When in doubt... wear a life perserver

Have you ever seen that cartoon Garfield and friends. There is a duck on there that always runs around with an intertube on screaming that the sky is falling. Well this was bella today... Minus the sky falling part. Daddy told her she could go swimming IF she would take her nap... she never took her nap. THe picture of her looking out the window was like 8 pm tonight she still had hopes of swimming. NOT! Besides the fact her pool is less than 2 foot deep but she needed the zoe swim float regardless. I had to take these pictures they so reminded me of that character (I cannot remember his name to save me right now) on Garfield. This so cracked me up with the tinkerbell costume. then the NRA t shirt WHICH is her favorite (good lord) by the way that her papa D got her BEFORE SHE WAS BORN mind you. Another day of fun summer time gone.

On another note: My mother has her eye surgery Tuesday so please remember her in your prayers. Also remember Mrs. Moore with her cancer she is still having problems. I also am having lots of female problems (can hardly wear shorts or anything around my waist it hurts... sorry to complain but, Got a call in to dr office they said it was the tumor not alot we can do until we have the surgery... so anyway I hope tomorrow is pain free for everyone.

Ps: Was the ducks name Roy?

fun fun fun

TOday is our Christmas in July Crop at WWW.THEUNTAMEDSCRAPPER.COM We are having a blast. I have been in and out having some small issues with female problems. So far I have gotten one page made. This is one of my favorite photos of Bella. Not a great picture I know but the bling I added to the 3 and the flowers needs to dry so I can scan it so I just took a quick photo. I will update you with a better scan of it later. Just a simple fun page to get my mo jo flowing. Bella has her best friend "eeya cawowine" (Eva caroli'ne) over today playing. ALl I hear is them up and downt he hallways giggling. It is the best sound. Ok back to scrapping. we have lots of prizes to give away so you ought to stop by.

ONLINE CROP!

TOMORROW (saturday) we are having an online crop for "Christmas in July" come by www.theuntamedscrapper.com tomorrow 8 am central standard time. There will be fun, croppin and prizes. SO come by and have fun with all us DIVA girls :) I hope to see you there :)

Play area or No play area that is the question

AHHHHHHHH IM CLEANING MY SCRAPROOOM!
I think I could plant a garden with the stuff that came out of the carpet. IM SICK OF all the mess in here and IM PURGING and cleaning. I have to get this done before the surgery. I was going to make Bella a play area in here but ya know.. Im wondering if that is such a good idea. SHe keeps getting into EVERYTHING and strows more stuff for me to clean up. I found so many glitter packs and glue and stuff I know she is 3 she has to learn but I cant get projects done when she is plundering. SO what do you do to keep the kiddos occupied so you can get your scheduled projects finished?

"insert picture of person pulling hair out here~~~>"

SO thought today was gonna be a great day ... IT was a good day. BUT I had to go grocery shopping. IT was great to get out of this dadgum house but OMGawesh wore me slam out and I have Bella bug with me..... she dumped well not dumped but Ok

Her version: "Mommayeeeeee!!!!!, miltfate jump to all oberBelda!" translation: Mommy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! milkshake jumped all over Bella"

My Version: She squeezed her milkshake cup and it exploded No other word to explain it.

It was chocolate. This lady looked at me like I squished it out of her! she was like OH MY GOSH and took off the other way. I wanted to say " WHAT you havent seen a kid explode before? " So needless to say.. I had brought extra big girl panties just in case and a pair of shorts but not a shirt and socks and shoes.... so i had to buy her another shirt (she is so smart I wanna try this to get new clothes... wouldnt work John would make me wear them) and socks... I wiped off the shoes NICE TRY BELLA. WE all know your a shoe hog honey!

So we get out of Wal mart. Get to target... Yeah we have gift cards again.. Its confusing I know but John gets gift cards instead of bonus checks It is good SOMETIMES but we dont get gift cards to but certain places and wal mart ISNT on the list grrrr and some things Oh and I was gonna run by the lss cuz I have a ton of stuff to drop off but It was raining like crazy. Bella was SCREAMING cuz it was raining. I thought to myself YA KNOW if I had ANY food at my house I would just go home. BUT no... WE continue on our journey the great hunt for food. Get in target. What does she do.... DUMPS an entire display of deoderant stuff like female deoderant spray. I was like GREAT thanks. She said "Bella WAS JUST FIXING IT MOMMY" I thought Yeahhhh you fixed it alright. The lady just smiled at me KNOWING she wanted to hurl something at us. BUT I MADE Bella help her pick it up. I think that annoyed the lady but I wanted this to be a learning experience. Yes MEAN mommy for making her pick it up. BUT IM so tired of her doing this. We get our groceries I look Bella has an OPENED capri sun lemonade in her hand sipping away. Im thinking... Ok I know Im tired but did I give her that. I look in the buggy and there is a box of them... opened. WHILE I was on my hands and knees trying to get the LAST jug of white cranberry/apple juice off the bottom shelf in the VERY VERY VERY back. I had pushed the buggy all the way on the isle over so this dude could get by. I guess she proceeded to partake at that point... HOW I Missed the opened box though i was like OK I guess we are getting that. I WAS ACTUALLY thanking GOD that it was a new one and she hadnt stolen it from some kid or taken if God forbid Out of the garbage you know how people just set stuff down. UGHHh the horror. SO we talked about how that was a bad thing and not to do that blah blah blah.... Well she had a perfect potty day for a few days straight so I promised her we would get her some special paint. (color wonder the kind that doesnt mess up everything on earth when she uses it) and she remembers this of course. I JUST KNEW she would throw a fit for the cinderella one but I told her ONLY ONE you can choose ONE. She picked the most sensible set. The one that had the markers the paints and three books in it. I was like ROCKIN! There is a brain in there. I asked her why she chose this one she said" well mommmy bella see tindewelda on dat one but no cudors and dis one wight heyah has cudors in it" I was like oh ok. seems logical enough to me. WE GET HOME. Johns had gotten a grill for fathers day from his parents and he picked it up today and was putting it together. (layout to come on that) the thing said ASSEMBLY TIME 15 MINUTES..... 3 hours later I asked him HOWZ THIS WORKIN FOR YOU..has it been 15 minutes yet ? he growled at me. I guess he didnt see the humor in it. SO I took Bella back inside (to save her life) Bella said mommy? Daddy not in a dood MOOD is he? I said No baby daddy is trying to put things together we never talk to daddy when he is doing that. SHe said just like she knew what I was meaning "OH!" like HOW could I forget that! They called from the dr office to set up my surgery seems that the insurance company doesn't want it to be at one hospital so they may ahve to do it at another? (that so makes NO sense to me) anyway the chic was pretty ticked and was trying to get some number off my card so she could fight with em so I was like "givem hell sista" and hung up. glad it was her not me.
SO that was our eventfull day.... Gonna go finish this project for scrappychic mag. and go lay my tired butt down! and whehwhew tomorrow is Friday!!

TAGGGGGGG

I got tagged here we go

7 People I admire

1. My mom 2. My brother 3. My husband 4. my mother in law 5. Deanna kroll 6. Jeanne (look at my blog man!) 7. oh last one... my neighbor Diane Carter I could keep going and going on this question!

7 things I say often:

1. Do you need to potty? 2. Did you wash your hands and flush? 3. I love you. 4. STOP PLEASE! 5. OH my GOodnes 6. That is so stinkin'.... (fill in blank with cute, cool, precious, etc) 7. BELLA COME HERE!!!!!NOW!!! HERE! NOWWWW! DONT MAKE ME GET UP!!!

