Saturday, February 13, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day

She has spent most of her spare time this week making "Balentimes"

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(used my friend Kristina's  word art...love it!)

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They end up looking like this:

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She has been enjoying stickers lately...future scrapbooker maybe?

Our Valentines Day will be a day full of basketball...the boys have 3 games and then we're watching the All Star game! So romantic! But I may actually have some pictures of the boys when it is all said and done:)

 



Spring Fever

I am so ready to get back outside with my camera...so ready for spring! We've been lucky to not have had much snow (knock on wood) this winter and have even had some warm afternoons this week. So while Ally played on one such afternoon last week I decided to play too...with the pretty late winter light.

She loves the motorcycle she got for Christmas:

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I've been playing around with some actions too...trying to find the perfect black and white. I really want Totally Rad Actions but they are just not in the budget right now. I am using mostly Itty Bitty Actons and Pioneer Woman now.

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(Loving the sun flare)

Also, I did a layout on the A Million Little Things Blog for the color challenge...check it out! Lots of great new product in the store too...yah!!

 



Wednesday, February 3, 2010

American Girl Place

Can't believe I haven't posted this yet since it was almost a month ago! This was such a great day! My mom, sister, and I took Ally and my niece Holly to the American Girl Place in Natick the weekend before Ally's birthday.  

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This place is great! We just walked around and checked everything out at first...so much to look at:

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Upstairs they have a salon for the dolls so Ally wanted to get one of her Bitty twins' hair done:

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She really needed her hair done and they can work wonders!

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After the salon, Auntie Kelly and Holly kept Ally occupied while I did a little birthday shopping

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 Then it was off to lunch at the Restaurant...Yum!

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She became obsessed with brushing her doll's hair after watching them at the salon:

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Then a special surprise dessert came and the whole cafe sang to her:

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It was such a great day...one of those days you look forward to when you find out you are having a little girl...I can't wait to go back next year!