Half way done...

with the girls room. I got up the border yesterday and the canvas' so that is cool! I love the way it all looks too! So cute! I'm waiting on the Making Memories 8 inch letters to come in to the LSS so i can put their names above their beds. Who knows how long that order is going to take though, guess theirs a long wait. UGH! Oh well. And then I just need to finish the shelves and hopefully that will be it for awhile. We'll see though! lol!

Here's the pics...


Have a lot to do today so I better get going...

It's official ...

and it sucks! I'm no longer able to post at KNK! :( I had to cancel my monthly scrapbook club due to $$$ issues and I know it's the right thing to do but it still sucks! Already having boodle withdrawals! Miss you guys!

Sunday I decided I wanted to do some new decorating in the girls room, went to Michaels picked up a couple shelves, lots of paint and lots of little wooden shapes, sunglasses and flowers! I painted yesterday for like 4 hours and I'm almost ready to start hanging things up! YAY! It's going to look so cute when I finish! I also picked up these canvas things to hang on their walls. I gave each of the girls their own canvas and they put their hand prints all over, with a space left in the middle for their picture! They turned out so cute!

I'm totally dragging today so I better get moving, lots to do before dinner with Reed's boss tonight and then another party at the cousins again! WOO HOO!

I've been Tagged!!!

I got tagged by Di from the TTS Design Team

7 people that I admire
- my Hubby
- my Daddy
- my grandparents
- my Nana
- my girls...so free, loving & lovable I just pray they KEEP these qualities!
- Scrappers, Boodles, the girls over at TTS, Ali E, Cathy Z, Elise, and everyone else who scraps to share there love of family & friends or for any reason!!!
- John Mayer & Jack Johnson...amazing guitar players!

7 things I say often
- Stupid dogs! I know maybe mean, but holy moly!!!
- No Jumping...yes to my dogs!
- are you kidding me???
- Oh boy I'm going to be in trouble...when looking at the new stuff coming out!
- I'm scrappin...when asked what I'm doing by someone who calls, seems I'm always scrappin when the phone rings
- are you crazy?
- I love you...I tend to say that A LOT!

7 things I cannot do
- WINK! I know I know, how do I not know how...well I can't!
- talk quietly, I can't help it I'm a LOUD chick!
- drive without talking on the phone, no not all the time but I can not make on car trip without at least one phone call.
- spend less then $20 at the lss, I'm lucky I finally got it down to $20!
- watch Spongbob all the way through...makes me CRAZY!!!
- go a day without doing laundry, at least one load a day it seems and I hate it!
- go to bed without putting loition on my feet.

7 things you might not know about me
- I got burned by an iron on my left hand when I was 7 months old
- I have vitiligo (not too serious just losing pigment and my eyebrow color!!! YIKES) good thing there's make-up! lol!)
- I like food WAY too much!
- I am always trying to lose weight!
- I am obsessed with John Mayer and Jack Johnson
- I don't really like cartoons, but I can handle the movies.
- I LOVE scrappin...okay you knew that one, but I couldn't think of another! lol!

7 movies I enjoyed
- The Wedding Planner
- Pearl Harbor...amazing flick!
- Billy Madison (most Adam Sandler movies ROCK!)
- How to lose a guy in 10 days
- 10 things I hate about you!
- White Water Summer...super old but so cool!
- Brother Bear...I LOVE that one!

7 things I wish I could change in my life
- my being totally unoriginized!
- my memory
- my clumsiness
- I tend to ramble I lot, but I don't mind...but don't ask my hubby! lol!
- I'm a bit emotional...a bit! LMAO!
- I wish I was more handy with house stuff
- I wish I was a better eater.

7 books I have read and would read again
- All the shopoholic books
- undomestic goddess
- the left behind series...haven't even gotten all the way through yet
- CZ the first one
- the notebook
- I haven't finished yet but I'm sure the CZ the sequel I'll read again
- and I haven't gotten it yet but I'm sure I'll read the new Ali book a lot.

7 people who should do this!
- Lisa
- Brandy
- Heather
- Jaime
- Kelly
- Shannon
- Tiffany

yes I tagged ALL boodles!!!

tag you're it!

YAY! Reed's home!

