Tonight's tball practice!

a few pics from our event tonight

Here's a quick snap of mom & Andrea. nice pic hey? then one of all of us.

Tonight I won this zebra painting in the raffle. Andrea had said she really liked it, so mom & I thought we'd all put our tickets in it and crazy I won it, so I gave it to her. When she was carrying it out of the Willows it looked like she stole it off the walls, because who carries paintings out of a golf course. We laughed pretty good about that.

I just loved this pic of my mom. Isn't it nice? I already have a layout that I completed about my mom that I don't have a pic on yet, so this one will be perfect.

Oh, and crazy enough I also won the 50/50 draw too. I have to laugh because I never win things, so tonight must be my lucky night. I actually donated my share of the 50/50 back to the school. I love this school so much so I definitely felt that it was a worthy cause. Thanks mom & Andrea for coming I had fun!!!

CHALLENGE!!!! split personality

So I decided since it is another rainy day, let's do something fun. You know how you always save your money for a rainy day, well let's scrap something cool.I have a challenge for all you SISters out there! I know Kate & Keli know what I'm talking about.I totally love how on SIS (Scrapping in Style) they show a nice image of someone and then when you run your mouse cursor over their pic then it changes the image to reveal a crazy fun image. Just check out Wilna's image on their site, it is so cool. Take a picture of yourself just how you are and then take a crazy diva pic of yourself. (or someone else can take it!)One in sunglasses, pearls, funky hair, whatever!!!! Be crazy or sexy! Then let's scrapbook a cool page about how people see us and how we think or see ourselves or how we'd like to see ourselves. I think this could be a really fun time! email me your pic or link to your site when you've done it. Have fun guys!

Raining again!!!!

Well, our plants and crops sure are getting the rain that they need, but I am kind of looking for the sun! Today is a busy day, I am getting so excited. Tonight Riley's school has a gala fundraiser which should be so much fun. I went to one with a friend a few year's back and it was great. I love events where we get to dress up and socialize!!!! My mom and Shane's girlfriend Andrea are coming with me. We decided to make it a girl's night out. Jim was going to be out of town, but now he's in. but he's going to stay home with the boys because since I thought he wasn't going to be in I didn't get him tickets. He loves the boys anyways, so I'm sure they'll be doing crazy stuff. As you all have seen in previous pics of what happens when daddy watches the boys. (It's almost like a TV show "When mom's away: episode 1) just kidding, but Jim's all about raising the boys to be a little comedians and to have fun. So I love it. So maybe I'll take some pics tonight who knows, but I hope everyone has an awesome day!

Mother's Tea

HI everyone! Today was such a rainy day, but I had a little bit of sweetness to make it wonderful. Riley's school had Mother's Tea today. So every single class invited their moms (or a grandma) for tea. This is a part of the kids curriculum. They learn to entertain, serve and prepare. They practise conversation and politeness and patience. It was spectacular. When I got to his classroom, I had to wait my turn until Riley cam and shook my hand saying, "Good morning mommy, welcome to my classroom, would you like to come in for some tea? Please follow me," Then he guided me to my spot and we both sat down. (yes time for some aaah's) Then we patiently waited our turn till Riley got up to serve me. He asked whether I would like hot or cold tea and then took my cup & saucer and brought me back some tea. He's only 3 too, the kids carried it so carefully and always Miss Sherrie or Miss Ada was there to make sure nobody got burned or had problems, but otherwise the children had to do this themselves. Then he presented it to us and asked would we like some dainties and crackers and cheese. The kids had set the tables and helped prepare the food. It was wonderful.

One of the other moms snapped a quick pic of us. This will be a day I remember forever. I love you Riley!

this was my favourite part of the tea. All the children had written a compliment for their mom on this leaf, which was placed on the "compliment tree". They presented it to us and said such nice things. This school encourages the children to be so respectful and to appreciate others. Isn't that wonderful? There needs to be so much more of this taught to the kids growing up nowadays. It seems that respect is becoming a lost art.

