We Will Always Have Paris

Around Here...

Around here I've been working on the ornaments for my upcoming ornament exchange with my CraftChix girlies:

Around here we've battled the flu, a reaction to Tamiflu, a rotavirus, a sinus infection and a common cold.  Sweet Baby G. even wound up in the hospital.  Fortunately, we're all on the mend:

Around here we're rooting for the Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time and Big Easy on The Amazing Race.  Good people!:

Around here I'm kicking myself for not finishing up last year's 25 Days of December project.  Ali is already posting her book for this year and I'M STILL WORKING ON 2008!!:

Around here Super Girl and her little sister the Ladybug went trick-or-treating together:

 
I love the "Around Here" theme.  Full credit goes to Ali Edwards.  I plan to copy it every now & again!

   

Photo of the Week: Tradition

My niece wore this christening dress 9 1/2 years ago.  Baby G. wore it for pictures 4 years ago.  Now, we have photos of my beautiful Baby A. in the same dress.  (Special thanks to my friend Carrie for photoshopping the drool off her lip!)

 

East Coast vs. West Coast

My girlfriend Carrie has been calling me every few days to vent about how ridiculously hot it is in Southern California.  I've been trying to convince her to move to the D.C. area for years.  She always sighs and then dismisses my suggestion to move here.

So Carrie, this is my front door.  It's 56 degrees outside.  Jealous?

I gotta go make some apple cider for Baby G. and then I might take the kids for a nice long walk.
 

Photos of the Week: Fall Fun

 
 

Photo of the Week: Denim

Photo of the Week: Affection

All right already!  Enough with the snarky e-mails about my lack of posts.  I've been busy!

Here's a quick photo to appease friends & family first.  I'll post more later... promise!

Picture of the Week: Crazy Socks

 

No set of PJs would be complete in Baby G's world without "crazy socks".  Matching socks are so last year and she wouldn't be caught dead in them.  Fortunately this means that if the pesky dryer eats a sock or two, nobody will ever know...

Picture Of The Week: 6 Months

 

Baby A is officially 6 months old and a joy to be around.  She's doing something new & different almost every day.

She's lost most of her hair & I think she's starting to look like my Grandpa Walt.  Give her a pair of horned rim glasses, a cigar, & a police scanner and you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.  I'm telling you, I think she'd feel at home with the guys down at the VFW.  Sign her up for bingo night!

Picture of the Week: First Foods

 

Sweet potatoes = delicious!

Ye be havin' a birthday?

Baby G's 4th birthday party was this weekend, and she (once again) wanted to have a pirate-themed party.  So, I drafted the invitations:

 

(Note:  The invitation is soooo much cuter, but I needed to block out G's name before posting it here).  The map is actually the map of Tom Sawyer's Island at Disney World (may God bless you, Google Images).  I photoshopped it to work for my little pirate.  The "Path to Frontierland" now reads "Path to Grandma's" and the title has her full name.  There's even a little section of the map that read's "G's hideout".  The "Dead Men Tell No Tales" flag is tied with hemp twine.

 

My friend Jill and I hit up local home improvement stores for appliance/patio furniture boxes and hubby cut & painted them to create pirate ships.  Then we let the kids decorate the three ships in G's armada:

 

Baby A. cheered on the little pirates:

 

I found a skull & crossbones iron-on transfer at AC Moore that read "Arrgh... Wipe Me Booty".  Perfect!  She really got into the pirate theme:

Once the kids were done decorating the ships, we loaded them up with buckets of water balloons and let them have a pirate battle:

 

  

 

There were tattoos:

  

And a pirate cake:

 

And a pirate pinata!

And "booty" bags for her pirate crew:

 

Thank goodness July is almost over. Between the luau and the pirate party, I'm wiped out (and ye old debit card needs a break)!