{Project 365}

May 28th - June

2009-06-07T10:41:00.001-07:00

May 29th - Grocery shopping.

May 31st - Tried to make chicken salad & it turned out pretty good.

June 1st - Mad libs type story Tommy did.

June 2nd - Ice cream before bed.

June 4th - Pancakes for dinner.

June 5th - Tommy got his award for Respect at school.

May 22-27

2009-05-28T20:50:00.001-07:00

May 22nd - Tommy playing Webkinz.

May 23rd - Anthony's new 'do.

May 24th - This is what a lazy weekend results in.

May 25th - Reading time.

May 26th - Amazing! Someone helped me make dinner!

May 27th - Alex let me give him his first mommy cut. It's horrible, not straight, and embarrassing - but at least he's not as shaggy as he once was. Maybe the next time we go out for haircuts he'll sit for one.

May 18-21

2009-05-22T20:51:00.001-07:00

I don't know where my picture for the 17th went! I know I took one, I'm going to hunt it down in a bit. lol

May 18th - The boys school had a Family Night at a restaurant here in town and at Yogurt Island, so we hopped in the car after dinner & took the boys to get some yogurt. Or as Alex refers to it as "ice cream island".

May 19th - Anthony playing in the sand while waiting for Tommy to have his soccer evaluation, which never happened.

May 20th - 9 year anniversary. Hubby appeased me by letting me take some odd photos. lol

May 21st - Tried out my new fitness game for the Wii. Hoping it wasn't a waste of money.

May 11-16

2009-05-17T19:34:00.001-07:00

May 11th - Got to thinking about how we've been changing diapers for 8 years now. I'm ready to be free of diapers.

May 12th - Anthony doing his homework.

May 13th - Feet!

May 14th - Game 7, Wings vs Ducks - Wings win!!!

May 15th - Starbucks thief.

May 16th - Never any nice smiles, always a goofy face.

May 1-10

2009-05-15T21:00:00.001-07:00

Ok, image heavy post here.

May 1

May 2nd

May 3rd

May 4th

May 5th

May 6th

May 7th

May 9th

May 10th

April 25-30

2009-05-15T20:57:00.001-07:00

Ok, so no photo for the 25th. It was DH's birthday and I can't remember why I didn't get a picture. And on the 26th we laid on the couch all day recovering from a bit too much drinking the night before. lol

April 27th

April 28th

April 29

April 18-24

2009-05-05T22:10:00.000-07:00

This is all that I have on my computer for right now. Which is amazing, because I usually don't go more than 3 or 4 days without downloading the pictures from my camera.

April 18 - Alex loves his pizza. This isn't a spectacular shot.

April 19 - Passed out on the couch.

April 21 - This week it was 100* two different days.

April 22 - A new recipe we tried. Chicken stuffed with feta & spinach. Yummy. Unfortunately this shot doesn't look very appetizing, but the shots of the chicken cooked didn't turn out :(

April 23 - Waiting for the boys to get out of school.

April 24 - Alex passed out in the couch with Rocky.

April 11-17

2009-05-05T21:15:00.000-07:00

Wow, I knew I was far behind, but almost 30 days?! I am mostly remembering to take a picture each day, I think I missed another day or two, but I'm ok with that. I need to pull my pictures off the camera from the last week or more. Here's what I have on my computer so far, broke up into 2 posts.

April 11 - The boys just before diving in to color Easter eggs.

April 12 - Anthony and his new webkinz the Easter bunny brought him.

April 13 - Alex keeping in shape doing some Wii Fit excersizes.

April 14 - We bought Rocky a harness so he wouldn't choke himself when we put his leash on him. He chewed through it within 5 minutes of having it on.

April 15 - Reading books.

April 16 - The food Tom brought home that they were going to throw away.

April 17 - Career Day at Tommy's school, if it's not obvious he went as a Marine. So, I rolled up the sleeves on one of Tom's blouse, got him a set of dog tags and a cover.

April 6-10

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April 6 - Alex playing in the ocean.

