dancing queen

You are the dancing queen

Young and sweet, only seventeen

Dancing queen, feel the beat

From the tambourine, oh yeah

You can dance, you can jive

Having the time of your life...

Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene

Dig in the dancing queen...

.....

Miss S is having the time of her life in the most adorable tutu that I bought for her, from Trinity's Tutus. Miss S loves the pink and brown Strawberry Chocolate Cupcake tutu...

and the matching "S" top that I ordered from isabellaboo...

Dig in the dancing queen!

summer reading

I am currently reading this...

and wondering if the movie will be as good as the book.

I recently saw My Sister's Keeper

with Monique and Renee, and did not like the film as much as the book. The fact that the ending was dramatically changed from Jodi Picoult's book, was disappointing, since the book was awesome.

I am also currently reading anything I can get my hands on by Harlan Coben...

In the past couple weeks I have read Hold Tight, The Woods and No Second Chance. I can just fly through his books because they are so good, and so suspenseful I don't want to put them down.

Also I have been flipping through this...

and trying to decide which cupcakes the kiddies and I should make first! {Does a cook book count as reading?}

I just love, love, love to get caught up in a good book. I love finding a book that is so good you just don't want it to end. And so now my summer reading dilema is this...what books should I take with me on my upcoming trip?

fabulous

Scrapped this "fabulous" layout of Miss S last night...

with the photos from this day.

Miss S is a rock star!

what do

The Bachlorette, Jillian and I have in common? Not much.

Other than this fabulous pendant...that she wore on Monday night's show.

Handmade by RitzyMisfit, mine is a melted and stamped wax seal green pendant, with quirky vintage-looking charm. Jillian's was turquoise...

{The one pictured above is a photo from RitzyMisfit's site, not my actual pendant}

You can pick the "level of character" and "degree of color" that you want your pendant to have. I love it.

That Jillian...she has great taste in baubles.

As for men??? I guess we'll see...

today: fresh strawberries

The kiddies and I are enjoying the long days of summer. This morning, strawberry picking with E and the other Miss S {R may have ate more than he picked, and Miss S kept yelling that she found "the biggest strawberry ever" every time she picked a berry}, followed by swimming lessons. Picnic lunch outside and running through the sprinkler at Monique's. We left the house right after breakfast and didn't get home until dinnertime. But we needed to do something with all those berries, so after dinner we made a treat...

and went to bed tired but with full tummies. Sweet strawberry dreams.

and finally

some scrapbooking.

I got back into the scrapbooking groove by going to Kelly's last week for Scrapbook Monday. I didn't have anything that I was working on, so Kelly suggested we do a sketch from 52 Sketches. I grabbed a few photos, a few sheets of paper and a handful of embellishments and made this page. Not the greatest page, but it got me scrapbooking again {and I love the memories of this day...me taking just R to the Science Center back home, leaving Miss S with Grandma, so that R and I could take in the Bob the Builder exhibit. The first time I did something alone with just R after Miss S was born}...

{oops, needs some journalling - need to look up the exact date we did this. And would like to add some machine stitching to the fabric tag...}

R liked the layout that I did at Kelly's, so on Canada Day, while Miss S and her daddy were having a snooze {in anticipation of staying up late for the fireworks}, I scrapbooked with him. So fun to scrapbook with R! He is so creative, and he had fun using all mommy's tools, trying all the colors of ink, etc. Made this page while R worked on his own version...

and this one {to remind of all the many, many days we spent at the Zoo back home. Loved going there with the kiddies.}..

And because I was on a roll...the following Monday, again at Kelly's, I made this page {again using this week's sketch}...

{It is so cool to see that Kelly and I used the same sketch, but end up with layouts that look so very different. Hint, Hint...Kelly, make sure you post your layouts so we can see them too!}

And then scrapping again with the boy today {who is getting very good at making layouts of his own, with his favorite photos} I made the layout at the top of this post. And this one...

Now I am just trying to fit in as much scrapbooking as possible, before I hit another dry spell...