Katie the Scrapbook Lady

Because I love Harry

Because I LOVE Harry Potter more than any other book series I’ve ever read, listened to, or watched (and yes, I’ve done all of those things), I must share this video with you!

If you have not gotten through the entire series, DON’T watch because there are scenes that might spoil things for you. If you have not gotten through the entire series, or if you have not even started it… GASP! Seriously.

My very favorite way to experience HP is through Jim Dale’s magical reading on the audio books. It’s the only time I’ve loved an audio book more than the actual printed book. Of course, all of the books are fabulous! The movies are also a lot of fun, and I’ve come to feel quite attached to the movie actors as well.  But I really hope you will listen or read before you see the movies to get the full experience.

 

Harry Potter The War

For my fellow Harry Potter fanatics, here are some of my favorite HP-related pins:

 

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Littlest Pet Shop

You might recall that I love the little things in life and I mean that quite literally. I really like small and tiny things. I guess that is why I like Lego mini figures so much? And I love my daughter’s collection of Littlest Pet Shop toys. She likes to collect them and I love to photograph them so we make a great team! I tell you that if you ever want your kids to start playing with their toys, or regain interest in a collection, just start taking pictures of them. It makes the toys so much more appealing and it’s fun for both you and your kids. Seriously, my daughter thinks I’m the best Mom ever when I take pictures of these little guys!

Here are some of the newest additions to her collection:

Hope you all have a Happy Easter weekend! I know we are enjoying a much needed break from homeschool right now and plan to enjoy lots of family time together. 

my new exercise plan

My daughter has been wanting this Nintendo ds personal trainer game for awhile now. Not sure why I didn’t just buy it for her a long time ago. I make my kids earn all of their video games with a points system we use (or they can use any cash they earn or receive as well). I decided that I would buy this for both of my kids in hopes that it would rub off on me. Now it isn’t in most stores any more so we had to order ours from a seller on half.com. Each game comes with 2 pedometer tracking devices and you can actually order more if you want them. We bought 2  different games so we have 4 tracking units. It just worked out better for us to do it that way.

What a great little invention this is! You can even import your Mii from the Wii to use as your character in this program. Now we are all wearing these cool little electronic pedometers and we just scan them by the dsi when we want to see our progress. It’s simple but it seems to be very motivating for my kids and for me. It might be a little too motivating for my daughter because she has worn herself out with too much exercising lately in order to get to the next level on the game. I’m not that obsessed with it, but I am starting to keep track of time that I’m not moving. I was a little embarrassed the other day when I checked in and it showed a time period of 1 hour and 43 minutes with no movement. My daughter said “were you taking a nap?” and I realized it was just me parking myself in front of the computer for that long. I’m now determined to not have any really long periods of inactivity show up on my profile.

I should have put the kids in charge of my exercise schedule years ago! lol!

Tuesdays = LOST

Sawyer wallpaper

Right now I really look forward to Tuesday night each week. LOST only has 9 episodes left before it ends for good and one of my favorite times of the week is when Hubby and I sit down to watch LOST together. We TiVo it (record on a DVR) so we can fast forward through all the commercials. We finish up pretty late and I can never sleep after since my mind is trying to figure out all the wild stuff in the show, so Wednesday mornings are NOT my favorite time of the week right now. I guess it will all be over in May though.

One thing I do love about Wednesday mornings (or even sometimes late on Tuesday night) is watching LOST UNTANGLED. It’s a very silly recap of the latest episode on abc.com and you can even catch up with some old ones as well. The Dr. Chang puppet is a favorite around here! I don’t let my kids watch LOST because I know it would be too intense for them. I do let them watch LOST UNTANGLED though and we talk about the show as a family. My son has read the entire LOSTPEDIA (seriously!) and he fills us in on a lot of theories about the show. We always insist that he not tell us about any spoilers though – wouldn’t want to ruin the fun.

If you haven’t watched LOST, I would suggest you borrow or rent the DVDs (or buy them) because that is the best way to watch. Even when you can fast forward through the commercials, it still kind of ruins the intensity of the show, nothing is better than watching it uninterrupted. We didn’t jump on the LOST bandwagon until the show had been on the air for a few seasons so it was fun to have oodles of shows to catch up on.

Sorry to bore you if you’re not a LOSTIE! And if you are one, well then you totally understand the obsession!

Baking with Photoshop

This is one of the most clever little videos I have ever seen!

I wish it really worked like this because then we could just duplicate the layer and have cookies forever! Thanks to Diamonds for Dessert for helping me find this fun little clip!