Stitch In Time

Three reasons it's a great day...

1.  It's Friday and that means two days of not having to go to the hospital for radiation or chemo for my hubby.  It's also sunny and I'm crossing my fingers it stays that way for the rest of the weekend.

2.  This card came in the mail today, also for my hubby.  The little things mean so much at times like these, like when my BFF came over and took my kids to a movie to give me a break, or when my cousin and her husband came over and made us dinner one night, or when the neighbors rally around us.

3. And the third reason it's a great day is it's Wacky Hair Day at school, and this little guy couldn't have been more excited!

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Easter!

Where I've been...

I know I've been absent from my blog lately.  There is no good way to say it...my husband has been diagnosed with cancer.  Our world as we know it has come to a screeching halt.  Life has been full of doctor appointments, tests, and biopsies.  Very soon he will be starting chemo and radiation, with possible surgery to follow.  On Tuesday he will have surgery to have a feeding tube put in.  Life is hard right now. 

On the other hand, in many ways scrapbooking has become more important to me than ever. I feel a need to preserve our memories and get the stories down on paper sooner rather than later.  I've been going through old photos and making sure I actually get them put in albums.  It helps to look back at happier times.  I started with a vacation we took a couple of years ago to Universal Studios in Florida.  One of the happiest places we spent time at was Seuss Landing.  I love the colors and crooked buildings.  I used Project Life Design D for these pages.  The graphics are from Whimsy World by C.D. Muckosky.  I hope to get the rest of this vacation scrapped this week.

Halloween Party 2011

or what it looks like when you hand a bunch of girls finger lights and let them dance like no one is watching...

Halloween Kitten

We went to the pumpkin patch with some friends and we didn't end up bringing home any pumpkins but we did bring home a new kitten.

(photo by my hubby with his new honeycomb grid camera flash).

My daughter just couldn't resist her.

And a few pictures from the pumpkin patch..

 

Alice in Wonderland corn maze...

Skateboard Lessons

My son decided he wanted to learn how to skateboard so we signed him up for lessons.

Today was his first lesson. 

His teacher was great. Not only good at skateboarding, but also at teaching.

I must add that we were at an acutal skate park...

where guys were doing tricks like this...

but he hung in there...

and came away really excited about skatboarding and his next lesson...

 

Mt. Rainier today...

We are tired, sunburnt, and hungry.  But it was worth the trip.

Nature Walk

I took the kids out for a long hike in the Mercer Slough today.  Perfect weather for it... not too hot and not too cold.

And in other unrelated news, she just turned 13 and the only thing she wanted was to dye her hair black.  So since it was summertime I let her try it out.  I'm not sure I'm ready for a teenager!

4th of July

We had a great 4th.  We had friends over.  We barbecued salmon and hot dogs and made some tie-dye shirts.  And we set off lots and lots of poppers.  I also officially became the mom to a teenager. 

 

Vintage Circus

I took the kids to a circus exhibit which turned out to be better than I had imagined.

I loved the vintage posters around the exhibit...

Speaking of a flea circus, they actually had a flea circus!  So cute...

Only one among us was brave enough to try the high wire...

Lots of circus costumes to try on...

There was a wall you could peek through...

and see things like this...

And just lots of fun things to see and do.