7 things I cannot do:

1. go like I want to shopping and traveling and etc 2. Write pretty 3. See my feet (prednisone need I say more) 4. keep up with my kid from dawn till dark (wears me slam out) 5. eat shellfish Im allergic 6. paint like my mother 7. add or do any kind of math to save my life (checkboook is out for me )

7 things you might not know about me

1. I eat black eyed peas with my spaghetti 2. I used to be a cheerleader and did tumbling could jump straight up in the air and touch my toes ROFL not anymore the thought makes me cringe 3. I won beauty in my highschool 10th grade homecoming pagent. 4. I know the entire alphabet in sign language 5. I used to be able to get in the sun and had a nice tan. 6. I used to barrell race horses and rodeo. 7. I lived in the same town most of my entire life until I moved to Alabama at 34.

7 Movies I enjoy

McClintock (john wayne) 2. Demolition man 3. Independence day 4. The Thomas Crowne affair 5.After the sunset 6. SOmething to talk about 7. My best friends wedding

7 things I wish I could change in my life

1. The last 6 months ughhh! 2. My health 3. I want to work full time like a normal person without getting sick all the time. 4. august 28th, 2005 12 :18 pm the moment my daddy was killed. 5. I would have prayed for God to open my eyes sooner. 6. I would have taken better care of my body when I was younger 7. I would be more involved in church.

7 books I have read and would read again

I dont read THAT many books anymore... but :

1. Purpose driven life. 2. Beth moore power of the praying wife 3. THe price of privelge (highly recomend this!) 4.myths lies and downright stupidity 5. what your dr's dont want you to know 6. anything erma bombeck 7. the lupus handbook

7 people who should do seven : (doesnt have to be the same 7) hahaha this is where i get yall

Kim (scraptomylu) 2. Teri-lynn (is gonna kill me) 3. Jeanne (how could I forget you dear. 4. Motobarbie youll do it wont you? 5. jaci (i think you already did) 6. Momto3boys ~ lissa :) 7. If your reading this and have a blog THEN TAG YOUR IT!

hmmmm gotta get used to it

Get used to seeing this! YEEEHAWWWW can't say what or where yet,but I will just say. ITS A BIG SURPRISE Im so excited! Im about to BURST WIDE OPEN. But that is all I can say for now sooooo keep your eyes peeled QQ.

I just gotta say

HOW MUCH my friend Jeanne ROCKS! Look at my site LOOK LQQQQQK at it!!!!!!! are ya lookin? She did such an amazing job. See mini me.. lil bit.. bug... fart blossom ok also known as BELLA, FIXED It for me in the first place. I had to run out of the room for something I cannot remember what now probly the phone and I come back... there are screens up on my computer I have never in my entire life seen before. WEll she deleted most of my blog and added stuff that I have no clue how it got there my type was reversed (how in the world she did that I wish I knew cuz well it was kinda cool but anyway)I worked for like 18 hours I mean I DIDNT sleep to get my blog back to well...how it was yesterday. My friend Jeanne who has been really sick mind you cuz she fell on her dog and busted her FACE.. yeah long story but you can look at my links and see CROSSROADS and click there read all 'bout it. ANYWAY... SHE TOTALLY fixed my blog CONCUSSION AND ALL. NOW that is a true friend. SHE IS THE BOM DIG ITY! Lovin Jeanne! SO yall all go BOMBARD her blog and tell her sweet stuff cuz she has been feelin crappy but still helped out a friend in need. HOW Much does that rock! I will put a picture up later my camera battery is sooooo dead been doing a photo shoot for the trey I made. You can see it later. Maybe.. if your good hehehehe (keep fingers crossed lynette likes it) please GOD OH pleaSE!

fun fun fun

This is how we spent our day today. Dancing singing and chilling. OK well that is what Bella did. I cleaned, vaccumed, scrubbed and washed clothes. At least one of us had fun hahaha I have to say she was pretty cute in her "tindawelda" dwess and her "sweepin booty" dwess too.

My froggy

To have that much energy again AHHHHH the froggy hop. IN HEELS none the less. A true girly girl in her element froggy hop and all. I thought this would complement my friend Kim's blog she has a picture of her sons pet frog on there so I thought I would share the only frog that I want in my house hahaha!http://scrap-to-my-lu.blogspot.com/ <~~~ there you can see her blog. Give her a shout out for me. Tell her Miss Bella bug Sent ya or shall I say bella froggy sent ya.

lovely day

THE mini monster has no school today she is home with mommy. WE have revolted to being a baby today. We are not 3 we are teeny tiny baby. (and she is getting into anything cuz Im posting on my blog grrrr) She refuses to go potty (not sure what that is about) can tell it will be ONE OF THOSE DAYS!!! Pray she and I both have hair at the end of this day lol

WHEWWW that was close!

OK so I go to the dr they put me in the same room that I was well to say the least violated in.... Read a previous post and you'll catch up if you are clueless right now. Anyway Im like oh no this aint good. BUT actually... it wasnt bad. I had to p in a cup they said you passed a kidney stone we caught it in the cup the other day it is a calcium oxide stone (he gave me a brief lecture on how they are formed) it seems MY FAVORITE BEVERAGE OF CHOICE Sweet tea is the culprit. nooooooo why why why calcium THERE is no calcium in sweet tea calcium is in cereal and ice cream and stuff but sweet tea NOOoooooo. SO anway chcik didnt come at me with the pick so I figured it was a good day! just cant drink much sweet tea no more that is ok I have lived the last couple weeks without it I will just have to learn to drink water and I guess because it is tap water the chlorine and chemicals in it will cause some kind of cancer and I will die anyway but at least maybe it wont be from a kidney stone. I have an altered project of decopauge due the end of the month maybe I could do some rocks and call it my "rock group" get it?? nah wasnt that funny demrol made things much funnier I am finding. That is ok IM SO HAPPY to report I dont need it today! NOW I think I will lay down and rest and finish eating MY healthy grilled chicken salad (cuz my butt is getting way toooooo fat on pred and laying around all the time) and exercise my right to change channels on the tv. MUUUAAAHH!

MOnday..... AHHHHHHHH

Well It is Monday..... I go back to the dr day. If yall see me on Cnn for left hookin' a nurse yall will know she came at me again with that metal hook... Lets pray for her sake and MINE not. I feel SOOOOOOO much better but just the thought of that would make someone come out of a coma of 30 years. SO keep good thoughts and all and I will give yall a hopefully GREAT report and no left hooks or metal hooks when I get home. AND IF IM A GOOD GIRL I may just get to stop by the store and get milk and toilet paper (grrrr I hate grocery shopping)

aaahh Sunday!

WOW the birds are chirping the sun is shining.. wait a minute the sun isnt shining IT IS RAINING! WHEWHWHEHWHEWW it is raining YES! WE need rain so bad here it is not even funny. So hurray for rain! On another note... I feel better. I can feel my legs without screaming. I can sit up straight without screaming. DO YOU SEE A PATTERN??! I have another dr appt in the morning so hopefully we can get to the bottom of this haha get it BOTTOM of it. They just better not come at me with that pic ax thing again. Yall will be getting me out of jail! SO anyway I had my first designers meeting with the site Im gonna work with YIPPEE IM so excited! I have some things to work on this week! I can already smell the modge podge! (that is a good thing I hope) I am really excited about it and pray I do it justice. As you can see I have a new look here. WAS SO NOT INTENTIONAL! Bella the dear sweetheart (I keep saying that in hopes I will believe that) deleted over half my blog today while "playing" on my computer. I wanted to cry. so Im trying to recover it and jeanne if your reading this HELP!!! yeah I KNOW you will be hiding now hahahaaha hey I did recover my profile and my posts and photos they are just in a whacked out order so if anyone knows how to fix that HEY Id appreciate it!

