Changed my mind!

Well, in my last post, I said I wouldn't get much scrapping done durring the summer. I got to thinking about it, and it's my stress reliever. I can't give it up for the summer. I decided to sit and scrap all day yesterday by myself (I normally don't do that, usually I need someone to scrap with in order to get anything done) Well, I finished up close to 10 layouts yesterday! Yahoo! And I'm still kind of in the mood so might do some more today. I haven't gotten a chance to take any pictures yet, but I will so I can start to get them posted.

I also created a poll on my blog, I will take into concideration all feedback because if I decide to do this, it will end up being a huge project. I bought a kit thing from Sam's some time ago that all matches and it's Purple, that was her main color in the wedding, so I won't have to buy too much stuff, just finding the time to get it all done is going to be the tricky part!

Award Ceremony

Here is the page I did for Jade's cub scout scrapbook, it's his first award ceremony they had. The pictures show him getting a few different things and him and his friend Cole being the silly boys they are! This is going to be my last scrapbook layout for a while. Summer is comming and I will be spending more time outside with the kids than I will be inside scrapping. I'm hoping to try to scrap at least one full day a month, but we'll see how that goes!

Heading off to School

Here is Jade's first day of 1st grade, I used locker talk for the cricut cuts and the gradeschool stack for the paper.

I haven't been in the most creative mood lately. I'm planning a trip to the Twin Cities in about a month, hopefully by then I'll feel more in the mood. They have way more scrap stores down there than we have up here.

I hope everyone is enjoying spring! We had 77* and sunny weather here Friday and today was 33* and snowing!

Monster Truck Show

I took Jade last night to see the Monster truck show, here is a picture I took of the both of us before the show started.


Here's a good shot of the "Ride and Glide" Team, they are BMX riders, and wow are they good! This guy jumped over another guy on his bike!


Jade watching the show. Doesn't he just look so excited to be there! ha ha


Here is the "Havoc" and the "Mechanical Mischife" in action!


And last but not least, Jade at the end of line from getting his checkered flag autographed from all the drivers and BMX riders from the show! I think that was his favorite out of the entire thing!

We had a great time and it was nice to have Mom and Jade time too!

A couple Christmas Layouts

Here are a couple Christmas layouts of Alyssa, this first one was Christmas Eve, that's when we do Christmas at our house. This layout came from my "Idea Deck" I never did get to actually making a title for it, but it's pretty busy as it is (as with most layouts from that deck).


This next one was Christmas morning after Santa came. She had so much fun taking all of her stuff out of her stocking!

Little Angel

Here is Alyss just a few days over 1 month old, gosh how time flies!

Babies 1st Halloween

Here's my little girl's first Halloween! She was a little bumbe bee, she was so cute! I'm pretty sure I used Pooh font for the title and DCWV Halloween stack for all the paper. Thanks for looking!

Dream Sweet Baby Dream

Here is my little Alyssa snoozing :) Simple LO, not much to say about it.

On another note, our Easter was great, we went to MIL's for lunch/dinner, it was excelant! After we got home, I was heading out to wal-greens to pick up some pictures and I stepped wrong on my foot, ended up going into Urgent care today and come home with a sprained anckle diagnosis, I have an ASO brace on for a few weeks and they sent me home with crutches just in case I need them. Apparently if you are limping in anyway at all, you should use them, but they are such a pain in the butt! I have to "take it easy" for a while, but with 3 kids, it's kind of hard to!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter with family and friends!

Alyssa's Birthday Layouts

This is my 100th post!!! It is also the 100th day of the year! Here are Alyssa's birthday layouts. I had so much fun with these ones!

Happy Good Friday everyone!

Grandma Visits

Grandma came to visit for Alyssa's 1st birthday, here are some random pictures I had from when she was here.

2 more :)

Another simple layout (I'm starting to like these ones they get done so fast!) This is My Alyssa playing with her new "princess" Hat.





Here is my "monke boy" Devin eating his favorite Fruit Banana. The paper and letters are from the DCWV Animal Cracker.

It's been a while AGAIN!

