The playground in our complex has wood chips under all of the equipment, and when there are no other kids around Gavin likes to play in them. He especially likes to find and examine twigs and rocks. :)
I love the way this layout turned out. The elements are all digital, but the style is very paper scrapping.
These are some of my favorite pics from our time in the hospital after I had Gavin. He was delivered by c-section on 3/11/2008 at 11:59pm. The poor kid got short changed by a whole day because the doctor didn't wait a minute.
Here's a page to show off my husband's 30th birthday cake! Click the pic to get all of credit info.
Levi's birthday was in May, and I loved how his cake turned out. His favorite is white cake with white icing, which is just so boring to me. In February, I came across this blog post. I loved the pictures and how the cake looked when cut.
I was thinking about making rainbow cupcakes for my son's birthday in March, but I got really sick at the beginning of that week. His party was on Thursday, and I just wasn't up to it. So, I ended up just buying cupcakes for his party.
We had the party at Chuck E. Cheese, and that night he came down with croup! I ended up awake for hours in the middle of the night listening to him make that horrible cough, hanging out in the bathroom with the shower steaming up the room and then spending some quality time on my balcony in the cold air.
My parents and my MIL came the next day. And then when the grandparents were visiting there was too much going on so we grabbed an ice cream cake.
Obviously, this rainbow cake had been on my mind a long time! So, when Levi's birthday came around, I asked if he'd like the rainbow cake. He's usually up for anything I suggest and didn't let me down.
Instead of all that diet friendly recipe tweaking that the post up above does, I just made a regular white cake and added gel color to the batter before baking. Here's how they looked before stacking and icing.
And here's how it looked after icing, sprinkling on some candy sprinkles and adding the candles. I was a bit messy with the frosting, but it looks fun, right?
Birthday boy and crazy baby.
After cutting, it looked amazing! Check out those crumbs!
Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Quick post to show off the page I did today. Here's Gavin at about 5 1/2 months old. World's cutest boy, right?
All papers & elements are from Peppermint Smoothie - Full kit by Fruitloop Sally and Tracie Stroud available here and here!
I really love how this one turned out! Click the pic to see it bigger and to get the full credit info.
Here's my first layout for the FruitLoOp creative team! Here's Gavin having fun at the spray park.
For the full credits, click on the image.
I used Lizzy kit, which is available at Pickleberrypop and CatScrap.
So a while ago, I did this layout of Gavin using a free kit called "The Cupcake Love Shop" by Fruit Loop Sally. She was running a contest for a guest spot on the FruitLoOp Team, and anyone who used her free(!) mini-kit could enter! And I won! So, I'll be getting to use her awesome products to create pages from now until the end of August.
I'm a little stressed over this, but I think it will be fun!
The paper curls and stitching are by Gunhild Storeide.
The font used on the header is Elephants In Cherry Trees from Kevin & Amanda's Fonts for Peas. I figured out how to design my own blog graphics by using Amanda's tutorial, too!
And, um, yeah... The peanut butter and jelly had slices of cheddar cheese inside.
Being pregnant is awesome because I can do all of the weird stuff I normally do, and no one thinks it's bizarre.
13. Now I have to put the clothes in the dryer and wash sheets. Whee!
Inspired by this post at Swistle.
We've been married since November of 1999, and together for a bit over four year before that. While we knew we'd like to have kids someday, we held off adding children to our family because, well, we were really young, poor, and nowhere near being done with school. I was on birth control pills for a looooong time.
When Levi finished with grad school and got the big grown up Ph.D job, we decided that we could finally start to try. We moved to New Jersey at the end of 2006, and I ran out of my stash of pills in January. It was official. We were "trying" to have a baby. For months after, I was hyper aware of when my period was supposed to arrive and trying not to read too much into any symptom I might be having. But, of course I did get my hopes up over and over. It was a difficult time for me. I'm not of "advanced maternal age," but I was 28 so I worried a little.
But, enough about that.
From November 2006 to December 2007, we only had one car. I drove Levi to work every morning, and then turned around to go home. I'd finish my morning routine and then go to my office. Most of the time, I drove because it was faster to boot him out and head home. In the evenings, I'd move to the passenger side. If the book I had with me was good, I'd read on the way home. I tend to get carsick, but not if I'm in the front seat or reading.
But, anyway, one weekday afternoon, I had him drive home. It was awful. I was totally nauseous the entire 40 minutes home. That day, I attributed it to Levi's driving. My boobs were *killing* me, too, but my period was due soon and that was normal.
A few days later, on Friday, I bought a pack of three stick tests. I took one and got a weird error. It was kind of, maybe, a little early to test. My last period was kind of funny, and I thought this one might be, too. I decided to wait a few more days before testing again, just in case.
On Sunday, I decided that I wanted to reread the last Harry Potter book before the new one came on on 7/21. I didn't finish on Sunday, and decided to ride and read while Levi drove to work Monday morning. Then, I'd drive myself home like normal. At the time, the drive to his office was about 20 minutes. By the time we got to his office, I felt awful. It was happening again! And I continued to feel sick all the way home.
I had planned to test again that morning, but Monday's are never easy for me, and I'd been too sleepy when I got up. Tuesday (7/18), I remembered to test and it came up pregnant almost immediately! I stared at it... hyperventilated for a minute and then yelled for Levi. Our bathroom was at the back of the house and he was asleep in the closed front bedroom -- shut in with a noisy window unit air conditioner and fan. He didn't hear me.
So, I took my shower and then put the test on the kitchen counter for him to see when he got up to make coffee. He finally stumbled into the kitchen. It took a minute for him to figure out what test was, but then he ran into the bathroom (I was still working on my washing my face and putting my contacts in) and hugged me. :)
Going by the first day of my last period, my due date is supposed to be around 3/15/08.
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