A perfect day

So I was able to grab the papers and can now put my layout up.

The full layout

Some closeups


I used two studio calico kits for my layouts.

Sock hop and more patterned paper unfortunately they are both sold out.

link to the heart paper (two peas in a bucket)
the yellow paper is exclusive to the kit
the blue paper is from bazzil I have no clue what color
The mickey hearts are black pow glitter paper
The thickers are from american crafts
Finally I added shipping tags red and yellow

I created the mickey ears with my silhouette cameo. If you want the cut file tell me below and I will work out a way to get it to you.

The dog photo bombed me

So I am participating in a Layout a day (LOAD) for the month of February. The idea is that you make a layout a day based upon a prompt given to you.

Well I went outside with Clara to play today and take pictures of my layout as it was completed. When I went to go snap the first picture Nala photo bombed me see.

You can also see a little bit of my lay out in the picture.

Once I get all the specifics of paper written down. i.e. little bit is not playing with me. I will get it uploaded.

The weather today

This morning my facebook status said:

" Hmmm the news is all about the bitter cold. It's 61 at 6 an what bitter cold? It's hot!"

Due to payday activities we got off at noon, by then it was in the 80's. Because it was so warm I thought that it would be fun to play with Clara's water table. 

The temperature at 4:00 PM. The 84.3 is outside the 76 is inside.

Pouring some water from up high.

 Splashing around. 

Yes we had a lot of fun playing outside with our water table in January. We are supposed to get a cold front tomorrow, which I think means we only get to the upper 60's.

How is the weather where you are living?

Start of our trip report

So what is mommy (me) coming home form? Why that would be Kabual, Afghanistan. I just spent a lovely 9 months away from my family in another country, helping teach Afghanis logistics. I have to say compared to some people on deployments my deployment was very easy and I was lucky. There were very few times that my FOB (camp) was on lock down, I only had one roommate and we had indoor showers. I also had Internet in my room so I was able to SKYPE with DH and DD on a regular basis. It was hard being away but modern technology is great and I was able to talk to my family a lot.

So now with that little bit of background there is also another reason we took this trip is I got a crazy idea that since the Disney World half marathon was in my time frame of when we wanted I wanted to register for it and run. With that in mind our Disney days would be January 5th to the 13th. However, my DH really wanted to drive and to make part of the vacation about him so we decided to leave on Sunday the 30th drive to Florida meandering down and making some stops. I wont talk about that part of our trip unless you want me to but I will talk about our few days we spent at universal studios.

So without further ado a few quick 5 ws.

Who:

 DD Clara  16 months old during the trip, me  old enough :

What: Celebrate my coming home with a fun and awesome trip.

Where/When: Jan 3-5th Universal Studios Royal Pacific Hotel

Jan 5th-13th  Animal Kingdom Lodge Jambo house Club Level  

Why - Who does not love disney? and since when my DH came home from Iraq we went to Disney it's a tradition now :).

Half Marathon

I thought I would start off my 2013 blog with a little bit about what I did today. 

TOday the alarm clock went off at 3 am!!! Crazy I know right. However, it was worth it as I had a lot of fun today. What did I do you may ask? Well I ran the Donald Half Marathon in disney world.

Now the following is a picture I pulled off the rundisney facebook page found here : Run Disney Facebook Page

My official finish time is 2:32.20 I was shooting for under 2:30 but with all the walking I have been doing the last week while at the parks and the heat I am a ok with my time. The next one I bet I can get under 2:30 :).

I also got a really cool medal, and wore it around the few hours I was at the park today. You will have to excuse the sweaty iPhone picture I had just finished and was on the bus going back to my hotel. 

After the marathon, we went to Animal kingdom so I could eat and ride one last ride. Then came back and me a little bit had a nice long nap, packed up the room and we are headed out back home tomorrow after a great vacation. 

 Last weeks goals
Personal:
1. Finish The storm by clive clusser
2. Do three Clara pages Only did two
3. Do two pages of Beautiful Evidence
4. Blog at least three times blogged twice
5. Work on quilt at least two days

Weight loss:
1. Track all food
2. Do cardio 6x this week did 5 times
3. Lift weights 6x this week did 5 times

Work
1. Take deep breaths when frustrated
2.  Read first half of book club book

This weeks Goals:
Personal:
1. complete Jessica Sprague Birthday week 
2. Finish No control By: Shannon K Butcher
3. do three Clara Pages

Weight loss:
1. Take Vitamin very day
2. do seven days of lead body daily trainer
3. do six cardio sessions
4. Track all food
5. Complete Spark People online challenge

Work:
1. Read two chapters of book club book
2.  Empty out e-mail box everyday.

My little girl at 3 months old, I have not Idea how much she weighed or her length I will have to dig around and find it.

This is the blueprint from Design house digital, with a collab kit from them to :).