Odds and Ends

We have been very busy with the house buying/selling/moving/renovating process, but we have also had some fun with Nathan this month as well.  We spent some time at our "old" park before we moved, and to Nathan's delight, we saw the garbage truck pick up all of the park garbage!  He loves garbage trucks!

We had a celebratory cupcake on Jesse's birthday, and Nathan's face is the only thing sweeter than that chocolate fudge cupcake.

We took advantage of the beautiful balloon fiesta sights.  We didn't go to balloon fiesta park this year, but we went to our park both weekends of the fiesta and enjoyed the view of "so many" balloons going by.

We also took a trip to the zoo, focusing on the big cats exhibits, where Nathan roared like a lion!

Adorable Layout

I want to share this layout of baby Nathan and his Grandpa Thomas.  I love this picture of the two of them!  I also love Creative Embellishments' Large Infinite Frame -- it adds so much to this page!  I primed it with gesso and added light yellow chalk ink.  

I used the word "Adorable" from the Boy Word Set as my title and layered the title piece over the picture and frame.  

Our New House

We closed on our new house!  We have not moved in yet (we are doing a few renovations first and we will move in at the end of the week) but this house is officially ours. 

I will share some indoor pictures later, but I wanted to show you the main reason we are buying this house: the backyard.  Nathan will now have room to run around, and those views don't hurt either!

We have a lot of affection for our old house, and it is bittersweet saying goodbye.  This adorable place is the first house we purchased, and the only home Nathan has ever known.  We have had a lot of fond memories here! 

PS If you want our new address, please email me.

Special Dad Moments Layout

I created this adorable Jesse & Nathan layout and wanted to showcase how versatile CE chipboard is.  I used the Large Nested Rectangles a little more traditionally -- as a frame to accent my embellishments in the middle of the page.

Then I used two different sizes of square chipboard from CE's Squares set and backed each open square with patterned paper to create a cute little decorative house.  I layered the little "door" over the bigger "house" square using pop dots. 

Finally, I used the Moments Word Set and Basic Alphabet to create my title.

It's Fall

We are having a very wet fall so far, with more than our fair share of thunderstorms.  We have had plenty of fun things to do inside, however.  Nathan loves playing with cars (or anything with wheels), and often lays down and pushes his vehicles back and forth across the floor for quite some time.  He is so precious!

Jesse (whose birthday is today!) is playing indoor soccer, and this week's game was at a good time so I brought Nathan to see Jesse play indoor soccer for the first time.

Jesse also builds robots for Nathan out of blocks and they affectionately call these robots George and Terry.  Nathan really likes knocking them over and exclaiming "Poor George!"  

We have been appliance shopping lately in preparation for our move, and Nathan has loved it!  He keeps himself entertained by playing with the high tech fridges (which we are not getting!) and looking for forklifts at Lowes.  

CE October Challenge

For Creative Embellishments' October challenge, I just had to make a baby's first halloween layout.  I love how we were challenged to make a black and white layout because otherwise I probably would have added color and I think this page is more striking this way.  

I knew as soon as I saw them that the Spider Web Corner Set and the Mini Web set would be perfect for this page.  I also added words from the Baby Time Word Set and the Grades or Awards set to make my "Baby's 1st halloween" title.  I painted all of the chipboard on this page a deep matte black.