Day 083 - March 24th

Since I'm going to be headed back to work after we get back from vacation, I'm trying to get as much scrapbooking done as possible beforehand. This was one page I've been looking forward to doing. I got my inspiration from the stickers that I had found, and knowing how cute my lil' man is when it's bath-time. I cut the big words out on the Cricut machine and put a brown shadow behind them. There's a page to the left of this one that is of his FIRST bath and it says {rub-a-dub-dub} at the bottom (with the brackets and all), but this one is so much cuter in my opinion. I've got 21 pages done total now, and only about a million left to go! Plus I've still gotta do the journaling and captions for the pages and photos. I've got all of the supplies, now I just need the time and motivation! (mostly just the motivation!)

Day 082 - March 23rd

Since I was offered a position with the photo studio and I accepted, I had to go in today and do my background check and all that fun stuff. I (later) picked up my employee handbook from the Hamilton store and picked up the prints from Genesis' Easter session. This is my handbook. I'm glad she gave it to me early so that I have some time to look over it before I'm actually ON the job. There's gonna be a lot to learn with this job and I'm pretty excited about things to come. It's a sales-driven job, which is totally new to me, so I'm definitely going to start out as an under-dog. I also have to invest into some nice business-ish clothes, since my last 2 - 3 jobs I was pretty much wearing jeans and a t-shirt (if not sweat pants) and hauling around a baby belly.

Day 081 - March 22nd

This was NOT the photo that I wanted to post today. It will have to do for the time being. Kevin got this candle at Meijer and we've had it on the candle warmer. It smells SOOOOO good! Probably one of the best smelling candles I've ever experienced. I suggest it to anyone that likes grape flavored ANYTHING.

Day 080 - March 21st

There wasn't much to photograph today, as I spent much of the day out shopping with Kevin and Genesis. So I just tried to get some good shots of the Easter Basket that I made for Genesis a few days ago. My favorite item was this adorable rubber duckie bunny that I picked up at the Dollar Tree. I got him a "fabric" basket, one that I could smoosh and put into a shadow box with his little bunny outfit (like I did with his Santa Suit from Christmas) and other items from Easter. I tried to get a shot with the duck in focus and the basket out and I must've taken 30 shots trying to get the perfect angle and lighting. I think this one was the best of what I took.

Day 079 - March 20th

Happy Spring Equinox! No better way to ring in the first day of the Spring season than with a cookout baby shower. I made the proud Mommy and Daddy this diaper cake as a surprise and I just COULDN'T wait to reveal it to her! It was driving her nuts wondering what it was! It was quite a hit with the rest of the shower guests. Everyone says I should sell them. (and I definitely would if there were people interested in buying them!) Luckily there was no rain and the shower was a huge success. I had a great time and I miss these two so much!

Day 078 - March 19th

This was quite possibly the busiest Friday that I've encountered in a very long time. I had an interview with PictureMe! portrait studios in Western Hills, and I also had to pick up the cake for Danielle and Mike's baby shower for Saturday (shown above) from Joyce's Tasty Cakes in Hamilton. Not to mention run to Meijer to have them replace the 5 x 7 prints that were messed up and drop Genesis off with Granddad while I went to my interview. I'm usually on time (if not early) to everything on my agenda but I managed to run behind about 15-20 mins. If you've never had a cake from Joyce's, you haven't lived yet! It's so good! So beautifully decorated! My baby shower cake was from there, so I couldn't provide Danielle with anything less!

Day 077 - March 18th

I finally got some new shades today! I've had my other/old pair for so long now... at least 3-4 years. The lens was only holding on to the frame by one screw above the nose, and they were due to fall apart any day now. I picked these up at Meijer while I was there printing out some photos for Genesis' scrapbook. I think I'm coming to realize that I cannot go into a store and ONLY buy what I went in there with the intentions to buy. This.... my friends.... could be a problem. I'm a shop-a-holic at heart! What can I say?

Day 076 - March 17th

Today was a bright and beautifully sunny day in Fairfield, Ohio. Terri and I took Genesis to Waterworks Park to swing. This was his first trip to the park! It was so funny and cute to see him in the swing. He had already been up for a few hours, so it caught up to him and he eventually fell asleep in the swing! We took him and set him in the shade and blew him bubbles. Then I took him down the curly slide once and walked him along the playset. It was just a peek at what I have in store for when He is old enough to run around and play in it all by himself.

