Some random pictures

Just some random pictures from the last couple days...

Here's the thing I made for M up on her wall. I added the little bling stickers to the trees, I think it turned out really cute!

What R has been doing every day... Setting up his train track in the living room and then driving his CARS on it. Yes, he does have trains. lol

This is how I found him the other night. Looks really comfy, hu? lol

This morning the kids and I made blueberry muffins because I was craving them. Don't they look yummy? My house smells so good now!


It was supposed to be sunny and warm(ish) today, but so far it's pretty cloudy and cold. I think as long as it doesn't get worse I'm going to try to take the kids pictures for their valentines after lunch. We shall see...

Oh, I almost forgot to update on M's appointment yesterday. The doctor tested her and said her glasses are fine and were probably just dirty. I'm not sure how I feel about that. When we were in Redding we were going to Lens Crafters and although they were HORRIBLE with helping us find frames that would stay on her face, they did say that she wasn't up to her full prescription yet and they were slowing moving her up, but we moved back before we got there. So, we came back to the place we had gone here before we moved, and they are great at helping us pick the right frames for her, but they said that her prescription is fine. I think I may need to search out a 3rd opinion to see who's right, but I'm not sure where to go or if our insurance will cover it.

Scrapbook Firday (pregnancy addition)

I decided that instead of filling in a book for this pregnancy (or keeping it all online and having the system crash and loosing it all like what happened with R...) I'm going to do a little 8x8 scrapbook for myself. This is really just for me, it won't go in our family book, but I think it will be fun to have.
Anyway, the timing of Britt's and EZ's Itty Bitty release (last Friday) couldn't have been more perfect! A baby kit right after I found out this one was on the way!

Last week I scrapped this page with the kit, but I couldn't post it on here because not all of my family who reads this blog knew yet, so I'm sharing it now...

And this week Britt has another addition of her Inspired By templates out, these are SO MUCH FUN!! Today is the pack Inspired by Melissa, another amazing CT member! I used one of the templates to scrap the ultrasound picture from this week. I also entred this page in Britt's Everyday Magic challenge over at SM. The theme is SIMPLE.

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So there are the first two pages of my little pregnancy book. I need to get one going for appointment notes, I think it will be an ongoing page though, not just for one date.

Off to be lazy with R for a bit. M has an eye doctor appointment after school today. She told me the other day that she couldn't see out of one of her eyes, so I'm a bit freaked out as to what they will find today! I'll keep you all posted.

"We have some BIG news"

Yep, I'm pregnant! I had an ultrasound this week and we saw the bean with a nice heartbeat of 126. I'm about 7 weeks now and should be due mid September. The kids both know and they're super excited. R is still convinced that there are at least 2 (if not 3) babies in there, the fuzzy little blob on the picture will not sway him. I also saw my doctor today, and he says he thinks I will show quite early with this one. Yey. lol

I Scrapped!

It feels so good to get something done, even if it really wasn't at all productive towards anything other than filling my book. lol

I got two pages done today. M is feeling better, she hasn't puked since this morning, and she's keeping food down (yey!). I can't even count have many movies they've watched today, I want to say they're on their 7th maybe?? How horrible is that? lol Now I'm just wondering how long I have to wait to see if R or I get sick... I can't remember.

Anyway, here are the pages I did today:

This will be the first page in my 2008 album... kind of a preview in pictures. I also will do a review page in the back with mostly journaling, but I like to have a bunch of pictures on the first page kind of describing the year.

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And this is just from the pictures I took of the kids the night the Giants brought JT back. :)

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(I just went and switched the pictures around on this LO because it was driving me nuts that they looked backwards lol)

So at least I got SOMETHING done today. lol
I think I'm going to put the kids to bed, watch the episode of Lost that I couldn't stay up for online (yep, I gave in and decided to watch it), and then watch Friday Night Lights before bed. I can't wait!

Keeping it Real

A few of my online mommy friends have decided to "keep it real" this week on their blogs, and I thought today might be a good time to join in (we could probably also call this post 'whining'). We were all chatting about how a lot of times bloggers only tell the good stuff and their lives seem a lot more perfect than the rest of our lives, so here's some "unperfectness".

I know it's Scrapbook Friday, and Britt has an ADORABLE colab kit with Erica Zane called Itty Bitty, but I will post more on that later.

M is sick. She started puking yesterday afternoon. I hate puke. This was the same day that Matthew left for the "weekend". My mom left this morning for a couple months, and my dad is still in Mexico. Did I mention that I hate puke? I'm such a bad mommy to pukey kids, I can't handle it.
So far R and I are okay, but I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

My bathrooms have needed cleaned for over a week now. I think I cleaned the kids', but I can't remember. I just keep spraying everything with Lysol for now, I don't feel like cleaning.

