ten on whatever day it is today :)

Hello!

1. I"m still here. We've just been really busy.

2. Caleb's Buzz Lightyear birthday party is on Saturday.

3. Thank you to my mom who helped me sew 10 rocket fabric drawstring bags for the Buzz Lightyear party.

4. It's hard to tell who is more excited about the Buzz Lightyear party: Caleb, Matthew or Mommy :)

5. I worked all day today (convention day) and I'm taking tomorrow off!

6. Caleb will only ever wear sweatpants (I think it all began with the potty training), but he tells me that he'll wear blue jeans to his party. Do you think he actually will? (I told him that Woody wears blue jeans) Don't worry, I have a back-up pair of sweatpants that would be acceptable.

7. Matthew fell at skating last night and has a little bruise on his chin. He's okay.

8. By the way, somebody knocked Frosty over last weekend.

9. All future snowmen will now be made in the backyard.

10. More details from the Buzz Lightyear birthday party will surely follow. Stay tuned.

frosty's wild night...

Frosty (see yesterday's post) must have had a pretty wild night. When we woke up this morning, his hat was gone. In its place was a McDonald's cup. When we went out to investigate further, we found that his nose, mouth and pipe had also disappeared. He still has his eyes and his buttons.

:(

That'll teach us for making a snowman in the front yard.

Matthew thinks we should make notices and put them up all over town.

:) He's so cute.

a nice day

We had some nice winter weather today. We went outside with the boys and made a snowman and played some hockey on the driveway (new hockey net!). Unfortunately, the only one who would pose for a photo was Frosty: And Matthew did for about 5 seconds:

Oh well, it was nice to have some sunny and warm weather and to get outside!

valentine favourites

Here are some of my valentine favourites from flickr:



1. Birdie on a vintage clothes line, 2. Cupcake Couple, 3. Vintage Apron, 4. Soon it'll be St. Valentine's day, 5. ice cream?, 6. The Greatest Love, 7. Untitled, 8. Untitled

Happy Valentine's Day!

lollipops

Thanks to Susie for pointing me in the direction of Heather Ann Sugar Kisses!

I have these lollipops to give out to Matthew's class tomorrow and I was looking for a creative way to package them.

So I played around a bit and ended up with this tag (imagine it cut out in the shape of a tag, ok?):

But Matthew didn't like having his face on there. So I found this Valentine picture he made for me the other day and scanned it. And look what I made!

This tag:

and this:

and this one is kind of funny:

And then we wrapped up the lollipops and got these:

Happy Valentine's day (dude!)

beach days and balloon poppers

Beach Days:


What do you do when it's freezing cold outside? Have a beach day at preschool, of course!

Balloon popper:

The idea for the balloon popper came to Matthew during Ash Wednesday mass. We were sitting behind a little boy (who happens to be in my class) who was looking at this picture in an I Spy book:

Look closely, it's a balloon popper! Grandma elected Daddy to help make it, but Daddy has a sore back. So last night, Mommy and Matthew made a small version. Here it is:

Happy Birthday Cathy!

Today is a very special lady's birthday! Do you know Cathy?

I love Cathy because she has such a strong faith and amazing photography skills and great kids and she's so honest and friendly and has the most delicious sugar cookie recipe and she once sent my mom a whole bunch of handmade cards and she always says "smooches" and I just love that!

Happy Birthday Cathy! Smooches to you!