Big News!

I have started a Month In Review scrapbooking blog! As many of you know, TallyScrapper.com is being sold so that Christine can pursue her dream job in law enforcement. With the changes at Tally, I decided to take the TMIR and hopefully expand it beyond Tally and keep people documenting their life as it happens.

I hope you'll consider joining me at themonthinreview.blogspot.com for monthly page prompts, photography prompts, and special challenges and prizes! Tell your friends to come play with us, too. It's going to be a fun time!

New Look!

I was really tired of how my blog looked, so decided it was time to do something about it. Welcome to my fresh new corner of the blog world!

Glitter Thickers... yum!

Here's a LO I made last Friday at RSC. I went to the crop with pictures, adhesive, trimmer, scissors, and a journaling pen so I just HAD to pick out goodies from the store for my LO's, including these yummy new glitter Thickers! (the lined background paper is also AC)

With having the icks this week, I really haven't done much crafty. Maybe tomorrow night I'll be in the mood to scrap again? One can only hope!

Look what I won!

Thank you to Heidi, the owner of Freehand Scraps, and Dee, the owner of Red Letter Words, for the awesome blog giveaway! I can't wait to hang my new art in my craft room.

Where has the month gone?

Dang, this year is just flying by. It doesn't seem like it should be the end of June already. The kids are enjoying summer, save for the summer cold that Madeline has acquired (and shared with me, isn't she sweet?).

Yesterday the kids and I went to the pool. I wasn't sure if Madeline would get into the water, she won't run through the sprinkler at home or get into the wading pool. But, she had an awesome time and didn't want to leave! Ian's friends from Project Kids were there, too, so he had fun playing with them. They call him Ian the Shark because he brings his snorkel and chases after them under water. So much fun to watch them! Here's some pictures from our pool adventure...



The boys are going to Wisconsin this weekend for a Civil War reenactment, so its just us girls for a couple of days. Hopefully we can both get rid of this chest cold and have some fun of our own!

A week without my boys.

Maddy and I are on day 5 of our week without the boys. I can tell she is missing them, she walks about the house calling "dad-dee" and "bub-bee" (her word for brother). While they are at Grandma and Grandpa Gall's in South Dakota, Maddy and I are trying to have some fun of our own.

Friday she and I went to Como Zoo in St. Paul. She L-O-V-E-D the monkeys, and we got to see their new baby giraffe. It was crazy busy, but we had fun! Then we met Grandma and Grandpa Smith in Rochester for supper.

Saturday was pajamas day. It quite literally rained from the time we woke up to the time we went to bed, so we just stayed in our p.j.'s and did nothing all day long.

Sunday we went to Grandma and Grandpa Smith's for supper, and Uncle Jesse was even there. Maddy loved seeing the birds in their yard, and we were even visited by a young deer!

Today it's back to work and daycare for us girls. It's spaghetti night since it's also bath night (yeah, she's that messy when she eats her spaghetti). Wednesday we'll go to breakfast like usual at the County Seat Coffeehouse and back to Grandma and Grandpa's for supper. Thursday late the boys will be home!

Ian's such a momma's boy... On Friday when they were about half-way to Donna and Elmer's Tom called and Ian wanted to talk to me. "Mommy, can I have a big hug and a mooch when I get back to Mantorville?" Yup bud, I've got a big hug and a mooch saved up for 'ya!

Ad inspiration

Mosh Posh is still celebrating their anniversary with a blog hop. One of their challenges is about ad inspiration. I found this great ad and am itching to translate it into a layout. I hope it inspires you, too!

My baby's almost 6?

Ian's sixth birthday is tomorrow. 6? Where did 6 years go? He and daddy and his cousins are going camping for his birthday weekend, and we'll have a party at the campsite tomorrow. Hopefully the rain will stay away.

Here's a layout, using the Tally May kit, of Ian at soccer this spring - his first season! Their last night was yesterday, but I'm pretty sure he'll want to play again next year.


And I had to use that lovely picture of Maddy from Mother's Day on a layout. The paper is from a new company, Lily Bee. Beautiful papers, they look great distressed.


And pictures of me and my babes on Mother's Day. Love this new Scenic Route paper, Lily Bee rub-ons, and Jenni Bowlin bingo card.


I'm hoping to get scrappy a bit this weekend, I've got pictures from Ian's Kindercare program and from the last night of soccer to play with!