Your gonna put that WHERE???!!!!???

Ok so I go to the dr. Im in IMMENCE pain. Blood pressure 124 over 99 pain the kind of pain that you experience with say CHILDBIRTH. I cant even sit on my rear cuz everything else downt here hurts too bad. THey call me back and they give me this WONDERFUL shot called nubane. and after that IM like COOOl we can go home I feel so much better IM FINE. they are like ughmm NO we have to do ct scan and some other thing whihc is fancy name for an x ray. SO we go do that I feel fine no worries. I get back the dr is shaking his head.. We cant find any stones. There is no stones in there and your urine really doesnt look that bad yeah it has some blood in it but not what we woudl expect so Im liek OK so what the he** is making me hurt so *&Y^#@ bad! mind you it has been like 4 hours and the WONDERFUL shot they gave me is wearing off again. HE said I dunno we wont blame it on kidneys so I said OK how do you explain the THE AUTOMOBILE THAT IS COMING OUT OF MY PRIVATE PARTS? he just kinda laughs (dont you love it when they do that) so he says we will do a sterile urine sample. Im thinking OK what you gonna do BOIL ME FIRST? OH lord I had no idea. she comes in here with this metal pic Im notkidding you it looks liek that thing you scrape the inside of nuts (no pun guys) pecans and walnuts out when you shell them. SO im like hmm that is interesting and she has a cup. IM like Ok. SO she says lean back and put yoru feet in the stirrups IM like what stiruups why do I need stirrups. ans she grabs the pick IM like UGHMM Nononono wait aminute YOUR GONNA DO WHAT? you are putting that WHERE? she says this may hurt a little but im gonna put some lidocaine on it first IM like "WHAT THE *&^%$ you better put ALOT of lidocaine on it and lets just talk about this a second lady you are telling me you are gonna do "WHOOOAAAH OWWW HEY HEY HEY now wait a minute HEY that oh man nononono that is SOOO jsut.... wrong!" and then she is like whistling .. I gues s that is what you do when YOU ARE KILLING SOMEONE you whistle! she is like Oh Ill drain your bladder while im in there IM thinking OH SURE just for kicks go ahead... why not, so after she is done and im trying to unpucker my butt and uncurl my toes. she says well you know I think that stone could have been so low it didnt pick it up and you do have a really bad infection your so red. Im thinking RED??? RED?? YEAH ITS CALLED BLOOOD YOU JUST shoved a PIC AX somewhere that it dont go lady. SO anyway I felt alot better (once the drugs once again took effect) and not reasured cuz the dr was like well we will try to grow this in the lab and see what kind of infection it is and well, come back on Monday... OK YEAH RIGHT. That is what I wanna do. HOLY CRAPPOLA. they did give me more pain med.. which Im like I wont need this if youKNOW what is wrong and fix it! so anyway it dont hurt as bad when I p but good lord. I DONT want to hear the word urolgist again THAT IS THE EVIL dr. They could get secrets out of ALqueda with that torture device I assure you! Im off to go write 50 times I WILL NOT EVER DRINK COKE AS LONG AS I LIVE... and cry

well DUH

I couldnt figure out WHY the photo of my box didnt show up.... and then I realised (Ok be easy on my IM SICK REMEMBER and on medication) I didnt upload it. SO I will put it here and then go crawl my dyin butt back to bed. I also realised I left out the LINKS to my recommended sites. GOSH Im batting the full inning here huh!

The links of the sites are (in no order still ok!) www.scrapthatmoment.com , www.theuntamedscrapper.com, www.scrappychick.com, www.scrappersbliss.com, www.scrapstreet.com, and www.thememorysafe.com These are the sites I frequent most. So stop by and say hello LOTS Of amazing talent! Tell me your favorite sites YOU KNOW I am always looking at different places online. OK crawling off to bed. hope your having a great day today!

an AH HAA ROCKIN' moment!

OK I have to get on my box for a moment so everyone step back. I got an invite from scrap that moment/scrappy chicks to do some freelance work for their magazine. I was like OMG OK yeah sure! I am SOOOOO excited about this and floored and shocked (they want me?! gulp!) Anyway I was like sure thing lets see how fast I can fly over and look at that site! OH MY GOSH yall IM so im pressed! that site IS SOOOOO ROCKIN! Their members and staff all have posts IN THE THOUSANDS. Now that tells me something ... THey have a very active community. Ok so I am intimidated a little when I look at the site IT IS SO polished and sooo eye pleasing and just flat out gorgeous. I mean look at some of the sites that are out there people and you will understand IM JUST mouth hanging open at how this place is set up. The graphics are amazing! The people are just so friendly and in one day I had like no less than 8 comments on some of my gallery submissions. SO I was like Oh ok they just want to impress me. SO I go look around and like EVERYONE has tons of comments. I was like well heck yeah. THey have some amazing talent over there I am just browsing and am getting ideas and wanna go scrap (dang kidney stones wont let me do much today SO anyway I highly recommend this site! Yall all know I have my favorites scrappersbliss, The Untamed Scrapper and The memory safe. IN NO specific ORder (I dont want ugly feed back now y a hear) SO TELL ME. What are your favorite sites? WHere do you post your work and why? What impresses you most when you go on a site and what really turns you off to it? I wanna hear from YOU! OH and here is a card box I made yesterday. A good friend of mine's mom was dx with colon cancer and lymphnode cancer. I thought this would be a little cheer me up for her and I am going to make some thank you cards and she can keep the cards she gets in it as well. SHe goes to our church her husband is our Sunday school teacher and I just love them to pieces SO PLEASE keep Mrs. Vicky in your prayers SHe has a great recovery prognosis and is doing real well but is feeling bad and sad and all so just pray for her THANKS YALL ROCK!

The shirt says it all

The shirt says it all. I got this at Great American Scrapbook Convention. I LOVE this shirt and BELLA loves to wear her "crappin turt" she is such a ham. SHe had to strike a pose to show off her scrapbook modeling skills.. NO we havn't created a monster hahahaaha

WHOOPS I did a boo boo. I was wrong about the Hobby Lobby magazine. IT WILL BE IN OCTOBER that it will come out with Bellas sweet face in it. AND at your request since alot of you don't get that magazine here is a VERY ROUGH copy of the page it looks better in person. This is a last years page and has a VERY FUNNY photo that I didnt include on the layout. I had a few tell me to send it in to jay leno for the funny pictures but I DIDNT want to embarass the poor lady so bad but here is the photo YOU HAVE TO LOOK IN THE BACK GROUND I felt so sorry for her but dadgum we have laughed our tails off at that poor woman. That is so my luck ya know but ussually IM the one IN the picture not taking it. WE had no idea this was on the photo till we got the photos developed. Im standing in wal-mart and the photos are on the screen and Im about to wet my pants Im laughing so hard at it and finally the little dude behind the counter comes around and is like OK WHAT is so funny and I showed him. WEll then he calls over his buddies they call over theres by the time it got around we had like 30 people staring at the kodak machine in tears cuz the poor ladies face just says it all. IF YOu know this lady tell her THANKS FOR letting us laugh at her and IM SO SORRY I didnt purposfully take this picture but man we appreciate it!

