first day of school photos

ITS hereeee....

WEll, TODAYS THE DAY. Bellas FIRST DAY OF PRE K. I know I KNOW it doesn't seem like a big deal to alot of people but SHE Is taking this SOOOO seriously. SHe is in big school now. Goes all day EVEN HAS HOME WORK. IN the first 6 weeks even.. They are starting phonics. MY BABY IS GONNA BE ABLE TO READ! SHE is so pumped about that. She does know a couple site words already but I don't really know the phonics way of teaching so I guess IM losing out on it. SO we will learn this together as she learns i suppose. BUT she is all ready. Her back pack all packed. Uniform all pressed and set out. She packed enough snack to feed I think herself for the next two weeks. I told her she WOULD be coming back home! She didnt need ALL that. SHe is so excited about getting to wear her back pack. I DONT THINK that she REALLY needs it actually looking at the class room and stuff. But she is SOOO convinced she has to have it.
SHe loves her teacher she talked about her all night last night on the way home and has talked about her today. Saying how pretty she is and she is smart too! (I told her I bet she is smart because you have to be VERY smart to be a teacher) SHe said THAT Is because she is VERY SMART.. THAT is why they made her a teacher mommy! Like I was a big ol dummy for thinking. She didn't even fuss about going to bed tonight she was so excited she gets to go to school.
I hope her teacher doesn't think IM a total loon tomorrow when paparazzi mom pops out the camera and takes 10 thousand pictures while crying my eyes out that my baby is actually BIG ENOUGH to go to school.
I know you think pre K whats to it but IM telling you they have these little tiny desks that are just so unbelievably cute (I WANT ONE TO ALTER) and the bulletin boards, they have a curricullum. It is AMAZINGGG what they learn so early now. Bella has been out of that environment for the last year with all my health crapp. IM SO HAPPY AND EXCITED FOR HER to get to go back now. she is going to have so much fun and have so much to do and see. SUCH a wonderful adventure to start. Im so proud of her and so sad at the same time. She is my only one so I have to relish each second of this. so yeah there will probly be 40 scrapbook pages of her first day of school.... but that is ok. She can not say ever that her life is not well documented if anything else. I HAVE the proof. ha! I am looking forward to being able to get the things done I need to get done. I have to get this routine down. IM so frantic worried Im going to be that ONE PARENT that gets the entire class a note sent home ha! I dont want to foul this up. I know I stress over the rules and stuff too much but, I know how hard it has to be dealing with that many children their parents and God forbid any of them have STEP anything... Just want it to be easy on them as well. so anyway.. I will be back later with a ton of photos to bore you with but when yall see these tiny desks and how cute she is in this uniform. I totally melted. You will see why Im crying happy tears. xoxoxox


OH!! I amost forgot! LOOK for my mini album I did on my dad I know yall have seen it. The one out of the cardboard that has all the antique photos of my dad in it (my brother has one i made him for Christmas identical to it) IT is being published in Somerset Studio Magazine (formerly known as Legacy) so how exciting is that! I also hear I have an entire page in the next Hobby Lobby Magazine. Im so interested to see it and how she has it arranged. They are so cool with that magazine and so savvy with how they put it together. All of that just amazes and interests me. OK I REALLY have to go to bed. gotta get my camera all charged up!! so exciting!!

ICE CREAM MAN!!!

Do you ever get so caught up in deadlines and daily grind that you don't get those pages you just wanna have fun and scrap done? I have been so LAST NIGHT I sat down and just scrapped. Not with anything that I HAD to scrap just some photos I WANTED to scrap. I loved these photos of Bella racing to see the ICE cream man. I know it is a moment I wont forget. WE never had ice cream trucks that came around growing up. I guess mainly because we lived 2 miles south on the left of no where. We were so impressed when we moved here that we could order pizza (NO we didn't make him pose for a photo actually hmmm that is a thought hehe) but I was surprised they had ice cream trucks. I guess living in the sticks all my life I had never seen such. Well anyway Here is to you and I HOPE you sit down and just scrap for the fun of it.
I go to the dentist tomorrow step one of the dental reconstruction so.. I guess I will be happy to see that ice cream truck more often haha at least till its over.

ITS OFFICIAL

THE DIGI STORE AT TREASURES TO SCRAP IS OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!! WHEHEWWW! IT IS SOOO EXCITING! THere has been ALOT of work, sweat, tears and yes my friends I think even a slight amount of blood shed but IT IS OPEN! HURRRAYYY! GO CHECK IT OUT and be sure and tell TRACY, WENDI, and CHRIS and all the DIGI DESIGNERS HOW ROCKIN' IT LOOKS! We are so excited and also. WE HAVE A HUGE CONTEST THIS MONTH. BE SURE TO CHECK IT OUT YOU CAN use some of thsoe fabulous digi kits in the contest!

NOW you paper people do not fear. THE CONTEST goes for you guys too! YOU get to pick from the amazing paper kits in the paper store to enter the contest with. SO many new and rockin ones in there so go check it out!

So much to catch up on.

IT has been wild around here lately. JOhn is on vacation this week and we had alot planned to do around here before school starts. THE WEATHER has totally fouled up alot of our plans. John did get to work on painting the house some but he had hoped it would be finished by now so we could go play. We had some fun activities planned but again.. weather messed us up. OF COURSE now the weather is beautiful. figures. during the week when we wanted to get it all done.. NOOoo stormed like crazy. ::sigh:: oh well.
I have gotten alot of scrappin' done. I need to re photo a couple of them. The colors are way off and I don't know why my scanner is doing that.

We have had all kinda stuff happning at Treasures to Scrap. WE just announced the new Creative Team and The digital Store is opening ON MONDAY. SO we have been so busy behind the scenes getting everything prepared for Monday. We also have a new contest all lined up so be sure and check it all out. We have lots of give a ways and fun challenges also. Be sure to say hi. Our sponsor this month is KAREN FOSTER. WE got alot of cool products to play with and are having a great time designing with it. Here are a couple things so far to look at:

The little bucket is a quarter bank I made for Bella to keep her quarters she gets in. I had to girly it all up with the ribbon and the cute Karen Foster papers.

I have another line of paper too but I need to rephoto the layout for it.


Here is the layout I did for the SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE SCRAPPIN IDOL contest. It was all about paint this week. I also wanted to thank all of you who voted for me. MAN It is some fierce competition!! Some friends of mine dared me to scrap this dadgum owl (yall know I cannot stand that owl they keep putting on stuff in the scrap supplies yeah yeah some of them are cute but I just dont have an every day need for owls in my scrapping SORRY!)
SO I left him UNSCATHED where you can see him even though IT WAS SOOOO TEMPTING TO cover it up with the paint and flowers. hehehe
I DID let my saracastic side (YEAH I KNOW YOUR SHOCKED TO KNOW I HAVE A SARCASTIC SIDE) have fun with this page and use the phrase from the old TOOTSIE POP commercial as my title. hahahaa. Sorry I JUST HAD TO.

so anyway there are some of my things I made this week there are a few more but IM sure your eyes are tired so I will post that on another day!!

SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!

MY BABY CANNOT BE BIG ENOUGH TO GO TO SCHOOL!!!! But... she is.
She had so much fun shopping for her backpack, her lunch box and napmat for pre-K.

She thinks she is so big now. (notice the backpack is bigger than she is)I had tears in my eyes taking these photos.Hard to believe this tiny baby is big enough for school.
ONe day we are counting down the days till she goes the next Im crying thinking my baby is growing up. IT goes WAY to fast. SLOW DOWN BABY your not little but once and I wanna savour it as long as I can.

Happy birthday GIYULLS!

Happy Birthday to YOUUUU happy birthday to YOUUUU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ANNETTE AND KATRINAAAA! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
AND MANY MORE MY FRIENDS!!
Hope to see yall at play group tomorrow :)

TTS CREATIVE TEAM CALL!