My kitchen is a MESS. If I was really into this keeping it real thing I would take a picture to show you how bad it is, but I'm lazy. I made desserts Tuesday for home group on Wednesday and those dishes are still piled up on the counters.

I finally did laundry last night, but instead of putting it away I folded it all back up and put it back in the baskets. Now it's sitting on my bedroom floor, along with a pile of clean unfolded towels and I probably won't touch it today.

I have pictures I should be proofing, but I really don't feel like it.

I'm going to let my kids watch movies non-stop all day and I'm going to scrapbook and catch up on missed shows online.

So there's my keeping it real post. Hopefully if all goes as planned I'll be back later with some new LOs to show you!

Week long wrap-up

It's been SO NICE for the past week! It seriously feels like summer (summer around here anyway). We've been spending lots of time outside and with the windows open. The kids have played outside every day for over a week now, I'm LOVING that we have a yard again!
I went through all their outdoor toys and got rid of everything that was ruined from the rain. I found all of their sidewalk chalk floating in a bucket of water, so I tried my best to dry it out and then I let the kids color out front. The chalk was still pretty wet on the inside, but they had fun with it. We'll have to get some new stuff now, I tossed what was left when they were done.
Anyway, here are a few pictures of that...


On Saturday morning I ran to the hardware in the morning and got some red paint for our door. I put a coat on it before I went to see Bride Wars with some friends, and then did another coat when I got home. What do you think?

Funny little story... Matthew is home for a bit today while he waits until he can go to his next call, and he's going through our old paint. He just brought in the red that I used for the strips in R's old room, and it's the exact same color that I picked for the front door. It's glossier than what I put on the door, but isn't that funny?

This morning the kids and met a friend at the park. Here's a cute picture I got of them when they stopped for snack...


Well, I need to figure out what I'm going to make for dinners this week so I can run to the grocery store. Hope everyone's having a nice week so far!

Scrapbook Friday (and some TV talk)

Sorry, I've been MIA all week. I even took pictures the other day just for the purpose of posting them on here, and they're still sitting in my camera. I'll get them up soon!!

On to Britt's new product for this week... Plastickle Me Alpha. This is such a great little alpha, and so versatile!! Here's my LO I did using it...

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Okay, now I have to switch gears here and give a little plug for my FAVORITE show that comes back on tonight, Friday Night Lights. It's been so close to getting canceled a few times, but seriously, it is SO good!! I keep telling everyone I know to watch it in hopes that the ratings will pick up. :)

I'm a little bit of a TV junky. I guess I'm not as bad as some people (no cable or TVO helps keep me in check), but I have shows almost every night that I love to watch...

Monday- Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother
Tuesday- Biggest Looser (who else can't wait to see Joelle go home!?!)
Wednesday- Nothing right now, but Lost* comes back on next week.
Thursday- Grey's
Friday- Friday Night Lights!!

Weekends are a bust right now. We were watching Amazing Race on Sundays, but it's not on right now (we also finally got on the Survivor band wagon 2 seasons ago lol).

*I keep going back and forth on if I want to watch Lost this season. We actually didn't start watching until after the first season. We caught some reruns and liked it, so we got season 1 on DVD and watched before season 2 started. Then I think we watched all of season 2 on TV, and during season 3 we got fed up and quit watching. But then the writer's strike happened, and we signed up for Netflix and decided to give it another shot. So we rented all of season 3, and it did get better (my seasons may be off, I really can't remember). So we once again watched it on TV last season, but we have started to get really fed up with it again. I'm just not sure what do... I know it's just a SHOW, but it drives me nuts that they hardly ever answer any questions, and when they do it just ends up creating 10 more. So, I haven't decided on that one yet.

I'm sure that's more than anyone ever needed to know. lol

Wall Art

I've been wanting to make something for M's room with the choirs from One Last Dollar by Tim McGraw for probably over a year now. She loves that song, and I thought the words would go perfectly with some fun wings on her. I've tried to make what was in my head a few times and could never get it to look right.
Anyway, I must be in a mood lately, because I finally got it done yesterday. Really, it's nothing like what I was picturing, but I do like how it turned out. Each piece is 11x14", and they'll hang side by side like this in her room. The words in the background say "One, two, three like a bird I sing cause you've given me the most beautiful set of wings..."

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I'm going to get some pink rhinestone stickers to add "flowers" to the trees once it's printed, and maybe something to the butterfly's wings.

