tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323Tue, 13 May 2008 14:58:56 +0000http://www.aplcreations.com/news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)Blogger552125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5140649587664868231Tue, 13 May 2008 14:57:00 +00002008-05-13T07:58:56.374-07:00here. I'm still thinking of what I want mine to say.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/random-link-for-your-enjoyment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-3578120884862042135Mon, 12 May 2008 23:49:00 +00002008-05-12T17:16:16.437-07:00 Jana's birthday was a very long four and a half months ago. I have started and stalled on several ideas for gifts for her along those four and a half months. Luckily inspiration struck on Saturday when my brother called to say, "we're pregnant!" to which I replied, "HOORAY!!" This new little baby will be my first Proff niece or nephew and I couldn't be more thrilled for them. The boys are http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/tiny-painting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5881214950079156202Sun, 11 May 2008 15:31:00 +00002008-05-13T07:29:08.272-07:00 Happy Mother's Day to my mom and Lynn's mom, to Patsy Nana, to my Aunts Patty, Liz and Geraldine, to my sisters Katie, Beth and especially Jana(!), and to Misty and Rose too. Some of these women are moms many times over and some don't have children of their own, but they're all special. Each one of them has filled that "mother" position at some point in my life and/or my children's lives and http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-2179884966081699269Fri, 09 May 2008 21:11:00 +00002008-05-09T14:25:39.953-07:00I just received an email from Etsy Dallas reminding me of their 1st Annual Beer-B-Q Extravaganza coming up next Sunday, May 18th. From the looks of things it should be a great time. My only hope to attend is by enticing my husband to leave early for the FC Dallas game so I can swing by to do some quick shopping. My chances are slim since we'll have Logan and Poppa Lee with us. I'm kind of http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/this-just-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5903727524447270916Fri, 09 May 2008 18:22:00 +00002008-05-09T12:30:25.828-07:00link back love fridays I've been hesitant to list a blogroll here for one reason or another (there are soooo many I enjoy...not enough time keep up with it...don't want to leave anyone out and the list goes on). Luckily, Holli built a website dedicated to Link Back Love! I've had this bookmarked for awhile now and have decided that now is the time to start working on this! So from now on I will do a Friday post http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/link-back-love-fridays.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-4903420480594589775Fri, 09 May 2008 02:59:00 +00002008-05-09T08:41:06.384-07:00Tomorrow Logan's school is celebrating Young Author's (Authors'? Authors?) Day and Logan decided he would participate, but only if he could illustrate his book the same way I did for Ellia's paperbag swag book. Fine by me...it's becoming slightly addicting, that cut paper collage. Anyway, we read through the requirements on the flyer sent home: the book should be written at home and must be http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/young-authors-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5196232291763488375Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:00 +00002008-05-07T12:40:01.492-07:00To Whomever proposed this bill: Take a seat and imagine someone stealing a wad of money out of your pocket EVERY TIME you sit down to your desk to do your job (you know, that thing that puts a roof over your head and feeds and clothes your family). Imagine having to pay SOMEONE ELSE a sizable chunk of money in order to claim ownership of the work you've done. Imagine having to pay SOMEONE http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/05/ban-orphan-works-bill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-207045160273453911Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:26:00 +00002008-04-30T12:29:24.835-07:00 Taken last weekend on a visit to my grandparents' place down south.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/gratuitious-photos-of-my-children.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-7258822000666748304Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:45:00 +00002008-04-24T22:20:48.149-07:00If you haven't heard about Spoonflower yet it's high time you gave that rock of yours some breathing room. Really, he didn't want me to say anything, but he's chaffing from your always being under him and all... Anyway, as soon as I read about this completely GENIUS service I started (literally) dreaming up ideas. Caleb has been drawing the most awesome flowers lately...big round faces with http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/spoonflower.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5209611680981864272Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:32:00 +00002008-04-24T21:43:22.766-07:00 click here to see a backwards slideshow of the artist in action. While I was folding clothes this afternoon, Little Miss Crawls-Under-the-Safety-Gate-and-Climbs-UP-the-Stairs-Entirely-Too-Often made her way up the stairs for the four-hundred and sixty seventh time today. Upon her arrival she decided to try drawing with the chalk instead of her usual eating of the chalk. To be clear she http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/newest-artist-in-residence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-8218130326364467071Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:41:00 +00002008-04-20T12:57:52.110-07:00 Molly's first birthday was Friday and to celebrate, we had spaghetti and cupcakes. I figured I'd better make her a party hat this year while there is no competition against princesses or pirates or Star Wars or whatever her obsession will be. Because I know it's coming eventually. We'll celebrate a little more next weekend with the great-grandparents and the rest of the family but before http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/one-year-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-9036989247574444863Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:03:00 +00002008-04-17T10:03:59.189-07:00http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/my-my-how-time-does-fly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-8190492817052204770Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:49:00 +00002008-04-15T09:39:48.391-07:00 The men-folk roughed it with cozy sleeping bags (thanks Poppa Lee and Gramma Dee), an air mattress (thanks to me), an almost* fully stocked camping bin (also thanks to me) and a DVD playing laptop (thanks to Lynn), while Molly and I went back to the house to sleep in our warm, comfy beds each night. Molly