YOU GOT THE DIGI IN YOU? well BRING IT TO US. We are LOOKING for DIGI SCRAPPERS CHECK OUT THE ABOVE AD that will go OUT well.. NOW!

New projects

THis is the FAMILY album from 2 Daisies Designs. They are a new paper company that premiered at CHA this time. VERY cute stuff go look at them if you get a chance. I LOVE this little mini book. I decorated it with chipboard, ribbons and lots of bling dots in different colors. Really jazzed it up.
I couldnt show all these before then we got sick with the stomach flu so Im just now getting them up here. Thanks for looking.


THis is another line of the paper 2 daisies sent for me to use. The skeletons I thought would make really fun mardi gras papers since Im down here in the heart of Mardi Gras country. I think it turned out really cute. IT IS MUCH brighter and livlier in person and the colors are so much more vibrant the photo doesn't do it justice.



This is a new paper line that premiered at CHA this past weekend called 2 daisies designs. I LOVE this line of paper it was perfect for these photos of my nephew when he was little. (HI ZACH DONT KILL ME MAN) The stars I made 3 d by folding them and placing popdots behind them.



I can finally show you this page I did for the SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE TELEVISION'S scrappin Idol contest. I made it through to the next round whehew. THankyou all who voted for me I so appreciate it. I had so much fun on this page. One of my most favorite colors is GREEN so this was really a blast for me. We ahd to use Green Cardstock and embelishments but the patterned paper could be other colors. I know that scalloped paper looks yellow but it is a real limey yellow green color and has green flourishes in the back ground.

spoke just a little too soon

OK I spoke too soon. .... I ended up with some kinda bad stomach flu hat has had me in the bed for a week. For something they say won't kill ya man I sure felt pretty close a few times there. SO easy to get dehydrated. I THINK we are almost over it now. Playing major catch up worse than I was to start with. BUT at least no one is puking.
Just a quick update. Bella got the rest of her uniforms today. John took her and finished that for me (thank you John) she is gonna look too cute but I can tell she is gonna hate this thing before its over. very boring. anyway just a quick update and we are continuing to pray for our friend Billy Hall that was in the boating accident that has a severe head trauma. He is in the neuro science hospital at university medical in Jackson Mississippi so please say an extra prayer for him and his family.

NO, I feel fine

QUIT WORRYING MA!

IM busy lol Im scrapping like a person with one day left ..... to put all their memories on paper. OH wait THAT WOULD be the case. I have projects coming out the wazoo. One is a last minute thing I was asked to do and I wasn't thinking and said yes. SO when John gets home from work, I have been Under 3 feet of scrap paper which we call my scrap room and just working. Battling headache from allergies and am just TIRED! SO I nap then get up and scrap some more. ITS FUN THOUGH IM NOT COMPLAINING. I love doing this so it gets these pages done. Even Better that they serve more than one purpose. SO I WILL SHOW YOU WHEN I CAN. I dont have them all done but soem will have to be done by tomorrow, so IF I DONT ANSWER THE PHONE.. IF IM SHORT WITH YOU ON THE PHONE. ITS cuz IM BUsy. I got my Normal due stuff this weekend too and Getting Bella ready for school. LOVE YA!
Now back to work. hugs xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

OOPS almost forgot!

Good morning! I have a few minutes between errands while Bella is filling up on "BuGHsketti". I forgot to put my layout up sorry. Got a hectic day today full of errands and appts. (and FINALLY get my hair cut thank you lord!) Don't forget to check out the uploads by The Treasures To Scrap Design Team. Around The Block was the sponsor this month and they completely spoiled us with goodies. I will Add this now and hopefully get to upload the others tonight when things settle down.



Bella: Mommy! This bughsketti is sooo good its havin' a party in my tummy. ::raises up her shirt:: SEEEEEEEE!



I Thought you would get a smile out of that today Mom!

Also the scores should be sent ughmm I think tomorrow for the 2nd week contest at Treasures. I know several of you have asked. I will get back to you on that so Just check the boards. Sorry gotta run Bella is pulling me out of my chair.

What a weekend

Been a busy weekend around here. Hope everyone has been doing good. I wanted to let you know Royce made it through his surgery and is doing great. Thank you again for all the prayers for him and his family.

ALOT going on at Treasures To Scrap this weekend. We had all kinds of challenges and layouts uploaded. Around The Block is the sponsor this month. They were very generous and we all had a great time playing with their products. THOSE INKERS are to die for. THe paper tagger and the label maker rock too. THey have some of the cutest papers and embelishments. Yall have to check it out In the TTS STORE.


Got alot of projects finished this weekend. I have been scrapping away. Got 2 mailed off Friday for a thing I have been working on. Got 2 more made for sponsors and then another project that is almost done. Got my next challenge done as well I think this was the most fun one yet! Had a blast making it thanks Wendy! You rock sista!

Hope you have a great week.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

HEY yall! FIRST THANK YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH for the prayers for Royce Mcglohon that works with John. He was involved in a VERY SERIOUS accident earlier in the week and IS VERY fortunate to be alive. Your continued prayers will be so appreciated. He is having surgery TODAY to repair the c-5 and c-6 vertebrae in his neck. THey have seen no paralysis and Say he should be back up walking and working in around a month! SO many prayers were answered there. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for your prayers for he and his family. THey all spend so much time in their vehicles working the way they do and it is so scary. People are so distracted now a days with cell phones etc. SO PLEASE be careful and pay extra attention AND SLOW DOWN! Please remember Royce and his family today as he goes through this surgery and also as he endures his recovery.
THe photos are unbelievable. So amazing he is alive.

Vacation Bible School starts next week at our church so please keep that in your thoughts and prayers as well.

I took my last big dose of the shingle medication (WHEHEHWWW pause for cheers and applause) I feel soooo much better. I just have to wait out the time now so I can be around pregnant people and kids under 2 and older people. I have to be off this med for 2 weeks and shingle free 10 days. That kinda knocks out VBS for us but, AT LEAST I can GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE SOME!!! Going stir crazy here!

We have our SPONSOR UPLOAD TOMORROW at TREASURES TO SCRAP. LOTS OF GORGEOUS creations using AROUND THE BLOCK products. We got SOOOOO MANY COOL THINGS to try out and play with. IM LOVING their products. IF YOU DONT have their paper tagger and little label maker, YOU ARE MISSING OUT. THIS IS THE COOLEST THING! THEIR inkers that have the sanders on the opposite ends are also A FAVORITE around here. I want MORE OF THEM!! SO be sure and check that out tomorrow. I will also Post what I did with them On here. SO check back! ALSO the DESIGN TEAM has SCRAPJACKED the site since the owner is out of town. I hear that a few are running wild with red sharpies. PUTTING moustaches on avatars and having way too much fun. THEY also marked down sooo much stuff in the store and are giving discounts right and left. SO ughmm might better hurry before Tracy gets back hahaha!

Well That is all for now. Miss Bella is ready to Play so we are gonna get to it. Hope you have a great Friday :)

CONGRATULATIONS

To all of the contestants going to the next round in the scrapbook lifestyles stylin' idol contest. I cannot wait to see what the next challenge is.





Week 3's challenge was to use Ribbon in a creative way. Here's what the rules were:
Challenge for Week 3 was.........

You must use ribbon!

You must have at least 1 (one) FOOT of ribbon on your page.

You can NOT tie the ribbon on to anything OR in a bow. (it can NOT resemble a bow at all).
The ribbon can NOT be on your layout in a straight line.
Here's the list of who is moving on...


Allison Cope
Trish Harwick
Tracy Lathrop
Sabrina Kalleberg
Candice Cook
Nancy Jones
Amy Gebhard
Amy Coose
Liz Jacob
Kathy Waller
Davinie Fiero
Karen Reedy
Debbie VanMarter
Tracy Rizzo
Leslie Ashe
Ashley41
Becky Thackston

Congrats everyone! All the layouts were gorgeous! VERY creative!




Here is the Layout I did for this round:

ILL BE BACK

BELLLAAAAASSS HOME. SO I have been busy busy IM NOT SICK so don't worry JUST BUSY and BElla wont let go of my hand long enough for me to type more than this.

