In Memoriam

My grandfather lost his 6 month battle with lung cancer in the early morning of September 19th. He will be forever missed by all who knew him. He was many things in this world…son, husband, friend, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, nephew, uncle, great-uncle…but he was more than just a title. He was a man that was worthy of envy. So many people would be lucky to be the person that he was. Always happy and energetic, my Grampie was a bright light in my life, although I never told anyone. I think about him all the time and hope that he is at peace now and will drop down from Heaven to visit us every once in a while. I miss you Grampie and always will.

Face painting

Barry’s staff party on Saturday was pretty fun! The weather wasn’t that great - drizzling a tiny bit, but there was a good turn out and there was face painting and a bouncy castle for the girls to do (although Kaylee didn’t want to do either). There was hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and the owner even brought in freshly made french fries from a chip wagon (20 boxes!). Kristen spent most of the time with a bunch of girls her age. She just loved her newly painted face and didn’t want to wash it off that night! LOL

Yesterday I got this gorgeous necklace in the mail. One of the women in my mommies group has breast cancer and one of the other members said she’d make a necklace for whoever wanted to buy one, in honor of Beth. The clear bead is for Beth and the 2 little pink ones are for her 2 children. I don’t normally wear much jewelry except for the stuff I never take off, but I couldn’t pass this up.

I only have one layout to show you right now. For some reason I haven’t scrapped much in the past few days. I am really pleased with how this turned out. I’ve had these pics for a while now and never got around to scrapping them, then I got the Beep Boop 2 scoops kit from Lauren & Kristin and the colors were almost perfect for them! I just had to darken the blues and reds a bit. I hope my FIL likes it! This is his plane that he built himself!

I’m starting to think about Christmas already…ways I can save money on gifts like Air Miles points can get me gift cards for some people, my Pampers points can get me 25 free photo cards, etc. What do you do during the holidays to save money on gifts? I already got my ILs present, but I can’t say what it is because my MIL reads this sometimes.

A week!

It’s been a week since I last posted! Yikes! Monday I took Kaylee to get her 3rd year photos taken and she did really well! At first she didn’t want to be there and didn’t want to sit down, etc. but the photographer was really nice and got her to sit down on a little bench and got her to smile. We were out of there in about 10 minutes! That has NEVER happened before…Kaylee has always been difficult to get professional pics done. Like we’d spend an hour at the photographers and only get one semi-okay pose and she wouldn’t even be smiling. This one was great! I had 8 photos to choose 3 out of! Here’s the layout I did of the pics (which we got back the next day BTW…really quick turn around)

Tuesday marked our 8th anniversary (next years will be 09-09-09 & it’ll be our 9th anniversary…no wonder my favorite number is 9 LOL) Since I ordered 73 layouts from Scrapbook Pictures just last week, I told DH not to buy me anything. But he did buy me a really nice card! I got him a movie (Stargate: the extended edition) just because I ran across it in the grocery store the day before. I had bought him a new sheet set the week before so we really didn’t have a lot of money to spend on each other. We did get Chinese take-out though and it was really good. There was enough that I didn’t have to cook supper the next night either! Over all, it was a nice anniversary.

I guess that’s it from me! Tomorrow we’re going to my husband’s staff party at a park with games and food and I think the girls are getting a little gift too! Hope it’ll be fun!

Back in School

Yep, Kristen is in 1st grade now! I don’t know how parents of more than one child do it on the first day of school…everything is confusing because you don’t know where to go or who the teacher is, etc. I can’t imagine having to get 2 or more kids to the right spots at the right time. I didn’t bring the camera to school, but here are a few pics of her I took in the morning.

This weekend there is an air show at the International Airport and yesterday they were doing a practice show at the military base that is just a few minutes away, so all the planes went over our house. The airshow used to actually be at this base but moved to the airport a few years ago which was such a bummer. We loved having the planes going over our house and having helicopters flying over daily just isn’t the same. So, Kaylee and I went out on the deck and watched the planes and I took some pics. I don’t have a high zoom lens so they aren’t as close up as I would’ve liked to get.

My sweetie girl is 3!

So Kaylee’s 3rd birthday was yesterday. She is my big girl now! (besides not being potty trained yet) :)  Saturday after I got up we got on the road to the Stanley Flying Club to go to their annual Fly-In (eating lunch from McD’s on the way) where Barry’s parents are members and have a trailer where they stay when they’re up there. The Fly-In is a big 3 day affair with a yard sale, corn boil, auction, cake walk, bingo, candy drop from an airplane for the kids, watching planes take off and land, etc. It’s pretty fun! So we did some things and had a nice dinner with a little cake and sang happy birthday to Kaylee, then around 7 we left for my parents house which is an hour away.

We got to my parents around 8 and since the girls slept most of the way there, they weren’t sleepy enough to go right to bed. Kristen went down at 9pm and Kaylee didn’t end up going to sleep until 10pm. They both woke up by 6:30am the next morning anyway. Why won’t these kids sleep in?? LOL

Saturday Kaylee had her party which was really fun. She was SO excited as this was her first real birthday party. She got some great presents and she especially loves her 3-wheel scooter from us (even though I have to go exchange it because the rear axle is broken), her Dora Cuddle ‘n Care dolls and the Enchanted DVD she got. She keeps going around saying “my birtday in Setember” Click on the pics to go to a larger version.