{Menu Monday + more craft time}

Happy Monday! What's on the menu for you this week? Here is what we will be eating at our house: 

Monday: leftovers (Ryan has to meet with his group tonight)

Tuesday: Jambalaya

Wednesday: leftovers (Ryan has to meet with his group tonight)

Thursday: Pasta with Ham, Mushrooms, Asparagus, and Truffle Oil (I am going to take a crack at this recipe, but I will be modifying based on what we have in the refrigerator. For example, we have cremini and button mushrooms instead of shittake. It looks delicious, so I am sure we will love it.)

Friday: Out

Not too exciting, but I am looking forward to trying the recipe on Thursday.

Tonight was supposed to be a special night for Caden. His school had scheduled Daddy Night, but the snow caused all activities to be cancelled. Caden was bummed out, but I told him they would reschedule it. He came home and decided he wanted to play some ABC Mouse. He loves that website. His favorite part is taking care of his hamsters and buying them things:

 

I asked Lilli what she wanted to do that would be special, and she decided she wanted to first do some painting. Nice!

She also wanted to do some painting:

  
After we were done painting, Lilli wanted to cut some paper in the scrapping room. That worked for me, because then I was able to finish two more pages for Lilli's first year album. I also had school called off two hours early today due to more snow. Yes...more snow. I am SO sick of it. Anyway, I made the best of it and got some scrapping done. Here are the layouts I finished:

Little Farmer

  

Thanksgiving

 

I especially love this one, because it highlights that we are not always able to capture that perfect pic. Look at the close-up of the family pic:

 

 

This is just a random super cute one of Lilli's face: 

 Lilli swaddled:

Lilli's Baptism:

I saved and included one of the invites I made for her baptism:

I also put together just a nice snuggling with the kiddos layout:

Not too shabby for one afternoon. I also managed to crochet another ear for the rabbit. I realized I did the first one incorrectly. That means it will have taken me FIVE times to get that darn ear right, but I did it. Wish me luck to still complete it by Wednesday!

Until later!

Barby

{Crafty Sunday: Scrapbook Catch-up}

Every Sunday it is my goal to do at least one crafty thing. That's why I decided to call it Crafty Sunday :)

The crafty thing I did today was work on some scrapping. I first finished this week's spread for Project Life, which you will see on Tuesday, and then I started working toward my goal of getting the kids' scrapbooks leading up to this year caught up. I started with Lilli's. I had most of her first year's scrapbook finished, but it wasn't quite there:

This is the cover of the album.

In fact, there is A LOT to add to it. I decided the easiest way to do this would be to go through the pics on my computer and decide how many pages I would be doing. I sketched out each page (very roughly) and sorted the pics into a separate folder in iPhoto. Today I was able to sketch out all of the needed layouts for this album. Here is a shot of what my sketches look like:

I also put the page protectors into the album right away. Because I was already printing pics for Project Life, I also printed some of the pics for this album. Those I printed I put in the page protector with a label with the date. I think this will help to speed up the process:

I also was able to get a couple of pages done. Here they are:

Nothing too fancy. My goal is to do two pages a night during the week. I know this may be entirely unrealistic, and I accept that I may need to modify this.

Until later!
Barby