Update!

Ok well here is an update on Jessie's eye..... She is getting better and it doesnt' hurt as much. She just did it real good is all. The inset picture is of her this morning before getting out of bed. Amazing how it looks worse. The blood looks like it is pooling in the eyelid. At least it gives us something to scrap!


As far as being sick, she really doesnt' act like it. Just tired sometimes in the afternoon. She is on medicine now but couldn't go to school. She was so upset so I told her we would go out to eat today. (another scrap opportunity...LOL)By the way she tested positive or Strep..........argh!

My body is so sore. I am so tired. I worked all day yesterday in the flowerbeds. I have some pictures to show you....








Dave, bless his heart, carried all the bags of mulch and poured them for me. I still have a lot to do but will take my time now. I was told that some of my plants might be too close to the house so I will end up moving them out further. I do believe they were like that cause my beds were so narrow. Now I want some DAFODILLS! *hint *hint. I love these cause they come out so early! I know they dont last but if I do the beds right it won't matter!
So if anyone has any of these that they would like to thin out please let me know!!

Aren't they beautiful?

Well I need to go get some things done and cleaned so I am off to sinc the ipod and listen to the Dave Ramsey podcast! I will update again real soon!
Have a great day .....
Till later........~

How sweet!

I know I am partial but I do believe I have the greatest husband! He just amazes me all the time with how he grows closer to my needs and wants and desires and how much more romantic he becomes all the time. I am not sure what it was last night but he was very reminiscent and greatful of what we do have together. Very gushy in spirit! He came upstairs with the Ipod and we shared the earphones as he took me on a mini vacation through music. How cute!! It started out with a Kenny Chesney tune "When the Sun goes down". I swear just for a second I could almost smell the salt in the air and feel the sand between my toes. LOL I know we are dorks, but I LOVED it! We laid in bed and just talked about anything that came to our minds and silly stuff. We walked down memory lane, remembering all the little silly things we have done and just feeling blessed at all the place and people that God has adorned us with. Truely amazing feeling! My head swims with ideas of how I can make him feel as special as he did me last night! ok ok enough with the mushiness.......LOL

I will post an updated pic of Jessie's eye later on . I have to get ready to take her to the Dr. She is still complaining about a headache and sore throat off and on and spike alittle temp. this morning. I firgured better to take her in now then to wait till the weekend.

I will leave you with the Kenny Chesey song we listened to last night!
have a great day!

Till later....~

Poor thing!

Well Jess and Jake were playing on a friends trampoline last night and Jake accidentally caught her eye with his knee. I was at work and they were wanting to see how long before I noticed. Well it wasn't long. LOL It was actually hard to miss. But the swelling didn't go down like I though it would. These pics don't do it justice but in most of them she is trying to look out both eyes......here take a look.......

I just love the frame around these photos too! I snagged them from Ikea Goddess site. I do believe they were made by Katie Pertiet!

Well I will leave you with yet another YOUTUBE video. I just love this site! It has become a family past time here lately....LOL check this one out................... (please watch the how thing, it starts out slow) VERY TALENTED!

Till Later......~

Feeling pooped!

Between the Nintendo Wii and the flower beds, my neck is killing me.....LOL I guess I am no spring chicken anymore. I have a kink in my neck shoulder area and will have to soak here real soon. Like I said I have been outside today in this gorgeous weather pilfering around in the flower beds. I am trying to fake having even just one ounce of my fathers "Green" thumb. But I took some pictures and Val M if you are reading this please leave me a comment on the mystery plant! (Can't miss it , it has a question mark on it....LOL)

This first photo is of the flower bed that I made bigger.....

This next one is of a the rest I still have to do.....not too mention the side of the house I want to extend to...............

The tree is looking a lot better ...................see the dirt and weeds beside it? I should have taken before pics...............

Have you ever "NOT" planted something???? look at this Pansy............not real sure how it got there............LOL

Who knew that Lamb's ear spread?..........................(told you I was faking it....LOL)

Ok Val, your turn, what the heck is this???????

And my little tulip.......when we first moved here I planted about 5 of them, they just happened to be the first thing I ever planted..............this is the one that the deer left alone! LOL

Well I am pooped and sore and my bath is done running so off I go!

Have a great day and I will post again soon, maybe not tomorrow but soon!

Till then.....................~

Rain Rain go away!

