Christmas Party at Luigi's

Each year Jason's work puts on a Christmas party at a pizza place/arcade. The food isn't awesome, but the kids absolutely LOVE going to the party. They love laser tag and the arcade and then picking out fun prizes with their tickets. It almost seems like a big family party when we go since Jason works with his dad and one of his brothers. Such a fun time!

Earth Day 2013

I love Earth Day. I have no idea why. It's just such a great day to enjoy our beautiful Earth. I was so glad when the cold weather broke this year long enough to play outside and have a "picmic" as Kent would say. It wasn't much of a picmic either. We had drinks and some string cheese. But he looks happy enough.

Then he got to run around with Cutlass. She might be getting old, but she still loves to run with Kent.

When Clark got home from school we had to choose one of our beautification projects to work on. His choices were... 1 - The Great American Backyard Clean Up or 2 - Operations Put the Rocks in the Box. His response, "I wish Earth Day was in the winter." He was even getting paid to fill the boxes with rocks which is what we decided to work on.

He spent most of his time picking up roly polies.

We did a little Earth Day dinner. I figured they should try to eat something grown from the earth. So we had strawberries and pineapple with an Orange Creamsicle Fruit Dip which Kent preferred to eat without the fruit. We also had a Chinese Chicken Salad with Sesame Dressing. It was SOOO good. I added some mandarin oranges which made it even better. We ate this salad for two nights...that is unheard of in the Wilde household. We don't do leftovers.

Kent enjoying his toothpicks, or "pickles" as he calls them sometimes.

Clark taking a mean bite out of that yummy strawberry.

We finished the night up with some dirt and worms and Wings of Life, the new Disneynature documentary.

LOVE Earth Day.

Early Retirement

I've decided that it's time for me to retire from designing. I've really enjoyed these past few years and learned a ton. I've met so many great people and love the friendships I've made. I'm retiring now to spend some more time with my kiddos while they are little. I know this time will go by too quickly and I'll be so sad if I missed it because I was trying to finish a paper pack or something?!

I'm still going to stick around and be a scrapper. I want to start my own personal history and I may document that on my scrapping blog. I'm hoping to pick up a few CTs, so I'll be promoting them there on the scrapping blog too. Maybe an occasional freebie. We'll see!

I take the big LEAP into retirement on Leap Day! Wish me luck!

If you are a digi-scrapper, be sure to stop by my shop and check out the sale before my products are gone...forever!! And everything will be 50% off February 16-29!

My New Blog!

I have started a new digi-scrappin' blog, so those of you who want to keep up with just the family don't have to deal with all the scrappin stuff too! But...if you are interested, you can check it out

http://plumdumplingdesigns.blogspot.com

A New Job!

This time it's me! I keep calling it my new job, but really it's not work. I am now a proud member of the ScrapMatters Gang where I get paid in digi-scrapping products! Cool, huh? I'll be posting more layouts (LOs) and things here so you can see the cool stuff I get to do.

Check out ScrapMatters at:
www.scrapmatters.com

Mechanical Inc.

Jason just got a new job with Mechanical Inc. He is very excited about this company. His truck is bright red and he loves it. It looks so weird in our driveway. Clark loved playing in the empty truck. Give this truck a week and it will be a total mess. This is the one and only day Clark will be able to play in there!

I just can't get enough of Clark's smile!