milo campbell

i was just thinking that it's been a while since i've posted milo on here...i mean, he was in our family pictures, but i haven't focused on him for quite some time...so here he is, and his new trick. he tries to stick his whole fist in his mouth. little does he know that one day that could win him big bucks in a talent contest or something. go milo! reach for the stars! anyways, he will be 4 months old on the 27th and he is growing very fast! i had to take hadley to the doctor last week, and just for fun, i asked if we could weigh milo. the child weighs 14.9 pounds, while his 2 year old sister weighed 20.9 pounds. he has already doubled his birth weight and he's 3 1/2 months old! don't they usually do that around 6 months?? anyways, needless to say, he is a healthy big boy. i seriously must be making cream for him to drink! milo is also sleeping through the night and has been for like 3 weeks now! (it's my other kids that need to learn to do that, then we could all have some peaceful nights of sleep!) the other kids did not sleep through the night till way later...like at least 9 months, so to have milo doing that...well, let's just say it's a BLESSING! mama was not doing to well when she was getting up every 2 hours to feed the kid. (maybe that contributed to his weight gain??) he has also started rolling, although i've never seen him actually do it...when i go to get him in the mornings, a lot of the times he has rolled onto his back (yes, he is a belly sleeper...all my babies have been, as they sleep sooooo much better that way...please don't call cps on us...thanks!) so, he's just laying there on his back, looking up at me and smiling...i put him on his belly during the day, when i'm watching him, and he never rolls though...so, apparently, he's a closet roller. he is such a joy to have...and i seriously catch myself just staring at him nearly 80% of the time when i'm around him. i know he's mine, but i think he is so handsome! i just love my little quarter-chinese kid!! ( i need to print this out and read it again when he's 3, right? cause i'm sure i won't have these warm, fuzzy feelings still :) )
well, today is a day filled with laundry (what day isn't with 3 kids??). we are preparing to leave for california on wednesday...gotta run!

a page about me

so, i've always looked through scrapbooking magazines, and thought..."what weirdos" to all those ladies who scrapbooked pages about themselves...but then it hit me...okay, i do all this scrapbooking for my family (hopefully, generations from now)...and i'm hardly ever in any of the pictures...my family won't know anything about me, except that i really loved to scrapbook. so, i'm starting a tradition, where, every family album, i do a page that is all about myself...and what i'm like that year...i LOVE the idea! i will also do a page about keith as well (which coordinates with this one...his page will be right next to mine...and he's holding my hand in the pic...i'll post that one too when it's finished!) i just think that i would have loved to sit down and read things like this about my parents...i'm always interested in knowing what they were like when they were young, so this would have been awesome to have. so, i hope my kids appreciate it as much as i'm hoping, and don't think to themselves "what weirdos."
later!

i love thursdays

well, normally i love thursdays, because both my kids are in school, and i get the day to run errands and all that good stuff...but like the past 3 thursdays one of my kids have been sick, so i haven't been able to enjoy my thursdays. same thing with today...caedmon threw up last night...again...ugh. i'm done with the sickness that is being passed around my kids and our friends kids. everyone seems to have been affected by this stomach bug, and it doesn't seem to be going away! it's like 'attack of the stomach bug'...anyways, we need to be healthy for our trip next week, so i am praying amazing healing powers from the Lord to be blessed upon our family! for real! i can not travel with kids that are throwing up...no way, jose.

tonight is my fun night of television as well...my favorite show in the past has been the office or grey's anatomy, but i have to say now that it's e.r. that i can't miss every week...and it looks like it's going to be a good one tonight! i still LOVE the office...well, i LOVE every show on NBC on thursday nights...if only i had a tivo...or a vcr. do they even make vcr's anymore? we would probably get laughed at when we bought one.

