All is quiet...

for now at least everyone (kids I mean) is fast asleep and I have a little time to myself. I have been planning in my head for the last three days what I wanted to say for an update here and I figured I had better get it out.

We had a wonderful week, extra busy but good. I've got some new little ones for daycare so that is where the extra busy comes in. It worked out good last week, I had an extra body Monday, then different extra bodies Tuesday and Thursday. Then Friday it was just me and Carter. I decided that I needed some shopping time!

Carter and I headed out of town right after drop off of Linds and K. We hit Target first, boy oh boy do I feel like I got the deal of the century. Needed ink for my photo printer and they had packaged sets of all the inks with 150 sheets of 4x6 photo paper. Ok the deal is my printer takes 6 different inks, the black alone is $18, then the five colors are normally around $9 each, so that's like $60+ dollars right there. The packs I got were $35! OMG I felt like I was stealing and it was hard not to buy every pack off the shelf. So excited! Got a few other things at the Target but nothing else as good.
Next we hit Kohl's, I so needed a wardrobe pick me up. Got a couple new things, but I have decided that I must have some sort of odd body type cuz nothing seems to fit right. I should know better to not even try on things like shorts and pants, they never fit.
After that it was on to the Mall, and after a bottle for Carter and some hair care products. Any one with straight hair do's you must try Aveda's Smoothing Fluid love, love, love it! Then we hit my fav store, Gap! If I was only allowed to shop at one store I would pick the Gap every time, they have bottoms that fit me! Got new jeans, new crop pants, new jean capri's, and tried the new boyfriend pant (LOVE IT!). I was so giddy when I left nothing could go wrong for the rest of the day, oh yeah and nothing did!

Saturday we just hung out for the morning then K and Jeff went to an archery shoot and I got organized to scrap. Booked myself and a friend for Scrapbook Superstore's Crop Mania. That was fabulous, it was a totally last minute thing but TallyScrapper has me so motivated to scrap I just needed to go. Let Katie and Shannon know my plans and was way excited that Katie was able to join in. I so love scrapping with Katie, she is such an insperation, and of course I could just spend the night looking at her photos and be happy! If you want to see what I accomplished you'll just have to check my TS Gallery. We did miss ya Shannon, but Katie updated me on the latest gossip. Next big get together with all the girls and a new scrappin friend (Jen) will be in June, almost to long to wait.

Today we had a wonderful day too! Got up early and went out for breakfast, love that no cleaning for me! Then Jeff and K took off for another shoot. Kaleb is doing so good, one of these days I will join them with camera in tow so I can get some pictures to post and scrap. Me, Linds and Carter tried to get a few things done, laundry mostly. I am actually really excited to crawl into bed tonight. Hung the sheets outside! I am so not a hang things outside gal, way to much work for me. But every now and again when the weather is just perfect I do the sheets. I love the fresh smell. Then we headed to WM for all the things we forgot at Target (didn't have a list Friday). After Jeff and K got home we all went to the land that Jeff hunts on. The guys plant corn for the deer every year and leave it standing all winter. It is time to cut it down so they can plant this years crop. Jeff had one last field to do. While he was cutting I let the kids go loose in the stream that runs along the property. They had a blast as you probably guessed from the pictures above. It was such a perfect day, I only wish it was summer and the kids didn't have school tomorrow. I was just thinking the other day how back in August I couldn't wait to get then out of my hair and back in school. Now I can't wait until the last day so I can have them all day to play with.

Wow this has turned into a mini novel of an entry, thanks for reading

Time to get rid of these icky snow pictures! I think that spring is finally here to stay, today it is fabulous outside. I took baby Carter out to play with my camera, tell me what cha think.

Funny story to share...

Yesterday I get a call from Linds' teacher, seems there was an "incident" durring rest time. Lindsay put a rock up here nose. (Side note - Judy all I could think about was the corn story, LOL!!!) She says that "someone" told her to do it, I can't imagine that she would do this on her own, but the "someone" said they didn't tell her??? Anyway here's the really funny part, Linds with some help from the school nurse did get the rock out. Nurse Kari asks her what we learned from this, and what does my child say... "I learned that you have to blow really hard to get a rock out of your nose!" OMG!!! Oh yeah she had to bring the rock home with her too.

Alright gotta update ya on last weekends fun, I was scheduled to go to a scrapping retreat, but Carter had other plans for me. I did mange to spend 12+ hrs there Saturday, check out Blooming Escapes if you need a fabulous place to get some crafting done. I can't wait to go back and spend a full weekend. Even better I got four 12x12 pages done and a 9x9 for Carter's book. When you write it out it doesn't seem like much, but for me it is amazing!

So Carter is finally on the winning side of all the sickness, my gosh we have been dealing with one thing or another for the last four weeks, maybe he won't get sick again until he's a teenager. Knock on wood. He has even gotten a little better at sleeping the last few nights. It is amazing how good you can feel when you get 6 hrs of uninteruppted sleep.

This morning I was up and ready to go before 6 am! I decided to hit the Garage sales, did a few and then I remembered why I dont do Garage sales, to much work for nothing. Maybe we just don't have quality around here??? Who knows, but that will probably be the last garage sale morning for me. I was really wishing I could head to Madison for the farmer's market, but it's just too far.

Scenes from my back porch this morning...

Gotta love Wisconsin weather! Schools are closed today so it will be an even more wackier than normal Wednesday. They are saying that we may have up to 10 inches of snow! YUCK!!! Of course it the very wet sticky kind and the kids are dying to get out and play, think we'll wait until after lunch then I'll let 'em loose.

