Waiting for the rain...

The weather person on the news promised rain today, and so far all we've gotten are clouds. It was supposed to rain yesterday too, and I think it did everywhere but here...lol It rained so hard in Denver, that they had to get water rescue out to save some people that got trapped under a bridge on a bike path where they'd stopped to wait out the rain.

It stayed nice enough here to take the kids swimming before the clouds rolled in (that was the closest we got to rain yesterday). Bri has taught herself to swim under water, and makes it a little farther every dive. She was so proud of herself yesterday, every time she came up for air she would ask if she did better than the time before. Zack is also getting quite brave, he's now jumping off the top step into to the pool. At first he would only do it when he had Nathan's boat, but yesterday he was doing it with just the innertube. I did take my camera, but unfortunately the batteries died just before Zack started jumping :o(. I did get a few pictures though...

Here's Bri during one of her swims:

Zack and Nathan:

And Bri Jumping in:

I got this one of Nathan this morning, think he might be a drummer when he grows up the way he beats on this table:

Here's Zack and Bri, they love playing dad's train game...

I don't have any LO's today, I need to sit down and finishing writing down the credits for them, I don't want to post any without being able to give the talented people who put so much hard work in their digital papers, elements and templates their due.

I'm off to fix dinner before the natives get restless...lol

Hugs,

Michele

Only 5 more days

till Dustin goes back to school! He went in for his physical at the ungodly hour of 9:30 this morning. All is going well, the doc changed his ADHD medicine, but that's about it. After that we went to the grocery store, which was not fun. The last friday before most all of the kids go back to school and the place was packed!!! But at least it over and done with for another week, with the price of things, I have grocery shopping anymore.
That's about all we've done today, don't have much going today. The humidity is up and the barometer is dropping, so my head is killing me today. Darn sinuses anyway...lol


The LO I have today is of Zack. After a hard day playing he crashed on dad's lap...

Credits go to 3's_enough at Midnight Scrapping for her LandScape Template #3, and to Star Scraps for her Planes, Trains and Automobiles kit.

This one is of Nathan.....

The template is from JustRenae, it's her Template 15. The papers and buttons are from Jayden's Mamas' contribution to the HUGE collab kit Backyard Playground. There are over 40 designers that contribute to this kit, to many to list, but if you click on the link for Jayden's Mama, she has a list there of all the links to get this kit.

Hope everyone has a great day, I'm going to stop before blogger goes down for maintenance.

Hugs,

Michele

When it rains,

it pours, but we need the rain so bad that I'm not going to complain! It's been raining here since about 5:30pm, and hasn't really stopped. When it first came through, it was raining so hard and fast that we had rivers running through the parking lot here. I'm sitting here listening to the rain and enjoy some quiet time, baby is asleep and big kids went to grandmas for the night. I'm trying to get motivated enough to try and catch up on my scrapbook pages. The last page I did for Dustin was for his birthday, and that was in Feb, so you can see how far behind I am...lol. Nathan is going to be as big of a camera ham as is brothers and sister. Here he is playing with his new favorite toy...my poor vertical blinds...

This one, I just love his expression, I caught him in the middle of saying "mum, mum, mum"

And watching the rain....

I'm off now, think I might be motivated enough to scrap a bit, well these pictures atleast....LOL

Have good night,

Hugs

Michele

My 5 min

of quiet starts now....lol. I 9am, I've been up since about 6:30am with Nathan, and he just went down for a nap. Bri, Zack and daddy are all still alseep, and Dustin stayed at a friends house last night, so I'm gonna enjoy a little bit of quiet. Zack fell asleep about 7:30 last night, which isn't a bad time for him, but he kind of woke up about 9:30 and then Bri came out of her room and woke him up completely, so then he was up till almost 1am. I got him to go lay down with me about 12:30, so he was out by 1. Nathan of course was up about 3 to eat, then again about 6:30, so needless to say, I didn't get much sleep last night. So you'll have to excuse my ramblings this morning, I'm still working on my first cup of coffee, and the caffiene hasn't quite kicked in yet.

I have one LO now, may be back later tonight with another, not sure, today is lawn mowing day at my grandma's so I'll have to see how wore out I am... Atleast on the plus side it's only supposed to be in the mid 80's today.

