Layouts and Pictures

Just wanted to post some fun stuff before I go to bed. I just finished the blue half of this LO for a speed crop tonight. I had to leave half way though the crop, but I came back and finished late just for the fun of it. I love how these pages go together!

I did this one during nap time today for a template challenge over at Scrapmatters. I have tried to scrap these pictures so many times and I kept getting stuck. I'm glad to say that I'm finally happy with the way it came out. This will be the first page in our Disney book, so I wanted it to set the right mood. lol

And here's a couple of pictures of R at the water park today. I took a ton of pictures, but the sun was really harsh and there was no shad over the water part, so they didn't turn out very well. He was so silly, he kept putting his face right in the spray and then screaming when the water would hit him. He loved it though! I'm going to try to go back a couple more times this week. I want to go as often as we can before the schools get out, I know it will get crazy there after that!

New Plan

Here's our latest plan...

We'll keep the house on the market until June, if we don't get a full asking price by then we're going to try to rent it. Hopefully we'll be able to get enough for it that we can rent something over there.
That scares me for so many reasons, but I'm trying my best just to have faith and not think about it too much. lol


It's supposed to get hot this week... up past 100 by Thursday. I'm going to take R to the "water park" (kid's water playground) in just a bit, he's so excited! I think we'll go again on Friday morning so M can go too. I'm trying to squeeze in all the fun warm weather activities I can now that I know we won't be here much longer. I know we'll miss the warm weather when we're back in the fog!

Exercise is Great!

I walked every day this week (except for today, we played tennis instead). Yesterday I wasn't going to walk because M doesn't have school on Fridays, but my back was hurting and I felt like I really needed to get some exercise, so I loaded up M's bike into the car (great exercise in itself!) and we headed to a different trail that does allow bikes. That girl is fast now! She kept telling me to run so she could go faster. lol I think we'll make that our Friday tradition.
I'm feeling great though! I really need to make exercise a priority even when our schedules change.

We'll... that's about it for now. Happy Mother's Day to all my mommy friends out there! Hope you all have a great day tomorrow!

Stimulating the Economy

We got our government money today, so being the good American that I am I decided I better stimulate the (scrapbooking) economy a little today. I was really needing some good boy kits as it seems like all I have are flowers and ribbons, so I went searching. Here's what I ended up getting... Construction Zone

Beep Chugga Zoom

Sports Mania: Baseball

And I did end up getting one kind of girly one, but I have really been wanting a good sun element, so that was my excuse. lol Rooty Tooty

I also got the Hey Girlfriend kit for free with my purchase. :)

I put the Beep Chugga Zoom kit right to work and made this layout that I think is one of my new favorites.

I finished 07, although there are a few pages that I want to redo, I'm still saying I'm done and moving onto Disney pictures. :)

As far as the rest of our government money is concerned, I think most will go do dentist bills, concert tickets we already bought (the Trace concert from earlier in the week and Alan Jackson in July), and hopefully we'll have enough left for a couple of Giants games. We're going to try to take the kids right after 4th of July and then Matthew and I will go again in August or September for our 8th anniversary. It's our tradition to go to a game every year for our anniversary... on the first year we did it (in '02) we were at the game that Bonds hit #600, and last year Matthew caught a foul ball. Good times...

My Ears Are Ringing

We just got home from the Trace Adkins concert and boy, was it LOUD! It was fun though, there's nothing better than hearing good music live.

I don't have much else to post about tonight, so here's a bunch of random pictures I have been meaning to pull off my camera for a while now...

The baby geese that we've been seeing on our walk for a few weeks. How cute are they?!?

I think this might be one of my new favorites. First popsicles of the season! (they did that on their own, how sweet is that?!?)

R enjoying his new birthday presents!! He says he's all ready to go hiking now. lol


R came in after his nap today and said "I have lots of stuff." This is pretty much all the stuff on his bed except for his pillow and quilt. lol Of course, I had to take a picture before I would pick him (and all his stuff) up.


And M's newest trick...

Apparently I'm Going To Start Running

I've been walking in the mornings after I drop M off at school for a few week and it's a pretty good workout. There are a few hills on the trail I go on, and today I decided to jog down the bottom of the biggest because it was easier than trying to walk with the stroller. When I got to the bottom I just keep going. I didn't last long, but I did that 3 more times for only about a minute each. I just kept thinking of how on Biggest Looser they really push them to do more than what they're comfortable doing. lol! So, I think I'm going to keep that up and see if I can get up to jogging the whole thing. I NEVER thought I'd be a runner, so we'll see how it goes... lol

No news on the house... there are now two houses right down the street from us that are the mirror image of ours for sale. I'm pretty sure one of them just got new carpet, but I don't know much else about them. One's on the corner and the other is right next door to it. Ours is up on the actual court part of the street, so I think that's a plus. The one on the corner is priced just a few thousand above ours (now that we've dropped the price). I'm not sure what the one next to that is, I couldn't find it on MLS last time I looked, but it might be there now. I'm guessing right around the same price.

R has been saying the cutest things lately. The other day he came up to me and said "Mommy, you know what Light-Queen (Lightning McQueen from Cars) says to Mater? Livin' the dream Mater boy!". It was so cute the way he said it, I had to video tape it. He's also been talking about a dog he saw on a movie that had "pokey pones" on it's face (it had a run in with a proky pine). I just love when they say cute things like that!

Here are two more layouts I've done this week... off to scrap another while the kidlets nap!

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Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

I got a ton done today even though we had to be out of the house for a showing and had a family bday party. I did all of these for challenges over at ScrapMatters and it was so much fun! ...I managed to do a bit of shopping too and now I have a bunch of fun new stuff to play with! :)

This one was for a magic moment challenge and I thought it was the perfect excuse to dive into my Disneyland pictures before I get done with 2007 (there's only a few pages left in 07 now anyway). I'm loving how it turned out!

Then I did a speed scrap challenge tonight where we got new instructions every 10 minutes for an hour and then had one more hour to finish it up. Very fun and it made me move faster than normal!

After that I did this one very quickly for a black and white with a splash challenge. I really like the way it turned out too! I just love this snapshot of Matthew with the kids.

There's more going on over at SM all month, so I'm planning to start whipping out these pages! lol