In No Particular Order

Well since I have a contest going, and this contest requires comments to enter, and the more you comment the more your name gets put in the hat to win, I thought I needed another post. I may try to post from Heather's too... we'll see how it goes.

First of all though, man when your friends know you well.... read Kristin's comment on the last post. I nearly split my seams laughing and it's only 6am! Thank you for the early morning chortle Kristin, how right you are!!!! (ps - in 27 dresses his inner badboyness comes through a bit)

So all this talk about movies had me thinking last night (as opposed to sleeping which I was hoping to do...) about all time favorite movies. So in no particular order here are my top 5 "oldies" movies:

1. Grease
2. Footloose
3. Dirty Dancing
4. The Sound of Music
5. The Wizard of Oz

And my top 10 more current flicks:

1. Hairspray (have you seen it yet????!!!)
2. Enchanted
3. Any Harry Potter
4. Speed (love Keanu too)
5. The Cutting Edge ("toe pick")
6. 27 Dresses
7. The Matrix (Keanu again)
8. The Incredibles
9. All X-men movies
10. Fantastic Four (both)

Favorite all time Live show:

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Well, there are my lists.
Didn't think too long and hard about them - but those are what come to mind.
More "chick flicks" in those lists then I would have thought.
hmmmm... interesting.

What are your top favorites?
Tell us your top 3, top 10, whatever you choose.
Oh and what's the best "live" show you've ever seen?

***PS*** if you haven't please read the post under this one too. :)
Have a great weekend!!!!!

February Contest

Hello all you Blog Readers!

Hope you are all doing well. I am busily preparing for my travels, but thought I'd take a minute to say *hi*.

For some Valentine fun this month I thought I'd have a contest.
The contest is also to celebrate my 100th blog entry! Whoo hoo, that's a lot of blogging!!
So, anyone who comments between now and Sunday February 3rd by 7pm will be "entered" to win. You may comment as many times as you want and feel free to include children.

Since love is in the air the prizes will be a Valentine related altered item (surprise) filled with a goody or two and a lovely romantic book. I just read it, it was a real page turner and I am anxious to pass it on to somebody. NOT a kiddy book though. Not even for Agent K. So if a young person wins I will change the book (or send it along for the mom and another for the child). Only one winner this time, so good luck! :)

Still on the love theme... I just saw 27 Dresses and must day I LOVED it. yep. a chick flick. and i liked it. go figure. strange I know.

ANYWAY - I think I am absolutely loving my favorite actor of the moment, James Marsden. He was in Hairspray (Corney Collins) he was in X-men (Cyclops) and he was in Enchanted (Prince Charming). All three of those movies are in my top ten favorites. AND he's a hottie with a smile that changes his whole face (love that). So, in 27 Dresses he got to play the romatic lead which suited him just fine. Go. See. The. Movie. really.

I need to rush off now, must keep MOVing and I want to go to bed at a reasonable hour.
Wish me luck on my 6 hour journey.
Becky I will try to meet your 19 page challenge... but not too sure I can make it, that would be a record for me.

Goodnight - I'll leave you with some eye candy... (make sure to scroll down)
Don't forget to comment for the contest - and watch for our February challenge.
Tootleoooooooo....

Goal!

Here are pages 30 and 31... I made it!
How'd you do on your pages? Did you come close to 31? Of course there are still some days left if you had joined our challenge.
Sorry for the glare on the pics by the way. I had to use the flash because... you guessed it, no sun. Today was gray AND rainy with gloppy snow on the side. Charming.

Oy, off my weather rant. No more front door gloom pictures.
MOVing on... I have been working on this layout for YEARS. Many could attest to seeing me take it out, look at it, move things around, and put it away {please someone chime in and tell me i'm not the only one who does that...}. All the pics are my kids around toddlerhood. Since the print is too small for you to see it, Max is 16 months, Ethan is just over 2, and Abbie is 2y4m. Love layouts like this that show them at the same ages. I don't have too many. Need to try to find more. I think Abbie and Ethan look the most similar, do you agree?I do plan another challenge for "us" in February.
Also a contest AND a project.
Yep, still kickin the blog up a notch.
This week, however, may be slow.
I have unfortunately picked up some sort of cooties from all my trips to the pedi with Ethan last week. Feeling VERY under the weather. Also I have to kit up layouts to take to my girls weekend with Heather which is at the end of the week! I am positively WILLING myself to be well by then and am doing everything possible to encourage that wellness. I am, at the moment, nowhere near my goal of 20 layouts ready to create. I need to match the pictures with the paper and cardstock and scan, reduce size, and print lots of memorabilia. I am hoping to have the kids school albums totally caught up by the end of the weekend. In the past I have been pretty good about keeping the up to date and don't want to lose it now.