good news/bad news

what do you want first? good news? bad news? Ok good news? ok. WELL good news I have 3 pubs in the last few days. I got freelance designer for scrappychic, I got a magazine pub for scrapstreet magazine and I was notified today I will be in september's hobby lobby magazine. I have to mail the layout in because it has shadows on it when I scan it sooo hubby will do that tomorrow for me. I applied for an amazing design team, scrapper's bliss where I met my friend Jeanne. We both are up for it and I pray at least one of us gets it IT WOULD SO ROCK if both of us got it. I just am not sure if I will cuz there are SOME AMAZING scrappers that are up for it and after looking at the ones that submitted well, Im not gonna hold my breath BUT I SOOOOOO WANT THIS MORE THAN ANYTHING I LOVE that site and MAN ITS ROCKIN! SO I got all my fingers toes and anything else I can cross CROSSED. NOW.... the bad news... DR appt. the suckola part of my day today. I have endometriosis... again well it never goes away it gets better and worse. well He said IT doesnt get much worse than this that the only things I could do was either TRY MY DANGDEST to get pregnant and then have a hysterectomy or to go on and have a hysterectomy and since I had so much trouble with Bella having and carrying her whatever guess what my option is.... which is not all bad news I would be feeling ALOT BETTER and not have all these problems anymore. BUT the down side... you knew it was coming. I have to wait till I pass all these kidney stones before we can do the surgery sooo we are looking to August. NOT FUN so another month of suffering before I can do this. yehaw fun. I have mixed emotions I mean.. this makes it FINAL NO more babies. whatsoever it is permanent I mean once they take it out there aint no puttin it back ya know... that is the part I dont like but I KNOW I KNOW it is for the best. I just hate the finality. I always wanted lots of kids. this just settles it and I know we prayed for one healthy baby and I should not be greedy and ask for another and ANY other child we had would probably have a major complex cuz I woudl have to figure a way to scrapbook their life like I do bellas and MAN that would be a job lolol well I know this is for the best I just have to mourn my female organs for a few minutes and Ill be fine. THE GOOD PART. NO MORE MONTHLY MONSTER yipeee!

Toot toot tootin

OK so I GUESS the "wocks" in my tummys as my DD Bella says Just may be my good luck Wocks I mean rocks. I GOT ANOTHER TOOT! Hobby lobby just sent me an email to publish Bellas Pumpkin Patch page. MAN this has been an exciting last few days .... Kidney stones... publish.. kdiney stones... publish... IF they didnt hurt so bad I might just keep em around a few more days to see if some payin gigs come through AHH Oh well Ill just have to pray harder. SOOOOO If You have a hobby lobby near you. Bellas sweet face will be in the September edition it is called at THE PUMPKIN PATCH.

fourth july layouts

WELL here is the layout from fouth of July. Our across the street neighbors have a little girl Eva Caroline that is 5 months older than Bella and they are the best of friends. Every day Bella crys and crys wanting to go play with Eva. SO they met in the front yard daddy's in tow and shot fireworks. well the stomped on snaps. They weren't quite strong enough to make them pop just throwing them. SO they stomped them which they thought was GREAT fun! Bella didnt care for the sparklers and every time they lit something she covered her ears cuz she thought it would be loud. It was really cute but I felt so sad for her because I know it scared her. THEY LOVED for Bradlee (my nephew) to pull them in the wagon he made it OH SO FUN. They ate watermelon and played babies and princesses the rest of the evening. Im so glad she has such a sweet little girl across the street to play with.

MORE GOOD NEWS

I just got an email from scrappy Chic magazine to be a freelance artist for their site. They will let me know when they need projects or "fill ins" and Ill do pages to go intheir magazine for product HOW MUCH DOES THAT ROCK!!! whehwhew THat will make the kidney stones feel better

IM PUB'D!

WELL come AUGUST it will be official. YOu will see Bella's stinkin cute face in Scrapstreets magazine! YEAHHH!!! My splish splash layout is officially published. IM in the run off for the cover SO keep your fingers crossed. I won't know who got it till later on in the month but IM so excited! YIpeee!! She said I could keep the page on my blog so I didn't delete it. It is further down my blog though.

They shall be called payne agony and ouch!

Well so far so good. I have passed 3 kidney stones. I thought I was done at 2 but no no no had to pass one more just for good measure. Carol Burnett once described childbirth pain as to take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. Im not sure that is how Id describe it but lets just say Im still walking funny. I PRAY that is it, being I took the last of the medication they gave me. I have a gyno appt tomorrow at 2 45 to see about the cyst I pray it is something that is easily fixed and We dont have to go through a HUGE drawn out process. I REALLY DO NOT have time for this! Then THURSDAY I have a urologist appt. I guess it would be just silly to have the appt WHEN IM ACTUALLY IN PAIN! whatever... I just hope it goes away and stays.

Happy 4th of July everyone

Hope you are having Lots of fun today on this 4th of July. I hope you get to see LOTS of beautiful fireworks, Eat way too much bar be que and watermelon and ice cream etc and Thank God for our country and our independence today.

PHOTOS FINALLY of the New edition to the family

WELL here she is... FINALLY I have photos of the new ride.. Happy now? ROFL

I wasnt INTENDING on getting a new car NOR did I want a new car... But isnt it pretty. Rides good too. 2007 Toyota Camry still has the new car smell. Bella says Its her car. That is ok with me. I really wanted the Highlander till I saw consumer reports and saw the gas mileage it got so Im the happy owner of a new car. I guess it is time to grow up and be a car driver now. I miss my truck but... we really did need a car with Bella.

Even wumms

A conversation I had with my Dear 3 year old Bella today went like this: BElla: Mommy! Jesus loves everyone ya know. Mommy: Yes Bella Jesus loves everybody. Bella: Even wummms! Mommy: Yep Even wums. Bella: Jesus loves this wumm and Bedda cubber hims up wiff dut... cuz he deayahed. Mommy: Ok... WEll are we having a funeral for him... Bella: HUH? why Bedda have fubertawel? Mommy: No a funeral. Its when something dies and you bury it and say good things about it. Bella: sigh.. NO Bedda just cuvbered hims up wiff durt cuz bedda wike it. Mommy: OK. a few minutes pass... Bella: Mommy EYe a wittle bowey today. Mommy: A little boy? I thought you were mommys beautiful princess. Bella::: TOTALLY ANNOYED:: BEDDA NOT A BOOTIFUWL CINCESS TODAY MOMMY BEDDA BOOTIFUL CINCESS TOMOWOWW!!! SO this is what we did today on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.

True love

Here isa sneak peak of a layout i did that will be featured in this months VIEW at www.theuntamedscrapper.com We had some photo and paper challenges. This is just one of them. You should check out the site we have some great talent there.

Why is it that the ones you trust the most hurt you the most. It never fails.... every day I find something else out about this friend or shall I say who I THOUGHT was my friend. I continue to pray for her. She is in a bad way right now. BUT I am learning My husband is the best friend I will ever have. I am so thankful to him. HE is pretty mad that I helped the friend out and got suckered into the situation and it has put us in a bad way financially for a small while but I have learned a HUGE lesson and IT WILL NEVER happen again.... the fact he has forbid it also helps lol. I guess I should listen to him more. It seems though that when something happens like this it makes us stronger. I dont know if it is because we have to work together to get through it or what, but it shows he is every bit the man I have always thought he was and will be. I thank GOd for him.

agony despair and no good news

WELL.. ONE of these days there will be good news to share... NOT TODAY. well a little today but to start it off. Hubby has a swollen eye so he had to go to optomotrist first thing this morning. seems he got something foreign in it and it got infected... so he is home today. Im having female problems from that blame cyst on my ovary and after having kidney stones earlier (why do they follow each other each time) Im ready to scream im so sore. Called the nurse she said if it gets worse to go in for a ct that it sounds like it could have ruptured. and that I sound like I am getting anemic (ya think? there is gonna be nothing left in me before long!) She told me to drink a large glass of OJ and take a strong multi vitamim ????? Ok did that. and then I ate a good dinner. and believe it or not I FEEL MUCH BETTER. It has slacked off some now and I can sit at the computer. IM so tired of feeling crappy. They already had told me to come in and they were gonna look at taking the cyst cuz I keep having so much trouble.. maybe it will be gone but please let there be no other trouble from it. Im ready to just say TAKE IT ALL OUT and be done with it. They said I shouldnt have any more kids anyway... well I was told not to have Bella either and well That turned out ok but I wont be selfish I got one healthy kid why chance it and do that again.

