Kite Festival (March DITL 2013)

I can't believe we are already half way through April.  Sometimes I just don't know where the time goes.  I have several things I need to get up on the blog.  A couple weeks ago we went into the District for the Kite Festival.  It also happened to be the same day that I did Day in the Life with Ali Edwards.  I'm not going to give you all the detailed time today.  Just wanted to talk a little about our adventure.

We had so much fun that day!  The weather was fantastic and it was perfect kite flying day.  It was really busy on the Mall and we were so glad we had taken the metro in.  Plus, Jalyn was so excited to be on the 'train'.  She is an old pro at riding the metro. She likes to look at the map and see where we are going and everything.

 Once we were down there we set up shop in a nice open empty area.  I was really surprised at how friendly everyone was that day.  Probably because it was the weekend and no one had to be somewhere by a certain time.  I packed us snacks and a picnic so that we wouldn't have to worry about finding food.

Jalyn was so excited to try her kite.  She didn't care about trying to see any of the competitions.  I have to say that teaching Jalyn and John how to fly a kite was one hilarious task.  John of course had way more patients with it than I did.  We got it up there for a few minutes but it came down pretty quickly.

There were lots of kites in the air.  It was fun to see all the different styles and shapes.  As you can see the skies were a gorgeous blue that day.

 Jaleesa was more interested in chewing and shaking her toys.

 We took a little break for lunch and Jalyn decided to lay back and enjoy the kites.

 After lunch Jalyn and Daddy switched gears a little and played some soccer.  Yes, that is a pink soccer ball.  She picked it out all on her own.

 Jaleesa and I hung out on the blanket together.  It isn't easy keeping that girl entertained.  She wants to move.

 You know you have had an awesome day when you have two girls passed out in the backseat on the car ride home!

Not only was this my DITL for March.  It also crossed another item off of my 32 list.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

Day In the Life: February Edition

I'm playing along with Ali Edwards this year on Day in the Life every month.  For February I did it on the 27th.  I was having an interesting day at work and thought it would be fun to document a little bit of a non-traditional day at work.

My morning was pretty typical I didn't do a great job of documenting with pictures, just words.
6:30am up- Get the girls ready for school
8am leave for work and school.
8:15am drop girls off at school
8:45am arrive at work
9am- leave for a meeting in the District

10am On a tour of a job site for a customer we came across this great desk circa 1970's.  I wanted to take it home with me.  The best part is it was made in Indiana!

  11:30am tour construction site- view from the 10th floor.  The glass wasn't in yet so it made for some great pictures of DC.

 more of the construction site- it is fun to see projects in these stages- instead of only on paper all the time

 noon- walking back to first meeting location- my steal toed shoes and hard hat.

 12:30pm- Lunch with coworkers at the Daily Grind- tried New England clam chowder for the first time.  It was delicious. 

 we took time for a cup of coffee afterwards

 the view out the window from our table

 I have a slight obsession with taking pictures of lights-I'm convinced I could make this one

 2:30pm-3:45pm back at the office for some more work

4:15pm Jalyn had a doctor's appointment

 5:15pm Jaleesa fell asleep in her carseat on the way home.

6:15pm John and Jaleesa fell asleep on the couch together

 7:30pm Jalyn was running and jumping onto her bean bag chair while holding her breath.  She was laughing and smiling.  It was a joy to watch. 

 7:45pm While Jalyn was in the bathtub Jaleesa and I played on the floor together.

 working on waving...

 8:15pm bath time for Jaleesa

 8:30pm Jalyn out of the bath and time to comb her hair out.

 8:45pm both girls in bed a little late, but that left some scrappy time for me.  Love!

10:30pm shower

11pm lights out

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

Bam!

First let me tell you this will for sure end up on a layout or in my PL album.  But, it such a cute story I had to share.

