06.17.13

Document Life Workshop | Celebrate a Dad

Every year that my boys have been in preschool I get to attend Mother’s Day tea, get lots of cute crafts, fabulous performances, and of course, the interview. If you have preschool aged kids, you know what I’m talking about. But,by Father’s Day, the kids are out of school. They never get the interview. They never get to be 126 years old for 5 minutes. So, I knew that this year I was going to have to put together an interview by each of the boys to put into my project life.

I knew I wanted to keep it to one 4×6, so I had to limit the questions I asked them. I also knew I didn’t want one kids answers to influence the other, so I separated them during questioning. I got great responses! My favorite response has to be:

What does Daddy do all day? Oliver answered, “Drink Coffee.”

I also had them each draw a picture of themselves with Zach. I plan on using Design G and adding in photos of our Father’s Day celebration too.  Here is a look at all the cards. [The 3x4 grid cards can be found here.]

Interview Kids About Dad for Project Life

And a few close ups. And be sure to click over to the challenge and see what everyone else did.

Interview Kids About Dad for Project Life
Interview Kids About Dad for Project Life
Interview Kids About Dad for Project Life

How did you document Father’s day?

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Alissa @lifeonlakeland - This is a fabulous idea that I totally want to steal! Thanks for the inspiration. My husband’s birthday was on Father’s Day this year and I was trying to figure out a good way to celebrate him in our project life.

06.16.13

Project 52 | Week 25

One Week.  One Theme.  One Image.

Week 25 [yes, I'm totally skipping at this point] … 8 o’clock

For this challenge I decided to take a photo at exactly 8 o’clock. I picked a random day and set a reminder on my phone. Here is Zach enjoying a Sweet Cow cookie sandwich at Trucks in the Park.

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06.14.13

Checking Things off the List | Number 14

Monday night we took Holden and Oliver to go play some putt putt. They of course, had a blast! We had a pretty long day and didn’t get to Adventure Golf until about 7:00pm or so. You could see them fading in the car on the way there. But they were really excited when we told them we would go, so we figured we would at least try.

You may not be able to tell, but they WOKE up as soon as we pulled into the parking lot. Holden was bouncing off the wall crazy. He was so excited and could not hold still. It was go, go, go! Ollie had equally as good of a time, but was slightly more chill. AND he got a hole in ONE at the windmill! Pretty awesome.

We had so much fun and can’t wait to go back when Coda gets home.

 

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06.13.13

Project Life | Week 18 part 1 and April Day in the Life

Here is a look at the end of April.  Since the 30th was on a Tuesday, I only had two days for the first part of week 18 along with my Day in the Life photos.

The full spread.

I found these Bob Books at Costco and decided to get them for Holden (and Oliver) so he could practice his reading this summer.  He was excited about them and was able to read the entire first book all on his own the first day!  I’m so happy I got these books.

We got a new refrigerator!  I love this fridge.  At what point in your life do you fascinate about having the perfect kitchen appliances?  The extra refrigerated pull out drawer is perfect to keep lunch stuff and kid snacks in.  Love it!

I also had the perfect spot to insert this Document Life Workshop challenge print in.

The right side of the spread consisted of my Day in the Life photos and journalling.

You can see my other day in the life posts here. As you can see, I decided to do things a little differently this month.  When I saw this collaboration between Paislee Press and One Little Bird, I just had to get it.  And now, I’m so glad I did.  I love the way it turned out.  I rarely purchase digital kits, but loved this one too much to pass up.

Don’t you love the clouds!

