but I like it anyway :)

5. I also worked on a project for Elizabeth's FREE class over at Big Picture. I am doing a mini book with one side being all of our guests this summer and the other side being fun things we have done. So far I have two pages done. (I still can't believe how sick I was)

6. I got an itunes gift card for my birthday and really can't decide what to get. Any suggestions to make my decision near impossible?

7. And suddenly Typepad is double spacing. AND did anyone else try updating their "post to facebook" option? Seriously I love Typepad, but good heavens, test things before you release it-good thing they are quick responding to tickets...

8. Today I was at Target and a woman was in the electonics section playing "Heart & Soul." As my students will remember, that song was banned from my classroom when I was teaching as it is my personal goal to wipe that song from the music world. And it has been in my head All. Day. Long. (As I am sure it is now in yours.) I think when I go back to teach I will affix some plexiglass to my classroom piano with some easy song for the students to practice when they sit down at the piano. ANYTHING but Heart & Soul.

9. My computer is running slow as molasses. I have a lot of work to do to make some space on this baby.

10. There will soon be some exciting things happening with A Day in the Life Photography so check back next week! There may even be prizes involved!