So I signed up

for an online photography class at scrapshotz.com and am excited to be starting my first lesson. Here's my first (and favorite so far) picture in AV mode.

My Baby is 8 months old!

I swear that I just had him the other day! I can't get over how quickly time is slipping away from me. I mean I knew that this would happen because of previous experience. Hello? 2 other kids. But Owen just seems to be growing up at an alarming rate. Maybe its because he's my last but I'm trying to soak it all in. For the record, the little man is sitting up so good but seems to be stuck in reverse when it comes to scooting around. Its funny because the other 2 were walking by 9 months and I don't see Owen doing that anytime soon. I'm thankful because I want him to still be a baby for awhile longer.

He's also big on food, fruit being his #1 favorite. Banana muffins are a hit as well as any type of apple sauce. He's pretty good on veggies too but any funny texture like mashed potatoes is out. But he'll eat boiled chunks of potato (cooled) go figure. Hopefully his palete will be more developed than Ethan's.

Just love this little man who I'm thrilled to say is quite the momma's boy. Hey I've got the food :)

100 projects challenge

In keeping with my desire to use up a lot of my scrapbooking stash I've joined a challenge on the scrapshotz website ( www.scrapshotz.com) the goal is to create 100 projects before you purchase anymore scrapbooking supplies. I'm sure that I could do more with all my stuff but baby steps :) Projects are anything scrap related, cards, layouts, altered items, mini albums whatever. So I'm off to create and see how long it takes. I'll be posting monthly totals and the projects here. The challenge starts from Jan 1 so I've got a nice headstart from all the scrapbooking that I did previously :)

good thing he's cute

cause the little monkey has been keeping momma up at night.

Apparently its all part of his master plan. Look at that sinister grin

The power of a dancing musical mouse...

How cute are these two boys? My cousin's little guy was a guest at my house for a couple of hours just before Christmas break and I had to find a way to entertain 2 babies... Enter the musical dancing mouse...

He was a huge hit

Nothing tickles a babies' fancy quite like a stuffy that has glowing red cheeks and dances back and forth.

Plus the mouse sits there patiently waiting for grabby little hands...

more layouts

So this is the accumulation of my *me* time lately. All of these layouts were done in the last 2 weeks with the exception of a few of them. I've had so much fun with falling in love with scrapbooking again. Loving my cuttlebug and cricut machine again too!

The following 5 layouts were all done with the first monthly kit that I got from the memoryworkshop.ca Love how easy it was to pull these all together. I enjoyed them so much that a renewed my sub. for 3 more months.

Favorite photo of all the kids...I just love how the light is filtering through the trees.

playing with my new ali edward stamps from Technique Tuesday. A must have in any scrapbooker's stash :)

October Afternoon papers. Gotta love me some stripes :)

new scrapbook pages

these were done a month or so ago. My favorites of the time that hang on my wall :) This is so one of my favorites. I found and scanned pictures of my older 2 kids at the age of 5 months in similar poses to a photo I had of Owen. I think that its so cool how I can see the similarities between my 3 kids. The photos are arranged in birth order, Ethan, Abby and Owen

My little diva with a 'tude! Lord help me! Pray that she gets it all out of her system by the time that she's a teen ;)

My all time favorite photo of Ethan. One of the few non-weird, forced smiles that I usually get. What a handsome guy!!