April 7 - The Indiana Jones fedora Tommy wanted as his souvenir from Disneyland. Alex promptly fell in love.

April 8 - A trip to Legoland.

April 9 - Tom & Anthony goofing around.

April 10 - Anthony & Rocky playing.

April 1-5

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April 1 - Anthony having a bowl of popcorn.

No photo for April 2.

April 3 - My SIL and nephew finally made it! Here she is with all the boys playing outside.

April 4 - The 3 big boys waiting for Nemo's Submarine ride at Disneyland. I meant to get a photo of all 4 of them.

April 5 - Day trip to Hollywood. Captain Jack and Davy Jones let the boys stand with them and had their pictures taken.

March 25-31

2009-04-13T21:57:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to catch up here, I've done good with taking a photo each day, I think I missed one day in the last few weeks.

March 25 - Tommy showing off his missing tooth.

March 26 - Anthony sporting a flight suit that Tom brought home from work.

March 27 - Tommy playing his new computer game, Spore.

March 28 - Alex and his arsenal, a nerf gun & a nerf sword.

March 29 - A game of Twister.

March 30 - Me.

Unfortunately I have no shot for March 31.

almost back

2009-04-10T17:51:00.000-07:00

Sorry that I haven't updated regularly in the past couple of weeks. I got kind of burned out from posting everyday, then I let too much time lapse in between posting; then I was just frustrated. My boys had 2 weeks off last week and the week before. Then my SIL and nephew came into town for a week-long visit. They flew back home this morning.

I've been keeping up, I think I might have missed 1 day - but I was counting on a pic of my nephew for that day & their flight got delayed and they ended up stuck in Dallas overnight. Oh well. I need to pick my photos for each day and get them re-sized. I'll be back soon with a couple posts to bring my blog up-to-date!

March 23 & 24

2009-03-25T10:42:00.001-07:00

March 23 - The first day of the boys spring break. They all had baths and after getting out Alex sat in my lap and was just still. He's such a mover that it's rare for him to just sit with one of us. I had Anthony run downstairs to get the camera. Between him & Tommy they took turns trying to get a good picture while Alex was still content enough to still sit with me.

March 24 - Tommy lost his first tooth. Then he swallowed it. Tommy’s wiggly tooth finally broke free. He was having a left-over hamburger for lunch and notified me that he thought his tooth was gone. I asked him where it was, and he said he thought he swallowed it. I checked to see if the tooth in question was still in its socket, it wasn’t, it was gone. No where to be seen. I laughed, alot. I couldn’t help it, it was funny. The boy has been waiting so long to have a loose tooth at all. He finally has a loose tooth and it breaks free only to find a new home in his tummy.

March 19-22

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March 19 - By far my favorite of this bunch. I was trying to get a good picture of him next to Anthony to show the contrast of their skin, Tommy is already tan!

March 20 - Alex trying to wait very patiently to have his turn to rock-n-roll.

March 21 - We took the boys to Toys-R-Us to use some gift cards they got. Alex was excited to get a Spongebob play-doh kit & the monkey play-doh set he had seen on tv just that morning. Anthony got a new Nerf gun and some new little guys from the Wolverine movie.

March 22 - Happy 8th Birthday to Tommy! He opened his presents today and we let him decide how we spent the day.

March 16-18

2009-03-18T21:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this catches me up. I'm so glad. No more waiting 5 days to download from the memory card to my computer.

March 16 - Opening birthday presents from Grandma & Papa.

March 17 - Happy Birthday Anthony!!

March 18 - Grandma sent this rope toy to Rocky on Monday, he has it torn to bits already.

March 10-15

2009-03-17T21:09:00.001-07:00

Remind me to never try do download 200+ photos into iPhoto all at once. I tried 3 times before I just downloaded them to the desktop. And sorting through 5 days worth of photos & trying to find only 1 for each day is hard also. I'll hopefully be back tomorrow or Thursday with more & with comments for all of you. My head feels like it's going to explode, so I'm just passing time until little man goes to sleep. I got some medicine so I'm hoping after a good nights sleep & some better medicine I'll feel better. I love the spring weather - but I have a strong hatred for those things that bloom and make me feel so awful.

