Friday, March 26, 2010

Free Conference Preschool Age Journal

I made this journal for conference and I put it up on my sharing blog.  Hopefully some of you can use it this conference!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Real Simple Mag Cover

I hope you all had a great St. Patty's Day.. We sure did!  I'll post all about our adventures on my sharing blog (with a link here) later, but I'm so excited about something else I wanted to share now.

I just finished a photography course in San Francisco, which I have been LOVING!!!  I have lots to share about it, but I couldn't wait to share this one.  This was one of our last assignments, and I LOVE how it turned out.  I styled & took the picture, added the text, etc.  It was a fun assignment, and a challenge, and I learned a lot.


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

St. Patrick's Day Ideas

Last year, we had a 'super-fun' St. Patrick's Day.  I re-posted the blog post I wrote about it on my sharing blog.  I started this blog to give back ideas to the WWW... because of the many, many years I've been taking ideas from it.  Hopefully you can take a look and find something fun to do with your family.

http://crystalshares.blogspot.com/


Thursday, March 4, 2010

Christmas in March (part 1)

Okay, so I’ve been busy, busy, busy (as always) and blogging has been a lower priority, but I still wanted to share some pictures from December.  There are a lot… but I’m tired of not posting what I want to post, in fear of boring you, so look at what you want and skip what you want.  I’ll never know!  :)  I’m just happy to finally be getting some up here!  AND, since my online journal is about to be integrated with blogger, I’m super motivated to blog more… now I don’t necessarily have to blog, and journal the same events!  How cool is that!?

Beautiful Haylee:

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Picking out a Christmas tree:

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Mmmm… Christmas pancakes.

Excuse the finger gouges in the gingerbread man pancake (ahem, McKay…)

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Decorating the Christmas tree:

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Daddy helping McKay decorate:

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Just love this picture – Christmas tree lights - long exposure, hand held, motion intentional:

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IT SNOWED IN CALIFORNIA!!!!  It really, truly snowed.  I didn’t get up early enough to see it really snowy… it was pretty icy by the time I got up.  But way too cool just the same.

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Random picture from December: I found Haylee like this, talking on the phone.  She’s definetely going to need her own ‘line’ (I guess that would be cell phone these days) when she’s a teenager.  Can’t you just see her as a teenager talking on the phone, from this picture?  Too cute.

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A fun little story: This is what happens if I don’t pay attention to my children for about ten minutes at a time.

I turn around and Haylee’s got the painting smocks on her and McKay… how adorable.

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They had gotten into the paints.  Oh my.

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But adorable just the same.

And this was (sadly) the very next day: McKay got into my stamping ink!!  What a (cute) mess!!!

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Another sweet story: Haylee likes to ‘help’ McKay eat his food.  She is so sweet to him.  I love watching it.  They giggle and laugh together.. It’s the best sound.

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Some of my favorite ornaments.  Aren't they beautiful?  I love them.  Processed

Thanks for looking at our Christmas in March.  There will be more to come.