Good Day Fellow Blog Readers

Once again I have been slack in updating. I really hope that this changes.At least once the weather improves I should have some outdoor photo opportunities.

We had a great stretch of good weather,but lately it has been back to the drizzle and fog.Makes me want to curl up and have a nap every afternoon,which is not good and habit forming.

Not much is new.I've started going to classes at our new fitness center and I really, really like them.I was sore,real sore the first few times,but now it is getting better.I have worked muscles I didn't even know I had.

I went to the dentist on Monday for a filling and it seems as though he hit a nerve when injecting the freezing,so now I am left with a partially numb tongue for what he told me may be weeks!!!!!! It feels terrible and food just doesn't taste the same :( Leave it to me to end up with something like that.

I'll leave you with a LO I did of Evan,after coming home with his certificate telling me he had moved up in his reading.Evan is all boy and really doesn't want to put much effort into school work.He'd rather put it into playing.This was a big step for him and me. I was so proud and still am! You wait and wait for them to move and then finally they do.The waiting is hard on the parent.I have a tendency to be the Homework Hitler,so I've been told,so this made it seem worth it all.

HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I know it is typically only a day,but in the on-line scrapping world it's all weekend! Yippee......

What could be any better than on-line friends,on-line games,challenges to get your mojo flowing,and in participating you get some layouts completed!

I'll be taking part in the festivities at Skrap-N-Chat and The Paper Passion.That is what I love about the scrapping world.There is lots of variety,different places to have fun and many many great people :)

I hope to be back soon with what I have accomplished this weekend.Let's hope I can stop chatting long enough to participate.

To all my on-line scrap buddies where ever you are hanging out this NSD I hope you have fun and enjoy yourself.

I must do better

at updating this thing! I could update it every day with random nothingness ,but I try to wait until I have something great to share or something...........

Well I made a quick trip away with Dave the other day to see my uncle who just had surgery.It was great weather and we had a fun time just the two of us.We purchased an electric guitar for Kyle.Clearly I have either lost my mind or hope to soon.He is so interested in music,that I just feel like I need to do whatever I can to help nurture his talent and interest.It is just a starter kit,but we'll see what it works into.

I got a great surprise when I went to visit my uncle.His nurse was actually my maid of honor in our wedding! I hadn't seen her in almost 14 yrs.We kept in touch over the phone for a bit,and she moved and we kinda lost touch.Man, was I ever surprised Tto see her.Now that I know where she is,I think we'll do better and keeping in touch.

I have scrapped a little recently,but I'm hoping to do so much more come National Scrapbooking Day!!!!!!

This is my page for the LO tag on over at Skrap-N-Chat. I have no idea why this picture looks so dull and dark,but here it is.



Next is a LO I did for The Paper Passion.It is a great little forum that I just joined. I browsed Rosa's store in awe of her prices and the next thing I knew, they started a forum,so I had to join and before I knew it,it was filled with some of my dearest most loved on-line friends!!!!!!!



We received 5 products in the mail and we had to use them all on a layout! It was great fun,and this is what I came up with.




Well I guess that is it for now......

I have orders from my cleaning lady

that it is time to get rid of the tumbleweeds that have been blowing through this blog...LOL.I guess there were more than she could handle.Nope, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth.I've just been busy and didn't feel that I had much to share.I do have layout to share,but it is in a LO tag,so I have to wait for that to end and be revealed.

Not sure if all my on-line friends know,but my brother had a pretty scary episode of being taken to the hospital with a suspected heart attack.All symptoms pointed in that direction,and he had relief after being given some nitro,but sad to say that the follow up since hasn't been too hot. I am a little worried and concerned as he is a good candidate for a heart attack,but the blood work indicated that it wasn't a full blown heart attack,but could indeed be heart related. I just wish they would send him to see a specialist before it happens again and it is too late.He is only 44 with 4 young kids and 3 foster ones right at the moment.It wasn't his liver,gallbladder, or kidneys.....which is good,but what else causes you that much pain!?

