Smithville Park

Last weekend, we had nice weather and took advantage and went to Smith's Woods in Smithville. There is a nice playground there and trails that lead through the woods and past the historic Smithville mansion and village. We spent a good part of our day there and had a really nice time. Zoe loved seeing the ducks, geese and dogs being walked along the trail. Noah complained a lot, but we picked up a trail map and mini-Magellan was happy the rest of the way.

this look just screams, "mischief!":

Through the Eyes of a 5-year-old

I thought I would tell the story of what sprang forth from Noah's mouth last week with a digital scrapbook layout.

Another Day Out of School and Dr Seuss Week

They cancelled school again today. Apparently, it was so cold, all that snow just turned to ice causing icy conditions on the roads. This decision was not made last night, but sometime this morning setting into motion the lovely automated phone calls from the district... at 5:30am!


This is the first good snowfall we've had in a few years, but the fact is, we live in the northeast, where this weather is not uncommon. For that reason, I feel they should build some snow days into the school year, but they never do. Every day we get out of school adds a new one onto the end of the school year. Our calendar states that June 18 is the "tentative last day for students". That has now been bumped to June 23. That is the longest they will run the school year, though. If we have any more days off after today, they start taking away from spring break! This annoys me for so many reasons!


In Texas, we always had two weeks off for Christmas. They only get a week to ten days here, depending on what days of the week the holidays fall. We don't start school until after Labor Day which is nice, but we go pretty far into June. Apparently, this year, almost to the end of June!


On to other subjects... this week was supposed to be Dr Seuss week at Noah's school. Yesterday they were supposed to wear their clothes backwards and mixed up. Today was supposed to be "silly sock day". Tomorrow, is set to be "crazy hat day", so I concocted a hat based on Green Eggs and Ham. It was much harder to make than I anticipated. Maybe that is because I had planned on making it yesterday and today during Zoe's naptime, but did not count on Noah being home too! It's been a crazy few days and I can't say that the hat turned out how I had envisioned it, but it's done.

Snow Day

We took the ruler out in the yard this afternoon and the final tally is eight inches. Not bad. ( as always, you can click on any photo to see it larger)

View from the front door:




View from the back:



Kids watching it snow:



A plow truck just went by. Zoe is waving to him.











A headless snow angel- Noah would not lie his head back in the snow!



Ewww.. I don't like this!!



Still not liking it...












Noah wandering the north 40:



I just hit him in the face with a snowball.. bwahahahaaa!


I told him he could not reciprocate, because I had the expensive camera. Double bwahahahaaa!

Birthday Card

Our dear friend, Anne, is turning sixty this month. Her family had a surprise birthday party for her today and we thoroughly enjoyed it. For those of you that don't know her, she plays flute and piccolo in the community band with me as does her daughter, Melissa, who is my age. Anne and her husband, Roger, live in Browns Mills and have sort of adopted us as surrogate family. They have us over to their house every Christmas eve and are just such wonderful and supportive people. I wanted to make a special card for her for her birthday. This is what I came up with.

Paper is Basic Grey- Urban Prairie, the leaves and flowers are cut with the Accent Essentials Cricut cartridge, the square brads in the middle of the flowers are from Close to My Heart and the "Happy Birthday" stamp is by Fiskars.

Digital Stuff

The thread header I designed for this month's scrapbooking board:



I used the same digi parts to make a new siggie for my signature line in my emails and posts.

I used those awesome scattered rhinestones again.. I do believe that is my new favorite digital embellishment! All embellishments except for the rhinestones are from the Shabby Princess, Promise kit. The rhinestones are from the Winter Chill mega kit at iMotion studios.