Friends or enemies?

Today was not one of the days Graesen comes to school with me.  I am full alternating Wednesdays and Tuesdays, and today was one of my full days (I cannot have more than 10 kids without an assistant).  He went to Evan's in the morning and then to my mom's house this afternoon.  My dad wanted Graesen and I stay for dinner so that he could have some time to look at my car.  A warning light came on, and since I now nothing about cars this meant I needed my dad to look at it. 
My parents were watching Phoebe tonight, so the two kids got some playtime in.  Both, however, are fighting off viruses.  Graesen seemed pretty good tonight, but poor Phoebe looks miserable.  I gave them a bath so that I could put Graesen straight to bed when we got home.  These two had been fighting a lot, but calmed right down during bath.  They love each other so much, but fight like brother and sister...

*Phoebe's nose is not bleeding.  It's raw from wiping it.  Poor girl has the most sensitive skin.

Busy, busy and MyMemories giveaway

Life is busy lately.  So busy, in fact, that in the past two days these are the kind of pictures I got of Graesen...
Yesterday...

Today...

Both days Graesen fell asleep on the way home (yesterday was from spending the day with Evan and today was from Divorce Care class).  He is one tired little boy.

I wanted to remind you to enter the MyMemories giveaway that was on my last post.  I will draw for a winner next Monday.  I will also be posting some MyMemories freebies soon.  I'm too tired to do it tonight, but I hope to get them up in the next few days.  You can also use the promotional code listed on my sidebar for MyMemories software discounts :)

Giveaway!!!

I got an email from MyMemories this week about doing a giveaway on my blog.  I had never looked at any digital scrapbooking software before and was worried I wouldn't know what to do with it.  After looking around the site a little I thought it looked like fun!  I downloaded the software and played around a bit.  This first page I made was a pre-made template.  It was very user friendly and easy to do.

I also played around a bit with creating my own pages.  This was FUN!  It only took me a few minutes to create each of these pages.

I can tell I am totally going to get hooked to the software :)  Really, the possibilities are endless.  I only spent a small amount of time on each of these today and I am so excited to spend some more time working with this software :)

For those of you who don't know, when you create pages on MyMemories software, you can save them to your computer or print them out to make a picture book when you have several pages completed.  You can also make calendars and photo cards with this software.  I am totally going to use this to create Graesen's birthday invitations this year :)  Seriously, I am so excited about this!  I love the idea of being able to create them on my own and customize them to fit the party.
 *Maybe something like this:

MyMemories has given me a code to share with all of you that will give you a $10 discount on the software AND a $10 coupon for their store.  If you would like to purchase software or templates from MyMemories, use this code when you check out for your discounts: STMMMS74916

MyMemories is also giving one of my readers a FREE copy of their software.  To enter this giveaway for the free software go to www.mymemories.com and browse the kits.  Leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite kit is (from either the new kits or free kits tab).  

*I will announce a winner on Monday, March 19th
*Remember, even if you don't win the free software, you can use my discount code to get $10 off the software and a $10 coupon to buy more things in the store.
 

Lazy Sunday

After church Graesen told me he just wanted us to stay home together, so we spent a few hours reading books and watching a movie all cuddled up.  He is definitely feeling worn out from this cold, but you wouldn't guess that by how much he played with Phoebe tonight. 
Eating strawberry shortcake :)

Some little stinkers found a feather boa in the dress up clothes and pulled it apart...

 

Graesen and Phoebe talked on the phone tonight before she showed up :)

Emotional boy

Graesen does not feel well today.  He kept going from really happy to meltdown in a matter of seconds.  On several occasions he begged for his pacifier.  He hasn't had a pacifier since last June, so I was really surprised when he started crying for one.  He was heartbroken to hear that I didn't have any to give him.
We headed to gap today to pick up a wind breaker for Graesen.  His one from last year barely fits, and I couldn't find any good ones anywhere else.  I totally lucked out, because they were having a sale and it was 30% off today!  He needed something other than winter coats and a rain jacket.
Look at how handsome he looks on the way to the car :)

We also headed to my parents' house this afternoon.  I left my running shoes at my sister's house last weekend and they picked them up on their way back from vacation.  Graesen spent some time playing on their swing set (sporting his new coat).

Since I got my running shoes back we went for a run tonight.

Poor Graesen fell asleep on the run and when he woke up he was a mess!  He was sobbing and coughing.  Thank goodness for tylenol!  He has still been fussing in his sleep, but at least he is sleeping instead of crying!

Friday and a bicycle birthday party

Graesen had a better day at school today.  He still had some rough moments, but it was more meltdowns than naughtiness.  He is definitely getting sick and cried to be held several times today.  He still had a lot of fun though, especially playing outside.

When we got home he just wanted to lay around even though he napped for two hours at school today.

I love making Fridays be movie night.  We stopped at a Redbox on our way home from work and picked up the Yogi Bear movie.  We also picked up some treats from Baskin Robins.  Totally silly, but Graesen wanted on of the animal ice cream treats, and they looked yummy to me too.

I made some  homemade pizza and we had a little picnic in the living room.  Graesen loved the movie :)

Last weekend we went to my nephew's seventh birthday party.  It was a bicycle rodeo birthday party complete with bike tune ups, a demonstration on what happens when you don't wear a helmet (with eggs), bike decorations, bike courses, and races.  It was a big hit for all of the kids :)