Good game, good game, good game ...

I think that is my daughter's favorite part of her T-ball games ... the good-game, good-game, good-game part where they all give fives to the other team. :) It's cute. And then she gets her snack ... which might actually be her favorite part, lol.

Blake, however ... I think his favorite part is getting the other team out. He got to play the pitcher tonight for one inning, and he did great! It's T-ball, so he didn't have to pitch the ball, but he did get a runner out at 3rd, and he got two runners out at home base. If you did the math, you realize he got the 3 outs for the inning! :) He also scored some runs. I'm not sure how many, as I did not keep track. I got some decent pictures, but don't have my camera handy to load them to share with you yet.

We did make it to the circus on Wednesday, too, and it turned out to be a gorgeous day. It started out cloudy at the beginning of the show, and the sun came out during their intermission. It was starting to get "ouch" hot by the time the circus was done. Good thing it wasn't that sunny the whole time or we'd all have been sun-burned! After the circus we went to Mike's Smokehouse for lunch, which was yummy! I don't get to go there very often. As is true with many places now-a-days, you get a lot less fish for your dollar, but at least it tasted as good as I remembered it. Julia had a game Wednesday night, and she is getting better and better at staying on task on the ball field. It's amazing the difference a year makes! :)

Well, it is getting late and I have laundry to switch over, so I better head out. Thanks for stopping in. I will try to get some pictures posted ... maybe tomorrow night after another of Blake's games! :)

~Melinda

New blog template ...

So, last night I sat down with the intention of scrapping with one of Connie Prince's newest kits - Brain Freeze. As often happens when I sit down to scrap, I got distracted by other things. When I went to the store to grab the links to the kit I noticed that she had a new blog template. I've been using a really pretty one:



since March or so, I think.

This bright one caught my eye, though:



As you can see, I'm not using it ... even though I love it. Why? Well, I got sucked into the template designer in Blogger. LOL! I ended up spending probably an hour changing the background and colors and stuff ... eventually ending up with what I have now. Will it stick? Eh, probably not. I am a digi-scrapper at heart, and am sure that I will miss having a pretty header, and cute tags on the sidebar. The new Sunbeams & Daydreams Blogwear will probably be my new set-up. Then, I will challenge myself to pick just one of the adorable headers to put on my blog. Maybe I should set up another blog so that I can use more than one?? ;)

Oh yeah ... that scrapping. I did eventually finish a page, meaning another late night getting to bed, hee hee. Here is the page I created with Brain Freeze (and a Heat Wave Template - available at Elemental Scraps only), which I think turned out really cute!



You can see it a little bigger in my Gotta Pixel gallery, if you want a closer look.

Tomorrow we are planning to go to the circus. Well, actually we ARE going, because I already spent an obscene (in my opinion) amount of money on the adult tickets. We have free passes for the kids. When I spread the cost out between us all, though, I guess it isn't so bad ... $28 for 5 people to see the circus. I'll try to think of it that way instead. ;)

I'll share pictures on my blog if I get any good ones. Last year we went, but it was the evening program and by the time the really pretty acts came out, it was dark and of course I was too far away for my flash to be of any use. I am hoping for lots of sunshine so that I can get some spectacular pictures. I wonder where the best place will be to sit, and how early we'd need to get there to sit there, too, lol.

If you've stuck through my rambling this long, hey ... thanks! :) As a thank you, in case you've missed it, there is a Father's Day Give-Away on Connie Prince's blog ... go see it HERE! Now, I'm gonna go harrass the children about getting to sleep so that they aren't crabby tomorrow.

Have a good one,

What did you make today?

I made this!


with LOVE WITHOUT END KIT and SO SUNNY TEMPLATES by Connie Prince

It was my attempt at stress-reduction tonight. I am battling my sinuses ... and it is a bitter fight. A simple cold never stays a cold in MY system. It is almost always "promoted" to sinus infection status almost immediately. I wish I knew why ... and wish there was a way to stop it. But anyway ... it was fun trying to de-stress! What did you make today?

The Witching Hour ...

A blogger/tweeting friend of mine brought up the witching hour tonight in a tweet of hers. I guess I only think of the witching hour coming once a year ... on Halloween, but as was revealed, this is apparently the term used to refer to that crazy time of the evening when your kids are constantly underfoot and driving you crazy as you try to transition from one routine to another.

This is the part where I sigh in relief that I am indeed NOT the only mom out there who experiences this!!! Do you have this happen now, if you have kids in your house? Do you remember it, if your children are now grown?

I'm sure there are ways to try and ease this "witching hour" time. And no... it does NOT include a margarita mix. ;) For me, I'm just glad to be HOME tonight, because that "witching hour" is MUCH more intense after coming home from being out and about all evening!!!

How do YOU deal with the witching hour??

Penscrappers challenge entry for May ...

I really was happy with how my page turned out in March. I didn't get an entry in last month, but have created a page this month. If you click on the image above, you will be taken to the page I created. If you like it, please vote for me! :)

Here is what the page looks like ... full credits are located at the penscrappers site, which I link to above:


Thanks for taking a peek at the contest entries, and I hope you will vote for my page!

Hail-o (Hello), it's MAY!!! What is this?!

We had rain/snow in the forecast for Friday and Saturday. I don't know quite what to call what came out of the sky, but come it did. Hail, sleet ... whatever it was, it sucked, LOL. I mean seriously ... it's MAY! Poor Blake was stuck playing soccer in it. LAST weekend he got to play on a very windy day, and the weekend before that he was stuck playing in the rain the whole time! Hopefully he will get to enjoy the last two games with WARM weather. :)

Some catch-up ...

April 18:

I was able to talk Chase into putting on pants and a coat, but he refused to wear socks and boots. Sandals were good enough. LOL. Blake and Julia were down the block at a friend's house.

Monday, April 19:

Blake had soccer practice and pictures, so he had his shirt on.

Wednesday, April 28:

Chase sitting on the bleachers with me while Julia had T-ball practice.

Saturday, May 1:

Blake's 3rd soccer game of the spring season -- the first time I brought my camera (very odd!). He was given the spot of goalie for the first time! It was super windy and that made it very cold. I was regretting wearing capris and sandals, and regretted not having the kids wear pants too. BUT, at least it was sunny! I even managed to get either sun or wind burn!


Julia's 3rd soccer game was this day also. She wasn't really into it, and kept stopping to chat. I love this picture ... even though she should have been running! Her team had pictures today in the wind. They were supposed to take pictures the previous Saturday, but it was rainy and most of the kids didn't show up. They practiced for a while, but there was no game. Blake had to play in the rain for his whole game ... poor kid!