We've been waiting THREE Years to see some blooms on our irises. We almost had some at the end of April but we had a bad freeze and snow and lost three whole shoots. They're glorious and I can't wait until Travis gets home so he can see them. They're his mom's favorite flower and he planted them in honor of her. Hopefully next year we'll see many more blooms. I love seeing the "fruits of our labors".
I love the musical WICKED! I've had the sound track for years and knew all the songs, so when the show finally came to ABQ I just had to go. I bought our tickets way back in October and told Travis this would be my birthday present. SO AMAZING!
His two bottom teeth have been so loose for more than a few weeks. I told him he needs to kep wiggling them and he has. The other night, right before family prayer, we were all kneeling down in a circle and he showed me how loose his tooth was. I told him to hop up and get a piece of tissue and I would help him get it out. He was really excited and came back with tissue in hand. Travis kept interjecting that all Aaron needed to do was get him a piece of dental floss and it would be out in no time. Have I mentioned before that Travis has traumatized more than one of our children with a piece of dental floss and a door knob. Yeesh. The tooth was still pretty attached to the gum in the front but after a little yank it was out and there were only a few tears shed (mostly due to the fact that Aaron saw a little blood on the tissue). The tooth fairy was nice to Aaron and brought him a dollar (remember when all she brought was a quarter :). He's pretty proud of that gap.
Aaron really needs a haircut :)
To tooth goes in the special tooth fairy box that goes under the pillow!
My kindergartner has an amazing teacher and an amazing permanent aid. Those two ladies are awesome. Last week was teacher appreciation week. I made up some treat bags and a couple simple cards. Love botanicals with geometrics.
Oh, this little boy steals my heart! Aaron turned six on the 18th of March and he was SO EXCITED! He's been taking Jazz dance classes with Tessa and loving it. He also started T-ball a few weeks ago. He's going to be on the Cubs with his good buddy Ben. 
He requested a "Worms and Dirt" cake and helped me "write" his name with the gummy worms. (I'm a paper crafter not a cake maker :( hence the cake in a pan). He's holding the special birthday plate in the above picture. Each of our kiddos gets to eat their piece of cake from that plate. It's a little tradition we started when Jakob was around two. 
Aaron has excelled in kindergarten. He started out a little rough and has come a long way to be in the top reading group. He likes to complain at home that he "can't read the big words" but every time he tries he amazes me. It seems to come more easily to him over time. 
He requested hot dogs and hamburgers for his birthday dinner. Travis grilled them and we ate them with avacado and all the condiments a kid could ever want. 
Seriously, he's a character. I like to call him my "little leprachaun" because he's so michievious. He recently lost his wallet which had over $20.00 of allowance in it. He said he looked everywhere and he pretty much gave up. Not really TOO upset (don't think he understands money yet) but he was sad. The other day Aaron told me that he hopes the Easter Bunny will bring him an "Easter Wallet" because he misses his. Sheesh. A couple of days ago I found his wallet under my craft table so maybe that bunny will be able to fulfill his wish. 
He got an MP3 player along with a shirt that had been on clearance at WM that included these fun headphones. He also got a Bakugan to play with Jakob. Aaron is a charmer and a super good snuggler. He is also adept at NOT cleaning his room...he's pretty good and hiding things so I that I THINK he's done a good job. He's got a ton of energy and really enjoys jumping on the trampoline. He's always hanging around Jakob and Tessa trying to do what they do. He LOVES to draw and seems to have a real eye for things. It's nice to see him becoming his own little person doing things that he likes. Happy birthday to Aaron! 
Entering this card in the Lawnscaping Challenge #7 to make your own patterned paper using stamps. Such great stamps!
Stamped the pirate and made a tag out of him. Added a bit of homemade shimmer spritz to make him like a fairytale. 
Here's the finished card after I roughed up the edged a bit and inked them. Have a great day! 
You can join to. Just click the pic!!!!
Too bad Travis' head is blocking the hunk of molding missing from the mirror. I'll look for another pic. My friend, Nicole, brought this mirror over to my house (it had a mate which I didn't take). It had been sitting in some standing water somewhere and had some pretty major damage to the bottom edge. Missing molding and cracks.
Ahh here we go...just after getting a cake filled kiss from my birthday boy. 
I started taking pictures after we had already added globs of wood filler to the edge. 
LOTS of wood filler. 
Here's what it looked like after we had sculpted it out and it had dried some. 
Before color...bronzy brown. 
Primed with gray primer 
And painted with Rustoleum's Heirloom White 
On the wall at night...yes those cupboards need to change.
Here's the mangled corner all prettied up. 
And today...dressed up with her HAPPY EASTER sign! 