My littlest angel, at breakfast. Being silly, but at least allowing a photo to be taken. She's getting better about that since I started doing the 365!
At work, the managers each chose one person from their group to be recognized with an award, and I was the one chosen from my team. This isn't a great picture of it, but frankly I felt a little bit odd taking pictures at my desk, so this is the best I could do. lol.
Because we are slackers, we often forget about having the kids do their homework in the evenings. What can I say - we are busy people! So this is a photo of a little homework help this morning before school.
This is a giveaway basket that I put together for a silent auction being held by Tampa Prep School. Janel with Gold Canyon told me about it so I got in touch with the organizer and decided to participate by donating some Once Upon a Family items. I love fundraiser events, because they are such a great way to get a little exposure, while helping out the organization. 
This is a photo I snapped while on the way to work, because I thought the fog over the pond looked pretty. I am sure it must have struck the other drivers as odd, but so be it.
This was during a trip to my mom's to go hook up the Wii that we picked up for her. Dig that, my momma has a Wii. I would say stranger things have happened, but I am not sure that's true. In any case, I know grammy will NOT like this picture of her, and I would guess that if she had any idea whatsoever how to comment on this blog and tell me that, she would. But given that her technology skills are a tad limited, I think I'm pretty safe. ;) Hi mom!
It's hard to see, but that's my little girlie girl out there hustling with the soccer ball. She scored four goals that game, which made me very proud!! And a little amazed, because this is her first season and she's taken to it so well. I didn't think she had it in her!
Rico was doing something so cute, right up until the time that I got over there with my camera. Then naturally he perked right up. He's fascinated by the camera. The little noises, the flash...he loves it. Sometimes that makes for good pictures, other times not. It's so blasted hard to get a sleeping picture of him, which bums me out, because he's a very cute sleeper. Usually if he's sleeping in his cage, which he often chooses to do, he'll be flipped halfway upside down with his feet up on the bars on one side. One of these days I might just have to drug him so I can get him in that pose for the camera.
Never have I met a boy who is so ready, anytime, anywhere, to have his picture taken. This shot looks like he has no eyes, which is rare for him, because he actually has big beautiful brown eyes and the most amazing eyelashes that people literally comment on to me constantly.
Jasper, JJ, Jazzy-Fur, sometimes Old Dog. Formerly Big Dog, though that was when the competition for the title was just Calvin (mid-sized at best) and Spike (downright little, though he didn't know it). Now with Rico, Jasper has somehow become little dog. He's a good ole boy.
Since little miss was so cute yesterday, I snapped little mister tonight! Not quite as quiet, as he was actually snoring. But he looked pretty cute with his Build a Bear monkey!Lemonade Award
Totally sweet of her to think of me, and now I need to pass it on. So here are the rules for receiving the Lemonade award:
Thanks for the award, Teresa. And I hope you all will take a moment and stop by some of these other fab blogs. =)
Unbelievable as it may seem, for the second time in three weeks, my photo is of a litter box. That's right, the litter box saga is not over. Today I returned the $150 litter box and upgraded to a $200 litter box. Perhaps this one will be the answer to my prayers. If nothing else it glows a really freaky cool alien blue when the room is dark. And who wouldn't want that? I'm sure if this one doesn't cut it I can find someone to sell me a $250 one to try out.
Finally, a pic of the kids together. This was taken over at my mom's house. They were wrestling around and being crazy. But in a good way, which is a nice change.
I meant to to do this one a couple days ago when I first put it up but I forgot. These are rub on wall words that I hung over my scrapbooking desk. I got them from Holly over at Stampin Up and they are super cute. I have a second one that I ordered from her, and I thought I knew where I wanted to put it, but now I can't decide, so it'll have to wait. Maybe that will be a pic for another day!
Today's photo was a no-brainer - my son's soccer practice. I snapped this shot right after the coach stopped play to point out to the other kids what a great play MY son had made and why what he did was correct. That's right, my kid rocks.
