....playing at cherry park...

Yesterday we met up with Jen and Riley to go to the library toddler time and we went to Cherry Park to eat lunch and play (and chit chat)... We had a fun time watching the boys play and interact with one another. They are so cute! Riley was counting five acorns for him Mama...very smart! He was finding handfuls of them, losing them and hunting for more! Hopefully next time we play at the park Dane-Dane will be with us!

...polaroids...

I have absolutely fallen in love with these polaroids! It's something I found on one of the blogs I follow. You just download it and drag your photos to the polaroid camera app and it slowly turns your pics into polaroids, just like the real thing! I love it!

Photos are as follows:

Me and Dane while on vacation!

Ronin clapping in our front yard!

Luke and I during a little getaway of ours last year!

Caleigh and Dane (best friend cousins)!

One of my very fave pics of Dane (a while back). I love his expression!

...6x6 international swap pages....

So, a fellow international pea, Aki from Japan has organized the best swap! She has teamed up some peas with some of her scrapbooking friends in Japan to do a swap together... How cool is that?

The first photo is half of my double-sided 6x6 bird page... The bird item is a vintage playing card...I just love them! I am not sure I am finished with it. I don't want to ruin it, but I don't want to add too much! I haven't started on the other side yet.

The bottom two are both sides of my flower page. The one with all the blank space must have room for a photo, so I thought this was fitting!

Aki is going to bind all of our pages plus covers that we make for ourselves and make us all one (or two as the case may be) beautiful bound 6x6 book! I cannot wait! :)

..........7 things.......

7 things............

7 things I can do...

1. I can cook

2. I can play the piano

3. I can say a few things still in Japanese!

4. I can sew. Sometimes.

5. I can scrapbook!

6. I can watch Disney movies all day long.

7. I can kill plants better than anyone I know.

7 things I can't do...

1. I can't fall asleep very well if the tv's off.

2. I can't eat oatmeal.

3. I can't stand Napolean Dynamite.

4. I can't remember my dreams...hardly ever.

5. I can't sing. Well, anyway.

6. I can't dance.

7. I can't cut hair...just ask my hubby! :)

7 things I need to do...

21. Plan a this week of meals.

2. Work on my swap stuff.

3. Pay the electric bill.

4. Iron some of Luke's work shirts.

5. Buy more felt.

6. Vacuum.

7. Get a haircut.

7 things that attracted me to Luke...

1. He's cute, sexy and handsome!

2. He's got gorgeous eyes!

3. He has a great sense of humor...he makes me laugh all the time!
4. His smile makes my heart melt.

5. He is so affectionate!

6. He is super smart...seriously. The boy knows way too much!

7. He knew how to sweet talk me...that's for sure! ;)

7 things I say most often...

1. No!

2. Ronin!

3. Dane!

4. What's going on?

5. Wow.

6. I love you.

7. You're my favorite!

7 things I want to do before I die...

1. Go to Hong Kong!

2. Visit all the Disney parks!

3. See the Sistine Chapel, IRL.

4. Go back to school.

5. Get a degree in something...lol!

6. Start playing the piano again.

7. Lose weight! And stay healthier...

7 favorite foods...

1. Tamago Katsudon (fried pork over rice with eggs and onions in a delicious sauce).

2. My Dad's Mexican food (which I can now make).

3. Key Lime Pie

4. Sushi--especially the house roll from Taste of Asia.

5. My grandmother's dressing

6. Curry

7. Ice cream

I copied this great idea from the following blog: http://mercybeyondmeasure.blogspot.com/ Thanks for the great inspiration!

...doing a little community service...

Yesterday the three of us (Daddy, Roro, and me) went up to the community fire station and did some cleaning and reorganizing... The place was a mess. Luke's been wanting to get all the old uniforms in some kind of order. It took almost four hours to get a corner of the station in decent shape. Ronin had a lot of fun going through unimportant papers...he LOVES mail! He also had fun playing with cups and eating utensils... It wasn't a whole lot of fun cleaning, but it was nice being with my husband all morning long and watching Ronin explore the fire station... I love the picture of the bulletin board...isn't it ghetto?! :) What' up!!! Anyway...that's my weird sense of humor coming into play....

....Dane reading like a BIG boy...

I am so proud of you! You are reading SO well!!! Yay, Dane!! He read this entire book from start to finish with barely any help at all! He is just amazing! :) I can't express how proud of him!! We got his report card today and everything was SO positive! His teacher even says he is reading great...which we already knew, of course ;)

...Hello Kitty cuteness...

Here are the first two Hello Kitty felt cuties I made for my Hello Kitty swap! They will eventually be going on some tags, but first I have to finish embroidery all 15!!! I am having SO much fun on them though! I miss going to the Sanrio store so much...this has been perfect therapy! :)

I LOVE felt!!

I have been making things out of felt for about a year or so...maybe a little bit less. I started making my niece Caleigh some felt play food for a gift last year....it was so fun to make and turned out so cute and she loved it! I also made a ton of Christmas ornaments out of felt, which people seemed to really enjoy....

And now I am participating in a swap at 2peas that is all felt! I am super duper excited just making the felt products I signed up for, but I can't wait to get all the goodies the other ladies are making.

So far, I've made cookies (which aren't posted in this post), eggs, bananas and I have finished cutting and sewing the monster's faces! :) Dane Dane designed the monsters and I translated that into the felt...they are going to be so cute and he's named his monsters "Phineas" after one of our fave cartoons!

Ronin's photo shoot

I can't believe my baby boy is already over 14 months old. I took these shots a few days ago while he was outside playing in the sand... I must say, he's beautiful!

I love that he favors me too! ;)

I've been bad....

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I've blogged. How sad.... I am going to try and restart and do a good job of posting. I really want this to be more a photo journal of our lives and I've focused on other things too much, I guess... More to come soon!