okay, i just have to say check this girls blog out...she cracks me up...i'm not kidding when i say she should be a writer...for real. her posts are funny, and always what i'm thinking at the time. i mean, her blog link is called 'wake up and smell the baby'...how funny is that...and how true? anyways, check her out...she's a hoot! and can i just say that i'm proud of myself because i have mastered 'nacho libres' voice to a perfection...i have, just ask my husband...the other night on the way to small group we were quoting it like crazy, and i seriously could be jack blacks voice-over or something...my imitation of him is that good. yes, it's the little things that make me happy :)

this mothers day page was sooooo simple...i love the chipboard flowers set from su! and i finally got to use some of it on this page. i plan on making a christmas garland with it as well...will let you know how that turns out! i hope to scrap today...since caedmon isn't feeling well, he'll probably just chill out on the couch most of the day...which is fine with me! i've also got to get to work on some christmas projects...wish me luck! have a great day...and thanks for stopping by :)

amazing family photos!

oh my gosh...i got the cd from miss allyson today and the pictures are soooo good!! it's so stinkin' hard to choose! can i put all 100 or so on my christmas card??? yah, people would love that :) here are just a few, and they are mainly of keith and i, cause the kids did not feel like cooperating...but, they still turned out great! i mean, seriously, they are good. and i can't choose between black and white and color...i love the color because the green and yellow doors...but i love the vintage look of black and white. ohhhhh, the decisions!
good news! my friend jeanna had her baby!! a little girl, named lucy...she was born yesterday and everyone's doing great! i hope to go visit sometime today!
well, short post today, but i've got my workshop this afternoon, so i need to go get things done for that! thanks for looking!

treat box

i decided to give this treat box a try...i've seen it all over some stamping blogs lately...thanks to beate and her tutorial, making this box was a piece of cake! i am going to give it to my hostess tomorrow as a thank you gift...she is a teacher, so i figured she could put it on her desk...i think pens and pencils would fit nicely in here. this box is made out of a 12 x 12 size piece of card stock...so you can kind of get an idea of how big it is...i love it, and it was SUPER easy to make! it would be good to hold candy, treats, any small item that you may need a little gift basket for! if you decide to make one, make sure to leave me a comment and link it up so i can see how yours turned out! check out the tutorial up above for complete instructions! happy treat box making!

yeah for gilmore girls!

many exciting news today! first off baby evan made it successfully through his surgery! praise God! they have not updated the blog on how the surgery went, they just let everyone know that he is doing well, and that the surgery was a success! i know that is such a relief for sooooo many people :) God is good all the time!

second thing...congrats to my amazing friend (and also stampin' up downline) allyson...she won the stampin' up photo contest!!! yahhhhh, allyson! she is the one that takes the amazing photos all the time, so it's no surprise that she won, but we are still stoked for her! her pictures will be on a future stampin' up cover! congrats :)

thirdly, in honor of my favorite show ever, i am playing the gilmore girls music today...the show's 7th and final (sniff, sniff) season came out on dvd today, and i don't think i can resist waiting until christmas to get it. i'm sad that the show ended...it was the best show ever, and i have every season on dvd if you want to catch up :)

and lastly (is that a word??) the winner of the blog candy is (randomly drawn from a hat entries 1 - 41)...................................entry #11...................carly!! and how funny is this...she is my neighbor?!?! so carly, i will walk your goodies over later :) congrats and thanks everyone for playing!!

have a wonderful day!

lots o' blogs

ugh, is it really monday morning again??? it just was! how can monday's come so fast, but fridays take forever to get here?? anywho, well this is a page that i made for valerie's sketch blog...it's posted on her blog all week long! click here to see it :) i followed a sketch that she made and came up with this page. her blog is really good if you feel like you're in a creative juice slump...i LOVE sketches...they make me whip out pages a lot faster than normal! well, i have some friends who have started some blogs recently...check them out here and here. melissa is a good friend who found me through the demo locator for stampin' up! i'm so glad she did, because soon after, i invited her to MOPS, and she has become a good friend! she is new to the area, so it's nice to help her connect with other moms :) carly is my neighbor...she and her husband are in our small group as well. they are just about one of the funniest couples we have ever met...it's never a dull moment with them and i LOVE them for that! i look so forward to becoming even closer friends with carly...she is a hoot! so check out their blogs and give them some blog lovin'...it's much appreciated :)

