Pictures from February

Hi again! :D I have pictures to share today, but they are not recent. :P I went to go grab the camera just a few minutes ago and the battery is dead, so I need to ask Jed when he gets home where the charger is so that I can take new pictures tomorrow. Until then I will share pics from our photo shoot at Carmel Beach from February 11th. (Can't believe it has been more than a month since then!!!)

I will start off with this silly crazy little girl! She is just a wild thing nowadays, and is growing so fast! She is feisty, and opinionated (now that she can verbalize it all!), but she is so sweet and caring as well. She is a wonderful big sister, and I thank her for that everyday. She really appreciates being needed and helpful. She is still just as head strong and stubborn as the day she was born. Even though those are her most difficult attributes to deal with, I don't ever want her to lose them! She is doing a lot more on her own (eating, playing, and talking), and is wanting to do more on her own. She really growing and becoming a beautiful little girl.



These two are doing beautifully together. Aurelia puts up with 50 plus kisses a day (sometimes just that many at bed time!), and constant little hand holding. Creedence wants to be able to interact with her but realizes that there are limitations with what Aurelia can do. I know too well that that will be changing real soon, as this first year is going to be tremendous in regards to Aurelia's growth! (*Sigh* I had to take a little pity party moment there after typing that sentence! Why do they grow so fast?!) And Aurelia is just entranced by Creedence! She loves to watch her and be around her! It is so sweet to see!



And this is me. :D I haven't really wanted to take a whole bunch of pics of me lately, but I know that my children will appreciate it when they are older. I just really wanted the weight that I gained to be gone quicker! :P I know I know, I am only 2 months out. But sheesh! I seem to have a ton more on me after this baby than I did with Creedence! Laugh!



And me and my girls. These photos below mean a lot to me. This is us, all day long til Jed comes home. I thank him very much for capturing these images for me. They leave me speechless. :D

And here he is. This man is wonderful. He didn't skip a beat when Aurelia arrived. He stepped up and did what he needed to around the house, and with Creedence, and for me or Aurelia anytime something needed to be done. I can't thank him enough for being there and being so congenial about it. And he loves being a father. I can't believe my girls and I got so lucky with him. :D

Well there is an update (kinda! :P). I will be back tomorrow with the Noel Mignon Blog Hop, so be sure to check in!! :D The hop started today so if you would like to get the first part done, it all starts on the Noel Mignon layout blog! :D Happy Hopping!

Be back soon with more project shares and pictures! Take Care!!

~Amy

P.S. all pictures here were edited with Paint The Moon PSE free actions (specifically sunny days)!! Check out their facebook for details! :D

Be there!!

Wanted to let you all know real quick we have another blog hop happening this weekend at Noel Mignon!!! More details on that will be coming up soon! But be sure to check in to the Layout blog on Saturday to get started!! :D

Happy St Patrick's Day!!!

I hope you all have a Bonny Bright Day!! :D (Jed took this picture btw)

I will be back soon! I promise!

~Amy

Sass shares and finally some new pictures!

Hi Everyone!! I finally have some pictures to share with you all! They were taken a few days after her 'one week birthday', and hopefully I will have some more taken tomorrow too. And not just pictures of the wee bitty, but of us all. :D Much needed right now as none of us have been in front of the camera in a while. :P

Seriously, could she be any cuter?!!! That last picture is one of her funny little smiling faces. She actually does those a lot! And almost always when Jed comes around. :D We know already that she is a daddy's girl.

I have some Sassafras Lass shares for you all today! I finally finished a few of the projects I had been working on for the Sass DT call. :P I just hope that they nose around on peoples blogs so that they see these! Laugh! If not, oh well. I am really happy with these LOs and that truely is all that matters. I still have more that I am working on but they are not quite done, and I have a few other projects to work on right now so they will have to take a bit of a backseat until those are done.

This first one is the first that I finished (and it was before my Truly Scrumptious kit came from Noel Mignon so it is made primarily of all older Sass products). The photograph here was almost deleted by Jed, and I am so glad that I caught it because I love it! Yeah it is not of anything but Creedence's head and the path behind her, but I think it is gorgeous. Something about it just spoke to me and I had to use it on a LO. This is titled 'Follow Your Heart'. Something that my mother taught me to do, and something I will be passing on to my own daughters.

This next LO I made for the Valentine's Day Crop over at Noel Mignon (did you come and join us?! It was a blast!), and I used my Truly Scrumptious kit to make it! :D My challenge was to follow the rule of twos! That means that you can use anything you want on your LO, but it must be in twos! So you can only use to pieces of cardstock, or two pieces of patterned paper, or only two pieces of chipboard. The only things I required you to absolutely have on your LO were two hearts. It is a Valentine's Day challenge after all. :P I decided to use two of the new Sassafras Lass Paper Crush papers for my patterned papers. LOVE THESE! :D

This last LO was an absolute blast to make, and it came together so fast! I made it for the current DT challenge over at Noel Mignon, where we followed a sketch. I decided to turn the sketch as it made it flow better for me. :D One thing that was a lot of fun (but difficult!) to do was the circle punched border running vertical on my paper. I punched 1 inch circles out of my Sassafras Lass Mix and Mend paper, then lined them up exactly as they were on the paper on the paper I wanted for my background. It created this scalloped border that looks exactly like the Mix and Mend paper. :D Certainly more work than it needed to be but lots of fun to do.

And there you have it! I will have more to share with you real soon! Certainly more photographs of us. I need to stay more on top of sharing those for my family! I am sooooo bad at getting photos sent off to them.

Hope you are all well!! Thanks so much for your sweet comments! They make me smile so much! :D

Take care!! ~Amy