I DID IT!

I can't believe I'm saying this.. but I actually got into the nursing program! They called me this afternoon and apparently some students have dropped, so I made it in! YAY! I've missed the first week of classes, so that's not good - but luckily the bulk of the classes are on monday - and since monday was a holiday I'm not too bad off! I'M SO EXCITED! YAY! :o)

Can he really be almost 8?

That's right!! Michael is ALMOST 8! Just a few more short weeks, and my oldest little man will be all grown up. He is so excited to get baptized and to join the cub scout program. He is especially excited that he gets to go to scouts for the first time ON his birthday!

We've been busy talking about baptism, and tonight we had a Family Night lesson on Baptism. I have found a ton of cute ideas on this website, including the lesson we used for tonight! Go check it out!

I've also been busy trying to create a baptism invite/announcement. After seeing my friend Rachel B's announcement she did for her son (and another friend's son) I was so excited to attempt to recreate it on photoshop. It took me forever since I'm not too photoshop savvy (and I only have the Elements version!) I still never figured out how to put a frame around Michael's cute little face.. but I like the way it turned out, and they looked great when Costco printed them up for me! So THANK-YOU Rachel B. for the idea and I hope you don't mind that I scrap-lifted your design. It was just too awesome not too! Oh - and sorry about all the nonsense in the invite. I hate to add too much personal information on the blog (for obvious reasons!) I had a hard time choosing between the photo above and this one, but eventually chose this one because of the darker background. He is so handsome in both! The one below shows his cheeks starting to turn red. We were literally only outside for maybe 8 minutes and we were freezing! Anybody know how to edit the red cheeks?

Now off to plan a MARIO party. Both boys want Mario this year, so at least that cuts down on the amount of creativeness I have to try and display! Luckily Birthday Express just came out with mario themed stuff.. but since I'm cheap, my kids will probably only get the cool plates.. and maybe the wall clings (since those can be used twice!). If any of you bloggers out there have some awesome mario ideas I'd love to hear them!

Kiddie Kandids wanted my business

I was in the mall making a return today and a lady from kiddie kandids walked up and said they were looking for kids to take pictures of - and were giving free 5x7's just for letting them take my kids picture. So I thought, WHY NOT? I had just gotten her a cute spring/summer outfit from the Children's Place, so off we went! (I think the only clients they had all morning were "free 5x7" clients!) She was loving every minute of her "photoshoot" and of course they turned out cute.. I ended up purchasing a montage of all 3 of the pics. So Here's my illegally scanned and posted copy of the montage I came away with today.

The letter "N"

The letter of the week in Luke's kindergarten class is N. He is in charge of snack today, so here's what we came up with! (Nuts are banned from the class due to allergies, otherwise we'd have used those too!)

Nilla Wafers, Nerds and "N" shaped ham and cheese sandwhiches!

No Tears!

Michael lost his fifth tooth tonight while eating pizza. All his previous teeth came out with lots of tears (especially the one kicked out by Luke when Michael got to close to the swing!) But tonight, no tears - just lots of excitement! Michael can't wait for the tooth fairy to come tonight.. or in his case, the tooth superhero!

What Brynley learned in Nursery today...

Yes. I think had dropped off the face of the earth - at least for a little while. I debated whether or not to actually try to play "catch-up" with what I've missed, but for tonight I'm just going to leave you with this little video of Brynley. I shot this right after church today - she's now in the "senior" nursery because she's a big girl now.. meaning, she's turning 3 this year. This is just too cute! I can't believe she's growing up so fast!

Everything she hears or sees she just absorbs and repeats. It can be so cute.. and at times SO embarrasing. She is so curious. Today at church she was eyeing this baby in front of us. The mom decided to nurse during sacrament meeting (we were almost in the last row - so not like she had a big audience), and brynley kept asking what she was doing. So I told her that the baby was hungry. So she asked "Why is the baby eating her blanket?" "Why is she hiding, mommy?" "What is baby doing under there?" I have a feeling if I tried to tell her HOW the baby was eating that would have started another long sequence of questions, (which was why I kept dancing around her questions) but luckily the baby was a very quick eater and I was able to keep Brynley's curiosity under control.