MURPHYS LAW?

WHY do they call it MURPHYS LAW? I think it should be called JONES law. Cuz this crapp ONLY Happens to me, I SWEAR. Have you ever had days where YOU JUST KNOW there is a camera crew hiding in the bushes waiting to come out, saying "YOU HAVE BEEN PUNKED" or you are on some Other stupid "we are screwing with you tv show?" I WISH that was how it is Yesterday and today cuz it does somewhat resemble some really lame "I love Lucy Rerun." SO here goes welcome to my world.

SO John goes out of town for some training classes, Well I think he took like all the working atmosphere out of our house when he left. The dryer NOT an hour after he leaves LAUGHS AT ME and coughs. I think it is saying I HATE YOU AND YOUR CLOTHES AND IM ON VACATION. OF COURSE I have 2 loads of wet clothes to be dried cuz My daughter is potty training. so UGHMM yeah we gotta wash em daily or she has nothing to wear.
So I call hubby he says OH IT does that sometimes.. wait a little while and start it again. SO I do that, 4 times, NOTHING."Insert slanderous words of your choice here" THEN we are getting these freak thunderstorms like EVERY DAY and the cable goes out which of course is also THE INTERNET. "INSERT REALLLLLYYYY BAD WORDS HERE" So of course THAT is when Bella chooses to take a nap. (cuz this is JONES LAW) I did get a page made but, I was hot cuz I couldnt log on and get some much needed work done.
WHY? CUZ this is like some freako punked edition of MURPHYS LAW!!!

SO I finally call my neighbor across the street, while hanging up tiny big girl panties all over my house trying to get them dry.. and ask "IS YOUR CABLE WORKING." WELL YEAH IT IS.... WELL it seems it is just OUR side of the street.. so I call my OTHER neighbor. NO his isnt working either. JUST as I start to cry thinking IM NEVER gonna get anything done WHAMO it pops back on. YEAHHH thank you murphy!

SO I tell him what is up with the dryer. HE says "want me to come look at it." SURREEEE!!! look at it curse it kick it I DONT care just make it dry my kids undies PLEASE! SO he comes over and vaccums out a DOG. I swear it was a small animals worth of lint you could have made a sweater for a big person or a small fuzzy animal had to have been in there. I was shocked. I didnt know you ahve to take your dryer apart and vaccum that. SEEMS it kept turning off as A WARNING that it was GONNA CATCH ON FIRE cuz it had so much of that crapp in there. OH GREAT. SO the motor is almost gone.. toast.. dead. GREAT. BUT WE HAVE a way we can make it work for now.
SO PICTURE... ME with my knee on the little button that the door holds down to make your dryer start. my hand holding the starter button and then the other arm giving the inside a spin to get it started.. ughm YEAH.. THEN when it gets turning.. I THROw The clothes in a few at time while my knee is on the button still. SOOOOOO the inside it spinning and im throwing DORA and CInderella panties in PRAYING TO GOD they dont come flying back at me holding my mouth just righ as I TAKE my knee of the do jigger and SLAMMING the door really fast. AND IT WORKS.

REDNECK engineering or Murphys law? YOU DECIDE. WHICH ever I DONT CARE I JUST WANT A
DRYER THAT WORKSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

SO how was your day????

Happy Mother's Day!

Here is hoping everyone has a WONDERFUL MOTHERS DAY TODAY!! I got my cool bar stool swivel pretty chair for my scrap room. BElla calls it my "cwappin chair" hahahaha. WE had to correct her a couple times on that. YEAH let her scream that one out in target. JOhn is on his way to College Station Texas AHHHHH! Stacey look out for him. I told him that the scrapbook store there wasnt that great so I can spend all the money here while he is gone bwahahaha. Ill share some of my favorite pictures today while I boo hoo that my baby is growing up way too fast. I also would like to say TO my mom and Mom in law and all you other mothers out there:
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY MOM!!! WE LOVE YOU!! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
I thought we could walk down memory lane. SOme of these may not be my BEST layouts cuz some are older. BUT ... They mean the world. SO Im looking back at the 4 years I have been a mommy today.
I have to say it has been an awesome 4 years.
ALot of laughs, ALot of tears, ALot of days I wanted to SCREAM and Duct tape her to the wall.
Who am I kidding duct tape wont hold her up there.. THIS IS MY KID were talking about.
It is hard to believe she is 4 years old now. Seems like she should be 1 and a half. IT goes way too fast.
THis is the reason I scrapbook every second of our lives. Days like today when you can look back at all your albums and laugh, cry and smile at how PRECIOUS EACH and every second we have with these BEautiful people that GOd entrusts us with.
We pray for them, we cry for them we smile at them and laugh. HOW could we ever imagine life any different.
ITs all these little moments that make up for all the late night feedings, the HORRENDOUS diapers after your neighbors feed her cracklins and pickled ONion just to see the cute faces she makes at 8 months old.
ITs these sweet moments that make up for all that.I hope you all have a wonderful Mother's Day today and thank you for letting me walk down memory lane today.::hands out hankies::
WE now rejoin our regularly scheduled program :)
WE MISS YOU DADDY!