OMGOSH YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS!!

SANTA DEFINITLY CAME TO MY HOUSE TODAY!!! THe mail man came and I got this package and I was pretty clueless wtheck is this. John said DON'T OPEN IT TILL I GET HOME cuz I have to get something. Im thinking GET something???? oook. IT has TTS address on it so Im like hmmmm I didnt order anything. BUt I know something sneaky has been going on cuz John had been Talking to Tracy. ANd Robin has been dancing around I know something you dont know. SO Im like OK the gig is up. SO JOhn was on his way home makes me WAIT!!! meanie. HE gets home and says OK YOU can open it. I told him I THOUGHT you had to get something he said I DO... HE goes and gets MY CAMERA. IM like UGHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO I LOOK HORRIBLE what are you doing HELLOOO unwashed hair no shower yet eww go awayyy HE said I HAVE TO.... well ughmm Ok..
SO I open the box heart pounding cuz the box has fragile all over it Im thinking it is too small to be Bella and I didnt hear any little girl giggling. so still mystery to me..... I open it and there is a PRECIOUS CARD that smells all good and some towels. Im like TOWELS? OK SO I reluctantly READ the card first cuz Yall know me and figure Id get to the good stuff but I read it and she says I had this just laying around here and figured you and bella would enjoy it more. SO IM thinking WHAT... AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LIGHT BULB COMES ON. TRACY GOT SOMETHING NEW RECENTLY. THE NEW 12 x12 CRICUIT. SOOOOO GUESS WHAT I GOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Towels.

NO IM KIDDING IM KIDDING HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
NO she gave ME HER CRICUIT SHE HAD BEFORE!!!! OMG CAN YOU BELIEVEEE THAT!! I AM BLOWN AWAYYYYYYY! IM so happy and SO PROUD and I was crying and laughing and then I wanted to beat her cuz that is just tooo much. SHe is so funny THe photos was she wanted to see me open it. I wont show you all cuz UGHHHH yall woudl be scared. BUT IM SOOO EXCITED! THANK YOU SO MUCH TRACY you are just one of my truest bestest buds and I just love you to pieces MEAN IT. BUT I know you know all that!
I brag on her constantly and on her site she is rockin cool and so sweet.

Also ANOTHER HAPPY. MY BABY IS COMING HOME TONIGHT!! SHe was cryin this morning she wanted her mommy and daddy. so... they are comin tongiht. which is fine by me cuz I just figured we woudlnt see her for another month cuz THEY WOULDNT EVEN MENTION coming home!! SO LOTS of good news today.. so ughmm I gotta go ... I got stuff to play with stuff to clean fore they get here BYEE!!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! I hope your Holiday is Great and you remember the reason for it as well :)
WE are just hanging out doing the same thing. I am getting LOTS of rest and getting caught up scrapping. SOMe cleaning done that needed to be done. I hope to get Bella's closet organized and her room cleaned good as well ass the carpets cleaned today. Don't really see all that happning but it was fun to think about



IM beginning to wonder if My child is coming home... .Our family back home is at the family reunion today. I hope the weather holds out for them. I wasn't able to go yet. Riding 3 hours one way with shingles... NOT FUN! Also John had to work yesterday and Tomorrow. WE had bad storms yesterday that took the roof off the Wal mart here near us. Well a section of roof. They called it some kind of micro burst or soemthing... They picked every Redneck in Mobile I think to put on The Weather Channel and on Cnn. BUT WE ARE ALL OK so don't worry lol. My phone rang off the hook yesterday with family worrying and friends back home. IT was like 6 or so miles from here not the one we ussually go to that is right by us. I DO Pray everyone was ok. They said there were not but a few serious injuries. I pray they are all ok...

I DO THINK Bella is having fun. DOnt you think so? Does she look the LEAST bit homesick in ANY OF THESE PHOTOS???? I didn't see it. hahahaha I have tried not to call her alot so she doesn't give them a hard time but when we do she is preoccupied and busy having fun so IM GLAD she isn't sad. PRETTY EVIDENT in those pictures HOW SAD she is huh? I think John and I Miss her LOTS MORE than she does us. John comes by me every now and then and says mamamamamama mammamamamamaa mommy, mom HEY MAAAAAMAAA!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH LET ME IN! Mama get me so and so Mama I want to play with EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! This way I don't miss the NOISE huh?
JUST so I don't get quite as missin her sick hahaha! I know she is having a GREAT time at AUnt Liz's playing with the big boys. SHe loves the trampoline and swimming in the pool so we are letting her have fun as long as possible. IM HOPING by next week I can get out some and drive again. This weekend IM gonna TRY and venture out. BUT IF YOU HAVE ever driven IN Mobile... YOu will understand the importanct of making sure you can see well. I think we have the worse drivers here. BUt we are also a HUGE tourist town during the summer with being close to the beach and on the main road to the on the way to florida. SO I want to make sure I CAN SEE and am NOT DIZZY. HA!
We hopefully can be part of the world again. IM getting better and stronger every day so I HOPE soon I will finally shake this shingle crapp. Our VBS starts not this coming week but the next week. SO I Know she is looking forward to that.

Be sure and stop by Treasures and CHECK out the NEWSLETTER. WE have a great sponsor this month and ALOT OF fun coming up. SO be sure and say hello and JOIN IN THE JULY CONTEST! HOpe you have a Happy 4th of July and be sure to Thank our military guys and gals and THANK THEM for what they do TO KEEP US SAFE!

WHHEW a toot and blog challenge

TOdays BLog challenge by Dawn is to List an accomplishment we are proud of.

WEll. I have a new one that is out. I just got named the Design Team Co ordinator for Treasures To Scrap. IM so excited! Tracy and Wendi are so busy working for the site and for us getting sponsors and cool products they don't get a chance to breathe sometimes. SO I am going to take some of the stress off of them and be the OFFiCIAL question answerer. Kinda a go between. HElp out where needed and help the design team have what they need to get their projects done. I am also going to be working hard to bring in sponsors and fun things for us to do.

I think this is a big accomplishment with all I have had going on in my life here lately. I have been very dedicated to the site and to Tracy and Wendi. SO it is a big honor for me. I am so excited. WE want this site to be a place you can kick back have fun and scrap and get mega inspiration. They have some of the most generous sponsors and are a blast to work with. Tracy and Wendi are all about their DT and their customers which is so impessive to me. I am forever grateful to Di for telling me about this place. It has been hard being stuck in the house and sick all the time. So this is my place to get in touch with the outside world and forget about it for a while. A great way to focus on scrappin and creating these albums for my daughter.

IM finally getting better I can see progress and IM SO happy. I dont have a spot in front of my eye today and my head isnt swimming THANK YOU LORD!!
Thank you for all of your prayers and warm thoughts!
DONT FORGET we have a new contest starting at Treasures for UNDISCOVERED TALENT.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? THERE IS MEGA PRIZES TO BE WON! SO GET AFTER IT!!

ANOTHER TAGG FOR THURSDAY!

This one is from LUCY she did this one day before yesterday and I got all confused but anyway....

HERE ya go:
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME ...

1)Name one person who made you smile today? Just one? Oh gosh! My honey JOHN!

2)What were you doing at 8:00 this morning? sleepin'

3)What were you doing 30 minutes ago? Talkin to Leslie

4)What is something that happened to you in 1998? I married my HUBBY!!!

5)What is the last thing you said aloud? love ya! Mean it! forever an ever.

6)How many different things have you drank today? Tea and water

7)What color is your hair brush? Lemme go see. WEll I got several but the ones I use most are Pink and black and the other one is pink err and well realllly dark brown so what was the question again?

8)What was the last thing you bought? adhesive

9)What was the last gift you received? I got it yesterday! a white uniball pen from DI! THANK YOU DI I LOVE IT your soooo right! IT ROCKS!YOU ROCK lymi!

10)What color is your front door? wood door so err brown..

