It's all fun and games...

It was a beautiful day, and we took the opportunity to go to the community beach in our neighborhood. Emma collected shells, Braeden, Mitch and Brett threw the football and I took pictures.

It's all fun and games until ...


someone throws the ball and someone else doesn't catch it and it goes into the Puget Sound. Brett was devastated and even telling him we would get him another ball didn't stop the tears.

Fortunately for us the tide was coming in, and it brought the ball back around
[photopress:theball.jpg,full,centered] and Brett waited not so patiently for it to come back to shore, and big brother Braeden saved the day - by wading out into the cold water to retrieve the ball.


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And we all went home happy!

St. Patrick's Day

I bought Brett and Emma special St. Patrick's Day t-shirts - because Brett complained that last year even though he wore green, he still got pinched. So Emma got a white t-shirt with a green rhinestone outlined 4 leaf clover on it (perfect for little miss bling) and Brett got one with a big green 4 leaf clover on it that said - You're lucky I'm not your kid. They couldn't wait to wear them on St. Patrick's day - only one catch - I forgot its on Saturday this year - lol.

But the kids didn't care - Emma popped out of bed and said "I'm going to go get my St. Patrick's day shirt on", they both wore them and loved them - even though it didn't work out quite like Mom had planned.

Scrappin' Mojo

Well the FSB let me have some of my Scrappin Mojo back. Not all mind you - but I'm happy with some :)

Here are some layouts I just finished making for the Winter Blahs crop over at Scrap Addict.




I love scrapping with Scrap Addict kits and sketches - makes getting photos onto paper so quick and fun!!

Emma Pie

Well, little Emma Pie is now on antibiotics for an ear infection. I think the reason her eye looked so bad is that the erythromycin eye ointment they gave us for the pink eye was irritating her eye. The dr says the pink eye is all gone, and that the sty should just resolve on its own, but that she has an ear infection, so he'll give her antibiotics that will fight the ear infection and hopefully the sty too.

Emma is just ready to go back to school - she's over the spending the day with Mom thing!!

Pink eye and a sty

Poor pitiful Emma, she has had a sty for awhile now. But on Friday she also developed pink eye - so off to the dr we went. Put her on some eye ointment twice a day. So have been putting that in, along with using warm compresses and massage to try and get the sty to go away. So Saturday she starts complaining of ear pain - but no fever - so just give her motrin. I think her eye is looking worse, not better - but keep up with the treatments. Saturday the pink eye shows up in her other eye - argh and we'd been so careful too. Keep giving her the meds. Her ear still bothers her, so keep her home on Monday, even though she is crying to go to school. Monday night she starts to run a real low grade fever and complain of her ear hurting. This morning - we get up and baby girl looks like THIS

Kiwanis Hoop Champs

Braeden's team not only won the league championships - they also won the Kiwanis tournament. They all played really well and worked really hard - I'm proud of them. I hope that if Braeden plays again next year - he can play for the same coach, I think Shane really taught Braeden a lot this year and helped make him more focused and aggressive as a player.

You Can't Fix Stupid

I bought Mitch this CD for Valentines day - he loves Ron White. Ron White is funny! He cusses too much, he drinks and smokes while onstage - but all that aside - the man is just funny!

If you get a chance to watch his specials or listen to the CD - do it! Listening to him tell how you can't fix stupid makes my day :)

My Little Artist

Emma brought home this picture. They traced the frog onto watercolor paper, and then colored it with watercolor paints. I love it! I think, like Carrie suggested, I'm going to frame it. The frog is just too cute to not look at everyday!!

Cyber Crop Central

Scrapaddict is having a Winter Blahs Cyber Crop starting on March 9th and going through March 18th. There will lots of challenges and chatting and some prizes too - it is going to be major fun!

I've been feeling a bit crowded in my scrapbook nook as a result of all the shopping :) - so I have moved my scrapping area temporarily out to the dining room. DH will be gone to Arizona to visit his Dad for 5 days - so it won't bother him - and I'll have room to spread out and scrap :)

Here is a picture of Cyber Crop Central:

Snow

While it is weird to get snow here - it is certainly beautiful - especially in all the trees we have around our house. It's all gone now, but we have pictures to remind us.



This is the big tree that is in our backyard.

WWW

No, that doesn't stand for world wide web, but for Weird Washington Weather. February 28th and we have snow - and March 1st, it is snowing again and it is 38 degrees outside. That is unreal. What is going on with our weather lately? We have had more wind and snow and ice than I can ever remember having before.

I mean, really, we are at sea level here - and for us to get 5 inches of snow is about unheard of, especially when higher elevations around us didn't get that much. Weird Washington Weather. I am ready for spring - bring it.