A year already? How did that happen?

We celebrated The Gooch's first birthday this weekend...I'm still in denial that he's already a year old. I feel like I just brought him home from the hospital last week! We ended up having a beautiful day, with lots of sun and may be a touch too much heat (and humidity!) but for late August, it was a welcome change from rain and cold. We also had the Gooch's baptism that morning, so he had a pretty eventful day. Needless to say, I was exhausted by the end of the day (the last few stragglers left around 8:30 pm---that's family for ya!) Of course I had made too much food, but because some of the guests stayed, we put it out again for supper and the majority of it got eaten---yay! Here are a few pics from the cake part, which is always the best part for a first birthday party. And I have to say that altough The Gooch has never had anything sweet before, he didn't really dig in to his cake very much. He mostly played with the icing...

We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo...

We decided to take a trip to Granby Zoo last Friday (my last hurrah before I started back at work!) and we had such a GREAT time! The kids were awesome the whole day (we had my two rugrats as well as my two nieces, along with my mom, my sis, my mother and father in laws as well...Steve was home, very sick poor guy...) At the end of a rather long day, I asked Ella what her favourite part was---was it the gorillas (they were my fave) or the elephants, or the birds that landed on our heads, or the snake she petted, or the blue-tongued skink she petted, or the shark that I petted? Was it the baby giraffe? or the monkeys acting silly? Nope. It was the plastic tiger teeter-totter at the park....hmmm, 50 bucks well spent I see... Oh well, had fun taking pics of all of it, and here are four of my favourites.

The gorillas...I could have watched this big guy all day...



The elepahnts were amazing too...

and then there were the rhinos, but they just slept...



We managed to get some pics of the kids too (amidst all the craziness of the three cousins running amok), but I think I'll be scrapping some of them at a later date!

Some stuff I've been workin' on...

So I had an oppportunity recently to let my creative juices flow...and for free! Had a great time, and a lot of laughs (definitely looking forward to the next time!) Here's three of six that I managed to complete...

Thanks to Melanie for the great title---I LOVE this page!

Scrapped The Gooch with his cockeyed smile...

And had a chance to catch his goofball side as well...I used the date stamp from Purple Onion Designs (they have great stuff, and very affordable---and they have a sale going on! And no, I'm not being paid to say that...however...lol! Check 'em out at purpleoniondesigns.com)