7
Mar
Posted by momof2peas in Iheartfaces contest entry!. 7 Comments
The latest iheartfaces contest is Jump for Joy! I knew once I saw the theme that I had to search through all my photo’s for one on my brother and sister in-laws trampoline.
I never liked the oldest pea on the trampoline it scared the bugeezers out of me. I thought for sure she would jump off and break a bone and even at three years old she would laugh at me for thinking that. But she is little and has no control ….so I thought. This picture was taken October 2008 she was four and a half ahd plenty of control and so very happy that Mommy wasn’t invading her space!
Be sure to check out the other greater pics over at iheartfaces.blogspot.com!
22
Feb
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This weeks iheart faces contest is hand on fun.
Last September we adopted our kitten Professor Puffington, it had been a long time coming we wanted to find a kitten in July for the oldest peas 5th birthday. Dad of 2 peas had gotten a kitten on his 5th birthday and really wanted to make it happen for Pyper too!
We also felt since we lost two family cats last year that our cat Petey Peteman was lonely. He was acting sort of depressed if you could imagine. So for months we looked until we found Puff.
On the day we brought him home you would have thought he had lived here for years and that these peas had been around forever. He had no fear (and he still doesn’t) He was 6 weeks old and never ran from either peas he let Py hold him and Phoebe believe it or not was pretty gentle with the new little guy.
Here we caught our littlest pea being as gentle as she could be…..so our hand on fun is hands on Professor Puffington fun!
Be sure to check out all the other fabulous entries at iheartface.blogspot.com or click on the pic and go right there (-:
22
Feb
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Last week the oldest pea had her biannual dentist appointment and came home with a balloon. With no cavities and a great report to celebrate she gave her balloon to Phoebe and was so happy to share.
Phoebe was ecstatic I never heard her giggle so hard in her little life. I should have grabbed the video camera! But instead I grabbed the trust Mamaratzzi Cam.
One word this little pea can say very clearly is balloon so she just kept saying it over and over throwing the balloon up in the air! Her head kept going up too it was too cute…….
Static!
She just bounced her way through the house ……
All it took for my baby girl was a little balloon she played with this all night. As much as she giggled we all giggled with her. She slept well this night she wore her little legs out!
Sadly the balloon only last three days, but if it lasted too long the next balloon wouldn’t be as special!
20
Feb
Posted by momof2peas in My girls. 2 Comments
Only this time we may have won! Two nights ago Pyper said to me that she wanted to get her hair cut shorter like mine. I was excited! Any time we have mentioned getting it cut she would cry so we would only get it trimmed. Now if you know us or have just breezed by our blog here, you know that Py’s hair is just a bear to take care of. But I do it and it is beautiful all red and curly (btw she hates the curls always wants it straight until now……….)
I took her to Cookie Cutters here is town, they are awesome the kids can sit in fun chairs play video games or watch movies while they get their hair cut. Pyper surprised me again when she asked to get her hair washed first. Last few times she got a trim she wouldn’t let them just got sprayed down. Well for being brave and getting it all washed she got quite the surprise when the water was cold!
When she got it brushed out there was no surprise when the stylist found pink fuzz fused in the curls. (see previous post on the pink shag rug).
As she chewed her gum and watched High School Musical 3, the madness began!
Pyper kept watching in the mirror then back to the movie then back to the mirror, I thought she may freak out once she saw all the hair on the floor but she didn’t she was loving this!
More cutting…..
Then she looked; was she gonna crack???
No she sure didn’t!!!!
She did look a little concerned when the layers were being cut in…..
I saw a little face but nothing like panick so we were good (-: Then the smile! She was done just needed to dry a little…She loved it! I loved it!
Her hair looked amazing! I am so glad she decided she was ready and that it was her decision and not us telling her. There is just something about a girl’s hair that no matter what age is part of their personality and they want to be in charge. On this day I was pretty ok with that and yes it sure will bring out that personality~!
She was so happy! She ran around on the indoor play gym while I paid and she ran over to the stylist again to say thank you and give her, her tip. She was so excited to get home and show her Daddy and sister!
When we got home SHE wanted me to take more pictures am I dreaming???? Of course I will take more pictures!!!
Now for the fun!!!
When she woke up this morning she was still as happy as ever and kept asking Phoebe if she liked her hair. I’m very proud of my big girl just another step in her life. The beginning of many decisions to come!
15
Feb
Posted by momof2peas in Scrap Addicts Anonymous, Uncategorized. 5 Comments
After having ruined so many paper holders…nothing ever seemed strong enough. In fact I spent a lot of money on those tall metal wire types and all it took was my husband running into it with the vacuüm cleaner and it fell down like dominoes!
One night after scrapping at the kitchen table I was cleaning up and saw my husbands Coors Light box I wanted to make it easier carrying everything back to the loft so I grabbed it. Well low and behold my 12 X 12 paper was a perfect fit. So the idea popped into my head to decoupage the box and make the paper holder. The cardboard was super thick and heavy so surely it could hold about 20 pounds of paper.
- Any of your paper and a 20 bottle Coors Light box
- Mod Podge, a paint brush and cut the paper in all size square shapes
- One I got done with three 12X12 I found the perfect box for 8X8 too! A show box from the littlest peas size 5 sneakers…
- I love this system I treated the papers like files and now I don’t have to leaf through stacks!
- I got so organized I even used a shoe box from the oldest peas size 12 sneakers and make a ribbon holder!