will not be doing any cool weather camping until she can stay under the covers for morehttp://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/cub-scout-camp-out-spring-edition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-308627290004545143Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:39:00 +00002008-04-10T17:08:45.559-07:00I somehow just un-dumbified my blog and now you can add me to Bloglines or your favorite feed reader of choice. Just go here: http://www.aplcreations.com/atom.xml and you should be set! How exciting! I feel like I just marked a rather large task off my to-do list. Odd? Yes. It's odd primarily because it wasn't even on my to-do list. Several people have mentioned not being able to add http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/newsflash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-9194080698484142102Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:54:00 +00002008-04-10T16:39:19.906-07:00 So, at the beginning of this soccer season Caleb's team won tickets to the FC Dallas season opener. We were the only family that ended up going but we still had a great time. We arrived with fingers crossed HOPING the kids would hang in and enjoy the event (because previous professional sporting events with all the kids has proved to be not so pleasant...) and somehow, by the grace of God, http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/of-soccer-games-and-woeful-postal-tale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-6712620009321637254Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:13:00 +00002008-04-04T11:42:08.595-07:00 Last Tuesday I worked in our front yard for a few hours while Caleb rode all his wheeled toys up and down and all around the cul-de-sac and Molly "helped" me by trying to eat mulch, dumping flowers out of their pots and walking out into the middle of the driveway only to strand herself (because the incline was (it's old hat now) too steep for her to stand herself back up and she hates crawling http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/mommas-little-garden-fairie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-8174966666318345134Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:05:00 +00002008-04-04T11:07:52.201-07:00 This year's Easter was a biggie for us: one, it was Molly's first Easter and baby's first anything is typically pretty freaking fun (well, okay, baby's first teething troubles and the like...not so much); and two, more importantly, Lynn completed his conversion to the Catholic church. Last year Logan started asking all sort of faith based questions and a there were a lot Lynn couldn't answer.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/04/easter-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-8322380216658971201Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:00:00 +00002008-03-20T15:03:23.513-07:00 Well, things have been chugging right along here at the Lyons' Den. We've been slogging our way through Spring Break and managing to have a pretty good time doing it. Last weekend Lynn and Logan went to the Texas Pinball Festival where they had a great time geeking out on pinball and old school video games. Caleb, Molly and I flew down to Houston to visit Aunt Katie and Uncle Aaron and my http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/03/spring-break-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-5007154780551158626Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:52:00 +00002008-03-19T23:00:54.264-07:00You're making it really hard for me to choose: feed the baby or clothe the baby...honestly. With things like this and this and this it's a tough decision. I jest, of course, but seriously, every time I get an email from them I drool all over my keyboard.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/03/dear-janie-and-jack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-3253157960079220481Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:50:00 +00002008-03-10T18:52:29.859-07:00If money were no object I would have two of these built or maybe a condo type set up. One for me to use as a studio and one for the kids too.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/03/to-dream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-250340442468806075Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:46:00 +00002008-03-06T19:51:10.959-08:00Take some time and wander through this artist's portfolio. It's all really wonderful stuff, but the pendants and brooches make me want one of each. Especially this one.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/03/yes-please.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-6842755872787406591Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:15:00 +00002008-03-06T13:36:14.268-08:00honest to God, we're snowed in at our house. Snow has flooded our street so that there is now an even blanketing across everyone's yards. I couldn't get my car into the garage because the driveway is iced over. Oh and Lynn decided to follow other people taking a "short cut" off the interstate and got stranded. I should also add that Lynn never takes a coat with him and may or may not have http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/03/snowed-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-4262536269700725491Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:34:00 +00002008-02-27T22:26:09.967-08:00Last week the kids and I made our way down to the National Scouting Museum and spent a couple hours roaming around touching anything and EVERYTHING that could be touched. The germ-a-phobe in me was on tilt...one round of stomach bugs is enough for me, thank you very much...but the boys were in heaven. I was very impressed with the layout of the museum as well as the kiddo friendliness. The http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/02/field-trip-national-scouting-museum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-612492135252676942Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:23:00 +00002008-02-26T12:28:35.907-08:00Photojojo.com via StumbleUpon. Here's my "sample" time capsule: February 19th through March 5th, 2007.http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/02/flickr-pics-time-capsule.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004323.post-7956643400210733802Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:25:00 +00002008-02-26T05:46:33.191-08:00We're all still alive and kicking over here at the Lyons' Den...we all had our fair share of stomach viruses week before last. Lucky me, my turn to have it was on Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day is evidently NOT my holiday. Flashback to V-day three years ago...fun times. Meh. Aside from all that excitement, we've just been busy with every day stuff: soccer practice, cub scouts, soccer http://www.aplcreations.com/2008/02/helloooooo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Amy)