Scrappingbob's World of Wonder

Scrapbook layouts

2011-01-08T21:38:00.002-07:00

Here are a few layouts that I have done the past few months.

These are some layout I did of my nephews. Up until a few years ago I only had nieces and then the last 3 babies on one side of the family have been boys and the last four on the other side have been boys also. BOYS ARE COOL. It gives me something new to scrapbook.

This was of our day trip to the cool ghost town in Idaho called Silver City. Not really what my kids expected. Emma was thinking a bit more along the lines of Scooby Doo and his ghosts. Heidi was just plain car sick from the windy dirt road drive there.

Our summer vacation was to the Oregon Coast and Portland area. Here are two layouts one for Emma and one for Heidi of our trip. We had a great vacation and really enjoyed spending time at the ocean.

Christmas Gifts

2011-01-08T21:32:00.002-07:00

Here are the Christmas gifts I made with my cricut for my daycare kids for their Christmas gifts. I didn't have a lot of money this year for gifts so these were great. I didn't need to buy anything for them I just used the scraps I had. They weren't a surprise because they have taken so much time to make and the kids have enjoyed picking out which character they wanted and then watching me make it.

2011 Bring it on!

2011-01-08T21:15:00.002-07:00

Well we made it one week into the new year before taking someone to the Dr. So much for not aquiring medical bills this year. I took Emma in Thursday night after I could not get her fever down. She has strep again. We may be looking at removing those nasty tonsils. She keeps getting strep over and over. She is on meds and today she feels much like her old self.

For Christmas Greg surprised me with a Barnes and Noble NookColor. I love it. Right now I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. It is a new series but it follows Percy Jackson and his pal in a new adventure dealing with the Greek Gods. So far it is great. I love the nook because I can adjust the print size so I can read in large print. It is easier on the eyes.

I don't think I mentioned on here that I am back in school. I am going to University of Phoenix through their on line program. I am going to get a degree in Business and Finance. So far I am loving the Home Loans, Mortgage Finances and Escrow stuff the best. I also like the tax stuff but it gets frustrating because they word everything so weird. I love school and it is like a little break from my stressful world to be alone and improve myself. I love the nook because I can down load my textbooks onto it and read them anywhere.

Anyway I figured out that this year's resolution is just to make it through and do it with a smile. I have such a large amount of stress in my life right now and no way to remove it so I am hoping to just deal with it. I still struggle with the whole "let go and let God" concept. I am working on it.

Why I haven't been posting on here

2010-09-22T23:12:00.004-06:00

For Christmas the year I was 12 I recieved a journal. It was a great one filled with poems and thoughts and topics to write about in it. I dilegently kept a journal from that day forward. I wrote in a journal my entire teenage years, in to my young adult life and even after I was married. As I had kids the entries became less often. Then blogging came along and I used my blog as a sort of journal.

So why haven't I been writing on here? Because it can all get used against you...that is why.

We are in a lawsuit over Heidi's accident. The attorneys for the church now have acess to everything I have posted and do post on here. They have my personal calendars for the past 3 year and all the enteries from my old blog at the time of the accident. Nothing at all is private from them, and it angers me. The same church I was raised in, the same church I was told to keep a journal in is the same church that has taken it all away from me and made it exhibits in a lawsuit.

I have also encouraged my children to keep journals and to write in them. It angers me and frustrated the hell out of me that the attorneys have taken my blog, and my writing about Heidi's accident. More maddening and heartbreaking is that they took her journal also. If a thirteen year old's journal can not be a safe place for her private thoughts, a place to write her frustrations and her dreams, then no where is.

Friday I sat in a room and watched the church attorneys grill my child about things she wrote in her journal three years ago. They picked it apart piece by piece and not just about the time of the accident, they went through entries clear up to this year. The poor gal has no privacy left at all. You can not begin to understand the anger I feel right now. I could do nothing there, I could say nothing there. I had to sit quietly by and listen to them question my child for hours. It is highly frustrating.

My favorite author Richard Paul Evans has a new book coming out this week. He posted this quote from the new book Promise Me on his face book.

"Hate, resentment and anger, are parasites that feed off the heart, until there is nothing left for love to live on" Richard Paul Evans.

He really nailed this on the head. I have so much anger and bitterness eating away inside of me. I can't wait to read the book when it comes out Tuesday. Maybe in the book he will tell me how to get rid of this cancer of anger, that is eating away at me. Then I can work on the next big issue in my life, which is figuring out what is true. How can all the things I was raised to believe be so jumbled and messed up? What if any of them are true?

This is why I haven't written on here in months.

Last Night's Dream

2010-07-23T08:15:00.007-06:00

In my dream:

I had just moved out of my crappy apartment and everything I owed was in a backpack on my back, and I had my son in a baby carrier on my front. I rode my bike this way and went to work, where I got fired because I was late and I couldn't bring my baby to work with me. I left the horrible job feeling overwhelmed and hopeless.

Then I was at a band competition. Back in high school, back on the bleachers, and back in maroon and gold with my high school friends. We were sitting on the bleachers listening to a famous preacher/motivational speaker. He told us to link arms with the person on our right and to link arms with the person on our left. "Lean on them, depend on them" he said," because some hard times are coming" "You will need each other, and you will need their strength to get you through."

One person, was not linked together, she was lying flat on her back on the football field. We thought she was hurt or something so we ran to her and the preacher asked her if she was okay.

"You tell us to link arms, to rely on each other," she said calmly, "but that is not what my grand dad would say." "He would say to look to God and ask God for his help to get us through tough times." She confronted the preacher, "you say you are a man of God and yet you don't acknowledge him or lean on him for understanding."

The preacher asked her, "and you know him? You know that he is real. How can you know this? How do you know that God exist and he will help you?"

She laid back down on the field and looked up stating, "I looked up at the Heavens and I asked him if he was real....and he answered me, " she said.

So then we all laid down on the football field and looked up at Heaven asking God if he was there. As we looked up we saw the most beautiful sunset. She said "look at that and tell me that God does not exist"

I woke up to my alarm at this point. But her words hung in the air around me. "God does exist and he is here to help us through the hard times"

I don't have a son, I haven't been fired or removed from my home. I have a wonderful family and good friends, but I think that as much as I rely on them, I need to acknowledge and rely on God more.

I have prayed long and hard about the choices I have made the past few years. Choices that have affected my children, my relationship with family members and friends around me. Choices that have caused others to dislike me and think badly about me. I stand by my choices and I won't back down from them. I believe in God and I believe that he is still here with me, I have not chosen against him or his teachings. I think the dream is a way of saying, yes God is still with me. Friends come and go, families have falling outs, but God, he is always there.

Emma Layouts

2010-03-25T13:51:00.004-06:00

Just thought I would share a few more layouts that I finished this week. The first one is Emma's 7th birthday. I found the photos in with some other stuff, so I made the layout saturday night with my friends. I added a pocket page to hold her birthday cards, and I got to play around with my cricut machine.

The other layout is of swimming lessons a year ago. I found the paper and I loved it so I thought it would work great for these photos. Swimming lessons were really hard for Emma, first off she is tall for her age, so the teachers always expected her to act older than she is. She also has ADHD and the hyperactivity issue is something that causes problems in swimming class. The first time we tried lessons she was asked to leave the class. So I gave up for a year and then my friend told me of this wonderful place where she took her boys. Cathy's Lil'Fish is an amazing place to learn to swim. It was so relaxed and the teachers are so easy going that Emma just fell in love with them. She learned how to swim and bob and float almost instantly. They were so patient with her, when she threw a fit she was asked to sit out until she could join them again. This worked for her. Emma is not one to sit on the side and watch for long so she learned really fast. We have gone there two summers in a row and we are going back this summer also. Emma's favorite game.. Sharky Sharky What Time Is It? Check out Cathy's School for Lil' Fish on her site, summer is just around the corner and this is a great place for lessons.

Layouts with amazing photos

2010-03-10T11:21:00.008-07:00

Last fall we had family photos taken by Heather Hillman. She is an amazing photographer and a great friend. She has a wonderful way of capturing my kids personalities and we were very lucky to get photos with her. I made a few layouts with those photos here are a few of them.

To bad the photos of the layouts are not the best. They don't do the pictures justice. They are so much better in real life.

My two favorite shots of Emma are the big one where she was hanging down from a tree branch and the little one above it where she was full on pouting. They totally capture the true Emma. Heather is great with working with children and getting them to pose naturally for the camera.

More Layouts

2010-03-10T11:10:00.005-07:00

I was able to get a way for the weekend and scrapbook with my friends. Here are a few of the

layouts I did.

This is of a concert in the park that Heidi went to with her friends. She was able to get photos with the band members. She loves to listen to Reel Big Fish.

This is another layout of my vacation with Greg. I wanted it to be clean and simple like the photos and I wanted it to refect the time we spent together. I used paint chips for the color accents along the edges and some embellishments that have been in my stash forever.

This was a fun day at the zoo with friends last summer. I used stickers on this layout that I bought about 5 years ago. I bought them because I thought they were cute, and I finally had a chance to use them. using items from my stash makes me feel like I am acomplishing something very worthwhile.

More scrapbook pages

2010-02-28T21:47:00.003-07:00

I figure it has been a month since the office scraproom was cleaned and organized, I better post a layout or two that I have done this month so you can see that it was well worth it.

The first layout is of our trip to California last Nov. This is the first layout I used my cricut on and cut out the title. I love seeing Greg so excited about something. It was like he was a little boy, he was thrilled to get to take a tour of the missile base.

