One of the inexplicable side effects of the post-Isaac life is that sometimes I have days where I just can't be at home. I never know when they might hit, but when they do, I can't be home. Last Sunday was such a day. I tried to stay home and watch the Colts but I just couldn't do it.
Fortunately, a friend of mine called and invited me to the park with her and her daughter. I ended up taking over 50 pictures of this little sweet thing! I don't want to post too many since she's not my kid, but these few seemed okay...
Cutie pie kiddo!!
But not a baby anymore! After I was done hanging out with them, I went to another friend's house until midnight. While there...I edited park pictures!
Monday...I got to meet this little sweet thing! This is li'l Hazel Haisley. She belongs to my Monday lunch date, Jenny, and we had to go take her outside on our lunch hour. She is precious.
I wasn't kidding about the "li'l" part.
* Monday night Julie Crandall came to visit and to pick up the Bible study books I wrote about last Sunday. It was her first extended time away from her new baby, so we celebrated with dinner out at IHOP. (By the way - HUGE fan of their new iced coffee with free refills. YES PLEASE!)
* Tuesday night two friends from church trekked my way to have dinner with me at Fazolis. We didn't know it was kids night. We shouted over them. :) Then they came back to see my house and we talked for a while before they went home!
* Thursday night, I came home to find SEVEN boxes of my book on my front porch. That's a startling sight to come home to, for sure! But I was happy to see them, since the last shipment was just about gone. Now I'm all ready for Christmas shoppers. :)
After that, I went to my friend Rachel's house to make a couple of bracelets. (Her jewelry creations are much better than mine...let the record show.) But I'm reading Beth Moore's book "Believing God" with a friend, and in the book, she suggests wearing a blue bracelet throughout the course of the study as a reminder to believe Him. So now we have bracelets!
Last night, I had dinner with my parents at Culver's. (Don't lecture me about the extreme eating out this week!) While there, I had the chance to show them my new scrapbook, which I want to show you, too! You know how I LOVE to scrap, but this summer, scrapping overwhelmed me. I took two vacations in the span of one month...and I needed to do a whole album for each vacation. Plus, I'm struggling to keep up with my regular album (got behind during the desert, when I just didn't care about scrapping). So in a move that shocked most of my friends, I resorted to online scrapping at Picaboo. I tried it only after reading a recommendation on The Mom Creative blog. I knew from reading that Jessica (the blogger) is serious about her pictures, so if she recommended them...they must be good. My first album arrived:
AND I LOVE IT. I'm completely addicted, and I got my friends Kari and Sandee addicted, too! I loved being able to journal tons (love to do that on vacation books) and have some pictures bigger than others....
Even whole page pictures for my absolute favorites. I also love that the albums are stored online, so if something happens to my book, I could get another one...
So, so happy with the way it turned out. It saved literally dozens of hours, and lots of space. At the rate I'm going, by the time I'm 85, I'll have to build a room on my house to hold all the scrapbooks. These books are much slimmer.
And to round out the week....
I do love fall, and one of my favorite things about fall....pumpkins! Yesterday I went to a nearby orchard/pumpkin patch, with the lovely Rachel Ashley.
We found a pumpkin that had a muffin top, so I posed with it. Muffin top twins! Hee hee hee.
Beautiful apple trees....
Stack-o-pumpkins. I bought a couple of these for my house. Time to break out the fall decor!
Picking out my pumpkins.....really wishing now I would have done my hair!
The lovely Miss Rachel - who DID do her hair.
And inside...apples, apples everywhere!
Thanks for reading along! Hope you enjoyed!
4 comments:
mm liking the apples!! Also nothing wrong with eating out I am not sure there was a night last week where i didn't pick up food from somewhere, then again I can't cook! haha :)
Excited for Saturday!!! :)
We gotta teach you to cook, Phats! :)
Very excited for Saturday. I gotta figure out what i'm making!
I would love to learn, I seem to always mess it up haha, I was awful in Home Ec! All I could make was cookies, I even ruined that nasty california blend veggie thing we had to make
Okay first of all, California blend is not food. Not even covered in cheese. It's torture on a plate and is no small wonder you lost the desire to cook.
I can teach you. Real food. NOT that yuck.
Meanwhile - any food requests for Friday?
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