What a load of crap!

Well, it's not really crap since my daughter made it, but it's a lot of stuff we don't need to keep in this house! I went through Kristen's schoolwork yesterday and the picture below is all the stuff we didn't keep. I bought some Dora file storage boxes at the Dollar Store (seriously, don't buy from the auction I linked to LOL) and before we went through everything, we had 3 of those full of school stuff plus a lot of crap on top of them. After throwing a bunch out, we got it down to just 1 box. I just couldn't part with her monthly journals, printing book and poem book, along with her awards and a few crafty things she made.

I haven't seen my grandfather for a few months and I hate to say it, but his cancer is spreading. Hope is not lost yet, but it is hard trying to keep faith when it doesn't look good. Anyway, we are going to visit my parents on Saturday to Wednesday so as long as I don't have a cold (pray I don't get one) I will be going to visit him while we are there. I saw this little framed quote when I was buying a present for Kristen's teacher and thought it would be perfect to give to him. It's yellow so it'll match their living room. :) I hope he likes it!

Today was "Birthday Day" in Kristen's class because it was her teachers birthday and it was also to celebrate everyone's birthdays, to be fair to the kids who don't have a birthday during school months. I gave her my point and shoot camera to use to take pictures of her friends. She didn't take as many photos as I thought she would and only maybe 2 of them turned out pretty good. LOL She took some videos too which were cute. I can't show any of them here because I didn't get permission. Tomorrow she doesn't have school then Friday is report card day, so maybe I'll give it to her again to see if she can get any more pictures of her friends.

Field trip with a bunch of 5/6 year olds

I had a lot of fun going to the Wildlife Park on Friday with Kristen's class! I had to chaperone 3 other girls besides Kristen and they were really well behaved. We named ourselves the Otters, because they are cute and love to swim, just like my girls. :) Whenever it was time to go to the next animal, I'd yell "Okay Otters!" then they'd all come to me :)

Here is the front and back covers of the Shutterfly book I ordered the other day. It's of all (minus one that I forgot) the layouts I've done with both girls in it so far.

I made it using Misty Cato's Baby Brights kit she re-released today. It didn't really look lined up when I ordered it, but it was totally lined up in PS, so hopefully it was just a glitch.

Man, I hate it when DH is in a bad mood (which is often) because then everything bugs him, even the stuff that shouldn't. He was getting annoyed at Kaylee because she was trying to give her sleeping sister (who isn't feeling well) a stuffed animal. I asked him why it was annoying him and he said I didn't understand then went downstairs, as usual. I wish he could handle the kids better because he obviously can't. I'd say at least 90% off his "tantrums" are kid-related. The big baby can spend the rest of the night down there for all I care. :P