Oma and Opa (Andrew's parents) have been and gone for almost a week now, and I am finally getting a chance to blog about it. They arrived on Thursday, September 11 and left on Monday, September 22. Our life was crazy busy while they were here, which meant they got to spend loads of quality time babysitting Nadia. She especially enjoyed their daily walks to the coffee shop and their trips to the park. They boys always look forward to their trip to the Dutch Oven Bakery.


Oma has started a tradition of making each Grandchild a quilt. Ben and Ethan have owned their's for several years, but Nadia's was just recently completed. The photo of the kids is a little far away, but I wanted you to see the quilts. She spent hours and hours, truly a treasure.

Happy Birthday Grandpa! I hope you have a fantastic day. I love you!

Another installment from Jessica Sprague's digital scrapbooking class. This is the first time I started from scratch and created. I am really happy with how it turned out. For you digital girls, Here's my supply list.

KPertiet_StampedMoments

SummerDriggs_ Limeade

ateets_whitietighties

The alphabet is from her class materials.

Monotype Corsiva font.

Ben asked if he could be part of orchestra at school. Of course we could not say "No" to learning more music. The catch with this.... He chose the Bass. The instrument is larger than he is!! The school is ordering a smaller bass for him, but for now we have to negotiate how to get this instrument back and forth to school. His first lesson involved plucking each note several times. I must say I really love the deep warm sound of the bass. Close your eyes and imagine.....
Boom, Boom.... That's the sound from my living room.

Here a few of my favorite photos from the weekend spent with my family. The first picture is of Ben holding my niece Sienna. She is adorable and looks exactly like my sister's baby pictures. I included my favorite photo of my sister and her family. Aren't they adorable? Please be sure to notice the rare photo of me on this blog. The puppy in the photo is Jack, he is a Toy Australia Shepherd, and belongs to my brother's girlfriend. He is adorable, very well behaved and completely loved by the Kids.

DMACC started today. My first day teaching after taking most of the summer off. It was a bit rough to get going this morning. I am teaching a total of 3 classes; 2 sections of Introduction to Athletic Training and Personal Training 1. I have average of 15 students in my classes. I think we should have a great semester. I need to spend some time getting organized, always a challenge for me.

I have been taking an online class about digital scrapping. It is creating your scrapbooks using mostly the computer. I just finished the first 2 assignments and thought I would share them with you. It you are interest in digital scrapping check out this website: jessica sprague
It has been fun so far, but I don't know it I could ever give up the paper. Although, it is much easier to fix your mistakes! Enjoy.

...only 179 to go. June 2 is scheduled to be the first day of Summer 2009, unless we have snow days to make up. That seems so far away, but it will come faster than we expect.

Both boys had a good day. Ethan is even more excited than he was yesterday! He had a fantastic day! He is in awe about how many things are in his classroom. He is excited about having his own desk, the tubs of books, and his friends. His was a little disappointed that Roxy the bunny had an eye infection and would not be joining the class until next week. Did you know that Roxy will eat your crayons and pencils if you leave them on the floor? ... Neither did I!

Ben did not have much say.... getting older really sucks!
He did say that his locker is between 2 girls that he barely knows.

Nadia and I spent most of the day running errands that I had put off.
Good day for all.