So I may be a bit quiet - I'll see what I can do.
I hope you are all staying well.
How are those layout resolutions coming????

A Welcome Visitor

Can you see what stopped by the state for a brief visit?
Yes! It's Mr. Golden Sun (go on, click on that link... you know you want to, and then WAIT a minute and listen) ... and a blue sky too.
I was so excited that I took both out the front door AND out the back door shots.Tonight I am so tired. Got everyone to bed early, mostly because I wanted to go!
I was in preschool again today - the teacher let me have fun and lead the activities. I made this poster, used a gingerbread puppet, made each child their own Gingy puppet to use when we read the poster and did the activity with it (you can see it to the side of the poster) read the Gingerbread Baby, played a gingerbread color game and counting game, baked + brought in goodies to decorate our own gingerbread people, and had a gingerbread man on cardstock for each child to fingerpaint. Whooo eee am I TIRED. Those three-year-olds will bush ya out. Here's my poster. Yes, I had fun making it. Took me right back to my classroom days. I adapted the poem from one about gumballs.Here's Ethan "working" the poster. The "gingys" are attached by magnets and when you pull a number out of the hat we attach that many gingys to the poster. Then we recount to make sure we are right. Fun. All the kids seemed to like it a lot. Did I mention I was tired?Luckily I had two gingerbread man/woman cookies left over. Soooooo we had a special snack today when the big kids got home and decorated them. Here's Max's. Then during that 3 - 6 time when everyone is usually, ahem, "difficult" I decided we would all paint since I have been having such fun painting on my canvases. Kept em quiet. You may want to try this Spinny. Not sure if I want to plan crafts for EVERY day, but it does help with the peace and tranquility.Speaking of our WORD canvases... here is Deb's. Didn't it turn out beautiful?! Deb I love it and think it is perfect in every way for your word. Would anyone else care to share?Oh my goodness I am so tired... (wait, have I mentioned that yet?)
I want to write more, but better head off to finish some chores before I turn in.
Happy almost Friday!
Do you have anything exciting planned for this weekend????

Gray Skies are Gonna Clear Up... Put on a Happy Face...

Well now... good afternoon to ya!
You will note by the title that I have resorted to singing old tunes (out of tune no less) to try and convince myself that soon all they grayness will be "cleared up". Here are our shots. A little different this time. Here is a back yard shot - lovely grayness. This picture was from Tuesday. Here is today's typical out the front door shot. See that bird? I wonder what it is? Tamara? I thought it was interesting and a nice backdrop for a picture of the gray. Got another 2 page layout done. Another one right off the blog. Handy. On to our canvas. I have had so much fun playing with mine, I hope you do too. I see why Donna Downey keeps making them (and selling them on ebay) it's FUN! So for your Word after you paint the canvas the choice is yours. I challenged myself to only use what I have ON HAND. No store trips to add to the canvas. For Ethan's (the smaller one) after painting I put star stickers (creative memories leftovers) and then did a light blue over the top in a streaky very light handed way. For mine I used lime green paint and a swirly stencil to do this next layer. The stars were important for Ethan's since when he SHARES he's a superstar! To me the swirls indicated MOVEment - it worked. Oh, and I love swirls and flourishes. Yep I do. Then when the paint was dry I peeled off the star stickers and here's how Ethan's (and mine) looked.For Ethan's I just added some star rhinestones that I had around (because they are so bumpy and pointy that when I use them on layouts they destroy the page protectors) and metal stars left over from a pack. Then assorted letter stickers. Done! Oh, and I mod podged over the whole thing because the stickers will peel off if you don't.
For mine I added the black Hambly rub-on in the corner. Then I used chipboard letters (that were already black) from Li'l Davis Designs. Both left over from other things. Then some quotes off of some 7 Gypsies sticker sets and finally my trusty labeler to make the other sayings. I used glue dots to keep the letters on and pop-dotted the "O" for fun. I am loving it.

