Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I am on a roll this week!

I got another page done last night. Aaron's 1st grade picture, he is so handsome!


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I was almost done with another LO with ds' Kindergarten pic, and when I finished I showed it to him. He looked at it, and then cocked his head while looking at me, and said, "Mom, why does the title say 'Second Grade'??" Uhhhh, LOL, he has been in 2d grade for about 3 weeks now and has not had pictures yet! I was totally spacing off and put the wrong title on. Now I want to save it for the 2nd grade pic but have to change the journaling! GEEZ!

Monday, September 29, 2008

Funny from last night....

Oh I have a funny from last night LOL!

My ds was in the tub and drawing with the bath crayons, and I was sitting on the edge of the bath, just chatting with him. He asks me "Mom, what does 'obsessed' mean??" Totally out of the BLUE, lol. So I said "You know how you like to draw Super Mario Brothers alot? You like to sing the SMB theme song, you like to play the games, you like everything about SMB?" He says "Yeah" and I said that's what obsessed meant.....


Wait for it....






"So does that mean you are obsessed with scrapbooking, Mom?"

Out of the mouths of babes I tell ya!

One more page!

Yay! I got one more done yesterday, and one more is almost done. I just love this picture of Aaron, he was 17 months old and I found the PERFECT paper to go with it.


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Saturday, September 27, 2008

4 new pages

I went to a BSF crop on Thursday night after work (Hi Kerry!) and got a few done, whoo-hoo! I finished the last one this morning, and it is my new favorite!

I am still trying to not unpack my scrap stuff for the retreat coming up on 3 WEEKS (YAY!) so am going through withdrawls LOL!

This is kinda sad, they haven't had portraits taken since May 05 - YIKES!!

Aaron when he was about 3.5 in Oct '04

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Adrian at 9 mo in May '05

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Aaron May '05

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Aaron and Adrian Oct '04 (she was 6 weeks) and MY NEW FAV LO!

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Soup

Well the soup I made last night was a success, I can't wait to have leftovers for lunch! My hub even had a second bowl, AND he even ate the vegetables, wow!! I made a few substitutions to avoid a trip to the store, so I used black beans instead of white, added smoked kielbasa sausage, pepper, and an extra 4 cups of stock and 3/4 cup raw long grain rice. I made some green onion and cheese biscuits to go along side, sper yummy too! It was from Rachael Ray the other day, Monday. Use 2 1/4 C biscuit mix, 2/3 C milk, 4 chopped scallions and 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese. Drop 6 mounds on a baking sheet and bake at 450 for 10 minutes. Delish!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Fall is here

And not just on the calendar! I was feeling chilly today and really in the mood for some 'fall' type food, and was trying to broswe for a good recipe. Soup sounded good to me, but I just went grocery shopping yesterday so I had to find something I had all the ingredients for. Both Adrian and I have a yucky cold so I didn't want to go out for another shopping trip! I have this site saved and found this recipe in the soup section and away I went, hopefully it is as good as it looks!

Speaking of yummy fall stuff, doesn't this look good??? (I still haven't managed to get any of these yet!!)

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat2002&PRODID=xprd728395

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat2002&PRODID=xprd728233

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0841

But I am drinking some yummy Orange Spice tea to help my sore throat!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

3day pics!!!

Here they are!

We stayed in a hotel in Bellevue on Thursday night. We brought some white shower curtains to decorate our tent with and drew all over them with pink, yellow, orange, and green Sharpie pens. It was pretty funny :)

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We got up EARLY the next morning to be on the bus to the opening

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The hotel provided us with a bag breakfast because it was too early for the continental one!

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Our assigned are was tent K 23 and K 24, so we loaded our gear on the K truck. By the time we were ready to go, the trucks wer FULL.

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It was pretty chilly and still dark when we got there, so we waited....

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This guy had a ribbon shaved in the back of his hair

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We waited about 2 hours for the opeing ceremony to start

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And finally started walking at about 7:30 AM

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First Pit Stop of the day

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Lunch day 1

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It was HOT!

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We were hot and tired so took a bus back to camp after about 16 miles.

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Camp, with all our gear unpacked and tents waiting for us

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There was a medical tent if anyone needed services

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The whole camp turned out for the last walker of the day to reach camp, and they got to raise the camp flag.

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Morning of day 2. This was about 1/3 of the tents in this area, and there were 3 tent areas!

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Dyona stayed at her mom's house nearby so met us each day at camp.

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The Jamba Juice people were so friendly and brought out tray after tray of mini smoothies

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This trail was so pretty!

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All the way along this road walkers were stretched out for a long ways

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At the top of the hill I turned around and took a pic of all the walkers stretched out behind us as well

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One of the ladies on Babycenter.com (Hi Angie!!) made us a sign along the route. It was so nice! There were signs along the whole way from various people and it was so cool to see one for us!

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One of the fabulously decorated 'sweep vans' that patrol the pit stops. They would pick you up between pit stops to get you to a medical area or to the next stop if you wanted.

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Lunch day 2

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After lunch, we all took the bus back to camp and took care of our sore legs. Dyona and our other friend Lori kept on trucking that day though...

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They sent us a text asking to come meet them when they got off the bus, so we fooled around while we were waiting...

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Ahhhh, no more sneakers!

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Lori and Dyona off the bus, hobbling along! They made farther than we did that day!

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This was the dining/common area where we went most of our time

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Morning of Day 3

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We had semi trailers full of portable showers which had lots of hot water, yay! The last morning we had to take down our tents and load our gear back on the big trucks before it was even light out.

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We were bussed to a different location for the start of day 3. It took us over an hour just to get on the bus out of camp.

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The girls took a nap on the 1/2 hour ride.

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We were on one of the last buses to get to the starting location, so the 'caboose' was behind us. She was a lady on a bike following the last walkers on the route lol.

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Almost to the University of WA campus

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The UW campus

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At the begining of our walk around Greenlake, we stopped at a Satrbucks :)

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The walk around the lake was so beautiful, and on such a nice day there were TONS of other people out too.

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Around here, we heard the caboose was over a mile behind us, so we weren't the last walkers anymore! We got to see a few turtles

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Almost to the next pit stop who do we see behind us??? The caboose, sigh... LOL

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When we got to the pit stop it was just closing so they buses us to lunch.

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After lunch, I was the only walker left on our team walking for the day.

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We were getting closer to downtown Seattle

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Almost to the LAST pit stop on the LAST day!!

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The last pit stop was also closing when we got there, so I hopped on a bus and they dropped us off about 2 blocks away from the finish so we could walk through all the cheering crouds!

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This was the holding area for the finished walkers, and the noise was incredible. Everyone came through the doors and down the stairs and people were clapping and cheering so much. We went through the people and got an event t-shirt and a pink rose. Then we waited for the closing ceremony.

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Entering the stadium

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Our team on the turf

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After it was over we all went up these stairs up and out to find our friends and family.

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I took this shot over my shoulder as we were getting to the top of the stairs.

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There were alomst 3500 walkers and we raised over 8 MILLION DOLLARS, and I am happy to say that 85% of it goes to Susan G. Komen for the Cure!