Jaleesa for the most part is a happy go lucky baby.  She just goes with the flow.  The only time she gets upset is when she is hungry.  She pretty much as a smile for anyone and everyone.  Most people can even get her to giggle pretty easily.  However, Jalyn seems to be the only one that can consistently get her to do those way down deep, your whole body is shaking belly laughs.  While, I probably should have been video taping this instead of taking pictures it was a sight to see.

This particular day, Jalyn decided it would be a good idea to just yell BAM as loud as she could right in her face.  Jaleesa as not startled by this nor did she cry.  She thought it was the funniest thing ever.  Now at first, I grabbed my camera because it was so darn cute.  Let me tell you after a while it started to get annoying, but part it is all part of life right?

Just a few of the captured shots.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

Day in the Life: January Edition

Just in case someone as missed me saying this before, I love just about everything Ali Edwards.  I think she has the greatest career ever.  She had another fantastic idea to do Day in the Life each month to add to her Project Life album.  I thought it was a great idea.  It will be interesting to see how each random day each month will be different and the same through out the year.  I am of course 'behind' on project life.  But, I have been rethinking a little bit about how I want to tackle project life, not sure where I'm going to go just yet with it.

Anyways, back on track.  These are the pictures and a few words from the day.  I will be linking up to her post for the month as well.  I'm not sure how I'm going to add it to my PL yet.  I will share that when I figure it out.

Day in the Life {Thursday, January 31, 2013}

 7:30am Jalyn's favorite breakfast

 8:15am take the girls to daycare/school

Work...

12:30pm- The sky at lunchtime 

 5:30pm Driving to pick up the girls, the sun is already setting

 6pm Jaleesa crawling, exploring, laughing, always looking for Jalyn.

 Trying to take a picture of us girls, as good as it is getting for today

 6:30pm Jalyn and Jaleesa playing on the floor together.

7pm Playtime with daddy

 7:30pm Jalyn is in the bath, Jaleesa is on the floor playing, mommy and daddy catch up on the day

 8pm- snuggle Jaleesa 

 8:30pm Mommy forgot that we had to collect 100 items to take to school tomorrow-rush to find 100 items- This causes Jalyn to be up way past her bedtime.

 Her 100 things

 9:30pm dishes- I feel like this is the Never-Ending Story.

11pm- After quite time with daddy, mommy goes to sleep.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica

Project Life {Week 30}

Here we are back around to another week of Project Life.  I'm still slowly getting caught back up and I will get there, I'm determined.  Things are mass crazy here. We are moving in two weeks, I have too many projects in progress, we have two trips planned for the rest of the year, yikes!  Got to love the holidays.

This week is actually two spreads in one.  We went to John's Family Reunion at the end of the week.  I wanted to do a full spread for this because it is normally a lot of catching up with family, hanging out and having fun.  There are not usually a lot of detailed stories, normally just a lot of picture smiling.  I knew this would probably be my only real documentation of the weekend.  I also knew that I had enough pictures to probably fill two or three spreads.  Which told me I didn't want to try and fit a whole week into one two page spread.  Enter a spread for the weekend itself.

Here is out it worked out:

Spread 1: Overall {July 23rd- 26th} 

Not a lot going on expect us being goofy and hanging out before we left.

Left side:

Right side:

Spread 2: Overall {July 27th- 29th}

The start of the family Reunion.  This includes one design G insert.

Left side:

Insert Front Side: 

I left the upper right corner blank right now.  I have some papers from the weekend I want to put in there.  I can't find them right now.  I know they are around my house somewhere there.  Don't you just love that?

Insert Back Side:

Left side:  

We spent the afternoon at the beach one day.  Jalyn loved it, she loves to dig in the sand so much.  It was a good get away for her.  She was a little overwhelmed by all the people at the reunion.

Thanks for stopping by this week. As always I'm linking up with The Mom Creative for Project Life Tuesdays. There will be tons of inspiration from other Project Lifers there.

Confused about Project Life watch this video here or read here. I'm using the Cobalt Edition this year. You can check out all the styles here. If you want to see more of my Project Life posts go here.

Have a beautiful day! Smiles, Jessica