LO with Template 4

Here's a layout I made with template #4:

Jounaling: The Easter Buny left you a bunny nest at Meme's house too.
Kit is Sunshine Sweets Easter Collab Freebie Kit by lliella Designs

Template # 4

If you are wondering what happen to templates 2 & 3, they were donated to be a part of an Autism Charity Kit and you can find out how to get them below along with a HUGE MEGA KIT.

Here's #4 and it's my 1st two-pager:



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Info on getting the Mega Kit and templates #2 and #3:

With a little effort from YOU, we can help the kids and families affected by this every year. We can better understand Autism. Donate anything, no matter how big or small, and you will get this amazing GIGANTIC MEGA Kit FREE! Over 15 incredible designers have made 'mini' kits to create this HUGE Kit! 1 in 150 kids, that number is staggering, if you don't know someone with Autism yet, statistically you will, lets do what we can to help now.

Donate to AutismSpeaks.Org
send the reciept to XandraMartinDesigns@yahoo.com
with Autism Charity Kit in the subject field, and you will be sent the download links and password!

I think you have to donate $5 to get the extra bonuses (which include my temps).

Life's all good. We are on countdown now for when Kirsten will start her new daycare. We actually have over a month left since she doesn't start until 6/1. It's scary and exciting at the same time. I know she will adjust well and she will make new friend very quickly. It is just so sad now the way she talks about all her friend and her teachers and it's hard to imagine that in a month she will probably never see any of them again. She adores her teacher Ms. Porche and I think she has been there since Kirsten began or pretty close to it. She asks for her all the time. I hope she is the same way with her new teacher.

Kirsten did excellent yesterday going to the potty when we were at home. She even went once and had a dry diaper. I'm keeping my fingers crossed she keeps up the good work.

It exactly a week we are headed to Disneyland. I know Kirsten is going to have a blast. She is finally tolerating people in costumes so that is good. I'm excited to see Disney too because the two times I have been it was for night time celebrations. We will be in Orlando for a week and haven't really made any plans and are just gonna wing it while we are there.

I haven't scrapped too much lately, but I have downloaded lots :) I do have some cute pics that we took at the Reba McEntire concert we went to last week so I will try to put a few up this weekend sometime. Kirsten had a blast at the concert and loved dancing. She also loved the water park! It was nice taking a little weekend get away on the spurn of the moment and we went with a friend and her tween daughter and her friend.

This weekend we are headed back to our roots...LOL we are going to the Four Freedoms Festival in Madison, FL were Jake and I were raised. We went last year and it was neat to compared the parade that we thought was a big deal when we lived there to the parade they have in Tallahassee.

Freebie Scrapbook Template #1 & Vacation Pictures

This is my very own template. I cannot find the 1st LO I made with this template is was really cute too. Hopefully it will turn up soon or I suppose I will have to redo it. You can click the image to download it. Leave me a good comment and maybe I'll get inspired and make some more :)

Here's my redo LO. It's a little different. The Kit is by Xandra's Area It is a freebie for a creative team call.

We decided on a new daycare for Kirsten. She will start 6/1 and her current daycare closes 5/31. According to the letter that we were given the church needs the daycare area for "mission work". There are rumors going around though and it is thought to be all about profits. Turns out they almost closed last year due to profits.

My big girl has learn her full name (including both middle names). She is such a smart little girl. I only had to tell her a few times before she had it down.

We have lots a pictures from our Vermont vacation. I did realize though that the one and only family shot has terrible lighting so I had to change that one to black and white to save it. Here's a few:

Changes to my Blog

I'm changing the title as well as the original focus of my blog. I pretty much took it over with digital scrapbooking layouts so I figured it was time to change it up some. I still plan to jot down family things and hopefully blog a lot more with scrapbooking and such.

I have lots of family news but will have to get to the details and pictures later because it is WAY past my bedtime. Here's some quick news.

*We survived our plan ride and vacation to Vermont and saw LOTS of snow
*Kirsten will start yet another new daycare 6/1/08 due to her currently daycare is closing!

Details Later :)

I'm loving digital scrapbooking and feel like I'm finally getting caught up scrapping. I've even done some personal pages (those without Kirsten). Kirsten is growing into a very beautiful and very smart little girl. She is using complete sentences and others can understand most of what she saids now. Here new favorite term is "Whatcha doing?". She had had a virus for a month and we just started antibiotics and she is taking a steriod now too which is the first time she has had to take that. Her asthma specialist was pretty pleased that this is her only long lasting illness since her last check-up. I have had some Dr. appt lately too. Finally decided to get all my little issues checked into. I was cleared by the cardiologist (have a murmur and mild scolosis that are ok), went in for eczema and the dermatologist tested my darkest mole and determined it has a moderate risk for turning into a melonoma in my lifetime (will be having my very 1st in the office "surgery"), pulmonologist thinks my shortness of breath is from "breath stacking" and I have to be more cautious and take deeper breaths to prevent it from occurring. I still have to do a few other lung test to make sure everything is ok.

Anyways thing are going well with us and we are enjoying the everyday moments with Kirsten, she keeps us laughing with something she does each and everyday. She has been going to the potty well and is now letting us know when she need to go. She went away from home on a McDonald's potty last week for the very 1st time. I have her a little seat to sit on and keep it in a big ziploc in her backpack that we take everywhere. She started going really well about 2 wks ago once she told me to "go away" and I stepped around the corner. She now wants us to step around the corner almost ever time. She like her privacy. She is peeing within a few secs tho most of the time.

Here's some pics of her from last weekend:

Here's lots of new pages:




This one is a picture from 2003

This one is from 6/07

Haircuts, Scrapbook Pages & Such

So I am catching up on my scrapping and falling behind on uploading new pics of Kirsten. Here's a few:

Last week Kirsten got her first all over hair cut. Aunt Nancy has trimmed her bangs a few times but she has a real little girl haircut now and all the thin baby strands are gone. She has a cute little bob cut.

Before

She is sitting in the salon chair and yes that is a tear in her eye. She only shed one. She did very well sitting still and we were rewarding her with sweet tarts :)

After


We have planned two vacations to use up our timeshare weeks before they expire. We are going to Smugglers Notch Resort from 3/29/08-4/6/08. I am excited about this one because they have a day care facility so you can drop your child off and go learn to ski. We plan on taking advantage of that for at least one day. Then the first week of May we are taking Kirsten to Disney World and we are staying at an Orlando resort. By the time we get back from those I will have depleted my annual leave stash at work but we are over due for some family fun. We are still working on potty training. She was doing really well peeing each time we took her to the potty but the last week she hit a rebellion streak and tells us "I don't like it" which is a new fave pharse for her. I taught it to her to get her to stap saving "NO", Good Job Mommy. She also has a cough now to the point it has made her hoarse. So we are going to lay off a little and we will see what happens. I have put her in regular panties a few times and the first two times she peed on the floor. Which I expected because she needed to test them out. The third time was only for about 30 mins before bedtime and she only tinkled in them a little.

Here are my recent pages:

Kit is Inner Child by Grumble Scraps

1st Ice Cream cone
Icecream design is by Sugar Snap Scraps

Sketch is from Shanna @ http://www.scrappysketches.blogspot.com/

Quick Page from 2 Peas with some extras added


Kit Fabulous by Sueli Colbert