more!

With the above page I am going to write the story of what was going on with these pictures on an adjacent page. Since I have not done that yet, I will just give you guys the story here if you are interested. I was busy upstairs with Desmond and Gabe was gone as well as Aaron. Scotland, Ezra and Landon were doing SUCH a good job just playing together so I never bothered to check on them. After a while I kept hearing a strange beeping noise and the kids saying, I think the batteries are dying. Finally I decided to see what they were up to. Apparently they were playing Dora and Diego and taking pictures of each other. The beeping noise was my camera saying the memory card was full. These are a few of the pictures they filled my camera with.

FINALLY!!

I have been SOOOO busy lately with Gabe starting home school, me making Halloween costumes (pictures to come) and being a mom of 5 kids! I finally got a little time to do some scrapbooking done, so here are my few new pages!

The latest pages

So these are some of my latest pages. This is the neighbor kids making Froot Loop necklaces with my kiddos on our back porch. They are all just so stinkin' cute! ALSO for anyone interested, I do my mom's scrapbooking too and you can see that work at scrapbook4heidi.blogspot.com. There is some pretty cute stuff there too.

Look What I Can Do!!!

I am currently trying to teach myself more about Fireworks CS3 (the program I use to do my scrapbooking) and have learned some pretty fun things! I guess I am not really teaching myself because I am just reading different tutorials posted on the internet. So here they are. A few of the things I have created with my new knowlege!!

I think when I do this one next time (for a real page) I will use different colors. I want to make a page of Desmond's pictures showing how much he grows throughout the year.

I like how this one turned out for the most part. I am not sure if "Olivia" is too busy. the "l" kind of disappears. Eventually I will have some more good shots of just Scotland to make a page with this background.

So, what do ya think?!? I am having a BLAST doing this!

just a few pages

More 4th

Some 4th of July pages

I will post more some other time.

The Spray Ground

Beach fun!

sniffle, sniffle

Although in his later years, Michael Jackson kind of gave me the heeby-jeebies, I loved his earlier music and all in all am a little saddened by his death. I am a little confused how a person made mostly of plastic can die of a heart attack at the age of 50. I am surprised to say the least. His music has a lot of memories for me and is just plain fun to dance to.

Here is the link to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXFXzYKgBpA

copy and paste it.

Why do I care?

(Marian Call)

A little while ago I found out that a couple of friends of mine from high school got divorced. The started dating when they were like 15 or something and they were THE most amazing couple! They dated forever and were strong in their church and eventually got married and moved to Alaska. On Facebook the guy added me as a friend and I noticed his wife was not his "friend" and he had said he was single! I was so shocked!! Anyways... not that it is any of my business but I am SO saddened by this! He is a completely different guy (it seems) and I have even cried about their divorce. WHAT IS MY PROBLEM?!?! I generally don't care too much when people get divorced, it happens (a lot unfortunately) so it doesn't really bug me but these two really were so perfect for eachother and I really cared for both of them so much. They were both such amazing people and seemed like one of those couples that NOTHING could come between. Aparently something did. The female of this couple is now a perfessional singer and goes by the name Marian Call. In my next post I will post a You Tube video of one of her songs that makes me even more sad every time I hear it (why I keep listening to it, I don't know. Maybe I am a masochist at heart). Even if you never knew this couple, if you have ever gotten your heart broken, the song might bring on some tears. I know this is an odd post, I just wanted to get some thoughts out that have been running around in my head. Sorry.

Brilliant!!

My cousin Melanie is amazing in so many ways but recently she gave me an idea that seemed so especially wonderful to me. For her husband's Birthday she gave him a cookie jar with 12 cookie recipes and a promise to make him one of those recipes each month. So now Robbie will be able to try a new cookie each month until his Birthday next year (she explains it better). I thought that was SO cute but Aaron (my husband) is not a HUGE cookie fan; HOWEVER, he LOVES pie sp for our anniversary I gave him a lemon meringue pie and 12 recipes for new pies to try throughout the year. Each month on the 14th I will make his choice of pie (from the recipes I gave him) until next year. HE LOVED IT!!! Isn't that a brilliant idea?!?! I am related to some pretty dang smart people. I'm just glad they all let me borrow their ideas. Anyways... Each month Melanie posts the cookie recipe that she made for Robbie and I will post the pie recipe I make for Aaron. All you bakers out there will have a plethora of new recipes but this time next year!I of course had to do all my recipes like my scrapbooking. Click on the recipe if it is too small to read.

And even more!

Lots to add!

Kids Gig

Some Desmond pages

Early Arrival!!

Surprise, surprise!!!  Desmond Vaughn Hooker made his appearance on June 1st at 2:22 a.m.  The day before, I was getting some preperations ready for dinner and my water broke!  I wasn't sure if it was indeed my water because nothing like this has ever happened to me before.  Even with the twins, I had to be induced.  I eventually realized that it was indeed my water and we all ran around like crazy people trying to get things ready to go.  I had not yet gotten ANYTHING ready for the hospital or the kiddos.  I frantically called my dad (my mom was out of town) and asked if I could drop the kids off with him and told him I would later get ahold of our baby sitter.  He was happy to take them and they were happy to see him.  We got to the hospital early afternoon and they started trying to get my contractions going (I wasn't really having any yet).  After a few failed attempts, at about 1 a.m. they finally gave me a bit of Pitocin which took a very strong effect!!  After that things went fast... painfully fast!  Luckily we had no real complications.  The cord was wrapped around his neck 2 1/2 times but luckily he had an especially long cord so it didn't do any harm.  Here are a few unscrapbooked pictures of our latest addition.  HE IS SO CUTE!!!

7 Lbs. 11 oz.    19 1/2 inches long!  Not too shabby!

Gabe is such a good big brother and LOVES Desmond!!

Snuggle time with Daddy.

Ok... 2 more

A reason for tears?

I think so. My oldest lost his first tooth!!! WHY DO THEY GROW UP SO FAST?!?!? We actually had no idea it was even loose (I thought it would be for at LEAST another year) but he was eating an apple and kept saying that it hurt to bite into his apple. I told him to take smaller bites all the while thinking, "he better not have a cavity!" He informed me that it still hurt so I told him to show me where it hurt hoping it was just a little piece of apple skin stuck in his gums. When he opened his mouth, I noticed his tooth was bleeding and not quite straight up and down as his other were. I felt it and sure enough, it was loose. It came out easily and he was excited to get a gold dollar from the Tooth Fairy!His face is a little messy here (this was the same spaghetti night as Scotland's pictures) but you get the idea.