I even have it right near me on my desk... see? Now, I'd really love to see your canvas or project. If you send it to my email (and with your permission) I would really like to post it here. At any rate I hope you have as much fun playing as I did!Here's another project to add to my done list. Remember how I want to decorate for Valentine's day? Well I got this kit because I was a volunteer at the GASC last summer. Still hadn't done it. It was a kit by Rusty Pickle (love their stuff). So, here are the chipboard letters in their plain chipboard glory.Painted them cream color and then sprayed them with walnut ink which was WAY fun!
Here's what it looked like then.Then I backed it with pretty paper, cut out flowers, made holes, assembled, and VIOLA!
On the mantle and looking nice and Valentiny. AND you bet I count it as a finished project so I am up to a total of 29 now. Whew! What's scary is I can do another month's challenge easily since I still have so much around here.

Well I have to run to the orthodontist. We have SO much snow here and we are expecting another foot tonight. Lovely. Perhaps we'll get our first snow day????

Finally, to update you on Ethan... he is feeling better finally! We are now two days with a normal temperature. Whoo hooo!!! Thanks for all your well wishes, he appreciated it! :)

The First Thing to Go

Happy Monday everyone!

Wow, this has been a challenging weekend. We spent a lot of time at the doctors office it seemed. Ethan has still been struggling with this stupid virus - but today it looks like he may be turning the corner. I hope so - last night he woke up with a 104.5 again! Only to be beat by Saturday nights 105! Gadzooks!!!

Which leads me to the title of this post... the first thing to go for me when I am exhausted is my patience. This is often rapidly followed by my sense of humor. Additionally I cannot concentrate, follow directions, or do complicated math. (that's a long list huh?) Today I am just WIPED out. I haven't slept well in days and you can really tell. Today would not be a good day to call me and put me on hold and then try to tell me a funny story. Nope. Save it for tomorrow (small chuckle, but only a small one).

So I am briefly saying *hi* and updating you on my weather shots.
Here is noon on Saturday - somehow I missed Sunday's shot. Here is today. If you look to the left of the left tree you can actually make out a real cloud. You may also notice that the gray was less gray then Saturday and was, in fact, a lightish gray. This little cloud, and the lighter colored sky, eventually ushered in some sunshine around 4pm. It was welcomed. More later tonight or in the morning.

What's the first thing to go when you lose too much sleep?

Little Guy

Hi there, my little guy is still sick! We were at the doctor again today and they are not sure what he has... most likely just a nasty virus. It has not been a productive week for me as I am sure you can understand. Here he is taking a snooze - which is why I am quickly blogging to you! Yesterday's noon time window shot. Lovely isn't it?
Up to 25 pages done now. Here is one that was just waiting for the "just right" color of ink. Well, I have given up the hunt, used what I had, and now it's done and in Ethan's baby book.I have been using these "jotters" for a lot of my undone projects. They make perfect little journaling boxes. They are by Luxe designs. (great I went to their website to do the link for you and now I DO want them all!...)This one has one of the jotters on it. Sorry for the pen on the journaling. There were some last names on this one. I try to keep that off of the web if possible. There is just so much personal information you should put out there - ya know what I mean? So this is from 2006 in case you were wondering. IThis is my favorite one from this batch. It was another of those cutting kits. (remember when we were so into paper piecing Becky???) This is a current layout. You may remember the blog entry about the little frogs. Well, thanks to a comment from Kristin the other day I remembered it and just mostly printed the journaling right from my blog. Thank you Kristin!!! (often she functions as the other half of my brain - very handy!)Here is how the little kits come. This was before I cut out the flowers. The layouts with the frogs and butterfly one did have quite a bit still to do on them. In case you are interested the website for the paper kits I used (this one and the bear one) is this.
Getting ready for our project. Below is a 5 x 7 canvas and a 6 x 8 one.Paint one coat... Today's noon time picture - much better. Wow! Two sunny days in one week. I think this may be a Michigan record!
Well, I am not sure how much I will get to blog on the weekend. I do hope to post the daily "out my front door" picture though. When I am done doing this I am going to do a layout with all my sky pictures called "January Gray".

Please be patient for our canvas. I hope to have it done this weekend. Along with planning a fun project for February too. Little sickie guy has altered my project priorities of the week, understandably so.

