I have such a great boy!

Look at this kid! Not only is he ADORABLE, but he's turning into such a good baby. I can eat just about everything (still no Mexican food or heavy garlic) I want. Such a relief because it was getting difficult trying to avoid pizza and red sauce :) . The best thing: He puts himself to sleep! WOW! It started about 3 nights ago. He woke up at 11:30 pm and I had to change his diaper...he ended up awake for an hour. He got tired but cried even more when I rocked him or cuddled him. So I put him in his bed and turned on his mobile. He sucked his thumb, made really cute soothing noises, and after 15 minutes he was asleep. I thought it was luck but he did it again the next day for his naps and has been doing it ever since! So different than Hailee. Darren and I had to "train" Hailee to fall asleep in her bed alone at 8 months. I'm so excited but at the same time it's wierd. I go in and check on him every half hour because I just can't believe he's fallen asleep, lol. This means I will have so much less stress when we travel over Christmas. Flying from Tulsa to Seattle is a long day, then 2 1/2 weeks visiting family makes for a long vacation.


So that's my good news for the day. Now I'll go pick Hailee up from school and hear all about the fun she had!

SBO Contest Time!!!!

It’s HOMECOMING at Scrapbooker Online You and a layout you love are invited to the Scrapbooker Online Homecoming Celebration. This is a chance to dust off one of your favorite layouts, a layout you may have submitted to a specific call or magazine assignment and it never got its chance to shine. We are inviting you and your best work to come out and party! There will be no wall flowers in our SBO gallery. Be seen and join us in creating one of the best September galleries the web has to offer!

Contest Rules/Details: • Submit a scrapbook layout that you have submitted to a specific call or magazine assignment and has never been picked up or published.
• Only one submission per person will be accepted.
• Include journaling, if possible.
• Please forward journaling in plain text along with the photo.
NOTE: No previously published work will be accepted.
1. All images will be displayed in our monthly contest gallery.
2. Open to US and Canada residents only
3. Please include a supply list.
4. Our winner will be notified by e-mail and must respond within 2 weeks of notification.
5. Winner will be announced in our monthly newsletter and on our site.
6. Winning Layout: Our Design Team will select one winning layout. The winner of this contest will receive a $25 gift certificate to our on line store and be crowned the SBO Homecoming Queen.
7. All entries must be received by September 28th, 2006. Submissions can be made by emailing September2006Contest@scrapbookeronline.com Or by uploading it to the "September 2006 – SBO Homecoming 2006" contest gallery. User registration is required September Contest Deadline is September 28th, 2006

Hailee's 1st day of school!

she had a great day! she colored, danced, sang, read, and even had a snack! She seems to really like her teacher, Mrs. Snow. I'm glad she's having fun! Soon she'll know everyone's name and will tell me all about them!

Scrapbook Playground needs a guest designer for October!

We are looking for a guest designer to work with our design team for the month of October! To be considered, upload your 3 favorite layouts that depict your style in our gallery and link them here: http://www.scrapbookplayground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10125! The guest designer will be chosen and announced on September 15th!!!


Congrats to Jen and Rita....September's guest designers!!!!

An adorable bad habit!

He's a thumb sucker. I'm not really happy with it, because you can't take the thumb away sometime in the future....well at least he looks cute doing it! He's just starting to grab and hold things, so Darren and I are hoping to get him switched to a pacifier.

Last night was a long night, he didn't sleep well for some reason. But tonight is good so far. He fell asleep at 8:00 pm when he ate and it's now after 11 and he isn't awake yet! Pray for lots of rest for this zombie mommy!

Only 6 more days until Hailee starts preK. She is getting so excited! I really hope she enjoys school and will make lots of new friends.

awwww!

aren't they just the cutest? I love how this picture looks, even if Braden didn't smile! I guess I need to go update all of my avatars now! :)

Scrapbook Playground is looking for a guest designer!!!!!

We are looking for a guest designer to work with our design team for the month of September! To be considered, upload your 3 favorite layouts that depict your style in our gallery and link them here http://www.scrapbookplayground.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9908 ! The guest designer will be chosen and announced on August 15th!

Also, please congratulate Gine! She's the newest member of our fabulous design team!!!!!

3 months already???

Wow, how time flies! Braden is 3 months old as of August 1st! And to celebrate he let out his first belly laugh! It's so cute! I finally got him to do it for his Daddy so now I'm not the only one who's heard him! And he's getting to be such a good happy baby! He falls asleep in the swing now. Which is good. He used to only fall asleep if I was holding him or if we were in the car. He's taking good naps during the day...3 of them at least 1 1/2 hours each! Much better than Hailee ever did! I'm pleased to say I can eat red sauce again! YAY! I had spaghetti and he didn't have any troubles with it. That was so exciting that I thought I'd try Mexican food for lunch...no such luck. Boy was that a long day! Poor little guy.

Hailee starts school on the 17th! I can't believe it! I remember thinking "only a few more months" and here it is only a few more days! She's so excited. I'm curious how the first day will go. She gets so shy that she cries so I'm expecting a long goodbye that day.

Contest begins TODAY!!!!...August 1st.
SBO’s Progressive August Layout Contest
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Thanks to the wonderful contributions and participation in our July contest we have decided to keep the ball rolling at SBO and offer another progressive layout contest for the month of August. But this one has a little twist involved. For anyone who attended our Cyber Crop in June and participated in my challenge you will understand the contest rules below.

The contest will run for 4 weeks. Each, MONDAY by Midnight EST, you will upload the assignment for the week. There will be a designated contest gallery for each week of the contest.

The contest judging will not occur until the end of the month but to be eligible you will need to upload your assignment each week. Due to the fact this is a progressive contest you can not miss a week because each week will build off of the past weeks work.

Each Tuesday at Noon, EST, I will post the assignment. You will have a week to complete it and upload to the gallery.

The final layouts will be judged on the following: Overall craftsmanship, creativity, and interesting use of embellishments, journaling, and how well you followed the directions. The SBO DT will be judging this contest.

This contest is going to take some thought ladies. Each week you will need to use what you have done in the past and build on it. But, you will not know what you are to do next, until the assignment is posted. You also can NOT add anything to your layout that is not in the assignments. Good luck let me know if you have any questions.

The first assignment will be posted this Tuesday, August 1st. The first deadline will be Monday, August 7th at Midnight EST.