Charlie the Cheetah

Each weekend a student from Alex's class gets to take home a stuffed animal cheetah named Charlie. The parents are supposed to take photos of their kids doing stuff with Charlie and then put all of the photos on a page for a scrapbook that the teacher has dedicated to Charlie the cheetah photos. Alex got to take him home this weekend. He was thrilled! I was excited for him but a bit nervous. I made it clear to Alex that he needed to keep Charlie up or keep him with him at all times because my dogs like to chew on EVERYTHING. I kept my eye on Alex and the cheetah all weekend until I took a shower after I worked out on Saturday afternoon. I came out of the bathroom and discovered my puppy laying on my bed shredding the cheetah! I freaked! I collected the pieces and tried my best to sew them together but there were pieces missing. I got him back to looking semi normal but I still felt TERRIBLE. I searched the internet for quite some time and finally found the cheetah for sale on ebay. It was the only one that I could find and the price was outrageous for a stuffed animal BUT. I had to buy it!

We went to school on Monday and explained the situation to his teacher. Alex was really upset- STILL! His teacher just laughed and told me there was no need to replace it, she's so sweet! I was relieved! I'm still going to replace it though, of course. :)

Chelsea came over on Friday and we hung out, scrapped and went to an antique store in the town next to mine. It was an AMAZING store, it was huge! I bought a few things, including an old printers tray that I'm going to refinish in order to use to display these little beauties that I've been buying on Ebay:


Aren't they cuuuute? They are vintage Hagen Renaker ceramic animals. The deer is from 1953 and the ducks are from 1953 and 56, wow! They are still making Hagen Renaker animals today but I'm going to try to get lots of the old vintage ones too. :) My sister and I used to collect them when we were little, I still have a few from back then and now I want to add on to my collection!

Gardening

John, Alex and I just spent the last 3 days working on our front gardens. We're finally finished! I wish I had a "before" photo so that you could get the full effect. It looked TERRIBLE before! I haven't done anything with the gardens since we moved in a year and a half ago. On Sunday I was sitting outside and I don't know what came over me but I just went and got the shovel and got to work!


I guess I inspired John to get to work too because he had Monday and Tuesday off and he spent both days with me working away! We made 5 trips to Lowes to get all of the stuff. Alex had fun picking out flowers though. Most of the flowers that you see are ones that he picked out. :)




We planted blueberry bushes too!


These are John's favorites.

We put in the scalloped brick border and took out all of the gross wood mulch and replaced it with rubber mulch. It's really windy here and the rubber stuff won't blow away like the wood stuff.

I'm so glad that it's done and we're very excited that we have nice front gardens! It's our first garden so John and I are both pretty proud. :) We had NO idea that gardens were this much work!

Cricut Circle Projects to Share

Just dropping by real quick to share a couple of projects that I created for the Cricut Circle blog a few months back.

These are projects that I specifically created for the Cricut Circle. If you would like to become a Circle Member you can find out more about it here. Here are some creations by me from October and November!:



Thank you so much everyone for your sweet comments about Alex's surgery and my layouts, you are the best! :)

What a Week!

I'm sorry that I've been MIA this week! On Friday Alex had to go to the surgery center to get put under to have his teeth fixed. I was terrified! Everything went just fine though. He's not in any more pain today and it's such a big relief that his teeth are finally fixed, hooray!

Here he is while he was waiting to get taken back to the OR, poor poopie!

He was in a lot of pain but after we got home but after he took a nap he seemed much better.

Since I haven't blogged in awhile I have four new layouts to share!

This one is definitely my favorite. I love these pics of Alex AND I am in love with this Bo Bunny line!