Sunday Scrapbooking

First off, new this week from Traci Reed and Jenn Barrette:

And for the first time in too long to remember… a page just because. Wasn’t for any sort of requirement.

Lastly – in follow up to the template set giveaway – if everyone who commented on the post would please email me at lifeastheirmom@gmail.com I will send you your download link to get the templates.

Wordless Wednesday–Pirate Edition

Being a pirate is tiring work.

(link up here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)

30 @ 3–Week 1 Photos

Remember, you can find the 30 @ 3 Lists by clicking that link.

I’m actually on week 3 starting today, but am just now moving it to the blog. Each Monday I’ll post the next week’s photos. So, here are week one’s photos!

(1. New Cup  2. Drawing  3. Crazy Hair  4. On One Foot.  5. Favorite Color – They are all out of order so that I could fit them together the best way possible for the image.)

Tomorrow I’ll post some pictures from this weekend. It was a busy one for us. John and the big three had camping with Cub Scouts. Ryan had a soccer game – and we actually got some pictures worth sharing this time. Plus, there was the cuteness of Mason discovering grass.

Hey read this too!On August 27th I posted a giveaway for a template set, unfortunately there were less than a handful of people to enter. I would really like it if more people entered, so I’m going to put myself out there again. (Because it’s kind of a blow to the self esteem when no one wants to enter. lol) I’m going to re-open the entries for the template set, making the new deadline September 21st. If no one else enters I will just give all who did enter the set. I’m updating that post with the new entry deadline, so please keep your entries on that post, not this one.

Sunday Scrapbooking

I’ve been on a roll this week! FIVE pages done for releases Saturday, plus I’m still working on one that I got a little late.

New this week from Jenn Barrette and Laura Banasiak, and a new-to-Sweet Shoppe from her also



(Hey! That one is rocking my Wordless Wednesday photo!)

Traci Reed had a new solo kit come out and a new collaboration with Mari Koegelenberg


(Oh! That template is one of mine in the giveaway…)

Julie Billingsley had a collab with Meghan Mullens, and Krystal Hartley has a new gorgeous kit.


(…vintage Zach…)

Almost.

John and I spent the night not getting much sleep.

(Mason napping this morning)
Yeah, there wasn’t a whole lot of that going on.

I almost wished that we had a handy little can of formula sitting around the kitchen. Almost. What would have been better would have been to actually have some milk in the freezer. I really need to get back to pumping…. but I digress.

This wasn’t Mason’s normal, “Hey! I’m awake and I want to talk all night!” awake. This was crying, wanting to be held as close as possible, and nursing all.night.long crying. I offered to take him into the living room so that John could sleep, but he said no, it was OK. I told him that he could go sleep in the living room then, and again, he said no. You just got to love a man willing to suffer through nights like that with you willingly.

We sort of took turns. I mean, there’s not too much John can take over and help with in this situation. (Thus the dreams of handy cans of formula.) However, he did take Mason for an hour at one point so I did get some sleep then. At about six when John got up to get the big boys up and ready for school I just plopped Mason in his pack-n-play, tuned out, and went to sleep for another hour and a half until Bella woke up. John swears Mason didn’t cry. I’m choosing to not question that and just believe him.

I got up this morning thinking, well, it’s almost been six months, maybe I should go ahead and start solids. Maybe I should take this as a sign that nursing isn’t enough anymore. But then one of my friends commented on my Facebook status and pointed out something I didn’t even consider. GROWTH SPURT. It is about time for another one. Plus teething. (Will my child’s toofies ever actually pop through his gums????)

Anyway this will pass. Eventually. Hopefully. It might seem like it won’t, but it should will.
It’s hard being optimistic on 2.5 hours of sleep.

Proof that it will pass…

30 @ 3 - What it is.

I’m doing this photo prompt challenge with a group of my friends who all have children that were born at about the same time as Bella. I started it a little while ago, but couldn’t figure a way to incorporate the pictures into blog posts without them seeming, well, random. I decided, why not just bring the challenge over here too? Here is the information I gave my friends:

Starting next week I'll be posting weekly topics with 5 photo prompts for you to take of your 3 year old. (Hey, camera phones are perfectly acceptable.) You don't have to do them daily, or in the order listed. They are pretty general, and most are things they do on their own without prompting. 

I don't want this to be a stress thing, just a fun way to get some more pictures of our kiddos. The pictures don't have to be perfect. Think of it as a way to capture their quirks at this age.

 

I’ll post my first week of pictures Monday. Feel free to join in and snag the list! And your kiddo doesn't have to be three for you to join in. He/she can be any age.

Oh and for my scrapbooking friends, make sure that you go by and check out Traci Reed's blog for the September freebie from the Hawt Mamas. It might just be a set of nine templates, and I might just have made one of them.

Wordless Wednesday - Picture Editing

Straight from the camera:

After some tweaking in Lightroom:

And a little more tweaking in Photoshop:

Finish it up in Lightroom with a black and white conversion.

(link up here, here, here, here, here, and here)