the decision has been made...

hi everyone. i am back. and i think that the project will be done soon. i have decided the layout of everything, and i think i am ready to place on the wall. charlie and i rarely argue, but one way to get an argument started is to a. when charlie tries to park at the mall, and b. hang a picture on the wall. something about getting a picture to be straight is a sure-fire way to get snippy. but i will hold my tongue and try to get everything on the wall this weekend. the first photo shows the wall where we are going to hang it. i still need to paint around the outside of each letter. you can still see the paper sides. i am going to cut out some more butterflies and randomly place them. i will post the wall when i am done. i don't know why this keeps turning my photo sideways...
here is a more recient picture of my parents new kittens. they are growing so fast and are still very curious of everything around them. they let zella pick them up and carry them around. she does the classic child-holding a pet hold and carries them under their neck or a paw or two. i had their attention by breathing like darth vadar.
the nights are starting to cool off well enough to play at the park. we have gone everynight this week. i finally remembered to bring my camera. zella loves the park, and playing in the sand. she gets completely sandy and loves it. charlie and zella play dino's in the sand. we have about 25 dino's that we bring and play with in the sand.

and i will leave you with a cute pic of zella. have a great day

jill b

it is poll time!
i have been working on this photo/letter collage for zella's wall. this collection has been sitting on our living room floor for about a month now, because i can't decide where anything should go. i am putting it on the wall in her room above her bed. i have to keep it short and long because i am working with a existing peg rail around the top of her room. so now which do you like better?
this is some of the frames in a closer picture. just tring to give it a little more detail

option one

option two

i know there are two of the last option. i can't figure out how to delete a photo yet, and charlie is at the store. so it is posted twice. i am not trying to give option 2 more votes.

game face!

this is what we did last night. zella is very good at the xbox controller. i can't work my fingers in coordination with what is on the screen. but zella has been holding and playing with the xbox controller since she was old enough to hold one. she is very good at moving the little guy all over the place. she can even work the two different controlls at the same time.
this last picture makes me laugh. zella has her own game face. if you can overlook the cheetoes remains on her mouth, you will see that her game face is very simular to charlie's game face.
i hope you have a great day
jill b

conversation

conversation with zella b and mommy
mommy- zella do you want a snack?
zella-ok
mommy- do you want me to bring the crackers to you?
zella- that would be so verrryyy nice of you!

i love these conversations!

random photos

hi everyone. i love this picture of charlie and zella. it was after charlie's softball game, and he was falling asleep on the couch. zella just crawled up and got cozy. she was watching some tv before bed. she is so in love with daddy!
another shot of zella just being cute. this is now the smile i get all of the time. at least it doesn't look too painful.
yesterday, tuesday, we went to pappy's and grammy's house for a visit. i think we have settled into tuesday as the day we go and play with pappy and grammy. we go over at least once a week to just play and spend time together. we play with pappy until grammy gets home from work, and then we make some dinner and then play again. i absolutely love my days over there. it is a time when zella gets pappy and grammy's full attention, and she loves it! my dad will play with zella until he's tired. which is about the time my mom gets home and takes over. yesterday we went to pv mall and played in the germ-pit(the play area). i call it the germ-pit because there are always a ton of kids, being kids. so we brought our purell and had a great time. dad was having a great time playing with zella. she would climb up the slide and he would give her a high-five as she slid down. they did this for a while until zella found a little girl to fun around with. then pappy came back to sit by me. but a little boy, maybe 4 or 5 years old, kept comming over and talking to dad. he made a joke about being the house grandfather. he was so cute(dad, not the little boy-ok, he was cute also) and i love him so much! watching dad with my zella makes me think that this was the way he played with and loved my sister and i. just a cute picture to leave you with.
jill b

i got this idea from a lady's blog. she used the letter/picture frame for her son, and i loved it. i have been playing around with them and i have 2 different layouts for them. for the picture above, i couldn't get it to rotate. so above me is option one, and the one below me, is option two. which one do you like better? i went to joann's and michaels and got the letters. i had some frames that i wasn't using. i put some patterned paper on the letters. i still need to paint around the edges (or sides) of the letters, and find pictures for the frames. the pearl letter B, i got at michaels in their one dollar bins. they have lots of letters, but i couldn't find a Z.

so this is my project.

i stole the idea

and i can admit it!

so let me know which one you like the best