Car Wash Tears

If your 2 and 4 year old want to "help" wash the car, let them.  Just be sure to use some sort of no-tear formula soap.  Trust me, everyone involved will be happier for it.

You Rock!

There's nothing like someone telling you they like your blog to light a fire under your butt to update it.  Seriously, sometimes I forget I even have them.  (My other one is coffeebreathcori.blogspot.com- I think)  So here is one of my favorite recent pages, my little rocker girl Madeline right around her 2nd birthday.  She's not shy, this one, and I have to wonder if the Hannah Montana reference will be lost on her by the time she can appreciate these pages.  Time will tell...

Another reason I'm so in love with this page is the paper.  I'm pretty sure the CTMH Gods said, "We need to design a paper pack just for Cori."  BAM!  Here it is- hippie rocker meets craft nerd.  Whoo!  Rainbow swirly, tie-dye paisleys?  Now we're talkin'.  Maybe it's because with three girls, I'm usually reduced to pink petals and ponies.  I love the...darkness of the paper combined with the bright swirls.  Okay, enough gushing.

Kissing Cousins

When we get all the kids together, there's never a dull moment- especially when Gram breaks out her most recent "treasure" find.  (That's her doing the jig in the background.)  I believe these lips were actually suckers made of high fructose corn syrup and some carbon compound.  : )

Animal Cookies is one of my favorite CTMH paper packs pretty much because I have kids.  The primary colors just pop and it's easy to coordinte non CTMH products with it- ribbon, glitter, letter stickers, etc.  Very versatile!  It also gave me an excuse to break out the foam numbers.  Thank God for liquid glass.

Hokie Grad

There is really nothing in this world (for me) like a weekend retreat at the beach scrappin' with my favorite crafty ladies.  It's an opportunity to make new like-minded friends and catch up with old ones.  Talk about re-charging the batteries!  The next several posts will be the product of how I spent the weekend....

Hokie Grad- this was one of my favorites a.) because I am also Hokie alum and b.) I got to scrap something other than my kids (not that I don't love them).  Can you tell I'm proud of my bro?

I used a Close to My Heart product called flip-flaps to creat a mini album on the bottom left hand page (see below).  The tricky part is slitting the page protector with an x-acto knife at just the right spot to allow the flaps to come through.  That way, when you are leafing through the album, you can access each flap without removing the page from the protector.

Hopefully one of my kids will go to Tech setting the stage for many more Hokie pages to come!  : )

Water Balloon Toss

Any chance to get wet!  Savannah loved participating in the water balloon toss with her daddy at the Moose Club picnic.  And she was surprisingly good!  I think it was more her pace than skills that had them as a couple of the last tossers.  Savannah was very proud of her wet spot on her shirt, but hopefully this will be the ONLY time she prances around in a wet t-shirt...

Picnic Time!

One good thing has come from Snowmadeggon 2010- I've got nothing but time to scrapbook.  And to preserve my sanity when the dominating color is white, I pulled out some pics of sunny and warmer days.  This is a spread from August at the Moose Club picnic in Winchester.  I forget which park it is, but there was a beautiful pond with a bike/walking path going around.  Lexi came home with several Susan B. Anthony's she won in the sawdust dig, Madeline cackled on the swings, and Savannah loved getting wet in the water balloon toss with her daddy.  (See future post).  Thanks, Aunt Janet, for inviting us to the picnic!

Kiddie Pool Snow Dump

This one actually comes from my sister, Mandy. We've got almost two feet of snow, and it's still coming down. The kids haven't gotten out in it yet (pic is from last year), but when they do, I'll be the one dealing with 4 sets of snow clothes (3 kids and a husband). Mandy puts a kiddie pool inside her front door, in our case it would be the enclosed porch, to collect all the wet snow gear. Then you can hang it up when you get around to it, which could be never. : ) Great idea, Mandy!