Three OVER three

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Photo a day...

So I was all ready to take my friend Laura's photo a day challenge, these are from the 2nd of June, the girls and I had so much fun exploring the fountains downtown, but my camera took an untimely death the very next day! The next day we went and picked blueberries and I stuck my camera in the cooler, where I had a bag of ice and when I finally went to look for it the next day it was soaked! I was so mad at myself. I never put bags of ice in the cooler, I always use the reusable frozen things, there just happened to be a bag from the night before and so I stuck it in there.

So that's the story of why I can't do the photo a day challenge...but if I were to do it here would be my first set of pictures and the story behind them.

The girls and I were downtown at the thrift stores and they asked if we could go to the fountains before we left. I had decided that I would try to take time to "smell the roses" with my girls and so I said yes. These fountains are really not for wading in but how do you keep little girls away from water? I seem to remember my sisters and I wading in these same photos years ago to take a picture for my parents. It was lunch time when the girls were playing in them and it was fun to watch the expressions of all the business people going to lunch who stopped to smile. I realized I had my camera in the car and I made them go back with me to get it so I could take pictures of them playing, it wasn't too hard to convince them to get in a second time!

Monday, June 2, 2008

Beach Photos

These beautiful photos come courtesy of my amazing photographer sister...how lucky we are to have a truly talented photographer in the family! We took these photos a month or so ago and I just love them! I recently moved furniture around in my house and one of the main reasons was so that I would have a place to hang copies of these photos!

When she was taking these photos we kept joking that Lyndie was probably wondering why her sister's were being so nice to her, as they were so sweet with her and just walked along gently with her...which is not always the case!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

I love digital scrapping!

So last night since Justin had taken the girls camping I decided to stay up way too late and catch up on a little scraping...I still need to do a few pages for this month but at least I have started. Remember if you want to read any of the journaling on the page just click on the image and it will appear bigger so that you can read it.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

The Happiest Place on Earth!

Malia has been asking for months to go to DISNEYLAND for her birthday, in fact since last time when we went to see Justin's family we went to Disneyland first, they somehow now think that if we are going to visit them then we have to go to Disneyland first. Anyhow the other day I got this idea that it would be fun to surprise the girls and make an early trip for Malia's birthday. I knew Justin couldn't get time off and it didn't take any convincing at all to get my friend Mandi to join me (she has season passes). We had a great time, the best was that the girls didn't know where we were going. We are excited to go back to CA Adventure in the next few weeks and use the 2nd part of our 2fer ticket!

Monday, April 21, 2008

More scrapbooking freebies and other cool sites with free stuff

These come courtesy of my friend Laura, we met in college as camp counselors, now each have 3 girls and love to share our scrapbooking finds with one another!

Little Dreamer Designs, home of $1 Wednesday is having a birthday celebration and they are posting freebies
http://littledreamerdesigns.typepad.com/little_dreamer_designs/2008/04/another-day-ano.html

http://littledreamerdesigns.typepad.com/little_dreamer_designs/2008/04/more-party-game.html

Laura also introduced me to using templates and I found these really cool templates the other day,
http://mandagirl.com/free-templates/
if you need help on using templates here is a video that explains it all and gives you a template too!
http://spraguelab.squarespace.com/blog/2008/4/11/photoshop-friday-free-digital-templates-d.html

And last but not least other free stuff, I found this bloggy giveaway thing last year and actually won something, may be you'll find something you want too! I am dreaming of the year supply of ice cream for my husband!

Saturday, April 12, 2008

So I guess we can't really be 3 under 3 anymore...and I am beginning to see that there are many out there with more kids than me in a short span of years, how do they do it? So it's finally time for a header update, here are a few of my favorite pictures of the girls from the last few months! I would love a picture of all three of them together, where they are all smiling but I think that is asking for a real MIRACLE!

Justin has been bugging me for awhile to put up his picture with the possum, I hope that it didn't disgust too many of you! And the shoe next to the possum is his...so as you can see the thing was quite large. I personally wouldn't come look at it after he did the deed but he showed me his capture via the pictures. The thing had come to eat the dog food in our backyard so I wasn't too upset that he took care of it as I really don't want my kids to encounter them as they can be quite feisty!

Justin has taken the girls to recycle bottles and metal so I am going to get back to the scrapbook I was trying so hard to finish but never did! Lucky for me, the winkflash sale was extended!