7 months!

LC is 7 months old today! Wow! Where did the time go?
Christine can now sit all by herself and LOVES to do this! She is starting to reach forward until she falls onto her face/stomach and then commando crawls backwards. Complaining the whole time, mind you, because she still doesn't like being on her tummy! And despite her advances in the sitting and standing departments, she STILL does not roll over. Of course, we don't actually WANT her to be mobile. That would just add a dimension of previously unexperienced chaos into my already crazy life!! It's a funny thing. We spend so long anticipating when they will be able to do things like crawl, walk and talk and encouraging their every effort to do so, then complain that they are always running off or won't be quiet! Life is funny that way!

So here she is, supporting herself. Scary huh?! I started the "photo shoot" by supporting her but then figured out that she could actually do it on her own. At least long enough for me to snap several pictures! She's going to be our earliest walker, I just know it! Oh our lives are going to get much busier soon!!
Happy Birthday LC!

Scrapping Challenges

I've been very fortunate lately to win a couple Blog Candy giveaways on the Scrapbooking sites I like to stalk ... errr ... check frequently for more great ideas. :) So I figured it was high time I actually entered some of their fantastic challenges. Give back so to speak.
I have been working on the following two pages all week trying to make various deadlines. What with 3 kids to take care of and my homework for BCIT plus all the various other tasks that are involved in daily life, I usually manage to get about 5 minutes of scrapping in at one time. So slowly over the past week, those 5 minutes have added up to equal two finished pages!!
Knowing that it would likely take me some time to complete a page, I figured I'd better make pages that could fit the criteria for several challenges at once. There is no way I'd ever have the time to make a new page for each of the challenges I follow!!


This one is for the Page Maps Challenge you can find here, as well as the Colour Challenge over at Design Dollies AND the TEXTURE challenge at Studio Calico. Phew! The paper is from the Halloween pack from Recollections with coordinating ribbon, 3-D and flat embellishments. I mounted the picture of Marley and Paige on some orange cardstock from my stash and did the journalling on a scrap piece of green also from my stash. The picture is from Halloween last year - Marley and Paige about to head out the door to Trick or Treat in our neighbourhood. So cute!

This picture is for both the Scrapsketch, Sketch #172 Challenge and the Pattern Challenge at Design Dollies. I used two patterns from the above mentioned Halloween pack from Recollctions plus a Bronze textured paper from Making Memories Autumn Splendor pack and a Black and White stripe from Me & My Big Ideas Black & White Butterfly collection. These pictures were taken last year when I took the girls to The Great Big Boo. This was actually the first time both girls were "allowed" to wear their costumes and Paige did so well. The Hallowe'en before she was freaked out of her Ladybug costume and wanted it off almost as soon as we put it on. It was pretty hard to get photos of her she was so anxious to get that costume off!! So Greg and I were pleasantly surprised to have her so happy in her Kitty costume. In fact, it was hard to get it off her!! I love these pictures of Marley. I think she looks so sweet and so grown up at the same time. They are getting so BIG!!

This year Marley is planning to be Hannah Montana (yikes!), Paige is going to be a Ballerina and LC will be a Panda. Can't wait to take pictures! Hope Paige lets us!!

Birth Day Shadow Boxes

Another scrapbooking project I've been working on is completed! Yay!! Only about a billion more to go!

My friend Sandra talks on her blog about these shadow boxes she has. She does layouts for them every now and then and switches them up. That seemed like a bit too much effort for me but I liked the idea of doing a shadow box for each girl. I hummed and hawed for awhile over the content of these boxes and finally decided to showcase their births. The details are probably a little hard to see in these pictures - sorry - but I am pretty happy with how they turned out. The girls (well, the two that can verbalize anyway!) are thrilled with them! It's nice to have such an appreciative fan group!!


Marley Regan Day
Feb 26, 2004, 9lbs 4oz, 20", 8:04 AM

Paige Alexandra Day
Apr 15, 2006, 8lbs 14oz, 22", 5:41AM

Christine Elizabeth Day
Mar 23, 2009, 9lbs 9oz, 22 1/4", 11:33PM

Now to find a place to display them ...

Blog Candy over at Design Dollies

I know I've said before that I've recently become Scrap-obsessed but it's reaching obscene proportions lately. I've started to spend hours surfing Scrapbooking Blog sites getting inspiration. Now I've just got to find an equal amount of time to extract the inspiration from my head and put it onto paper! Oh right, I've got 3 kids to take care of first. Hmmm ... well, sho needs to sleep anyway?!