So Reed was in Dubai for the past 9 days and he's finally home and I couldn't be happier! Seems that the girls LOVE to torture me while he's gone with being mean to each other, not listening to me and taking 2 hours to get to sleep! Nothing works with them and bedtime when I'm alone it sucks! Any hints? So he's still asleep and it's 2pm, but with the 11 hour time change I expected this. We stayed up late last night, looking at the FEW pictures he took and just catching up with each other that was nice. We might take the girls to Peter Piper Pizza tonight and just chill!
So while he was gone I did a lot of scrappin that you can see here I made a mini album from a couple weeks ago in the DW calendar, a few actual pages, I put ALL the pictures from CKU in the paper bag album Lisa made me for Christmas. I Love the way it turned out! AND the BIG one I FINISHED MY A WEEK IN THE LIFE ALBUM!!! YAY!!! Man, that feels so good to have finally finished it! This is my new favorite album I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! I hope do to it next year on the same week! I tried to upload the pictures but haven't had much luck so those will be coming soon! Well gotta run, bye...

new addition to my room

so my dad made me this cool shelf along with my awesome paint shelf a long time ago, but I never knew what to do with this second one so I finally realized I could store my stamps on it! YAY! I'm hoping I may start to use them now. Wishful thinking I know! ;) I've also wanted a peg board to hang recently purchased items (you know the ones you see and HAVE to buy, but end up thrown in a drawer and never used.) yeah I'm talking about those items. So I bought one, painted it, added some corners to it with the HS masks and it's cute (if I do say so myself) ;)! Okay enough chatting here it is...

Happy Birthday Carter!!!

The whole family showed up at Chuck E Cheeses today to celebrate Carter turning 5! WOO HOO!!! Of course all the kiddos had a BLAST!
So this isn't the best picture, but it's kinda hard when all the kids are rockin' out on stage with Chuck E Cheese! Carter had a blast!!! So fun to watch all of them! And as for the adults, we were all waiting patiently for what was to come afterwards...seafood feast at Deb's! WOO HOO!!!
Knowing my family and the way my aunt and uncles are with food I was expecting A LOT and of course for it to be so very tasty, but HOLY MOLY!!! I would have NEVER excepted a feast like this... And under all those onions and potatoes is shrimp, clams and more shrimp!!! I couldn't believe the spread! I sure wish I would have taken an after picture though, it's amazing that 30-35 people ate ALL that food! AMAZING I tell ya! So anyways I just had to show that picture, couldn't believe it! I hope it becomes a tradtion!
So I'm super tired, have a good night nite!

Okay let's try these pics one more time...

Me, Lisa, Lena & Nina
Tim Holtz...like you didn't know that!
Me and Tim...he's a riot!
Lisa & I in the alterations class.
Elise is seriously the cutest chick EVER!!!
Ali ROCKS!!!
Graduation night BABY!!!
ALL MY FREE GOODIES...they were seriously throwing stuff at you everywhere!!! It was AWESOME!!! Oh and a bit of that stuff is from my secret sisters and the FREESTYLE book was a gift from my girl...LISA!!! Yes she ROCKS!!!
The 'few' goodies I bought. Except for the CZ sequel book, forgot to put in there.

Home at last!!!

WOW, what an experience! It was amazing! So awesome to meet all the girlies I've gotten to know through emails over the past 3 months, to meet Ali, Cathy Z, Tim, Elise and everyone else that taught or just hung around! Lisa, I couldn't have asked for a better person to share this experience with! You ROCK chica!

So I get to San Jose Tuesday night...starving. Lisa takes me to In and Out...MMMMMM! We go back to her place and basically I get shown around and we crash! Up early on Wednesday to head to the hotel to get ready for the Bus Tour! Never seen so many pink shirts in one place in my life!!! Nope not even in a store! LOL! We meet to awesome ladies Lena & Nina (not related, not did they know each other) and the 4 of us hang out most of the time! Of course we meet TONS of other girlies and shopped out hearts out! The girls you put together the bus tour, went over & beyond what I could have imagined! We didn't even need the stores! Seriously, they were throwing (sometimes literally) freebies at us! It ROCKED!!! We started at 9am and 6 stores and Hambly (screen printer) later we arrived back at the hotel at 9pm! Totally exhausted but STARVING we hit up Max's at the hotel for some yummy food & a nice cold one!

Thursday was registration baby!!! Got up earlier then expected and got very close to the front of the line...awesome! Then started the make n takes. Every sponsor set up a booth for us to create a 6x6 page for a favorite things album. The albums hold 16 pages and we completed them ALL plus a couple extras! It was so fun, but after I think we both thought it was a bit much! That night at the pep rally we had a blast met Ali & Cathy (again) chatted them up for awhile and took a FAB pic that Lisa will have to post b/c it was with her camera!

Friday & Saturday we did our tracks and 6 classes. I'll get more into all that later. Just have to say, like Cathy Z I have a girl crush on Ali!!! I LOVE her!!! Her really wanted to chat with everyone and wanted to hear and really listen to what you had to say and she talked about her life and wasn't all private it was AWESOME! Like a real friend it was amazing I tell you!!! Okay so I'm done chattin for now I'm so tired and we're going to my cousin's for dinner!

