Whoa Baby!: A crafty night

One of the perks of being a state employee (and thank God there are some because the pay is not what keeps us motivated!) is that we are off on state and federal holidays. The next two weeks, I will only work a total of 6 days. :) And with maternity leave coming up soon, I really only have 11 working days left before I'm out of there to go have Emmy.

But I digress. . . since I don't have to work tomorrow, I've spent my afternoon and evening working on some projects. I wanted to get the first page of Emily's scrapbook done and voila! I did!

It was an ordeal though, let me tell you. I went to Walgreen's to scan the photo of Scott and I holding my belly (and let me tell you that pregnancy is the ONLY time we'd ever have a photo of that!) for the first page of the book. Well first I had to swear up and down, dance on a stack of Walgreens' employee manuals and do the "cross my heart and hope to die" jig, attesting to the fact that the picture was not copyrighted. I mean, I flipped it over and, ta-da. . . no copyright but that wasn't good enough for the 12 year old working at the photo counter. While I was there, I thought I'd pick up some pictures I'd sent from Snapfish to be printed. I could have sworn all over again that I did, indeed, send them to the Walgreens on the corner of 12th and Eastern. But apparently I didn't. So the 12 year old called and told me they were at the Walgreen's on Santa Fe in Moore. Sweet! I stopped by my parents' house to put all of Emily's scanned ultrasound photos on a disk since I just happened to have bought some while I was waiting for the non-copyrighted photo to be printed. Disc in hand, I headed to the Walgreens on Santa Fe. Did you know there are TWO Walgreens on Santa Fe in Moore? Well, I didn't either. I went to the wrong one first. However, I didn't know it was the wrong one until I was midway through the process of printing out wallet sized copies of the ultrasound pictures (also for the scrap page. So I paid for those and went to my THIRD Walgreens of the day. I was seriously spreading the love around. I show up at the third Walgreens (at 12th and Santa Fe, not 19th and Santa Fe) and my pant leg caught on the trunk release, popping open the trunk. No problem . . . I go back to close it and wouldn't you know it, the trunk won't latch. So I saunter inside to buy rope (yes, you can't buy string, but you CAN buy enough rope to wrap around a house) for the trunk and the photos I'd started out looking for about an hour and a half earlier. Phew! Myself, the photos (from three different stores), and my wobbly trunk (apparently I can't tie a knot well. . . better let Scott teach Emmy how to do that) made it home safely approximately 2 hours after we'd left. I told Scott about the trunk and he started making that face that says "I know, I know, you didn't MEAN to break the car but now I have to figure out how to fix it so I am still not happy." That's when Emmy and I came inside to have craft night. lol.

Here is what we made: First, the scrapbook page that is truly at fault for all of the trouble. But it turned out so cute! Don't you think?

THEN we finished up bookends for her room. Because I don't know if you've ever tried to find bookends that are cute enough for a baby room, but they are elusive little suckers. Here's what we came up with: