Last Day

Today was Kyler's last day of Preschool for the 2007-2008 school year. We had a nice little ceremony for all the kids. ( Even though Kyler and majority of the other kids will be there next year. I took this picture on before school this morning in about the same spot that I took his first day picture. I always think its fun to look back and see if he has grown. I think he has! I know he has learned a lot this last year at school. He has told me that he is very excited to spend this summer at Grandma Sandy's and Grandpa Jay's.



Here are a couple of pictures from tonight's ceremony/recital:



Here are a couple of pictures from tonight's ceremony/recital:

Weekend

I took Friday off from work so I could have a mini vacation in a way. Friday we went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie. I thought it was great. I know a lot of people are complaining about certain aspects of the film but I really thought it worked well with the other 3 films. Kyler went with us and he did amazingly well. I thought it might be too scary but just covered his eyes once, he thought the natives in the movie were scary but that was it.

Saturday and Sunday I watch Dan work on the Swimming pool wall. I of course did some house work.

Lastly, we went to the Boatnik carnival with Mike, Leisa, Alex, Alex's friend and Maci. We met up with Ryan, Sheryl and Kirra. We had so much fun. It was great for Kyler to have someone to ride with and the ride where he need an adult Alex graciously took him. Here are just a small few of all the pictures I took.

Cards

I am entering two card contests this weekend. One at Scrappy Jo's and one at Triple the Sketch
I thought I would share the outcome. The first 2 are for Triple the Sketch and the last 3 are for Scrappy Jo's.

General Stuff

I haven't updated in awhile, not that a whole lot has happened. I had a nice Mothers Day. Dan's parents came down from Portland and Dan took his mother and I out to dinner on Sat. Then on Sunday I got gifts from Kyler. A tube of some seriously red lipstick, a CSI game, some glue ( I am in the group of few you likes glue as a gift) and the Princess Bride movie (which we already have copy of) Anyone need a copy? The rest of the day we spent at my mom's.

The other thing that has taken up lots of time is the yard. Today we have been leveling, spreading fertilizer, seed and now compost. The sprinklers are all done it the lower half. After we get done seeding we are going to work on getting the retaining wall up for the pool. Then we will address the upper part of the lawn.

I have been scrapbooking but haven't take pictures of my layouts recently. I have an all day crop in Roseburg on 31st of May. I am excited! I was packing up kits last night to be ready.

Well I should go clean up. I leave you with a picture of Dan and Kyler installing the pipes for the sprinklers.

Railroad Park

I forgot to talk about the Railroad Park. We went here on Sunday. Its over in Central Point on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month up until October. We had so much fun! There is no admission charge but I bought Kyler a engineer hat and we bought some food there and of course I donated money as well. The park is run by volunteers. They have lots of cars for you to get into. A train ride, well two train rides and there is a building full of model trains. Kyler really liked and Dan and I had a blast!

Other than that one the weekends Dan has been working on our backyard a lot. We are putting in a retaining wall for the pool and need to get the in-ground sprinklers in so that we can plant some grass. I am hoping its is at least a little grassy by Sept. so we can have Kyler's birthday out there. Its still a pirate them for the moment. I tried to switch it to a Train theme and have it at the Railroad Park, Oh lord! Do not try to switch it up on that child.

And the winner is.....

I thought I would draw the name early...

Pick just one...

And the winner is..

Lisa Hidy.

Lisa please email me you address so I can get you prize out to you sometime this week.

This morning....

Kyler is siting on my lap turns ans kisses the hair laying on my shoulder.

Kyler: I kissed your hair.

Me: I know. Why did you do that?

Kyler: Cause I like to kiss everywhere on you.

Sketch Layouts

Here there are in particular order... All of the layouts I got for my sketch challenge. Don't you just love how different they all are? I do! I thank each and everyone of you girls for participating.
Kyler will draw a name on Monday. Wishing you all the best of luck.

Jess Stevens

Karina

Lisa Hidy

Nathalie Leonelli

Tony Smith

Amy Wheeler

Emma Johns

Christy Riddell

Wendy West

Darci Nichols

Scrapbook Pages

And an altered item too!

I Challenge You!

Okay so I want to give something away but I want people to get a scrapbook page done too! So... if you make a layout using my sketch to the left. I will enter you into a random drawing for the prize below. You have until April 25th to enter. Email me your layouts at mary@silvercrk.com please put Scrapbook Sketch in the subject line. I will post all the layouts I receive here on my blog and announce the winner April 28. This is open to anyone who reads my blog which is not a lot of people so your chances are pretty good.

I hope that someone takes me up on it.





And the prize....



3 Sheets of American Crafts Play paper
4 Sheets of Bazzil
3 Scenic Route Chipboard Pieces
2 yards of ribbon
2 Heidi Swapp Flowers
1 felt Scallop Edge
1 felt package of Thickers
1 I kan dee memorabilia holder

This is the life...

The last past week has been super nice weather. I was really starting to wonder if we would ever get a spring. Tuesday, on my day off Kyler and I spent a good amount of time outside. First playing Moon Sand (one of my least favorite gifts from the Grandma's) and then I planted some of the flowers Dan bought me on Easter. While Kyler practiced riding his bike. He really hasn't gotten the steering down yet.

I am back on the healthy eating plan. After gaining back about 10 of the 30 pounds I lost. I thought it was about time. So far I haven't been too bad with the exception of today's lunch. It could have been better. We will see what the end of the week brings.

Easter

We spent Easter at home this year. Jay has a cold and mom wasn't feeling all that great either. I have a little cold still myself. The morning started off with me franticly trying to clean up the front room so I could hide the eggs and put out the baskets.
I made breakfast (eggs, Bacon and bunny pancakes) and Kyler and Dan made their way downstairs. We all ate breakfast together and then made our way outside to find those eggs.The rest of the day was a typical Sunday. Dan did a big burn pile. I cleaned the kitchen pantry. I made dinner with stuff I found in the pantry. Here are some pictures of Mr. Kyler

Eggs

yesterday. We had planned on having friends over and doing it all together but the night before I started to get a sore throat. I didn't think I should expose myself to other so canceled having the friends over and it was just me and Lets start with the good... I dyed eggs with KylerKyler. So lets see know I have a horrible case of poison oak. The beginnings of a staff infection on the poison oak. I fell down at the preschool of Tuesday so I have scraps on my elbow and knee and now I have a cold. Its almost ridiculous. I am hoping to enjoy some of our Easter tomorrow... Anyway I leave you with some pictures of our egg dyeing.

You got mail

Kyler got his first package in the mail yesterday from Grandma and Grandpa Edwards. He was pretty excited. When I got it out of the mail box he asked if it was for him and carried for the mail box up the driveway in the car...

He got a little yellow basket with some candy...

And a really cute Yertle the Turtle.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa. You rock!

Circus

I know! I know! I am a bad blogger! You don't have to tell me. I already know. I have looked at my blog and thought I really should blog but just don't. I guess life hasn't been all that interesting here lately. We did go to the circus last night and that was fun. We went with our neighbor friends from up the street and their little boy. The show was great but I kept thinking that our fairgrounds are in need of some serious revamping and really really need some paint. Dan's least favorite part was the clowns and Kyler's favorite part was the clowns. I liked the poodles seen here....

I thought that they rocked!

Afterward we let Davey and Kyler play with their newly purchased light swords. That was almost as entertaining as the circus.

Bored

You Belong in 1984

Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.

What Year Do You Belong In?