Shutterfly's New Yearbooks

Have you seen the new photo yearbooks offered by Shutterfly? They look beautiful and so easy to make, like most of their cards and photo books. It utilizes the Custom Path technology like the photo books, which is very user-friendly!
Yearbooks are an affordable way to create memories of your childrens' school days. They start as low as $5/book! My kids are still young for school, but my oldest goes to a preschool. I'm going to look into creating one for his class.

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Playground Fun

With all the warm weather, we've spent a lot of time at the playground lately. Colby is so excited that he knows how to do the monkey bars now.

Love this little guy!

My 2 big boys

Big Brothers

Colby and Logan are very excited to welcome a new baby brother to our family this summer! :)

Monterey & Carmel, CA Trip

Jason had to go to CA for a work trip, so I flew out for the weekend. We drove down the coast on Hwy 1 to Monterey and Carmel, CA. The drive was beautiful.

Half Moon Bay, CA

Sunset in Monterey, CA

Monterey Bay

Harbor Seals

1st Ski Trip

We went to Wintergreen for a few days to take Colby skiing for the first time. Unfortunately, he wasn't a big fan of the ski school, but he had a blast the next day when Jason took him out just the two of them. I was really sick the whole time, so these are the only pictures we got. Oh well, there's always next year!

Childhood memories

We recently went back to Harrisonburg, VA to where my grandparents lived while we were younger and took a few pictures for my dad.

We were really excited to see that our initials were still on the back patio where my grandfather set them many years ago!

Colby Turns 4!

Our sweet, energetic, happy little boy turned 4 today! We celebrated with friends and family at our house. Colby LOVES Toy Story these days, so we had a Buzz Lightyear Birthday Party. Everyone had a great time, and Colby was very excited to play with his friends and show off his new playground.

 Here's the Buzz Lightyear cake I made.

All the cousins together for a quick photo.

New-to-us Playground

Jason's coworker, Jim, moved into a new house that had a playground they didn't need. So, Jason went over, took it apart, brought it home, and then put it back together with his brother. It was a project, but the boys are loving it!

Logan's 1st Haircut

I took Logan to get his first haircut! He was really good, and he didn't fuss at all.

Christmas Cards by Tiny Prints

Have you picked out your Christmas cards yet? It's hard to believe that time of year is here again. I love sending out and receiving holiday cards. It's always fun to see how much the kids have changed from year to year. I always hang my Christmas cards around our back door, so I can see them from our kitchen or family room.
I'm still waiting to get that "perfect" picture to use, but I've started looking through the beautiful holiday cards on Tiny Prints' website. They have a wonderful assortment to choose from with many different sizes and shapes. Here are some of my favorites:

Wreathed Monogram

I always like putting a variety of photos on my cards to show what we've been up to throughout the year

Whispering Snowflake

I LOVE this circular design. These would make great keepsakes to hang on our tree every year.
Many of Tiny Prints' cards have this option.

Naughty or Nice
Hmmm...this one reminds me so much of my boys :)

Although I haven't picked the card we'll use yet, I'm leaning towards the circular ornament design. Just depends on the pictures I get. I'm hoping for a nice family photo, but with kids, you just never know what you'll get!

You can see all the Tiny Prints Holiday Cards and choose your favorite.

Happy Halloween

For months, Colby was telling me (and anyone he saw) that he was going to be an astronaut for Halloween. We have an outfit from the Air & Space Museum. Then, on Halloween day, he changed his mind. He decided to be Buzz Lightyear so his brother could be Woody and match him. How sweet.

First, we had a festive Halloween dinner of Mummy dogs, Witches' fingers, eyeballs, and Monster mouths.

Buzz Lightyear

Woody

Fall Fun

Hard at work carving pumpkins

We painted pumpkins too

Both boys enjoyed scooping, pouring and playing with the pumpkin seeds too.

Pumpkin Patch

We took our annual trip to Homestead Gardens for a little Fall Fun. They always have fun fall games, hay stacks, hay maze, animals, and of course pumpkins.