It was so easy and so much fun to get organized that I thought I would share. I hope its helps one of you get organized too!
Happy Scrapping!
8
Feb
Posted by momof2peas in Iheartfaces contest entry!. 6 Comments
I heart faces contest this week is kisses and I knew it had to be one of Py kissing
Phoebe when we first came home with her.
She was so happy and proud to be the big sister that she could stop asking
to hold her and kiss her. Phoebe is now 16 months old and she is still all over her.
I hope that this mutual love fest never ends between these two sisters.
Be sure to check out all the other lovely kisses photos at ……. iheartfaces.blogspot.com or just click on my photo and it will take you right to their blog.
7
Feb
Posted by momof2peas in My girls, Scrap Addicts Anonymous, Uncategorized. 1 Comment
Pyper, our oldest pea, wanted to give her teachers something special this year for Valentine’s Day. I had the perfect project….I had bought some mugs from Oriental Trading Company to make mugs for her teachers at Christmas unfortunately I ran out of time. So Valentine’s mug it was!
After Pyper told me what she wanted on the mugs her handing her teachers flowers it was pretty easy. It always starts with the cricut expressions we used the Everyday Paper Dolls, the other Paper Dolls and the Walk in My Garden cartridges.
Pyper had a great time telling me what she wanted to wear and what her teachers usually wear, I got online for the school symbol to put on the teachers’ sweatshirts. She has two teachers so we made two mugs. She helped a lot with getting the paper dolls ready and was so sweet thinking about her teachers.
Once we had all of our pieces cut out I was able to start putting them together by this time Py was in bed this was taking longer than I thought it would!
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Then I was able to put the paper in the mugs and wallah! Pyper’s Valentines Mugs…I couldn’t wait to show her in the morning.
We made it all pretty in the bags and she is good to go!
Here’s a picture of the other teacher just so you can see!
Happy Scrapping everyone!
31
Jan
Posted by momof2peas in Chronicles of Professor Puffington, our furry children. 2 Comments
Puff’s First Christmas!
As I have blogged about in the past this little mister is all about Phoebe and Pyper, so when the girls were opening their gifts from Mommy and Daddy Puff was right in the middle! He seemed slightly jealous even! But the next morning
patiently waiting for Santa Paws
Getting in on the gift opening action....
Santa visit’s our house a day early since we travel all day Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. He doesn’t want us to have to carry all his gift back home. Once the peas were awake we all opened our stockings and the peas their presents from Santa Paws.
- He was HERE!
The peas were so excited to get their stockings just like me they think it’s the BEST part! But even the furry peas got stockings too!
watching Phoebe waiting patiently for his own stocking.....
Between the peas still waiting for his turn.....
After patiently waiting for what seemed like DAYS Puff and Pete both got to their stocking with a little help from Dad and the peas…
Finally!
oooo stuff!
All the Riley's got silver bead necklaces even Puff!
The littlest pea was more interested in Puff’s stocking stuffers than her own!
After opening all the gifts the littlest pea walked around with the furry peas fishing pole for hours, she also loved their mice…..so good luck furry peas you might want to start playing with dolls!
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We certainly loved our first Christmas with Professor Puffington, we have been so blessed that he gets along with the peas so well. He goes right to the girls and never complains when they hold him a little too long or a little to rough. I can’t wait for the next issue of The Chronicles of Professor Puffington hope you can’t either!
25
Jan
Posted by momof2peas in Iheartfaces contest entry!. 5 Comments
I read this weeks iheartfaces contest was texture, at first I thought I might skip this one. I didn’t really have the time to play around with photoshop and well to be honest it seems like most the winners are professional and I just love to take pictures! But then I thought, no I will look for something I haven’t blogged in a few weeks and this will give my blog some new content. As I looked through the pictures of the last few months I saw this one; my wonderful husband looking for the perfect pumpkin at the patch. I saw the look on his face, so serious, scanning the patch for a big dark green one yes a green one he so wanted to be different this year. The next thing I saw was the texture in a natural non photoshopped picture. The texture the tree trunk in the background, the leaves and of all the grasses in the patch perfectly outlining the man I love. SO just when you think you have nothing to show off for the iheartfaces contest…look again you might discover something beautiful even if it is just a memory.
Be sure to check out all the other enteries over at iheartfaces.com just click on my picture and you’ll be taken there!
11
Jan
Posted by momof2peas in Iheartfaces contest entry!. 5 Comments
This weeks Iheartfaces challenge was the best face shot and all I could think of was Pyper’s first visit to the Columbus Zoo. I normally would have had a hard time with this one. I have taken so many of the girls that I would love to put on here! Luckily I had just cleaned my scrap loft and found this one blown up to frame from 2007!~ shows how behind I am huh?
This was June 2007, and we had just moved into our house a few months earlier so we were finally able to have some family spend the night. Chad’s parents were down this particular weekend so we planned on taking them to the zoo. Columbus Zoo is amazing and we had such a good time I will never forget Pyper’s expressions now that she was old enough to pay attention to the animals and of course they have a huge playground! Here she is looking down on the train that goes through the zoo too afraid to ride the train she was happy to look at it though!
AND now that we live in Columbus I think I should add that the Columbus Zoo was named the #1 Zoo in America by USA Travel Guide!
Be sure to check out the many and I mean many other entries at iheartfaces.blogspot.com I think they have a record number this time around! And while you are there wish the site a Happy Anniversary Amy and Angie did a phenomenal job on this website in just a year and they deserve a pat on the back. They got people blogging who never thought they would!
