Project Life Weeks 46-49

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

Now that it is 2014, let's get 2013 wrapped up!

Hold tight, there's going to be a lot of pictures. I give you our month of November. :)

Week 46: 

(Left side)

The start of this week was about an award my oldest son got from school, my very naughty youngest son and the celebration of the beginning of fall. I used a lot of ChicTags products again. The top right card is from a paper pad from Pebbles.

(Right side)

Here's one of those layouts that I just had a bunch of random pictures and I couldn't really get it together. You just have to let it go and move on.

Week 47:

(Left side)

This week we had an after school activity called Family Power night, where we read a book together and made a craft to go with it. A bunch of random pictures of the boys being silly made there way on this layout and a sweet picture of Chase with his best buddy walking into school.

(Right side)

At the end of this week, Chase's school hosted a night out at the Lincoln Children's Museum. The boys had so much fun playing with the other kids!

The only insert I used was this one I found HERE

Week 48:

(Left side)

The left side was all about my boys' room makeover that I posted about HERE

(Right side)

Here's another random one that I don't feel like it came together very good. There is only bits of journaling and I left the main journaling card blank because I didn't know what to write.

Week 49:

(Left side)

This side is mainly about my nephew Keegan's birthday party. Keegan is kind of a big deal. He was born at 25 weeks gestation and has been through a lot in his 1 year on earth. We were told many times that he would never make it to his first birthday. The picture of the right is of my husband who got to meet some Husker football players that came to visit the hospital he works at.

For this title card I used a card from the Kraft edition of Project Life. Amazon had a couple of kits on sale for $18 so I grabbed the Kraft one.

(Right side)

This side was about a puppy party that Chase had at school to celebrate selling more than 10 orders of cookie dough for a fundraiser. I used the invitation to make the title card and his puppy coloring sheet that all the kids colored for the party.  I also added a couple pictures from Thanksgiving.

I used a card from the "Fall" kit of Project Life to make an "I'm Thankful For".  I had Ben and Chase write their own so I have a little of their handwriting on my pages.

So that's all of our November weeks. Hopefully I will post the rest of our December pages soon so that I'm all caught up for the year!

Christmas goodness

Hello and Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday.

And now that Christmas is over....I'm finally getting around to sharing some of the Christmas decor around our house. haha

I'm just going to throw out some random pictures. No rhyme or reason: 

The boys' tree

 Our tree

Our new ornament for this year

 2 different Villages

Wreaths in both windows in the living room

Basket of Christmas books

Christmas sheets 

fireplace mantel

3 of these stockings are homemade.  2 by my Grandma and 1 from a good friend of ours.

We each have a little snowman bell that has our names on it. :)

Merry Christmas!

The Boys' Room!

I really wanted to get a post up on the latest Project Life I've been up to, but the last 2 days have been pretty cloudy/rainy. (Hard to get good pictures) So it will just have to wait for another day. :)

So INSTEAD you get a grand tour of the boys' room! Yay!

I gave you a little sneak peek HERE

We've been in this place 6 months and I finally feel like their room is done. Go figure. :)

The view from the door. 

Mr. Reed's hangout

This sign I made the Summer after Reed was born. I wish it was a little bit lower but little hands seem to cause trouble. :) Seriously just a couple of old boards screwed together. I just used some foam letters and white acrylic paint to stamp my favorite brother quote on.

"Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero."  :)

Chase's "book nook" (and sometimes Reed's too) 

The silhouette printout I bought off of Etsy HERE

The little Route 66 box is from Hobby Lobby and the globe I got off of a facebook consignment group.

Chase fun hangout. This loft bed we got for Chase for his 4th birthday. It originally came with a slide attached to the left side, which he absolutely LOVED. Unfortunately soon after Reed came along (7 months later) we had to take it off so that Reed's crib could fit in the same room. They both enjoy hanging out underneath with a sheet or towel hanging from the rod. :)

This little project is what I've been wanting to work on for the last couple of months but just never got to it. My parent's recently moved out of their house that they've been in for over 20 years and my dad had most of these license plates in his garage.

I bought a sheet of plywood that was 2' X 4' and attached the plates with liquid nails. We attached it to the wall with anchored screws. 

Here's the clipboard wall that I use to hang pictures and projects the boys have made.

And then here's the wall with both closets. I hung a framed picture of each boys' hospital picture here.

This little table is the other project I have been working on. I painted it red and we keep all of Chase's Autumn/Halloween/Thanksgiving books under there right now. On top is the holy sound machine that my boys would probably never sleep without. Not kidding. If your kids have to share a room, this is a complete life saver. Or sleep saver, whichever. :)

Here's a couple shots of inside their closets. It looks a little messy but it's actually pretty organized. The one of the right is mainly the toys closet. It houses all of Chase's puzzles, board games or anything that we don't Reed to get into unsupervised on the shelves.

The chalkboard painted dresser houses most of Reed's clothes.

The left closet has any leftover toys on the shelf but it's mostly clothes. Any bags you see are clothes that are either too big or too small right now and then I hung an extra rod so that Chase could reach his clothes on the bottom and still fit Reed's shirts also.

I think we got this thing at Target. It has a hook on each side to hang from the top rod. Pretty cool. 

So anyways, there is the boys' hangout. Where they sleep, play and have become the best of friends. Well, most days. :)

The Boys' Room - sneak peak

When it came time to pick out colors for the boys' room, we decided to let Chase pick. His favorite color is green so that's what we went with. Disclaimer: during the day with natural light, I love the color. At night with iridescent - not so much. Anyways, the color is Behr's Asparagus (#410D-4)

 So here's some sneak peaks until I can get the last 2 project done for their room. :)

One of Chase's favorite things to do is read books. Which I LOVE. He just started actually READING this summer. Exciting times for him!  So this is his "book nook" It's in the corner of the room and we somehow managed to make it "Reed-proof" (More on that in a later post :) ) The letters are from Hobby Lobby. The "R" I painted and then the "E" and "A" I glued scrapbook paper to. The "D" is how I bought them.

Here's a kind of cool way to hang artwork and/or pictures. I bought a handful of clipboards from the Dollar Tree and just put some pictures of the boys and Chase's artwork under the clips. Voila! Very easy to change out. 

So that's it for now. Stay tuned! I need to go buy some plywood.......  ;)