Barista

Toot toot!!! I still can not believe it! I made the design team for the scrap-room. It has been my favorite kit club ever since I joined 3 years ago and now I get to have my layouts in the gallery. In total shock still, they have my maiden name listed but check me out here at TSR

2mos

My poor baby had his set of 2 month shots last Friday. At 2 weeks he was up to 8lbs, now he is 12lbs 7oz. The boy doesn't have problems eating! Can you believe his sister was 5oz heavier at his age? She's 61 lbs now. We were at my mom's house this weekend and she put up her arm to grandma's arm and said, look ba ngoai, I'm almost as big as you. I think I need to enroll her in YMCA soccer or dance this fall, the gymnastics wasn't giving her enough exercise.

At my mom's it looked like Micah was chewing a big wad of bubble gum cuz his cheeks was just chomping away so I asked him what he was eating cuz I didnt' see anyone give it to him. And he replys bubblegum pretend...and it was pretend. And yesterday his Aunt Trinh from TX took the kids to the zoo and let them pick out a toy at the gift shop. He ended up with this spinning thing and I saw three in his bag. She told me he wanted one for mommy, one for daddy and one for ca ca. He has no qualms about speaking his mind. My aunt Bac Huan was smiling at him when she saw him sucking his thumb and he told her...what so funny? What are you laughing about?

Back from Vacation

Just trying to catch up, we spent two weeks in Florida with my sisters. Went to the beach, Acquatica, Disney's Magic Kingdom, and swimming. Too many photos to edit and process so it'll take me a while but here's a glimpse.




Paxton's baptism was the last week of June.




I thought my blog header needed a change since I'm no longer preggo. Karen Russell was so sweet to share the file she created for her blog.

4 weeks

My little guy is four weeks old today. Sleeping wise we have our good days and our not so good nights like last night. He was up from 1:30 to 3:30am, does not make for one happy mommy. The night before he slept from 11pm to 4am and it was the best straight 5 hours I got.

Micah's favorite saying these days, I want milk, "warm milk" and come back later and nite nite me okay? so I can touch your hair and suck my thumb. He says all of this while you're going to the kitchen to get his milk warmed up for 30 sec in the microwave...the boy just does not drink cold milk. And he still has this quirk with holding your hair while he puts himself to sleep. His favorite thing to watch is wow wow wubsie on Nick Jr and We're Back which is a dinosaur video we had to return to the library.

Kenzie can write her entire name now and just loves to hold her little "Paxi" as she nicknames her baby brother.

And a few layouts to share: Little Yellow Bicycle line from Scarlet Lime kit



Crate Paper from TSR's kit


I'm really not caught up with all my photos as this would look like...just been printing from my home computer lately and it's more fun to scrap recent photos.

Photographers in Training

We had to introduce the mute button this week. Lam had me run to Target to get milk for the kids and when he was left with a crying baby and no milk this was what got him thru until Mommy came home.


It is week 11 of my photography class, my subjects aren't always willing to cooperate with me but if I let them play like they are in charge it sometimes works

Hello June

I've already scrapped this photo but its a favorite so i'm going to hang this in my office at work


Inspired blueprints sketch #23


Make-n-take layout from my LSS, they were demoing the chomper tool, i don't round my corners a whole lot so for $25 I was not sold on it.


52 sketches 52 weeks


And I can't go w/o sharing pics of my baby, horrible focus on pax but i love the lighting on kenzie...still learning to shoot in manual.


and i have a new appreciation for newborn photographers...its harder than i thought even when they are sleeping


The kids ramshackled our closet and raided their daddys work shirts

Lightning Bug

My poor lightning bug has had each of his heel pricked 4 times...yes today was the 7th time getting his biliruben tested at the doctor's and hopefully tomorrow's appt will be the last. They told us we could take him off the light today.


I love spending time with Paxton and just watching his facial expressions. I caught a few smiles the last two days but didn't have the camera quick enough to capture it.

October Afternoon is probably my favorite paper line.

A few layouts using my Scarlet Lime kit.