Miss you all and happy Friday!!! :)

So Tired

Hmmmm... whilst trying to upload my many pictures to show you I see that Blogger (the host of this site) is having trouble uploading at the moment. So I can't show you. Egad! I guess you'll get to see a ton tomorrow. I am up to page count 25!!! Also I have to show you today's noon picture. You'll NEVER guess what good ole Michigan was back to weather wise. Tune in tomorrow to see!! ;)

I am so tired tonight. Ethan and I were at the doctor for quite awhile today. Still not sure what he has and they want to see him again in the morning. Still dealing with a high fever today too.

How is your family?
I hope they are staying well!

Visual Aids

Hello there my dear friends!
For this post I am going to be long on pics and shorter on commentary (well, that's my intent anyway, we'll see how that pans out). I decided to take a picture out my front door every day for a week to show you all what I mean about the gray gloom. Then you will know that I am NOT exaggerating when I tell you it is like a gray blanket is over the sky. The clouds are so low it's like you can touch them. And they are continuous. Not gray and fluffy. Not gray and dark and ominous, just GRAY. Ew.
So... here is yesterday at noon.
Here is today at noon. Whoo hooo! A sunny day almost all day long. UNfortunately Ethan is sick (again) with a 104+ temp... so we haven't been outside much. But still I have enjoyed the loveliness of the sun coming in my windows. Ahhhhhh.
I have done two more pages. Total is now... 19. So I am in line with the date so far. I do want to note that some of these are soooooo old. That is why I can't list supplies used or anything. Who knows what they were?! Also please note that I very well may have used Becky Higgins's sketches book to do these.... don't remember. I just don't want to steal credit for something if I got help with the idea from someplace else. Anyway. Now for these for some reason I have the right page first, then left.
This layout was at Brodie park one weekend last April when it was nice and warm.
Here's Ethan's first Halloween. This time the pics are in the right order. This was a kit that I got at the Great American Scrapbook Convention. Not really my "style" if I have one... but I thought it was cute and knew I had the pics for it. So viola! I need to find a better way to take pictures of layouts. Scanning them doesn't work well for me since I have a small scanner and all the seaming them together is too time consuming. But I don't really think this is a great way either. It is hard to get them square in the picture, don't know why. Any ideas? Also - do you think it is better when I post the layouts one page at a time or side by side (for 2 page layouts)? I'd love your opinion.

Those of you who do holiday thank you notes... how are yours coming? Seems like I will be doing mine for the next year. Maybe this weekend I can find the time to sit the family down and just get them done. Do you write all the notes for your family or does your significant other help? Do your kids do them on their own yet? Abbie will, but Max still needs direction and encouragement and of course I do Ethan's.

Those of you doing your "one little word" canvas - please paint ONE COAT of your choice on to your canvas. The color, ideally, should reflect your word. For example, I chose yellow to paint mine since I think it is an energetic color that works with MOVE. Also it is my favorite color and makes me happy. I know I will smile looking at my word. Next post will have a picture of where we are so far.

PS - last post had some great comments! I commented to your comments in that comment section (gee... maybe my WORD should have been "comment"!). :)

Switch!

Whew! It has been on my mind a LOT that I last had a rather gloomy post up here and I needed to switch it!! Thank you to all of you for your kind words and support. There are times when I can let annoying people just roll off - but then if my mood is just right they can really bug me. So, thank you. I feel mucho better. We are going on a field trip today and I am sure I will see the lovely gal - and I will just say hi. No animosity left. :)

So, since my last post life has been moving very fast. Very little time to blog, scrap, or keep up with email even. We had Jeff's work Christmas party over the weekend - that was pretty fun. I did come to the conclusion that when seated with a bunch of people with no children I will eventually run out of small talk. Really now I can usually count on kid stuff and/or education topics to send me through. Hmmm...not with that group. Also no scrapbookers. Egad. Of all the luck to sit at a table of 11 with no other couple with kids. Still, they were very nice people and we had a fun time.

My page tally... over the last four days I have done4 pages and a front and back cover of a book. I need to take pictures for you - may be another post later today. So.... my total is 17! Congrats to Deb who had a VERY productive weekend. I know Heather has been cookin too. Also wondering how much Becky got done on her away weekend... I bet she did a lot! Let us know Becky okay?

Are you wondering about your canvas?
Stay tuned... sorry for the delay with that - but I THINK life is calmer this week.

Have a happy and productive day!!! :)

I should NOT be blogging today

Yes, it's true.
I should just stay away.
I'll tell you why... I have been trying to stay positive.
Focus on the good.
Om......
Inhale, exhale
wax on - wax off -
You catch my drift I trust.

