Baby it's cold outside...

Alex wanted to wave good morning to you from his front porch:


Yep, we woke up to SNOW!

Guess leaving my mum out in the rain to get some fresh water backfired on me:



We're off to Occupational Therapy, Pump-it-Up for a playdate then shopping for Alex a winter coat (yes, I know, shouldn't have waited - aauugh, I've been in complete denial that I live in MN!).

Happy Friday friends:)

Fall fun and layouts...

It's raining, it's pouring...well, not pouring but it's just drizzly, gloomy outside. It's making me especially grateful that we got to play outside with our neighbor and have some fun in the crisp leaves:

I helped the boys make a pile of leaves so they could jump in (and I could take pictures for some super cute layouts!) - they worked hard, but it was so worth it:

Their favorite part was throwing leaves at each other, such boys!

I have been taking advantage of the gloominess by retreating to my room to create!

I used my September and October kits from Studio Calico to make this one for a challenge at Just4Keeps - Jennifer's Monday Challenge to use die cuts. I have had that pencil die for a couple of years, so glad to use it:


Used my October Studio Calico kit for another one of Jennifer's Monday Challenges over at Just4Keeps - make a "thank you" layout. This one is for Haley's album, which is coming together slooooooooooooowwwly:

I've had Cathy Blackstone's layout from Scrapbooks Etc. sitting on my desk for ages, just waiting for me to lift her cute hand-cut/sewn pumpkin, so when Kathy's Sunday challenge was to hand-cut a major embellishment on your page, I went in search for a picture just so I could make that pumpkin!

Thanks for popping in!

Tagged...

I've been tagged (by my wonderful friend Kristi) to do the following:

1) Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer


2) Choose the 4th picture


3) Explain the picture


4) Tag 4 other people





Here's my picture:

This is Alex, the morning of his 5th birthday, opening an Easter present that Andy's parent's included with his birthday gift.

I choose to tag: Dawn, Krista, Jenny and Jess!

Congratulations...

To our wonderful friends, the Browns on Corey being elected as a state Senator for South Dakota!

We miss you very much and are so excited for this new chapter of your lives!

Scrappin and Skatin...

We are keeping busy here in our little world, here are a few things we've been doing...

I entered an ATC (Artist Trading Card) swap at Studio Calico (thanks Jenn for organizing it!). Here are mine that I sent:

The back of both look just like this:

Had a couple of birthday cards to send out, here's one (the other looks almost just like it, I would have made a 3rd one just to have on hand, but ran out of that striped paper - I told you, I mass produce cards!):

On Saturdays, we can be found at the local indoor ice rink.

Here's my cute lil skater:

And there he goes:

We have one last swimming lesson and I would have pictures to share if my battery had not died, but I'll take pictures on Wednesday. Alex is an awesome swimmer and the instructor gave him flippers, so he shoots across the pool with them on in no time flat! He says when he puts the flippers on he turns into a "swimming robot".

Hope your Tuesday is terrific!!