Nuttin much happnin just scrappin

WHEWHEW stones gone! Feeling almost human! I think I am gonna take Bella to the library tomorrow. We have to return some of her books and maybe get lunch or something. It's just so hot or we would go to the zoo or something outside she loves to be outside. I love to be able to spend so much time with her now. She is turning into quite the little scrapbooker For 3 years old. Here are some pictures I took tonight. SHe was determined to use some of my punches even though they are hard to punch. Other than that....It is kinda quiet tonight Got alot of email to catch up on and I did make that second page of the swim layout. It didnt come out real well in the photo. BUT, the pictures are so cute. I need to get this scanner hooked up John's sister gave me. I dont know where the disc is but I guess I can d/l the drivers off the internet LOVE xp!

Nuttin much

Not feeling really great today. I have an ovarian cyst. And when I get kidney stones OMG it really inflames it. I guess they touch or something but man it hurts. SO I was on the heating pad all day uploading. Took my Demrol and uploaded some layouts to www.theuntamedscrapper.com where I am on the design team. GO CHECK OUT MY GALLERY. I just added alot of older layouts I did. BUT I have some newer ones on there too.... they are just further down the line. I know I KNOW but I tried to switch the order but It wont let me ::sigh:: Check out "The View" While your there too. It is our newsletter we publish through the site has some great tips etc in it. We went to eat with the neighbors tonight WITH THE neighbors Isnt that funny. No it is a cool little resteraunt that has like home cooking (awesome mac and cheese) John had helped the neighbors with some stuff they had helped us with some stuff so we went out to eat there cuz it is cheap cheap and SOOO GOOOOD. It is all you can eat for like 7 bucks I CANNOT FEED JOHN a meal for 7 bucks that he can get full on (my hubby is a big man) SO there ya go! I have alot of posting catching up to do on some other sites as well. I just havnt felt good and got alot going on. What? How am I liking my new car? How sweet of you to ask.... ITS OK. It is a car. IT ISNT MY TRUCK:: pout:: and since IT WAS ALMOST PAID FOR it would have been great so Im still pouting. Yeah I KNOW I got a new car I should be happy but we have 5 years of payments also... now I gotta eventually find a job (that sux dont it) and Bella cant go to school but a couple days of week cuz we cant afford it and the new car and the insurance and paying off the medical bills soooooooo. SInce I had to have a new car cuz my truck would have cost us more in the long run.... IM sitting home. AHH it is good for me. My house is getting organized and the living room is cleaner than it has ever been (i took all bellas toys and threw em in her room said THERE KEEP EM IN THERE NOW) didnt work but I tried rofl OK I gotta go lay down Im getting dizzy. muuuuah GO check out my gallery at untamed! DONT FORGET OK? OK!!! AND IM looking for a cool DT to be on so. Lemme know if you know of anyone looking :)

Teaching at gasc..... blowfish??? ahhhhh!

OK so I look at these photos and think EWWW! I hate PREDNISONE. I have blown up so bad like a puffer fish. Thank God Im not on them anymore so ANY DAY now it is gonna come off.. any minute... any second now. waiting....... NOT SO patiently. ANyway... these are the pics from teaching the classes at Great American. This is just one of the classes I instructed. IT was fun. The classes well, this one was not as full I think it was 19 people, or 22 I can't remember now but the smallest was 9 for the mini pages the first day. But the big one was 34. I was screamin cuz we had no volunteers and this sweet lady whom I cannot remember her name to save me, helped me out, I was about to lose it. It was a hard class to teach on top of that and we had just got the stuff in the night before so I had no clue what I was suposed to be doing and some of my supplies were missing and NO SLEEP. (blah blah blah blah blah) BUT I made it through, it is over, No one was injured in the process (cuz i was too darn tired) and I aint doin it again so whewww. That was the most work for no pay I ever did. Mark that under LESSONS LEARNED.

splishin and a splashin' with flair

oh what fun it is to pish pash in a fwimmin pool! I love this photo of Bella. I can just hear her squealling and laughing. She had so much fun that day at "Aunt Biz's" I love the pp from flair designs. The stickers are amazing. I used them around the photo. THe photo turns are basic grey, and I inked them with orange inks. the brads are from accent depot. I LOVE the orange grossgrain ribbon it is wild asparagus and the little clippy doos are around the block. THIS IS SUCH fun product to play with I HIGHLY recommend going RIGHT NOW do not finish reading this GO NOW..... and get this fun paper cuz trust me IT WONT be at your lss long! NOW show me your summer layouts TAG! (what are you doing still reading this I SAID GO NOW GO GET SKEEEDADDLE to your lss and get this!!) rofl

my scrap room~ before

OK DONT LAUGH! ITS A MESS. what else is new huh.. that means im busy rofl this is one of the pics and my little mess maker in the center.I have boxes all over right now cuz we cleaned out the attic for the garage sale. SO I will update the pic after I get it looking better HAHAHA that could be ughmmmmm.....well you understand

duhh here are the photos with last post lol

600+ people there at the crop! WOuldnt you love to have one of these pull up at your house FULL OF PRODUCT I was so excited when I saw these 18 wheelers I was in awe! I never have seen such in my life!

PHotos from great american

WOULDNT YOU LOVE to have one of these semi's pull up to your house??? rofl I was like hearing harps of angels when I pulled up and saw the 18 wheelers. Lil davis had a cool rv they took all their stuff in their "road crew" the crops were amazing 600 plus women scrappin all at one time YOu could feel the energy in the air!

HOme at last thank GOD

WELL to say the least... I am at home. 3 thousand yes people that si right dollars later Im home. that is a round about figure. My truck is toast. the transmission is torn up and the guy said the motor is gonna be toast eventually cuz stuff MELTED into it and the compressor on my air conditioner cuz the trailer we were towing was too heavy... lesson learned. IM exhausted this was more work than i have ever done in my entire life to get zero pay. which elsucko's THIS was the most awful convention I have ever seen. THey had dollar bins there which was good for the consumer but was awful for the vendors. IT was rude and cheap and we feel it was a big garage sale. THEY LITERALLY were auctioning off stuff in the back. IT was maddening. SO needless to say she didnt make any money there fore didnt get to pay me. so I guess I was a volunteer... HAHA guess my creditors will understand that AND the fact NOW I have to buy a new vehicle. SIGH well THIS TOO SHALL PASS. I am going to bed and IM JUST SOOO HAPPY IT IS OVER AND I AM HOME!!!!!

so whats the big deal?

