Project 365 Week 19

With Christmas and all of its festivities I had lots to take pictures of this week. This is just a small sampling of the photos I took this week!

12/20 "Addy, where are your ears?"


12/21 Ellie brushing her teeth before bed


12/22 All 3 kids sitting in the snow. This was the first time we have gotten outside to enjoy the surplus of white stuff that has been dumped on us in the last month. The girls had fun sliding down the hill in their sled and Will had fun watching.


12/23 This is the treat we set out for Santa. The note was Ellie's idea. :)


12/24 The girls received a doctor kit for Christmas. Here is Addy checking Rick's ears


12/25 Will even had fun opening gifts. It was a different experience having an older baby on Christmas as both of the girls were very young their first Christmases. It was a lot of fun to see Will grab at his gifts.


12/26 Rick and Ellie watching Russ set up a game.

The Calendars Are Complete!

I made 3 calendars as gifts this year; one for my parents, one for my in-laws and one for my sister and brother-in-law. The calendars for my parents and my sister and brother-in-law are very similar so I photographed them together. Here they are:















Stay tuned, I will upload the final calendar and some cards that I made very soon...

Some Card Challenges

All of my scrappy gifts are completed (Yay!) and I will be scrapping for myself again soon. Here are a couple of cards I made using some challenges.

I used this sketch at "Sketches in Thyme" to make a masculine card.


Here is my card.

This one I did for the Ad/Art challenge at Challenge Masters. The challenge was to use this piece of art:


I was inspired by the silhouette style of the art, the retro feel of the image and the torn edges. I used my Cricut to cut out the car and the sentiment.

Project 365 Week 18

More snow, ANOTHER birthday celebration for Ellie and time spent at home. I also just bought Photoshop Elements 9, so I played a biyt with a few of these photos (mostly with color and lighting).

12/13 Addy busy drawing a picture


12/14 Ellie and Addy before Ellie's first dance performance


12/15 Ellie feeding Will some pears. She loves to feed him and she does a good job!


12/16 More snow, it was falling like that for a good part of the morning.


12/17 Ellie playing with the "horse" at Grandma and Grandpa's house. (She was afraid of it for the longest time!)


12/18 "Dress Like Your Favorite Christmas Carol" party, I was part of "We 3 Kings", my counterparts are the ones in the yellow foam crowns.


12/19 Rick reading one of Ellie's birthday cards to the kids

Project 365 Week 17

This week's pictures feature Will performing several of his new "tricks". Throw in a snow storm and a birthday party and we have an interesting week!

12/6 Will sitting- he started doing this a few weeks ago and I was so shocked- he's only 5 months old!


12/7 And the stockings were hung by the chimney with care...


12/8 Will holding his bottle- this is one of my favorite skills, so helpful with 3 small children!


12/9 Will helping Rick find the right piece


12/10 Will with his cereal bowl after his first "solid food" experience. He actually did pretty well!


12/11 We were hit by a HUGE snowstorm on Saturday. We got about 18 inches of snow. Here is the kids' playhouse in the backyard. The snow was coming down like that all day!


12/12 Ellie with her birthday cake.

Project 365 Week 16

This week we set up the Christmas decorations and have really started getting ready for Christmas. We even celebrated with part of my family.

11/29 Addy and Rick shaking the knots out of the lights


11/30 Will playing with his toy laptop- he loves that thing!


12/1 Ellie and Addy looking at the American Girl catalog


12/2 We made candy cane reindeer, here is Ellie with one of hers


12/3 Our Christmas tree lit up with the snow covered trees outside in the background


12/4 Rick's parents gave us money to buy the kids a Little People Nativity. Here is Ellie playing with it


12/5 My siblings, cousins and I went together to get our grandma a Cricut for Christmas. This is her opening the gift. She was so surprised and excited! It truly is better to give than to receive!

Project 365 Week 15

Well, last week was a busy one with the Thanksgiving holiday and provided LOTS of opportunities for pictures.

11/22 Addy's first haircut, she had a great time watching "The Little Mermaid"- gotta love Kids' Hair!


11/23 Buddy the Dinosaur (from the PBS TV show "Dinosaur Train") at Toddler Tuesday


11/24 Rub a dub dub, three kids in a tub!


11/25 The Shurts grandchildren with Grandma and Grandpa


11/26 Ellie and Addy ready to open their Christmas gifts from the Chans


11/27 Okay, I didn't take this picture (since I am in it!) but it captured what I did that day- my 10 year class reunion. This was about 1/3 of my graduating class


11/28 The table at our Thanksgiving celebration with my family