2 Years ago...

April 7, 2007

I am trying to archive my photos and videos today. Of course now I've gotten sidetracked after coming across this video of Jonas from 2 years ago. This will be funniest to people who see Jonas all the time. It's about 2 1/2 minutes long and starts out a little slow but picks up speed when he's trying to put the bottle in the "garage" and gets pretty funny at the end.

Ok, maybe it's only funny to me.

Digital Layout

Photos: January 3, 2009

My new addiction, as alluded to in the previous post, is searching for free digital kits online. I have found another sweet blog that searches for freebies and posts them every day. And it's not just one or two, it's usually over 100 previews/links to free digital kits or elements. That is like an ark-load of free stuff. The blog is DigiFree. Check it out.

The layout above that I whipped up tonight doesn't have a title or journaling or any real fanciness, but I had to experiment with the postage stamp inspired frame that I found for free at MajorTiggerScraps blog. I altered the postage stamp somewhat to be able to use the three photos that I picked out. Then I searched my digital stash for a background that might be postage related. The postmark stamp at the bottom right is part of the background that I got in a 2Peas freebie kit a while back. You can download Traveling Papers digital kit here. I thought I was super-clever to do a little Photoshop magic to the postmark stamp by changing the date to reference when the photos were taken. {I had to point that out least my hard work slip by you unnoticed.}

Fancy Bribery

I just created this cute little sign/bribery note for Jonas. He's been having trouble obeying at school off and on for the last month or so and I thought some bribery might be in order. I think his FUN SURPRISE will be a family outing somewhere. Hopefully this will help him remember to be a good boy at school and not let his arm-breaking hugs (among other things) get him sent to the office.

On a crafty note, I made this fancy page with a digital kit that I got free at 2Peas in a Bucket. This kit is called Schoolin'. They have lots of other free kits there, as I think I mentioned a while back. I have been gathering free digital kits online as of late and came across an awesome blog. Raspberry Patch is dedicated to posting the latest free digital kits. This has lead me to some other awesome blogs that have freebies like Summertime Designs. Of course most of the sites only offer these freebies for a limited time and also have kits for sale. A digital kit can be very inexpensive but I'm strictly looking for freebies. At least for now.

A Big Thanks to Jamey and Tracy

Photos: March 7, 2009

A big thank you to Jamey for taking these photos and Tracy for so quickly emailing them to me. They are, of course, awesome. The photos of Austin and Jonas are hilarious. I love that the old school Dayspring sign is in the background. Sweet!

As you can see, Austin's glasses painted by Tracy are soooo much better than Jonas' glasses. Aren't the boys incredibly cute in their little vests? So 70's.

If Jonas Wore Glasses

Photos and Video: March 7, 2009

These photos will forever crack me up. Even thought the glasses are obviously painted on (crookedly by me) this is really what Jonas would look like if he had to wear glasses. A super-cute slightly nerdy look, but maybe the nerdy part is just because they're so crooked. Or maybe the nerdy part is the cloud and rainbow. Hard to tell.

This all came about at church yesterday. We had our annual AWANA Grand Prix car race and carnival day. There were some fun/silly carnival type games and this year we added face painting to the festivities. Tracy O. and I painted faces and the lucky kids were the ones that ended up being painted by Tracy. She really did a superior job. Sadly, my son came to me for his rainbow, Jesus fish and then I talked him into some glasses after Tracy painted glasses on her son Austin. I didn't have my camera at church so I will be indebted to Jamey and Tracy to pass on some pics of Jonas and Austin together in their matching square glasses. It was impossible to look at them without cracking up.

Later that night a dinner I couldn't resist taking some more photos and a video. (And yes, my four year old is still wearing a bib....sad but true. I am happier with less food on the floor and clothes. At least I don't make him take one to preschool with him for snack time.)





This is Jonas' entry for the Grand Prix race. He decided to make a truck, a truck like mine. Awwwe. That's so sweet. Like his bus last year, we put photos in the windows of the truck. I asked which side he wanted his picture to be and he insisted on the passengers side. I thought for sure he would want to be the driver since he asked not too long ago when he would "get to sit in that seat" pointing at the drivers side.


He really lucked out in the race. Even though his truck was incredibly slow, he got third place for speed. I might add that there were only four kids racing in his class. He also got first place for design so he walked away with TWO trophies and ribbons. Woo-Hoo!!! Jonas was soooo excited.

Tony, as you can see, was also into the face painting. I didn't get a close-up of it because of the death-glare I was getting when I started taking photos, but the blue and yellow cross that Tracy painted on was super-cool. Tony was one of only two adults that were cool enough to get their faces painted. (Both adults had Tracy as their face-painter....they had been paying attention.)
I don't really know why Jonas is choking himself with his truck. At least he's super-excited about it.
At the end of the night I had to take a couple more photos before washing off the face paint. Jonas could not believe it when I started washing off his glasses. He got a little teary about it but recovered pretty quickly. That rainbow was a kinda stubborn, though. It took a good scrubbin' to get that off.
Head thrown back in a maniacal {fake} laughing fit.