Scrapbook Friday & Some Picturess

Once again, I meant to get some pictures posted this week, but with the short week it kind of got away from me, so I'll do it all at once this morning. :)

First up, Britt has ANOTHER new kit out today called Ohana. It's totally my kind of kit, full of fun bright colors, and Hawaiian themed! I did two pages with it, not really a true two-pager, but they are of the same day and will go side by side when I get around to printing them out. :)

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The blue alpha in my first LO is the bonus alpha you get for free if you buy the kit this week.


Okay, now for some pictures from last weekend (sorry, they're out of order, blogger won't let me move them around this morning)...

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Monday Menu

We've been playing and having fun all weekend, but I did make my menu today, so I thought I'd post it before I head to bed.

Today- Matthew BBQed chicken, baked potatoes, and corn on the cob, YUM!!
Tuesday- (t-ball) pasta with red sauce
Wednesday- breakfast... eggs, sausage, & potatoes (it's not on Monday for once! lol)
Thursday- (t-ball) take & bake pizza
Friday- beans and corn bread
Saturday- hot dogs and garlic fries :)


Hope everyone had a great Memorial weekend, I'll be back with some pictures later. :)

A little M funny

I don't think I've posted this before, but I was thinking about it today and thought I'd post, partly just so I'll have it written down somewhere and won't forget it! :)

My kids are both really into a lot of the Disney Pixar movies. One of them that we have and watch a lot is the Incredibles. There's a scene in the movie where Mrs. Incredible tells Mr. Incredible as he's leaving for work to "Help customers, climb ladders, and all that good stuff."

Well, M picked up on that and now she says it to Matthew every morning as he's leaving for work. I think it's funny because I know she takes it totally literally. Matthew is an HVAC tech and he drives around with a couple ladders on his van.

Anyway, I just think it's cute every time I hear her say it. I may actually do a scrapbook page about it soon, but with the way my brain is these days I was afraid if I didn't get it written down I might forget about it. :)


And while I'm making another post today, here's another scrapbook page I just finished. The date on there is another new product that Britt has out today, We're Just Dating Vol.1, isn't it cute?!?

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Scrapbook Friday

It's Friday again already... seems like the weeks are flying by.

Britt has ANOTHER new kit out this week, it's a colab with Sya's Blueprints called Sisters For Life. It's a fun girly-girl kit with a sorority theme.

Here's the page I scrapped with it...


I'm so glad it's Friday and this week can be over soon! I have not had a great week, and the icing on the cake was this morning when we were getting ready to take M to school (and stay for a "play" of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) R decided to put who knows how much TP in the toilet before he pooped and it actually overflowed all over the bathroom. He's plugged it up many times before, but it's never overflowed until today. I left it there and just finished cleaning it up about an hour ago. I had just scrubbed their bathroom earlier in the week too, not fun at all!
So how's that for keeping it real?

Here's to hoping this weekend and next week will be better!

Randomness...

Well, let's see...

I made that lemon pasta last night. The kids hated it, they said it was sour. I thought it was different. I think I'm going to try the leftovers cold for lunch today, something about the warm lemon wasn't right. For now I don't think I'll be adding it into rotation though.

I'm so looking forward to next week's menu, I already have two things planned! It's the little things in life that make me happy. lol Matthew actually has Monday off, so I'm making him BBQ for me again, potatoes and either chicken or steak (still working on him for the steak). And Saturday we'll be eating hot dogs and Gilroy garlic fries, I can't wait for that one!!

Now if I could just figure out what to make for dinner tonight I'd be good...


I got some more decluttering done again yesterday. I needed to do M's room, but I just HAD to do the entryway first. I'm blaming it on nesting, which is so weird for me, I never had such a strong urge to clean and declutter with the other kids. I also just had to take the kids' bathroom stool outside and scrub it. How's that for weird?
Today I get to do fun stuff like the dishes that have been piling up all week and the kids' bathroom. Yey.


I had Matthew get the bin of boy clothes down last weekend, and I was a little shocked at how little I kept. There was one bin, and it had newborn up to 2T in it. I pulled all the baby stuff out and refilled it with bigger stuff (like all the 3T stuff R just outgrew). Now I need to find a place to put all the baby stuff until we get the room rearranged and set up this summer (baby will be sharing with R, but it's going to take some creativity to fit them both in one room).


