Many posts ago I promised photos, Angie and her beautiful baby, Connor and Kate together, random new faces of Connor, etc…so, finally, here they are.
Happy Almost Friday! Hope you all have great plans for the weekend. We have two weddings and a photo shoot with my Aunt for Connor’s six month photos.
Angie and new little Kate…
Kate and Connor. Yes. Connor is almost 6 months old and almost 20 lbs. Healthy…right?
A new face from my little man. I just had to share.
Fantasy football that is. My husband’s friend forced (literally forced, my husband wanted nothing to do with it) him to get involved in a fantasy football league. My husband is not one of those that is on the computer 100% of the time…like me. Anyways. We were both a little skeptical if he was even going to do it, who would keep it up, me or him, etc. Wouldn’t you know…we are both obsessed. It’s all we do it seems, all day Sunday, and Monday night. We are truly enjoying it, not only cheering for our hometown team (who finally won this weekend, pathetic) but cheering for ‘our guys’ and constantly checking the computer to see how many points we got on a certain play or how many the other guy got, etc. Maybe this initial excitement will die off…but for now, we’re hooked.
Oh, and, we won this weekend. A score of 116 to 94. And our opponent’s kicker even got 12 points last night. Whew. We’re now 2-1.
This past weekend, my friend Sarah and I attended our second annual Scrapfest weekend. Once again, we had a blast, stayed up too late (was really looking forward to getting lots of sleep without having to tend to Connor), ate too much, and didn’t probably get that much ‘scrapping’ in. We have decided that we will forever (providing no other important life events happen on the same weekend…and they’d have to be pretty important) continue to attend Scrapfest, but we will never ‘fit in’. Yes, we scrapbook, and we love it, but no, we will never have matching shirts made, never roll suitcases around the Mall of America with all of our scrapping supplies and never cheer and yell when we win a prize…nothing against those that do…that’s just not for us.
I will comment that the classes this year were completely awesome. Not only did we learn great new things, try great new products, but the vendors gave out TONS of goodies in every class. It really makes you feel like you made a haul…especially when we paid for the classes months ago 
Ha.
A few projects from the weekend, I made a ‘Grandma Brag Book’ for my mom, as a thank you for taking Connor all weekend, some cute little wall/door hangings for 3 of my friends that just had babies (and one for myself) and then two mini acylic books (not shown), which are all the rage right now. I have everything purchased to create my house album in an acrylic mini book…just need to sit down and think it out. It’s hard…can’t just create a page, have to be aware of what the back will look like.
Some snapshots of the projects.
I really try and avoid having to personally write in my projects, as I hate my handwriting, but it’s so much quicker and easier than either using rub-ons or printing it out. It’ll work, and my mom loved it 
Black and white with a little bit of color is really popular right now, check out a few of the photo card designs on Pear Tree Greetings featuring this design trend.
And the baby wall hangings. Sorry for the terrible photography. Taken in the bathroom of the hotel we were at…was the best lighting (and obviously is still bad)
Baby announcements are COMING SOON to Pear Tree! If you need one sooner than that, be sure to e-mail me (christy@peartreegreetings.com), we’ll take care of you!
I’ve worked in the retail business before, so I know how this works, and I know why it happens, but it is still a little overwhelming walking into a store (basically any store that sells seasonal items) and seeing the Halloween Candy, the Thanksgiving decorations and the Christmas stockings all basically back to back or even in the same aisle…depending on the size of the store. I’m not even sure where to begin. I know I need to get a costume for Connor, candy for the trick-or-treaters, decorations for Thanksgiving since I’m hosting and probably some new Christmas stockings for our new mantle. Maybe I should be thankful, I guess I can get it all in the same shopping trip now.
Happy seasonal shopping.
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, we are crazy busy here getting the site ready to launch! There are still a few bugs that we are working on, but we are SO excited to show you the product we just can’t wait any longer!! I would love your feedback on the site once we go live, designs, features, anything and everything!
PS…there is so much more to come, too, so keep checking back to see the new designs that we’ve added!
