american heart association's jump for heart

Every year Newmarket Elementary School students volunteer to Jump For Heart with the American Heart Association. Both kids have done it and loved doing it. This year the American Heart Association has added a way to collect donation online!! So much easier with family and friends across the country and the use of social media!

The kids can earn rubber ducks when they reach different levels of donations. The first one that Alex is wearing in the picture below is when he received his first in person donation and the lanyard to keep him on.

The second duck he received and I didn't take a picture of it yet, was for his first online donation. As you can see below, he thanked Nana and Papa for the donation as well as his birthday present.

Cute little guy.

Anywho... if you are feeling so inclined to donate to the American Heart Association and want to help Alex reach his online goal of $75 please click HERE. FYI- Alex would also receive another duck for his lanyard. Thank you!!!

project life 2011- weeks 11-15

Next group to share. Then I'll have to get back to taking pictures of them and posting. I'll add it to my list of things to do!

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So happy that Kira's room is done. Should be finishing up Alex's after breakfast. Then I can work on laundry and the rest of the house. It's been suffering due to the concentrated effort on the kids rooms. I must say it does feel good to rid the house of the excess stuff. It will feel even better to donate as much as we have. Hoping to give most of it to the Rec Center Preschool Playgroup. I know the kids would like that as they both enjoyed all the toys that were there.

Off to have something to eat... I'm hungry.

jump rope show 2010

This is the project that has been laying on my desk that I finally finished up. Felt good to get to it. I used a pagemap from December 2008 for this layout.

This is from Kira's Jump Rope Show 2010. She didn't do jump rope this year which is sad because she had gotten really good at it. Then again, our weeks are busy enough and we don't need another after school activity!

Anywho... they put on this show every year with the jumpers which includes grade 1-5. Tons of kids and tons of spectators which makes the gym VERY warm. That would explain Alex sleeping on Dave. I am not sure how he fell asleep as it was quite a lot of noise with the music blaring but he managed it. The funny thing about that is, he has fallen asleep every year we have gone to the show!! Guess it's not his thing.

I had fun making the stars using my Cuttlebug and some dies I bought awhile back and haven't used. Thought they would work better than flowers. And I had to add the bling as Kira is such a blingy girl. The die cut jump rope girl I cut out at a scrapping crop that I went to in 2008. Yup... she has been hanging out here waiting to be used that long! Poor thing. But I did coat her in gunmetal stickles which I think made her quite happy. LOL

I am off to work on my Project Life book. I have been journaling on my computer and taking pictures. Just haven't quite got the two things into the album. I have finished up the journaling and pictures for January and am now working on the journaling for February. Only two more months to write out!! LOL I'll post some pictures when I can.

I also have to post the pictures of Kira's spirit week fun. Yesterday was twin day (she was part of a triplet set) and today is hat day. My grown up little lady wore a Chuck E Cheese baseball cap backwards. So cute.