Each of the kids gave their mom a rose. It was so precious.

At the end of the tea, Miss Sherrie asked us to write a compliment for our child, so that they could read them in class tomorrow. How beautiful.

Last night I tried to upload pics but Blogger wouldn't let me post???? So I'll just post a few today.We went and watched Shane & Andrea's ball game, it was fun. Here at the ballgame the boys were bowling , trying to knock down the cans (of course since it was a adult league, unfortunately the cans were beer cans.) but it kept them amused forever.

Riley thought the dandelions were so super cute. He kept bringing me these and soon I had a huge bouquet of them. Then along came some more from...

Jager bringing me gorgeous flowers too. For the rest of the ballgame I had dandelions in my hair because Riley thought they looked beautiful in my hair.

this is what Jager does in the Super bee when daddy "pins" it. I had to capture this excitement. Why is is that no matter the age, most men just get so excited about the rev of an engine? I get such a kick out of this. Both my boys beg to take the Superbee anywhere versus any other vehicle.

thanks for coming by today, and let's learn from the kids, pass on a compliment to someone today. You'll feel great!

Bathing bunnies

So did everyone have an awesome weekend??? I actually got more accomplished in this weekend than I think I ever have in most months. I am just heading to bed now at 3:15am knowing that I have accomplished my goals. I have cleaned our house so amazingly clean, like truthfully any spot would be delightful to eat in. The bathrooms are immaculate, eveything is really clean. so I give it maybe only a day, but hey it sure does look great. I scrapbooked on Saturday with awesome people, got a few layouts done. I went to the races with my family, had fun. completed all laundry in this house. refolded all our drawers in EVERY room. I found linen I totally forgot about. too funny. Then tonight I went to Nicole's house and had so much fun. It was great to see Jenn & Tracy again, and another girl that I met years ago. I really don't know how she spells her name, so I won't try, Jenn email me the right way okay. I hate not knowing . **** edited, Jenn emailed how to spell her name, it is Laddy, and I am so glad to have met you again!******But I didn't know she scrapbooks so hopefully I'll see her again. the food tonight at Nicole's house was so cool. I am so going to wait patiently for the recipes... when I got home tonight, Jim had the boys tucked into bed asleep so with nothing to do around the house I scrapbooked! pure enjoyment. I did 6 layouts tonight. so I am on a high. So I really have nothing more to say, so I'll leave you with 2 shots I took of the kids in their bunny towels. They were hopping and it was hilarious. but they both stopped to smile at me!

isn't it a blessing to be able to enjoy these little moments. I'm glad I have learned to scrapbook, because I may have never stopped to find these times photo worthy. but these truly are the little times I want to remember the most. these are the memories that I love to think about.

• I know that a few people have grumbled that I don't scrapbook the real moments only the professional photos. So untrue!!! I have 1000's of pages to prove that. I do selectively put up mostly my faves on my blog, and realistically it takes so long to upload them, but I have learned this. I love scrapbooking the pictures Melina takes. They are just awesome, and she always captures amazing things. but the more I learn how to take better photos, the more I'm enjoying my own photos. I didn't realize the significant difference you can make just by truly reading and understanding your camera's manual. and you have to take so many pics until you can understand everything about the images.
• After hearing Jenn tell us a story tonight about a chair she wished she had a picture of, I realized too. Scrapbook the memories anyways, if you don't have a photo, who cares. Your own words are very powerful!

tonight at the races...

Okay so our family totally love going to the car races. Riley definitely understands more about racing then you could imagine, but mind you he will watch a Nascar race with Jim and listen to what dad has to say about it. The cars start racing and Jager would cover his ears when the cars came in front of us. Unfortunately he wouldn't keep his ear plugs in but next time we'll have to do something different. just before the race started, all the drivers lined up and the announcer gave info about them. It was cool.

Riley was so excited that I took them down to see the cars all lined up.

Little Jager checking out the cars too.

This car spun out awesome, I love watching the old Thunderstock divison the best. They put on the best show.

here is little Romeo, of course he had to go and sit by Andrea and eat her fries too. when Andrea is around you know riley is near .funny kid!