But I digress, here's my LO:

Yes the colors are a little loud, but I didn't have any papers that would look good with the orange in Zack's shirt, so I used the orange and blue from his shirt. The Template is another great one from JustRenae, it's her Template 7, it was with one of the layers in her template that I was able to get the crumpled effect on the blue and green.

Well, I'm off for my day of mowing, need to finish getting Nathan's stuff together, and work on waking up the kids. Guess that will be the end of my 5 min...lol Have a wonderful day!

Hugs

Michele

I missed yesterday

because I usually sit down and post after Nathan goes to bed, but last night I ended up spending that time fixing my rocking chair. I have one of those glider rocking chairs that I got when Zack was about 10 months old. I'd gotten it after we rocked the one I had picked up at the Salvation Army to death. I would rock Zack to sleep for naps and bed time, and then after Nathan got here, I do the same for him. So needless to say, my rocker was well worn...lol. I had actually had to fix it a few months ago when on of the glider bearing broke, so I took the footstool apart and used the pieces from it to fix it. Well I had another one break yesterday morning, and after having a hard time getting Nathan down for his afternoon nap, I sat down last night and fixed it. And by the time my "help" (and I use the term loosely) and I finished, I wasn't up to posting...lol. Trying to get anything done with a 3yr old and a 5yr old trying to help is nearly impossible, and more help than I really wanted ;o)


My LO today is using Renae's new kit, Bold Summer. I love the colors in it. The Template is hers also, it's Template 18.

Renae has also just release a new kit, called The Humid South, that is just beautiful.

Hope everyone has a great day, it's a little humid today, hopefully we'll get some rain!

Hugs,

Michele

Not much going today,

So I really don't have all that much to write about. Dustin and Bri had a great time at the tractor pulls with grandma and grandpa last night. I guess there were only 2 actual "tractors" in the event, everything thing else was some sort of truck.

It was another hot day today, but not quite as hot as yesterday, only 103 as opposed to 104...lol. We did go swimming today though. We waited until later in the afternoon to go, and of course it was sunny all day to and no sooner did we get to the pool then it started getting cloudy, go figure. Here's a Zack doing his version of a cannon ball...



Zack, Bri and Nathan....


Nathan and someone that you don't see in pictures very often (me....LOL)

and Dustin floating on the inflatible gun he won at the fair last night

My LO tonight is of Nathan and my lovely niece Jadyn. Jadyn is about 2months older than Nathan. The pictures were taken at the Father's day BBQ we had for my dad. They would sit in walkers pushed up to each and screech and babble back and forth at each, with a few odd looks through in too.

The template is from Midnight Scrapping, it's Template #93. The paper and ribbon colors are from Miss Mints Wild Weekend. I'm not sure where I picked up the word art, if anyone has seen it or if it belongs to you, please leave me a comment, so I can give you credit!!

Hope everyone has a good night!!

Hugs,

Michele

104 degrees

Is HOT!! That was the official high recorded in at DIA today. You know it hot when the kids don't even ask to swimming...lol It's now just after 9pm and still in the 80's.

Dustin and Bri are having a fun evening, grandma took them to the Tractor Pull that going on at the local fair. It's their payment for 2 weeks of yard work. Zack unfortunately didn't get to go, grandma thought it may too loud for him, that and we weren't sure if he would sit still through it all.

I don't have too much to talk about today, as we didn't do much because of the heat. But I have a few layouts for you...

This first one is of Zack's first home haircut with the clippers. He was asking for a haircut, he would hold a piece of hair up and say "I need haircut dad", here is part of the process with a picture of what his hair looked like before and how short it was when all was finished:

Credits go to: Lauren Bavin at DSP for the paper and mat, they're from her Family Kit; Midnight Scrapping for her Landscape Template #5; the font is planet benson 2 for the title and ariel for the date.

The next one is of Nathan as he was working on his crawling skills, he's still working on them now, but has gotten a lot quicker over the last few weeks:

The papers and alpha are from Animal Friends by Josie Stewart at Digital Kits; the font I used on the rest is Comic sans. The template is another great work by JustRenae, it's her Template 18.

Well I'm off for the evening, hope everyone has a good night!!

Hugs,

Michele