The next layout was just finished a few weeks ago, but the photos are from last Easter. We are lucky to have any photos of Easter at all, with my surgery on my knee the week before. Thank you to who ever invented the DonJoy Iceman, what a life saver. Emma felt a little cheated out of a great Easter, but she got over it. Easter Bunny brought her a new bike. This was at the egg hunt over at our local Albertsons. Thankfully they still do it, even When "they paved paradise and put in a parking lot" Both my girls have loved it. Sadly Emma only has a few more years of Egg hunting and then she will be to old.

More layouts to come in the next few days and I get them uploaded from my camera.

My new office/scraproom

2010-01-19T15:49:00.004-07:00

Here is the finished office, I still want to add a few homey touches but I love it and wanted to post photos.

Here is the floor and walls before we put the stuff back. The walls are Butterscotch sauce color in Kilz brand paint. That makes for easy scrubbing later on. I love the color most when the morning sun is shining in on it. The floor is by Konecto and is called rosewood. This is the window seat that I don't use to sit on. I still want to do some curtains. I painted the window seat the same color (Chocolate Indulgence) as the living room wall, to try the rooms together. The drawers hold all the glues, Stickles, and stuff I don't want kids into and the office supplies. The Iris cart drawers hold stickers, rub-ons and embellishments.
This is the office side of the room. The roll top desk is my new scrapbook area. The key board drawer makes for a perfect place to put layouts that I am working on in. The blue hippo is named Winston Belvadear and he is there to make me smile.

This is the scrapbook side of the room and it is all organized and ready for some serious scrapping. The ink pad case was made by my dad a few years ago and holds all my Stampin' Up pads. Everything else is all organized and labeled for easy access. With the new floors I just roll across the room in my chair, get what I need and roll back.

I love it. I'll have to post the dinning area later this week. That is where we moved all the games and preschool stuff to and it is working out great.

COED Updates

2009-10-08T08:45:00.005-06:00

I have been doing these daily, I just haven't been getting them all uploaded every day.

Day 4- put some completed layouts in the albums they belong in. Did it!!! I got 10 layouts put away. Interview yourself. I didn't get this one done yet hopefully later on in the month I will get it done.
Day 5- Clean off a flat surface, dust it and put back what is important to you.

I got my scrap table cleaned off and washed down and set up nicely so I can work on it. Yeah! Do a layout showing fall colors all around you. I have the photos, I just have to finish up the layout for this one.
Day 6- Finish the journaling on a layout begging to be done. Here is the layout I finished of Emma at the science fair.

I also finished up out family trip photos of Yellowstone. Here are the finished layouts of them.

I feel like I am achomplishing something this month. It is nice to have something done and not just a stack of photos sitting on a messy desk.

COED days two and three

2009-10-04T09:19:00.003-06:00

So the challenges for days two and three were:

Day two, Do a list of things to be thankful for or clean out a drawer.

I choose to do both again. I made my list of things I am thankful for and here it is.

1. My Family
2. My Husband, who is also part of my family, but I am thankful not only for him being my husband, but also my friend.
3. My friends...I have awesome friends who I can really depend on.
4. A Nice home, I love my home and although sometimes it seems small and crowed it is safe and warm and comfortable.
5. So thankful for my van. It is safe and reliable and I love it.
6. Thankful that I am healthy and happy.
7. I am thankful for my computer and they technology we have to stay connected
8. Books- I am thankful for the ability to see, read and comprehend the written word.
9. Freedom and the people who have sacrificed to give us those freedoms.
10. Food- I am thankful that I don't have to go hungry, or send my kids to bed hungry.

Part two was clean out a drawer, I think really it is supposed to be one in you scrapbook area, but I cleaned the junk drawers in my kitchen. They were bad.

Day Three's challenges were:
Do a Layout of a first. (first car, love, home) I didn't have anything that really fell into this category so I just did a layout, I'll post it later when I have time.
part two was to update your Christmas Card list, so I did that. I have a detailed list with who I am going to send cards to and their addresses.

Can't wait for the next challenge which will be later on today.

CO-ED Challenges

2009-10-01T11:22:00.004-06:00

This month I am doing a Coed challenge for scrapbooking. Stands for Complete One Every Day. I will be listing the challenge here and how I completed it.

Day one:

Complete the missing journaling on a layout.

Anything on the floor that shouldn't be there? Put it away, or throw it away so you aren't walking over it or tripping on it.

The first part of the challenge was pretty easy, I have a ton of layouts that are almost done, missing journaling. I finished this four page one this morning.

These are the photos of Heidi's Trek, in 2007. So you can see I am a bit behind on the scrapbooking.

Part two of the challenge- I had two puzzles that have been on the floor all month, and they are now picked up put in their bags and put in the proper place. One less thing to walk around. I have also been working on image swap items today. Two down one more set to go.

First Day of School-- Summer is over.

2009-08-31T10:27:00.004-06:00

So school is back in session and for today I am enjoying the peace and quiet of my home. What did I do over summer vacation. We only took one small trip out of town and that was to Utah to play at lagoon. We rode the big roller coaster. It was fun, I mean I liked it, My girls hated it. Scared the pants off them. So after that we stuck with Rattle Snake Rapids.

I also painted the kitchen this summer, it was a challenge reaching above cabinets and along the ceiling. The edger is my new best friend. I love the colors and how it turned out in the end. We replaced the old caca blinds with new 2 inch fake Wood ones. It also helped to cut down the amount of sun and heat in the dining area.

One day this summer, while Heidi, Greg and I had an appointment with a Doctor, Emma and Grandpa went to lunch at McDonald's and the Oscar Mayer Wienie Mobil was at Fred Meyers so the stopped and got their picture taken and got a wienie whistle. Emma had fun.

Most of the rest of the summer was spent driving kids to swimming lessons and camps and stuff like that. I started back to daycare in August, baby Noah returned as a little boy with a baby sister. We love having them come play. Below is the photo of a wall chart I made for my kitchen. It has an erase able calendar and a white board and the whole thing is magnetic. I love how it turned out.

Off to enjoy my quiet house.

How the Summer Flies By

2009-07-10T18:15:00.006-06:00

I can't believe summer is already half over with. We had a very busy month in June. I spent a wonderful weekend in Hagerman with my friends. It was great and I could show the photos but what happens in Hagerman stays in Hagerman.

School got out and Emma graduated from Kindergarten. Heidi finished her first year of high school, had her 15th birthday and started Driver's Ed.
Graduation photo with her teacher Mrs. Ledbetter.

Stay off the roads.!!!!!! We also had Band camp, cheer camp, basketball camp and swimming lessons in June. I changed the name to vancation because we spent so much time in the van. I did get time for reading in all of this and I finished the Twilight series. Not my favorite but okay.

So now we are into July and celebrated the 4th here at home and have been enjoying sleeping in and staying home. We go to grandma and grandpa Beers about three times a week and go swimming at their house. It is fun and refreshing.

Yesterday we went to the zoo and played with friends. Next week I plan on doing a few other things with the girls. Bowling, movies, maybe a night at a campground or something.

I am getting a few more cards done and some scrapbooking.

Cards cards and more cards

2009-05-24T23:20:00.007-06:00

I have been working on a lot of cards lately, so here are a few of them I have made.

This one is a card I made for the RMHS band. Actually I made 40 of them. They are sending them to all the wonderful people who donated to the auction we had last week.

I am in a card swap for Get Well Soon cards. This is for group 2 that I am in. The bear is a digi stamp. Well not really it is a digital coloring book page that I printed colored and cut out. Isn't he so cute. The card is sitting on a piece of blue paper, it is that big and crooked.

This a another coloring book picture that I changed into a card. I made this for my neighbor who hasn't been feeling well. I made it a bit more masculine for a male get well card.

Another card I made out of scraps I had left over. I just love this poor dragon with is neck injury. You just can't help but feel for him. I think I'll name is OSCAR.

I tried to turn this one the right way many times and I can't get it to work right. But you can get the idea. This is for another group in the Get Well Soon swap. I hand colored all the images. It is a Stamping Up image that I have had for a long time. She is so cute.

Emma's Science Project

2009-05-24T23:09:00.005-06:00

So I have to back track a few weeks, we have been so busy. Here are a few photos of Emma's science project. She did her project on Capillary Action of Water in Plants. Basically she took white carnations and put them in colored water and watched them change over a number of days. There were only two Kindergartners in the science fair so she really did great. Of course they don't award prizes or anything now days because every child is a winner. (Don't get me started on that subject)

She had fun and she learned a little so that is what matters.

Here is her poster and her research. She did most everything on her own. I helped her with it a little bit.

Here are the end flowers. Most of the colors worked. Green and blue worked the best and purple didn't work very well at all. The yellow flower was in orange dye and it took longer than the other colors.

movie reviews

2009-04-12T22:23:00.006-06:00

Since I really can't do much of anything but sit in bed and watch tv, I figured I better do a review on what I watch.

Australia- I have always wanted to go to Australia and the scenery in this movie is what made me want to watch it. It takes place in the early 1940's and is about cattle driving and WWII. It has a great story, good actors and wonderful shots of Australia. It is however very long...so glad I didn't see it in the theater. It was really good and I would recommend it.

Marley and Me- The girls got this movie for Easter and it is another one I am really glad we didn't see in a theater, because it makes me cry. It is funny and sad and great. I am not a dog person and I liked it. We hoped it was a good family movie, but Emma just didn't stay interested in it, so it is for a bit older. There were a few things not suitable for her age anyway so it wasn't too bad that she left and went to go play.

Other movies I watched this weekend were good Harrison Ford Classics:
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Fugitive

I also watched the Sarah Plain and Tall movies 1,2, AND 3.

And the newest in the Love Comes Softly Series.. Love Finds a Home. Although these movies are great and I enjoyed them they are nothing like the books. I have the whole series of books and have read them many times over the years. The movies don't even come close to how good the books are.

I am also working my way through the Gilmore Girls Series and am on season 4.

Well that is this weekends movies.

