sample of project 365

I'm debating whether or not to start another blog. Yes. I know. It's getting out of control. I guess for me it's more of a filing method. I like having my pictures in one place with the writing, so when I'm ready to scrapbook, all the info is there.

Anyway, here are some "days" that will be in our book. I'm loving this project and highly recommend it! It's kind of a pain to remember to take a picture every single day, and sometimes I don't, but it's only been a month, and I'm loving all the memories being preserved.

I'll go backwards.

Tonight, we completed a homework assignment for Chelsea. They read a book in her class called "Thunder Cake", about a young girl who was afraid of thunder storms. One night, during a particularly scary storm, the girl makes a special cake with her grandma to help her with her fears. At the back of the book is the recipe for the thunder cake, so Chelsea wanted to make it for FHE.


Sunday, Michael put his sock on all by himself and was so proud. I was able to capture the concentration in progress for the other foot. (By the way, his potty training is COMLETE! He goes #1, #2 all by himself now, of course he has to call me in to show off his accomplishment) YAY!!!


Saturday we went to a pet store that has booths set up inside. You pick a pet you want to play with or "get to know" and they bring them into the booth with you so you can have some personal time. We will be getting a dog someday, but our current rental home doesn't allow pets, so it will have to wait. We also want a larger dog, and these were all of the smaller breeds. THe kids loved it, and chelsea got particularly attached to the fluffy black one. I just liked it because of it's breed name: peek-a-poo! (hee hee)


Friday we finally got to make our friendship bread that has been 10 days in the making. Michael really loves these kinds of sweet breads and would eat the whole thing if he could.

Thursday I have two pictures, that I haven't decided which one I will use. in the afternoon, Michael was trying to prove how big he was by trying to pick Chelsea up. LAter that night, I caught them jamming away on the piano. Aren't they so cute?!

chelsea's blog

I have not gone private with Chelsea's blog yet, but it has been updated. :) You can see it here

Overheard and CAUGHT at our house

Chelsea got this camera for her birthday last year. It has been a favorite toy of hers and any child that comes over to play. It holds a little over 300 pictures, and post of the time, you can't tell what the picture is. She currently has about 100 pictures that are actually of something, the rest I help her delete. I was pretty disapointed with the quality of the pictures, but I guess I should have expected it from just a toddler camera.

Anyway, It's very interesting to see some of the angles of her pictures...from a child's point of view. Today, her photography skills came in very handy.

Setting: I was sitting on Chelsea's bed talking on the phone to my sister. All of the sudden, Chelsea comes running into the room with her camera.

Chelsea: "Mom! Michael is doing something really bad! look!"

she holds her camera up, and "reviews" her latest picture.

This is what she captured:



BUSTED! Michael has been told over and over, put into many time-outs, for getting into this pantry. This time, Chelsea caught him in action. I think I really like this camera after all.

Introducing...

...the newest Perry GIRL! :)


Suprise! For those of you who didn't know, I'm pregnant! It took us so long to announce it, because we wanted to tell our families first, which we chose to do with Christmas. Then, our ultrasound was scheduled for two weeks later, so we just decided to wait until we knew the gender. Here she is!






Isn't she beautiful!? These 3D ultrasounds are soo neat! I love the picture with her mouth open and her tiny hands curled up.

We were allowed to bring our kids to the ultrasound, so we did! Michael got pretty restless, but Chelsea stared at the screen, trying to figure out where the baby was. I think she got some parts, especially when they did the 3D part.



Here is my first belly shot. I'm 19 weeks, and according to the ultrasound, due June 13th. I'm feeling great, and luckily only felt slightly nauseous in the first trimester. My biggest symptom was being tired. I have lots more energy now. It really helps not to have school or work to worry about!



The kids saw Dan taking my belly picture, and wanted one too, so here are Chelsea and Michael.


We are so excited for our new little baby to get here!

I'm blog crazy!

Okay, so I've started another blog.

I mainy started it as a way to keep track of my music ideas, since I'm the primary chorister in my ward. I mentioned it on the yahoo group that I'm a member of it, and had WAY more hits than I thought I would. Anyway, my sister is helping me with it, and I just wanted to let any of you know about it who are primary choristers. (Seems like there are a lot of us out there!) I have lots of links to other awesome music blogs that are out there on it.

P.S. I know many of you (ahem..Wendy...) have awesome ideas, that I would love to put on it. Let me know if you want to do it, and I can make you an "author". I would love all the ideas I can get.

Oh, you can check it out here, if you're interested. :)

ohhhhhh, the WIND!

We were warned. They said it could get windy here.

We had NO idea, HOW windy! :)

So windy, it's hard for the little kids to walk to their kindergarten class!

So windy, it's impossible to sleep at night, unless you sleep in the closet, or with ear plugs, because it sounds like the house is about to be lifted up and flown to Oz.

But that doesn't stop us from having fun!

These are pictures of a hike we took up to Badger Mountain.

Well, "mountain" being extremely relative to its flat surroundings. It only took us about an hour to summit!




When we got to the top, the wind was gusting about so hard, we could barely walk.


The kids loved it, though. We did find shelter behind the cellular tower, and had a snack of dum-dums. (this was a little after Halloween..yeah...I'm playing blog catch up)



Don't you Love this picture? NO, I did not just pee my pants, and NO, I am not in extreme agony, I'm just trying to brace myself against the wind, and unfortunately, this is how I look. (ugh)

Overheard at our house

Michael was cracking me up all day today. Oh how I love that boy! Some of the things he said I've already forgotten, but I wrote these down while I could still remember.

Preface: Dan has started reading the kids from an illustrated anatomy book we got from my Brother. It shows all the different "systems" and is very fascinating.
Setting: Cuddling in mom's bed after waking up in the morning. Michael has just ran and jumped right on my stomach.

Mom: "OH! Michael! you just squished my guts!" (Yes, that is how we talk here at the Perry's)
Michael: "Ater you eat dinner, you get lots uv guts mom."
Mom: laughs at the slightly random comment. "Where are your guts Michael?"
Michael: Points at stomach "there's your guts" moves up to middle of chest "There's your heart bone." and points about to the sternum area "and there's your squish bone!"

Later...at church, Michael kept pestering Dan for his snack, but we just got to church, and it's too early to be passing out the goods.

Dad: "No Michael! Not yet! Now sit down and be quiet."
Michael: quite upset by this answer, sulks and says: says "You NOT the MOM, Dad!"