I had so much fun scrapbooking all day with you guys too. I had 6 hours of total fun scrapping with friends. Can't wait to do it again!bAnd Jody, you definitely have the best stories...

Music Night!!!!

It was so much fun tonight!!!! and JIm made it in so that was awesome. The boys got all dressed up and looked smokin, especially since of course we had to have "hair done too!". So off we went to have some fun! Unfortunately I can't show you many from tonight because almost all my pic show other children in them and it would take way to long to get everyone's permission to post their pics on my blog, so I'll only show you a few of the boys. So our little star decdied in his first musical number that he had a "booger" in his nose, and continued to get it out. My mom and I were signaling to him to stop, afraid mostly that instead of wiping it on his pants, something worse might happen (which didn't by the way) But he got tired of us making gestures for him to stop that he told us loudly while all the other children were singing that "mom, I'm just trying to get a booger out of my nose!" so there, I was told and the audience burst into laughter. needless to say, my mom, grandma & I couldn't stop laughing, Jim at least held his cool.

This is Riley's teacher Miss Sherrie (I adore her, she is such a great lady and has influenced Riley in such positive ways.

This is his other teacher in his class, Miss Ada.She is awesome too!

Hope you liked a few candids, got to hit the hay. Too much to do tomorrow! I might post more tomorrow about the event!till then...

tonight's class layout

HI, here is a quick post from the family album series. Tonight's focus was on Spring activites we do as a family. So we did a mosaic of different sized matts to put photos on.The idea is to incorporate some soccer & tball photos, and yet have picnics, playing at the park and gardening on the same page. It is just a quick synopsis of your "spring events". We stamped the background, worked with chipboard, and lot's and lot's of flowers. Every person's page looks so drastically different because depending on the type of photos we would use, we all had a variation of this. It was great, can't wait to find photos for this. Thanks girls, always have such a great time with all of you! Great bunch of ladies, fun & crazy too! Oh, and you know, our Scraptology classes aren't just about the layouts, we have the wholepackage, entertainment, visiting, h'or derves, it's like a little "scrapbook spa visit"! Check out our link to the right if you are interested in any of our classes. Have a great night!

Rainy day fever anyone???

So, where is the sunshine??? I love the feeling you get when you wake up and it is sunny and warm and you just feel so alive. Right now, we all have a bit of a cold and have been dragging! But I actually achieved an amazing amount of work yesterday. My to do list is shrinking, yeah!!!!

I actually went yesterday and spent a few hours developing pictures. Did I tell anyone that I am obsessed with my new SLR. I have taken a few 1000 pics, no joke and have dabbled with editing and special effecting them. so I am pumped.of course I couldn't possibly scrapbook all of those, so I had to weed through the actual ones that make the cut!And really what a person could afford! I sorted my 30 envelopes of pictures into priority scrap worthy, must do's , for others, & anytime. As soon as this weekend is done I am so scrapbooking for complete selfish pleasure. Truth be told, I love being busy, but the demands I had this month were outrageously fun and hectic!. I just received yesterday a really cool package from a magazine, they've asked me to complete a few projects and have it back to them ASAP to make the next issue. Super excited!!!! Worked on my designs for the cruise classes I'm teaching this week too, so I have to send those in for critiquing too. Another fun project. Also, if you are remotely considering the cruise, just to let you know they are filling up fast and I think there is only 25 spots left. So email me if you have any questions!!!! I tell you this will be the crop of a lifetime !

Sorry no pics today, but I'll post my class layouts tonight! Have a great rainy day!

a few of my latest layouts & soccer pics from tonight

So last night I whipped up these 2 layouts, of course in my favourite scenic route paper again. I cannot get enough of this paper line. It is probably because these are my favourite colours blue & orange at the moment.