Well, I better go start cleaning or it's never going to get done.

More pictures from Sunday

I've been going through what I took on Sunday and I still haven't looked at all of them yet, but here are some more...

This one I'm not sure about. I was messing with the color of the box behind them, but it looks way off to me now that I look at it. Oh well, it's still cute. lol

These are totally in random order, by the way...





I did a little reading on lens flare and thought I'd give it a try. Not too bad for my first shot at it, hu?

I really wanted a picture of R like this in his Superman shirt, but he wouldn't do it, he kept saying he was scared. We even had M show him it was fun...

okay, that's it for now. :)

Bad Blogger...

Sorry! I don't know where the week went. I was around, I just never posted, so today I'll play catch-up...

Britt had a new kit out Friday called Jackpot. It's a really fun Vegas themed kit, and if you buy it before midnight on Thursday you get some cool Vegas wordart free! Here's the page I did with it, it's a picture I took when Matthew and I went out there in January of '07 for a Maytag convention.

We didn't do a whole lot last week. I had a doctors appointment, which was pretty boring. Baby sounds good and is measuring right on track, I go back in 4 weeks... lol

Yesterday R had to wear his new Superman shirt like Daddy's, and he wanted me to take their picture. I'd like to get some better pictures of them in their shirts, but I thought this was kind of fun...

I also had Matthew snap a belly picture of me... 22 weeks and some change:


So now for this week's menu...

Monday- waffles with strawberries and hash browns (I'm noticing a pattern of breakfast on Mondays. lol I didn't plan it that way, we just have a bunch of strawberries that are going to go bad if we don't eat them soon)
Tuesday- I'm going to try the no-bake version of this... Baked Lemon Pasta. I've been on a lemon kick this pregnancy and this sounds SO yummy to me!!
Wednesday-
Thursday- I think I'll just do burritos... we didn't do them last week because t-ball got rained out and we got to go to group. :)
Friday- meatloaf and mashed potatoes
Saturday- pesto pasta with chicken
Sunday-

I'm coming up totally blank this week so that's all I'm doing. lol

Now off to the grocery store just as soon as Regis & Kelly is over, gotta see JT on there first! :)

Monday Menu and stuff...

It's that time of the week again...

Monday- Breakfast (we never got to it last week)
Tuesday-
Wednesday- ziti & salad
Thursday- Burritos or group if it's raining :)
Friday- date night??
Saturday- chicken & pasta
Sunday- pizza from Costco?

That's all I've got for today. lol



I got some decluttering (or moving around of clutter, it's all in piles in my bedroom now) done Saturday. First I went through R's room and pulled out at least two big bags of stuff (of course, it doesn't look like I did a thing in there, why is that?). Then I decided I needed to go through the stuff under my bathroom cabinet (if that's not a random nesting thing I don't know what is). So, I cleaned out all my lotions and travel sized soaps and then used the electric toothbrush I found under there to scrub the hard to reach spots of our shower and sinks. lol
I didn't do anything yesterday (hey, it was Sunday and Mother's Day lol), but I plan to at least toss a few things today. I need to take some pictures of stuff for ebay too, and go through M's room sometime this week while she's at school.

I had a nice Mother's Day yesterday. We went to church, and then out to brunch and to Costco. Then we came home and I opened my presents (they got me a mitt and the kids made me a ton of cards and little paper things) and we watched the super long Giants game (13 innings, almost 5 hours). Matthew BBQed steak, potatoes, and asparagus for dinner and it was so yummy! Just a nice low-key day. :)

Too much stuff

I think my nesting instinct is starting to kick in big time. Here are my thoughts from this morning (and I just called Matthew at work and told him all of this lol)...

I'm so sick of all the clutter everywhere. My new motto is to get rid of at least 5 things a day. It shouldn't be too hard, everywhere I look there is stuff I never use. I've decided my problem is that I have a really had time getting rid of stuff I've spent money on that we don't use. I have more than one pair of shoes in my closet that I've never worn out of the house (they're actually dusty), but I can't admit to myself that I wasted money on them. There are toys I've bought the kids that they've never really played with, clothes that will never fit me again... just stuff like that everywhere I look, and it's time for it all to go. I'm going to put the "good stuff" on ebay ASAP, and I'm hoping to make enough money on there to buy some new organizational things when we go to IKEA at the end of the month. I think I want to get a low bookshelf for the boys' room, something I can put some of the toy bins on, but also some of the bigger toys (and the books!).