11)Where do you keep cell phone? up to my ear OK OK ok when not in use... on my desk

12)What was the weather like today? rainy thundrin and lightning!

13)What is the best ice cream flavor? Blue Bell Home made vanilla

14)What are you excited about? my baby bug coming home.

15)Do you talk a lot? WHO ME??? naaaaaaaaaaahh hehehehe OK OK YES!!!!

16)Name a weird food you like? I like to eat black eye peas with my spaghetti. yeah I know, but I was raised eatin it that way.

17)Cold or hot? for what? I like cold things cold and hot things hot.... yes my hubby is hot thank you.

18)What's your favorite thing to do? scrapbook, blog, play with Bella and John, chat with my pals online or on the phone.
19)Do you want to cut your hair? yes It needs it BADLY

20: Are you over the age of 25? bwahahahah oh yeah!

21)Are you ticklish? yes

22)Are you typically a jealous person? Depends on what it is. I have most everything I REALLY want (a fab hubby and beautiful daughter) so what is there to be jealous of? I mean, YOUR SERIOUS?

23)Name a friend whose name starts with the letter "L" : Leslie

24)Name a friend whose name starts with the letter "A": A Di and A Robin A Tracy? does that work? OK OK FINE! ANNETTE

25)Do you chew on your straws? yes

26)Do you have curly hair? not anymore

27)What is the next concert you're going to? I have no idea seriously.


28)Who is the crappiest person in your life? I Dont allow crappy people in my life. If they are crappy I IGNORE them.

29)What is your favorite color? green pink and orange

30)What is something you say a lot? Bella? no bella! stop bella! come here, or That just ROcks outloud!! and ON FIYAHHH!!!!


31)What's your room like? which room? THIS ROOM? imagine a scrap book store. k picturin it? Ok now. pick it up, YES, the entire store. and SHAKE IT really hard.... ok you get the idea.

32)What was the last movie you saw? BREACh on dvd but I have no idea I cant remember at the theater sad huh.

33)Do you have work tomorrow? YUP I have all kinda projects due the first

34)What's your dream job? ahhhh I think I have it ;) Sahm playin with my baby girl

35)When was the last time you said "I love you"? a few minutes ago

36)What should you be doing right now? cleanin up my scrap room from my scrap fest i had earlier

37)Do you have a nickname? Nan, Nanc, THE BLING QUEEEN
38)Are you a heavy sleeper? YES

39)When is the last time you did the dishes, honestly? last night

40)What are your pet peeves? PEOPLE WHO SAY they are going to do something and then DONT DO IT, People who are mean and evil JUST for fun. kids being disrespectful, such as kids that dont say yes mam, yes sir, please, thank you, etc. People that change up stories and make them into something that is TOTALLY not even CLOSE to the truth. negativity, drama creators, leaving a swallow of tea in the pitcher and putting it back in the fridge, name droppers, raking left over mayo or pb or whatever on the ege of the mouth of the jar (you get bread crumbs in it and that is just GROSS, peopel to drink out of my glass (I catch stuff easily and it is just gross) man that is alot huh?


OK NOW YOUR TURN.. IF YA WANNA BE IN THE BLOG CHALLENGE RAK. BE SURE TO POST here that you did the challenge and link it on TREASURES :)

SO you think YOU can TAG aye?

OK so my pal Leslie tagged me to do this and I got another tag from Lucy so Im gonna do them One at a time here. I think this is the the same tage though. SO lets see what you can do with it as well.

My roommate and I once: Ate at Taco Bell and Loaded up on the plastic eating utensils and condiments and napkins when we first moved into our apartment. My mom SHAMED me said that was stealing. I told her NUGH UGGGHH we each bought a TACO! (she still got mad)

Never in my life have I: been to Alaska. me either Leslie.

High school was : SO MUCH FUN! Had alot of great friends was in every club just about. Cheerleader ( bet your shocked) Played softball. Loved it.

When I'm nervous : I giggle and fidget my hands.

My hair : needs cutting BAD!

When I was 5 : I was in the first grade. I started school then and now kinda wish I would have waited till I was 6.

When I turn my head left : I can't see the screen so I don't know if........

ahh there I am.


I should be : ASLEEP or at LEAST scrapping I have a LIST of projects due. ::SIGH::

By this time next year : I will be getting ready for Bella to go to kindergarten (SAY IT AINT SO!!!!)

My favorite aunt is : Aunt Irene. HIII! ::waving::


I have a hard time understanding : why they call it a DRIVE WAY at your house.... You dont DRIVE... YOU PARK..



You know I like you if : I tell ya I mean it!

My ideal breakfast is : I eat Pb toast too!! FREAKY! Or dry froot loops.

If you visit my home town : well it isnt a town its a little community but its pretty cool. YOU will get bored really fast though.


If you spend the night at my house : You will probably be attacked at 5 am by a little short child going HEYYYY! YOU WANNA WATCH MAX AND WOOOBEE WIFF ME? and if you say no she will jump on your bed till you get up.


My favorite blonde is : BElla bug

My favorite brunette is : My hubby John


The animal I would like to see flying besides birds : ughmm I just don't care for the bird thing. I mean CHICKENS dont FLY. hmm yeah and we also eat them so ughmm. what was the question again?

I shouldn't have been : THinking so hard now my head hurts.


Last night I: scrapbook'd and talked on the phone to my pals and spent time watching movies with my hubby.


A better name for me would be : Hmm...well I don't think there is a better name!

I've been told I look like : my daddy.


If I could have any car, it would be : a truck.




NOW yall go tell me what yalls are and LINK ME BACK and then LOAD THe Link to your blog at treasures so I can throw you name in the hat for a rak :)

WHEEHEWWW I made it

WHEHEW we made it past to the next round of SCRAPBOOKING IDOL at SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE. Some friends and I (HEY BECKY, HEY LESLIE) entered this contest and it is getting harder and harder. I want to thank you all for voting for me I SOOO APPRECIATE IT! Got a few weeks left and IM SOOOO excited! Here is the page I did for the last round for any of you that didn't see.That is my nephew Adam and His girlfriend (in the center photo) and then some other buds of his from senior year. The photos are PERFECT for this line of paper and I will finish his album using the rest of it I got. Aren't they the cutest ever?
That is the Love Elsie line called ROXIE I used on this page. I had a great time coloring it in with my Sakura pens. Really made it stand out.

THe next round is gonna be a little harder. We have to use ribbon and we cant let it just lay across the page and we cant tie it in a bow. Soooo, we have to come up with some creative ways to put it on the layout. THIS is gonna be fun.

We had alot of fun this weekend at TREASURES TO SCRAP's birthday celebration crop. .
We had a few make and takes and they were SOOOOO much fun. I did the Deck of Me That I got from Annette's blog. She is just the cutest ever GO SEE HER BLOG and tell her HI! She does the cutest work.
She had been doing this aleady and had kept telling me about it. SO I FINALLY jumped on the band wagon. Each week we will update with a new page for it. SOOO MUCH FUN. IF YOU would like to participate. I will tell you how this week. We are starting a thread with it at Treasures and going to do it as a group. SO much fun!! Here is what we have done so far so If you want to join in GO ahead. BE SURE to post at treasures in the Gallery sow e can see what you have done.


Tracy did the CUTEST make and take on sunday called the WONDER BREAD BOOK. SHe had us all confused wondering what the heck she was getting us into when she told us we needed a slice of bread for the class. You can imagine the questions that arose from that. BUT this is the CUTEST little book and it was SOOOO much fun to make. IM not finished really with mine. I have a few more quotes I want to put in there and some photos. I also wanted to add some more embellishments. I was sooo tired though so I just stopped at that point. I will go back and add more later. If you would like to make one she has the instruction up at Treasures. Was such a fun class. If you decide to make it let us see what you come up with. I changed mine up some and did it as a quote book instead of the birthday calendar. some others made theirs different things as well. VERY CUTE. Take a look through the gallery you can see the different things we made. My best bud Robin, did a class on making beads out of paper. IT WAS SOOO CUTE. I haven't made mine yet I think I will wait till my girly girl BElla gets back home to do that. SHE WILL LOVE THIS.