One of my latest favourite Blogs is called Design Dollies. Check them out for yourselves by clicking on their Blinkie on the left side bar. (I think that's what it's called - I'm still new to this whole Blog thing!!) They are offering up a fantastic Launch Blog Candy pack but they're making us work for it a bit. Sounds like fun and I'm game!

Wish me luck!

Reflections on turning 36.

Happy Birthday to me - I am 36 years old today.

Wow. When did THAT happen?!

When my Mum turned 36, I was 4 weeks old and Andrew was 3 1/2. Paige's age! I guess I got a bit of a head start on her in the kid department but it's eerily similar, isn't it?

I was thinking about this post last night ... planning in out in my mind if you will. (Who says that only the Days are planners?! Campbell's can be planners too - we just tend to do it all last minute!! LOL!! But I digress ...) I was replaying the Movie of My Life So Far trying to figure out what I have accomplished over the past 36 years. It seems to me that a person should be able to accomplish a lot in 36 years on the Earth! I didn't reach any earth shattering conclusions (no pun intended.) No epiphanies. Just the simple fact that my biggest accomplishments - my 3 biggest accomplishments actually - all happened in the past 6 years. Two of these accomplishments decided to keep me awake most of the night last night!! Just to remind me that the days of being the Birthday Princess (or in my case, the Birthday Queen!!) are over. Sigh. Just you wait girls, I'll get my own back when you have kids of your own!!!

So if my biggest achievements happened after turning 30, what the heck was I doing for my first 30 years?!?! Sweet (insert bad expletive here) all if you ask me! It's no wonder then that I have been plagued lately with a sense of impatience. Like I'm waiting for a really anticipated show to begin and there are major technical difficulties delaying things. I love my kids and my husband so why am I so anxious to get through school, get them INTO school, and start my "real life"? I spend a lot of time waiting for the next big milestone thinking that will somehow make everything else in my life make sense, only to be disappointed when I find it's still the same old, same old. How do I go about changing that?

Deep questions for a Wednesday morning!!

Well, accomplishment #3 just woke up from her nap so my deep thinking time is over. Until next time ...

Can you believe that Christine (Little Christine, that is) is 6 months old already?! Time flies when you're having fun ... err ... busy running after 3 kids and a husband!!

She is 16lbs 9 oz and 27" in length. That's 90th percentile for height and 50th for weight - just like Marley! She's sitting up on her own now and loves the new freedom it gives her. She's not rolling over like she probably "should be" at her age but every time we put her on her tummy she screams bloody murder! Already she has very definite ideas of what she wants and isn't afraid to express them!! I'm sure she'll eventually rool over AND crawl ... probably something we shouldn't be encouraging!! Who wants a baby who's mobile?!?!

These two pictures were taken of her on her 6 month "birthday" (Sept 23rd) in her bedroom during a little play time with her big sisters and their two best friends. She loves playing with other kids! Although she did start getting a bit annoyed with the "let's put stacking cups on Christine's head" game!

This next picture was taken by Greg one day. He came upstairs to get Christine up after her nap to discover all three girls in the crib. As he said, "you are so busted but wait there, I want to get a picture of this first!" Ah, parenthood. Finding that line between discipline and comedy!!

I call this picture, 3 Little Monkeys in a Crib!

Better Late Than Never

Well, I finally completed a scrapbook of our honeymoon. Only 7 years late!!

After Christmas I thought I would have the time (and energy) to finally organize baby albums for Marley and Paige. Since Little Christine's due date prevented me from taking another class at BCIT, I - rather optimistically - thought I'd need to fill the time usually spent on homework with another project. I took over the dining room table with various photo albums and scrapbooks I've accumulated over the years. And there they sat

... untouched

... gathering dust.

I was stumped. I had no idea how to get started. I had little experience scrapbooking and what I'd done before I wasn't happy with. It wasn't until June that I got the idea to create a mini album for Marley's preschool teacher as a thank you for the incredible 2 years she gave to Marley. It turned out really well (if I do say so myself) and the rest is history!!

I was totally hooked! I started to check out various Blogs and even got books out of the library. And Michael's became my new Mecca - I have a bit of a paper fetish! Then I had to pick a project. Any project! In the pile of albums on the dining room table was my first attempt at scrapbooking our honeymoon. It seemed so amaturish to me and that's when I knew I had my project. I could redo the album and this time complete it!

It took me all summer (having an infant, two other children and a husband in the house doesn't allow for concentrated "scrapping time") but it's finally done and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

But you be the judge! I've taken pictures of all the pages and made a movie of them. Enjoy!! And stay tuned for future projects!!