Our day in numbers | 

- miles driven 59

- dollars spent 71

- high temp 66

- low temp 36

- photos 66

- steps 20,286

The journalling | 

6:12am Good morning Coda. He’s so good about just getting dressed first thing in the morning. I think he forgot it was “late start Tuesday”, he could have slept in. 6:23am Last week of my DietBet. Only 0.4lbs to go, can I keep it up? 6:33am Back to bed to snuggle with my Hold-ee who always comes in for a snuggle in the morning. 6:47am Little TV time. 7:08am Gorgeous day for a run. 7:54am Coda loves his desk. 8:10am Not bad, 5 miles. Love my new shoes! 8:27am Coffee time. 8:38am Holden and Ollie have a little yogurt snack. The boys seem to be obsessed with peach yogurt right now. 8:41am Zach heads out for the first ride of the season. 8:50am Holden has a timeout for hitting. 8:52am Laundry time. 8:58am Holden and Ollie “plant” their seed balls from the Children’s Museum. 9:05am Holden plays with worms.9:27am Time for school. Oliver cried the entire way, “I want Baby Red-ee!” Once he has something set in his mind, he doesn’t give in. Finally, on our way home he calmed down a little and says, “Mommy, I love you.” He really is a sweet boy. 9:41am Ollie and baby red. 9:52am In a much better mood, hiding in the closet. 10:08am Zach gets home from his ride (20 miles) and Holden wants to read his BOB books to him. I love that he wants to learn to read. 10:17am Seriously precious. Holden reading to Oliver. 10:43am Zach gets to work. 11:32am Walk the track at the gym before Body Pump with Andrea.3:00 pm Driving to pick up Coda from school. 3:04pm ATM deposit on the way. 3:19pm Holden and Oliver play until Coda gets released. 3:27pm Coda look so cute in his little uniform. 4:18pm Car wash day! 4:22 pm Why do I have this horrible addiction to Pepsi again. I felt like I was doing so well not drinking it so much. 5:04 pm I really need to get back into meal planning, but for tonight, the boys get spoiled. I’m having a girls night so they get McDonalds. Cheeseburger happy meal for Holden, nugget happy meal for Oliver, and two cheeseburger value meal for Coda. 5:19pm Chipotle for Zach. 5:45pm Pick up Andrea and head to Louisville. 5:51pm Boys enjoy their McD’s. 6:11pm I’ve been needing a manicure. Going bright and crazy with YELLOW! I’m sure the boys will at least like it. 7:14pm After our manicures we went downtown for some tacos, chips and salsa and girl talk. So much fun! 7:43pm Boys watched Rise of the Guardians before bed. I love that movie, seriously such a great story. 11:22pm I work on my blog while Zach looks at Ragbrai stuff.

Have you seen Craftsy? They offer a lot of reasonably priced classes and even FREE mini-courses. Let me know if you have taken a Craftsy class and loved it! I want to sign up for one of their sewing classes (you know, and use the sewing machine for something other then paper.:), but not sure which one. I’m a total newbie when it comes to sewing. TOTAL newbie. Or maybe I should learn to knit for Knit in Public Week. Really?!? There is a week dedicated to knitting in public????!!!


Here are a few of the mini-courses they offer.

  • Know Your Wool: Do you wonder where your yarn comes from? Learn about different types of wool and the individual characteristics of each.
  • The Hand-Painted Cake: Elevate your cake with Erin Schaefgen’s freehand painting techniques. Create beautiful and edible works of art with Erin’s tips and tricks.
  • Creative Quilt Backs: Make the back of your quilt just as interesting as the front! Oh, Fransson! blog author Elizabeth Hartman walks you through everything you need to know to make beautiful quilt backs.
  • Modern Buttercream: Learn to use buttercream like a pro! Discover the tricks and tips to construct and create a beautifully finished buttercream cake.
  • Micro Torch Basics: Go ahead, play with fire. Using a butane micro-torch, learn the basics of creating beautiful and unique metal jewelry in your own house.

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06.12.13

Project Life | Week 17

Week 17.

A look at the full spread.

I had fun making these arrows with my Silhouette.

Now that I’m looking at this again, this picture seems out of place. Zach was in the mountains all this week. I’m going to have to go back and figure out when this picture was taken and rearrange some things.

Coda got to spend the day at the main campus observing the third graders. His school goes from Pre-K to 12th grade but they have two campuses.  One is for the Pre-K to 2nd and the main campus has 3rd – 12th. I can’t believe he’s going to be in THIRD grade!

I love this Batman bento my mom made for Coda’s lunch. Isn’t it so cute!

I’ve been wanting to use this Sick Day card (you can purchase here) for awhile, but the boys have been so healthy (knock on wood!). Holden came down with a little cough and couldn’t sleep so I have him some warm water with cinnamon and honey and it seemed to help.

Oliver loves soccer. We always call him our little European with his love for soccer and hatred for ice in his water.:)Here he is playing on the sidelines, since he is just a little to young to play on Holden’s team. Maybe in the fall though!

We did the graffiti 5k run as a family. It was so fun! The boys loved it. They definitely walked more then the 3 miles even though we took a couple little short cuts on the course. All of them said their favorite part was getting the color thrown on them. And isn’t this color striped journal card perfect. Loved it. This card and the “take note” card on the left side were both from Studio Calico Project Life kits.

Happy Birthday little Miss Ellie! I love that the boys have cousins that live close. I hope they grow up to be really close.

And because I had big plans this summer to do fun “school” work with the boys, I thought this was perfect timing to tell you about Little Passports. We bought Little Passports several months ago, but saved a couple for the summer. Now to make a schedule to get our “mommy school” started soon! Anyone else do school stuff during the summer to keep them from turning to mush?

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