Well be it hormone fluctuations or whatever I have found my mood sinking lower and lower since about midday yesterday. Stuff that might not bug me normally, is. I have determined that I am just BAD at accepting criticism. I think that I am okay with constructive criticism but not the other kind. The "I can do it better then you" kind or the "I told you so" kind. Those kinds I don't do so well with. You?

So to top off my marvelous mood I got a call late last night to sub in Ethan's classroom. So I said yes (though internally bummed since it is my only two free hours of the week...) and went about creating two projects, finding books, making lesson plan. I brought all our own stuff... our stamps, our paint, I printed stuff on cardstock. I sang, I had my puppet going. Kids were laughing and happy. Did I follow her EXACT step by step routine... probably not - she didn't leave plans or anything. So, did I get paid... no. Did it just so they wouldn't have to close school for the day (Ethan's school has one teacher and then a rotating parent volunteer schedule). Why the vent you wonder? Sounds pretty good you think? Well - not one parent thanked me, but that's not it either. One of the parent volunteers was such a .... b... unnice person. If she said one more time that the kids were "off because their teacher wasn't there" I think I would not have been able to stop from telling her off. OOOOOH! She made me so mad! The kids were fine - perhaps SHE was off! UH! Really now. She said a few more things too. Even made the other mom who brought snack upset because of her criticism of the SNACK!

So, now we are having a playdate that I scheduled before I knew I would be the sub. I don't want to cancel... but I don't want to vent on the mom because I don't know her well enough yet. The big question....... can I hold it in??? Can I find my happy place before they get here????

I'll report back later.

I read Becky's word (last post... see comment section) and think I need to apply it right now. It gave me some peace just reading it. Good word choice Becky - and thank you so much for sharing it (did ya know how much you'd help me today... must be our sisterhood!). Kristy I think your word is perfect for you. So postive and free sounding. Thank you for being game to do this project with me too!

Speaking of the project, when I went to buy my 5 x 7 canvas I saw a 6 x 8 one that looked a bit easier to work with if you have a longer word. Really buy whatever size you want to work with. Also you will need to get some paint (any kind works on canvas) and a brush for it.

Thank you to everyone who writes in on the comments, it means a lot to me - sometimes I wonder if anyone reads ya know?

OH! There goes my mood again.
Better run.
Hope your day goes very well.

One Little Word

Good Morning!
Not sure how it is by you but the wind ushered in a cold front here and we are back down to the 30s today. A far cry from yesterday's 60s! Now if only the sun would peek out, just a little. If it does I am taking a pic and you will get a second blog post of the day!

So - I have been reflecting on my One Little Word although really I knew what it should be pretty quickly. It just lept out at me when I read her challenge. Then I thought of some others that would also work - but I am deciding to go with the leaper outer. Did you have one that came right to your mind? If so I think you should go with it.

Anyway - my word of 2008 is:
*MOVE*
I picked this for a variety of reasons - but not the one that may have lept to your mind first. MOVE just signifies what I want to do this year. There are so many definitions of the word that describe what I mean. Here are some:

To exhibit great activity or energy.
To initiate an action; act.
To be active in a particular environment: moves in diplomatic circles.
To stir the emotions: words that have the power to move.
To progress in sequence; go forward
To follow a specified course: Earth moves around the sun.
To progress toward a particular state or condition: moved into the lead.

idioms:
"get a move on"
To get started; get going.move in on
"on the move"
Busily moving about; active
Making progress; advancing

You see I want to MOVE toward my goals. I want to MOVE everyday - a lot (exercise type stuff). I need to Keep MOVING forward ( a favorite quote from this movie). When I get too drowsy from the stupid medication I take and just want to fold it all in - I need to MOVE. One step at a time, one goal at at time, one action at a time.

Yep. MOVE works for me.
What did you pick?
Hurry and choose your word - now we are going to do a project with it. Yes, I said WE!
So MOVING along... here are more pages/projects done...

