My brother is visiting with his girlfriend from Texas. Robin had never seen the Mountains before so we took a trip to Angeles Crest.
Alton fell on the trail and got quite dirty, but he has a really good time in the stream we found.
I know there is a blank section on the right page, I didn't want to broadcast their names.... You can click on the page to make it bigger. :)
BTW, I used the twoboyz00 kit Run for the yellow paper and elements. You can find it here. The bottom half orange paper is from A Work in Progress. The name of the kit the paper is from is Fired Earth. The link to her site is in my left sidebar.
So now that I have been trolling various digital scrap booking sites, I often will leave a comment to thank the designer for sharing their scrap kits. I was talking to Charmaine tonight and she laughed and told me, "You've been tagged!" I was tagged by the designer of one of my favorite digi-scrap sites. By the way, if you like to digi-scrap, check out her site, the link to Stolen Moments is to the left. :)
So here I am writing 7 Interesting things about me. Tee hee, I asked Travis to help me and he said, "does it need to be printable?" I told him it did and he is still quiet. This does not bode well for help from the spouse.
Okay, here we go:
1. I only eat M&Ms and Reese's Pieces in even numbers. I don't know why, but I do and it has to be color matched pairs. Two red, two green, you get the idea.
2. I am a baking fiend. I am really good at it, but I cheat and used boxed brownie and cake mixes because I have never had a from scratch recipe that was as good as a boxed mix. I will make my own butter cream frosting though, because homemade is far better than the stuff in the tubs.
3. Believe it or not, I used to run track in high school. I was decent too and even ran hurdles a few times. There was something so satisfying about flying through the air even if it was just for two seconds.
4. Okay, this is Travis's contribution. I fold my underwear in a very precise pattern. Crotch up to the top of the undies and then each of the two sides over that. I thought everyone did that. IS there another way to fold underwear?
5. I was on a reality TV show. When Alton was born, we were on Bringing Home Baby on TLC.
6. I am a Secret Shopper. There are some valid companies out there. I secret shop for a large family theme park in Anaheim, Best Buys, Targets, and some restaurants and the occasional fancy hotel. I don't make a lot of money doing it, but we get to go to DL free twice a month and I get reimbursed for stuff I buy at Target. Who doesn't want free stuff from Target?
7. I am secretly (or not so secretly) anal retentive. My MIL is always impressed when she sees my tupperware cupboard. It is ALWAYS organized and we can always find the lid to the container.
Now I'm supposed to tag 7 other people...
Kate
Charmaine
Katie
Maggie
Andrea
Kayt
Linda
If you want to see an even larger version of this, head here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/Starbucksjen/scrapping/080908PoolPartycopy.jpg
Kate and Angus came over for a playdate before we went to Julia's first birthday party. Alton was a very enthusiastic host, whereas poor Angus was overwhelmed by Alton's enthusiasm.
Alton and I stayed home today for the most part, but then Lynn called us to go over for a impromptu play date. I packed half a loaf of banana blueberry bread and off we went.
Alton and Julia look like they could be brother and sister. The actually played together today instead of just playing near each other.
I love spending time with Lynn. She and her husband are going through some of same stuff we are, so it is nice to have someone to talk who viscerally understands where you are coming from.
Alton is currently in Alton heaven. It is too hot to cook, so we are having Bowl O' night. Which roughly translated means Bowl of cereal or reheated leftovers.... Alton is having fresh strawberry and blueberry salad and leftover black beans. He is very excited and doing the Alton Shimmey.
Here is Alton, counting his stash:
and here he is again, trying to contain them all...
Wow, two posts in one day!
We had a great visit a couple of weeks ago from my good friend Becca. She lives in Hawaii now and we keep forgetting to take pictures when she comes to visit. This is us at the United terminal at LAX.
Our next visitors were the Scott's. They had a three hour layover at LAX on their way to a family reunion in New York. So we picked them up, grabbed In and Out and brought them back to our house for a mini-playdate for Chloe and Alton.
Unfortunately, Chloe had a poopsplosion and needed a bath in the sink.
After she was all cleaned up, Chloe was ready to "play".
Alton shows Chloe the immortal works of S. Boynton.
All their playing wore them out here they sleep together on the way to take the Scott's back to the airport. Funny how though mommies and daddies are all friends, all of the pictures are of the kids only....
Later that day we met The Gedeons and R and H from our home group at Disneyland.
Alton was totally asleep, so he is off screen here.
At the end of the night. We had a great time with you guys! We will miss you.
As you know, I have a little boy and I thought we wouldn't be dealing with this for at least another six months, but the cloth diapers are working! On Monday, we were visiting Maggie and John to help them to get ready for their move to Sacramento. Alton handed Aunt Maggie and diaper and lay down. He was soaked and needed changing. This morning, he was tugging at his bottom and I asked him, are you poopy and he said "Yes." So we changed his diaper. I am not buying training pants or anything crazy like that, but I am going to start putting Alton on the toilet when he wakes up from his naps and at every diaper change so that he can get used to the toilet.
Alton is not about to let his verbal development take a back seat to his physical development. Yesterday he said clearly "Doggies!" when we came home from the Gedeon's and Jack and Lucy ran to greet us. This morning, he was terrorizing the dogs in their beds and Travis picked Lucy up to save her from Alton. Alton grabbed Travis's leg and said, "Lucy!"
I have a new obsession! And it's the best kind of obsession because it's free. Digital Scrapbooking! No more buying paper, adhesive, and praise the Lord, no more cutting! Here is my first page that I put together. It is from my trip to Washington.
