Do you Lagoon?

Yellowstone!

Chaz's only vacation this summer was our trip to Island Park, Idaho with our neighbors at the end of August. It was such a relief to be able to relax after He took the DAT.

Wynn's Heritage Assignment

Wynn had a project for school to write about your heritage (or some part) and to make a little clothespin doll. She decided to do a viking because lots of people could do a pioneer and she wanted to be different.

My Family Heritage

By Wynn Gibbons

What I would like you to know about my family heritage:

A long time ago one of my ancestors was a viking. Vikings were warriors from a part of Europe called Scandinavia. Vikings were the best at building ships and sailing them. Their ships were called longships and the vikings would paint them lots of bright colors and put striped sails on them. If they were at sea and didn't know where the land was, the vikings would let go a bird, called a raven, and follow the bird to find land. Lots of people think the vikings had horns on their helmets, but they didn't.

In other parts of Europe women were not treated well. They couldn't do what they wanted. But the vikings were different. The viking women could have land, money, and even go fight with the men vikings.

We were supposed to work on the doll as a family. Wynn picked out the fabric and style for the clothes and decided on the kind of face and hair (and length). She wanted her doll to have spikes even though they didn't really have spikes.... Chaz helped out by carving the nubs off the acorn top for the shield so Wynn could paint it and by carving the sword. Wynn kept saying how her doll was the coolest and it would be the most awesome doll at school.

And yes, about the scrape on her nose and lip, she got hurt at her Papa and Grandma's house. She stole the little 3-wheeled bike Ellie had and, as she was zooming away on it, flipped over the front wheel and face planted. She cut the inside of both top and bottom lips too. I think half the ward asked about it on Sunday.

A Day For Play

Kiddie Art and Pre-School

This is my summary page for Wynn's preschool experience. I am pretty happy with my method of preserving her artwork. I've heard from so many people how difficult it is to keep it under control (aka: keep it from taking over the house). We kept maybe... 2 originals (Including one she painted for her future baby brother...apparently I am going to have a couple boys next). I might have to add some more journalling talking about this Caden. He liked Wynn and wanted to marry her. For a while she was on a marriage kick and was constantly wondering who her future husband would be... :) When she was helping me with the journalling for this page she informed me that she was Lucas's girlfriend. Not too sure how I feel about that. I think it's kind of cute. But... she has a boyfriend. And she's 5.

Coral is on the computer and not cleaning

Some more pages... I'm actually done with May! Every year I start out the new year scrapping and doing my best to keep up. I don't know if I've ever finished as far as May. Go me. Hope it lasts!

Child Labor

Here's my latest page!

A Fairy Tale....

I have had many requests for pictures of the dresses I made, so I whipped up a page...I DON'T like the picture of me/my dress, but look at Wynn!

(Isn't she cute!)

Any photoshop pros out there that can tell me how to improve my shadows? I can't seem to make buttons and brads more real looking...I struggle!

5 Years Old and Photogenic (when she wants to be)

Wynn helped me scrapbook her birthday...if she keeps at it she will be a photoshop pro by the end of the summer!

I loved the pics from this trip to the zoo. I had sooo many good ones of Wynn (surprise) it was hard to choose!

April pages

My pages of our Easter weekend. Ta da!

And an April page...gotta love templates!

I loved this because it's so hard for me to scrapbook all the boring snapshots of everyday...but I still want to tell the story.

BIG Bubbles

Another scrapbooking page... Park picnic with friends forthcoming...

Tiredness

Today we were all tired. Chaz stayed up ALL night studying for a final today (only 2 left...) and the girls are both sick. They've had fevers and are pretty on edge emotionally. I'm tired from dealing with it all.

I've been going through my memorabilia box and found a bamboo spitwad shooter (Maybe a pea shooter? I don't actually know what a pea shooter is...) that my sister, Marla, brought back from the Philippines. I was super excited to show it to Wynn...I remember it being great fun. She asked me what it was and I explained how you made a spit wad (great thing to be teaching a 5 year old, I know!) and pushed it to the end, then you made another and pushed it in, with the pressure buildup in between forcing the first wad to shoot out. Well, I was trying to demonstrate and I broke it. So sad. I just sat there for a minute, trying to get over my disappointment. I was really looking forward to having fun playing with it with Wynn. Well, a couple minutes later, after I had returned to what I was doing, Wynn gets a piece of paper and explains her plan to cheer me up. She would draw me a super special picture because I broke my special gun thing that Aunt Marla gave me. It was so sweet! While working on her picture, Wynn had a couple breakdowns because it wasn't turning out quite like she wanted. She was so tired and not feeling well and was trying so hard to make it special for me! I've always dismissed the comments on how emotional girls can be, even at a young age. Well, now I know. Now I know.

Here is my special picture:



Wynn made sure that I looked really closely and saw the happy sun, and she explained to Chaz that, "It's a picture of you guys getting married. The fat on Mommy is just her big poofy dress."
I love my sweetheart of a daughter!

P.S. For those of you who don't have blogger logins or whatever, I've changed my setting so anyone can leave comments!

All done!

Here are the rest of the pages for my Cali trip...yay! I'm actually done with a scrapbooking project!

Next pages of Cali Trip

I finished these just a few minutes ago...and this template with the circles was tricky. But I did it! Yay for me!