Surgery

2009-04-11T23:00:00.003-06:00

So last Wednesday the nurse finally called back to inform me I was a go for surgery. We have already postponed it once and it messed up a number of schedules. So when she asked when can you come in for knee surgery I replied, "I'm not busy this afternoon." She laughed and then scheduled it for Friday.

So Friday I went to the hospital got poked with an IV and counted backwards from ten. I woke up a few hours later and my knee was in it's amazing $600 bionicle brace. They gave me a choice because it was after 5. I could stay and be poked and bugged in the hospital all night, or I could go home and sleep in my own bed. I chose HOME.

Saturday wasn't too bad, I have used crutches before so I was able to get to the potty and back to the bed and I was on medicine. I also had a pain block in my leg that hadn't worn off.

GUESS WHAT...?

It wore off about 3 am Sunday morning and I was in horrible pain. I spent the rest of the night crying and watching the clock so I could take more meds which weren't doing anything but making my stomache upset. MY husband bless his heart was right there next to me telling me to just sleep it off, and he wouldn't let me call the Dr. in the middle of the night.

Sunday at 4 we finally contacted a Dr. and got another med to help keep down the pain meds. There is nothing like vomiting when you can't bend over a toilet. At this point I was getting rather discouraged and bummed, because my husband had to leave town in the morning and I felt like Caca.

Well my Friends showed up Monday to stay with me while DH left full speed to get away from the whiny wife. It was kind of like a friend chat party, only I don't remember anything we talked about. At 12, my friend took me to physical thereapy, where I continued to feel miserable and yucky and they unwrapped my bandage and started moving it. NOT FUN

I went home and went to bed and when I woke up my big sister was here to take care of me. I spent most of the rest of the week laying around in pain and with an upset (hurry hobble to the potty) stomache.

Thursday my friend Alex saved my life. She brought over a really cool machine:
http://www.dme-direct.com/donjoy-iceman-ice-man-cold-therapy-cryotherapy-1100-don-joy/
I totally recommend this machine to anyone in pain. As soon as she wrapped it around my knee and turned it on, it felt better. By the next day I was off the strong drugs and only taking a regular Tylonal. it is amazing. Now my tummy can start to recover from it's drug induced topsy turvery.

Friday my sister had to leave, I was so sad, she was such a major help and I didn't know what I was going to do without her. Then, my friends again, like angels from heaven, returned to assist me. This time it was more like a mommy lunch get together instead of come care for the sicko. They brought lunch and dinner and helped me out until the hubby could return.

Here it is a week since the surgery and I am getting around a little better, my stomache is feeling a little better, and I'm not in much pain at all. I am spending my time watching movies and coloring digital stamps. I can almost bend my knee 30 degrees, which isn't much. I am supposed to bend it 60. It is still going to be a long few weeks of recovery.

More cleaning and organizing

2009-04-01T14:35:00.003-06:00

Here is Emma's toy shelf. We made it more kid friendly with labels. Now she can put everything away where it belongs.

There are nine baskets and they all have a photo and the words, so she can learn to read also.

Here is a close up of them. So Emma can see the dollhouse pieces belong in this basket.

Here is a photo of the linen closet also. I took Peter Walsh's advice and got rid of all the blankets and sheet we don't use. There is now two sets for each bed. I put the bedding in baskets also and labeled them so the girls can just pick out the basket and go make their beds.

I did keep a stack of quilts that my mom has made for the girls. I space bagged them and sucked them down really small with the vacuum. They are in my cedar chest. Now we only have two quilts in the linen closet.

Three more layouts

2009-04-01T14:28:00.003-06:00

I spent some time scrapping this weekend and here are a few more of the layouts I finished.

I wish we would of had better photos of Marching band, but I did the best I could with fuzzy photos.

This layout looks a bit funny, but that was the camera. The glitter around the letters is silver and so are all the metallic stickers. They all match the jack shaped one in the middle of the page, even though it doesn't look like it.

Last time I showed Heidi's halloween layout. Here is Emma's halloween one. Not very orange and black halloween colors. But very PINKalicious.

Scrapbook organizing tip

2009-03-22T21:37:00.003-06:00

I found these cases at Shopko and right now they are 40% off so I bought two. This is what they look like on the outside. They are by Iris.
This is what they look like on the inside. They have 6 cases that are all 4x6x1 and they all snap shut. They worked great for storing photos, but they also work great for other scrapbook items. Here I have my cat eye inks in them. If I need just the inks I take just the one case with me to a crop. Or I can take the whole thing.

Here is one that I put flowers into. I put big flowers in one, small warm colored flowers in another and small cooler color flowers in a third. That way i can just take the case I need. No more glass bottles getting broken in my bag.

They also work great for emmbellishments. Here I have a case with epoxy stickers and bling stuff in it. I can arrange them by themes also like christmas and baby.

Needless to say I filled the first two I bought and had to go back to shopko the next day for two more.

Flower decorating

2009-03-22T21:23:00.002-06:00

When Heidi was in the hospital this last time the young women brought her flowers. They were beautiful. Well they finally died last week and Heidi decided to replace them with silk flowers. So we went to the store and bought flowers. Some of them were from the $$ store and some from the craft store. All total we spent less than $50. The wreath is the one I made. It brightened up our front door and added a touch of spring.

This is a close up of Heidi's arrangement. They found really cute butterflies and added them in also.

Heidi's arrangement.

Emma's arrangement

My sister does flower arranging and enjoys it, so I think after this, I will leave it up to her. I don't enjoy this at all. I burned my fingers more than once with the glue gun and although it looks good in the end, it isn't great and that bugs me. And believe it or not I swear I am allergic to fake flowers also. By the time we were done I had hives all over my hands and up my arms. MY kid thinks I'm nuts to be allergic to something that is fake. She says it is all in my head.

And one more layout

2009-03-22T21:21:00.003-06:00

Emma's fifth birthday

More layouts from this weekend

2009-03-22T21:13:00.004-06:00

Scrapbooking

2009-03-22T21:07:00.003-06:00

So since my knee surgery was cancelled on Thursday, I didn't have any plans for the weekend. (I thought I would be in the hospital) Anyway I scrapped and scrapped and finished up all the layouts sitting around the room waiting for journaling and titles and stuff. Here are a few of them. By the way the surgery will probably be rescheduled for later in April. BUMMER!

The Finished Closet

2009-03-17T10:36:00.006-06:00

I actually got this done quite a while ago, but I haven't gotten the photos posted. The master bedroom closet didn't get a complete makeover, but it did get reorganized and cleaned out. It's happier so I'm happier and now we can find stuff. I even found a few Christmas gifts that never were given out and a baby outfit I bought for my nephew that was size 0-3 months and he is now almost two. It won't be fitting him or my other nephew, so I am going to give it to my neighbor, who just had a little boy. Any way here are the photos of the master bedroom closet.

I took advice from Peter Walsh and bought wooden hangers. I also hung all the clothes up with the hangers backwards. Peters tip: if after 6 months the hangers are still backwards then you haven't worn it and you can get rid of it.

I also put like things together and like colors together. I never would have guessed I had so much blue clothing.

My hangers are white and my husbands are light wood. As you can see by the photos I need to purchase a few more wooden hangers, so some of the clothes are still on white plastic hangers.

There really isn't any other place in the house for the cedar chest or the old rocking chair and cradle or the rocking horse, so they are staying in the back corner of the closet. I like that I can find stuff now.

scrapbook layouts

2009-03-15T20:03:00.001-06:00

Here are a few layouts I was able to finish this week.

Birthday card swap

2009-03-10T16:29:00.005-06:00

Here is the cards I am doing for the birthday card swap I am in. I haven't exactly embraced the idea of digital stamps, because to me a digital stamp is a clip art picture. I found these little guys in on a site I use for daycare for coloring pages. My kids love them. I used stickles for the glittery parts. The alien is now named Mork. And the dragon, who is a girl dragon is named Mindy. Why?, because I thought the names fit. After you color about ten of them all the same, they take on life and personality.

The laundry room's Friend

2009-03-03T09:00:00.004-07:00

Rooms share walls and the laundry room shares a wall with his friend the master bedroom closet. Now the closet could hear the laundry room laugh and smile and could tell the laundry room was happy.

"Why are you so happy?" the closet asked.

"Because I'm clean," was the laundry room's reply." I love my jobs and I do them happily, every thing is clean and organized. There is a space for everything and everything is in it's space. The dust is gone and I can breath deeply of clean refreshing air." The laundry room did a little giggle and the closet was sad.

"How I wish I could be like you." the closet said sadly. "I am so cluttered and dusty and it is so dark in here. I can't begin to stretch, because the space is so crowded and cramped." Every day the owners add more junk in here for me to hold. Most of it doesn't even belong in a bedroom closet. It makes me tired just thinking about it."

"Maybe the owners will clean you up also and you can be happy like me." said the laundry room.

"I hope, I hope, I hope," dreamed the closet.

The Story of a Laundry Room

2009-02-07T11:52:00.011-07:00

This is the story of a laundry room.

Once upon a time there was a sad little laundry room that was very dirty...

And very cluttered and not organized at all and very crowded. The laundry room was sad.

It had dreams of being a big beautiful laundry room, just like the one in the magazines.
Well one day the owners made the laundry room's dream come true. It took a lot of hard work and the washer and dryer were removed from the room along with every thing else.

The laundry room had been afraid of fire, because of all the flamable lint. After a professional came and unclogged the dryer vent, and all the old lint and dirt was removed the laundry room took a big deep breath. It was so much easier to inhale deeply and the clean air was so refreshing. This made the room happier and safer.

The laundry room was then painted, but not the color it wanted. The room was scared and felt angry with the new color. Oh how he wished he had some sun glasses, because the color was sooo bright...

