Just an ordinary day...

I just loved this picture of Noah. I had posted it the other day on my Project 365 blog but I just loved it so much I had to post here as well. I am so in love with that sweet little face framed in red and white.

And Cameron, his laugh is so infectious. I must figure out how to post a video on here. He has learned to yodel. It's the cutest thing. You ask him to yodel and he does. So, so stinking cute.

When the guy came by today to look at a few things here at the house Cameron was Mr. Personality as usual and had to show him all his cars and then started pulling letters off the fridge and showing him. To my amazement...every one of them he pulled off he could say what they were. When this all first started happening I thought I was just being a proud mommy but he is actually learning his alphabet. I think that is pretty good for a little guy that just turned 2 years old! The other day we were saying the alphabet, I would say a letter and he would repeat it. Then on 3 different letters I would say the letter and he would say the one that came right after it. I was so proud of my little guy! And here I was worried they were going to be way behind all the other kiddos when they start school since they do not attend preschool and stuff. Ahh...makes a mommy proud!

So this is what negative numbers feels like

It was a COLD day today. I had to go out and get the mail just so I could experience negative digits. It was COLD! After dinner when I went to close the blinds in our room I snapped a shot of the temperature thingy we have in our room. It was registering -6 outside. Brrrrrrr! So needless to say I am very thankful tonight that we have a warm roof over our heads.
I think the boys and I (and even daddy too) are experiencing some cabin fever. After tomorrow it should hopefully warm up at least into the 20s again I think. Schools have already been closed for tomorrow since it is supposed to be even colder tonight. Brr...good night to be inside with a cup of hot chocolate and a nice fire!

So the guys have started pretending they are asleep. It is so funny. All of the sudden they will get really quiet and then start pretend snoring. It is the funniest thing to watch. I tried to catch a picture of it tonight but missed it. They see me coming with the camera now and it's all over whatever they may be doing.

Cleaned up my scrapping area a little today. Still have so much to do to get it where it is a really good usable space. But will get there. I seriously need to do some rearranging of our entire basement. Already. We have only been in this house like 6 months and I am already ready to start rearranging rooms! Oh well...never will be at a loss for things to work on around here.

Oh the weather outside...

I have to admit...I am loving the snow! It could snow for the next few days and I would be a happy little camper. Maybe this will change over time but it has been really cool to just look out the window and see this...

We got to go out and play in the snow this afternoon! It was the boys first time ever to play in snow. They didn't want to come back inside (as usual when we go outside to play). Didn't matter how cold it was, they were bundled up and warm so they were happy. Noah cried before we went out, had a ball outside and cried because we came back in. No making him happy, eh?

But then once we got outside he had a ball after a few minutes and all was well with the world. See my little guys playing...



I have been bit by the crafty bug again. I am quite happy about this. I have been in a slump for a while now and it was good to create again. Now I just want to spend the whole day playing and forget the world going by. And it does go by quickly! Must get out soon to find those binder things to finish my last 2 projects I have going. That or I can just start something new for the time being and come back to that when the weather gets better and I can get out a little more. Hmm...what to do...

Brrr...chilly!

Brrr...chilly as Cameron would say. It is supposed to be -7 degrees on Thursday with a high of 2 degrees! Umm...can you say cold?!?!?!?!?!?

I was so bummed. I got my whole project together, punched the holes and got ready to bind it and...didn't have the right size rings to bind it! Ugh. I thought I had bought them a while back but I was sadly mistaken. Sigh. Guess I will have to wait until later this week to be able to go and get them. Grrr...and I was so excited about finishing up a project too! But I did do these and take some pictures I haven't posted yet so at least it is something crafty.



And yes, they were from Christmas. I had baked a bunch of stuff for the kiddos teachers and when their class was canceled just before Christmas had to find another option. So this was it.