March 10 - A play-doh bear Army. lol

March 11 - Rocky playing with Tom while the boys get a bath.

March 12 - Anthony talking to Aunt Jackie. He thought using my bluetooth was the coolest thing.

March 13 - Putting together a Lego kit with Alex.

March 14 - Anthony locked the door to the 'toilet closet' in their bathroom. I couldn't figure out how to unlock it from the outside, so I dismantled the handle.

March 15 - Celebrating Middle Man's birthday. Can't believe he's 6.

March 7 - 9

2009-03-09T23:46:00.000-07:00

Catching up...this brings me up-to-date. I promise I will make my way through my list to leave comments soon. I was trying to go through every few days last week, but I slipped over the weekend. I'm finding that posting every few days is much less stressful so I will continue to do it this way. I'll try to keep up with leaving comments as best I can.

March 7 - Alex wanted 'big boy underwear' so we tested the waters. Unfortunately it didn't stick.

March 8 - When asked what the shot for our lazy Sunday should be Anthony promptly replied, "Our movies." So, here is a shot of some of our movies. we have quite a collection.

March 9 - Tom has to get his picture taken tomorrow for the promotion board. Unfortunately he missed the zone by 6 months, hopefully next year. He spent a good amount of time pressing his pants, and measuring out the spot for his ribbon bar. It has to be in exactly the right spot, exactly so many inches above the pocket, so many inches away from each side, it's a tedious process. Anyway, this is his ribbon bar.

March 5 & 6

2009-03-09T09:09:00.000-07:00

The boys went to a Father/Son fun night at the school. They had a lot of fun.

A tree with pretty pink blooms on it in front of our house. I meant to get closer, but I went out without my shoes on and the ground was damp. lol So I stayed on the porch.

March 2 - 4

2009-03-05T19:31:00.000-08:00

I still need to snap a photo for tonight, hoping to get a cute one of Tom and the boys when they get back from the Father/Son night at the school. I've been doing pretty good, I'm taking a photo (or more) everyday, I just don't have the time or want to post them every night.

March 2 - Anthony's birthday present. I was so relieved to get this in the mail. I got it on ebay 2+ weeks ago. I was starting to get worried that it got lost in the mail. We got a great deal on the PSP and all those games & movies (less than a brand new PSP system by itself). Normally we wouldn't spend that much on one of them for their birthday, but we will sell a few of the games & movies and there were some games/movies that Tommy would prefer so he will get those for his birthday.

March 3 - Long awaited Halo Wars is finally released. The boys saved the money they received for Christmas & Valentine's Day to get this game. We arrived at Best Buy minutes before they opened, thankfully there weren't many people so we were in and out in minutes.

March 4 - It's supposed to rain for the next few days this week, the sky started to look like it was going to start to dump on us.

February 27 - March 1

2009-03-02T10:53:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I'm a couple days behind. It seemed as though we had no weekend, and I don't like that feeling. We also had to back out of a get-together with friends and we felt bad. I found out today that my MIL & FIL were laid off last week too. Anyway....no pity party here, onto the pictures!

February 27 - Mr. Fashion Statement, ready to take Tommy to school.

February 28 - DH went shopping today for new running shoes, his others were falling apart.

March 1 - Celebrating 5 birthdays at Great Aunt Shirley's. Our 3 boys included.

February 26

2009-02-27T19:33:00.000-08:00

I'll get today's picture posted tomorrow probably. Here's the shot from yesterday.

Tommy and one of his assessment tests.

February 24 & 25

2009-02-26T08:13:00.001-08:00

Something was wrong with my internet last night, so I couldn't post these.

Homework time.

The boys chose the subject of the photo for this day. They liked getting out their Webkinz, so they chose their "little guys". They have a bunch of these SuperHero Squad action figures. They sat out a few of them and we took a bunch of pictures. This is Beast from X-Men, they made him "furry" it's so weird to pick him up! lol

February 23

2009-02-23T19:44:00.001-08:00

My sweet Tommy. He's usually so willing to do whatever I need him to,
today it was to let me practice shooting in manual mode.

