Week #4 and my favorite picture of all time!

Julie who runs 52 sketches 52 weeks is just so crazy talented at making sketches! Four weeks into it and every single one has produced a layout I just adore! I'm pretty sure this is my favorite picture ever...... Ellis a character and this picture is just so very her! She was really unsure at the hospital and very quiet which is so unlike her. I was starting to worry a little bit until in true Elli fashion she started to be a ham again!

After I showed Wen this picture she spent about an hour making up the most hilarious titles for it! In the end I went with the one Steve suggested on his way up to bed tonight :) Some rejected titles include.... But I ordered a pony, He isn't really that cute????,What am I supposed to do with this.... Wen feel free to chime in with the rest LOL

I just had to take a close up of this little embellie cluster too! Aren't these Chatterbox felt thingys just too cute?

And I just had to share this card Miss Elli made:) She has been wanting to make cards NON STOP lately! Today I was taking a picture of another layout and she said.... Mommy take one of MINE! So here it is :) It's so fun to have her play with me!

Week #3

Oh I am just addicted to these weekly sketches at 52 Sketches 52 Weeks! It was funny because before I saw this sketch I had printed out these three pics thinking.... I love them but what the heck am I going to do with them? This sketch was just perfect! Elli has this new routine whenever Daddy leaves that she HAS TO give him a hug and a kiss or she gets really upset! She'll chase after him to the door yelling.... "I have a hug and a kiss for you Daddy!" It is SO cute and just melts Daddy's heart :) Lexi and Coby worked on some "tummy time" the other day. We got him all dressed up in this darling little outfit from our friends the Tanner's (can you see it has a buttoned area on the bottom.... are you kidding me with how cute that is?) It started out really well with him flashing that darling little smile that we've been getting more and more frequently!
Then he decided he just wasn't interested in looking at hinmself in the mirror anymore.... this boy can throw a whopper of a fit when he is not amused!

So Sissy helped him dance and forget all about it!

Page Maps sketch "20 Sweet Yummies"

Isn't this a great sketch from the Page Maps blog? It just screamed baby layout to me :)

A smile and a Sketch!

Our little man smiled for the very first time a couple days ago for Mommy! We finally got a semi-OK picture of his cute little smile tonight when Daddy was playing with him :) It just absolutely melts my heart to see his little personality starting to come out! Can't wait to get this one printed and scrapped!

And speaking of smiles..... how fun to have pics of BOTH of the girls smiling at once LOL I am just addicted to Julie's site 52 Sketches 52 Weeks! She has the coolest sketches and I so look forward to Sundays when they're posted! This picture of the girls was taken after Lexi had helped Elli dress up and they made a "house" and played in it all afternoon. She's such a great big sister! And I adore these We R Memory Keepers papers! They were just perfect to cut all up and layer like crazy all over!

Here's some more pics I can't WAIT to get printed and get my hands on to scrap! My little Elli is such a ham and a half! Does anyone else look at this picture and think Beavis and Butthead? Iam cornholio........



And sadly for her it appears she may have gotten Mommy's fashion sense... poor kiddo LOL And over here we are rarin and ready to go for baseball season.... isn't it HERE yet? Coby got these way cool Cub's shoes from Grandma for Christmas and I have the coolest baseball rubon that Wen sent me for him that I can't wait to play with! Man I really need to print out some pics! Walgreens hurry up and have a sale already!

Pictures for my Mommy

Here's the picture Mommy :) This is Elli opening her dolly Rose on Christmas! I had no idea how stinkin cute this picture was until I lightened it on photobucket!

Oh I adore this paper!

I just couldn't bear to throw this pretty paper in the scrap bin so I had to make a card with it! Card Positioning Systems has a great sketch up right now and it's where this card got it's inspiration :) I just love sketches like this that are so simple and have so much possibility!Here's a picture of my little buddy at just about 3 weeks :) Between 1-2 weeks he had gained a whole pound....little piggy! I don't know how much he gained this week but he looks so much bigger to me! I just had to snap a pic of him in his swing after I set him down. He looks like he's just hangin out :)

And here's the reason I never get any sleep at night anymore. I try and try but when I lay down all I do is love on him and kiss his tiny fingers LOL Darn cute kids!

I'm so glad Steve thought to snap a picture of Elli with her Rudolph nose on! My mom brought it out for her when we were in the hospital so I didn't get any pics then. They were hanging up where our keys hang and yesterday she was like.... hey I need my red nose :) It took steve 25 pictures to finally get ONE with the light on since it blinks off and on!

These "nap with Dad" pictures are by FAR my favorite pictures of our kiddos. I have one of Steve and Lexi when she was about 4 that is framed and stays by our bed and quite a few of Elli and Daddy over the last ucouple years so I just had to get one of Daddy and Coby nappin together! DOncha just love his baseball jammies? And geez isn't it baseball season yet???? Go Cubbies :) I really need to take pics of the Cobster in his many many amounts of Cubs clothing!