I am missing my little bug so much. I am enjoying the quiet though maybe I can get well finally from these stupid shingles and get where I CAN SEE! (and hear) and be part of the world again. I know she is having so much fun with the family back home. I have talked to them every day hearing of her adventures. SHe is so funny. Can't wait to get some snuggles and smooches. I know they are all eating her up since they dont get to see her that often. THey have to get their Bella fix.
Well that is all for me tonight. IM going to head out and get this rest I am supposed to be doing and put these freaky drops in my eyes so maybe I CAN SEE in the daylight again. see ya tomorrow :)

A small Toot...

OK not really a big deal to some but.. My page I just did of Bella "seriously 4" was picked up by the manufacturer's website. It is published in Basic Greys Gallery. whehew. SO a small little toot.

I taught a little make and take class at Treasures To scrap online tonight. IT was fun. Thank you Annette for letting me use your sample and do this. IT is a lot of fun we will be doing a card to add to it every week. Here is what I did. It is not too late if you would like to join in. I put a tutorial up at Treasures to Scrap in the forums.


We are having a weekend birthday crop also this weekend. Lots of fun and prizes to be won. SO, stop on by and say hello. We learned alot about each other last night in the GETTING TO KNOW YOUR DESIGN TEAM CHALLENGE.. I think a few bones fell out of some closets ha ha. Was way too much fun! SO come on by and have fun with us! SHe is having a HUGEEEEE sale in her store as well ITS CRAZY. 40% off any order over 10.00 YES you heard me. HOW crazy is THAT! so come on by.

SERIOUSLy.. yes SERIOUSLY

Bella, You crack me up with your facial expressions. You are seriously four!

I am lovin this basic grey and the DOODlebug JEWELS aare sooo sparkly. I LOVE all the new prima sprites and the queen and company buttons. You can find it at THe Treasures to Scrap store so WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE????? GO

We are having so much fun at our crop this weekend. WE had the best time last night with the GETTING TO KNOW OUR DESIGN TEAM challenge. SEEMS A FEW Errrr BONES with some bling on em come flyin out that closet. IT was a riot. YOU missed some hysterical laughs. YOu must come today to the make and takes and the chats we are having a BLAST!!

IT IS FRIDAY

ITS FRIDAY!!! YAHOOO!!!
DON't FORGET TO COME TO THE TREASURES TO SCRAP BIRTHDAY CROP GOING ON ALL WEEKEND LONG. LOTS OF FUN CHALLENGES. LOTS OF FUN PARTY GAMES. OH YEAH AND PRIZES. ALSO LOTS OF MAKE AND TAKES FOR YOU TO HAVE FUN TRYING. COME ON OVER AND HAVE FUN WITH US!
SO what are your weekend plans? ANything fun? I have lots of scrapping to catch up on. HOPE to see you at the crop. COME take advantage of some of these prizes. LOTS of fun stuff and freebies :)

SCRAPBOOK IDOL GO VOTE PLEASEEEEE!

ITs time again to vote for the SCRAPBOOK IDOL at scrapbook lifestyle.com. VOTE FOR ME VOTE FOR ME VOTE FOR ME. OK there was my PIMPIN JOB for the day. SO if you get a chance PLease got vote for me over there. My page this week had my nephew on it his senior year with some of his girl buddies being silly. this is for him to put in his album. SO it will make him feel really good as well so go vote!

Return policy?

SO ughmm DO KIDS come with a return policy? IM tryin to find our receipt cuz man I't take this one back today. (yeah you know I would lose my mind in a day ok maybe 2 days missing my kid something horribly) Im lookin everywhere tryin to find the flippin owners manual that came with this kid cuz omg she has to be malfunctioning somewhere. MOMMY NEEDS TO FIND THE BATTERYS AND TAKE THEM OUT A COUPLE HOURS!

It never fails ESPECIALLY on the days when you dont feel yourself. You are achey and tired and just feel bad. If you could sleep maybe what 8 or 9 more days IT MIGHT make it better...( I see you shaking your head yes cuz well YOU completely understand) That kids do everything in their power to just make your head split in half and an alien form come out to beat their butt. IT is like they thrive or welcome the butt kicking they need. THEy are suffering from butt whoop deprivation. I was laying down on the couch. still feel yuck. Bella is playing with her "peoples"(little people thingys with the village and the houses she has like the entire TOWN with their own royal family and she calls one "MR PESIDNET" SO she is riding Mr Pesident around in his Little people mobile pulling a little trailer with "MR Pesidents WIYUN" (his lion) I guess when Your president YOU GET TO have whatever PET YOU FEEL LIKE. and I GUESS I drifted off cuz I was starled by "AM I BOOTIFUL?" I LOOK UP and see THIS It seems she snuck off to my bedroom closet where I keep in a box my old makeup that maybe the color didnt match well or whatever but I hate to throw away.. because I can use it halloween and for other stuff OR IF in some weird way I get to be in the sun again and actually have a tan.. UGHMM yeah right. SO NOW I am Throwing it all away. SO I look up and my first thought is OH GOD SHE IS BLEEDING. THEN my next thougth OH IM FIDDNA MAKE YOU BLEED will you PLEASE quit meddling in stuff.
WHAT IS the deal man!!! SO I look around she has drawn smilys on the TV with the lipstick and the windows and its in the carpet. SO I counted to like.. A MILLION. Made her clean it up and tell me she was sorry. I sit down on the couch again Still feel like crapp on the bottom of a shoe. I think for a bit and say OK you wanna watch little bear (her favorite show) mommy needs to work for a few minutes. WILL you watch this so I can go do this right quick. YES MOMMY IM a good girl I watch little bear.
OK I should have known better. SO I walk into the kitchen. SHe has pulled out her EPI pen the practise one and is giving her baby doll shots with it. OH MY GOD. I lost it. HOW DID YOU GET THIS. I CLIMBED UP THERE. SHe gets a chair and climbs onto the counter onto the refrigerator and gets it. UGHHHHH! DID WE NOT JUST HAVEEE THIS DISCUSSION? SO I explain to her the dangers of climbing and that SHE KNOWSS not to mess with this OR ANY MEDICINE unless mommy or daddy gives it to her. she is shaking her head yes. SO I punish her. NO TV and go to your room. OK YOU WOULD THINK this would be like throwing the brrrr rabitt into the briar patch. IF I WAS A KID ID LOVEEE HER ROOM. SHe has every toy known to man (hmm thinking this wont be much longer cuz we are takign them away as she misbehaves) but no SHE starts crying and whining and acting a fool cuz she wants to come in the living room. WEll IM TRYING to clean up what she couldnt clean and get it looking like people who care live here.
IM just exasperated Just tired. Frustrated and dangit STILL DONT FEEL GOOD.
I think I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN it was gonna be a rough day when at 4 am I walk into the kitchen and look down and get the heebie jeebies scared out of me when I see this:
OK the ball is NOT THAT intimidating when its in the day light but in a barely lit room at 4 am when they have you on drugs for pain. IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG A$$ FACE EATING SPIDER! SO I almost screamed but didnt, but I did JUMP onto a chair though then realised OK.. maybe, that is just Bellas face eating BALL, and it wont get you too bad Nancy. BUT I swear it moved. THat is when I decided NO...oh Heck no.. maybe it is really a face eating puffer fish but, no, there is no water in here today.. that was last week bella flooded the kitchen.. maybe its lost looking for its home again. AHHH but no, once dayslight hit.. I confirmed the fact that IT was just the Super scary creepy looking face eating ball.
NO I didn't (thank GOD) wake up John to have him come kill it cuz I was scared it wasnt really there and he would say OK yeah its time honey and take me to that special room they are holding for me.
SO anyway... IT has been ONE OF THOSE FLIPPIN DAYS!!!
WHat about you. BLOG about what your day has been like and link us back so we can add your name to the rak in the box (we draw names once a week at TrEAsures to scrap for blog participants. COME SEE!


