Random thoughts and a layout

I will never forget this day. Drew and I were playing in the front yard when he walked up and handed me a small, sweaty handful of dandelions. He then leaned over, kissed my forehead and said "I lub you mommy." It was one of the sweetest moments of my life.

Nothing too eventful happened this weekend at the Davis house. I was in major get classes and kits done mode. Since it was the weekend and because my scrapbook room has been declared a disaster area (all it's missing is the yellow tape over the door) I decided that I would work at the dinning room table. That way I can still hang with the family but also get my work done. Anyway, Saturday night I was working. The TV was blaring. Drew had concocted a tee ball stand out of his tall blue Crayola "piggy" bank, a soccer ball and a large plastic spoon. Mike was practicing his UFC moves on Chewy. Baby Davis was having his own little fun by kicking me in the ribs. Our house was one big, loud, busy mess. I found myself stopping several times and smiling. (Yes, I know this sounds cheesy but I really did!) Four years ago Mike and I were the type that spent every weekend out. I don't know if we ever spent a weekend at home. We thought we were having the time of our lives then. It's funny how things change because I think we are having the time of our lives now. Saturday evening was one of those "ah ha" moments that I realized that it doesn't get any better than this. It was a great weekend!

What happened to Easter?

When I asked Drew on Friday if he wanted to go see the Easter bunny I got a very angry "NOOOOO!" I decided that since our Santa experience wasn't that great that I didn't need a picture of him with the Easter bunny too bad. Maybe next year I can throw in a "I bet your baby brother will go see the Easter bunny..." Is that wrong?

I figured we would have plenty of fun coloring Easter eggs and having a little egg hunt over the weekend so the picture wasn't a big deal. Well, guess what? We didn't even color eggs. Drew was very excited to and so was I but we both ended up sick and spent the majority of the weekend on the couch sleeping. I finally tried to get up with what little energy I had and get all the stuff ready for coloring eggs when our power went out. I have no clue why it went out but it did. Drew and I settled in on the couch again and he fell asleep in about 5 seconds. He was so weak that I didn't think there was much of a need to wake him up when the power finally came back on. So no Easter eggs either. I think maybe sometime the week we will have to have a faux Easter to make up for it all.

On Sunday we went to my Grandma's for lunch and this was how Drew and I spent our time there. We were both so tired!

He managed to perk up a little bit for his Easter baskets from everyone but it didn't take long and he was curled up with me on the couch. I love that Stacey took this picture (well, except for the not so flattering angle for me). It seems like I hardly ever get pictures of Drew and I so I'll take what I can get!

What I worked on last week.

For awhile I've been talking about making a mini album full of all the silly little toddler things Drew says on a daily basis. After realizing that I have a huge stack of papers with all the things he says I decided I had better get a start on the album. So far all I have is the cover but I don't plan on doing a whole lot to the inside embellishment-wise so the rest should go together pretty quick.

My favorite story so far for the "Silly Things You Say" mini album:

Drew has always loved raisins and eats them all the time. One day after he got out of the tub he held up his hands and said "Look Mommy! I have raisin gangers!" Gangers, of course, meaning fingers. I don't know where the gangers part came from since he can clearly say "fingers". Now he says it every time he takes a bath and it always makes me giggle.

Rain, rain go away...

you're making me sleepy! Hearing the constant drum of rain on the house has made me want to do nothing other than sleep. Today has got to be the least productive day I've had in a long time.


I really loved this layout until I noticed a typo in my journaling. It's not a bad typo but still it bugs me. I decided that I can deal with the fact that spelling is something that I'm not good at. I'm trying to embrace the typo as a little piece of me on the page. Okay, I'm lying. I just don't want to reprint the journaling and do that stitching all over again! It might be a different story if it was more of an obvious misspelling. Like if I had meant to type "sit" and accidently typed "s**t".

I have been scrapping like a fool the last few days. Most of the stuff will never make it onto the wonderful world of the internet though. The pictures are of Drew when he was like 5 seconds old and then his first bath. I don't think he would appreciate me posting pictures that show his "stuff". Plus there are way to many crazies out there for me to be comfortable flashing naked pictures of my kids on the net.

I'm off to bed! Enjoy the week!

sorry.

Now I feel bad for making fun of my Mom's dress. Here I was talking bad about her and there she was talking good about me on her blog. I would like to say it will never happen again but I know that would be a lie. She's just so much fun to tease that I can't resist.

Another apology on a different subject. Miss Sticky Fingers (I'm going to assume that it was a woman), I'm sorry that your lack of creativity gave you the impulse to steal my mini album. Enjoy it. I know I enjoyed the hours I spent putting it all together. Talk about giving the term "scraplifting" a whole new meaning.

I would post more but I'm tired and want to get a somewhat early start on the tossing and turning that I'm enjoying oh so much. Yes I'm bitchy right now. I'm tired. I can't hardly walk. I can't sit. I can't get up from sitting. I can't bend over. I can't do ANYTHING without a sharp pain shooting through my back and hip. Love it. Add in those contractions and I'm livin' the good life. Is it May yet?

Okay, now I feel bad for complaining. I know I shouldn't complain because I'm going through all of this for a very good reason. I know that it's totally worth it all. I know that the second baby Davis is here I'll forget about every ounce of pain. I know that there are tons of women out there that would give anything to be in my position but can't. Note to self: it's all worth it.

One of my favorites.

Mom's going to kill me for this post but surely she's used to the teasing by now. Stacey and I have always had strong opinions about this particular outfit of hers. She usually has decent taste in clothing, aside from her Laura Ingalls Wilder style boots. Anyway, I loved these pictures of her and Drew at his birthday party but let me tell you, it was one of the hardest layouts to make, all because of that dress. I have never in my scrappy history had such a hard time matching patterned papers to pictures! Finally I just went with cardstock, one of which should be called baby poop yellow. I ended up adding my own pattern by making an arrow mask and stamping swirls. Funny thing is that even though I'm wasn't a big fan of the color combo of the dress I ended up loving it on a scrapbook page. This layout is now one of my favorites! Lesson to all - don't snub your nose at anything till you try it!

Journaling:
I never thought I would see the day when my mom would behave this way. Laughing as some kid rolled a toy car through her perfectly placed hair. Keeping cookies within an arms reach at all times. Letting this kid cover her from head to toe with stickers. This isn't her normal behavior. Well, at least it didn't use to be, that is until she became a grandma. That kid is her grandson and in her eyes, he can do no wrong. She's taking this job as grandma very seriously and it is paying off. Drew can't get enough of her.

In just a few days

we go from this beautiful sunny and warm day on Sunday

to 10 inches of snow today!

I don't know about everyone else around here but I am ready for sunny days all the time. Enough of this snow and ice stuff. It was just cruel to tease us with the warm weekend.

To all of you Big Brother fans out there - is it just me or does this season suck? I'm just not too fond of the whole group of people and the pairs thing is just not too interesting. This has been the first time ever that I missed an episode and didn't even care. Tonight I hardly even payed attention to it.

Hopefully I'm getting back in the habit of being a regular blogger instead of this once a week posting. Life has just gotten in the way the last few weeks! I've hardly been on the computer at all.

I hope everyone is having a good week!