And I know you're going to read this tonight Baby so just wanted to say I LOVE you and I CAN'T FREAKING WAIT to see you Thursday night!!!

So I tried to load some pics and the server is having problems!!! UGH! But if you're a boodle I'll go post some there now! ;)

Feeling better & ready to go!!!

WOO HOO!!! Back to normal and I'm actually all ready!!! It's about 11pm here and I'm packed and ready to go! The house is clean, the girls are packed, we're all set! So tomorrow we're off! The girls are staying with Reed and his parents and I'm off to San Jose!!! WOO HOO!!! Are you ready Lisa!!! We've been wait a VERY long time for this I can't believe it's finally here! I can't want to see what the next 5 days have instore for us! I hope you all have a great week/weekend! I'll be back Sunday!!!

so NOT a happy camper!!!

So i'm having this GREAT day, my girls are being good for the first time ALL week...SERIOUSLY! I scrapped like 3 pages today and everything is wonderful, I got to read stories before bed time and BAMM!!! It's like i'm insta sick! What the heck! My nose starts running like a flood (sorry TMI) my head hurts and i'm dizzy! WHAT!!! I don't get it, how in the heck did that happy just like that! Sorry to whine but um HELLO I am leaving for a much needed MOMMA VACATION in 3 days!!! 3 DAYS!!! I CAN NOT get sick!!! So I vegged out and watched this stupid lifetime movie, i'm laying in bed SO not tired but i don't want to get out of this nice comfy bed and I DONT WANNA BE SICK!!! Okay i'm done sorry about that!!! ;)

Our little Karate star...

I can't believe it's been 2 months already since the last time I posted about Karate! Time goes WAY too fast!!! So she's an orange belt now! WOO HOO!!! She's very proud as she should be!!! Here's a couple cute pics for ya...

Tomorrow's the BIG day!!!

Don't forget to come join the fun at TTSwe're going to have a BLAST over the next 3 days! Awesome challenges, FUN games and fantastic make n takes!!!

I'm a BAD blogger...

to all my BLOGGER friends...so sorry i've been HORRIBLE about checking all your BLOGS this last week! I've peeked at a few and go to post and someone needs something or I think of something to do from CKU and then I forget. So I apoligize! After CKU I will be better! PROMISE! LOL!

So not much has been going on around here, except stressin about CKU and making sure i'm prepared! I'm SO freaking excited about this trip you have NO idea! I'm a littler nervous too b/c i'm leaving my family for a whole 5 days but at the same time i'm SO EXCITED!!! Momma deszerves a break too right???

So instead of posting more aboutl ife issues i'm taking the TTS blogger challenge and posting 10 things about ME! So here goes...

1. I LOVE bring a mom, sure I get SO frustrated and stressed out but I wouldn't change being a mom for anything!!!

2. I LOVE MY HUBBY! DUH, who doesn't right! And I LOVE how we met! We met about 8 years ago at a bar in Nogales, AZ called Senor Amigos! We met, I swear we knew we were it...suppose to be together...how cheesy I know!!! But i don't care!!! And we've been together ever since!!! I love you baby!!!

3. I want to be a nurse. Many of you probably don't even know that...actaully i'm not sure Lisa even know's that and she's my best friend...sorry girl! ;) As soon as Neely goes to Kindergarden I'm going to start the program at the community college here! Can't wait!

4. I eat drink and live scrapbooking! I love it! Everything about it, I love going to malls, grocery stores...anywhere and looking for cool ads, color combos or picture ideas! I LOVE this hobby and ALL the amazing chicks i've met!!!

5. I freak out if my camera is NOT in my purse! I feel naked if i don't have it will me! I just love to be able to capture those crazy moments or weird things you don't see very often and of course those classic things my crazy girls do! So for example here's something VERY interesting I saw on my way home from Chandler one day...

6.. I have this issue with my weight...again who doesn't. I know i'm about 30lbs over weight but then I still eat that whatever. I exersice and sometimes eat really good, but sometimes don't. I have this battle with food and HATE it! I wish I was like Reed and just didn't care about food, but I LOVE it and honestly it sucks!!! The good thing is I'm happy with me. I know I need to lose those lbs and I know one days I WILL!!!

now jsut some little facts about me...