Things have been pretty crazy around here, I've gotten quite a bit of scrapping done over the last few weeks, but just now got to taking pics of them all so over the next few days I'll be posting a little at a time :)

The one I'm going to do today is titled "winter fun" It's of my first son Jade and his first time sledding, I know I've scrapped these pics before, but that was before the cricut :) I used SYI to make the snowflake boarder.



The 2nd one here is nothing fancy, just put some pics down on some fancy paper. Not much room for anything on paper like this. DD Alyssa playing.

Canon Powershot

I've been wanting to get a new camera for a while now. My mom was down for the weekend for Alyssa's birthday so I got to play with hers and decided that I really liked it so we headed up to Best Buy to see if they had any left. They did and I just bought it, I knew that if I himmed and hawed about it that I would talk myself out of it. It's the Canon Powershot SD790 IS. I LOVE it! My favorite feature is the color splash feature, it's so easy to do! I'm really looking forward to learning more about it and taking some great shots of my kids!

Alyssa's Birthday Party

Yesterday we had Alyssa's 1st birthday party, it was a lot of fun and we had plenty of guests come and enjoy the day with us! She got lots of nice summer cloths and a few toys. She really enjoyed her "smash cake"

Alyssa is ALMOST 1!

I got her 1 year old pics done this week, they turned out soooo adorable! Here are my favorites. Her Birthday is Friday, but we are having her party on Saturday, I will for sure post pics this hopefully this weekend!

New Toys!

I got my order from Hallmark Scrapbook today! I got the Pink BIA and some rings! I can't wait to start using this one! I also got the pink wire cutters that matches, they are so cute! I bought Bags, tags, boxes and more, since it's become popular again LOL I scored that on the 29.99 sale they were having.


I also finished up Alyssa's 1 year birthday invites! I took pictures, but they all turned out so bad! I think I need to start saving for a new camera! I'll show it anyway, the inside has a picture of her and says "come celebrate with us"

Little Animal

Here is a LO I did a couple weekends ago, I didn't get a chance to post it yet. It's pretty plain, but I used my new animal cracker chipboard set for the "little animal" and the flurish. I don't know if you can see it, but on his but there is a monkey so I thought it fit well.

I make Alyssa's 1st birthday invations today and got some pictures, but Devin got away with my camera and I have no clue where it is right now! I'll post pictures when I find it!

It's been a while

Hi all, it's been a while since I've had time to post, I've had to switch my work shift for a few weeks because of a medical reason for the person that works the day shift. She's back now so hopefully I'll be updating more often!

We had a great valentine's date! We went to Applebees for dinner, we got right in, no waiting! I had Orange chicken and Shane had a steak, then off to our play, it was sooo funny! I love going there. The play was called "Wonder of the World"

The next day Jade had bowling with the cub scouts, we live right next to the bowling alley so we just walked over, it was his first time bowling ever and he had a blast! He got 53 on his first game and 78 on his second.


After bowling, we headed up to Grampa Jim's to meet DH, DS, and DD and the rest of the family for "Gift Day" the kids all played for a couple hours and we headed home.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Very Happy Valentine's Day!

Update on the kids, Jade and Devin seem to be doing MUCH better, Alyssa had a fever all night even on Motrin, she started feeling a little better by morning but is still very tired and not quite herself yet. Hopefully by tomorrow she'll be feeling better.

3 sick kids And Alyssa's 11 Months old!

Sorry I have not posted much in the last few days, all 3 of my kids are not feeling well, I kept Jade home from School on Monday, Tuesday was a snow day and Wednesday I ended up getting a call to come get him early, that night I brought him into Urgent Care to make sure he didn't have Strep since it has been going around in his school/class, that came back negative which was nice to know. Thursday Devin woke up with a fever and a caugh, I was able to get him into the clinic for a quick check up, I was worried he had an ear infection since earlier in the day I seen some yellow-greenish stuff come out of one of his ears, they looked good though. Today Friday, Alyssa woke up with a caugh and a fever. Yay, 3 sick kids, so needless to say, I haven't gotten too much done with all of them being crabby! Oh well, it was an excuse for me to go out and buy us all icecream!

I hope everyone else is feeling well!