This picture made me laugh, because I've seen this same look on every animal in the house. It's the "she's hugging me" look. My daughter is extremely enthusiastic about the animals. She loves them. Which is awesome. But the ways in which she shows her affection, quite frankly, sometimes scare the crap out of the poor animals. She tends to pounce. To grab. To hug in a manner that makes those of us watching both smile and cringe at the same time. And then she will always say, after letting go "he likes that". This is usually said right when the newly freed animals is high-tailing it outta there. The fact that she's so sincere about it is what makes it so incredibly cute. The particular 
This disaster is my daughter's room. I don't know if it is because I redid my scrapbook room and it looks so awesome, but I've been a freak for the re-do the past few days. Organizing, cleaning, throwing away...I just can't stop!! It's possible that I've met my match with dd's room, though. Man, this child of mine is a packrat like none I've ever seen. Old stuff, broken stuff, empty stuff...she can't part with any of it. Luckily I have banned her from her room while I work on it, so plenty is finding it's way into the trash. This photo shows only an itty corner of the room, but unfortunately pretty much the rest of the room is just as bad. God help me. And here's how crazy I am - I'm doing my son's room once dd's is done. Fun weekend for me, right?
This beautiful place in today's shot is the office building where I work, taken from outside in the parking lot of the next building over where we were evacuated to. For the THIRD day this week. The first couple days it happened was because the fire alarm went off, the fire truck came, went through the building, found nothing, and cleared us to go back in within like 15 minutes. Today, however, the fire alarm didn't go off, but our area of the building upstairs started filling up with a smoky haze, so we got out of there and someone called the fire department. They showed up with three fire trucks, and an ambulance and we waited outside for over two hours before we were let back in the building.
This is one of my favorite spots in the house. It's the mantle above the fireplace, and I love it because it so well represents our lives. There are two of my wedding pictures, and then pictures of each of the kids as babies and as they look now. Above it all is our Family Tree poster, and in the center, our Keys of Happiness. I wouldn't say my life is very tranquil by any means, but this spot is a place of tranquility to me.
Because one of my goals this year is to get better about working on my scrapbooks, I figured I'd post a few of the pages that I've gotten done since the calendar flipped from '08 to '09. Now, you scrappers out there don't need to tell me that these aren't exactly award winning layouts - I'm aware. I think that right now I'm so behind that I'm focusing more on quantity than quality. Maybe once I get a bit more caught up I can get back to spending more time on a single page and making it something to be proud of. For now, I'm proud of the fact that 5 
days into the year I've gotten 7 pages done. Go me. And at the moment I'm too lazy to crop these, so you're getting some background behind the pages. Oh, how I wish I had a 12x12 scanner!!
Today's photo is quite simple - my blog. Blogging has become a pretty integral part of my life over the past several months. And now with doing project 365, I'm doing it at least once a day, if not more. It's kind of fun sharing things with the world (or the little corner of it that reads my blog) so hopefully this is something that will continue.
What you're looking at here is one of those overpriced automatic cleaning litter boxes for cats. I bought one today. I know, it astounds me, too. I swore I'd never be one of "those" people, who buys every single gadget out there for their pets. But lo and behold, the kitties now have a $250 climbing tree play thing, their own constant flow water fountain, and now a $150 litter box. Get me, I'm the crazy cat lady. Though in all actuality, this is purely a selfish act on my part, because this latest purchase is an attempt to get Jefferson (fluffy butt on the red pillow from yesterday's post) to actually USE the litter box. Currently he prefers the bathroom floor in front of the litter box. It was suggested to me that perhaps he won't use a not fresh box. And since Sherbert (orange and white cutie in yesterday's post) finds it necessary to "christen" the box immediately upon my cleaning it, Jeff doesn't ever get the joy of clean litter. Assuming that's a joy. I guess I wouldn't know. In any case, we're going to test drive this thing and see how it goes. Keep your fingers crossed for me that my days of scrubbing cat poop off the tile every day are over.
I would be remiss in not sharing that Once Upon a Family has a couple great specials going this month for those that are interested in focusing more on their families in 2009. =)
Our other HUGE special this month is on our Live Laugh Love Club, which I call the girl’s night out club. This is a club like no other, where you get together with your girlfriends each month to learn new ways to connect with your family, get a take home tradition to start with your family, and get a featured keepsake idea each month. Valued at $169, you get all 12 months of packets and a keepsake traditions binder for only $49 during the month of January only. Visit my special LLL Club website at http://www.livelaughlovetampa.com/ to learn more and see the different themes of the month.