on a different note, some friends of ours from church had a baby a little over a week ago...soon after it was found that little evan has a heart condition...he will be undergoing open heart surgery this morning around 10. please keep the vonmoss family in your prayers all day today, as it's going to be a long surgery/day for the whole family. i just can't even imagine what they are going through...i look at my 3 kiddos and just can't imagine experiencing that with any of them...my heart just hurts for this family, but i know that this precious baby is in God's loving hands, and that He will take care of them...the doctors are very optimistic about this surgery, and they say evan is a prime candidate for it. check out their blog here. you can get the full story there as well. so, i will be thinking of them all day today, and i hope that when you read this and their blog, you will say a prayer for them as well.

i will end this post on a lighter note...caedmon just came up to me and said "mom, i dreamed about nacho libre last night"...yah, you know your son watches too much nacho libre when he walks around quoting it, and then when he tells you he was dreaming of it. that's funny.

blackmail

okay, thanks to a good friend of keith's, i now have a picture that i can blackmail him with. well, actually i have tons of pics like that, but come on, this is funny! a picture of him from high school...and yes, he still looks this young! sorry stef, i couldn't resist posting this picture!! keith thinks he's such a stud in this pic. how funny.

beate's sketch challenge

the great beate is having another weekend sketch (she actually does one every weekend, i just have not participated in a while!) anywho, here is my take on the sketch...whenever there is a circle in the sketch, i always put a scallop behind it...my circles look naked without them! well, i got to scrap AGAIN last night...it's nice when your not happy with your husband...you can retreat to your craft area and really pump out some good work :) i got a few layouts done, another one is for valerie salmon's blog, but it won't be posted until after thanksgiving...so, you shall have to wait as well :) well, i hope to go over to allyson's house tonight and scrap some more...all depending on if my husband is okay with that though...i should probably ask, huh?

i can't believe that it's november and keith and the kids are playing outside! i mean, it's a little chilly, but normally we are inside from like november to april...it's just too darn cold! well, i am trying to get prepared for our trip to california (we leave the day before thanksgiving). yah, i am not looking forward to flying with 3 children, the night before thanksgiving...can you say stressful? i just am hoping that our flight is on time...that everything goes smoothly, to get us to cali on time...delays in flights do not work well with toddlers. i can only imagine being stuck with 3 children for like hours in the airport. yikes! the germs too...yuck. anyways...we'll see how it goes. this will be milo's first trip to see the anderson family! i know they are excited to meet him...we can't wait! and, other super exciting news...i will be seeing 'so you think you can dance' AGAIN!!! yup, it's my mother-in-law's fave show as well, so we will be going to see them, while we are in sacramento...i'm stoked!

well, i've got to run, but just wanted to say thanks for all the comments on my blog candy post...some of them are making me laugh pretty hard! thanks everyone :) there is still time to enter in blog candy...you have until tuesday morning. thanks :)

3peas goodies!

okay, so i'm like 4 days overdue for this, but it's time for blog candy! i am so thankful to you all for checking out my blog and leaving me kind comments, so in honor of my 5,000+ hits and my 100th post, i am giving away these goodies! there is a ton of 6 x 6 designer paper, an oversized clothespin to alter, lots of ribbon, lots of scallop circle punch outs, a copic marker, new bottle of stickles, craft glue and a stamp. so if you want to win, then you need to leave me a comment...but not just any comment...i want to know an interesting fact about you...and bonus points if you make me laugh :) i will draw a random winner tuesday morning (11/13). and as much as i love my friends across the ocean, i have to ask that only u.s. and canadians enter...i do not have the cash to send this over the ocean...unless i win the lottery between now and tuesday (which i don't even play the lottery, so that may be hard). sorry gals...thanks for understanding :) all right...go, leave a comment!