Almost midnight

It's 1 minute to Midnight on Monday night (Tuesday morning). I'm the only one up and am attempting to scrap. I just finished a page. It didn't quite turn out as I envisioned in my head. I maybe need to go to bed and come back to it tomorrow. Actually, as I look at it again, I think it's starting to grow on me. Anyway, I've been scrapping a little this weekend. Personal Scrapper was having an online crop, and over at Scrapdango, I've been participating in a contest. Here are some photos of the layouts I've done for that and for the online crop.









I even did a sketch for the contest and then the Birthday Boy layout is based on that sketch except I ended up using 4 photos in the bottom instead of 3. I can't even stick to my own sketch. Go figure.

Grandma Sharon is here visiting us now much to the childrens' delight. She came on Friday and will be here until Saturday evening. She will be here for Owen's birthday party that day. It's always great having her. She definitely helps keep the children entertained, so it's nice for Dale and I as well--not that we don't like to entertain our children, but you know...

Other than that, there is not much going on. Hannah and Justin had swimming lessons the past two weeks (every day) and are going to be doing them for 2 more weeks. It will be nice that Grandma can take them this week, and I don't have to take Owen because keeping him occupied around the pool is not fun. It is amazing how much they have learned already. Hannah is swimming across the pool and Justin is so comfortable in water now where before he didn't want his face wet and is starting to swim.

Tomorrow, I actually get to go and use the Mother's Day gift that Dale got me, which was a 3 hour spa package with a 1 hour massage, 1 hour facial and 1 hour pedicure. It will be wonderful. The bad thing about going to the spa though and then having to come straight home (opposed to doing it at a resort where you stay--not that I've even done that) is that as soon as you walk in the door and the kids run up screaming about something, you're suddenly jolted back into reality and all that relaxation goes out the window. It will be wonderful while it lasts though.

Well, I think I'm going to head off to bed. I am going to leave you with a few parting shots that I took last week when Hannah and Owen were playing together on the slide. Owen discovered that he could walk up the slide and slide down, first with the help of Hanney (what he calls her) and then on his own. Also, Hannah started twirling in her new dress that Daddy picked out at the Gap Outlet.





And I was talking about Hannah and Justin swimming--well even though he can't take lessons yet (by himself anyway), Owen also loves to swim and, at least at this point, shows no fear of water.