Naps, bread and fun stuff

And so it begins...the process of dropping the nap. I believe my little ones are starting the process of dropping their nap. The last few weeks they have went from a 2-3 hour nap a day to 1.5-2 hours...if I am lucky. I am praying it is just winter and we are not as active as usual but I have a feeling it is the beginning of the dreaded dropping of the nap. As with everything when it comes to kiddos, this will more than likely take several months to happen...which I am thankful for. We are just back to the "you never know how long they will nap" stage. But that's okay, keeps me on my toes and it was time for a new schedule anyway. :)

I made bread today. Whole wheat bread even. My in-laws gave us their bread machine they no longer use (thank you!) and I have just not taken the time (until today) to figure out how to use it. I had bought everything a few weeks ago and was ready to go. Just wasn't sure how long I needed to throw everything in, etc and kept putting it off. We were almost out of bread today so I thought what the heck, I have everything, let's give it a go. It was a huge hit! Noah ate about a slice and a half and they are big slices.

He liked it so much he wiped it all over his face. I guess since it was so soft and fluffy he thought it felt funny on his face. Cameron didn't care for the crust so he ate the inside and left the crust.

Cameron decided he wanted to eat ketchup for dinner. So funny how much that kid loves ketchup...and we don't even have it all that often!

I signed up for a class at Big Picture Scrapbooking this month and am so happy I did. So far I am really enjoying it. It's called A Life Well Crafted. I have been so happy with the other classes (some of them free even!) I have taken there so have signed up for the month by month version of this one. I just did January to "test it out" but I think I will do the entire year after what I have experienced so far. Very happy with the content and the projects. Always a good thing! I guess after having kids and spending 8 months moving I needed to do something to find myself again. Hopefully this is a step in that direction.

Funny for today...

I thought this was pretty funny when I read it today. :)

If you love something set it free. If it comes back it will be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with.
BUT:
If it sits in your lounge room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone and internet, takes your money and doesn't realize you set it free... You either married it or gave birth to it!
- Anon.

We went to church this morning, which was nice. We haven't gone in a while because Noah just wasn't adjusting well to being left in the nursery. After such a positive experience the last 2 times he went to PDO I thought we would give it another shot. Ya know what???? Neither of them wanted to leave! It was such a good feeling knowing they were having such a good time and happy there that they wanted to stay and play. Big sigh of relief finally!


And this is one of the projects I am going to try and finish up this week. I am terrible at sending birthday cards and such to people. I used to be good at it at one point in my life but not any longer. So I am making these little perpetual type calendars that I am going to keep as birthday calendars in my craft area. Hopefully that will help me remember important dates (did I mention both my husband and I forgot our own anniversary this year?). ;) I made the template and will more than likely give it away here on the good old blog soon. Just have to put some finishing touches and find a font I want to use that is okay to give away. Feels good to be creating again!

My little guys got their haircut today. I think it is time for regular haircuts. Sigh. They are getting so big!

Noah acted like a frog tonight. They can tell you what all the animals say but tonight for the first time he hopped around like a frog saying "ribbit." Very cute and Cameron half heatedly did it too. He just wasn't as into the frogs as Noah was. :)

Michelle made a comment about how do I organize all my photos (yes, I literally take hundreds every week usually). I love ACDSee. I can't say enough good things about this program. Before I had tried to use my Photoshop Organizer and my computer was getting so bogged down. Not to mention how long that thing took to load. I was frustrated and getting disheartened. I had read a lot about others using ACDSee and decided to try it out for myself. I am SO very thankful I did. Not only do I use it for all my photos but I use it for my digital scrapping things as well. You can tag items multiple ways and at the click of a button have everything in a particular category at your fingertips within seconds. And the thing I love the very most about it is this program runs on top of your file system instead of actually recreating the files in the program. In other words this takes up less space on my computer and doesn't bog the thing down! Always a good thing in my book!!!!!

I got one of the stability balls last night. I have no idea where my old one has gone to and haven't seen it in years to be honest. I had deflated it and more than likely got rid of it at some point. So after Cameron was sitting on the beach ball the other day I thought how I should get one of these to sit at my desk instead of my chair. My chair makes my back hurt anyway, at least this way I can start strengthening my back instead. Woo-hoo...been sitting on it today and really like it. I even did a short workout on it too! So maybe this was a better purchase than I thought. I have always liked working out with the stability ball.