Easter has come and gone and I had a good long weekend with family.The younger two kids were pretty excited,but I didn't see a whole lot of excitement in Kyle.He took his little bucket and plunked a few eggs in it,but for the most part he let the other two have at it.He wasn't long snatching up his Aeropostale T's and Twilight movie though.

Speaking of Twilight......I don't think I could get into the books,even though they are supposedly better,but I loved the movie! I wanted him to suck on my neck......LOL.Love those dreamy,seductive eyes of his,even though I am old enough to be his mother.

Well that is it for now,but I'll be back with a LO hopefully and some NSD happenings around my scrap hood :)

Just a layout to share

Not much going on this Sunday afternoon.I can surely say that I have Spring fever.I just want it to hurry up and get warmer and stay that way.I hate that it is nice one day and freezing the next. No wonder all of the kids have colds and sore throats and weird viruses.

Here is my layout for the March LO tag over at Skrap-n-Chat. I used the new MME papers along with photos from a wedding I attended last summer.I loved that the colors matched so nicely.I love doing this tags and am looking quite forward to the April's as it has some stipulations as to what you need to have on the layout,plus I am the first on one team so I will be lifting an awesome lift from Tracey.......YIPPEE!



Not sure why one side of my layout looks a dingy yellow,because the background is really white.

Good Sunday Morning

I'm up,but not too bright eyed and bushy tailed.I ended up sleeping with Evan last night,as he wasn't feeling too well and I figured it be better for me to get in with him instead of him getting in with Dave and I and puke all over his father.Now that would be legendary chaos I tell ya!!!!!!!!!!!! LEGENDARY! I have never seen anything render a man useless in my life as vomit does my husband.It's as if he slips into some sort of comatose state.

I have a LO to share from last weeks Creative Scrappers Sketch.I figured I better get it up as there is another awesome one posted this week.Make sure to check it out!



I am loving working with more than one photo now.Never thought I'd make it to that point.Lots of embellishments like my Fancy Pants felt on this LO. I was hoarding it I guess.

I also got my first LO kit from Kristine and I love it! I got the complete line of MME Bloom papers,plus Pink Paislee alphas,some glitter,chipboard pieces,flowers,kaiser bling and some buttons.Definitely bang for your buck.I love getting up-to-date supplies without a lot of things that you won't use.The kits come with two sketches.You can improvise them as you wish.There are lots of PP left over after too.

March Break Is Over

Well it is back to school for the kiddos tomorrow.Can't say as we had the best weather,but we survived.At least no one was sick this year.

To start my first week of March off,my dear friend Nicole gave birth to a beautiful baby girl!!!!! Now her cute family is complete.I hope all is going well with them.Could you send me a smoke signal or something Nicole,to let me know you're all still kicking.....LOL.

Not far into my week I got an awesome RAK from Deborah.She made me a gorgeous card and sent me a sweet plaque.I have it sitting right in front of me on my computer desk.It keeps me thinking positive,and makes me smile as I remember all my great on-line friends.



I ventured out sliding with the kids,and what an awesome time I had. At first I didn't plan on actually sliding myself,but when I saw how much fun they were having, I thought I'd give it a whirl.A whirl indeed as I slid down the hill at break neck speeds in a flying saucer.I never thought I could be a contortionist,but somehow I managed to wrap my body up and placed it oh so delicately in a flying saucer.The only problem was that I had no control over the bloody thing and I kept twirling and twirling and ended up backwards for most of the descent which was a bit scary.The snow was so packed in and icy that you couldn't stop yourself if you tried.Good family fun!

I ended my week with the delivery of scrap goodies.I went in with a few friends and placed an order,so we'd get free shipping and well I was most impressed with my new alphas and dotted swiss in many colors.Plus I bought the MM Flower Patch Embellishment Kit! It is a little pricey,but oh so worth it.Many buttons and journaling tags and flowers come with it,plus my favorite felt flowers and butterflies that are quilted like and puffy.I LOVE IT!!!!! Nice spring colors too. My friend Jolene threw in a Prima Swirl for me too.