I haven't posted this on SM yet, so I'll just list the full credits here in my post this time. Most of the stuff is from Erica Zane's (super cute!) EZ Shrubbery kit (I lighted everything I used to make it match the colors of M's room better). Everything else is random Britt-ish Design stuff... the grass is from Used & Abused Vol.1, the stitches are from In Stitches: Basic, the bird (recolored a bit) is from The Bright Side, and the blue paper is from Hustle & Bustle.

I'll post a picture of it once I get it printed and hung. I think I'm going to mess around with it a bit more and then send it off today.

My photo wall is done!

My poor UPS guy (who happens to be the dad of a kid I had a MAJOR crush on in jr. high LOL) is here almost every day. He usually just leaves my packages and is gone before I can thank him, but I caught him yesterday when he brought my pictures and apologized for keeping him so busy.
Anyway, he brought them about 45 minutes before I had to leave to go to church, and along with the rest of my pictures for the wall were pictures from my friend's session. So, while feeding the kids dinner and getting them changed into cute clothes, I packaged up her session and finished up the wall. I just snapped a picture of it today, what do you think? I changed a few things around, but the design is the same...

I have to say (again), I'm REALLY happy with it!! I love seeing all my favorite pictures up on the wall and not just on the computer.
It does make the rest of my house look a little naked though... lol

Well, I was planning on being completely lazy all day today, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. My house is a mess, I have laundry I need to do, and there are dishes all over the kitchen... At least I got to sleep in.

Scrapbook Friday

Happy Friday to everyone! I've been a quite blogger this week, sorry!

Today Britt has a new kit out that is so super cute!! It's called Monstrosity and it's based on the Monster's Inc. movie (and once again, if you buy the kit this week you get a free bonus alpha automatically included in you DL!). Be sure to check out Britt's blog for a freebie add-on too!
It makes me sad all over again that that attraction wasn't open when we were at Disney last year, but I still found something to use the kit for (and I'm sure with all these fab colors I'll be using it lots more!!). Here's my LO (pulling from the '06 pictures again, I'll get them all done someday I'm sure)...

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I got my wall gallery up on Tuesday, but even though I measured and thought I was getting it centered, I didn't. So, I'm adding two more pictures to one side (rather than redoing the whole thing), and as soon as I get them up I will take pictures for you all to see. I'm really happy with it though! It's so nice to finally have a lot of pictures up!! Hopefully I'll get it done tomorrow.

I'm working on a hybrid scrap project for M's room... I've had this idea in my head forever, we'll see if I can actually get it done soon! lol

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Getting back in the swing of things...

I don't remember that two week break being so short when I was a kid! Seriously, it FLEW by!! We had a lot of fun though, and I'm ready to get back to "normal" and finish settling into our house now.

We went to Redding on new years eve and just got back last night, it was so much fun! The kids played with their cousins, we played lots of Wii and other games, went to two movies (Marley & Me -funny, but sad! and Yes Man -very funny!!), ate yummy food (including Red Robbin, yum!!), and took the kids "bowling in real life". After blowing on the Wii so much we all wanted to go bowling... Wii bowling is much easier than real life bowling. lol I did break 100 my first game though, which I thought was great! My arm is still sore though... M was so disapointed and didn't like it at all. She kept pouting and complaining that she couldn't get a spare or strike. I took pictures, I'll post them later (or maybe I'll just scrap them and then post the LO).

My pictures for the wall were sitting on my front porch when we got home last night, so today I started figuring out what frames I would need and I'm going to go get them tomorrow and then put the whole thing up. I can't wait!

I was gone over Scrapbook Friday, and I didn't scrap anything for it anyway, but Britt has a template pack out this week based on my LOs! It's part of her "Inspired By" series, and I think it's so exciting to see my LOs turned into Britt-ish Design templates! Inspired By Kelsy :)
As if that wasn't cool enough, I was picked to be lifted in the Grand Theft Challange this week at SM! Such a great ego boost when I have been feeling like I've been in a rut for the last two months!! With moving and then the holidays I just haven't had a lot of time to scrap, but I'm ready to get back into it now.

We have a busy week this week, which is nice. I think it helps get things moving again... Wednesday we have home group, Thursday is Thursday night group, Friday I have MOPs, and then the kids are going to sing a song for something at chruch that night, and then it's the weekend. I actually like weeks like this better than being home every night, don't get me wrong, I like being home some nights, it just gets hard on the weeks we don't go anywhere (like next week). The first week of the month is always super busy for us, and the second week we usually don't have anything going.

Anyway... I'm off to scrap and hope Matthew falls alspeep soon so I can put the Batchlor on. With only one TV I felt bad making him watch both that and the Biggest Looser, and I just can't give that one up.

Hope everyone had a good new years!