The owner didn't like the color either and felt sorry for the laundry room, and so new paint was purchased and as the laundry room changed colors again it took on a peaceful happy feeling and it began to smile.

Well the laundry room was looking better and feeling better and the owner added shelves. Nice, white, sturdy shelves to hold and organize things. They added baskets and labels and before long the little laundry room's dream came true and it looked just like the rooms in the magazines. The laundry room was HAPPY and it SMILED and was EXCITED to do it's job.

Tip: Leave an open Scentsy on your dryer and it will make the room smell wonderful, but not to over powering.

The wire shelf gave the laundry room a place to keep everyday cleaners and soaps, so they owner had more room in the kitchen pantry for food. The broom rack kept everything off the floor and in it's place.
The baskets were labeled for things like the lost and found and cleaners. This made the laundry room feel important to have labels.
The End.

help i'm broken

2009-01-16T14:03:00.002-07:00

I happened to walk to closely by the sofa...I caught my knee on the corner and it pulled my kneecap out of place. dr. term is dislocated patella. the paramedics came and put it back in place. that is when i realized my arm also hurt from the fall... so off to the ER i went. the knee should be fine in a few days and with some physical therapy, the arm is a fractured radius. it will take a few weeks to heal. until then i can't do much, including typing. it has taken me 20 minutes to type this one handed. until later...

I got a little behind

2009-01-09T23:17:00.005-07:00

I still have been scrapping and cleaning, but I haven't been blogging. This is harder than I thought to post everyday. I have also been doing pretty good on the whole eating better and exercise thing.

Well here are the last few days scrapbooking pages. It is coming along nicely. I can't wait to be all caught up on layouts, that were half done. I don't have photos of the kids room which is what we have been cleaning and organizing. Have a great weekend, I hope to scrapbook most of the weekend, so check back on Monday for new layouts.

Dang I missed Sunday

2009-01-05T20:49:00.006-07:00

I missed Sunday because I was so tired I fell asleep to fast. I didn't scrapbook a layout on Sunday, but I did 3 on Saturday so I'm still good. I cleaned up my treadmill and got it dusted off and ready to use. The shelf above the treadmill was full of car stuff and boring to look at. So I made it pretty.

Doesn't it look nice?

And here is my layout for the day.

I also got Emma's desk into her room. We didn't have to buy one, because Heidi was ready to get rid of the one in her room. Here is how it turned out.

She really like having a place to color, play school and do homework. The carousel is from pampered chef, I found it at a 2nd hand store for $1 and used it to hold all the markers and crayons.

Today's Layouts

2009-01-03T20:57:00.004-07:00

Yes that is plural I got more than one done today, but i didn't do any cleaning. the journaling is little notes for each of my family members in the envelope.

The march layout is pretty simple and fun to put together. Only making the lion and the lamb were hard.

Here is the April layout. I had fun doing calendar pages today, and hopefully I will get more done tomorrow.

today's projects

2009-01-02T22:47:00.006-07:00

so today I decided to work on the hall colset. This is a closet you don't open unless you want something to fall on your head.

I decided the vaccuum needed a new home in the laundry room or master closet. The storage shoe thing, is so old it doesn't hold it's shape so everything falls out of it.

I took everything out of there, and then I pulled a different shelving unit out of my daughters room. She wasn't using it anyway.

Now I have a basket for all the vaccuum attachments that were everywhere. I also have a basket for all the extra daycare clothes and diapers. Then I have my diapers and wipes and changing pad shelf. The extra folding chairs fit in here and so did the family kites, and the baby toys. And nothing falls on your head.

Okay on to the layout of the day for today. It is my calendar kit from last year. Yes it has taken me a year to get the photos and journaling on the page.

New Years Resolution

2009-01-01T22:09:00.008-07:00

I have decided to do things a bit different this year. My "to do list" is going to be different. I have told myself that each day I will make a list. "If I accomplish only one thing each day it will be ..." Today's thing, was to clean the pantry. Here is what my pantry looks like. I forgot the before shot.

I also decided to do a layout a day for the month of January. These are not all new layouts, just ones that were not finished. They need to be journaled or a title or something. Here is today's layout.

This is my cute little nephew. I love these photos of him. Unfortunately my camera flashed on the middle photo. I have also decided to try and use up my stash so I didn't buy anything for this layout. This paper is about 5 years old, but it worked so great for these photos.

Check back daily to see more layouts and more organizing.

Hell Froze over!!! "well not quite"

2008-12-29T23:01:00.004-07:00

I spent this morning taking down the tree and the Christmas decorations. I usually leave them up until New Years Day, but this year I have had my living room torn apart for months with the painting. I just wanted it done and clean. It looks awesome now. All the Christmas is packed away and back in the shed.

Then this afternoon, Greg came in and said his car was running (it hasn't moved in almost 4 years) and he was moving it out of the garage so I can park the van inside.

HELL HAS FROZEN OVER....... I knew that the day I could park in the garage would be when hell froze over.

Well my van is still in the driveway... so hell is just cold not frozen. We spent the afternoon working on getting the garage cleaned out so we can park more than one car in it. I finally have the go ahead from Greg to toss stuff. Throw out the junk!!!! Yahoo.

So I started cleaning out boxes. I found one box that was old magazines, I don't need Car and Driver's from before I could Drive. Then I found another box of old Childcraft books from when I was little. Emma loved looking at them, but they are so old and moldy and they stink really bad, so they will be going bye bye.

Then I came acrossed a box packed by a "Beers person". Talk about incomprehensible pack rat-ish behavior. The box had an old High school Annual and a bunch of papers so I figured I better go through it. The annual along with another one in the box belong to my brother in law. Then I found an old pair of slippers and a pair of pants, and a cookbook holder. Remember !!! this is all in the same box. Then I found Greg's birth certificate, the original stamped one. I also found his permit from driving in other countries and his passport information from 20 years ago. Good thing I didn't just throw the box away. What else was in the box you ask?

a package of index cards,
googly eyes
a string of bells (that hang on a camels neck apparently)
boy scout stuff
an old slinky, that was very rusty
a broken dice
two packages of flower pot fertilizer sticks
birthday cards
old paperbacks
and old love letters.

My thinking can't understand how a box was packed like this. My stuff is packed, books with books, kitchen stuff with kitchen stuff, bathroom stuff with bathroom stuff. Heidi, on the other hand loved unpacking this box, because it was kind of like a treasure hunt. If it is treasure hunting she wants, grandma has a whole garage full of boxes like this one. LOL

We got about a fourth of the garage cleaned out, but not enough to get the van in there, so tonight the supra is back in the garage and so is the motorcycle, but not the van.

Someday . . .

Christmas

2008-12-27T12:11:00.013-07:00

Merry Christmas everyone.

We celebrated a nice relaxing Christmas this year at home. Emma woke up way to early, at 4:30 a.m. We sent her back to bed. About 7:30 we finally allowed her to get up and open presents.

Here she is with her big huge grin over her new harps a chord toy her dad gave her. She also got a Barbie.

Isn't she cute?

For Christmas my mom made me a new duvet cover for our bed. It turned out beautiful. Here is a better photo of it.
I just love it. Along with this I got a new wall clock and battery heated socks. I also got a few new snowmen for my collection and two more seasons of Friends on DVD.

Greg got all the Star Trek movies, and a book.

Heidi's foot hurt so she was a bit grumpy on Christmas, but she loved what she got. New makeup, jewelry, and a laptop and new cell phone. Here is a shot of her with the lappy.

Overall it was a really nice day with lots of relaxing. Yesterday we just sat around and watched Friends. 9 hours of Friends and counting.

Emma's Birthday

2008-12-20T23:10:00.010-07:00

I haven't had a chance before now to post about Emma's birthday. I guess I better do it. It is hard to believe my baby is six years old.

She really had three different birthday parties this year. One with family, one at school, and one with friends. Nothing like dragging your birthday out all week long. LOL Her family party was at home the night before her birthday, we wanted to celebrate while her dad was in town. She had cake and ice cream and grandma and grandpa came over. The next day she took cupcakes to school and shared her birthday with all her classmates. That night Heidi and I took her to see Bolt at the movie theater. VERY GOOD MOVIE by the way.

For her friend birthday party, which my kids only get every other year, she chose PoJo's Family Fun Center in Boise. She was able to invite 5 friends to join her. The night of her birthday party, the place was packed. I spent the whole time trying to keep track of kids, so they wouldn't get lost. It really helped to only give them two tokens at a time, then they had to come find me to play more games. Here are a few of the gifts she received at her party. Sadly, we forgot to take a group shot, with all the kids.

Happy Birthday Emma!

December Kit

2008-12-02T22:25:00.003-07:00

Here is the December kit. I like how it turned out, but I am ready for a little break from kits. Look for new kits next year.

Snow Snow Snow

2008-12-02T21:41:00.009-07:00

So I got up and went to the Christmas show at the Idaho Center on Sunday. I went by myself for a little me time and some shopping therapy. What did I buy, you ask???

Well I bought myself my ICE ticket, it will be from the girls to me, because they love me so much, and because by the time ICE arrives I'll need the break from them. If you are clueless about ICE , check it out.

On to what else I bought. Besides buying the Honey filled candies that I buy every year,thanks to my friend Tracy, for loaning me .25 so I didn't have to put $2 worth of candy on a credit card. I also bought snow in a box. I thought I would give it a try.

So I take it home and wait for "I'm bored" to be said. Then I got a big plastic bin with a lid and the snow. My girls were thrilled. You put a little bit of this powder in a cup and add a little water and count to three.

BOOM fast as you can say "BOB'S A SNOWMAN" you have snow falling out of the cup. It stays cold forever and it is mold able and not to messy. It will last months according to the box.

So how does it work?
What is it made of?

