Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Project Life - Week 31

Welcome to Project Life 2015! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to 3 year old Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins.

I am using a digital kit on Shutterfly. This digital version is SUPER easy to use! See my completed pages for 2012 using the Shutterfly - Project Life Turquoise Edition HERE and my 2013 album using the Shutterfly - Project Life Childhood - Mayfield Edition HERE I will hopefully be posting my 2014 pages soon.


And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week) - 



Friday - Nana came over tonight to help us with the Dinoculars for Maddie's birthday party. We cut 4" tubes and covered the ends with brown washi tape. Then we wrapped them with cardstock. We used double sided tape to adhere cardstock and adhere the two tubes together. We used a Crop O Dile to punch holes for the ribbon and used ribbon to make the neck strap. Unfortunately the next day all the cardstock came off. The double stick wasn't strong enough. I tried everything and finally used a combination of tape and Elmer's glue to get them to adhere. We also worked on making the bones. Yet another failure. We tried multiple times and every time the bones broke using the Plaster of Paris. So far all of our creations have been epic failures. 









Saturday - Today was Eme's 4th birthday at Canyon Creek Country Club. It was a great little place that had a splash area, a shallow pool and a big pool with a slide. Maddie loved it and swam the entire time. There were even glitter tattoos for the kids. Maddie got a mermaid. Her and Noel played together quite a bit. At the end of the party, Maddie even jumped into the deep pool into my arms. She did it multiple times and even pushed me away to turn around underwater and swim back to the edge. She is becoming quite the little fish!







Sunday - I made a practice dinosaur ice block for Maddie to break open today. She loved using the hammer and breaking out the dinosaur. It was a little dangerous as there were pieces of ice flying all over. We definitely need something to block flying ice and keep everyone safe. Also today, Maddie and I had our own dinosaur photo shoot. We surrounded Maddie with all her dinosaurs and took pictures for her invitation. I think the invitation turned out pretty cute! 


Tuesday - Today was Maddie's Little Critter Camp at the Arboretum. It is a three day camp from 9am - noon. It was another fun camp that Maddie said she loved! She seems to be having a lot of fun at all these camps.


Wednesday - Today was Maddie's last day of Little Critter Camp. She made this awesome painting with dye and watercolors. She was very proud of it.

Thanks for visiting!

Project Life - Week 30

Welcome to Project Life 2015! If you are new to my blog, welcome! I hope you will stay a while. I'm Jessica, wife to Juan, mommy to 3 year old Maddie. I am also an electrical engineer by day and I am participating in Project Life, a different way to record our lives by taking one photo a day. This was inspired by the fabulous Becky Higgins.

I am using a digital kit on Shutterfly. This digital version is SUPER easy to use! See my completed pages for 2012 using the Shutterfly - Project Life Turquoise Edition HERE and my 2013 album using the Shutterfly - Project Life Childhood - Mayfield Edition HERE I will hopefully be posting my 2014 pages soon.


And finally, my POTW (pictures of the week) - 


Thursday - Daddy and Maddie used sketch paper today to create a story. They continued to add on as the story developed. It was very cute to watch. Maddie is enthralled with anything that Daddy does. She loves him so much!


Friday - Maddie's last day of VBS. She had a great week and enjoyed coming everyday. Conversation between Maddie and I this morning:
Me: Come on Maddie get up, it's 6:30.
Maddie:  It's 6:30! I hope it doesn't get to 11:30.
Me:  11:30? What happens at 11:30?
Maddie:  It will be soo early!

After camp:
Me:  What did you learn about today at church camp?
Maddie:  That little boy had bread and he split it in half and had more and more and more and more.

















































Saturday - Another week of ballet. As you can see in the photos, Maddie dove through the circus flame in lieu of dancing through it as her instructor specified. I love that she always takes the path less chosen - or more like takes that path that doesn't exist and carves it out! After ballet, we went to Nana's to swim with Ashlyn and Jakob. Nana got out the slip N slide. Jakob did the best on it. Maddie and Ashlyn were both a little too small, not enough weight to get a good slide. Nana also made homemade ice cream, which Maddie loves. Ashlyn only took one bite and Jakob on a little.  Maddie ate her whole bowl and asked for seconds! I think all the kiddos had a great time.



Sunday - We started preparing for Maddie's 4th birthday party. I drew three large dinosaurs out of plywood, a TRex, a brontosaurus, and a triceratops. Maddie was very excited and wanted to help me draw. Now Daddy just needs to cut them out and we can paint them.




Tuesday - Maddie drew a picture on her chalkboard today and then proceeded to tell me that it was a mama monster and a baby monster and told me an entire story. It was perfect and I could see everything she spoke of in her Drawing. This evening we met Tio Jaime and his girlfriend Paloma at Grimaldi's for dinner. Maddie loves pizza, our favorite is sausage, pepperoni and mushrooms. 




Wednesday - We've been working on the Dinoculars for Maddie's party. Nana also finished the welcome wreath. How cute is it? There are even baby dinosaurs on the top. It's perferct!

Thanks for visiting!