7. When I get into bed at night i HAVE to put lotion on my hands & feet before I lay down!

8. I'm addicted to popcron, M&M's and tabasco sauce...yes all mixed in together!

9. I hate to brush my teeth before I drink my coffee...it taster funny! YUCK!

10. I'm addicted to Diner Dash 2...i know i'm a dork! LOL! I can't help it, I saw the ad for it in a magazine (can't remember which one) I did the free trail, bought it and now i'm hooked!!! And it's hard! But I love it!!!

Okay So enough of that! Have a great day!!!

Treasures to Scrap Challenge

I posted my first Challenge as a Design Team member today and I'm SUPER excited about it! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! I wanted to post it here too so you all would come on over to Treaures To Scrap and check it out!
So here it is...
Something Old
Something New
Something Borrowed
AND
Something BLUE
What you must do for this challenge and you have all month to complete is...use a scrap something you've had for more then 6 months, something you JUST got with in the last week or so (as new as you can find), something Borrowed (a swap item or could be something you traded with someone) and finally something blue...must have some blue on the layout!
Here's my example

My items are something old (the black CS, hardly ever use black, the new is the white pen, the blue is on the CS and the brads are from a swap.

Wedding Pictures

Matt & Laurel's Wedding weekend!

So I went up to Flagstaff, AZ with the girls on Friday and I was TOTALLY looking forward to the wedding and seeing everyone BUT I was so not looking forward to being a "single" mom! Well all I can say about that is my family ROCKS!!! Nana and Aunt Mary watched ALL the little ones so all of us crazy people could go party and boy did we party!!! It was the night of the rehearsal dinner and the place was so COOL! Up stairs was this totally chill bar with an amazing balcony. (We'll talk more about the balcony later) It was a BLAST! It sucked that Reed wasn't there though. :( We danced, drank...and laughed SO HARD!!! It was fantastic!!! Okay so yes the night was perfect except for one little thing...while on the balcony (3 stories high) I was talking to my uncle Dave, reaching into my purse of something (can't even remember what now) well my purse has this pocket on the outside and as I go to get whatever it was and something VERY precious to me grew a life/wings and jumped out of the pocket and dropped 3 STORIES! My camera!!! Yup the one I just got not even 2 months ago!!! 3 STORIES!!! I freaked out ran down the stairs and it was in tack but totally needed help. :(
Saturday was the day of the actual wedding so before it started we all hung out and talked, took cat naps with 5 girls on the bed, watched Anissa do all the little girls hair! It was too fun! Another fantastic thing that happened that morning was Terrence fixed my camera!!! He took out the little screws and popped that bad boy back together and VOILA! AND IT WORKS!!! Can you belief that! I LOVE SONY!!! So writing them a letter/email to tell them THEY ROCK!!! So the wedding...WOW! Amazing! The spot they choose was so beautiful! When we 'watched' them get married behind them was trees, mountains...breath taking! It was the sweetest ceremony I have ever seen! I'm so happy for the 2 of them!
Today Matt & Laurel hosted a brunch for everyone that came to the wedding, it was at the same awesome spot as the rehearsal dinner we enjoyed yummy bloody mary's and chit chat and then it was off to the road again! So we're driving I'm following Deb & T and we're doing about 85 maybe a bit more just cruising along with traffic, Rylee starts freaking out b/c her ears are popping so I'm trying to comfort her from the front seat without waking Neely and I notice Terrence get over into the right lane...hmm weird I thought oh well I keep on keeping on...well now I know why T got over...COP!!! Dang it! What a way to start the 5 hour drive! We weren't even 50 miles out of Flagstaff and I got a ticket!!! UGH!!! The rest of the drive was great though, girls were awesome! Love them! And the best news is we're home now!!!

So one more quick thing, Heather i'm stealing your idea hope ya don't mind. My camera need's a name b/c this girl is TOUGH and after all that she needs a name... I suck at this so any ideas???

Are youready for some FUN...

We're having a Birthday crop...come on join the FUN!!! Can't wait to see you there!

WOWSA....I GOT IT!!!

I am beside myself right now I can't believe it! I'm so freaking excited! Okay let me slow down. Jamie told us that she would post the newletter between midnight and 6am...newletter has the list of the NEW Design Team members. Well I was sound asleep until 12:38am when my crazy dogs started barking like maniacs! Anyways, I thought what the heck, i'll just check. Nope not a stalker! ;) SO there is was the list and MY name was on it!!! All my friends from KNK where right, it will happen when it's meant to be!!! Thanks for supporting me girlies!!! So I guess maybe I should tell ya which Design Team i'm on...Treasures to scrap! So go check it out it's a FANTASTIC group and such a FUN place!!!

So stinking excited I had to share before I went back to bed!