I don't know and I don't care. It kept both girls engaged and involved without fighting or arguing, so I could paint my living room.

After fully entertaining themselves with Snow stuff for hours, my DH came home and was watching them play. It was at this point he informed the girls that the "snow" they were playing in is the same stuff they use in disposable diapers to absorb wetness.

The 5 year old, could care less and continued to play, the 14 year old will no longer touch it at all. She is done and wants nothing more to do with fake snow.

Heidi's leg contraption.

2008-11-16T10:02:00.005-07:00

As Heidi had requested I left the camera in the car at the hospital. No one likes to have their photo taken when they are miserable. She did let me take a few shots of it this morning. Mostly for her Aunt Jackie to see, because Heidi thinks Jackie has a weird foot fascination thing going on. So here is a shot of her foot just laying on her side.

Here is a shot of the top of her foot.

You can't really see much with the bandages, but they will be coming off next week and we will take a few more shots then.

Here is the bottom of her foot. You can see the rods and wires a little here. The big black horseshoe in the photo is attached to her leg.

This is a close up. The blood is old and no big deal. She does have a few stitches in her heel. They will come out next week. There are also stitches on the top of the foot, under the bandages. When all the bandages come off we will start stretching the ankle joint by moving the screws a little each day. They will be lengthening it a total of 5mm, over 10 days. That's my job. Makes me feel like the torcher chamber person. Then the new cartilage can grow back into the joint. There is a really cool shoe part that hooks onto the bottom of this and in a couple of weeks she will be walking on it.

Pre Surgery Hike Photos

2008-11-16T09:50:00.002-07:00

These are a few shots of our little side trip... On the way there we stopped at Multanoma Falls and Hiked up to the bridge. It was nice to get some fresh air and exersice.

Pre surgery smile and fun.

The bridge in the photo is the one we hiked to. It is only .2 mile. So not to bad. The trip to the top is about a mile and a half straight up.

It was very wet, but very pretty.

We loved this set of stairs, they were very midevil castle like.

Home at last

2008-11-16T09:23:00.002-07:00

Everything went amazingly wonderful in Portland and Friday afternoon the Dr. said she could go home. YEAH!!!!!! We really didn't want to spend the weekend there anyway. She was discharged late in the afternoon, so we checked into a hotel and slept. And slept and slept and watched a little tv.

Saturday we got up and drove home. I gave Heidi her meds and put her to bed in the back of the van and she slept most of the trip home. It is a long boring trip when you have no one to talk to. LOL

Last night we got her settled in her room and she slept some more. I was finally able to get some really good sleep also. Heidi is doing great, she is on pain meds and they seem to keep it under control. Emma was thrilled to have her mommy home, but only until I told her it clean up her bedroom, then she told me "to leave and go back to Portland, because dad doesn't make her clean her room."

We will be returning to Portland in Dec for a check up. But that will be by airplane and will be a quick one day trip. She will have the fixator on her leg until Feb. It is kind of cool, kind of like a erector set gone wild.

I'll take photos this morning when she wakes up.

Heidi would love visitors, but please remember that she needs her sleep and she doesn't need germs. If you are sick or have not been feeling well a phone call would be a better choice. We are asking everyone to hand sanitize when they do come over.

Done with surgery

2008-11-12T21:16:00.002-07:00

We got to the hospital at 6a.m. and Heidi had her surgery at 7. She was out of surgery at around noon. She was so sad and in pain and cried and cried. Then they gave her Drugs.

HOW WE LOVE DRUGS

After a ton of morphine she began to calm down and sleep. She slept most of the day. She is in a shared room with a really cute little 8 yr old girl. The rooms are small and with two girls, two moms and all the equiptment it is really crowded.

The surgery went very well and the Dr. is hopeful that this will be one of the last surgeries she will have. Her foot is in a Halo (not the PS3 game). It is three rods and rings that go all the way around the foot. Right now it is bandaged and swollen. She had an epidral in her back so she is confined to the bed until tomorrow afternoon. If I get a chance I'll take a photo of her foot.

well it is bedtime here and that means no sleep for anyone in this room. Thank goodness for wireless internet.

We made it to Portland

2008-11-10T21:19:00.002-07:00

We made it to Portland safely and without any snow. It did rain a bit but not bad. We went to the Falls on the way here and got some great photos and some fresh air. Then we hit the mall and did some shopping. Tomorrow is her CT scan and Dr. Appointment. I'm typing this from the business center at the hotel so I will keep it short today.

PINKALICIOUS FAIRY BUG

2008-10-31T10:40:00.002-06:00

Here she is my pinkalicious Fairy bug. Doesn't she look cute?

and the skirt has lights in it that light up at night so she will be very easy to see at night.

More Organizing

2008-10-29T20:27:00.003-06:00

So we have stacks and stacks of puzzles, like those shown below. They take up a ton of space and the boxes are falling apart, but I didn't want to get rid of the puzzles.

So I found these pencil holders on clearance at Walmart for $1. They are fabric and see through and well made. I bought a few to try this out. I cut the picture of the puzzle off the box and put the pieces in the pouches.

It looks like they are going to work great. This worked with all my 24 and 30 piece puzzles. The big floor puzzles are to big for this kind of bag, so I put them in Ziploc Bags. Then I was surfing the net and I found this blog and the lady sell bags like this in all kinds of sizes. I'm going to order some when I have some extra cash, for the big puzzles.

Her bags are at:

http://lazyorganizer.com/bags/

The next photo shows the amount of space these bags save as compared to the boxes. I also found I love the pouches because they have the holes for a three ring binder. I have decided this is a great way to store my flannel board pieces and small games for daycare. Now I need to hit walmart again and buy a bunch more pouches

I plan on putting all the puzzle bags into a basket so the kids can access them easily and put them away easily also.

Scraproom reorganized

2008-10-15T20:27:00.016-06:00

A friend of mine has been asking to see photos of the scraproom.

This is what my scraproom used to look like. It felt awful, like it was all going to come tumbling down on my head. In fact the shelf over the desk has quite a bow to it. Scary, RIGHT.

So I worked on it a lot. I still don't have the room painted, but I really like the scrapbook organizing.

So here is how it looks now. I got rid of the larger table and put in a small 4 foot one. It really helps not to have the space to pile stuff.

This is the window seat. The shelves were in my dd's room and she broke two of the drawers so that is what is holding all the albums. The other two drawers hold all my craft supplies for daycare and my kids extra school supplies. The cases on top are CTMH acrylic stamps. Then my label maker and laminator fit on top of labeled drawers that hold all my embellishments, rub ons, stickers, and tags. the crop in style bag fit nicely in front of them.

This is the shelving next to the table. These are cubes from Fred Meyer and Iris carts. The bottom holds albums, the middle holds paper holders. All my paper is sorted by manufacture, so I can easily find a line that works and all the colors match. The top is floss boxes labeled and sorted by color, and they hold all my ribbon and fibers. Everyone needs a pile it area and that is what the other two shelves are for. Above that is a ink pad holder that my dad built for me. The black and white basket holds new purchases, until I can get them put away. I haven't been buying much lately so it is a bit lonely. The Iris carts hold wooden stamps, foam stamps, photos, office supplies, and embossing and card making supplies, and pens and markers. I downsized a lot when I organized and I sold over 50 sets of stamps on eBay. I also sold a bunch of paper and punches and misc. at a garage sale and on cragislist.

This is the wall by the door. The cart is by cropper hopper and it holds a ton of paper and stickers. Only don't try and move it when it is full. YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF. Above the cart is a shelf I found for a $ at goodwill. It holds all the little embellishment flowers.

Here is my desk, all nice and clean. I love the back mat because I am very picky about having stuff straight. the little X adhesive is great for small stuff and my bucket turns on a lazy Susan and holds all my tools. I plan on hanging the magnetic white board, but not until I paint the room. It is on the list of rooms left to paint.

Hope you enjoyed the tour.

OCtober Kits are done YEAH!

2008-10-09T12:18:00.003-06:00

I hope you like this kit. I love fall and all the colors of it. I'm not really a fan of the colder weather, but the rest of it is cool.

Enjoy the October kit.

I got my Frames and my wall looks great

2008-10-06T16:23:00.004-06:00

So for my birthday last weekend my family bought me the frames I wanted from Costco. I love them. I immediately changed the photos out and put them on the wall. The quote above it say
Diamonds are precious but daughters are priceless. My sister in law gave me that for Christmas last year. It was in a white frame, but a little time and paint and I just love the way it looks. One wall down many more to complete.

As if someone knew I needed to redecorate a new store just popped up in Meridian. Import Outlet and it has great prices. I stopped in really quick, left my kids in the car for a sec and checked it out. I plan on going back when I have more time. If your interested it is on Fairview in a new strip mall just west of Eagle rd and before the sonic.LOL They have a clock I just love and I will probably ask for it for my anniversary. I'll show you that wall when it is done also.

As far as the triangle paint issue, I decided to use the corn for it. Now I just need to get the money to buy more paint. LOL

HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO!!!!!

2008-09-23T18:38:00.006-06:00

So the past few months I have been painting. The girls room and the bathroom and the hall at that in of the house are done. They were easy, start and stop walls. Now I am to the living room and the vaulted ceilings and the rounded corners. Where do I start one color and end another?

So here is the living room wall with the arch, I painted the arch with the Carmel and the golden corn will be on the kitchen side of this wall. Yes, I was hungry when I picked out the colors, Carmel, Chocolate, Corn and Butterscotch.

This whole room was based on the photo on the wall. That is Heidi and Emma in California. I took it (amazing huh) then we had it blown up to 26 x 30 at Costco and I modge podged it to a canvas. I love it, and I love that it cost me less than $40 to make.

