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another layout. this one is of brandon and his friend nicholas. so sweet......don't cha just want them to stay this age?!

not much happening here. just everybody in the house is still sick.

does anyone have this: https://www.bigtreetomato.com:458/index.php?tid=3559

i kinda want to buy it. i am planting some tomato plants right now bought from good ol' target. i don't even really like tomatoes nor does eddie. just fun to grow things and share. brandon's pre-k class is growing some stuff & asked for a donations of plants & soil. i donated a tomato plant and a cage. let me clarify--- the cage is a tomato cage......not a cage for the kids although it sounds good on "those" kinda days. any tips out there for growing tomatoes?

a play date

since seeing one of brandon's classmates, nicholas, at dim sum one day, we've been planning a play date with the two boys since. so last friday, we met at pat & oscar's for lunch. we would've liked to have been outdoors to let the boys run off some energy but it had rained that morning! the boys were all SO LOUD & NOISY!!!! embarassing but what can you do----they are boys!

some pictures from his "friendship" day at school. (they call it that instead of valentine's day) here's ms. marisela and ms. genevieve with the gift bags i made for them.

for my friend

i made this for my best friend michele. it's actually her christmas gift that i just sent off along with her birthday present. [birthday present was on time.....just christmas gift, i got behind] i had 1/2 of it made but then got caught up with all the other christmas going-ons and then january came and it was planning for bryan's birthday party and things going on at work (the company i work for got bought out)....blah,blah, blah........i know---excuses. so sorry michele it's so late! hopefully she'll find a lot of uses outta these all occassion cards. it's so hard for me to cut up pretty patterned papers.........i really like the one on the altered lunch tin. i am learning not to hoard paper this year.

happy valentine's day!

these are the 2 cards i made for brandon's 2 teachers in school. i filled up 2 plain mini brown paper bags with chocolates. simple & fast!

remember necco heart treats w/ the messages? you can "make" your own like i did. check this out! http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/

random things

doesn't he just look like a bad boy...........attitude & all at 2 yrs old!

brandon & his ultraman pose

cute little bryan sharing some birthday cake with an ultraman villain.

bringing down blues clues, magenta and periwinkle ALL the way from upstairs to downstairs. he just could not leave them all alone by themselves!

brandon spotted this beautiful rainbow after a rain shower. photo was taken right outside our backyard.

i won

wow, what a great morning to find out my entry (above picture) won a blog challenge!

the rest were projects i submitted too. you can see the blog announcement here: http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/ by winning this challenge, i get more stamps/supplies to play with! i am sure hubby is thrilled..............he should be cause i won't be spending $$ for at least a week !

i got ShamWowed

another annoying "as seen on TV" ad i got in an email.....................
https://www.officialtvwebsite642.com/sham-wow/index.asp?aid=WWCY&did=642&refcode=shamwow#ordernow

i own one :-) but i got it at the mall with a demo. but if that same guy in the ad was selling it to me at the mall, i wouldn't have parted with my $19.99 + tax. that guy in the as is a bit strange!!