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!!!