Here is the wall when you walk in the front door. I plan on replacing the girls photos with new frames in the dark cherry wood, just have to wait until I can afford the frames. I also would like to make them even and put a quote above them. I don't know what the spot on the camera was ?

Now is where I run into problems. This is the wall at the end of the hall. I got it painted this morning. (Don't ask how I did the upper part with only a 6 foot ladder). So the big white wall is part of the kitchen also and I plan on painting it Golden Corn like the rest of the kitchen. The ceiling is going to stay white. But see the little triangle of ceiling just before the master bedroom. Should it be white like the rest of the ceiling? Should it be Carmel like the hall or should it be Corn like the kitchen?

Here is a better shot of the triangle problem area. Any suggestions or help with this would be great. The sooner the better, I plan to finish the hall and the entryway this week.

When it rains...it pours!

2008-09-20T10:37:00.002-06:00

Well I tried to have a yard sale, but I guess God doesn't want me to pay my bills. So after one lone sale, in a downpour, while trying to get everything out of the rain...Gwennie and I decided to head out and see if anyone else was selling. A few had clean enough garages to hold theirs inside and Gwennie even found some cute clothes for her dd. Then it was off to Moxie Java for Hot Chocolate. We were freezing a bit...wet clothes tend to do that, and we will admit it...we weren't ready to go back to our homes and be moms yet.

So now the next best thing...Craiglist and postpone the sale a week. We have to pay our bills somehow. LOL

September Kit is Done

2008-08-31T11:58:00.002-06:00

Here is the kit for September. I love this one.

More Finished Layouts

2008-08-31T11:42:00.004-06:00

Here are a few more layouts that I was able to finish this week. The stack on my desk is slowly getting smaller and the albums are getting bigger.

The first one is Emma's preschool field trip to the zoo. The kids all love the slide. I think I got a shot of each kid in her class.

The 2nd one is dyeing Easter eggs and I entitled it Just for Fun, because no one actually likes eggs here and we just dye them for fun and then throw them away the next day.

The next layout is Heidi's birthday photos, we took them at Katherine Albertson Park on June 2nd. They turned out great.

The last one is the few photos I got on Heidi's birthday as they played with her gift...ROCK BAND.

First week of School

2008-08-29T22:52:00.003-06:00

We made it through the first week of school YEAH!!!!!

I got up and took Heidi to the high school. I got out of there for $92 , very cheep.LOL
She found her friends, got in line for her schedule and I left her at high school. A little nervous that she was in high school and a little nervous about her ankle. She did fine.

Then I went home and got Emma and Greg and I took her to school. KINDERGARTEN. She had friends in her class and was so excited. They lined up and waved goodbye to the parents. Then they were gone.

Most moms and dads would be sad at this point. NOT ME Three hours really isn't that long. I got to go to Costco (by myself). Then it was time to pick her up. I went and helped her find the right bus, then followed the bus home.

Emma's biggest complaint for the first day was that her teacher didn't call her Emma. So I had to explain to Mrs.L that her real name is Emelia but she is called Emma. Mrs. L said she would try and remember and maybe Emma could reminder her.

Emma says "Don't worry I'll remind you everytime"

The rest of the week went fairly smooth. I did have to take Heidi back in and have her schedule rearranged, but nothing to major.

So now we have a four day weekend and then back to school. I can't wait for Tuesday, I have plans for those three blessed hours. Finish painting, clean and organize my house, and maybe enjoy a bubble bath without interuption.

Heidi's next steps

2008-08-23T19:33:00.003-06:00

This weekend we went to Portland for a dr. appt. That by the way is a long drive for a Dr. appointment, but it was worth it. We found a dr. that is going to fix Heidi's leg. This surgery will give her a 75% chance of recovery and the ablilty to walk without pain for years to come. The Dr. wants to do this ASAP, so monday morning we are going to call and schedule her surgery. She will be in the hospital for about a week, and then have two or three follow up appointments. The whole procedure will take about three months. So here is a link to what the operation is:

http://www.thefootandankleclinic.com/ilizarov-joint-distraction.htm

the dr. will also go in and reconstruct her ankle, by taking a slice out of her heel bone and using it to rebuild her ankle and straighten her ankle which is at a 2% tilt the wrong way.

While in Portland we did have some fun at OMSI where we saw a show at the Planetarium and then took a tour of a US subamarine. Not good when you are claustraphobic.

Then we hit Ikea!!!

I could live in that store. It was so much fun looking at the great showrooms and all the stuff. We did make it home with a few new items, one of which is a "Dave" a laptop desk. It was really fun and other than the really long drive it wasn't too bad. I'll keep you updated on when Heidi will have surgery again. Hopefully this will be the last surgeries for a number of years.

Until then I can't wait for school to start on Monday, I will have three hours of peace and quiet. Yeah

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

2008-08-03T22:29:00.002-06:00

I took the time this weekend to watch his last lecture and I learned a great deal from it. I also ordered his book to get more of the information behind his lecture. It truly is wonderful and I encourage everyone to take an hour and listen to this man. Think back on your childhood dreams and see if you are any closer to achieving them and if you are... are you helping others to achieve their dreams?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Finished layouts

2008-07-31T12:38:00.004-06:00

I had time to finish a few layouts this week. The stack of unfinished layouts on my desk is nuts so I am working on getting the titles, the journaling and the photos on these so they can be completed. Here are a few that I have done and they can now go in the done box, until I get around to putting them in the right albums.

August Kit

2008-07-31T10:37:00.003-06:00

Well here is the August layout. I hope you like it. I still need to pick up the paper and kit it out. The sketch was from my friend Gwennie.

July page kit

2008-06-28T11:56:00.003-06:00

These are the stickers that inspired my July kit. I had found some others, but they were very much 4th of July, and I really wanted it to work for the whole month. So these worked. Each kit will get the whole sheet, so they can use which ever title works for them. Whether it is vacation, or playing in the yard or just "what a day" photos. I love the paper also, I totally fell in love with it and it is double sided BONUS. That way the kits can be printed, solid, or both.

Here is a peek at my July Kit. Did I mention that I love this paper. I used the what a day title, and will probably put photos from our family get together on the 6th on it. Now I just have to remember to take my camera to Washington this next week.

Turning Fourteen

2008-06-05T22:23:00.003-06:00

I am sitting here trying to figure out how in the heck I can me a mom to a 14 year old. I don't think I am old enough to have a 14 yr old. She'll be in high school in the fall and I know for a fact that I am not that old, HECK I just graduated high school myself, a few years ago, didn't I?

Heaven Help Us. Two years and she will be driving. ACK

So we have a thing in our house, every other year you get a friend party. The other year is just family. So this year is friend parties, and Heidi didn't know what she wanted to do. A lot of her friends are boys, which is fine, but that did throw the whole slumber party, paint your nails and watch Chick Flicks, out the window. So she finally decided to go to Boondocks and hang out for the afternoon. Only the guys she invited are at a scout campout. At least the girls she invited could come, so it ended up being a "Chick day" after all, which has since turned into a slumber party. My first suggestion to begin with. Uggg

So we get to Boondocks, (I bought the passes at Costco, because they are cheaper there) We got armbands on and they all instantly disappeared. GO FIGURE.

I guess I am not cool enough to hang with.

So it was me and Emma. Not ever having a pass before Emma was nervous at first on what to do. Last time we went she got two attraction tickets and that was it, so she didn't understand the whole arm band thing at first. She started off by using all her tokens and then used all mine. Her favorite game was Skeet Ball and she was dang lucky, she scored 372,000 points. She had grown men watching her just toss the ball right in the 100,000 hole with no problem, they were all jealous.

Then we played mini golf and she cheats really bad at it. Expect for the 18th hole, where you have to hit the ball into the final hole and it isn't returned. This hole is a big Tikki Guy and he spits water on you if you loose and a volcano erupts if you get a hole in one. YEP, you guessed it, a hole in one and the volcano and fire and she is such a lucky little snot. We also rode on the bumper boats. The first time she was scared and rode with me. The 2ND time she was a pro at it and rode in her own boat and managed to turn me in the a wet tshirt contestant, white shirt and all. After that I was done and sat and watched her repeatedly ride the boats over and over and over.

Did we do the go carts? NOPE
Did we play laser tag ? Only once
It was just Bumped Boats until we ran out of time and my skin was so burned it hurt to move. I had on SPF 70 that should have done something but NO. I'm extra crispy.

Anyway back to the birthday girl, she and her friends met up when they were tired and we headed home. I asked what they wanted for dinner and Heidi wanted to order Chinese Food. We can go to a Chinese Restaurant, if you'd like..... I offered. "No it taste better having it delivered." Really I Never KNEW!

Now they are in her room listening to her new Birthday CD, which she swears is a "New CD". It is the sound track to Across the Universe. It is Beetles Music and she is shocked her old mom knows the songs off of it. HELLO they have been around forever, they are older than me. Heck they are probably older than dirt. So tonight because I know the music I am "cool."

Her birthday is really on Saturday, so that is when she will get her real present from her dad and I and then we will both be on the "cool list" for a few days. We got her PS2 Rock Band Special Edition. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell her.

And on another note, Emma bent her training wheel on her bike. So I took them off. After just an hour at the park, she can ride like a pro without training wheels. STOPPING, is something she hasn't learned yet. You just put your feet down and jump off, that technique isn't working to well for her. I tried to explain braking, but she didn't want to do it that way. Stubborn KID.

Albertson Park

2008-06-02T18:11:00.005-06:00

We went to Katherine Albertson Park today and did a little photo shoot. These are a few of my favorite shots. Before I play around with them in photo shop. All together we took over 100 photos so it was hard to narrow it down.

Here Heidi was trying to give Emma a piggyback ride, but it didn't last more than a few steps.