LOL man we have gotten alot of rain lately. I am hoping this means we will have a fairly dry summer? A girl can dream can't she? It seems that we would usually plan for a vacation in June or July and it would rain alot! Oh well I am just looking forward to opening the pool. We are keeping our eyes open for a heating system for the pool, maybe the kind where the sun heats it through a series of tubes. We are keeping our eyes open!
For the past several weeks Jake has been singing this silly "drive thru freestyle" song and it has become lodged in my brain..........LOL Here take a look at it ......(he got it off of youtube)

And I thought I would share the layout I did for a friend the other day....

Credits: Background by atomic cupcake
rest by me.
Filmstrip also by atomic cupcake
Font: scrap fancy (top)
well need to go get ready to go to wally world today and get a few supplies.
Till later...............~

Been a couple days.....

Lets see what is new? mmmmm well the sun was shining today! I got all stoked when I went outside to get Jess going to the bus and what did I see? BUDS! the green popping up through the front flower beds just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside...........LOL I am so ready for the "HOT" weather! And those little guys enable me to see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!

I have been wearing flip flops for the past week.....LOL I had a pair of reeboks I thought we going to the trash cause I had gotten some stain on them last year while staining the back deck but I had a stroke of genius and use alittle sand paper on them and "abracadabra" they are good as new! Loved that! (they are my fav)

other then that not much going on, did a layout for a friend of mine but haven't done anything else since. Just figure it is getting closer to summer and probably wont do too much! Maybe it is just a phase but I have been so not wanting to be on here for too long.........LOL

Anyways everything here is great and Dave and I have been reading a new book! the Dave Ramsey book. We are wanting to be debt free , house and all and have been moving forward with that goal. If you care to take a look he has his own website. www.daveramsey.com
He also has downloadable Pod cast which we listen too!

Well need to get off here and chat with a friend so I will catch you all later...
till then..........~

Argh! LOL (funny)

I had a post all written out and ready to go, got entrawlled in the video I will be showing you and lost it all............LOL I am the master of doing too many things at once!



Well I was saying how much I love digi scrappin! I love the NO FUSS, NO MESS and EASE of it all! I haven't had much time or will to scrap lately but did end up doing a layout the other day. Here take a look...

Credits: template by Erin

Papers by shabby princess

I will leave you with this very cool video a dear friend of mine left me in my email this morning! (Thanks Tina A~ love ya~)

make sure your volume is turned on

Till later!...~

Email woes!

Have you ever said to yourself, "can all these emails be true?". Well guess what? they usually aren't. I recently joined an email group and one particular women send anything and everything on to everyone! I am amazed at just what we all will send on to others in or email boxes. I have been a long time fan of www.snopes.com you can go there and look up practically any urban legend to see if it is true. I just usually stick the subject in the search box and find the truth. From alien babies to "In God we trust" being taken out of documents it is all there. Go ahead take a look see, it is quite eye opening as to what you will send on from your mail boxes with your name attached!

Well it is definately monday! I had almost all my cleaning done by 7:30am and am now working on my "list". Yes I am a list person. Have been for many years. I am not sure how I would do things without one..............LOL I am so bad that if my list gets messy I end up making a new one so it is neat.....LOL Anyways not much going on except catchin up on errands, but maybe I will try to scrap a page later on today.

Don't forget Hereos is on tonight!! woohooo! really missed it not being on last week...

till then.........~

It's Sunday!

Day of rest.........................ha ha ha RIGHT! (*rolling eyes*) not today it wasn't , but for a very good cause. Rick and Bobbie got married today at the church. Very last minute thing and very cool! It went great and there was enough food and cake for everyone! (we were worried about that one) Ginny Dunmead did a wonderful job on the cake and Marlys and Krystal made sure everything came out without any glitches! It is so nice to be apart of a church family that really loves you when you are in need.

I thought I would play around with some photos of the wedding.................



It always tickles me to give the kids the camera and see what kinda pictures they end up getting. I love this view from the back of the cake that Jake took....

Well it has been a long day and even though I saw some great templates on Ikea's site I think I will go put some comfy clothes on and get ready for my show....."Extreme Home Makeover"!!!Maybe I will get a chance to fool around with a layout tomorrow!

Till then...................~

Wild Hogs!

Well it's been awhile since I last posted. Just been busy with alot of things. Rick and Bobbie are getting married this weekend and it was such a short time period to make things happen but it is going to turn out great! The weather has turned bad once again and I wonder when spring will come!