Tracy and Wendi (sorry about previous post!)...I can't THANK YOU enough!!! I can't wait for all the excitment to begin!!!

Okay I better go back it bed, seeing how it's 1:11am!!! Nighty Nite!!!

TTS Blog challenge

Post recent favortie photo. I took this and like 100 other of Neely the other morning while we were all playing a game. The faces this girl makes CRACK ME UP!!!

I know I know...

it's been awhile. I've been trying to keep really busy lately to keep my mind off applying for this DT I want it really bad! (not sure if I'm allowed to say who it is). Not sure why I wouldn't be able to, but just in case! I joined the MB last Monday and I can't stay away! Everyone is AWESOME there and it's really been like home! It's so cool! That has got to be my favorite thing about this hobby...We have so many opportunities to make so many amazing friends! Everyone is very helpful and encouraging it's awesome! Some of the girls there are really into digi scrappin and I have to tell you I've never really though much about digi scrappin until this site, I mean holy cow these gals ROCK at it!!! Made me very interested. I still don't think I could ever get into it 1. I don't have the patience to really learn photoshop 2. I love getting my hands on all the amazing products out there and 3. What would I do with all my stuff now??? So YES I want to try it, I downloaded some free kits last night, went through some tutorials and so we'll see. Hopefully sometime this week I can sit down and really get into it. Reed said he'd help me too so that's cool!

I've been scrappin A LOT this week too, it's been fun! All those Layout's are here. I really need to get in gear and start working on my rolodex cards and my circle journal for my track at CKU but I've just been in the groove I don't want to loose it! LOL!

Well we're headed over to my cousin's Scott & Janelle's in a bit for some fun in the sun so Happy Memorial Day everyone!!!

My baby's getting so big!!!

Rylee and Mrs. Corbin
Rylee outside our house before we left, I just had to get a cute shot of the outfit! While blinding her at the same time...sorry baby!
Rylee and Momma
Rylee and Alison
Rylee and Mrs. Wysopal
So today was Rylee's promotion from preschool! It was so cute, but made me so sad at the same time. I can't believe she's already going to be in kindergarden!!! Reed asked if I wanted to have her continue at the school during the summer and I said nope I want to have her ALL summer, because now that's all i'm going to get!!! I am just going to try very hard to make the best of it. I know we'll have our little tiffs now and then, but I want to remember this as a very special time. I hope all our summers can be that way, a time for the girls and I to really connect! I know what a cheese ball!!! So onto the pics...

Just a quick post...

i'm so tired not sure what's wrong with me. Last night I went to be early, set the alarm for 6 am, trying ot beat Neely up. I just couldn't get up this morning, noticed Neely was still alseep so I went for it and turned off the alarm. Neely didn't wake me up until 8 am...it was AWESOME! I don't remember the last time I got to sleep until 8! But the thing is i've been tired/lazy all day, did some exersice too so i'm not sure what's up with me. We went to my Nana's after Karate and stayed way too late, but the girls had a blast playing with Alana and Janelle.

Well, I gotto hit the sack, it's an early day tomorrow...my baby is having her preschool promotion (graduation) tomorrow! I can't belive she's going to be in Kindergarden in less then 3 months! :(

Untill then...

Where did the day go???

I can't believe it's 10pm and I'm just now getting to my BLOG! UGH! Today was a good day, but VERY busy. Neely is doing AWESOME with the PT. She only had one accident at the house and then we went to Kohls, she went there and then I didn't hurry fast enough to get here there in time the 2nd time. But while at home, she went by herself. She ROCKS!

I started 'swapping' out the brads...WOWSA...Confusing a bit! LOL! So glad I decided to do it while Neely was napping, could you imagine? YIKES, lets not go there! LOL!

So today's BLOG challenge is...Do you excerise? And if so what do you do, and if not why and what would motivate you to do so.

My first reaction, are you really asking me this. Do you know something? LOL! Yes I do, has it been regular lately...NOPE! Two weeks ago I started walking at a near by park, I would go before the girls woke up, while Reed was home of course. And then Neely decided to wake up before me...GO BACK TO BED!!! LOL! So my goal is to just start my Firm tapes again, since I can't walk with them...too long. Hopefully Neely will go back to waking up around 7:30 instead of 5:45! And I like my Firm tapes so no big deal!

Well I'm about to pass out...nite all!

Another Wednesday Morning...

Okay I'm not sure I'm going to get use to this, Neely has been waking up earlier and earlier every day this week. Today it was 5:45. I'm so not going to get use to this! I've been trying to get up at 6am so that I can have some "me" time before they wake up and it worked most of last week. But she's not letting me this week. And to top it off her afternoon naps are getting shorter!!! YIKES! But the good thing is that she's going to bed A LOT easier now!

