I mentioned before that my friend Rebecca was using the Christmas kit I designed to teach a digital card making class. Well, she sent me these samples of the cute things she made, and I thought they were so fun, I just had to share! She's so talented! Thanks for sharing Rebecca. (hope you don't mind me sharing it a little more on my blog!)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
I have been told that the link to the twirly girls skirts isn't working. I think I fixed it, but just in case, it is www.mytwirlyskirts.blogspot.com The photographer can be found at www.aubreyboltonphotography.blogspot.com and another one of her sister-in-laws was recently featured on studio 5 with some very cute and unique hair clips. (not just the same old flowers and bows you see all over!) They are at www.saffron-girls.blogspot.com enjoy!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
If you have a little girl.....
If you have little girls and love these cute outfits......I'd like to draw your attention to a new name in my sidebar. Teresa has been my best friend since she became an answer to my prayers in the seventh grade. She has just recently started blogging, and has also started making these adorable twirly skirts. Click here to check out these cute clothes. Her sister in law is the photographer who took these great pictures, her information is on Teresa's blog as well. Please welcome Teresa into the blogging world and go look at these cute creations!
Monday, October 20, 2008
THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!
We left 13 inches of snow falling for the crowds, characters and 80 degree weather of Disneyland. We thought we were so smart. Going the two days before UEA weekend actually started, and one day after Columbus day that California had off of school. We weren't really that smart. I've never seen Disneyland so crowded! We found out later that Arizona, Nevada, and Idaho all had their own UEA type vacations going on. We got to the front of most of the lines with Emma's wheelchair, so at least we didn't have to do a lot of waiting.
You can guess that the highlight of the trip for Aiden was seeing real live droids in Star Tours, and even riding in a real space cruiser. He went on Star Tours a total of four times, and loved every minute of it. In the starwars shop at the exit of the ride, he even made his own light saber which he is very proud of. He is now an offical JEDI after Bub surprised him with attending the jedi training academy. Darth Vader said he could "sense that the force was very strong" in Aiden. At the top of his list also was the Lego store in downtown Disney. He is tall enough now that he can go on most of the rides. That doesn't mean he actually enjoyed Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, or the Tower of Terror.
Emma's big thrill was of course meeting "LELLA!"(Cinderella) We were so excited to see the kids so excited at meeting their favorite characters. Bub and I had worked it out before hand that he would get to take Aiden on Star Tours, and I would get to take Emma to see Cinderella. It seemed fair. But, as luck would have it, Emma and I couldn't find the princesses while Bub and Aiden were on Star Tours. And when I took Aiden on Star Tours for his second time, Bub and Emma found the princesses straight away. Bub got to witness both events and I missed both of them. I'm still sad about that, and I'll never let Bub live it down. I was told that Aiden kept talking to R2 and C3PO saying: "Hi, It's me Aiden!" and that Emma "flipped out" when she saw the princesses. The first one she saw was Snow White who was so sweet with her and spent extra time talking with her. She said she wasn't supposed to, but she kissed Emma on the hand and left a red lipstick print on her hand. Emma was very proud of it and showed her hand to anyone who would look. Cinderella was very nice too. Later when we saw her again, she remembered Emma and called her by name. Emma gave kisses to every character she saw. All the characters were so good to both kids. The queen of hearts, surrounded by a crowd of people immediately threw her arms back to 'halt' everything and walked across the street to come to Emma and Aiden. (we had met her earlier that day) And everywhere we went all the workers said to Emma "Hi Princess." The kids had a wonderful time. Disney really knows how to make magic.
The next few days, we went down to San Diego. Bub and I each have sisters who live there. Bub's Mom stayed with his sister, and we stayed with mine. It was fascinating to visit my sister's house. The california wildfires last year passed through her neighborhood, and destroyed many of her neighbors houses. She had 5 out buildings (sheds/barns) on her property that were all destroyed. Luckily her house was built to be 'fire proof' with double paned windows and enclosed eves. There were scorch marks on her front doorstep where a pair of shoes had melted and black holes in parts of the wooden fence around the yard. It was amazing to hear her story of evacuating and using their 72 hour kits. They found that food is a most important item as all the stores and restaurants were closed down and evacuated too.
All in all, it was a great vacation. But next time, we won't go over UEA.
You can guess that the highlight of the trip for Aiden was seeing real live droids in Star Tours, and even riding in a real space cruiser. He went on Star Tours a total of four times, and loved every minute of it. In the starwars shop at the exit of the ride, he even made his own light saber which he is very proud of. He is now an offical JEDI after Bub surprised him with attending the jedi training academy. Darth Vader said he could "sense that the force was very strong" in Aiden. At the top of his list also was the Lego store in downtown Disney. He is tall enough now that he can go on most of the rides. That doesn't mean he actually enjoyed Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, or the Tower of Terror.
