lesson learned--the hard way

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here is a LO from a picture taken last new year's eve. we were all freezing!!
our weekends are spent taking the boys somewhere fun and educational....either a hike at a national park or museums or aquariums. one weeend, we went to the aquarium.

hello, mr. sea turtle! i think it is more educational for us and fun for them!another weekend, we went to the national history museum to check out their new dinosaur exibit.

interesting fact: rarely on digs do they find the whole dinosaur fossil so they often piece together a skeleton from 3-5 dinosaurs to make a whole skeleton. so it takes years and years and a lot of catologging each bone! gotta appreciate all the hard work!

they boys had fun!

a big hit in our house for the past year---lego mini figures. bryan loves to separate out the body parts. heads, bodies, hair, weapons, acessories. they also hurt a whole lot when you step on lego pieces!

so, this little bad boy learned a lesson the hard way. don't ever try to squeeze through someone while running. that's what he tried to do one night and he didn't make it. he crashed right into a raised stone planter--WITH HIS FACE!!!!! he was crying so loud and hard...i scooped him up right away and carried him to the car. we scolded him all the way home. when we took him out of his car seat once we got home, we asked him where his shoe was and he didn't answer. so we asked him again and he said, "i dunno". we looked all over in the car and figured out, he lost his shoe when he fell. sooooooo, we took the 20 minute car ride BACK to where we were to look for it. we asked him why didn't he tell us sooner that his shoe was missing. and he said, "because you were already mad at me".

didn't look so bad the 1st day. we iced it. he was scraped up a little on his cheek and arm.

starting to get more swollen. this was after our soccer games getting some grub. (anyone know where we were?) the soccer parents probably think we beat our kids.

starting to get swollen as you can see from his right eye.

gettin shades of green, yellow, blue & purple. shall we have a color challenge to honor this bad boy?! LOL i didn't realize it when he first fell but the bruising went all the way alongside the eye socket around the right side of his nose. he is SO lucky he didn't break any bones!

it's finally starting to look better after the 10th day. now, it just looks like dirt on his face. i hope he had learned a real painful lesson from this. but something tells me, boys will be boys!

needing a vacation

making all these LOs recently of hawaii pictures makes me want to take a vacation some where before school starts again.
here is bryan at the beach right outside our hotel from this past april. the sun was setting but the boys wouldn't leave the beach! you can see brybry is trying his best to not shiver & to give me a smile.these stamps from lawn fawn are the best for these beach/pool layouts! papers are from echo park. perfect match!
we've been going to the pool still once a week. bryan's private swim lessons has gone from 30 minutes to 15---- on a good day. that boy just does not like water on his face!

so brandon has been taking the rest of the lesson time and he is doing wonderfully, learning new strokes and techniques. brandon still goes to his lesson once a week too at a swim school so he is getting in a lot of pool time this summer!

he'll be a 2nd grader soon!

always time to fool around in the kiddie pool!have a good week!

sometimes, i need ME time

hi there! i made this 8x8 layout of the boys. it's a picture from our trip to hawaii earlier this year. it's such a treat to spot a sea turtle when in hawaii....the boys didn't really care for mr. turtle much. they were more interested in playing in the sand.
these cute turtles are from lawn fawn. PP is echo park. i glossy accented the turtle shells. love that stuff!

made a quick card while playing with echo park paper. the inside is also decorated.

i altered a $1 stamp replacing the birthday wishes with 'fishes'. get it?? ;) used the alphas form this lawn fawn set.

so.... sometimes, you just need "me" time, right? the last time the boys were at the antique flea market with me, i was constantly worried they'll knock over something priceless. so i told them next time, i'm going by myself and i did just that!

i got there by 8am and there were already a ton of people! look at this fun typewriter! how about a teeny tiny sewing machine?

you get an arm workout ironing clothes with these!

again, an arm workout with these ancient mixers!i so wanted this box of old threads. most of them were wooden. i think the seller was asking $30. (ouch)

such a pretty display!

lovely

remember this movie?

some noise makers...............i have noise makers of the human kind. their names are brandon & bryan. J/Kto just think, little girls played with these!

2 of those flower frogs came home with me.

love the watering can even if it was just for play.

just thought this was interesting.

so fun. i imagine this was in front of a store to keep a child busy while one of the parents were inside shopping.

i would've taken this owl home except his eyes look cockeyed! that would bother me :(

me & my sister actually had a KFC toy like this one when were were little. i remember having so much fun with it! it had stools inside and everything! this set here had cars but i don't remember our set having vehicles. BTW, did anyone remember the pies KFC had? lemon merigne, chocolate.....yum! they were individual sized! toys! the boys would have had a field day at this vendor's booth!

ultraman

lose your key? try finding it in here!

my regret is not picking up this strawberry water dispenser thingy at this stand here. it was only $2 too! whyyyyyyyyyyyyy didn't i get it? i didn't because i wasn't even halfway done at this point & i didn't want to lug it around. after i was done & walking back, i popped over there to see if it was still there and it wasn't. my mistake.

this lady who ran this stand had some great stuff! i ended up buying 2 bags of vintage thread spools and sewing notions from her. she gave me a deal too!

so much stuff!

i saw a lot of folks snatching up these folding measuring sticks.

cute display

makes me want to make some of these fabric pennants. i loved my morning walking through the antique flea market. it's good to have some "me" time now & then.

thanks for hanging in there to look through all my pictures! anyone have favorite flea market finds?

jadeyn

is she not the cutest?! made this 12x12 LO of my niece, jadeyn. these pictures are from may when she came to visit us. we went to the pool and she LOVED it!

it was fun making a girly LO and using this girly paper from echo park! added some hero arts butterflies and flowers and done! TFL! have a great weekend!