Yesterday potty training was pretty good, she had a couple of accidents, but NONE on my couches so that was AWESOME! We had to take Rylee to Karate yesterday and I asked Neely to go potty before we left, she couldn't. So we got there and I took her, still couldn't go. Then she asked to try while were there and still nothing. So I thought for sure she would go on the way home in her pull up. NOPE. We got home and she went right away! So proud!

So most of you know I've been applying to DTs and you know what...It's really really hard to keep caught up on all these MB's. Am I suppose to be active with each from the moment I apply until I get on the DT or do you not become a MB member until you get on the DT? I don't know the "rules". SO I'm trying and it's hard and I'm getting freaked out that that my ruin my chances! I hope not. So I'm just going to keep trying.

SO speaking of other MB's I was at Treasured Scrapbooking this morning and they have BLOG challenges. How cool is that! So here's today's...

List 5 things that you like to do other then scrapbooking...

1. Reading...which is funny b/c I use to HATE to read. Now I can't get enough. I love funny books and self help the best I think. I'm a nerd! LOL! I also really dig the Stephanie Plum novels, but I'm having a hard time getting caught up with those! Only on # 5. Right now I'm reading Scale Down and still trying to finish Encyclopedia of an Ordinary life.

2. Playing with my girls. Seeing the way they learn through playing is amazing! I love to see how excited they get when they become "Belle" while dressing up, or seeing Neely get super excited when we build her a house with legos. They crack me up!

3. Watching movies with Reed, what can I say I love hanging out with him.

4. Hanging out with my Nana. She's the most amazing woman I know and I LOVE just talking to her.

5. Watching TV. I just LOVE TV. Some would say too much, but it makes me happy. After a crazy day there's nothing like watching those crazy reality TV stars and all their drama!!!

So there it is! Until next time...

And we have progress...

HOLY MOLY, you have no idea how happy I am! After all that, she went on the potty!!! Just now! It's 8:42am! So I put on Bear's Potty Time movie and she's dancing around to the songs...around her potty chair that is. Yes in the living room. Is that okay? So anyways, she's dancing around and then all of a sudden is sits down, on the potty and goes! WOO HOO! I know the rest of the day will be full of ups & down, well probably the next couple months but at least now I know she does get it!!! I'm so excited!

Already having fun...

yeah not really! So most of you know I am starting to potty train Neely this week. She woke up at 6:30am! Must have known today was going to be an adventure. So we put painties on her, go to the potty about every 10 minutes. Making sure sippy cup is always full. I keep telling her "tell momma when you need to go potty" I keep asking her "Nee Nee you need to go potty" and I keep say "okay lets got try" so after who knows how many walks into the bathroom she has an accident...no big deal I tell myself. I get a new pair of panties, take her to the bathroom again. She goes to watch TV and yup she pees on the floor. Okay what's going on. A new pair again. And then she goes AGAIN. What's going on here. We were just in the bathroom. And you just went. Still not freaking out. Well only in my head that is. I don't know what i'm doing wrong. I need advice. All Reed says is maybe she's not ready! She' 2 and a half years old...30 months. She has to be ready, right? I need help...anyone? KNK is down, I have no other commnication, I may be losing it here and it's only 8:12am!!!

Happy Mother's Day to you...

Well for me it was a GREAT day! I got to sleep in...well I got to try to anyways! It seems everytime I get a chance I can't sleep. And well it SUCKS! So Reed got up with the girls, which is a very once in a blue moon thing! Thank goodness for Mother's Day! So I get up had a uninterupted shower...heavenly! Come to the kitchen where breakfast is being made! YUMMY! Egg and a round thing with sausage and coffee oh and grapes. What more can a girl ask for! I mentioned last night that I wanted to take pictures of the day. And Reed had the camera out had already taken pictures of what had happened so far...getting the food ready, the girls making cards, me walking in. It was perfect! Lisa says I trained him well! LMAO! I try. So after breakfast and a trip to Target, Reed told me to get me *&$# in the scraproom and make a lyout of today. So I did. Here it is...

Well she came and went...

In the last post I mentioned my mom was coming over for dinner. We she came and went. After a nice size fight that is! So I did a layout of our relationship or lack there of and I feel pretty good about it. Just wrote about how I feel, and what I see. I like it. Very happy with the outcome. Not sure what exactly I'm going to do with the layout, if I'm actually going to put it in my BOM (book of me). I plan on saving it of course, and I have no intention of hiding it from the girls. Just not sure I would like it to "get around" right now. My family tends to talk! Like who's doesn't! So if you haven't seen and would like to here is the LO.