Emma's big thrill was of course meeting "LELLA!"(Cinderella) We were so excited to see the kids so excited at meeting their favorite characters. Bub and I had worked it out before hand that he would get to take Aiden on Star Tours, and I would get to take Emma to see Cinderella. It seemed fair. But, as luck would have it, Emma and I couldn't find the princesses while Bub and Aiden were on Star Tours. And when I took Aiden on Star Tours for his second time, Bub and Emma found the princesses straight away. Bub got to witness both events and I missed both of them. I'm still sad about that, and I'll never let Bub live it down. I was told that Aiden kept talking to R2 and C3PO saying: "Hi, It's me Aiden!" and that Emma "flipped out" when she saw the princesses. The first one she saw was Snow White who was so sweet with her and spent extra time talking with her. She said she wasn't supposed to, but she kissed Emma on the hand and left a red lipstick print on her hand. Emma was very proud of it and showed her hand to anyone who would look. Cinderella was very nice too. Later when we saw her again, she remembered Emma and called her by name. Emma gave kisses to every character she saw. All the characters were so good to both kids. The queen of hearts, surrounded by a crowd of people immediately threw her arms back to 'halt' everything and walked across the street to come to Emma and Aiden. (we had met her earlier that day) And everywhere we went all the workers said to Emma "Hi Princess." The kids had a wonderful time. Disney really knows how to make magic.
The next few days, we went down to San Diego. Bub and I each have sisters who live there. Bub's Mom stayed with his sister, and we stayed with mine. It was fascinating to visit my sister's house. The california wildfires last year passed through her neighborhood, and destroyed many of her neighbors houses. She had 5 out buildings (sheds/barns) on her property that were all destroyed. Luckily her house was built to be 'fire proof' with double paned windows and enclosed eves. There were scorch marks on her front doorstep where a pair of shoes had melted and black holes in parts of the wooden fence around the yard. It was amazing to hear her story of evacuating and using their 72 hour kits. They found that food is a most important item as all the stores and restaurants were closed down and evacuated too.
All in all, it was a great vacation. But next time, we won't go over UEA.
New Christmas Kit
I just finished making this digital Christmas kit that my cute friend Rebecca will be using to teach a class on making your own Christmas Cards. If you are interested in the class, click here. If you are interested in purchasing the kit, click here.
coming soon: a post about our Disney trip
coming soon: a post about our Disney trip
Sunday, October 12, 2008
unplugged....
We'll be leaving soon for our much anticipated trip to California and Disneyland. So, I'll be off-line for a bit. See ya when we get home!
Monday, October 6, 2008
They're Here...and they hear.
Emma got her hearing aids today! As you can see, she chose purple. When she first got them in and we made a few sounds for her, she got so excited! If you know her, you've seen the way she convulses her whole body into nearly jumping out of her wheelchair. She did that. When the audiologist left the room for a moment, she kept saying "Da Doo" (Thank You) over and over again. I'm not really sure if it's because he gave her the box to play with, or if she was grateful for the gift of hearing. I like to believe it's the latter. She seems to be happy, but pulls them out of her ears every chance she gets. The aids came with lots of neat contraptions. One in particular I think we'll be using: it's a little cord that hooks from the hearing aids to the back of her shirt, in case they come out, they wont be lost. Kind of like a binki teather or chums for your sunglasses.
I took her to target afterwards just to walk up and down the toy isles and push all the buttons on the noisy toys. She had fun with that. Later, for family night we read a story about a little boy getting hearing aids (the book came with her hearing aids) Daddy let her listen to the music boxes he got her for Christmas and her birthday last year, and Aiden pushed the buttons on his talking Star Wars toys for her.
We are excited for Emma and her new adventure!
I took her to target afterwards just to walk up and down the toy isles and push all the buttons on the noisy toys. She had fun with that. Later, for family night we read a story about a little boy getting hearing aids (the book came with her hearing aids) Daddy let her listen to the music boxes he got her for Christmas and her birthday last year, and Aiden pushed the buttons on his talking Star Wars toys for her.
We are excited for Emma and her new adventure!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Sneak Peek!
Friday, October 3, 2008
same old, same old.
Sigh. We have been so busy lately. Nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing very interesting to share. In other words, nothing "blog worthy". Just lots of appointments; doctors, therapists etc. School, work, projects....same old same old. Just a lot of it. I'm afraid there is no end in sight. We've got another week full of all the same and hopefully the arrival of Emma's hearing aids before we leave to Disneyland.(HOORAY!) We so need this vacation. I'm getting really excited. Not only are we going to Disneyland, but we'll get to spend a couple days playing on the beach. I like to try to sculpt bodies out of sand. I always imagine it to be a great prank on the lifeguards (or whoever) because when the tide comes up, I bet it looks like a dead body floating ashore.....I know. I watch too much TV. But, If it worked right, it really would be a fun joke. Here is a picture of the last dead body I made out of sand......I promise, I'll have something better to blog about after the trip.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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