Side Note:: It was also St. Patrick's Day, but that's not something that I celebrate. And I had him in his little ROCK -a- SAURUS REX shirt. So cute!

Day 075 - March 16th

Since He's been so sick, Genesis has been sleeping/napping on his tummy. I think it's adorable the way his little butt is stuck up in the air. I wish there wasn't so much clutter in the photo, but it's still a decent shot. And he's clutched on to that toy so hard!

Day 074 - March 15th

Genesis, Meet Spud Bunny. Spud Bunny, Meet Genesis.
After getting his fabulous portraits taken for Easter, I had some more shopping to do for Danielle's baby shower this coming Saturday. While I was out, I got some stuff to make Genesis an Easter basket. I picked this Mr. Potato Head up on a deal at Wal-Mart. (I'd call $5 a bargain!) It's actually called "Spud Bunny" and he didn't come with any extra pieces, but I think that it's totally adorable and every kid should have a Mr. Potato Head! They now call the little compartment where you put the pieces in the body the "Tater Tushy" which I find utterly hilarious! I just gotta watch him closely to make sure he doesn't put those arms in his mouth.

Day 073 - March 14th

With Genesis being so sick the last few days, there's been a lot of coughing and vomiting... and therefore a lot of baths. I was really wanting to get a picture of him with his rubber duckies for the "Bathtime" scrapbook page. I think this was probably the best shot that I got that didn't have his little winky in it :)

Day 072 - March 13th

I went shopping with my friend Terri today, and I found this little can of Mountain Dew flavored lip balm (and if you know anything about me at all, it's my undying love for the Dewski.) I'm really not a fan of lip balm because the flavors are always kinda gross, so maybe this flavor will be one that I can tolerate. Kevin went shopping and got a few shirts and stuff for Genesis. This "ROCK -a- SAURUS REX" shirt is my favorite! I love it!

Day 071 - March 12th

Genesis had his 6 month check-up today (even though he's closer to 7 months of age). He had developed a cough over the past few days but when I took him in for the appointment they said he had a fever around 100.2 degrees. The check-up went fine as far as his growth and everything (well, except the fact that they basically said I'm feeding him too much? "No more than 32 fl oz in a day... whatev.) They went ahead and gave him his shots... 3 shots in the legs, 1 oral injection, and pricked his little finger to test his iron. Poor little guy. He was so mad! Daddy is SOOOO lucky he doesn't have to go through those appointments!

Day 070 - March 11th

Remember when 3-D glasses were made of paper and blue/red film? Look at them now! And look how good he makes them look! HAHA! How adorable!!!

Day 069 - March 10th

This is my 4th scrapbook page I've EVER made, and the letters were done with our new Cricut machine. It has a red "drop shadow" behind the striped letters. I'm still going to add some stickers and maybe ONE small portrait from his Christmas session at Olan Mills Studios. Not quite sure yet. I think I did a cute thing by joining the words with a common letter. That wasn't part of my original thoughts for the page but it worked out VERY well and I adore it! I think I got a good thing going, here!

Day 068 - March 9th

Here is one of the wonderful creations you can do in a jiffy with the Cricut machine! My official First Project via Cricut. A simple Thank You card with a great handmade feel, done in a quarter of the time it'd take to cut out that word by hand. Probably even less! Next time, I plan to use a contrasting color on the little "ribbon" that goes across the word so it sticks out a lot more. Probably something like yellow or orange. A color that isn't on the striped paper at all. Stay tuned for more Cricut projects!

Day 067 - March 8th

After a few good hours of fussing, who knew that putting Genesis in the Cricut box would be the thing to calm him down?! Haha! Great idea, GrandDad!!! It's pretty hard to get anything done with him fussy and dying for attention, but I'll be darned if it's not the simplest things that satisfy a baby! I used to play in boxes ALL THE TIME when I was little. I wish I had a picture of myself in the box that I turned into a little car. It had a saran-wrap windshield, a paper-plate steering wheel, a slot to slide my AC/DC and Hootie & the Blowfish cassette tapes through, and sharpie-marker dials and vents and the whole nine yards. Those were the days!

