On November 14th...

We will close escrow on our NEW house!!

We have been so blessed as to be able to buy ANOTHER house by the same builder as the new one we sold when we moved away. He is building ONLY ONE that is slightly above our "comfort zone" for price, but we felt like it's the best deal around, so we jumped on it. It will be smaller than our last house (only 1256 square feet), but it has a nice floor plan, and it will be NEW!! We are getting it just in time to pick our stuff again, so next week I will go with the relater to pick floors, carpet, counters, and paint color. I'm so excited about that!!
He's changed some of the things in his houses since last time... he now uses white trim and doors (instead of wood), brushed nickle fixtures (instead of the gold color), and he does laminate in the kitchen and entry (even though the floor plan says vinyl). He's also doing hickory cabinets and a built in microwave. Oh, and he landscapes them now (including sprinklers!!), so we won't have to worry about any of that.

When we looked at it yesterday we had the kids with us. They have looked at a few houses with us, and M must have been listening to all the things we were critical about as we walked through them. She walked into the new (not finished) house and promptly voiced her opinion on how the bathtub was dirty, the floors were weird, and WHY were there wires all over the walls!?! She doesn't remember building our other house at all.

I'm and so looking forward to getting settled, unpacking all our boxes and getting rid of junk, and not moving again for at least 5 years!! Ahhh... :)

Another fun kit

I was so excited to see this kit that Britt has out today! This was the first photo that came to mind to scrap when I saw her preview, and can you believe it's the only car picture of the kids that I haven't already scrapped?!? As much as I love my Disney Cars page I'm seriously considering going back and rescraping it using this kit, I'm going to need MORE car pictures!

And once again, Britt has a great deal on her kit this week...

She also has these super fun license plates out today, check them out!

Bad Blogger

It's been a few days! ...Lots of stuff to post that I've been too lazy to get web sized, so here's a nice little random post for you all. :)

My boys eating a little snack...

...and taking a little nap

I finally won* a Peter Pan costume for R, the kids had to try their costumes on together when it came, so here's a little Halloween preview (aren't they the cutest!?!):



*Matthew insists that it's not winning if you have to pay for it, I disagree. lol


Okay, now onto some layouts...

First are 2 using Andilynn's new Flor Brushes. How cool are those?

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And I finally was able to make it to a speed scrap at SM yesterday morning. Here's what I did...

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So, how's that for random? lol

New couch for Britt & Josh (and Lake L0)

As some of you know, I have hated our couch for years. When we bought it we really didn't know what we were doing or how to go about picking a good piece of furniture. It's okay looking, or it was before we had kids, but it's not super comfortable. The worst thing about is is that it gets stained if it gets wet. Between the kids and Matthew it's gotten wet with more that I care to think about...
Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny when Britt told us earlier this week that she was going to bundle all her new products for the week in an effort to raise money to replace her ugly couch. I have to say, she has me beat on ugliness. lol

You can get the bundle here.

Her new products for the week are so much fun! I scrapped our pictures from last weekend at the lake with them... I think that's the fastest I've ever scrapped pictures!

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I have a couple more LOs to post from the week, but I'm waiting until Andi releases her new product before I post them. Such a fun week, lots of new stuff!!
In the mean time, we (Andi's CT) are running a Scrappin’ Bee challenge over on Andi's blog. I made one of the QPs that's part of the participation prize. :)

Okay, I'm off to veg for a bit, this week has worn me out!!

Homework and a Lake picture

So, M is in Kindergarten and R is in his first year of preschool. They're 2 years apart. THEY BROUGHT HOME THE SAME HOMEWORK LAST WEEK!!! How funny is that? M's was in Spanish because she's doing the immersion program, but it was exactly the same worksheet. Color the red things, trace the word 'red', color the blue things, trace the word 'blue'... It was a little too easy for M, and a little too hard for R.

Here's one picture from the lake, I scrapped the rest today, but I can't post it until Friday because I used a bunch of Britt's fun new stuff, so I'll show you the rest of the pictures then. I just snapped this one because both kids are so scared of dogs right now, and I was shocked that they were petting Cara and Troy's new puppy. Not a great picture of the dog, but she's super cute! Almost makes me want one...

Just a short post today, I've scrapped away my alone time and now I'm off to pick R up from school.

Home... Shopping... LOs...

We went to Redding for the weekend. My SIL rented a patio boat for her birthday, and we brought our boat over too (did I mention that we bought my parent's ski boat from them?). It was fun. I have pictures, but, of course, I've been too lazy to pull them off the camrea and upload them. Soon... maybe tomorrow when the kids are in school I will get to it.

Yesterday I decided to just go grocery shopping with R so that I could go shopping today when he was in school. I actually got some stuff done with him home too. I finished proofing my photo shoot and got it up online, did a QP for a participation prize one of my CTs is working on, and last nigth I scraped a page just for me... I totally copied my August desktop. lol

Today my mom met me at Target and we shopped all moring. I treated myself to new bras, underwear, and pj shirts (all those things you need but never feel like spending money on), and my mom bought me some new socks and shoes. Yey! I also got a few things for the kids, but most of M's stuff will be going back because it's too small.

Here's something I think I forgot to post here... I saw this menu planner and thought it was such a great idea that I copied it! I had it printed as an 11x14 and then had it laminated so I can write on it with a dry erase marker. Once I find my sticky magnets I'm going to put them on the back so it can hang on the fridge, and then my notepad that I use for shopping lists will go on the right side where the space is. It turned out really cute, and I'm loving that I can plan one week and then kind of fill in the next week as I think of things, it should make menu planning right before a grocery trip a little easier. :)

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Britt's NEW Kit!!

Britt-ish Designs has an awesome new kit out this week! It's called Enchantment, and for this week only if you buy the kit you get this super cute bonus alpha in your download! How cool is that?!?

Here's what I scrapped with it...

I have always loved that picture of R, but I never had it printed because I couldn't find a crop that I liked, and I don't like all the clutter in the background. I'm very happy that I made a LO with it, so I will get it printed out someday. lol

I wish I could have done another page with this kit, there's so much more that I would love to do with it. I will have to play more next week!