Tomorrow night, Valentine/Date night with hubby, no matter what! Grampa is coming over to watch the kids!

Here is a pic of Jade I took at Urgent Care





Alyssa turned 11 Months old on the 6th, she's still my little peanut! I'm not sure how much she weighs right now, but she still fits in 6-9 month cloths! I'm hoping by summer months she'll be in 12 months because that's what size summer cloths I've been buying for her! She still mostly army crawls, but she's been finally starting to actually crawl, I don't even think she relizes she's doing it though! She started picking herself up on furnature, just the smaller things like her leap frog table and her excersauser, she's so short that the couch is too high for her to grab and pull up on! Oh and she still doesn't have any teeth either!

Some Jade LO's

It's been a while since I've posted any layouts of Jade so here are a few that I did I think last week. One of them is pictures from a couple years ago at the Monster Truck show, the other one is a trip "home" and we always make time to meet some friends at Mc Donalds.

Another Alyssa LO and Order info!

Here is another LO of my sweet baby girl Alyssa, I think these were her 8 month pictures. I didn't use any cricut on it yet, not sure if I want to leave it untitled or not, I got the chipboard flowers on clearance at Target. The LO design came from my Idea deck. Speaking of that, DH bought me the 2nd Idea deck for Valentine's Day! What a sweetie!

I just ordered a bunch of new DCWV stacks from Joan.com, I got The Green Stack, Green chipboard shapes, Animal Crackers, Animal cracker chipboard, Whimsy, Latte, Citrus, All About Boys, Safari-Chic, Garden Party, Nana's Kitchen, Blossom & Butterflies, Baby girl nursery, and baby boy nursery! I think I'm set for paper now for some time! I was planning on getting all of these in the twin cities in April, but J's has a free shipping code, and the stacks were all on sale so I couldn't wait!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Favorite Toy

Here's my little guy Devin, he got this lion walker for his first birthday from Grandma Julie. He loves it! Now Alyssa has started to play with it too :) Thanks for looking!

Birthday Cake

Well, I've finally got 1 page done for Devin's 2nd birthday that was back in November! I'm hoping to get started on the next ones this weekend. This was his birthday cake and us singing to him. He had a Mickey Mouse Birthday. I believe this sketch was one of Okie's sketch challenges too.

New Jammies

Devin is asleep in my arms so I can't type much, but I wanted to post this LO I did, I love how it turned out! Jade is just 2 years old here, wow how time flies!

I won a RAK!

I won a RAK over that the Cricut MB last week and recieved it today, It is an Obama journal, I'm pretty sure she used SCAL to cut it out, it's pretty neat! Thanks cardmkrLeslie!

Another Cousins LO

Here is another Cousins one, this is Devin and his cousin Brooke, they were born only 3 months apart, when I showed DH this one, he couldn't believe how much they really looked alike! I used Nana's kids for the bug paper and I had these little bug brads that I thought would be perfect! TFL!

Cousins

Every year we get all the cousins together for a picture for the grand parents, I posted just the pictures earlier. Well, I finally got a chance to scrap my 5x7 after it sat in the diaper bag for some time and got a little water on it. opps! I used Storybook for the title and flourish. The kids are in order from oldest 13 to youngest 10 months. Thanks for looking!

Paper Give Away!

A poor worker at Paper Trunk was left behind while the others went to CHA! So she is being sneaky and doing a paper giveaway!! GO check it out! PAPER TRUNK PAPER GIVEAWAY!

Ribbon Storage

I got this idea from the ribbon rings or something like that, I made it out on DS and cut it out of chipboard, then bought the rings at my LSS. I have them hanging on 3M hooks I bought at Wal Mart and they are inside my cabnet. I like it, but it seems like it's a little hard to get just the one that I want, maybe it's just the way I designed it, I don't know, I'm not sure how long I'll keep it like this, but I'll give it a shot anyway.


Close up



And last, I bought these round cloths pins from M's and wraped my ribbon around them, I kinda like this idea better than hanging them, it just seems like it's easier to get to them and they travel better! But I ran out of them so I'll have to leave the hanging ones that way until I can get more. I still have lots of ribbon on spools too that I just have in a mini crate for now.