Did ya miss me???

I know ya did! LMAO!!!

OMGOSH I have no idea where this week went! I've been so crazy busy and I'm not sure I like. Remember my scrap goals? I want to get on a DT or be published well I've been applying for DTs and HOLY MOLY it's a lot of work! But I'm lovin it! Just crossing my toes. I really don't like the rejection but hey who does! All part of the process I guess. I have like 4 more to get out this month and then a few more next month. Hoping the calls keep coming...up my chances! LOL! And then there's still CKU...oh boy! I'm super excited thought it's getting so close!

So I just wanted to drop a line. It's Reed birthday today so we're going to order our fave pizza and hang out. My parents are coming over...don't ask! LOL! And then we'll probably watch movies or something!

Have a great one everyone!

So much for 'me' scrappin time...

so the day was GREAT no drama's or anything. Then 6pm rolls around and HOLY MOLY! Rylee comes in here and stands on this rubbermaid bucket thing she has full of scrap stuff and is leaning on my table (it's like a card table but rectangle) and then next thing I know she's on the ground (on her back) and the table is laying on her forehead! HOLY CRAP!!! I have NEVER seen a bump/bruise appear so freaking fast! She's totally freaking and so am I while TRYING to remain calm. I get her ice and call the emergency # for her dr. A nurse finally calls back asks a million and 2 ?s which is totally fine, i want to know what to do. She she said she thinks she'll be fine but her concern was the weight of the table. And says I should take her in...oh boy. Well I get ready to take Neely to my Nana's before heading to the hospital and Rylee is like her old self (happy, laughing, everything). We get inside her house and she's perfect, still has a bump and bruise but no weird signs. So I didn't end up taking her, my Nana took us for Chinese instead! LOL! So we just got home, the girls are already out and needless to say I'm pooped! In the pic the bruise is right under my thumb, kinda hard to see.

And then to add to all of this, Reed's flight out of NY was an hour and 40 minutes late, so he missed his fight out of Chicago to Phx! Yeah he's MAD!!! So he got to fly out of Chicago a bit ago and has to go to LA and won't be able to fly into Phx until 7:30am!!! Up super MAD!!! What a day!!!

Not so stressed...

anymore. YAY! I have been feeling completly over whelmed the last few days with everything i have on my plate besides my normal mother/wife duties. The list of things to do other than the norm is slowing getting smaller! Double YAY! I volunterred to put together the gifts from the games from my cousin's baby shower tomorrow. And I'm finally done! YAY, again! I made 2 paint can's filled with 'movie night' themed stuff, like a Blockbuster GC, candy and popcorn. I also finished the paint can for their gift! You've guessed it...another YAY! So glad those are done!

Now I still have some major stuff to do for CKU, I want to scrap...scrap a REAL LO! Not for a call or for a CJ but for me! So that's the plan for tonight! I'm going to scrap! Since tomorrow is NSD and I won't be able to scrap unless it's way earlier in the AM...Reed's coming home tomorrow! WOO HOO!!! The inlaws are bringing him since they're coming for Rylee's dance recital Sunday and his plane doesn't come in until late tonight. So now I don't have to drive 2 hours with 2 little ones at 7pm! I get to SCRAP!!!

Well off to pick up Rylee, but I also wanted to share the paint can's with ya! BTW, the CMS paint can says baby Morales.

much better afternoon

i fell like i got a good amount of stuff done since i last typed this morning. the house was picked up as much as possible before we left to my last MOPS leadership meeting of the year. Gonna miss you girls! Then home for lunch and a little more pick up. UGH! How messy a house with 2 little girls and 2 pups can get!

DUring Nee Nee's nap I started working on some little give aways for our last MOPS meeting. We have a TON of drawings for all the moms, so I made a couple frames and a couple note books for a couple give aways. Didn't think I would finish them but I did! WOO HOO! Rylee of course had to make a frame too, luckily I had just one extra! She has her own stash of CS, PP and other stuff and said she wasn't liking the paper she picked, so I looked at her and said "Well you can pick from Momma's stash this time" and she stopped right in her little 5 year tracks and said "ARE YOU SERIOUS!" yup just like that! I just started laughing, not sure what to think of her reaction that I would actually let her use a piece of my PERICOUS PP! And wouldn't you know it she of course picked a PP from my fave KI! She has good taste! ;) Girl cracks me up!

Here's a pick of our creations...

I'm tired...

I went to bed about 10pm last night, woke up at 6am. That was a good amount of sleep but I'm laggin bad this morning. Sitting here drinking my coffee, trying to get lists going for the day and I'm not doing so good. UGH! Hope it's not a sign for the rest of the day.