I'm sure that's kind of a jumpy thought prosses of a post, I'm typing this up really fast, and now I'm going to go see what I can get done before lunch.

Scrapbook Friday & Other Stuff...

Sorry, I know I've been a bad blogger this week. I got a really bad cold Monday night and I'm just now starting to feel better. I've been SO lazy with getting pictures off my camera too, I'm really sorry about that!

Anyway, it's Friday and that means Britt has new products out today! All Strung Out, and Word Art: Word Circles. I used ASO on this LO that I had started to lift from a fellow Britt Girl, Denise, MONTHS ago (here's her LO, Puppy Love). I had it most of the way done for a while, but I just couldn't get it to look finished, and I knew as soon as I saw those strings that they were what it needed.
Just a cute picture I snapped of R sleeping with his Mickey Mouse one night...

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R and I just got back from our last MOPS of the year, it's gone by fast! He thinks that now that MOPS is over for the year that school is too (and I've been telling him for months that when school is out we will go to Tennessee), so now he keeps asking when we're going to Grandpa Cal's and Grandma Sandy's.
They had a bunch of giveaways at MOPS today, and I won a $5 Starbucks card and a $25 Michaels card, I'm so excited! I actually went to Michaels afterwords to get what I had been wanting (I want to make a red, white, & blue wreath for the summer), but I decided to wait until the stuff goes on sale.

A little update on the weekly menu... Being sick really messed up my week. I think I only ended up trying the two new recipes, but I can't remember what I did other than that. lol The Mexican Stuffed-Pepper Biscuit Tostadas were really yummy! I didn't put peppers on two of them for the kids, and they both really liked them. I used red and yellow peppers on the rest and I thought the red ones turned out best. I will definitly be printing that recipe out to make again!
I did the Fettuccine With Beef & Peppers last night and it was pretty good too. The kids aren't huge bell pepper fans (but they haven't had them very much, so I'm gonig by the 10 times rule and I will keep asking them to at least take a bite for a while), and R didn't eat much of his, but M ate hers, and Matthew really loved it! I used cream for the sauce because Safeway only had big things of 1/2 & 1/2, and I also tossed in a little bit of gratted parmasan cheese that I had leftover from alfrado sauce last week, and it had a really good flavor.
Tonight I'm making the Steak Sandwichs, but this isn't the first time I've made them. They are really good, but I don't make them often because of how much butter they have in them. I'll just leave it at that. lol
So, that's why I always plan a few meals/spots that are open or can be moved around, it seems like things are ALWAYS getting mixed up during the week no matter what. Tomorrow I think we'll do breakfast for dinner, and then Sunday Matthew is going to BBQ steak, asparagus, and potatoes. I can't wait for that!

Monday Menu

I try to plan meals for the week on Mondays before I go grocery shopping, and a lot of the time I end up looking back at past weeks for ideas, so I thought I'd start a Monday Menu post on my blog each week. Here's this weeks...

Trying a few new things this week... we'll see how that goes... lol

Monday- breakfast... sausage, eggs, waffles or potatoes...
Tuesday- T-ball... Mexican Stuffed-Pepper Biscuit Tostadas
Wednesday- Fettuccine with beef and peppers
Thursday- T-ball... *bring snacks* Loaded twice baked potatoes
Friday- dinner with Dad... Marlboro Man's Favorite Sandwich and artichokes
Saturday- I always leave one day open to allow for leftovers or things getting switched around. :)
Sunday- Mother's Day, I'm not cooking. :)

(National) Scrapbook Friday!

Today (or is it actually tomorrow?) is National Scrapbook Day, and the start of a big week-long sale and celebration at ScrapMatters. There's lots going on over there and all sorts of good deals (and grab bags!) all week long.
Britt has a grab bag out today, and it's stuffed with a bunch of fun stuff, you won't want to miss it! Here's a little peek at what's in it with my LO for the week (and a few other BD products)...

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I remember last NSD, I don't think I'd been digi scrapping for very long, maybe a few months? I had so much fun doing all the speed scraps and challenges (and stocking up on fun stuff during the sale!). It's hard to believe it's only been a little over a year, it feels like I've been doing this much longer.

Well, I'm off to play Legos with R for a bit before we head out to get M. Happy Friday everyone!