OK so they are making a big hype about it being 06-06-06 .. yeah it is kinda creepy but my big question is 1. DO THEY NOT READ THE BIBLE.. yeah yeah yeah NOT THE PART about the 666 but the other parts tooo! LIKE NO ONE WILL KNOW when the lord comes back it will be as a theif in the night etc and so on? WELL I do not think we will be able to predict! 2. IF say it was to happen? what about time zones? WHen they say at 6:06 the end will come.. will it be central standard time? what about over seas? Will the end come there the day before? what about hawaii? will it be the day after? I have too many questions for their so called Scholars on this..... I would hope if it were to be in the "time zones" we would have some suspicion it was coming but I DONT THINK SO. ON THAT NOTE we are out of here! We are going to the GREAT AMERICAN SCRAPBOOKS CONVENTION WHEWHEWHEW! we are teaching some AMAZING cute and awesome classes YOU MUST COME BY AND SAY HELLO AND SEE IF YOU ARE THERE!!! IT will be so much fun! Bella is going to have a great time with "Aunt Biz" that is all she is talking about and going "fwimin" IM gonna miss her so much THis is the LONGEST I have been without my baby! Im gonna have to kiss her a million times before I leave. I have been longer without my hubby and that was so hard! I m gonna miss him so, but, I have him a huney do list while I am gone so Im sure he is happy were leaving to give him a break haha. He can watch real tv No dora!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH HONEY!!! muaah! SO pray for us pullin the uhaul in the predicted RAIN STORMS we will be driving through (lord we pray for safety) and pray we sell everything! Wouldnt that rock! I pray for a successful show as well! I REALLY pray all our kit supplies get their in time (Thank you wendy at Scenic route YOU ROCK) SO any way Talk to you all when we get back and will have lots of photos yipeee! I havn't had time to post much lately been working on these kits. HI to all my Bliss girls and my "safe girls" and the "DIVAs" I will be back soon MUUUAAAHHHHH! big hugs and love and say a prayer! We could be the three musketeers (my hubby said OR THE THREE STOOGES!) OK so he knows me so well. IM waving at yall!

Garage sale shamage sale

I guess we live in a different clientel here in mobile ROFL. The kids stuff NODDA. No takers. Everyone that came up wanted baby baby clothes or had boys. but all my old country decor .... was like gold. AMAZING that stuff is WAYYYY out of style the little girls clothes were high dollar name brands and were priced right play clothes for a quarter... onesies etc... EVERYone had boys. I was like OOOOK! so.... we are going to try again in a few weeks when I get back from great american. We didnt make enough to pay nuthin' but I will pay what I can and I guess the old saying You cant get blood from a turnip will have to do. We are all exhausted and we have the 2 year olds for Sunday School tomorrow (eeek) scary.... I hope Great American Goes better!!!

bye bye Barbie Jeep

Well, WE TRIED and tried we almost saught therapy BUT Bella is TERRIFIED of the barbie Jeep! I got 2 pictures of her on it at her birthday party smiling... THeN tragedy struck. Little girl sitting on it with her hit the gas or shall we say GO PEDAL.. and sent them sailing through the yard. Bella has been traumatised ever since. WE tried everything to get her to ride it. SHe calls it BAD jeep Scary jeep and screams if we try to get her to ride it. She walks by it and just says "Jeep scare me" HOW horrible her little images in her head must be. I feel so sorry for her and feel so guilty and bad for trying to make her face her fear and ride it. I guess she is just still too young. The sweet lady that sold it to us. Well I had not paid for it completely yet, Said she has someone else that wants it so she is coming to get it tomorrow. IN HOPES Bella would change her mind and say NO BELLA JEEP I told her Mrs Kim was gonna come get it she said OK NO more bella scary jeep YEAH!!!!! I was shocked and was like OOOOK! Sooo, we are saying bye bye to Jeep. We won't go there again for a long time. IT is so hard to tell with parenting what a good decision and a bad decision is. I thought wow what a good deal and Kim was so sweet to let us do this for her birthday and then let me pay her after the garage sale. Was also very sweet to take it back. (I was gonna just sell it or eat the cost with lesson learned you never know about kids and save it till she is older) So that was very nice of her to offer to take it back since she knows someone else that wants it. I pray that child doesnt find it scary. She is still content with her FOOT pedaled car for now and hey the excercise is good for her lol. SO much for the great bargain. My hubby says he feels safer with her not behind the wheel just yet hahahaa. Another scary thing for mommy and daddy ... Bella growing up!

which feet are your "fwip fwops" on?

what is cuter than little feet in flip flops that just happen to be on the wrong feet? The reply I got when I told Bella her flips flops were on the wrong feet. THe conversation went something like this: Mommy: Bella do you know you have your flips flops on the wrong feet? Bella: Huh? Fwip Fwops on wong peet? Mommy: Yeah your flip flops are on the wrong feet. Bella::: looking COMPLETELY ANNOYED:: ugh ughnnn fwip fwops on Bedda's peet!!!!

Can you say AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

GREAT AMERICAN SCRAPBOOK CONVENTION WHEHWHEH Im so excited, nervous scared etc all at the same time. It is crunch time. I dont have all my supplies to make my kits (AHHH) we are having a HUGE garage sale this weekend to pay off bills with (AHHH) and we leave Tuesday for Mississippi to pick up Carrie at Mspaperarts then drive to Arlington Texas with a trailer full of stuff (AHHHHHHHHHHHHH) NAHHH Im not stressed. IT IS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN AND ICANNOT WAIT TO MEEET ALL THE PEOPLE on my list of people I wanna meet! What an awesome opportunity she and Scenic route have given me! Im so blessed and happy (and nervous and well just read that first line again) SOoo Im gonna go price stuff now. I am waiting on a few emails and some paint to dry and then IM OFF to work on Garage sale crappola again. HOW IS YOUR DAY TODAY? get any scrappin done? I GOT THIS AWESOME BOOOK BY TRACY WHITE (she is on my list of cool people to meet ya know) and OMGawesh It is so awesome! I wanna go take pictures now! She is so inspiring and totally makes sense on how to take better photos.. now I just gotta do it! Poor Bella she is gonna be running from me again while I snap photos of her. :::sigh::::

Bella LOVES to go fwimmin. She had a blast at Aunt "biz's" fwimmin pool" she grinned larger than her face would let her. She laughed she shot water guns at Greyson. (she would say COME MEYAH RAYSON SO BELLA CAN CHUTE EWE") SHe had a big time. NOW she is wanting us to get a fwimmin pwool" I told her that was AUnt Liz's special thing for her house we didnt need a swimming pool. She told me " well I wanna go aunt Biz's house den." I told her she is going to go back for a whole week while mommy is gone to Arlington. She replied OK, You weeve da pwool at aunt biz's house for Bella go fwimmin" I guess she thought the pool was going too. IT is amazing what goes through a 3 year old mind. We are getting ready for a HUGE pay off da medical bill and other bills garage sale lol. I have a TON of stuff kids stuff if someone needed things for a little girl THEY WOULD BE IN HEAVEN at this garage sale cuz we have everything. I really think we do. I have sorted stuff till Im sick of it. BUT much much more to do. Im going to hit it hard this evening when it cools off some IT IS WAY TOO HOT out there right now. I have been cleaning out closets today and bellas is the major one. Kids stuff seems to be the hot item and WE HAVE TONS of outgrown clothes toys and books. I have a few scrapbook things that will be in there too but mainly it will be kids stuff. Ok IM OFF to price things hOpe you had a memorable memorial day and took a few minutes to think of the loved ones in the service that are fighting for our country and the rights of others right now. I know they miss their families and we could never repay the debt we owe to them. My hat is off to them and a BIG THANK YOU TO THEM TOO!

IIIII'MMMMMMMMM HOMEEEEEEEE!

