First Day of Preschool

We were invited to join a preschool co-op. There are six kids. Each mom takes a week to teach. Last week they talked about the letter "A" and the number 4. Ryan loved his first day and is excited to go back.

Fall Photo Shoot

Just a few pics I took of my cutiebugs. We took a little drive up the canyon because the leaves are starting to turn colors here, and it is sooo beautiful! Love this time of year.

Oh, and um, the frame and embellishments *might* be found in a kit I have coming soon!

Ryan is Three!!

On Septemeber 11th Ryan turned three. We did a cars theme. Here are some highlights of his day:

He invited a friend over and they of course played cars and trains. For lunch they had car shaped grilled cheese, Cars Spaghettios, and "organic fuel" (AKA juice). Then they decorated car shaped cookies and ate Cars fruit snacks.
We had hot dogs, chips, applesauce, and chocolate milk for dinner. Ryan's choice. And I made him a Lightening McQueen cake. It was a lot of work, but he loved it. He got some new Thomas stuff. He was very happy and told my grandma on the phone that night " I had a very good, long day."

Details

You want details, huh?

Well, as you know I made it to the finals of the FPD contest. After the initial disappointment of not making it into the store, I talked to a couple of other designers and they both thought my designs were good enough to sell and that I should choose a few stores and just e-mail the owners letting them know I was interested in selling at their store and see what happened. I chose six stores. I got very good responses from most of them. A few of them told me they loved my stuff but that they were not hiring at the moment. One of them asked me to be an upcoming guest designer (more details later, but I'm very excited about that).

My dream store said this: "Your stuff is adorable and is just perfect for what the XX customer loves. Unfortunately tho, we arent looking to expand our team at this time. I would be happy to hold onto your inquiry in the event things change in the future but I don't want to keep you from pursuing other design opportunities so I wanted to let you know right away that we dont have any openings. You're quite talented and I am sure you will find a great home for your designs." Best rejection letter I've ever gotten! And you know I'm going to keep an eye out for design calls, because I'd really love to be part of that store. (Purposely withholding the name, don't want to give it away just yet.)

Elemental Scraps offered me a spot and said I could start right away. After mulling over my options I decided ES was the best fit for me at this time and I said yes. I've been working hard to get some stuff added to the store and have already sold a few things! So I'm happy. This business is very much a name game, so it may take a while for things to pick up, but I'm hopeful. Thanks for all your congrats!

Grand Opening

Just been busy opening my store!!!
Enter this coupon code: PODDGrandOpening during the month of September and receive 50% off.

More reunion pages

These layouts and the ones I posted before all started out as templates from Simply Yin.

Our Daddy's an Aggie!

We took a Sunday night walk to campus. Tradition says you are a true Aggie if you kiss on the "A."

Odd Family Reunion Pages (part one)

Continuing on with the catch up, I mentioned we went to Washington a couple of weeks ago. I am in charge of our family reunion scrapbook, and I've completed a few pages so I thought I'd share. It was so much fun. Can't wait for next year!

More Catching Up

Well, shoot. I really did plan to be right back to post again, but after my vent a week has gone by with nothing! I'm cursing Shaela (my sis-in-law) right now for getting me started:

LOL. I knew I would be hooked which is why I avoided them for this long! Will someone PLEASE tell me, is the 4th book the last one? I hate waiting forever for the next book to come out (Harry Potter) which is why it's a good thing I waited this long to read the Twilight books. But, *sigh* doesn't a good book and some chocolate cake just make things seem so much better. It was a tough week. Thanks for your sweet comments and e-mails.

My hunny turned 30 last week! We got a babysitter (rarity for us, but we found a really sweet girl who is awesome with our kids, so maybe we'll go out more often), and went to The Coppermill. We were super impressed. The food was awesome.

And now for some tough news that I've been debating sharing. I've decided to go ahead though since this blog is really my journal which some of you happen to read. So here goes. Last week I had a miscarriage. I was only about 6 weeks along. Those of you who know my fertility history know, for me, getting and staying pregnant is a pretty big deal. So we were quite surprised, although thrilled. Nervous, as Emery is only 10 months, but thrilled. Especially Jared. So the loss was pretty hard, but not quite as tough as the first time. I suppose because this time I was able to look at my two gorgeous children and just be grateful we have them. And I've learned a lot about faith and God's plan for us since our first loss. Not that it makes it easy by any means, my perspective is just different. Thanks to the above mentioned chocolate cake, Stephenie Meyer, some heavy-duty pain medication left over from Emery's birth, and a couple of days moping around, I made it through the week. One day at a time.