Nathan is 4!

We continued celebrating Nathan's 4th birthday this weekend.  We went to Lowes to pick out flowers for Nathan to plant in his new garden, and he has enjoyed watering and taking care of them.

Nathan loves the play house part too, especially the functional sink!

We went to the zoo yesterday with some of Nathan's (and our) friends.  

We had a lot of fun, and squeezed in both a train ride and a carousel ride.

We were also able to set up Nathan's new bed tent he got for his birthday.  He thinks it's pretty cool!

Celebrating Nathan's Birthday

We celebrated Nathan's 4th birthday this weekend!  We had a cute Finding Dory theme and lots of presents.

Jesse spent most of the weekend putting some of Nathan's biggest presents together (and playing with him of course!) 

The sweetest part of the day was diving into this charming under the sea cake.

Nathan's Nana and Grandpa Butch celebrated with us and he had so much fun playing with them.

Nathan is such a big boy, and now has a desk and space in our office to do his "work" on his new computer and complete "projects."  

We had lovely weather perfect for trying out his new scooter!

Wacky Weather

Over the past month we have had snow twice and then tons of warm sunny days.  Definitely inconsistent early spring weather!  During our last big snow we took Nathan around on a sled, and he even raced down a couple hills by himself!

Jesse was also able to make it to Santa Fe to ski!

Nathan and I stayed home (and warm), played, and worked on "projects" that we are proudly displaying at the moment!

Last Maui 2016 Layouts

I have a couple more Maui layouts to show you.  This layout is inspired by CSI's Case File 275.  The position of these pictures are inspired by the art in the inspiration picture, and the tropical theme of this layout is inspired by the bright flowers and greenery.

The last Maui layout is inspired by CSI's Case File 276.  I used the red, light blue, navy, yellow, and white color scheme and I also used pictures of us outdoors.

Home Decor

We have been (very slowly) putting up decorations in our home.  We put together this fun gallery wall in our living room for our cute family pictures.

Now that we mounteed our new TV on the wall, we transformed our TV stand into a decorative console.

Here is a look at the overall space!

Making Waves Layouts

Almost three years after our first vacation to Maui with Nathan I am finally working on scrapping this amazing trip using the fun Making Waves collection by Fancy Pants.  I created this first layout using the left side of Scrap Our Stash's February pick your side sketch challenge.  I also used some striped paper and two different fonts on this page.

I used Sketch~N~Scrap's sketch 170 for this layout of our trip to the Maui Ocean Center.

We love snorkeling, and this next layout features underwater pictures we took during our trip.  I was inspired to create a row of circles and other embellishments by the pretty rose garland in Stacy's photo inspiration challenge.

I created this fun pool layout based on Sketches in Thyme's sketch 359.

Grandpa Thomas Visits

Grandpa Thomas visited last weekend and hung out with us.  Nathan didn't stop moving for a second, and had a lot of fun playing with him.

We went to the museum of natural history where we learned about dinosaurs and watched a planetarium show.  We keep on finding new fun things to discover every time we go!

Under the Weather Layouts

This month I dove into Photoplay's Under the Weather collection to document some of Nathan's little and not so little bumps.  I created this first layout for CSI's Case 273.  I decided to use two kinds of pink and green on this layout, and used a lot of hearts!

This layout is inspired by More Than Words.  I will always think that Nathan is the cutest little thing, and this picture is a screenshot of Nathan stomping his feet to my special version of the "If You're Happy and You Know it" song.  I also love this little "my heart beats for you quote" that is on the embellishment I used on this page -- it's so perfect for my Nathan!

I used Scrap Our Stash's February sketch and was inspired by the cartoon to use a variety of bright colors and heart embellishments!

I also used CSI's Case 272 for this last layout.  I used blue and a weather themed paper for the background.

Final Mom Day

This month I am going back to work full time so I am saying farewell to my "mom day" with Nathan.  It's bittersweet -- this little guy is growing up!

We spent our last full day together having lunch at Chick-fil-a and going to swim class.  Nathan is constantly learning new things at swim class, and doing such a great job!

More January Layouts

I made some more cute Doodlebug layouts this month, this time with their Anchors Aweigh collection.  For this first layout of Nathan's swim class, I was inspired by Rochelle's sketch and the circle balloon elements in Stacy's inspiration photo.

I also scrapped these super-cute pictures of Nathan's trip to our aquarium.