We are officially........

On the NO CAVITY wall at the dentist office. Mikayla had her first dental appointment today. We played "dentist" all weekend in preparation of the big day. I'm so proud of her. Not only on the "No Cavity" wall. She also let them go in her mouth and her teeth got all checked out and polished. She did sooooo good and in typical Kirsten fashion, here are the pictures to commemorate the event.

My dad came along to take her to play for the rest of the day, I wish I was playing today too!!!! She did so good though, I'm so proud!!!!!

Fun days!!!

We were at the boat this past weekend. There were some incredible storms that blew through. Nothing like a good rain storm on the boat!!! We did have a good time though and really enjoyed some quality family time.








Michael worked and got the boat all cleaned up again on the outside, she's shining now!!!

And of course we had to pick up some sea shells :)

Ahhhhhhh we need more time to come down here and play!

It was a crafty weekend for sure

I had my quarterly scrap-a-thon weekend with my scrappy group. Here are some of the challenges I did.

This is the "One word title" challenge

This is the "older than 1950s picture" challenge. This is my grandmother, my mom's mom back in the late 1920s.

This layout is the "fabric" challenge. I added burlap underneath the picture mat. I also used paper safe iron on's. It was a lot of fun pulling this one together.

This layout is the "honor someone special layout". I chose my sister, I still really miss her.

This is the "window picture challenge" We needed to make it look like we were seeing the picture through a window. I don't know why but this one seemed to take me a long time. I do love the little tabe I created...

This is the "Large punctuation" challenge. It needed to be over 5 inches to qualify. The "?" is almost 6 inches :) And this is really the biggest phase she's in right now..... everything is "why"

Here is the "opposites" challenge - for a girl, needed to have non tradational girl colors and for a boy non traditional colors. This is what I came up with.

This is the "back to basics" challenge - every single element on this layout has been created by me with nothing but paper... no clips, metal, tricks, store bought anything (well besides the paper)... the oragami frame was a challange in itself!

This is one that I hosted but I just love the picture, it's the "wanted" challenge

Spring Fling Carnival

We went to Mikayla's school for her carnival. She now tells me all the time she would rather school be a party LOL

Here is the ping pong ball toss - she was really good at this!!!

They really did a fantastic job with the carnival. We had a blast!!!!

Some recent scrappy creations

With my on-line scrappy group, I joined a "Skool of Rockin Design" and there were four assignments. Then the two people with the highest scores from the judges would participate in the "Duel". I was fortunate to be able to go all the way. Here are my four "skool" assignments and duel entries.


1st assignment - layers



2nd assignment - rough it up and distress the paper



3rd assignment - back in time - 1980s pic or older (I'm guessing these were tken in 1982-1983ish). My sister and me....



4th assignment - junk.... had to use at least 2 non scrappy related items, the butterfly is an applique and I used corsage pins - not normal for a layout :)



My final assignment - Altered Art. I had to use three of the four previous assignment techniques. I chose to do a 10x20 canvas and distressed, embelished,and loved the heck out of it. I poured my heart into this project and worked on it for a week and now Michael wants me to make about 6 more similar but different for the restaurant..... YIKES and wow - I usually get a "that's nice" from him LOL. I printed her picture (8x10) on an overhead transparency too. It just looks so neat.


I really am happy how it turned out though.

Such busy times

First and foremost, can you please continue to have my grandmother in your prayers. Her health is rapidly failing.

In the midst of finding time to have some fun with Mikayla, her Uncle Frankie, Aunt Ruthie (were here from California) and her Papa took her to the park. She is totally addicted to park playing lately, she needs it - so off we go, every chance we get.

We took her to the boat for some fishing fun. This was her first time ever net fishing. There is a little girl there that net fishes and catches all kinds of things, so we will start doing the same thing, all we had to put them in after we caught them was a Bud Light styrofoam cooler.... LOL, I need a bucket that will be safe for sea creature viewing. I need to video Mikayla telling us what she caught that day. It goes sort of like this "I caught a little crab, a big crab, a whole lot of shrimp, a snail and a minnow." So she was really sad at the end of the day when we let everyone go back home but the promise of finding them again made her happy.

We had such an awesome day that day. It was after some really big storms that came through (even before the most recent big storms) and the water was almost 2 feet higher than normal. So while we didn't go for a ride, we really enjoyed ourselves anyway.

I absolutely love that she lets me play with her hair!!!! We are currently in the "French Braid" phase. I love her hair!!!