Final layouts...

Here are some images of my final layouts. I finished up all the details for weeks 1-3. As you can see I'm using the days of the week labels for my journaling and the clear letter stickers for my photos. I'm putting the clear stickers on a punched out colored paper to give them a bit more pop. Week 3, I used a yellowish color and think I like the bolder colors better. It's hard to read the white letter on the yellow paper. I really like my mix of 4x6 horizontal photos with the 3x4 vertical photos. I also think I have a good mix of computer generated journaling and handwriting. It's definitely easier to do the handwritten cards, but I think the computer print looks so much nicer! ;) Anyway, hope you enjoy.

Days 20, 21, 22, 23

This weekend the whole family went up to Keystone. It was so much fun. Zach's parents rented a house for the weekend and we all had fun playing games, eating some good food, and just being around each other. We all arrived on Friday night (us being the last to arrive, because I worked all day) and ate some dinner and then played Pop 5. Saturday the guys went snowboarding and the girls took Coda sledding and then to lunch and some shopping at the Outlets. We then all returned to the house for some good food and more games. The boys went to go play hockey at the outdoor skating rink and the rest of us played some wii. Sunday was the end of our fun weekend, so we grabbed a nice family group shot. We really had a great time! Thanks Bart and Kathy for all the FUN!!

Day 20 (1.16.09)

Day 21 (1.17.09)
Also using a 3x4 image for this day. This is Holden and his little cousin Amelia. Amelia is 3 months older then Holden. Aren't they adorable in their matching outfits.

Day 22 (1.18.09)

Day 23 (1.19.09): Zach took the boys to go watch his cousin, Matt, play hockey at the promenade. This is a picture of Coda and Molly watching the game.

365 Kit Update...

OK, so remember this, the weird journaling card. Well, I still swear that it's not right, but I got a response from Creating Keepsakes and they say, "Nope, this is what the artist intended it to look like." Well, I still don't buy it. I just can't believe it. I mean, it doesn't go with the kit at all. It makes no sense. Anyway, I'm going to try and e-mail Becky Higgins herself. Who knows if I'll get a response, but I'm going to try. I'll let you know if I find anything out.

Also, has anyone used any of the downloadable journaling cards? I love them!! I really wanted to type some of my journaling (I have horrible handwriting). And this is the perfect way to be able to do that. I can't wait to show you a finished layout. But here is one of my typed journal cards. This will go on the first week. It will be the journaling to go with Day 1.

Days 18 and 19

Day 18 (1.14.09): Yesterday when I left work there was a beautiful sunset. I <3 heart <3 Colorado sunsets. This one wasn't even the best I'ld ever seen. But still. I wanted to remember it. So, I snapped a photo. It was going to be my photo of the day. But then, I saw this one that Zach took when they were running errands at Office Max. I just love the way Holden is looking at Coda like, "What are you doing?!?" and Coda looks as if he's spinning in that chair at 100mph. So, I just decided to use them both.
Day 19 (1.15.09): I think I would fail miserably at this project if Zach wasn't around helping me, wait scratch that, if he wasn't completely doing the entire project (at least the photo part). Today he took the boys to The Hop. If you haven't been and you have toddler to young school age children, you have to go. It's awesome!! The best jumpy castle place I've ever been to. Anyway, while Coda was being a mad man running around everywhere, I'm sure, Zach let Holden "play" and snapped these photos. I love how you can see the drool in the vertical! It's great.

Days 16 and 17

Day 16 (1.12.09): Coda's first solo swimming lesson. Coda loves the water. Absolutely loves it. We got a season pass to Water World last year and he would have gone every day if it was up to him. He wanted to go down all of the slides. Well, he doesn't know how to swim yet. And no fear and not knowing equals danger. So, we decided he was old enough to take swim lessons. We finally got him all signed up and he had his first class on Monday. He loved it. He wasn't scared to try anything either. He had expressed to us that he was nervous to go because he didn't want to put his head under water. Well, when it was time to get dunked, he had no problems.
Day 17 (1.13.09): This was a week of first. We also decided to get him all signed up for ice skating lessons. Since Zach plays hockey, Coda always talks about wanting to play. It was really fun to watch him learn. He spent most of the lesson on his butt. But when he did get moving, he really got moving. He was a little speed demon.

frame project

Here are the photos from the boys art project we made for Coda's sleepover. I got some foamies from Michaels and let them put them on a black frame that I cut out. I then printed out a collage photo of them from the sleepover and put it on with a black thin foam to the back. It was fun and easy!

One Year Ago - January

Studio Callico did this great blogpost a few days ago about one year ago. Here is us one year ago. It was great to go back and look at the old photos. I found these from January 8, 2008 at the Denver Children's Museum. And then I found some from the same museum on January 9, 2009. How funny is that! Coda still loves the tools. Last year today, we didn't even know that we would soon be a family of 4. It wasn't until the next week we found out we were expecting. And now, we have an almost 4 month old little boy. Crazy! What were you doing one year ago today?

January 2008

January 2009