me please

just a picture of me & brandon from may when we went to disneyland--just him & me. he wanted to ride the "giant wheel". i was kinda scared........so was brandon but we held each other's hand!

a layout of bryan with his "me please" face. how can you say no to this face???? believe me, WE SAY NO! j/k

a card to kick off summer! what's eveybody's plan for the summer? brandon has playdates but not much else. we just went on one today. i got a lil' bit sunburned. more pics of that later and of his last days of pre-k!

they saw this and asked me to......

they saw this..................... and asked me to do this.....................

i've been on my recent kick of recycling & reusing packaging. details of this layout can be seen here !! please stop by and check it out!

such an honor to be featured on the Making Memories blog thank you for the opportunity.......i had fun!

(if you missed the tutu owl post the 1st time around here it is. :-)

i *heart* birdies

had time to do a quick card this morning before the boys woke up. TFL! it's a gloomy day here.....waiting for sunshine.

garden pics

we visited quail botanical gardens one weekend. so beautiful there. had a nice, leisurely walk with the boys. just sharing [a ton of] pics!bryan, with his snack cup in hand, looking for garden lizards.taking a break.brandon trying to get a closer look at the garden lizards.eddie jokingly told brandon that this plant comes alive and grabs you if you've been naughty. everytime we walked by one of these plants there, brandon took a cautious step back!bananas anyone?i believe these were called dinner plate figs.looking at the tall bamboo.can you see the turtle?at the children's garden. fun day! we'll be visiting again soon when the tree house is all finished! thanks for looking!

tutu owl

i made this out of more recycled materials. the purple polkadot paper is from a scrapbook package from making memories. the inside of it was plain and too nice to just throw out! and the tulle was recycled from a babystyle gift in which they wrap all their gift boxes with this fantastic green tulle. i loved that store when i was pregnant and when the boys were babies. i just decided to make this owl all fancied up with a tutu. BTW, what a nice surprise to see this: http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/05/28/go-green-challenge-winners/ not a winner but still happy it got a honorable mention! :-)
TFL!!

REALLY, where should i start???

last night, i attempted to clean out & clean up the boys' playroom. i got rid of 2 trash bags and i box worth to give away. still working on it...........

ok, i am not going back to edit this photo (if anyone who is on blogger, you know what a pain it is to rearrange pics). just turn your head to the side.

brandon & bryan were NOT helping. they kept digging out the things i was trying to get rid of. plus, then they started to play with the things i was organizing. arghhhhhhh!!!!

do you think we have enough thomas and friends trains????

pretzel containers from costco make for great toy storage!

my attempt is to clear out some stuff so they can open up their new toys---still in the package!! we've been told our playroom looks like a toy store! well, off to try to clean up some more!

more recycling

used the bottom tray of kirkland water and some time cards i got from work when we were closing the store (they were all going to be thrown out *gasp*). the little twig was found on our walk home from picking up brandon from school. i took it from brybry's bug box but shhhhh, don't tell him!!