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  • Argh, the second time making this post, darn you internet and your weak signal!

    So this last week Tutu and I have been hanging out with lots of our friends big and small. At the beginning of the week we got together all of the Capricorn babies (all born with in two weeks of each other and were due on the same day) for pictures. Most turned out like this:
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    So funny and cute. Isn't that always the way with pictures of lots of kids together? We did get some good ones though:
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    (from the left: William, Tuesday, and Lachlan) Later we all went to the park for a picnic lunch and ending up hanging out for hours. The weather was perfect and the kids loved it:
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    Karen was also with us, along with her beautiful little girls. Four weeks old and she is already going on adventures with them, rock on Karen! They are not quite as mobile of course, so we didn't want our crazy five month olds mixing it up with them yet.
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    Mama baby love! The girls are chillin right behind Lachlan and Tracy in their mega stroller.
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    Donna holds one of them while William rests. Sorry Karen I need to get better at capturing your sweet girls. Goodness knows it goes fast! The next day we were lucky enough to have my friend Beachwood come down and visit with us:
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    We love you Katie!!! And I love that T-shirt, I put it on her pretty much whenever it's clean:
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    Of course all this merriment wears a girl out, so we sleep while we can:
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    Speaking of crazy sleepers (she throws her head back like this every night – even when swaddled!) I have to start the next project:
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    A bumper for the crib – yes crib! She's outgrowing the sweet little cradle. So we went today to pick out a crib. I am going to make an effort to get the nursery done up all extra cute soon and give you all a little tour of it. I have some cute ideas. Right now I'm off to clean up the craft den before any cute little fingers find their way to not so cute paper piercers!

  • Finally figuring out my guage difference so I can cast on for the hourglass sweater. Driving up to Portland with Bj and a sleeping Tuesday, so peaceful and nice.Math class flashback

  • Well, I didn't mean for it to be THAT long between posts. What have we been doing? Tons, but we'll start with the scrapbooking stuff – you heard right – scrapbooking! I have been organizing my scrap stuff after a great weekend scrap day with Sarah last weekend. Of which I took one picture and it's this:
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    But speaking of pictures. I've been going through those as well:
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    Going through the storage albums: old photos to be tossed or cycled into my category drawers (system is from the Big Picture Scrapbooking class I took last year: Library of Memories). I have to make way for a big order from Shutterfly (they are having great deals right now by the way free shipping, free prints, 10 cent print plans, etc). I've also been purging supplies:
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    The amount of scrapbooking stuff I have is almost embarrassing! I'm going to donate this, and hopefully it will make it easier for me to pick through supplies I really enjoy and love. I have filled out a few pages of the baby book:
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    It's really simple.
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    This is true baby book, I'm planning on scraping plenty of Tuesday (and have, when she was less mobile). But since I'm a bit out of practice I worked on other things. Some really old things (pre-blog!!!):
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    That is one half of a layout from 2003 when I went with Laura to Sciarrino's home town. From my film days when I got doubles of my photos and of course couldn't delete right on the camera if I want to. I utilized the square punch and tossed a bunch of photos. It felt great. Then I flipped through my storage albums and found some really fun photos:
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    It was so fun to go through my supplies, sit with Sarah and just create.
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    I know, I know, I took pictures of the layouts. I hate that, but I hate scanning and stitching them more. So that's what I've been doing on the craft front. Coming later what Tuesday and I have been up to together. It's even easier to use the computer now that Bj found this link for me and I was so happy to finally be able to clean my mighty mouse to get it to work perfectly.

    Oh and a note: If you love my Baby Hawk like I do and want one of your own, this is your chance to get one on their yearly sale: 15% off by entering bday09 at check out (until the 8th). I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just love it, Bj loves it, I love that we can both wear it. Tuesday loves riding in it… hmmm wonder if Bj would care if I ordered another in a summer color?

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