I was MIA for a few days due to being in Pinetop and Chandler and let me tell you I'm so so glad to be home! The girls had a blast, and of course so did I but there's really no place like home! Thanks Dorothy! ;)

I'm off to try again! Wish my luck!

Momma's in training...

baby Grant, Scott & Janelle came over last night after Karate and Rylee and Neely were in heaven with Grant. They wanted to sit by him, touch him, hold him and FEED him! Janelle was a great sport with all the attention they wanted to give him and I think he liked it too! But they will just have to get use to him b/c no more babies in this house! LOL!

YAY, orange & white...

belt!!! Go Rylee! We're so proud of our little karate star! Rylee had her first graduation for karate last night and she's now an orange & white belt! She's very excited about that! Here's a couple of pics, the place was super crazy so my pics aren't fantastic like I would have liked them to be, but i'll take better ones in class on tuesday!

So I thought...

i was going to be able to stay up and finish 6 more LOs, but nope i'm so freaking tired and i'm going to bed. I did manage to finish 2, might have been able to do 3 if the baby Grant lo didn't take longer then it should have due to me having issues with the title, but thanks to Lisa I figured it out, thanks girly! The family lo came together super fast so that was nice! So here they are...

12 layouts in one night

Here's a link to the ones I did last night, over at the scrap BLOG.

Thanks for checking them out!

It's Monday...

so far so good. I started laundry right when everyone woke up, have 1 and a half loads left. This time I've actually kept up with it all day and it's all put away except what's in the washer and dryer! WOO HOO go me! LMAO! I took the girls to the park this AM, the refused to have there pics taken, but I did manage to get a couple of Neely trying to blow bubbles. Too darn cute she is! I have a few more things to do around the house today and then after dinner and when the girls are in bed I hope to finish up the 12 layouts in one night. That I started last night. I did 6 yesterday and hope to finish the rest tonight. Until then...

My new toy...

So I had a mini ipod and it decides to break, after almost 2 years! I luckily had the warranty. SO I called back in Feb. And they tell me they will send me this shipping label and I mail in the ipod and then they send me a GC. Sounds easy enough, well yeah it wasn't! So after 2 months and MANY MANY hours on hold I finally got the situation resolved and was able to take the ipod to the store Thursday and the return get what I wanted for the value. So since the don't sell the mini's anymore and I don't want a Nano or a shuffle I decided to wait on the ipod (i can always use Reed's) and I got this... and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I have a bigger cyber shot and LOVE that as well. But I wanted something small and easy to just keep with me ALWAYS. And this is it I'm so happy with it!

Had a great Easter...

We had a BLAST on Easter my cousin Debbie hosted this year, everyone came over with the kiddos. Man where did they all come from! LMAO! One minute we had like 2 babies in the family and now HOLY MOLY! We had a big egg hunt and lots of YUMMY YUMMY food with a even yummier cake...so I was told. It was a BLAST! But I am glad it's over! And can anyone tell me why, why do my kids need 5 baskets (rylee) and 4 (neely)...what's up with that! It took me FOREVER to pile into just ONE! LOL!

I know I've said this before but...

I LOVE BWW we went there after Rylee's karate class for dinner and mmmmmmmm. They have this new sauce, well 2 new sauces, Parmesan Garlic and Asian Zing I can't get enough of those! It's great having Karate right by that place! The girls love it too so it's great! BTW my family is a little crazy...see pics! LOL!

Whew...

I've been MIA for a few days b/c I've been nusting my rear to get this Circle Journal done for the CKU A San Jose yahoo group! And I just finished! I'm hoping once I get it in the mail my life will go somewhat back to normal and I can continue to keep up with my BLOG! Here'e the cover for my CJ, my theme is design inspiration.

Today I started my "week" for my CKU track. I'm so excited for this album. Ali ROCKS! So basiclly I just take pictures of my day things I see and all that. Hopefully I'll get some good pictures today. Bye for now...

Here's my new toy!!!

OMGOSH besides the fact that my last Epson was awful, I am so pleased with them as a company. They totally hooked me up. Most of you now about the trama I had with my last printer as of Monday they said they would hook me up with a new one, after my tansfers and me not being satisfied, but always being polite. I got it today! Talk about speddy service. So here's the new beauty! It's a different model too, so hopefully that's a good thing. Stinks b/c I just bought all new ink for Costco and it's doesn't work with this printer BUT I called Epson and if I send them back, they will send me the ones that do work! WOO HOO! Very pleased with this company! That's it for now! Have a great one everyone!