I am sitting here drinking my coffee trying to wake up to go to work! I am so tired and I even went to bed as soon as I got home last night. We ended up going to go see "Wild Hogs" at the movies. We went with some friends and it was an excellent movie. I have to admit with that many stars I was skeptical going in. But it was very funny and very good! I agree that it would be a good one to own.

I haven't had time or the inspiration to scrap lately. I have just done a page here and there but I really don't have too many good pictures to scrap. Maybe it is just that time of the year or I am going through a spurt, Seems like when I am busy running around I just don't seem to ever get to it. Too many things going on at the moment I guess.

Well it is just about that time I need to finish my coffee and put my face on for the day............LOL

Till later........~

Goodmorning!

Well what a wonderful day we had yet again yesterday! I don't think we are going to luck out today though. It is just starting to sprinkle. I have the house clean and have no errands to run today (or at least this morning), and since my dryer is still on the fritz I have nothing better to do then maybe "Scrap" a little bit! Not sure what I am going to scrap yet but I will think of that when I get both kids off to school.

Did I hear snow in the forecast? I will have to hop on over to the weather page to see if that is true or not but I truly hope not. I am soooo ready for spring, these last few days have truly spoiled us. Especially when you can sleep with the window open. I was in heaven last night!

well don't have much else to blog on so I will maybe post another one later when I have had time to search for some Scrappin goodies!

Till then~

Wonderful Weather!

Aw man how awesome was yesterday? We had so much fun, and we really didn't do anything special. We got out of church and the sun was shining. We came home ate lunch then did so many of the "little" things that needed done. We all went to walmart then to Dave's moms to fix a leaky sink. Came home cleaned the back deck and cooked out! We finished the day by just relaxing and watching a movie in bed. It is truly amazing at how the Sun affects our moods and how we feel.

Poor Dave he must have done something to his back he looks all hunched over when he walks. I gave him a back rub and that seems to help but he just never rests!

Well I am looking at yet another busy busy week. We have dental appts. 4 days in a row! LOL Not sure how we did that but at least we will have them out of the way.

Well I am rushing to get an update on , seems like I have a slow kid this morning so I will get off here and get them moving so they don't miss the bus!

Till later..........~

P.S. Heroes is on tonight!

Roll Call!!!!!

Is anyone else addicted to the show HEROS?????





I am addicted! I have never followed a show in all my life! I love it and even visit the BLOG...........LOL If you want to find out more about it visit these sites...........

Heros summary
Episodes
downloads
BLOG




And you can even watch all the past episode here!

if you are addicted as I am please leave me some comments, I feel all alone...............LOL
I need to find someone as addicted as I am so I can relate. I find my self just feeling like I can't wait till the next episode....................LOL ( haven't felt like this since a group of us would rush home to watch Santa Barbara in the late 80's)



till then....~

*Yawn* I am so tired this morning. I think I will just blame it on the snow! what a freakish snowing yesterday. yeah yeah I know, it is still winter but my internal clock says if we are going to push the clocks ahead this weekend then there should be no snow.....lol

Well I am posting bright and early this morning cause I am getting ready for work. woohoo first day at my job. Today is the day I actually get to hang with my boss and another gal in the women's resource center. I am hoping to learn more about what they do. I have a feeling I will be surprised at all they are responsible for! But none the less I am excited!

Thought I would post a link to a "freebie" I am downloading! it just happens to be "Weathered Delights Mini Free Kit by Julie Mead". If you use this kit send me the layout in my email and I will post it in my blog for our friends to see!
Be sure to check on my slide to the right I have a couple new layouts in there!

Well that is all the time I have , you all have a great day! I will post again later.....
Till then..........~

Boy time is getting more scarce by the day. You can really tell it is getting close to spring.................ok ok minus the snow storm we got this morning! LOL
I figure it will be easier for me if I maybe do a link to my layout gallery and post just the newest one on the slider to the right. That way I can conserve on time when posting. So as soon as I type up this post I will post my current layouts on the slider and move the more "older" ones to a gallery. So be sure to check out the slider from time to time.
I have my first official day in my department tomarrow at work. I am so excited to mesh in with these ladies I will be working with. I dont like not knowing the place or the peopl when first starting a job but I want to also enjoy this journey I have been placed on. What a wild trip this past year has been!
Well have to go cook supper, get ready for ball sign ups, get jess to awanas, and blah blah blah,,............I don't even want to think about it. *Happy thoughts about summer....a long summer!*

Till later.......~
psst! by the way, incase you didn't already know twopeas has a freebie for March posted. You can check it out here! Two Peas in a bucket freebie
(You need to be a member to download)

Hello SUN!

