Silly Boy!

Pictures of Tracen playing peek-a-boo and smashing his face all over the window :)
The kit is Cooties and Feeling Happy from Scrap Orchard.

I used the Storytellers digital express be an original kit. Isn't he so cute in that beanie :)

Week 3

Here's the third week of my goal of a layout a week. I used a StoryTellers kit for this layoutI have to remember to take pics each week so I have something to scrap, that's the hard part!

I love the way Tracen talks. I love listening to how he prounounces everything he says and I didn't want to ever lose it so I made these pages. It's some of the many words he says and how he prounounces them. I did something similar with a mini album for Jesse but I'm sad to say I didn't come up with this until way after it was too late for Ty.

I used Shabby Princess Happy go lucky kit but I made the tags. I also used a sketch from 52 sketches in 52 weeks for page 1.

scrapbooking

I haven't scrapbooked in forever! In fact I plan on selling a good amount of my paper scrapping stuff on ebay soon. I'm switching to digital. The only paper I'll do from now on is what I have printed and what people give me that's printed.

not a total slacker

I'm not a total slacker, we had FHE, I just didn't post it. I made this memory game from www.apleasantsunday.blogspot.com with photos I hijacked from the deseret news of the apostles and prophet. Then I did just what she did and covered them in scrappy paper and then I laminated them. We played several games of memory and several games of go fish. Ty's just enough older that he gets memory a lot better so Jesse liked go fish better. It was fun getting the boys to prounounce their names and get them learning the faces of the apostles. Of course they have President Monson down as well as Elder Bednar since he's our cousin and they've met him once and everyone in the fam talks about him. They were starting to remember some of the others too.

52 weeks of FHE

So I've come to the realization that I'm a bit of a slacker when it comes to things like family home evening and family prayer, scripture study. You know those important things that you're supposed to teach your children. I have lots of excuses, whether they even border on good or not is debatable. My biggest excuse is that Josh and I both work shift work, opposite each other and we rotate so the kids don't go to day care and our schedule changes day to day and week to week. I know, bad excuse! SO I set a goal that we are going to have family home evening every week. We will have to change the day each week based on our schedule so we're not going to be a traditional monday night fam, but at least we'll be having it right? We're also going to work on family prayer, regardless of who is home at night. So the goal is 90% on the FHE. And for a little more motivation (I don't want to feel like an idiot) I'm going to post them here. If I don't have it I'll feel dumb that you all know I didn't so I will....right? Let's hope so. I didn't want to post it on my regular blog so here is where we'll go.

We started tonight! I found a cute website with lots of FHE ideas here. We did the "Satan's Web" lesson in honor of halloween. It was so cute. The boys built a web with yarn and pins. Then we put things in the web that Satan uses to "catch" us. The boys helped Tracen come up with something for him too...they think he needs to work on hitting. He mostly played with the pins and rolled the ball of yarn around. The boys really wanted to come up with happy things too so we put things we could do instead on the side. The boys said they really liked it and had fun. Jesse wants a picture to hang on his wall.

For our activity we carved pumpkins. Tracen mostly watched. Both boys had vampire fangs on their pumpkins



Then for our treat we had roasted pumpkin seeds. It was lots of fun! Next week will come a lot sooner. I think the only day we'll all be home together is Monday. We're going to talk about being nice to eachother because we struggle with that!