Here is Ethan when he was only one. All I needed to do with this is add the ribbon and frame it (which I have been meaning to do like, um, forever and I HAD the frame already! See what I mean by MOVE?!)Here it is in the frame. Hard to get a good shot of it without a glare. It is a white frame purchased at ACMoore and advertised at being used to frame old record jackets. Its 12x12 only cost me a few bucks and works perfectly.Here is Halloween 2006. For this one I just needed to add the title and the journaling. Now, once I added the paper strips my intent was to write the comments to the journaling just like I did. Once it was done.... well I just wish I made a nice typed journaling box instead. Was going to "fix" it - decided to MOVE FORWARD and be done with it. For goodness sake it's been almost done for over a year! So it's going into the album - imperfect or not.Didn't have to do too much to this one either. You can't see it that well but stamped in the upper left corner it says, "One warm day in..." This is actually not THAT old and is from April 2007.

So, I need tallys from Deb and from Heather - oh and you need to post them to the blog please. Don't worry about if you are "caught up" to day nine. Just MOVE toward the 31 page/project goal. My current count is... 11. Remember a 2 page layout counts as 2 pages done!

Now if you want to participate with me for our One Word project go to your local hobby store (Michaels, ACM, etc.) and get a 5 x 7 canvas. Like this one. They're not expensive - just think simple (on that site they were 4.85 for a three pack!). Also get your Mod Podge ready. Go ahead, I know you're busy... JUST DO IT (another three word - one simple word that I considered).

Okay, this post took me awhile and I need to get the boys MOVING. I'd love to hear what you think about my word, and hear yours!!! :)

Motivation

Hello there!
How are your resolutions going?

I must say that mine are going pretty well. Not there yet, but it's a process. When you make changes that you expect to impact your life I guess it's okay to let them evolve over time right? We are doing great so far with no TV or plugging in (no computer, no wii) and also with healthy snacks posted on the board. There was no arguing and the children were pleased with cheese and crackers (three choices of cheese, can't go wrong!).

Yesterday I was like a whirlwind. Blogging, cleaning, laundry, cooking, making lists that would make Flylady proud of tasks in 15 minute intervals, and of course driving around (swim team) and entertaining the little TV deprived munchkins. Today... not so whirly or windy (WAIT, am I blogging about my wind or lack thereof??? geesh, the things i do...) I think because it is day bajillion (three) {and NO I do NOT know where Abbie gets her dramatic streak from!} of rain and wind and gloom and yuckiness. Today feels like a sit by the fire and read sort of day. Be cozy, sip tea. Doesn't that sound more fun then sprucing bathrooms?! It is just so DAMP. Ew.

Okay, not meaning to go into a whine about the weather - back to resolutions. So, I am glad to see that Deb is up for the 31 pages/projects challenge. Was worried that I was the only one who had those things laying around! Deb I think that projects count as pages too. Definitely. Today we should be up to 8 pages done. I am close. Pretty sure I will "catch up" to 8 by tonight. Here's what I finished.

This one is of the kiddies in '04. (TOLD you i had stuff laying around!). It was delayed because I wanted to print the poem on a transparency and couldn't find the right poem, or the transparency, or a way to adhere it. Got it all set now. :)

The story of our swingset at our old house. Just needed the journaling on the right which is about what each child likes to do best on it. I already had the journalling half done for goodness sake! Now it's ready to go in the album.
Love this one. My favorite. I couldn't decide what to write in the text box on the left side. Got it, used the same transparency as used above (thought it was frugal of me) and whala! Since it's my favorite you will see each page independently below. I started this page while on a retreat with Sue and Kim in 2006!!!
Um... remember the 06 calendar I mentioned a post or two ago. Well there are parts of it still not done! All the layouts are mostly done - but some of the writing pages are not. I saved my original calendar to fill this in with... but wish I did it when it was current. Lesson learned. I also did August but don't want to show the page because it has a lot of readable personal information on it with other people's last names etc. Just want to respect everyone's privacy. But it does count as another page finished!The close up of the layout of Ethan playing. He is such a wonderful boy. He plays by himself with such imagination and so peacefully. He can also play with adults and his siblings. Just an easy going kid. He did sooooooo great on our trip too. I must admit that preschool age is more fun for me then toddlerhood.
Although this is from when he was a toddler!
So in case you need me to count I have six done.
How are you doing Deb? You need to post totals for all of us to follow you too!
And Tamara... you mentioned you may try to follow along - any luck?
Anyone else up for the challenge???

Oh and back on the resolutions theme - I'm doing pretty good with blogging so far huh?! :)

Keep talking about your resolutions and posting them here too. I think the support and (in a way) accountability will really help us all!

Hope your day is sunny and productive! :)