Worked at the LSS yesterday, taught a class using felt. That is an interesting medium to work with. We made big tags decorated with felt die cuts. I may try this on a scrap page or I may not. It was a lot of work to get my QK machine to work. Everyone like it, and I had 7 students. Which has been the most I've had in quite some time. New people too, so that's even better.

I'm hoping today that the kids keep each other busy and I can scrap a page or two. Gotta get my page done for the class I'm teaching next week. I'm going to use the new MM Grommet tool and grommets. If you've used it and have pages to show drop me a line or a link I would love to look at some examples. I could search two peas I'm just too lazy.

Pool play...

Froggy Shoots...

Photo Shoot favs...

So we've been on spring break for the last week, although it has not felt at all like spring and well it's been no break either!

I started thinking that I should look up what the temps were for winter break cuz I am sure that they were about the same if not warmer. YUCK!!! No walks, no picnics, no outside nothing. Well ok the kids have braved it a few times, but not me.

Monday and Tuesday I worked at the LSS, that was a ton of fun as it always is, so not work either. I keep telling my boss that I should not get paid for being there, I never get anything accomplished to much gabbing with the customers. Really I have way to much fun there.

Wednesday we just laid low, Jeff was home sick and well that really messes up our schedule, oh but Lindsay had a play date so the day wasn't a total loss.

Thursday we spent the am at the dentist, K, Linds and I got teeth cleaned and I was bullied into finally getting the prep work for a crown I have needed for the last year. Anyone out there know anything about crowns??? My mouth still hurts today! For the pm Carter had a doctor appt, he is doing tons better, but still not 100%. I was told the bug he had/has is one that they vaccinate for and had he not already gotten shots at 2 & 4 months we could have been in real trouble. So it certainly is a nasty one.

Friday we planned a fun day! We started with pictures, six months for baby Carter. And I wanted one with all three monsters. The kids did a fabulous job and I will say it again I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Portrait Innovations! The only thing that will make me stop going there is if Katie opens up her own studio! So the pictures were fun for me, after that we did the Chuckie Cheese thing for the kids. They loved that! Then it was my turn again a trip to Scrapbook Superstore, got a few sheets of paper, I was looking for the BG Color Me Silly with the frogs (got Carter's pic taken with his frog blankie and a few other frog things we have accumulated) of course they don't have it, but there were a couple other sheets I couldn't pass up. Then on to Sam's Club (which is not fun for me or the kids, but had to be done).

Today we needed more fun, but I really needed to get some stuff done around the house. We did fun! We went to Deer Valley and played in the water for half the day. Carter seems to like the water and both K and Linds made some friends for the time we were there. Now everyone is quietly resting. Love that!

Our Easter plans are super simple, brunch with the Johnston family right here in Dodgeville. Then egg hunt at grandpa's, he has 90 eggs to hide this year. Can we say it's getting a little over the top. The kids do have fun and if the sun shows up I may even get a few decent pictures.

Hope everyone else has a wonderful holiday!

New Pictures of Carter, Can you see the teeth in the first one??? He's got two little front teeth!

And the second one is a new thing he has learned to do with his lips, he kinda sucks them in, we just noticed that he was doing this today!

Yikes it's been a month since I've updated this thing!

So my life isn't that complicated, but I just don't seem to have the time to devote to this and to posting over at Tallyscrapper which I havent' done much of lately either. What to do????

Well the baby seems content bouncing up and down at the moment so here's what's been happening in our little world...

We had a scrapping weekend at Shannon's, that was great. I didn't get one thing done, but it was fun to just hang with the girls. We are off to a Scrap Retreat in the Dells next weekend, cannot wait for that. No kids and a full weekend I should get something done.

Got some shopping done a few weeks ago, Carter is just growing way to fast and we were running out of clothes to wear. I went a little overboard I think we are set until winter.

So Jeff was supposed to do this HUGE archery tournament, only so many shooters are accepted and we have been on the wait list for a few years so I was so excited when we got the call about an opening for him. The tournament was in South Carolina and we paid the entry fee booked the airline tickets got the hotel did all we needed to. So on Thursday 3-22 he leaves for Ohare (three hour drive), just before his plane is scheduled for take off I get a call from him. Flight has been cancelled, no flights to SC until Monday! The shoot is Fri, Sat, Sun so this will not work! He spends 12 hours at airport trying to find any flight anywhere near where he needs to be, there is nothing. Finally he decides the best thing to do is head home. Now just to get the baggage, well sorry your baggage is in SC! Oh yeah and they tell him if he leaves he will not get a refund, its not their fault they cancelled the flight. He comes home it is now 1 AM, and he is not happy. We spent friday on the phone with Travelocity, they got us the refund, and with lost baggage, that took over 6 calls throughout the weekend, but we did finally get his archery equipment and suitcase Monday morning. The lesson here is NEVER FLY UNITED!!!

So while all the mess with Jeff is going on, Carter is dealing with a nasty cough. We were in the ER twice and told we had RSV (not a happy thing), so by Monday after I have gotten realitivly no sleep I head to the clinic one more time, Carter is just not getting any better. Doc there things we have been dealing with this to long and thinks 24 hrs in the hospital with oxygen and observation would be the best idea. Great! They didn't let us go home until Wed afternoon. Tests came back and didn't look like it was RSV, but he had some nasty bacteria that did not want to let go. Poor little guy got three shots of antibiotic, way to many nebulizer treatments, and a whole lot of other meds. We made it through and as of lately he is doing so much better, we see the doc tomorrow for another check up and I think all will be well.

Someone's getting fussy, time for bath and bed. I do have some fun shots to post I'll try and get back here after everyone's down for the night. No time to proof this so sorry for any typo's!