IM thinking of submitting Bella as My altered Item for this month... I keep saying I am gonna do it...

SUM SUM SUMMERTIMEEE

IT IS FLIPPINNNN HOTTTT here in Hell I mean Mobile ALabama. WE have had stormy weather on and off but we needed the rain. DID YOU KNOW that Mobile Alabama GETS MORE RAIN than ANY OTHER CITY IN THE UNITED STATES???? I didn't know that but I BELIEVE IT. THey said that on the news last night and I kicked JOhn said NUGH UGHHH! CUZ I seriously thought that it was seattle Washington. I have a friend there that every time I talk to her ITS raining. That has to be depressing. I enjoy the rain here actually. REMINDS me of my first summer job in High School. I was a life guard at this little community pool. We had sooo much fun there. A few cute boys hung out but mostly people from out of town. It was a place people would bring their RV's and come camp. I made some wonderful friends there. ANd when it rained we all went inside to the game rooom and played video games and shot pool. I remember HOW HOT it would get and some days we would pray it would rain so we could go inside.
Of course back then I could be in the sun and sport a tan. I had the body to wear the swim suit too. ahhhh BACK IN THE DAY...
SO what about you. What was your first summer job? I want to hear about it. DO you have any photos? Blog about it and link us. Be sure to put your link in the thread it we will put your name in for our weekly rak at TREASURES TO SCRAP :)
I gotta run. Bella said she is playin "tindawella" and has to clean up our castle.. (huh? castle what castle?) and I smell cleaning spray.... which sometimes is good but errr just having flash backs of the sandcastle in the kitchen incident... She hasnt learned the less is more theory yet.... SIGH.....

a fun silly monday challenge

I thought this was way cute!! SInce it is Monday and everyone is just TRYING to make it throuhg. WHY Not break up the monotony with something TOTALLY just fun. HEre is a simple fun silly quiz for you to play with and amaze your friends. badam pa CHING.. OK maybe I really am fozzie....

You Are Fozzie Bear

"Wocka! Wocka!" You're the life of the party, and you love making people crack up. If only your routine didn't always bomb! You may find more groans than laughs, but always keep the jokes coming.

The Muppet Personality Test

GO ahead take the test and link us back to what muppet character are you:)

OH CRAPP its fathers day

Fathers day had always been sad for me. A day I stayed under the covers and pretended didn't exist. I was so sad cuz my daddy had been taken from me the way he had. But now, Im still sad and always will be sad about that. But He would tell me to get on over it I have a husband and a beautiful little girl. THat LOVES her daddy to pieces and TO not spoil HIS day that he EARNED because he is now a daddy. SO trying to keep that in mind today. I still had a splitting headache but TRIED and did finally bounce over it. Bella was sooo happy it was FADDERS DAY and gave her dad some COLLOSSIAL cashews (his favorite) and some whoppers ( his other favorite) we were going to make him a card but she was so busy we never did so we are going to do that tomorrow. WE did make him a carrot cake that he wanted and some rice krispie treats. I had been sick the weeks before and I guess REALITY set in ohhhh THURSDAY that it was FATHERS DAY SUNDAY and I totally freaked. I had not prepared this year. SOO much had been going on and being sick and in bed so long really takes alot out of it. I hate I was not able to go shopping and get hime a really decent gift. BUt we will. I am still working on his book from last year but the photos just arent cuttin it. I have so many projects to catch up on.
I think he is ok with it though he said he was and NOW He can totally rag me out cuz I didnt do anything special this year. I may make him a surprise fathers day of his own one day next week. Maybe when I ever return to myself.. I can get soemthing great for him. OR when my book is published he will REALLY have cause to celebrate. YEAH yall better be nice to me YOU NEVER KNOW if a character in a book may appear in here. bwahahhaahaha in my most evil laugh. I have some pretty funny material so far. But enough comical stuff happens in my life that it really could be a book just write down the facts man.

So ON that note I wanted to close this day by telling my husband HOW MUCH I LOVE HIm and what a WONDERFUL daddy he truly is. Im so grateful to him and that me and Bella both have him.
I also wanna tell my dad somewhere in heaven, Happy fathers day, I miss you today and tomorrow and always.
SMooches and good night.

OPERATION ORGANIZATION

OK we have been TRYINGGGG to organize some so I have been presenting organization questions. SO what about you HOW do you organize your scrappin stuffs?
here is on of my most fav organizing things. My chipboard holders. I am a chipboard HO but you knew that already. I havent met much chipboard I didnt like. and If I couldnt find what I needed I made my own.


My father in law made me these AWESOME stamp shelves that I LOVE LOVE LOVE I store everything from my stamps to my huge paint collection on there also. I also have my tilted glass candy jars with all my buttons seperated by color on there as well as a few other things that i want to keep in my line of sight.
OK so show me some of your favorite organizing tricks. Ill throw your name in the hat for the rak.

FIRST OFF I HAVE TO SAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GRETA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 HOPE YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY MY PAL! IM sINGIN TO YA DO YOU HEAR ME?????
ILl post Blog challenge and stuff later I JUST HADDDD TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LOVE YA MEAN IT SMOOCHIESSS!!!

Photos, a CHallenge and scrappy stuff HURRRAYYY!

I took some pictures of Bella yesterday that turned out half way ok... not bad for a chick with One eye right now...
THE MAIL MAN IS WORN SLAM OUT.... HE has been to my house totin' boxes almost EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. HE asked me if we were of some religion that celebrated Christmas in June. I told him NAHHHH we are just Baptist... We just order alot of stuff and Im on design teams so we get lots of goodies. He still was like UGHM OK WHATEVER.

SO I got a shipment from TREASURES that has ALL THIS OMG YUMMMY basic grey stuff in it and the cutest around the block inkers and doodlebug sugar cardstocks, and a house YES I SAID A HOUSE hehe just you wait and watch ITS gonna be FAB u LOUS. BElla got her design team stuff and she is sooo happy. She is scrappin up a storm. I got My BLISS BOX whewewww ANDREA ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW THANK YOU! YOU ROCK out loud and ON FIYAAAAHHHHH! LOVE the Jelly beans Bella snatched those up before I could even see them. IM gonna be scrappin some of that tonight. My sweety mother in law sent stuff yesterday BElla got the CUTEST ever outfits and I got a gorgeous outfit and john some pants and some other scrappy happys. THANKS MA! THEN MY MOM came today to visit while my nephew registered for College at USM. SO it was only an hour and a half further so she just came on here for a bit had to get squeezes from Bella. SHE brought more happy stuff. SO IM telling ya. WE are just spoiled as can be right now and I GOT TO GET SCRAPPIN some of this.


IT has been raining on and off here today as well. ONe of those days you just want to sleep. Bella has been in HIGH GEAR. as ussual. She is always creating something. She is sitting in her pile of scrap goods right now deciding what to do first (I will be doing the same soon)

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SO WHAT are you doing on this THURSDAY? I CHALLENGE YOU TO GO ORGANIZE SOMETHING. CLEAN OFF YOUR DESK, ORGANIZE YOUR PAPER, CLEAN YOUR STAMPS, DO SOMETHING IN THE ORGANZIATION AREA TODAY AND POST PHOTOS LATER. LINK US BACK WE WANT TO SEE.
I WANT YOU TO POST ABOUT WHAT YOUR ORGANIZING ON YOUR BLOG OK? SO BE SURE TO POST IN THE BLOG CHALLENGE THREAD AT TREASURES TO SCRAP THAT YOU ORGANIZED AND LINK US BACK PS: I found the BEST WAY to get smiles grins and Laughs from Bella when I take her picture... It to tell her Knock Knock Jokes. What DO you do to get your kids to give a real smile. (you can see the real smile difference in these pics huh? AND the blue bubble gum she snuck in on me.. little monkey)

BLog Challenge

Teri Lynn did our Blog challenge for us today THANK YOU TERI!!!!!
Same rules apply. Post a link in the Treasures to Scrap BLog challenge forum so we can add you to the drawing for the Rak this week.


