You are my Sunshine!

When Serenity smiles she lights up the room!  She has really been smiling about the fact that her birthday is next (not for a few months, but she can't stop talking about it).

I love these Lillybee paper and did tons of pages with the Kit and inspiration from the Nook girls.

Serenity wants to have an Ariel Birthday Party - any suggestions?  Games, decor, treats, etcetera.  I am totally open.  One great idea I saw was to do a message in a bottle for the invitations. What was your best birthday party ever?

The Perfect Pout

It's a good thing she's soooo cute these days, otherwise..........to the moon!  She is Hell-on-Wheels and I think it is having a bad influence on her big sisters!  Today Serenity and Rayna were caught in the bathroom squirting toothpaste all over each other and giggling like crazy!  I swear, I heard an evil MWAH Ha ha ha from Skyler when she saw them! LOL

This is how Skyler looks when she doesn't get her own way.  I made the scallops on the paper from a template I'd made of a shaped paper.  I do that a lot.  I trace a shape I like so I can use it on other paper later. 

Then I put Liquid Pearls all over the paper, inked and doodled too.  It wouldn't be one of my pages if I didn't do some hand sewing too.

These are just a few of the things Skyler has done lately:
1. Emptied out the entire contents of my purse and scattered them all over the house
2. Emptied the diaper bag and snacks on the kitchen floor and then crushed the goldfish into dust and tracked it all over the house
3.  When I finished cleaning up mess #2 I found her chug-a-lugging my Diet Pepsi, pouring it all down her chest and all over the couch and floor.  (she had the nerve to smile and say "WET" very proudly)
4. Empty out her entire closet when she should have been napping (deviously quiet too).  I had sorted all her old clothes to sell at a swap meet and she mixed them all together.  Snuffy just crammed it all back in a big giant mess.
5. Took off all her clothes, streaked through the room, ran into her room and peed on the floor!

Oh the TRYING TWOS!!!!  Do you pout?  What about?

Not so little Lucius

Lucius recently had his 4 month shots and checkup and he's now 16 lbs 1.5 oz's.  Woo Hoo!  After all the trouble he gave us in the beginning (FTT, children's hospital, etc) he's a BIG BOY now!  He's even taken up reading my books.

And, I finally did a page about him!  Check it out!

I downloaded a file HERE, for the love tree and hand cut it out. 

She also gave me the idea to bust out my quilling stuff again.  Gotta love going retro with techniques.

In case you didn't see them, these are the pages Yvonne made for me of Lucius.  They are even better IRL.

Thanks again Yvonne. What is bigger and better in your life right now??

2011

Here are the pictures to represent this year!  So fun that I have a kid for each number now!

I was trying to get the fingers in focus and the kids blurry (except for Lucius, I had to hold his hand).  I like how they turned out (each girl did all the numbers and Skyler's zero is priceless). 

Two

Zero

One

One 

That's one thumb up for Lucius - Serenity took the picture!  Guess what she wants for her birthday - her own 'REAL' camera (not her kid one).

My one little word for the year is going to be "FIT".  I want to get FIT and FIT things in my busy life a bit better.  More time for exercise and less time for blogging.  After 4 babies in 5 years it's time to get my body back.  What are you trying to FIT more of (or less of) into your life right now?