February 21 & 22

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Alex playing with his new r/c truck. I know, I know, I said no more
of Alex for a week - well my other two were being pains...
enough said lol

Rocky napping with Anthony today.

February 20

2009-02-20T23:11:00.000-08:00

I've been wanting to document the love of Webkinz that my boys have for a while now. So after school today we gathered them all up and took pictures of the large group & then I had each of the boys pick out their favorite. This lizard is Anthony's favorite.

February 19

2009-02-19T22:12:00.000-08:00

It's Alex fresh from the tub. I think I have 3 great photos now to do a storyboard with. :) Next week, no more than 1 photo of Alex. lol It's just too convenient since he's home with me all day. And just for kicks, I found a storyboard template...

February 18

2009-02-18T23:59:00.000-08:00

Alex opening his presents. I took a ton of pictures today. Not as many as I would have liked turned out, but that figures. lol He sure is spoiled. I'm exhausted though, so I'm headed to bed, hopefully little man's sugar rush is gone and he's finally passed out.

February 17

2009-02-17T21:17:00.000-08:00

It's little man's 3rd birthday!!

So here he is waiting patiently for Dad to get back with his special birthday dinner, pizza.
Which he proceeded to eat 5 pieces of! Tomorrow we are expecting 2 more packages with
presents, so tomorrow we will be having presents & ice cream to celebrate, but how could
I take a picture of anything but the birthday boy?! :)

February 16

2009-02-16T21:30:00.001-08:00

After I got that really cute shot of Anthony last week I decided that I wanted to do a storyboard of all 3 of them like that. So, after bathtime tonight I tried to get Alex, but all he was doing was bouncing around too much. So, Tommy 'posed' for me, but I didn't realize til I got the pictures on the computer that he was looking at himself in the mirror behind me. So this is the best one of the bunch.

February 14 & 15

2009-02-15T21:57:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's Day!
Tommy and Alex looking at a look and find book together.

February 15
I snapped this just down the street from our subdivision, the pretty stone
sign for wine country. I used a vintage action on the
photo.

February 13

2009-02-13T23:20:00.001-08:00

Another b/w from me. I really need to figure out the white balance settings on my
camera, get better at post-processing or stop taking pictures in my house after the sun sets.
The only okay lights in our house are the ones mounted under the cabinets.
Anyway...this is Tommy and Alex coloring tonight.

February 12

2009-02-12T23:02:00.000-08:00

Nothing like getting a package from Great-Grammy with some treats in it :)

February 11

2009-02-11T23:15:00.001-08:00

I admit it, I've been sucked into the Twilight series. I've already read all
4 books, but I don't have anything new to read so I thought I would re-read Twilight.
I love the colors on the cover, but I just couldn't get the orange hue out of the
photo - so black and white fixes that. lol

February 10

2009-02-10T21:00:00.001-08:00

Anthony after tonight's bath. They were all being goofy tonight.

February 9

2009-02-09T23:46:00.000-08:00

Tommy's door this morning. He decorated it with bendaroos.

February 8

2009-02-08T23:14:00.000-08:00

Breakfast this morning. A really yummy Blueberry Coffee Cake that we saw
Paula Deen make a few days ago. It's easy to make and soooo good.
DH and I nearly finished it off between the two of us. lol

February 7

2009-02-07T22:00:00.000-08:00

My boys. This was intended to be a photo of the older two because they got
haircuts today, but the little man couldn't stand to not be included. I think we might
use this on our Valentine's cards, if we decide to send some out this year.

February 6

2009-02-06T23:01:00.001-08:00

Ordering fast food.

February 5

2009-02-05T22:09:00.000-08:00

Dinner.
Asian Terriyaki Noodles with steak and broccoli, a new recipe we tried a few weeks ago and really liked.

February 4

2009-02-04T23:50:00.000-08:00

Another black and white one from me, I wanted to try out the black and white tutorial from The Daily Digi again. I used it on yesterday's photo also, it's a great tutorial, I learned some tricks I didn't know before. Anyway...this is Alex passed out on the couch while we were watching LOST.

