Name Tags

My three year old has started preschool. He loves it. There is one downfall to the preschool thing... minor but still a problem; everything as to be labeled, back packs, shoes, jackets.. the works. Why is this a problem you ask....because Jaxon has a little brother who will one day inherit Jaxon's things. It's bad enough to have hand me downs... but hand me downs with someone elses name in them sucks bad. So I have been trying to come up with creative ways to label Jaxon's school stuff. One of the ways is with this super cute washers.

They are way easy! I love them. the best part is I can attach them to the zipper on his bags and on his jackets and take them off later. PERFECT! We have lost one already... but washers are so cheap that I can always make another one!

Food for the Week!

I hope you all had a fun weekend. I did. I was hoping to get more done then I did... but at the same time I did alot so I guess I have to be happy about that. Tim let me have a crafty day on saturday so I went to work trying to get some things done. So stay tuned... Ill be posting some fun things pretty soon.
  As is tradition on Sunday here is what the Pisko household is eating this week
Monday - Burgers (im missing summer so Im going to bust out the indoor grill and BBQ)
Tuesday - baked Pasta shells wiht a carrot cumin slaw
Wednesday - Torilla soup
Thursday - Shrimp Pad Thai
friday - Breakfast Pizzas
saturday - Mac n Cheese
Sunday - Leftovers
Sounds pretty yummy to me! Hope you have a wonderful week planned too!

Kooza Review

So as most of you know I went to Kooza on Thursday night. IT WAS AMAZING! I was blown away. There really arent any words to describe how much I enjoyed it. They had awesome music and dancers and tiperope walkers and those crazy bendy people. There was this asian guy who piled up chairs and did crazy stunts on top. Of course there were clowns and a girl who did unbelievable things with hola hoops. My favorite was these two guys who did incredible things in these two rotating wheels. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. If you ever get a chance to see Kooza or any other Cirque du soliel show GO! They are incredible.
  Kooza was a real return to the circus for Kooza. In previous shows it was much more story-ish and this one was more about the acts. There was a story along with it but to me it seems secondary to to the actual circus acts.
  of course the evening was even more fun because I went to the show with one of my long time best friends Leah. Whenever we get together its a riot! And the evening was less stressful for me because my other bestest friend Stef came to babysit my boys. I am pretty picky about leaving my boys with people especially around bed time so to have Auntie Stef and uncle jarett come over to watch them was an ease to my mind. Thanks guys! (Jaxon is still talking about uncle Jarett and wants to know when Auntie Stef with bring uncle jarett back!)

another late post

Sorry for another missed post... I don't know what happened last night but I was hit with a killer miagraine. So I took a nice long bath and went to bed. It was a nasty one. But here are a few more pages for the ABC Album I did. (sorry about the not so hot pictures, I need a better camera) But I thought it would be an appropriate since yesterday one of my friends, Claire's, water broke so she either had her baby last night or today, and Chelsea (who the album is actually for) is way over due and will be induced today, unless by some miracle she had the baby last night too!
Good Luck Girls! Im thinking of both of you and hoping all goes well. Can't wait to Meet Claire's New little man and Chelseas little princess!

G-Giggle

H-hugs

I-Innocence

Delayed post

Sorry I didnt get around to posting last night. My day was nuts trying to get everything ready for me to go out last night then last night I didnt get home until after 11pm from KOOZA. So I was way too tired to post anything... so here is a double post day... Ill post this now and something else later tonight!
Here are more pages from that ABC scrapbook I did up for Chelsea

D-Daddy

E- Eat

F-Family

Baby ABC Album

One of my good friends, Chelsea, is about to have a baby... actually as I'm blogging this I'm hoping she has already had the baby today since she is something like 8 days over due. Brutal! Anyways, I decided I'd make her an ABC album for the new little sweetheart. Chelsea is like the closest thing to a perfect mom I know. She is awesome so I wanted to do something... this is what I came up with. Here comes my disclaimer... Im not overly original, nor am I super scrapper... so its pretty run of the mill pages. But enjoy!

A-Adorable

B-Brother
(Chelsea has a three yr old who Jaxon just adores named Corbin. His favorite color is Orange so this page is for him!)

C-Cuddles

There are the first 3 pages. Ill post more tomorrow! Since Ill be looking for another easy post since Ill be at KOOZA... OH YEAH! super excited to see it! I can't wait!

Too Much Stuff

If you haven't already heard I am a huge Robert Munsch Fan. I love his books and have passed on that love to Jaxon. I do a book of the month with Jaxon and we focus on one theme (like cars, dinosaurs, etc) or author (Rober munsch) a year and every month he gets a new book. Its great. Anyways This year has been all about Robert Munsch.
   While we were in Edmonton this last time, Mama Nelson bought Jaxon Robert Munsch's newest book; "Too Much Stuff" It was cute and an enjoyable read... but I think Mr. Munsch is starting to loose his luster Im sad to say. This book was still about a bazillion times better them most Kid's books out there but it didnt compare to those long standing classics like "Paper bag princess" and "Thomas' snowsuit"

This book is about a little girl who takes all her toys on an airplane and all the fun things that happen because of it.

Robert Munsch is and always will be a children's literature guru to me. If you dont know... I write. It's been a long standing dream of mine to get a book published. Like robert Munsch I write children's books. I think Im pretty good. So who knows maybe one day someone will be reviewing my work! (so any one out there know of any publishers looking for some fresh talent?!?)