Big News!!!!!

Well, along with these cute pics of the boys, I am updating the blog to let you know that we will be moving away from Charleston this coming April. Chris was selected to attend school. We will be going to ASAM at McGuire AFB in New Jersey. We are so excited since this is a great thing for Chris to do in his Air Force career and we have heard wonderful things about the area in New Jersey. We will leave Charleston at the end of April. We will probably live on base since we'll only be there for one year, but we are going up to visit the area in November and will look around at all our options. Hopefully we'll have lots of visitors since we'll be 45 minutes from Philadelphia and 90 minutes from NYC. I'm already thinking about the colored lights on the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center and all the window displays at Christmas!! The pictures are just some cute recent ones of the boys doing silly things. Michael still likes to squeeze himself into his Captain Feathersword costume and they love to walk around in whatever shoes I happened to have lying around. Enjoy--more updates on the move to follow!

Another Digital Layout

I did this page of Mark tonight. This will be the last page of the book. The background paper that looks like a flag is actually some artwork of his that I scanned into my computer. The typed story is something he wrote on the computer one day. His mom printed it out and gave it to me and I scanned that in too. I love how I was able to use these items of his on the page in a way that I wouldn't have been able to in a regular scrapbook layout.

YIKES!!!!! Addicted to Digital Scrapbooking!

Okay, if you are reading this you probably know that I am an avid scrapbooker, rubber stamper, card-making addict. Now I can add digital scrapbooking to my repertoire. For the past year, I have unsuccessfully tried to teach myself how to do this. Yesterday I stumbled across some video tutorials. I watched every one of them while the boys were napping today and created this page tonight in no time flat.

This is going to be the cover page for an album I just finished making of my cousin, Mark, who passed away last October. I'll be giving it to his mom, Georgia, soon and I think this page is perfect for the beginning of the album and I hope she likes it.

Now I'll begin working on my family albums and I'll probably digitally scrap them so I can determine if I want to make the switch to all digital layouts. I'm about three years behind, so I'm hoping I'll be able to save time, storage space, and money by making the switch. Only time will tell...............................and I'm sure my hubby will have some opinions too!

Michael Dumping the Loader

This video needs no introduction!

Michael's Adventure at Evergreen Concrete

Well, when we were in Alabama last month visiting Chris's family, we spent one afternoon up at the concrete plant that Chris's mom and dad own. Michael was thrilled to sit in one of Poppa's concrete trucks and pretend to drive it, so you can imagine that he really didn't know what to do with himself when he climbed up into the loader and actually got to steer it and make several trips of loading and dumping into the hopper. Chris's dad said after the first dump, Michael said, "Let's do it again." So they did it again about 4 more times. If I can manage to get up the nerve to try uploading videos again, I'll load the video of him doing it!

Cal on the Dishwasher

 
 

Hope you aren't still waiting.........

for the videos!! I haven't been able to psych myself up to try again. We've worked on our computer a little and have been busy getting ready for all our fall activities. It has been unbearably hot here--believe it or not, too hot to even bother going to the pool! We've had rain for about 5 days and this afternoon we enjoyed a much needed day outside. The boys played all over their swingset, in the sandbox, had wagon rides, and rode scooters and cars. We even fired up our chiminea in the backyard--it was beautiful outside!

The boys start their mom's morning out days on Wednesday of this week and Michael and I are in full swing with his K4 curriculum that I'm homeschooling him with. So far, he is very receptive to learning and is doing a great job with it. I'm looking forward to having two days a week to get stuff done while the boys are at the church. We're also doing MOPS at our church and Michael will be going to AWANA with his friend, Samantha.