February 3

2009-02-03T23:16:00.000-08:00

My boys sitting together reading after doing homework.

February 2

2009-02-02T23:15:00.001-08:00

Anthony with the stack of LeapFrog cards they used to make this design. They were playing Dominos with them.

February 1

2009-02-02T23:13:00.000-08:00

I can't believe it's February already.

DH sitting with his laptop.

January 31

2009-02-01T15:14:00.000-08:00

Playing upstairs by himself.

So, I've been out of commission since last Sunday. Saturday was spent with Anthony being sick, I woke up Sunday morning thinking I was getting the stomach flu he had the day before. I stayed upstairs in my room all day. Around 3 I told Tom it was too much, so he called our insurance and asked about the approved urgent cares, etc. So, off we went. Around 4 I was at urgent care, by 6:30 I was in the hospital. Around 10:30 I went into the waiting room to tell my husband and boys that they could go home, without me. They decided to keep me, after an ultrasound it looked like my gall bladder was inflamed & I had gall stones. So, sometime after midnight I got a room, and at 4pm on Monday I was being prepped for surgery. I came home Tuesday. Wednesday Alex was up every 1/2 hour - 40 minutes getting sick. Friday it was Tommy. Yesterday Tom and I didn't feel all that great.

Got to love the stomach flu!

January 29

2009-02-01T15:13:00.001-08:00

Camped out on the couch.

January 28

2009-02-01T15:12:00.001-08:00

First time having Jamba Juice.

January 27

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Released from the hospital.

January 26

2009-02-01T15:10:00.001-08:00

Playing gameboy.

January 24

2009-02-01T15:08:00.000-08:00

Waiting for a treat.

January 23

2009-01-23T22:07:00.000-08:00

This is the view I have going to the kids school every day. It was kind of cloudy and
grey today since it rained on & off.

Layout for Week 3. I messed up Week 2's...I used the wrong picture
for one of the days. At least I noticed it now, it's fixed :)

January 22

2009-01-22T22:38:00.001-08:00

I've had the worst "almost" migraine on and off all day long. I finally started to feel better when Tom brought me home a Coke coupled with a couple of Tylenol.

I was a couple days behind in posting my pics. I'm current now...Alex was sick on Tuesday, then it was Wednesday which meant 4 trips to the school that day. Before I knew it I was exhausted each night. But I took the pictures, I'm just going to continue posting when it's convenient. I'll be around to comment on the past few days soon :)

January 21

2009-01-22T22:36:00.001-08:00

Playing together. Love it when the sounds are happy laughter and shrieks of joy instead of fighting.

January 20

2009-01-22T22:33:00.000-08:00

My little Oreo face. He was irritated with me that I was asking
him to keep his hands away from his face. He just wanted
to be cleaned up. lol

January 19

2009-01-19T16:55:00.000-08:00

My photo, a bit early for today. Today's was a hard choice, a shot of Tommy eating the bacon, egg & cheese biscuit sandwiches we made for breakfast, this shot of Rocky lounging on Tom's legs, or Anthony getting a nuzzle from Rocky. I let Anthony make the decision for today, and he chose this one of Rocky. I love how you can see his little toes sticking out from under Tom's leg.

January 18

2009-01-18T22:24:00.001-08:00

Nothing exciting from me today. We spent the day lazying around the house. I finally got all these video games listed on eBay tonight. I also worked on layouts for the first 2 weeks...they aren't finished, I don't know what elements or papers I'll use. I figured getting the photos in place now along with the journaling was important, I can always go back later to add some finishing touches. I used templates from Amy Pearson (available free by joining Scrapbookgraphics.com in the Project 365 forum)

January 17

2009-01-17T20:58:00.000-08:00

First things first...the photo of the day.

Cutting the grass in the middle of January?
A nice day to enjoy outside, even with no shirt, shorts and flip flops on. :)

I received a blog award from Michele! Thanks so much Michele!! I'm loving this project so far, I'm really enjoying looking at other people's photos and getting ideas for my own shots. It's also giving me a wonderful opportunity to work on my post-processing.

