Crafty Cameron

Cameron is starting to really enjoy being crafty. I bought him this pumpkin cutout from Joann's hoping he would like to paint it. He was very excited to paint it! He even worked so hard and concentrated to make sure that he stayed in the lines. We plan on putting up in the backyard for display.

Thankful Thursday

I think that it's appropriate to do a Thankful Thursday today, because today is in fact Thanksgiving Day! I can't believe that it's already Thanksgiving! I started this blog a year ago in November. A year ago, i was wondering where the year went. A year later, nothing has changed. We are busy busy buys. Larry is working, Cameron is in sports, I'm running the business and Cameron is still home schooled.

So what are we thankful for? This year I decided to make a craft for the whole family. Using my Cricut, I cut a tree trunk and 21 leaves. The leaves are in three colors, red for Cameron, orange for Larry and yellow for myself. Each night leading up to Thanksgiving, we have written something that we are thankful for. It was fun and interesting to hear the things Cameron was thankful for. Dad and mom were the last two things he was thankful for. He was thankful for turkey and his toys. He was also thankful for his dog. Larry and I were a little more traditional each being thankful for each other and Cameron and then of course thankful for work, family friends etc. I was thankful for caffeine and Larry was thankful for these coffee blended drinks I make that we call "Kamachino chillers". All in all it was a fun craft that I hope to turn into a tradition. I mounted the tree and leaves (which Cameron insisted some should be falling off the tree. It worked cause I think there may have been too many other wise) on a 12x12 piece of card stock that I will put (someday) in my chronological scrapbook.



our finished tree

Walk Down Memory Lane Wednesday

Look ma no hands! For Cameron's second birthday he got a scooter from a friend of mine. We also got him a helmet, knee and elbow pads, they were definitely a good investment.






Apparently all that scooting is exhausting and he needed a break

We love Legoland

For the past year we have been lucky enough to have Legoland passes. Our passes were due to expire at the beginning of September so we wanted to make sure we got one additional trip in before they did. We headed down to Carlsbad on August 26th. Because it was a warm day, we brought Cameron's swim suite and let him play in Pirate Falls.




While Cameron played Larry and I found a bench in the shade and had the opportunity to talk



Cameron's favorite thing to do at Legoland is go to the Lego racers room and build a car. He then races the car against other people.


He builds his own car


Larry builds his own car too


Then they race

Magical Monday's

Larry and I have almost always had Disneyland passes. We did take one year off. But we were so happy to get passes again this year! Because of that, and my slight obsession for autograph books, we have millions of Disneyland photo's. It would get awfully boring if I only posted about Disneyland. So every once in a while I will post a Magical Monday. This may be a wordless post, it may be a wordy post. Either way, it will have some special memories from the Happiest place on earth.

This picture was taken in DCA on Sept 15, 2009

Our 9th Anniversary

Larry and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary on September 9th! For our anniversary, we bought ourselves Electra beach cruisers. We decided to go to San Diego to put some miles on them. We Parked in down town and rode around Sea Port Village and along the boardwalk. We then took the ferry over to Cornado and rode all around Cornado. We probably put about 35 miles on the bikes that day. To top it off, we got ourselves a picnic dinner and found a bench over by the hotel that overlooked the beach. We sat on the Beach and ate our picnic and watched the world pass us by. It was the best anniversary yet! Totally us!





We stopped and took a picture with Bob Hope

We stopped at the Starbucks on Cornado and Larry got a Fappacino and I got a Passion Tea Lemonade

Hotel Del Cornado

Our picnic location

Our view, the military was doing training drills in the ocean.


While we were on the island we saw about 5 or 6 couples get married. The date was 09-09-09

A Wicked Album

When Jen and I went to see Wicked, we took several pictures seen here . I measured and cut chipboard. I wanted the covers to be thicker so I used Modge Podge to glue two sections of chipboard together before I started to cover them.

I covered the cover with black. For every layer of paper I used Modge Podge

Then found a perfect green

I took the cover of a playbill and cut the picture out.

I then separated the pictures and spelled out WICKED with phrases and words explaining what was going on.

They gave us the wicked lottery buttons when I won the lottery!

I placed our tickets in the book too.



To end the book, I took a picture I had taken of the stage, before they asked me to put my camera away. I left a blank square below the picture so we could write in our own memory's of the night. Then on the rear cover I made a pocket for the Playbill to be in.

When I was done the album I used my Bind It All to bind the album together. I then used coordinating ribbons and tied them to the wires. Of course, I forgot to take pictures of the finished albums. I only had time to make Jen's album. But I took careful notes of all of the measurements of all of the papers and the embellishments so that I can eventually make myself the same album.

Making Ice Cream

On August 30 I decided to do something fun and different with Cameron. We decided to make ice cream. I was going through the "Kid Concoctions" books and came across a method that you can do in a zip-lock bag. So when in Rome . . .



Cameron was excited to shake the bag.



But after about 20 minutes of shaking we really hadn't made any progress of turning our milk mixture into ice cream. So we gave up on the bag shaking method and went for the old container in a bowl of ice with rock salt.


Okay, that's not really a method, but after another 20 minutes It wasn't exactly ice cream, but it was a wonderful milkshake consistency. Either way, Cameron and I enjoyed it. But for the future we will probably borrow the crank ice cream maker from my parents.