SO my perfect normal day hmmmmmm. let seee.
With the state I am in right now... IT would be one that I had nothing wrong seriously as sad and pathetic as that sounds.. NOTHING hurt, nothing was out of sort in my body of any fashion. No pain anywhere. I could go outside with Bella and take her ANYWHERE we wanted to go that day, the park, the BEACH oh ID LOVE to go to the beach feel the sand between my toes, Lay in the sun oh man I misss that SOOOOO MUCHHHHHHH. We would dig for Shells me John and Bella, like we did that day when we got to go to Orange Beach (but without getting the shingles rofl) we would build sand castles. write our names in the sand and maybe fly Johns kite.
we would get to have a picnic lunch, and Come home maybe crash on the couch and just hang out for a while. I dunno.. this is hard for me cuz I have so many things I WANT and wish so badly I could do with her or do at all that I can't anymore. THings and places I want to go for her to experience that we all take for granted Like .. swimming or just outside in the summer.. that it is hard to think. BUT I know Id love to relive that day at the beach. We had so much fun. I got so sick but it was worth it in the end for the smiles on her face that day. ID give anything to be able to do that one more time at least while she is little.

What about you? what is your perfect day?

12 on a Tuesday

HEY guys.. I took yesterday off and didn't do a blog challenge, actually I didn't do alot of anything. sorry about that, but it was kinda a rough day yesterday. Still feel crappy and also yesterday was the funeral for my Aunt. I wasn't able to go due to the shingles and I can't drive yet hubby had a FULL from can to can't day of travel so I couldnt go, and also dont want to give it to anyone. I also really wasnt up to the long ride in wearing clothes that are errrr hard to wear right now rofl. we will just leave it at that. BUt I hate so much I missed it. I LOVE my Aunt Ouida so much and I will remember her smile and her laugh and her being an amazing cook and just one amazing woman forever. I will miss you so much. I do miss her so much.....



Bella had a tough day yesterday as well. She obviously decided it is SOOOOO time for her to be at the beach because she took it upon herself to build a sandcastle......... in the kitchen. when You cant find sand inside the house you settle for the next best thing, which in her case happened to be the spice rack. SO we had a mound of garlic, sugar, salt, flour, oregnao and lawrys seasoning salts up to my ankle. I was on the phone trying to take care of some business and was all in this professional conversation when I realised she was quiet and well YOU ALL know BELLA + Quiet = UGH OH. but, I also started smellin this peculiar smell I couldnt figure out what it was. At first I thought it smelled like we had a gas leak somewhere but then remembered Oh yeah we are all Electric..I checked the back door to make sure she hadn't gotten out by the gas grill nd turned a knob or anything, then kept walking around and it was smelling stronger and stronger. Then walked into the breakfast area and my feet felt grit. I was thinking Man I need to sweep and mop then LOOKED UP. O M GOSH. (She hasnt figured out yet to get RID OF THE EVIDENCE.. she makes the mess then leaves it.)

OMGOSH I had to count to like 2 THOUSAND to not damage the child. PLUS I was on the phone and still trying to keep my composure so they didnt think I was killing her or anything but giving her my best whisper " OMGOSH I KNOW YOU DIDNT, YOU better Oh girl I tell you I could just OHHHHHH Im gonna get you child you just wait... omgosh you better clean this up Icannot believe UGHHH! You should be so ashamed of yourself I CANNOT BELIEVE you omgosh LOOOK what you did" Speech trying to keep my composure. HER all the while TAUNTNG ME with "BUT MOMMY I JUST was playing" grrrrrrrr. so anyway. On top of still not feeling well the whole eye thing and all the other crapp.. had to clean. IT got even BETTER when John got home I think they had "schoolin" a few times. My head was about to split so I left them to it.
SO that was where I was yesterday and last evening haha

SO now that I bored you if your still with me...

TODAYS CHALLENGE!
SINCE IT IS THE 12th of the month...
I want you to blog about 12 reasons YOu have to be happy today.

POST them on your blog and BE SURE TO link back to the Treasures to scrap forum so we can be sure you get entered into the weekly drawing for a rak.

SPeaking of Treasures to scrap. WE had OUR BUSIEST DAY EVER yesterday. WE had more people logging on and posting and visiting the site THAN EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE SITE! WHHHHEEWWWHEWWWWWWWWW! we have an AWESOME contest going on looking for Guest design team members. WE also have SOME FUN CHALLENGES and CONTESTS going on SO be sure and check it out.

SO Here are my 12 things I have to be happy about today.

1. I feel a little better well alot better than this time last week, but a little better than I have felt in the last 2 weeks.
2. ITs not MONDAY.
3. That I can scrapbook if for no other reason but to show my daughter and family how much I love them (and show her proof she had a happy childhood when she is 25 and in therapy trying to say her childhood sucked)and for the internet to share it all with my family and my friends!
4. I am caught up in the gallery at tts well I was till now probably haha
5. I have a beautiful family that is healthy and happy
6. That I have the freedoms in this country that we all take so lightly and so much for granted.
7. I live where we dont have to worry about where our food is coming from or if our water is safe to drink (i watch way too much late night tv)
8 I have a very supportive amazing husband that loves me and I him.
9. That thank you God it is never as bad as it really seems at the time well most of the time..(see above paragraph .. sandcastle.. kitchen... nuff said!)
10 I HAVE AMAZING friends that are total rockstars and support and help me through the yuck times and celebrate the wheheeww times, that cheer me up when I feel so horribly bad I wanna just crawl in bed and die, but instead make me smile and laugh and forget the yucky stuff (shingles) if not but for a couple hours (I JUST LOVE YOU GUYS!!!)
11. That I am saved today and every day when I wake up and when I go to bed Im still saved. Even though Im human and foolish I am still saved.
12. THAT I am here another day to play on this earth and see and smell touch all of the wonderful things that have been given to me. FOR which I AM SO VERY GRATEFUL and FOR ALL OF YOU that are reading this RIGHT NOW SMOOOCHES!
OH and Just ONE MORE real real important one :;smiles:: KARMA ::smiles::

Sooooo what are yours? come on quit lurking and post em, LINK US BACK SO WE CAN SEEEEEEEE :)
HOPE YOU HAve A WONDERFUL TUESDAY!!

WHO WON THE BLOG RAK?

THIS WEEEKS BLOG RAK WINNER CAN BE FOUND..............

HERE

HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!

Don't FORGET..

Today is the last day to VOTE for your favorite layout in the Scrapbook Lifestyle viewers challenge So If you haven't made it over there to vote (pick me pick me pick me) be sure and do that today. I am not exactly sure what time the voting poll will close err.. might better check on that huh?
Thank you SO MUCHHH to everyone who voted for me so far. I hope to make it to the next round.

I had a good time tonight Playing with this Kelli Crowe kit from sis tv. I had so much fun coloring in the papers and doodling with it. I need to rephotograph the page so you can see it its hard to see in the photo I have so I will get that up later today. IN my previous post is one of the ones I did.

I also will have Bella draw the name for the blog rak today also.

I would like to thank everyone for praying for our family this week and over the last several days.
Your kindness thoughts and prayers are so much appreciated. Id like to ask you to continue to pray for my uncle, he also has shingles and is suffering greatly with them. Aunt Ouida is his sister and was the last living sibling he had. He I know wants to attend the funeral but is just not physically up to it yet. IM praying he may be able to by Monday but if he is anything like what I have been going through... He won't be able to. As morbid and strange as it may sound... my cousin and I talked about maybe if they could video it so he could kinda feel like he was there.. I dunno. ANYWAY.. keep him in mind as well.

I hope to get to do some more scrapping today. I have alot of projects to catch up on. It is also very good to keep my mind and hands busy when so much is going through my mind and my heart right now. We will all miss her very much. I will be back later with the photos and with the winner of THis weeks RAK.
Hope you have a beautiful Sunday.

keeping my mind busy...