We need to list 5 things we are addicted to. Ok, here it goes...

1. My camera...most definitely...Canon 40D.

2. My DVR...love it.

3. Food...especially now since I'm trying to quit smoking...

4. Anything to do with my computer...I don't think I go a day without being on it.

5. I have to admit, I'm a bit addicted to my hubby too ;)

Now my Five people to receive this award are...

1. Kathy

2. Meg

3. Petra

4. Beth

5. Crystal

January 16

2009-01-16T20:38:00.001-08:00

This is an ABC album I printed out for Anthony to help him with his writing & his sight words. If interested you can find it at The Hybrid Kid. All we need to do is run back to Wal-Mart or Staples to get more badge holders, I didn't have enough in my stash. lol

January 15

2009-01-15T23:25:00.000-08:00

I think I'm almost caught up on commenting...hopefully I'll get it all caught up over the weekend. Thank you all for all your wonderful comments!

Tommy reading after school today.

January 14

2009-01-14T10:32:00.000-08:00

Bathtime...Rocky whines and cries so much that he can't get in there with them.

January 13

2009-01-14T10:29:00.000-08:00

Coldstone ice cream just before the new season of American Idol starts. We love to sit around and watch the audition episodes together.
* I will get around to everyone's blog tonight or tomorrow to comment.*

January 12

2009-01-12T23:30:00.001-08:00

DH and I are excited that 24 is back on. We forgot though that we hadn't seen the rest of season 6, so we started re-watching it tonight. Jack Bauer is my {hero}. :)

January 11

2009-01-11T13:26:00.001-08:00

These are my newest shoe purchase (in Sept). I love these shoes. The heel is a bit higher than I normally like (or am comfortable with) but they look awesome. I wish I had more occasions to dress up. lol

January 10

2009-01-11T13:23:00.001-08:00

I took my photo for yesterday, but didn't get it uploaded because we spent time together since DH got called in to stand duty for someone today. This is Alex, watching Ninja Warrior, bouncing off the ottoman with dad's hat on, squirt gun and remote in hand. lol

January 9

2009-01-09T18:37:00.001-08:00

Our morning consisted of taking Tommy to school, then taking Anthony to the dentist to get his cavity filled. We tried to get a picture of it, but he wouldn't keep still long enough - you can kind of see the blue tint on his teeth.

January 8

2009-01-08T23:07:00.001-08:00

Tommy was trying to do a head/handstand, so Tom was trying to help him figure it out. All 4 boys were in the living room with their butts in the air. Unfortunately this was taken on auto mode, just after I realized that I have a problem with my flash...and the lighting in my living room that requires me to use a flash. I think a ceiling fan/light fixture is in our future. lol This was the best shot of them all, Alex was really trying to do it, he was really close to getting it.

January 7

2009-01-07T19:43:00.000-08:00

Yummy...

January 6

2009-01-06T22:46:00.001-08:00

One genuinely sleeping, the other pretending (see the smile) after
our walk home from school.

January 5

2009-01-05T22:09:00.001-08:00

The mess that is a normal sight in my house.

January 4

2009-01-04T19:51:00.000-08:00

This isn't the greatest photo, but it's cute. He's missing his grandma,
so while playing in the boxes this afternoon he asked us to send
him to her.

January 3

2009-01-03T19:25:00.001-08:00

Rockstars

January 2

2009-01-02T19:54:00.001-08:00

My pretty Lisa Leonard necklace I got for Christmas.

January 1

2009-01-01T16:02:00.001-08:00

We are going to be taking down the Christmas tree today and tomorrow.

a new year

2008-12-30T17:12:00.000-08:00

Yay! Another project for me. I am going to be attempting to do 365 days of photos for 2009. I'm going to have links for others that are doing the same thing. This blog will be dedicated to posting photos only. Leave me a comment if you'd like me to link to your Project 365 blog (don't forget to give me a link too!). Feel free to link to my blog as well :)

See you in 2009!!