Still no news

I haven't heard anything all day, I'm guessing that's not good. I bet the kids would notice if I added more links to their chain, hu?
I get that these things go like this a lot, but I just hate this part. I feel so bad for the kids, they've been so unsettled for years, I made that chain so they would have an idea of what was going on and be able to see how much longer there was and grasp the time a little bit. Now it just makes me sad that what they've been counting every day for two weeks might not be right. I was thinking of doing a fun countdown chain for Christmas with different activities for all of December, if I do I'm going to have to promise them that Christmas won't change dates last minute. lol
So... no update really, and in the real estate world I've learned that no news is usually not good news...

I did get a page scrapped today though. This is one of M that I don't think I've posted yet. She has really been suborn about learning to read. My mother-in-law (who's a principal at an elementary school) got her playing on starfall.com over the summer and she was really getting the hang of it quickly, but she just never wanted to work on it with me (or anyone for that matter). Of course, she's been learning in school now, so the other night she sat down with this Dr. Seuss book called I Am Not Going To Read Any Books Today, and she started reading it on her own. She couldn't read every word, but she stuck with it and sounded out a lot of the words she didn't know. I was so proud of her (and I had to laugh at the book she chose, it's totally her!). Anyway I snapped some pictures of her so I could scrap the event, and here is my page. :)

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I love that picture of her. She was getting annoyed at me for taking a bunch of pictures while she was trying to read and this is was the look I got. lol

No news is not good news

I've had this feeling all along that the house closing wasn't going to be as smooth as the first time we bought through them. I kept telling myself that it was just because everything we dealt with in Redding, loosing the first house, and then there being hang ups when we sold our house there over the summer. But last Friday the relater said she wanted us to sign by Tuesday at the latest, and so today when I still hadn't heard from anyone about signing I had a bad feeling. Apparently there was a hang up with something (like always, right?), so they're not sure if we'll be able to close Friday now. We'll know more tomorrow, but as of tonight it's not looking good.
We're just crossing our fingers and praying that the loan docs are on their way right now and everything will go through on time. If not Matthew's going to have to take time off next week to move because we're going out of town that next weekend, and then it's Thanksgiving and I'm sure we need to be out of this house before then.
I'll post an update when I know more tomorrow, hopefully it will be good news!

On a side note, is anyone else watching the Biggest Looser? My goodness, I cannot believe how the blue team is acting! I was SO happy that Ami voted Brady off tonight, hopefully Vicky will be the next to go, I can't stand watching her on there!

A new cousin!

My Sister-in-law, Lyndsey, just announced last week that she's pregnant! I am so excited for them and can't wait to have a new baby around. The kids are just as excited to have a new cousin, and R is already asking when Aunt Lyndsey will have the baby (not until July)... it may be a long 9 months. lol
In the last few weeks I've heard that 4 people are pregnant now, it seems to be going around!

Whew!

Today was the fundraiser mini shoot day, only 4 people signed up, which turned out to be a good thing, because it started raining as soon as I was done with the morning group and it really didn't stop all day. I did 3 shoots this morning, and I'll have to reschedule the other one. I've already proofed all 3 shoots (they're just getting 5-10 proofs each, so not a full sessions worth), and they turned out really cute!
I also did a LO tonight, just for fun. :) I've had this color scheme in my head all day and I just had to do something with it, so there you have it.

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Lots of baseball pages lately, hu? These are from last Easter. We always play a game of baseball after the egg hunt, it's so much fun!

One More Week!!

Until we close on our house!!

R and I went over there this morning with our relater to look at the inside and talk to the guy who's in charge of the landscaping. There was so much going on while we were there. There were guys in the front and back digging the ditches for sprinklers, the carpet was being put in, and it looked like they were getting ready to paint the trim on the outside. I was really excited to peak inside and see everything installed because I was a little nervous about how everything I picked would look. It looks great though, and now I'm even more excited to move in! Everything is really warm colored, and the white trim is awesome! We're going to have lots of grass with black rocks in the boarder in front (thanks to our wonderful relater who offered to upgrade those for us) and regular rocks in the boarder in back.

Anyway, there's the house update. Guess we better stat packing (again). :)

Scrapbook Friday

First up, guess what? My HSM3 LO got Layout of the Day at The Digichick! You can check it out here. Just thought that was kind of cool. :)

Next, Britt has a new kit and some other fun goodies out today. You can see all of them on her blog, but here's what I scrapped with the kit...

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The kit is called Let's Kick It, and it has tons of fun stuff in it! I especially love the mud splatters, I'm sure I'll be using those a lot! Yep, I took a soccer kit and scrapped baseball pictures with it, leave it to me. lol

HSM3

I took M to see High School Musical 3 yesterday after school. I have to say, I really liked it (a lot! lol). Poor M, she was so sad after the movie because they all go off to collage and aren't all together anymore. She couldn't believe that would happen. I kept telling her that not everyone goes away after they graduate, and she still has 13 years before she needs think about it.
Anyway, I got online this morning and saw that Britt's new Everyday Magic Challenge was to scrap the last movie you saw, and although I don't usually do challenges that won't fit in my family book, I couldn't pass up the chance to scrap about HSM3 and use her colab kit with GG Digital Designs, High School Never Ends. It's an older kit, but I've haven't played with it very much, and to scrap a page where the kit was made for it is so much fun! So, here's what I came up with... I haven't decided if I will put it in our book or not, but I do really like how it turned out!

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