Oh my the sun is so beautiful!!! Makes me want to go out by the pool and dream of summer days...........but it is too cold to do that so I will just continue to admire it from inside! LOL. This weather makes me want to do anything by sit inside and scrap! It recharges me and makes me want to work out (believe it or not). which is what I am going to do once I finish posting this to the blog. I just went today and filled out all my HR papers for work and have tomarrow off. Then I go back in on Thursday to my department and orient there for the day.

We are signing the kids up for baseball tomarrow night so I can just feel spring just around the corner. I do miss the church league though! Ever since Dave had to have knee surgery we haven't went much to Riverside and hung out. I miss that sometimes! But we have filled that empty spot with the Harley!!

Can you tell I am sick for summer? well I am sure it will be here soon enough then someone will complain it is too hot....(NOT ME!)

Well I am going to watch my show HEROS on nbc.com (I was in bed last night when it was on) and then get ready for small group. You all have a great night and I will try to post again real soon!

p.s. I got some pretty cool templates the other day (links from Ikeas site) so be onthe look out for some layouts soon.
Till then...........~

Layout!

Here is a layout I did this past Saturday, I believe, just thought I would post it and share while I still know the credits..........LOL

credits: template by Tracy Blankenship
Kit was: MissMint_Coordinated Kit_Playground Pop
alpha by shabby princess

Finally updating!

Well finally got around to updating the blog. Had a busy weekend. Didn't feel the greatest all weekend and took a nap on Sunday. If you know me you know I probably haven't taken a nap since the 1990's....LOL Just been feeling a little under the weather and I guess it just caught up to me. I haven't scrapped much and probably won't too much this week, but be sure to check IKEA's site I see some many cute things there the last couple of days.

Well I start a new job this week at a local Women's resource center. I am very excited! The women there are wonderful and so nice. It will be nice to expand in this area. I also think I have my financial aid all squared away now and will be going back to college very soon. (probably next quuarter) Very exciting times!

Well I will try to update the blog more this week now that I have my laptop up and running again. Totally amazing just how convienent you forget these things are....LOL

Well going to go work out and work off all the great food I ate this weekend!
So till later................~

I love scraplifting!

Well if you know me then you know I do alot of scraplifting. What is scraplifting? Well it is the act of copying ideas and designs from another person’s scrapbook page to use in your own pages.
They’re quick, they’re easy, and you already know you’ll like them. Scraplifting is accepted…it’s why we look at other people’s pages for ideas. You just need to make sure you give credit where credit is due and never try to pass the idea off as your own. Here take a look at the one I did last night...........

Credits: sharibarnes layout "Donatos Pizza" to scraplift...
Papers from Sande Krieger (not exactly sure where to get, I think it was a free kit from 2 peas)

This layout only took me a short time, there no really thinking involved. The longest part was actually looking for a layout idea I liked! I headed to www.scrapbook-bytes.com and searched for "pizza" and eventually came across one I really liked! As you can see it is quite simple if you know your scrapbooking program! So next time you get stuck and don't know where to lay things out , go ahead give "Scraplifting" a try!!!

One More!

Not really sure how many times I am going to post today..............LOL But now I am just going to post this layout and head to the treadmill and workout! Might be back later might not, but till then............~

credits: Scraplift from "artisnotextinct"
using Shabby Princess's "Urban Kiwi" kit.

Scrapped!

Ok just finished a quick layout that I did of my two "digi scrappin" friends and I! We had a good time yesterday! I used Shabby Princess's Festival Kit! (love that kit!) Thanks for coming over guys!!!

Goodmorning!

Well I am a day late in updating my blog, sorry about that, I spent the morning with some friends digi scrappin at my house! We had a good time. But it only confirms to me that you definatley need more than just a few hours to learn and share some photoshop secrets. I forget just how much I have learned till you see someone just starting out trying to obsorb it all. Well I did get a layout done after they left. I did another "scraplift" from "memories" at SBB. It ended up turning out pretty nice. Here take a look........

I used Shappy Princess's Kit Festival
Well after the kids are on their way to school I will come back to "My Play Station" and scrap a few more pics. I will try to post again a little later on today. Till then.......~