We found a lady walking by and asked her to take one of all of us together and this one turned out pretty good. I might crop it and play around with it a bit.

This one of me doesn't totally make me gag so it must not be to bad. I need to photoshop it a bit and crop it. But not to bad for a photo for Greg for Father's Day.

New Nephew

2008-06-02T08:54:00.001-06:00

Here is my new nephew Baby Gray.

Graduation Girl

2008-05-30T19:38:00.004-06:00

Emma's graduation day:

She started off really happy and very excited to be graduating preschool. She was all smiles and she loved the hat. She sang her song and didn't even mess up. She sang blue bird, blue bird through my window.
Then it hit her, that preschool was over and she wouldn't be coming to her teachers house on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. She would miss her teacher and her friends.
So then she began to cry and they gave her a diploma and doesn't she look thrilled.
She was so overcome with sadness she hid her face and cried. She feared she would never see her teacher again.

June's Calendar Kit

2008-05-22T07:37:00.003-06:00

Here is the June page. I love the colrs and the fun playfulness of it. It is just like June, bright and ready for summer fun. Enjoy.

May kit

2008-05-12T21:41:00.003-06:00

Here is the may kit. I am just waiting for the paper to come in, we had to order it. Pretty huh.

Snoozin

2008-05-12T21:38:00.004-06:00

Don't you just love the way he babysits?

Don't you just love the circle chip board from Technique Tuesday?

2008-05-12T21:30:00.003-06:00

This is great, I love the chipboard and the paper. The baby in the photo is my friend's little gal Alia and she is a cutie. The journaling on this page is two questions, what do you like best about your sister? What don't you like about your sister? Emma loves Heidi when she babysits her and Heidi likes that Emma is smart and funny. Emma hates when Heidi is mean, and Heidi hates when Emma whines.

Leprechaun Trap

2008-05-12T21:27:00.002-06:00

Here is the layout made from the photos on St. Patricks Day. We never did catch the Leprechaun.

Heidi's photos from Walter's Ferry

2008-05-12T21:25:00.001-06:00

Another layout

2008-05-12T21:21:00.003-06:00

The place we discovered a while back is called Walter's Ferry. We went back there and these are the photos I took of Emma. She was pouting and the rabbit came right up to her. She thought that was great. The deer are not real, just in case you can't tell in the photo.

Emil Pages

2008-05-12T21:19:00.002-06:00

Yoda he is. Fun making the layout was.

scrapbook layouts

2008-05-12T21:15:00.002-06:00

Another Emil page. Isn't he a cutie pie.

What an Afternoon

2008-04-26T18:26:00.002-06:00

Which part was the joy of my day?

puking
loosing a kid in Costco
or getting a flat tire

So I woke up sick again this morning (that makes over a week of it) so dh being the nice guy that his insisted on teasing me about being pregnant. Yeah Right that is just what I need right now. I finally took a test to rule that out. NEGATIVE is a lovely sight, when you have a five year old screaming and kicking your bathroom door and demanding that you go to the store because "we are out of waffles" I bought 14 boxes of cold cereal two weeks ago when it was on sale. EAT THAT.

So I finally got up and dressed and headed out for the day. There are some days you should just stay at home in the comfort of your bed, wrapped in your woobie with your faithful teddy bear. Today was one of those days.

I stopped by the scrapbook store to pick up my friends cards. My 13 year old with attitude informed me that this was the fifth time this week that I had been there. PUT YOUR EAR PLUGS IN, LISTEN TO YOUR IPOD AND KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF. We went to my friends house and dropped off the cards and she cut my girls hair while I played with her baby. (the highlight of my day) That baby is such a sweetie.

I left there and went and bought meat. LOTS OF MEAT. We decided that some of our tax return needed to go to food supplies, so I bought 30 pounds of beef (various steaks, roast and such) for $100. It should be enough to fill the freezer and last for awhile.

We went to lunch and then to Costco, where I instantly hit the restroom and lost my lunch. FUN NOT Well Emma went into the restroom with me but decided that she didn't want to stay. So while I am bowing to the toilet my five year old left the bathroom and started wandering Costco alone. Not much that I could do about it as I was stuck in the stall.

We finally found her snacking down on samples in the back of the store. After getting our food supplies we checked out with a kicking, screaming and yelling kid demanding an ice cream cone. NOT IN THIS LIFE, HONEY.

On the way home from Costco, I was driving an heard a horrid noise. Pulling over as quick as possible we came to discover a bungee cord stuck in the front tire. It was the same color as the roadway, which is probably why I never saw it. The hook is in the tire and the rubber strap was flapping against the wheel well. Greg just cut the strap off and we drove home, only to discover the tire store is closed until Monday.

I came home and put on jammies and crawled back in bed where I should have stayed to begin with. Some days it just doesn't pay to get up in the morning.

Tumbling Tumble Weeds

2008-04-24T13:22:00.003-06:00

You know that you haven't posted lately on your blog, when you have tumble weeds blowing around on your blog. I was checking out my friends blogs and all the other ones i like to read (just because I am nosey) and most of them didn't have any updates. Then it dawned on me that mine hasn't been updated in quite awhile either.

I have been waiting to upload photos from our trip to Washington, so give me a day and I will amaze you with blog updates.

I'm a Princess

2008-04-14T23:15:00.003-06:00

You Are Snow White!

Pure and trusting. You are a gentle soul who can get along with just about anyone. Everyone you meet instantly falls in love with you. How can they resist? You have a pure, lovable nature that's irresistable. Just don't trust everyone who comes across your path.
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April Calendar Kit

2008-04-14T22:37:00.002-06:00

Here is the April Calendar kit. The photo is kind of crooked. LOL Because my computer died it took me awhile to finish this one, but I love how it turned out. It has some very cute flowers and the title that I cut out using my silhouette. This kit would look even better with glitter glue or stickles on the flowers or something like that, only I can't afford to put that in every kit.

The egg hunt at Albertsons

2008-04-14T22:35:00.001-06:00

This is the layout I did of the Easter Egg hunt at Albertsons. Emma had a great time at the hunt and I had a great time making the layout.

Heidi and Her Dad

2008-04-14T22:31:00.002-06:00

Heidi and Greg have a normal teenage/parent relationship, she usually thinks he is lame and he usually thinks she is moody. Here is a layout I made to remind them both that they have a great time together sometimes. These were photos taken on our North Pole Express train ride. I love both of their smiles.

2008-04-14T22:28:00.002-06:00

Here is the Emil layout I was working on while Emma worked on hers. All the little photos were an 8x10 collage they gave us for Christmas, and I just cut it up and added it to the page. He really is a cute little guy and I can't wait to meet him in person.

My Little scrapper

2008-04-14T22:25:00.003-06:00

Emma wanted to scrapbook with me so I gave her some photos of her cousin Emil. She had to do everything just like so. Then she even asked for a title and for buttons to add to the page. I think her first two page layout turned out very cute.

An Unusual Find

2008-04-04T23:40:00.003-06:00

This week was just dragging by like the many weeks before it have. Each day pretty much the same as the day before. Wednesday the weather was nice and sunny. I dropped Heidi off at Physical Therapy and drove back north to pick up Emma. I got her from preschool and we went and got Heidi. This is becoming so routine that I almost don't even pay attention to driving the route.

So we were leaving PT and Heidi asked me to turn right instead of left just to see what was in that direction. Apparently she is just as bored as I was. So we went for a drive, at each intersection I asked the girls left or right. We ended up on a highway heading south of Nampa. I had never really been that way before, but it was still paved and considered highway. After driving for awhile we can to the Snake river and a very lovely bridge. Just east of the bridge was a turnout to a museum and historical site of some old ferry crossing.

"go there mom Please" I guess at some point in time Heidi had driven this road with grandpa and the museum looked pretty cool, but was closed the time they came. So we stopped and got out and looked around. I don't know the name of this place but it was very cool.

There is a walking trail that takes you through the trees. There are quotes and scriptures and statues and quiet benches for meditation and prayer. There is a big rainbow on the hill, and in the mountain is a replica of Christ tomb. Very interesting to say the least. We walked quite a ways, until Heidi's ankle started to hurt. Then we walked back. There are a lot of old building and in pens there were roosters and chickens and peacocks and swans. They have the most beautiful white peacock and he spread his tail and it looked like a wonderful snowflake. The girls loved it.

It made a great day trip idea and cured our boredom.

dragging on

2008-04-01T23:05:00.003-06:00

well Spring break has come and gone, and we didn't notice. Why?
Because Heidi is doing virtual school and didn't get a break. and because of the cold and snow flurries and rain, and thunder and hail, not really very spring like if you ask me.

Sunday was Easter and we were pretty lazy. I took Emma to the annual Albertsons Egg hunt down the road on Saturday and she got plenty of candy there. So then Saturday night the Easter bunny left them small baskets with chocolate bunnies and jelly beans. The bunny also left Emma two Dr. Seuss book, one of which was Horton Hears A Who. So Sunday morning Emma opens her bunny, bites off his ears and then decided to take him back to bed with her and cuddle him. Chocolate bunnies and warm flannel bedding don't mix.

MESSY MESSY MESSY

Wednesday Heidi had surgery AGAIN (#14) this time they took all the metal out of her foot. She had one pin and a metal plate and two screws and an anchor thingy. They took all of this out, put it in a plastic bag and sent it home with her. She says she is going to make a necklace out of it. She came home and rested after the surgery.

Friday she broke out in a rash and hives from her meds, so she spent most of the weekend on benadryl and tried not to scratch. This week she is doing great. She starts back to physical therapy tomorrow. Her stiches will come out the end of next week. Hopefully she can finally heal up from this wound and start to recover.

I spent Friday night out with friends scrapping and if I get a chance I will upload photos of the layouts I did.