NEVER DID THOSE WORDS SOUND BETTER THAN THEY DO TO ME RIGHT NOW! I am so stinkin happy to be home. My sister in law and nephews have this thing.. it is called a ferrett. Yall know what they are. YEAH YEAH YEAH it is cute as long as it is over there~~~~~~>X I have discovered IM ALLERGIC to the freaky beast. OBVIOUSLY it has been in the bed of my nephew where I slept cuz all ont eh backs of my legs and arms where my boxers and t shirt werent covering is a tiny prickly rash... and it is just on the back not front too so it has to be contact.... AINT IT LOVELY. THIS thing looks like a weasel/ rat. It likes to bite your feet. and my daughter loved it. It woudl scamper like a stoned slinky all over the house and steal stuff YES WE FOUND my daughters baby doll in the cabinet her shoes inside the couch and who knows what else is missing.THINK I will stick with dogs. THE court thing for my friend went ok. IT was scary. YALL PRAY FOR HER PLEASE she has alot more to go through and THIS MAN IS well HE NEEDS alot of prayer too. COntinue to pray for our extended family please Death is a hard thing to deal with and some of them are not dealing really well. I mean taken so young IT is hard. BUT KNOWING her .. she is the most beautiful angel in heaven right now. so that is all for me today

Taylor rules

HE IS SOOOOOOOOOO GOOONNNNNNAAAAAA WIIIIINNNNNN!!!!

DA SOUL PATROL

I ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO SAY SOUL PATROL whhhheeewwwwwwwww

LOOK JEANNE!!!

I used your photo for the challang in a layout! aren't cha proud? Yeah I figured youw ould be. I think it looks more like she is falling than a tilted photo.. but HEY IT was my first time be gentle hehehehe


the journaling is just mushy stuff talking about how she is now a little lady and growing up so fast and I want her to walk slower through our lives so we can savour each moment.. you know all that kinda mushy stuff she can read later and roll her eyes at.

Ms paper arts closing :(

WELL I don't believe it BUT I KNOW it must happen IM sad but Im happy IM mixed in emotion. Mississippi paper arts.. the physical store is going out of business.... I knew it was going to happen. SHe is pregnant and going through alot right now and she just can't do it all. SHe wants to focus on the web business and make the web site rockin and get the store hoppin'. I support her completely. Plus she needs to be home with her kids and the new baby coming. The dr is putting her on bed rest and it is hard to run a store from a bed behind the register. IF I didnt live in Alabama I would run it for her. Heck I even thought of buying it myself but I know physically I just cannot do it. My health goes through goods and bads and I know the stress and I DONTWANNA. SOOoooooOOooooooo.... IM gonna do her last blast crop for her. I have to be up there anyway with all the family stuff that has been happening (and what else do I have to do these days) Bella and I are leaving in the morning. We have to help carrie with some stuff anyway so why not let the grammas REVEL in their joy of seeing the grandbaby and me stay out of their hair and at my one true love. Mspaperarts. YES her online store is gonna stay open and YES she will still do conventions and YES the online site will still be rockin as usual. JUSt there wont be a physical store anymore. SO YOU MIGHT wanna check out her site she has SOOOO MUCH STUFF marked down IT IS INCREDIBLE! check it out at www.mspaperarts.com just tell em nancy sent ya ;)

"jeanne" Challenge

Well, This is as close as I could get to a crooked picture for you. She wanted her picture made but WOULD NOT BESTILL. SO this is gonna have to work for this week. She is such a mess. BUt always looks so sweet and precious in those pearls and bows. (of course like her mother hahahaha)

Little girl in pretty dresses and wrinkly noses

How could you not just love this face! WE were all set for church she says TAKED MY PITTFUR mommmeeeee! SO of course I coudlnt resist that! THis is just one shot BUT I LOVE how her little nose wrinkles when she is giggling. Nothing sweeter than little girls in pretty dresses with bows in their hair and pearls. I dress her up while she lets me... I know it wont be long she will not be so thrilled haha.

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creating the monster.. or at least contributing

have I created a monster or what... I was going to take pictures of her helping me set out our tomatoes when she said her infamous like "bella be wight back" that can never be good. Instead she comes back with HER camera. Its a princess camera doesnt take real pictures but we can pretend right? I laughed my heart out at how stinkin cute she was squatting down like I do to get on her level and take pictures. and her UNMATCHING CLothes were the perfect touch because they were all her favorites.... for that day anyway. SHE LOVES those flip flops. Wants to wear them with everything. I jut cant help at grinning at these photos and cannot wait for the page to come. I forgot we have "last chance" photos for the church directory today (grrrrrrr) lovely after having shingles WOnder If I could just wear a bagover my head and body.... gotta go find something that fits. cant they just draw in circles and stick figures and sayit is us... we know what we look like. sigh...... now the hunt begins..w hat to wear. this ought to be fun.

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones SO what do you do... You have a death in the family... people act crazy.. You know you need to go in your heart you feel you need to pay your respects but... obstacles are in the way. I know he is right, my husband.. and my best interest is in his view. IT will be a huge "jerry springer episode". BUT what do you do. DO you sit here and feel the guilt they are throwing on you or do you stay busy. DO you find stuff to do. DO you try to play with your child to keep your mind off it. I have a dr apt. on monday (I forgot) with the rheumatologist. We have been waiting for this to get in. Every time i get upset.. hubby gets mad.. YOU have test to run monday DO you want to be like it was. IM SO sick of hearing how if I get upset or if something happens Im gonna get sick. YES I KNOW IT is true but how do you not be. Life is changing. Again.... I know if I get sick the things IM looking forward to wont get to happen. BUt this is family. How do you not Be there for family. I wasnt brought up that way. BUt I KNOW I KNOW alot has happend with family. SO much around this doesnt make sense. SO much around this is is weird (why do you send a picture of the car, I mean come on guilt me for not coming? or can I be takign it wrong and it just be their weird sense of dealing ) All I know is dont call me in the middle of the night with this. IM sorry its happening, but everyone cant deal with things the same way. I cannot go alone. I wont. Dont ya think we have dealt with enough! The whole situation is bad. I realise that and Im so sorry for them. I mourn her. Im gonna miss her. BUt I will make my peace with her. I will visit.. next week. I wont be by myself then. I don't deal with death. IT is impossible. My husband understands that he is here for the nightmares since daddy got killed. WHY cant they see that. IM sorry for being selfish on this one. BUT I will come just not today. I can't I cant deal with it. SO I will stay busy. I want to go I feel their pain BUT I just can't not alone. I will be there all the rest of next week but then I wont be alone.

Altered therapy

I made this box.. well I literally didnt MAKE the box it came from Hobby lobby but I altered it and the frame... the box, dont laugh was to put on the back of my toilet to hold well certain PERSONAL items a woman needs sometimes. I thought what a pretty way to hide such a thing. and the frame I had some paper left over and it was there so I said why not! Part of my altered therapy. Nothing gets you through difficult times like imagination and some paint and well a box. NOW I want to repaint the bathroom to match the box.... Reckon my hubby will go for that? Love you honey ::fluttering eyelashes::

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones TOday has been an awesome day well except for some drama, but the awesome is IM gonna teach in arlington at the great american scrapbook convention IM SO EXCITED. NOW I have to stay well until then NO GETTING SICK. I have to go to the dr and he has to say it is ok and then I can go so I have to be really good HAHAHHA
that is so hard for me to do. Im having a HUGE garage sale in 2 weeks so I can pay off bills and get this junk out of the house! Well I gotta go start planning these kits so I will sign off for now. IM SO EXCITED! also I mailed my project off to imagination project today yipeeeee!

