Speaking of Pregnancy Brain...

...I thought a note I made on the calendar about a 7:10 am appt was another baby checkup for me. So, I woke at 6:00am, got ready, got Mickey ready and off we zipped. I even called my Granny to see if she wanted to meet us afterwards for breakfast. Well, Mickey and I pull up to the office to see...it's closed! Yep! That appointment was for a dentist appointment for Andrew!!! So, we went and picked up Granny and then my mom met up with us a little while later. I was a little embarrassed but, I'd rather be on time for an appointment I didn't have than late for one I did have!!! LOL

...that little envelope is starting to get to me! Not all the time and not everyday but every few days I just want to tear that bad boy open! Must wait until Christmas Eve...must wait until Christmas Eve... I am so not going to be able to sleep that night!

...I made three more batches of Peppermint Cookie Crunch Bark! Now that's not really pregnancy brain related but, I thought I'd throw it in there anyway! ;) Now I'm just getting ready for the cookie swap. Hope they like the peppermint bark and that I don't forget anything!

Today's Rundown

And do I mean run down!!! I'm pooped! Mickey and I left the house about 9:00 and didn't get home until after 2:00! Then we took a nap from three to four and hung out in our cold house until Andrew got home. Ate dinner, rested and then I was off to the grocery store. I got a few necessities and some white chocolate bark to make Liz's Peppermint Cookie Crunch Bark. When I got home I talked to my mom on the phone for 45 minutes. We had some catching up to do as I'd forgotten my cell phone today. Seriously, my pregnancy brain is getting worse! At nine, I popped in Frosty the Snowman and made three batches of the afore mentioned bark. Yum!

I'll try to get some more pictures up tomorrow! :D

Baby, it's cold Outside!

Today it barely reached 50 and with the wind, it's felt quite a bit colder outside. Well, it's cold inside, too! When Mickey and I got back from our errand running today the thermostat was flashing "bat low" so I changed the batteries. Nothing happened. Weird stuff was flashing on the thermostat and no heat. So, I tried two different batteries. Still nothing. Turned it on and off and turned the furnace on an off. Nada. I pulled the batteries out yet again and noticed that the top battery touch thingy (I so can't remember the word...oh, wait I think it's contact!!) was covered in a lovely vertiginous powder. The darn thing corroded! So, I did what I always do when faced with situations like this...called Andrew!

He said he'd fix it when he got home. He'll be home about an hour from now.

In the meantime...I'm cold!!!!

Why scrapbook supplies, a two year old and a pregnant mommy don't mix!

Yep, he got into my orange scrapbook paint. Sigh! Our routine had been working so well up until then. He'd wake, I'd get him out of his crib and get him a banana and some milk and he'd watch cartoons while I napped for another 30 minutes. Well, this morning when I awoke the second time, he'd gotten into my scrapbook paint and painted his mouth, hands, feet and tummy orange!!! He had to sit in his p.j.'s in the empty bath tub in time out while I cleaned up the tile, hardwoods, carpet, sofa and chair. Then, I got him undressed and filled the tub and put him back in the bathtub for his own clean up. I'd cooled off enough to find the humor in the situation and dug out the camera. At least he picked an OSU color! LOL!

We had a better day after that and I made sure to wait to take my shower until he was down for his nap. I'm not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.

Oh, and I watched Rudolph tonight! Love that movie! :D

The Canby Fire Dept Rocks!!!

So, last night Mickey and I were waiting up for the Canby Fire Dept Santa Parade Food Drive. Mickey got to stay up past his 7:30 bedtime and we watched Santa Claus is Coming to Town and ate popcorn or pop-a-corn as he calls it.


I had my camera prepped and all ready to go (with CF cards), my bag of canned food by the door and I had made four extra bags of popcorn for the firefighters. It was starting to get pretty late and they still hadn't come by. We'd seen them from afar turning down a street a few blocks away and heard them off and on but no drive by. I packed Mickey and I up in the truck to go look for them and couldn't find them. Back home, I called my mom to have her check the paper for a parade route and I looked online. Couldn't find a thing.

Mom suggested I call the department and finally, I did. It was quarter after nine by this time and Mickey was really wanting to to see "engin". I got a hold of the night chief (I think that's what they call him) and asked if the parade was over. He said it was and we could drop off stuff tomorrow. I told him that would be fine and that I was glad they had someone to answer the phone because I needed to put my 2 year old to bed. Well, he told me that he couldn't disappoint a two year old and that, barring a 911 call, an engine and a couple of crew would be right over!!! Holy smokes!! I was so shocked I told them that it was too much trouble and we'd just stop by tomorrow but he wouldn't hear of it. So, this is what showed up at the end of our driveway last night!

They even took our picture in front of the truck with the lights going and everything!

They gave Mickey a hat and a sticker and hung around for a little while chatting. Two of the guys went to the call to rescue my grandma this summer and they totally remembered her! Although, it's got to be hard to forget a 90 year old on a treadmill.