Still Holding Out Hope

2008-03-18T10:08:00.004-06:00

We saw a new Dr. yesterday and this one does ankle replacement surgery. Unfortunately Heidi isn't a candidate for the surgery. Since she had such a bad infection they can't do that type of surgery, it adds to many foreign objects into her body and her body will fight them off naturally thinking it is another infection. There is just too high of risk that she would lose her foot to the infection.

He did give us a few other ideas to try before fusing her ankle. He was a really nice Dr. and he took the time to talk and discuss it with us. One procedure would be braces and we are looking into that option. That would give her some pain relief and allow her a few more years (hopefully) before the ankle fusion. The other option he talked about is a procedure done by a Dr. in Portland and it is called distraction. I have had much chance to investigate it yet and we aren't sure she could do that because of the infections, again. If this is possible it would give her another few years before fusion.

We have another Dr. appointment on Friday with another new Dr. for another opinion. We will see what he says also. We also see the wound specialist tomorrow and we have Physical therapy today and Friday. Basically we spend a lot of our time in the Dr. offices.

Last night we went to Open house for High School and Heidi is looking forward to going back to school and being with her friends next fall. Emma also is looking forward to school and starting Kindergarten. I must admit that I am looking forward to having a break from them both.LOL Hopefully I can get my daycare back up and running by Aug. We shall see. You can't run a daycare if your not ever home so I need to get PT and Dr. appointments back to normal and reasonable amounts first.

we are still trying to be upbeat and hopeful that all this is going to work out okay and we try to throw a little fun into the mix, tonight I think we are going to dye Easter Eggs.

This is the before shot

2008-03-09T11:09:00.006-06:00

This is the before shot of my scrapbook room. SEE THE BOW IN THE SHELF. I am not normally a claustrophobic person, but this mess has me afraid that it will all come falling down on my poor body while I scrap. If this happens they would never find my body. It takes me hours to accomplish anything, because although it looks like it should be in order it isn't and I have no idea where anything is.

Last week I took everything thing out of here. Well everything on this side of the room. The other side of the room where the computer is, is so frightening that my camera ran away and hid when I tried to take a photo of it. It is under a bed somewhere quaking in fear still. Anyway, so I took everything out of here and put it in my living room, and my kitchen/ dining area and my bedroom. I had stuff every where, it looked like the Wal-mart toy department on the day after Thanksgiving. So piece by piece I went through it all. I had piles, and they were labeled with unusual names like :

1. you'll never use me so give me away
2. throw me in the garbage and put me out of my misery
3. what in the heck were you thinking when you bought me
4. I know I'm never going to get scrapped, but I am so dang cute please keep me
5. definitely put me back in that room, I am worth what you paid for me

So I had my piles and I sorted everything into these said piles and put only the stuff in the last two piles in a pile to go back into the room.

Well I wanted to get it painted and put new floors down and add shelving to one wall, but all those things cost money. So I put it to a vote and my family chose food over my new scrap space, and that is the problem with Democracy.

So I put everything back in the room that belongs in there and I have a kitchen table full of stuff for craigslist and ebay, and I figure when it all sells I can buy paint and get the room painted.

New Layout

2008-03-08T15:08:00.002-07:00

Here is a new layout I made the other night. I just need to get some photos of my friends to put on it. Hopefully next time we go to lunch or something I can remember my camera.

Making Spring Arrive

2008-03-08T15:03:00.004-07:00

I want spring to get here so badly. I hope that it is on it's way. I found this picture holder at Target on clearance and Emma used my Silhouette to make all the butterflies and Flowers. It turned out really cute and adds a bit of spring to our house. We are planning on changing it with each season/ holiday. It will be a really fun decor for our home.

Update on Heidi

2008-03-08T14:35:00.002-07:00

Last week we got a hard blow from the Dr. Heidi went in on Friday and the Dr. told us that coming up soon he wants to remove the hardware that is still in her foot. Then he talked about fusing her ankle. If this happens, her ankle joint will no longer move at all. She will be permanently disabled and unable to move her foot. This also leads to arthritis and knee and hip issues and all that kind of stuff later on. It left me very discouraged and depressed and Heidi was hopelessly depressed and worried about doing things normal teens do, like walking, riding bikes, learning to drive a car.

So Monday we went to wound clinic and her wound is looking worst, not better. So they took x-rays and blood work. They called later that day to let us know that the wound is again infected. So she is back on antibiotics and yogurt (her least favorite food now).

Last night Heidi came to Greg and I will an article off the Internet about artificial joints for ankles. The article was in a European Medical Journal and she asked if London was to far to go to fix her leg. Well that not only broke my heart, but it got us all searching the Internet and finding out more information about this procedure. We found some information about a Dr. in San Diego that does it and we are going to call him on Monday and see what we can do as options before we fuse that bone. There has to be another choice out there and this gives us all a bit of hope.

Well anyone that knows our family knows we are all overweight and this is a problem for all of us, but more so for Heidi, because she could loose that foot to diabetes or other health issues. We as a family decided we need to change, our eating habits and exercise habits and all that stuff. We set attainable goals and we are going to help each other reach them. At first the goal might only be to walk to the corner and back, but if we do that then later it can be to walk around the block. We are going to eat better and healthier and I (as the mom) am going to quit taking the easy road (McDonald's drive thru) and cook meals. IF we all work together I know we can do this.

It gives us hope again and it gives us something to do, and to work towards. I will update this as soon as I can talk to a Dr. or someone that can help us. Our Dr. has been great, but he hasn't left us with any choices, so we are going to look for them ourselves.

March Calendar Kit

2008-03-02T17:54:00.003-07:00

Here is a look at the March page for the Calendar kit. It turned out pretty cute, but paper piecing all the lions and lambs became rather tedious. I just have to finish making up the kits and they will be ready to go in the mail. Yeah!

Playing around with my blog :)

2008-02-27T23:41:00.004-07:00

I spent some time this evening, as you can tell, changing colors and such on my blog. Why you ask? Because I am sick of winter and winter colors and I really really really want spring to come. I am hoping that by adding color to my blog, Mother Nature will decide Meridian has had enough snow and let the flowers pop up. NOT LIKE I HAVE ANY FLOWERS IN MY YARD, but a girl can dream.

I haven't gotten Heidi's bedroom quite finished, but I hope to this week. I just need to paint the window seat. Then I can take photos of it.

Then it is on to my scrapbook room/office. I need more money first so I can buy paint and shelves, but I just about have everything cleaned out of the scrapbook side of the room. I really doubt most of it will make it back in the room, after my purging and craigslisting. I have to keep asking myself, why did I buy so much, and yet I still went to Micheal's Crafts today and bought more ribbon.LOL I needed it for my March layout, which will be up on my blog by Sunday night.

I am in the middle of a real page turner, so I am off to read, EYEWITNESS TRAVEL AUSTRALIA a great book full of information so I can someday, in the hopefully not to far of future, go to Australia and take my walkabout and find myself and my life's purpose, or something like that. If nothing else I can dream about the trip and look at the pictures in the book.

Busy Scrapping

2008-02-25T18:25:00.000-07:00

Thursday my husband had to go to Twin Falls for work, so I went with him and played at Girlfriends. I love the store, I love the people and I actually got something done.LOL Then Saturday I went Scrapbooking in Meridian at Just Scrappin and I had a great time. I didn't get as much done there, because I was busy chatting, but it was still a blast.
Below are the layouts I finished this week.

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Painting and organizing

2008-02-17T19:33:00.001-07:00

I love to organize, I wish we had a Container store here. I was on line drooling over all their wonderful stuff and decided to reorganize my house. We got H's room clean and ready to paint. Then I let her and her friend go at it. How much damage can two teenagers do anyway? It just paint, right?

They did a great job. I did have to go over one small section later and add another coat, and there was a small spot on the carpet that I had to clean up. But for the most part they did wonderful. Now to get here room back together so I can take a photo of it. Unfortunately she picked blue for her room and I am really sick of blue. E's room is blue, H's room is blue and their bathroom is blue. I guess we should just call that end of the house the BLUE WING.

I also started on the office/scrapbook room. It needs to be organized badly. But I also realize it needs to be painted badly, so I picked out five sample cards I liked and taped them to the wall. We have narrowed it down to three. I still want to see what they look like with the morning light streaming in. Only I haven't made it up that early this week. I figure the office should be cheerful and fun, because that is where I have to pay bills and paying bills is depressing and boring. It needs to inspire me to scrapbook and create.

I figure by the end of the year my whole house will be painted and organized. Because an orgaized house is a happy house.LOL

Painful Mouth

2008-02-07T18:29:00.000-07:00

Let me just start by saying what I have said to my girls all along, brush your teeth, so you don't have to go through what I have to. I had yet another root canal done today. They are not fun, they are not relaxing, and I rather have open heart surgery again than have a root canal. My dentist is great and he really does a good job, I just have so much that needs to be done that it seems to be taking forever. I also had a horrible dentist as a child and am scare to death of them to this day.

So I went in because I have pain in my teeth, we were sure which tooth, so they did xrays, and poked and prodded. Then the dentist used a small piece of ice and touched it on each tooth to detemine the cold sensative tooth.When he did find it, I jumped so hard that I nearly took out him, the assistant and the light above me. Of course just to be sure, he did it again and almost got kicked.

Well a few hours later I am home, dragging my face behind me on the ground. One whole side of my face was numb, including my eye and nose. So I took some pain killer and went to lay down for a few minutes. (a few minutes, three hours whats the difference)

My house looks like a 5 yr old was left unattended for hours on end. OH YA she was. Some one needs to teach that kid, if your going to sneek a bowl of ice cream, to put the carton back in the freezer and not leave it on the counter to melt.

The lesson here
Floss Daily
Brush Daily
and see your dentist regular so you don't have to have days like this.