I scrapped a little bit today to try to get my mind off wanting to be back home with my family. Feels good to scrap. I used the new Kelli Crowe Limited edition kit from sis tv that I got to play with. IT was really fun. I colored in the pattern paper with the different colors. I used some LOVE, ELsie ribbon and stickers that went so cute with this paper, it was pretty easy to make it match. The QUeen and co buttons (how stinkin cute are those huh?) and Thickers letter stickers that I doodled on. I added the extra dots and lines and doodles to finish it up. This page kinda reminds me of the Dr Suess Cartoon OH the Places we will go... maybe its the colors I dont know (could be the cool meds they have me on who knows) but we will say OK nancy and just go with it ok.
HERe is the page.

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

Just a short entry today, leting you know that Aunt Ouida passed away last night around 10 pm our time. She is no longer suffering and is now probably reminising and singing with the other ANgels we have in heaven. I am sure they all welcomed her with loving arms and she is resting peacefully now back with Uncle Robert and my daddy and our other loved ones that have gone on before her. She is gonna be missed for her smiles and her love and not to mention her chicken and dumplins (she was a great cook) We will miss her but I am at peace knowing she no longer is suffering and is forever more with the angels. WE will miss you AUnt Ouida.
I dont have details on all the arrangements yet, but will post them for our out of town family as soon as I know them. Also when I get the obituary I will scan it here so you can have a copy if you would like to copy and paste it. Love yall.

ITS FRIDAY!

HEy you guys how are you all doing today? I think I am better actually. Still hurt like crazy and feel so tired but better i think. I would like to ask you all to continue praying for our Aunt Ouida. SHe is at home now resting peacefully as far As I know. I have not been able to reach anyone today for an update. last news I got was they had taken her off all the machines and sent her home. SO continue to pray for her please.

My pal Greta gave me a heads up on noel's blog. SHe has a cool contest going on. WIth some fabulous prizes to win! SO TODAY I will use that as part of our blog challenge. CHECK IT OUT and THE other challnege I have for you today. GO COMMENT ON the persons blog before you. one person will comment on this blog. then you go comment on THeir blog.. the next person to comment here then comments on the person above their name and so forth. LIKE A TRAIN. SO LETS GET THE LOVIN GOING!!! Share the love this friday and leave lovin on the blogs.


DONT FORGET TO GO VOTE FOR ME (How is that for pimpin' yall?) in THE SCRAPBOOK IDOL CONTEST. I really appreciate your votes You all are ROCK STARS!!!!. HERE is the link. YOu do have to register but it is quick easy and painless. THank you again my blog pals!! YOu can see all the pages that entered HERE. IT works just like AMerican Idol and we are supposed to "pimp" to get votes soo.. I guess I need to pull out the bling huh? (hush Robin and Di)


Don't forget to link when your done with your challenge to the TREASURES TO SCRAP blog challenge thread so You can get your name in the drawing for cool prize raks!!

HELP I need your votes

HEY YALL we just got word the voting poll is up!
(CLICK ON THE SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE)
SCRAPBOOK LIFESTYLE in the gray box that has all the names in it with the circles beside it. CLICK ON ME NANCY!!)
I entered this contest and I NEED YOUR VOTES to make it to the next round. It works like American Idol. SO your vote is what gets it. SO if you would be so kind. click on me :)
I hope to make it through the first round. I PRAY the shingles go away cuz I have way too much to do. We want to go home this weekend. (See previous post) and I have alot of stuff due that i need to be working on instead of laying in the bed. ANyway. IF you would be so kind to sign up and vote for me I would really appreciate it. IF you dont vote for me. 2 of my Bestest buds are in it also Becky and Leslie.. so IF you don't vote for me Then vote for them :) ::waving:: Thank you so much :)

prayers please

I just wanted to ask for every one to Pray for AUnt Ouida. Its not looking really good. IM not sure what to ask to pray for at this point. Peace I am thinking. Peace for her, Peace for her family, No pain no suffering. I also want you to pray for her family that is there with her to have peace to help her have a peaceful journey. I wish so bad I could go be with her. I also know right now it isnt possible. Unless some miracle takes place and the shingles go away today. No way I can go that far and sit up there and give it to everyone else. Its kinda danged if ya to danged it ya don't. ITs wrong if I don't go cuz I can give this to her or to anyone else up there. but then if I stay home and dont go That is wrong too, so I dont know what to do. SO since my dr's and friends and everyone are helping me to remain positive and focus on positive. IM gonna focus on what we can do. WE can pray. we can pray for everyone that is there and pray for her and pray for peace. I hope she knows how much I have always loved her. and Im praying she will find peace and comfort with Jesus and no more pain and suffering. TO the rest of the family that probably doesnt even know she is in the hospital. IM trying to get ahold of you if you read this. SEND ME an email and I will call you.

Your challenge for today, is to reflect. Reflect on your life. Thank God for what you have been given and not given. try to focus on positive and to journal about what your thankful for TODAY.
I am thankful for my family. I am thankful I have my mom and my brother and my husband and this little vivacious child that wears me out. I am thankful for the good times and the bad cuz it makes us appreciate the good times when we have bad ya know. I am thankful I am here another day to post on this blog and hopefully bring a smile to someones face that needs it. Even though today I dont feel much like smiling. I do know I have alot to smile about. FOr that I am truly thankful. I am also thankful for all my friends and YOU reading this blog. Even though I started this so our family could keep up with what was going on since we live so far away now.. I have so many friends that read this as well. I am thankful for each of you and what you mean to me.
xoxoxoxoxox
try to smile today. You never know just who's day it could brighten.

BLOG CHALLENGE

For Today..

I will make it easy. WHat story does your family laugh at over and over and LOVE to tell on you? (especially in front of company?)

Mine happens to be when I was riding on my brothers bike. YOu know boy bikes have that BAR that goes up the center and girl bikes it slopes down (I always wondered why they do that.. makes no sense)anyway. My brother was "driving" and I was riding on the front of the seat. I was probably about 4 maybe 5. WE had been over at the shop with daddy. Mom had basically told us to GO get out of her hair and bug daddy while she had some church people over. As mom entertained her church guests in our living room. WE had this little trail from the shop we rode on our bikes. Well when Your riding the trail back there is a drop off right before you get to the house. when your 5 It looks like a cliff. In reality it was maybe a 2 foot maybe 3 foot drop off the rain had made over the years. Well My brother decides TO JUMP IT. He goes faster and all the while IM SCREAMING "NONONONONONONONO." well He does jump it and yup you guessed it. I landed RIGHT stradle the ball buster bar. OMGOSH. I went running into the house IN front of mom and her church company SCREAMING "MAMA!!! WINDALE HURT MY T T! HE HURT ME IT HURTS OW OWOWOWW" You can imagine the looks that got. SO mom quickly excused, ok.... well she picked me up and slung me to the back of the house hand over my mouth VERY QUICKLY to see what exactly the matter was. Im sure she settled that amongst the guests. It raised some eyebrows for a few minutes.Come to think of it.. I wonder if we had those people over any more after that hmmmm.

I guess it is a good thing the church people were not there the day he killed me with the metal bar that makes the A on the side of the swing set..( I was hind catcher in our imaginary baseball game.. that was his bat so he claims) Even though it may have been comforting to have the holy ladies around me while the goose egg the size of a soft ball formed between my eyes. SUre enough.. I lived through it and well The church people made regular appearances at our house and I often wondered why. NOt sure if it was for entertainment or actually we were the family they had to "work on" either way IM sure their entertainment was well funded by the likes of us.

So what is your story? Is there a favorite your family just LOOOOVEEESSSS to share when you have company with you or are in a crowd of friends. DO they bring it up Thanksgiving or Christmas just to see if it will bring embarrassment?
PLEASE DO TELL. and be sure to link us back to it so we can put your name in the drawing at TREASURES TO SCRAP in the blog challenge section.