I actually did this one a few months ago but never posted it.

okay, I've been getting the gears that I never showed any of Jenn's wedding pics from 2006!!! Ei yi yi! Everyone is bugging me how now I want to start scrapping baby Hunter and will leave Jenn's wedding album for who knows how long. So I promise I will start posting them, I actually am only 8-10 pages away from being done her wedding album. So Jenn, I promise you that I will have your wedding album done by hopefully next time I see you. But I have to admit, baby Hunter's photos are calling my name. And a great auntie would start scrapping him!tee hee.

Tonight was so super cold! I didn't want to take Riley to soccer but he was adamant that he had to go and also I was the snack mom for this week. So off we went.

I love how hard Riley tries to get better. you rock kiddo!

Weekend at the farm-absolutely relaxing!

So, do you want to know the coolest thing about my dad??? He is such a romantic and has always spoiled my mom in the neatest ways. Of course the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, my grandpa is such a total romantic(can write the book on the greatest love of all type of relationship)But if you notice, my dad is giving my sons a grooming lesson. I took this picture without them knowing. He told the boys that girls and mommies and grandmas love getting flowers and that they should always do nice things for girls and their moms.So dad and the boys went and picked 4 different kinds of flowers off of trees and bushes and made me an arrangement. Each boy would run inside to give me a new flower when they picked one. It was so adorable. This is really important. Important role models in boys lives, ones who pass on respect and encourage sons to grow up and become outstanding people and husbands and dads. I'm so proud that when my boys get to spend time with my dad, he chooses to teach them or enforce them little life lessons that will help them be better people. Anybody can "watch" kids, but I like it when those who are helping Jim & I raise our children help to shape them as well.

The boys both have colds too, so we didn't do too much at the farm this weekend. Grandpa gave the kids cowboy hats to wear. They had fun playing with them.

Jager playing with grandpa's cowboy hats too!

It's so funny how when life is so busy and it feels like you are too tired with too many things to do ... I love the escape I get from the farm. I couldn't possibly have more things to get accomplished before June. I literally need more time, but I was just totally being consumed by a migraine for the last week and was barely functioning. I have a few too many things on my mind, and besides the fact that I never sleep well, now I am sleeping even less than before.Also the worst part is my hair. My hair needs a serious cut, it is almost down to my bum and it is thicker than most horse's tails, so just the weight of it alone is adding to my migraines , I cant even keep it in a ponytail for very long. So this question is for real...Does anyone know a truly great hairdresser??? I hate looking for one, and have had my share of unbelievably bad hair cuts & colours. The problem is, there are awesome ones out there, but I have such thick and super curly hair that most people don't know where to begin. So I need your help!

• oh and I totally almost forgot to tell you this crazy thing, mom & I caught these 2 punks trespassing on our land and rifling through our older buildings, they told us a total lie of course how they were just taking pictures of amazing old buildings because that was their thing. They were dressed in work clothes, covered in oil & dirt and had work gloves on. So I asked them where their cameras were then, and proceeded to show them mine. So after another lie was told, I told them to pose for a picture then, they turned and left immediately. Of course I took pics anyways,got pics of their truck, license plate, everything I could, and then we called the cops. So hopefully they get picked up for theft, or trespassing at the very least. I don't know what will come of it, but it's amazing how people don't respect other's stuff.

the Fontaine's first family photo!

awesome day!

here is a cute shot I took of the boys eating toast yesterday morning. I don't know why Riley got a little kooky but it's fun times right? So tonight was t-ball. riley's very first time playing it. It was so much fun , and Jim got in just in time to see it so it was fantastic! The boys were so excited!

I absolutely love how carefree this shot is. He is so happy.

so here is our switch hitter. He is actually really good at both sides, so we'll have to work on which is going to be his dominant side.

Too bad this is blurry, I'm not quick enough setting up the shots with the SLR yet. Someday. I still like it though.

Here is our cutie!

here is the determination photo. I totally can see this boy playing football in his future. He just is built for it.

Hope you guys liked these pics. I can't believe how lucky we are to have such healthy boys. We sure are having fun teaching all these new sports with the boys. They love being outdoors, and just love having fun.