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones OK SO IM A GREYS ANATOMY NUT. AND IM crying my eyes out over the episode. I just loved DENNY! That elsucko's man! BUT YA KNOW I was so proud of ALex for scooping her up... and the mcsexy scene with mcdreamy and meredith OMG i was like HELLO! BUT CAN YOU BLAME HER I MEAN HELLO! OK OK enough about that my husband was going THESE PEOPLE ARENT REAL they are PAID actors YEAH YEAH YEAH whatever. I SO WANT THE SWEETWATER mcdreamy paper. OHHH ANDREA!!!!!!!!! that is on my list.... well I guess that is it for me tonight IM too depressed over greys anatomy BUT THEN LET ME PERK UP CUZ MY BASIC GREY RIBBON IS suposed to be coming in tomorrow which means IT WONT BE LONG NOW before I tie myself up in it... that pic can go with me layin in the paper huh.... Oh well. Cant help my crazy self

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones OK SO IM A GREYS ANATOMY NUT. AND IM crying my eyes out over the episode. I just loved DENNY! That elsucko's man! BUT YA KNOW I was so proud of ALex for scooping her up... and the mcsexy scene with mcdreamy and meredith OMG i was like HELLO! BUT CAN YOU BLAME HER I MEAN HELLO! OK OK enough about that my husband was going THESE PEOPLE ARENT REAL they are PAID actors YEAH YEAH YEAH whatever. I SO WANT THE SWEETWATER mcdreamy paper. OHHH ANDREA!!!!!!!!! that is on my list.... well I guess that is it for me tonight IM too depressed over greys anatomy BUT THEN LET ME PERK UP CUZ MY BASIC GREY RIBBON IS suposed to be coming in tomorrow which means IT WONT BE LONG NOW before I tie myself up in it... that pic can go with me layin in the paper huh.... Oh well. Cant help my crazy self

Happy Mother's Day!

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones My little sweetie made me a card with glitter and planted some flowers in a styrofoam cup. She sang a her rendition of HAPPY MUDDUH DAY TEW EWW. I just loved it! I got to take a long nap this afternoon and watch Greys anatomy with no interuption tonight and I get to watch it again tomorrow night (it is continued) speaking of which OMGAWESH did yall see it tonight! Im bout to have a FIT! Denny cant die neither can burke THEY gotta do something quick! IM just sick over it. I was about to have a fit! Hubby said OH IT IS A TV SHOW. It is worse than a soap opera I LOVE that show. anyway.... IM just sick over Denny I was yelling at the tv for her NOT TO CUT IT! but they didnt hear me I GUESS. Im praying it is the cord to the tv instead. ... Maybe George will do a miraculous heart transplant or something on him I dunno... Im holding on till then but not patiently.

I made these for my mother in law and for my Mother for Mother's day. THE little door opens and it has updated photos of Bella in it. (since shingles I DONT DO PHOTOS SORRY) THis was a kit I got from my friend Holly. Then I NancyJONES'd It up and made it mine. SO, well.. the paper is the same. WHEN HAVE I EVER FOLLOWED directions huh? Holly is an awesome scrapper/teacher. She gives me so much inspiration. SHe is like the sister I wished I had. OK nuff mush. I GOTTA GO GET READY TO CROP yipppeee (can ya tell I havent been gettin' out much!) Happy moms day to me!

its 5 am somewhere...HERE!

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones YUP it is 5 am and IM AWAKE. I get to go crop today. IM SO EXCITED. BUT Miss Bella bug has been up every couple hours well every hour for a bit there. coughing... she would be hot I woudl go check on her put her covers back on her.. then cough cough.. I gave her cough medicine.. she threw it back up at me... literally. OH the joys of being a mommy. (I wouldnt trade it for nuttin!) Have yall checked out www.thememorysafe.com yet? WEll its not because I havent told yall too! They have these AMAZING kits there. LOTS of talent there as well! check through the gallry you may see a familiar face. (muah you ask) Yeah I been floodin' their gallery. Jeanne will never recommend anything to me again hahaha. BUT IM Totally in love with this place. SO many cool folks so MUCH TALENT! IM totally impressed. THEIR KITS are amazing YOU HAVE TO GO LOOK.

Target finds

<~~This I found in a clearance bin back in the toy department!!!! It had dies with it an everything IT said it was on clearance for 35.00 but ended up being 30.00 when I got to the register. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ME!















My friend Wendi and I found these great storage containers that hang on the wall to hold our chipboard and embelishments. THEY ARE AWESOME to hole the Pressed Petals monogram letters. They dont get bent!

Yeah she looks all sweet doesnt she? This photo is by David Carter Photography (also my neighbor also Uncle Dabid to Bella) HE IS AMAZING! I zoomed it in and did some playing with the colors he can get her to smile and poze like a pro. Yall should see the one we are getting for over the fireplace it is AMAZING! SO IF YOUR EVER in Mobile and need a photographer CALL DAVID Carter Photography THEY ROCK! (or as Bella says DAY WOP MAYAN!) (they rock man)

BIG MOUTH

SHe cant get this from me IT HAS to be her father! SILLY KID CANNOT WAIT for the page to come with this one!!!

MY favorite page of late.. I LOVE this photo of Bella bug. I did a reverse color on it and added the aged newspaper filters then hand shadowed it with paint shop pro. I go the updates adobe photo shop CS 2 OMGAWESH what a difference it makes to your photos SO MUCH more you can do with it!

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones: MY SINK IS HAUNTED?

OK so my sink is haunted! THe sprayer hosey thing.. tonight just went ballistic on me spraying. IT looked like something out of a cartoon. I have NO CLUE why. I didnt even mash the thingy.. THIS IS the 4th I REPEAT 4th SPRAY hoser thingy we have gone through so WHAT IS UP WITH THAT??? I think it is either the water in MOBILE is eating through is or the sink is haunted. It wants me to not go near it so I Humbly give in to not wash dishes hahahaha.. if it were so easy... MY Favorite new site you say? OH WELL YOU HAVE GOT TO CHECK OUT THE MEMORY SAFE! OH MY GAWESH they have got THE GREATEST kits I HAVE EVER SEEEEN for the money and an awesome gallery and message board group. HUGE talent there and an array of ages of the members. YOu have all kinds from mellow to crazy (like me) and some younger hipper people as well.. not that Im sayin IM OLD or anything but it is amazing that high school and college folks are into this thing too. We have so much to learn from each other and man there is alot of talent there. I have alot of projects coming up and some toots on the way IM SO EXCITED about. MY basic grey ribbon is DUE TO HIT MY DOORSTEP ANY DAY NOW IM SO excited as well as the other goodies I got on Nat'l SB day. Cannot wait to play! WEll Im off to finish my Basic grey canvas project for Mothers day. Wendi, Emily and Baby Bob came over this evening I was so happy to see them I missed them so much. Bob'o had some new tricks shakin his head no at everything he is sooo stinkin cute. and he loved my chicken and dumplins. THe girls had fun playing and Bella was once again traumatized by the Barbie Jeep.. I guess she will just have to grow into it I THINK the noise of it scares her. IF I can get my photos to upload Ill share some pics :) Gotta run HEr highness is screaming for MORE water SHE SOOO should be asleep by now!!!

Suddenly Sunday

Thats Nancy WITH A Jones Hard to believe it is SUNDAY already. Time flies by so fast. DID anyone catch Greys Anatomy (my FAVORITE tv show ever) OMGawesh I laughed I cried IT was awesome. CANNot wait till the season finale next week it is gonna be so great. So what did you do for Nat'l Scrapbook day? I was in bed most of it but did some scrapping. I made some layouts and posted on some different boards. I won two contests at Scrappers Bliss (Yeah me) One by default but hey I WILL TAKE THAT! ITs a prize anyway lol I can't wait to see the goodies I get. SO tell me what you did for Nat'l SB day. DId you scrap? DID you scrap somewhere special? I cannot wait to hear all about it. Tomorrow is another day and I have lots of catching up to do so ... signing off for now.... IF your bored check out these places:GREAT SITE http://scrapbooklifestyle.com/ they have like a TV show going on there for scrapbooking! IT Is amazing Check it out!