Anyway, that was our exciting evening!!! :D

Monthly Planner for 2009

So I picked up this cool aqua planner at Target in the Dollar Spot....Hmmm, I see a trend here! LOL!!!

I loved everything about it except that the front cover had a little bit of gold embossing. I'm not the hugest fan of gold. But, it wasn't that noticable and I figured that if it bugged me that much I could always alter it later. Well, little man got ahold of it and an ink pen and colored all over that gold section. So, I just HAD to alter it now!! LOL! And, since I'd gotten some killer My Mind's Eye paper at a LSS a few days before, I decided to use that.

I cut a section of the paper with the polka dots wide enough to cover the pen marks and trimmed one edge around the dots. Then I glued it to the cover. I did flip it over to trim up the edges a little with my craft knife. Then, I found a pic of Andrew and Mickey and trimmed it and glued the matching frame to the top center of it. I also had purchased a star diecut frame and so I printed out a little picture of Baby H's profile and put it in there. ;D

The letters are all American Crafts Thickers. Green and white are foam daiquiri and the orange is vinyl sprinkles.

Here's the final product!

And, here's a quick shot of the inside. I just love the whole month at a glance! So easy to work with! :D

Tonight, we are waiting for the fire truck to come around with Santa Claus to pick up canned food. Little man gets to stay up for that. And, you can bet I have my camera all ready with fresh batteries, my 50mm 1.8 and a CF card!!!

After I put Mickey to bed, I may work on my days one and two of my December Daily album. Wish me luck!!! :D

Countdown to Christmas!!

Here's my new Christmas Countdown calendar. I made it a week or so ago and I just love it. I hung it up today so it is our first official Christmas decoration!

The pictures are awful because I took them at night! :::oops!::: I used Scenic Route's Roxbury line.

And......I have instructions!!!!

(Well, I'm working on that. My uncle gave me this computer (love him!) and the Microsoft Office trial just ran out yesterday!!! So, I bought a new one (thank you cyber monday sale!) and I'm having huge problems trying to install. So, I'll just finish this post and add the instructions later.)

So, today. Mickey and I had a lazy morning and after lunch we headed out. Mailed bills, went to Costco, went to Powell's, went to Scrapbook Attack, went to the Gap, got lost, went to Craft Warehouse and then stopped by JoAnn's on the way home. Dropped off Mickey, went to the storage unit, then Fred Meyer, then my dad's and finally home. PHEW!!! Pretty successful trip except for the craft stores. I'm still on the hunt for 1" clear glass ornaments. I've got a killer idea for them, I just need to find them!!!

Now I'm watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas and trying to get my MS Office purchase to work by installing a MS Office trial and then seeing if it will let me upgrade to the one I just bought. ARGH! I'm soooooo not the most computer literate person on the block.

Gosh, I hope this works!!!

Yes!!! I did it!!! The whole get the trial thing and then upgrade totally worked. Take that computer!!! Bwahahahahahaha!!!! :D

Okay, here are the instructions for my Christmas Countdown.

Cut an 11” circle out of Roxbury Dearborne St (I used a dinner plate)
Cute a 3” strip of Roxbury Forest St, making sure to get two full rows of trees
Mat Forest St strip on 3 ½” strip of black card stock
Adhere to Dearborne St circle and trim to fit circle
Cut 3 ¼” strip of Roxbury Rockville Park and mat with 3 ½” strip of black cardstock
Adhere to bottom of circle and trim
With Happy Valley Black stickers spell out “Our” in top section
Then spell out “Countdown” with same stickers in middle red section
Using Redmond Stencil chipboard letters in black, spell out “Christmas” on the Forest St strip
Punch out three stars from the Chipboard Stars Shapes. Paint black and while the 2nd coat is still wet add black glitter (this is totally the best way I've found to get great coverage!)
Tie two strands of black Kreinik through five Grafton buttons
Adhere two larger stars to either side of “countdown” and adhere a button to the top of each
Punch 2 holes ½”- ¾” apart in top of pizza tray and tie black ribbon through
Adhere smaller star with a button on it over ribbon between the holes
Punch 12-1 7/8” scalloped squares out of Worn Blue Grid Background paper
Punch 12-1 ¼” squares out of coordinating cardstock
Using Cape Town Black White Square Stickers, adhere the #’s 0,0,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 to the cardstock squares. (#6 will also be used as #9)
Mount cardstock backed numbers to scalloped squares using dimensional adhesive
Adhere a small strong magnet to the back of each scalloped square (I tried that magnetic tape but it only worked when there was one piece of paper it had to grab through. Two pieces of paper and one of cardstock was too much for it.)
Adhere the remaining two buttons to either side of striped paper.
The countdown numbers will go between the buttons and the leftover numbers can be stored on the back
Enjoy! :D