Day 066 - February 7th

Sharm and I have been discussing investing in one of these machines for a while now, and boy am I glad we finally made the leap! How exciting! It's a scrapbooker/crafter's dream come true!!! She found it on a deal, had an extra coupon, plus splitting the cost in half made it an exceptionally good bargain!!! Worth EVERY penny!!!

The Cricut "Create" Machine = Best.Thing.Ever.

Day 65 - March 6th

Today we celebrated Pierce's 3rd Birthday (even though his actual birthday was March 1st) at my Dad's house. It was great to have everyone together in one place at one time. It was the first time my Grandparents got to meet Genesis, and I hadn't seen my niece Emma in quite some time. This photo was taken as we were waiting for Bobby, Crystal and Emma to arrive.

Papaw Red Dog and his lil' Buddies!

Side Note:: Kevin && I went and seen the new Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland in 3D, and it was SOOOOO good! The showtimes were selling out very quickly and every seat was pretty much FULL! They had employees in the theater moving people over to fill the empty seats so more people could fit with their groups. It was a great time!

Day 64 - March 5th

Today was a really pretty day in Ohio, at least our part of the state anyway. I had some errands to run, and what better time to do it than while the sun is shining and the birds are chirping?! Genesis loves car rides because it generally means NAPTIME! Since he's big enough to sit up in the carts now I've been having to wake him up as we go in each store, and it's a pain in the neck to get him out of a rear-facing seat. It could always be worse, though. At least this one has a low back and I can reach over it. Won't be so easy when we get him in a big-boy seat!

Day 63 - March 4th

I seen the idea for this project online a while back. The original link was lost on my old laptop along with all of the rest of my bookmarks, but I had already gotten most of the supplies. A deck of playing cards (was soooo stoked to find the pink deck at Krogers), a pack of book rings, and (just to be a little bit cleaner with the finished product) a smaller hole punch than are sold at most places. I printed out 52 of the reasons why I love my mommy and cut and glued them to the cards. I got it done in a shorter amount of time than I thought, even with sticking a bunch of heart stickers and stuff to them as well. Just need to do a few finishing touches to the rings (ribbon, beads, etc.)

Day 62 - March 3rd

Last night we had one of those "jabbing-the-broomstick-at-the-ceiling" moments when the neighbors upstairs were sexin' it up at 2:30 in the morning... I didn't call and complain like I normally would have, and when Kevin came home from work this sign was on the outside door. I think it's funny. I didn't complain, and I'm sure the complaining wasn't about their noisy bed, but they are still loud voice and music wise. If someone was complaining about the noise coming out of our apartment, they must not know what it's like to have a teething 6 month old baby boy!

Day 61 - March 2nd

His new favorite toy is this little flashlight. He has been teething pretty bad the last few days, so he's been putting anything and everything in his mouth. I actually got him to eat some bananas from the spoon in his high chair today. 2nd foods, which is a first. He'd ate a few of the 1st foods, but wouldn't after I tried to give him prunes, peas, and carrots. Gonna try to keep up with the spoon feeding and hopefully he'll start taking to it a little better. He wants "big-people's food" as I like to say. He stares at us when we're eating like a dog beggin' for a scrap. :)

Day 60 - March 1st

LOOKY-LOOKY WHAT I GOT TODAYYYYY!!! I bought it for myself, so don't get any ideas! I've been eyeballing this ring since I was only a few months pregnant, and had been waiting for a good time to get it. Meijer (in Fairfield/Forest Park) has most of their jewelry 90% off! So it looks like it was an awesome choice to wait on buying it. Of course, it was the ring that I wanted from Kevin, but that hasn't happened yet and this was TOO GOOD OF A DEAL to pass up! The lady said they're getting a new distributor/supplier so what they don't sell during this 90% off sale they're sending back. Well, I wasn't gonna let this one get by me! Can you believe the deal I got on this thing? It's 10 karat white gold, 1/8 karat of a diamond, size 7. Ahhh, I'm so happy!