Some new stuff

I had a pretty productive night on Friday, created three (and a half) pages in 4 hours while chatting and enjoying some pizza with other scrappers...

Here's what I got:

This is from a pagemaps sketch (it was a challenge at the crop) and I love my little goochie in this (although the hubbie thinks he looks more like an old russian cleaning lady than a bad a** biker boy---oh well, he's allowed to think that, he's half russian after all!)


This was a quick page inspired by The JoCool...love what she does with over-sized photos and HAD to try it. Gotta say I love the result! Thanks Jo!


And this is my Ella Bella taking a running leap off the diving board into the lake at Camp Wa-Thi-Ane. I loved her fearlessness!

peek-a-boo

A quick little page of the gooch trying to get to the camera...

Some random stuff...

I had a pretty busy weekend, starting on Friday by being the "duty mom" at Ella's preschool. I honestly don't know how preschool and daycare workers do this all day, 5 days a week. I was there for three and a half hours and was EXHAUSTED!!!! So once again, I tip my hat to all those out there who are given the responsibility of caring for and educating the very young...

Afterwards, Ella wanted to follow in her cousins' footsteps and get a haircut so that she could donate her hair to Locks of Love (www.locksoflove.org) As it turns out, her hair didn't meet the minimum requirement for her to have it donated to make a wig, however, we'll be sending it anyway and the organazation will sell it to offset some of their costs, which is fine by me. Kudos to them and what they do for kids as well.

So here is Ella before the cut (what's up with the pose?)


And the after shot (please excuse the goofiness to her face, she LOVES to do this whenever I try to take a pic of her). For Ella, the best part of the whole experience was the lollipop--go figure!


Then we shipped off the kids to my sisters for the night--yup, the WHOLE night (hip hip HOORAY!) while the hubby and I had a night with two other grown-ups. We met downtown for supper then went to a movie. I haven't seen a movie in the theater for almost two years I think... We went and saw "Across the Universe" and if anyone is a Beatles fan, you're gonna love it. I was into it right from the opening scene. You can check it the trailer from YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ6d3m-GFyw

Unfortunately, I had to work both Saturday and Sunday, so that sucked, and when I got home on Sunday, I discovered that The Gooch was likely starting a cold. Well, he woke up this morning and it's croup...poor baby. So the Gooch is miserable, and there's nothing I can do for him *sniff* Hopefully he gets better in the next couple of days and we won't need a trip to the pediatrician's office.

I'm also hoping to find some time to scrap this week. I've got all kinds of ideas in my head and no time lately to let it all come pouring out...

HEY! Check this out!

Check out the Fall 2007 Inspiration Challenges on the Canadian Scrapbooker site...
(yay me!) Next step, the ACTUAL magazine...I hope....

just because...

A little pic of the Gooch, just because! He makes me so incredibly happy, and I ain't "lion"...get it? lion? lying? I know, really bad, I can hear the groans, but I laughed...

The first day...

So preshool has restarted (insert a giant HOORAY!!! here) and mom and Ella are equally excited! She's been asking for a while now when school starts up again, so it was great to finally be able to tell her that "YES, today is THE DAY!" She had already chosen her own outfit: a skirt, which is really out of character for her, but, "just go with it" has been my motto lately, and I'm stickin' to it! She actually matched, which was nice, and she put on a jacket as well, which I think made her look six instead of three, so I had a little moment of sadness realizing that my baby girl is growing up...

She was a little surprised (and maybe a little disappointed?) that the teacher she had last year had moved on to other things, and that she would have a new teacher. But, knowing Ella, she'll just go with the flow and be fine by, oh, tomorrow.

Here's a couple of pics.

She was off and RUNNING as soon as she had her back pack on...


But I did make her turn around at one point and let me take a pic (I AM a scrapbooker after all!)... This is where I think she looks considerably older that she is :( *sniff*