Back to school shopping

I went back to school shopping for clothes for the first time without my mother. Yep. It's the first time I went on a spending spree since high school or college (for clothes that is... I've been on spending sprees for lots of other stuff). After 10+ years, I needed some new clothes. I did go to GoodWill a couple of year ago, but I don't think that counts.

I set out early in the morning (the benefits of being a crummy sleeper). Most of you know that I HATE shopping, but today was a pretty decent day. I found a lot of cute, inexpensive tops that I can mix and match. I've never been a shoe fan, but the ladies at work are, and they are slowly converting me. I found a few pairs on clearance, including a pair of sandals. It is my 3rd attempt at replacing my old, scummy sandals. Finally I found a pair that are comfortable!

I did have a hard time finding pants (as I always do). I've learned a few things:

1. If you are in between two sizes, and you take both of those sizes into the dressing room with you, always try on the higher size first. It makes you feel better to have one size fit, then having one that does and one that doesn't.

2. Labor Day weekend is a great time to go shopping. Lots of great sales. Not a lot of kids out.

3. The people that are sewing pants now seem to think all of us are over 6 feet tall.

4. Try on your clothes BEFORE you get them home.

5. Make sure you don't buy too many pieces that look the same. I came home and washed all of my clothes, hanging them to dry, and found out that I had 5 new cream/white ruffly shirts. Good thing I have lots of different cute shoes to dress them up with!

PS- Dan is in need of a new wardrobe as well, so he is going out tomorrow. Of course, I will be supervising.

The Green's visit Vancouver

I think this is my first blog entry, so I'll try to make it exciting. Up to this point, Susan has been responsible for putting up new entries on a pretty regular basis, but she's busy crafting (with a little dancing as we listen to some Death Cab for Cutie), so she left this one up to me.

This past Monday, Jaimie, Dale & Jackson came down to Vancouver for the day. We had talked about visiting the Portland Zoo, but with the rain, we had to make other plans. We spent the afternoon going to Whole Foods to pick up some chicken for dinner, hitting Starbucks for some mocha lite frappachinos, and then shopping at The Learning Palance, where Jackson ended up getting some flash cards and other fun learning activites.

At our apartment, Jackson was having fun with our stairs: climbing up, getting carried down, climbing up, getting carried down, climbing up, getting carried down, climbing up, getting carried down, and on and on. Living in a one floor house in Monte, he loved the new adventure of climbing the stairs of our apartment. For the next few hours, we were hanging out and playing with Jackson. At some point we realized that no one wanted to cook, so we got pizza from Papa Murphy's.

Of course, the night wouldn't be complete without playing some Mario Cart on the Wii. Playing while Jackson is awake is always fun because he tends to gravitate towards Susan so she has a few more obstacles than the rest of us.

He likes it. He really likes it!

Dan has been very adventurous with foods lately. When I met him, he would basically eat only apples, chicken, and chocolate. The first things he added to his diet were vegetables: Asparagus, artichoke and zucchini (green vegetables only!).

Lately, he's been trying more fruit. He still doesn't like any berry except a strawberry ( :0( I love 99% of all fruits). But, this week, he found another fruit he likes. PLUMS!!! (but only if they are very ripe)

And please note that I LOVE my new camera. It take nice close up shots.

Today is the Day

Today is the day that Daniel and I will melt. It's supposed to be 103 degrees. I guess we are sleeping downstairs again.

At least there is an excuse for not turning on the oven!

Beach Scrapbook Page

This summer I have been spending a lot of time using my cricut cutting machine. I mainly use it to make cards and for scrapbook pages. Here are my latest pages, dedicated to a May trip I took to Pacific Beach with my family.

My next mission is to learn how to incorporate stamps into my crafts. I only have one stamp, which I got today. It is in the second picture, in the circle. It's a stamp of lines that you use so that you can write about your page - not too adventurous.

The only problem with making crafts is that as I progressively get better, I look back at my older stuff and think it looks really junky.