The war is on

OK troops IM GOING IN ... ITs a dirty battle but... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Steam cleaner is kickin my tail... BUT THIS FLOOR WILL BE CLEANNNNNNNN! If Im not back later send EMT's, or chocolate.

WHEHEW I GOTTA RAK!

THANK YOU DAWNE! I got a rak in the mail from her today another one of the Micheals stamps WHEHEW I dont have that one THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ROCK SISTA! THANK YOU SO MUCH! ALot going on here for a Friday. Had to go grocery shopping we were out of almost everything! My hubby got me this FABULOUS chair from BElla for Mother's day to go in my scrap room. BElla calls it my "crappin chair" which ummm Im thinking not. BUT It is really comfy and cool. A LITTLE TALLER than I realized but I love it. I have to go back later and dont want to. GOt Bella a swim suit and its too small. SHe is SOOOOO long waisted. SO we gotta go up to a 6. GEEZ my kid is gonna be tall like her daddy. IM gonna need this tall "crappin chair" to get up where I can fuss at her and make sure she hears me hahahaha. I will be back and add photos soon we have a scheduled outage today on blogger and wanted to get this up before then. GOT to go get "crappin" GOt projects due AHHHHH! ITS beginning to look like CHristmas in my scrap room and UGHMM can you say IT IS WAYYY TOO HOT to be doing Christmas pages but THat is what was requested so... gotta get it done. HOPE you have a lovely Friday whehew its THE WEEEKENDDDDD!!!

a challenge and some photos

I did the BLog challenge today on Two peas. Thanks THIS WAS FUN! NOW I CHALLENGE YOU to do it. Just copy and paste and put your answers in and link me so we can go read your answers as well :)


TWO:
Two Names I Go by: Nancy and Jones

Two Things I am Wearing Right Now: T shirt and work out shorts

Two Things I Want (or have) in a Relationship: Love and commitment

Two of My Favorite Things to do: scrapbook and play with my family

Things I Want Very Badly At The Moment: a nap and chocolate

Two pets I have: GUido (and do John and Bella count for this one?)

Two things I did last night: watched way too much tv and made a mini album

Two things I ate today: ritz crackers and a bowl of princess cereal

Two people I just talked to last: John and Tracy

Two Things I'm doing tomorrow: Cleaning and Scrapping

Two longest car rides: hwy 98 to hattiesburg, hwy 49 to almost home in Mississippi

Two Favorite Holidays: Christmas and Thanksgiving

Two favorite beverages Sweet tea and margaritas


IM working hard on getting my projects done today. Man It is too hot to do Christmas layouts. I need to turn the air down and put on some Christmas tunes cuz THE MO JO AINT kickin right now. BUT IM ALSO VERY TIRED!
OMGOSH did you SEEEE LOST LAST NIGHT?????? THAT JACOB WAS SOOOOOOOOO CREEEPY. I was on the edge of my chair the whole time. I dont think I blinked the entire episode. IT was sooooooooo good. I CANT wait to watch the next one. Jericho was really good too. IM so addicted to that show as well. AMERICAN IDOL all I can say is GOOOOO JORDIN!! I HOPE SHE wins the whole thing!! SHE ROCKS SERIOUS!! Tonight Greys is gonna be sooo good and so Is E.R. I know I KNOW I watch wayyyy tooo much tv BUT I have these certain shows that I watch and that is it. ::sigh::
I am getting the rest of the raks together from Nat'l scrapbook day (random acts of kindness) So I can mail them out tomorrow. Other than that.. not much going on today. Working on projects and cleaning.
Here are some photos of the day for you:

BUG SHOES

ARE THESE NOT, THE CUTEST LITTLE SHOES EVERRRRR????
BElla LOVES them. SHe calls them HER BUG SHOES. THis is my photo of the day for yesterday but since my camera battery died, IM posting it today.
HOpe you have a beautiful Wed. ITs a gorgeous day here and gonna go play out in it!

THE RESULTS ARE IN

BELLA looked at everyones entrys and said MOMMY WE CAN'T PICK FOR JUST ONE! EVERYONEEE NEEDS A PWIZE! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO whehewwww!!!! EVERYONE GETS A RAK! ALL THE KIDS THAT ENTERED our BELLA CHALLENGE YALL EMAIL ME YOUR ADDRESS TO NANCYWITHAJONES@GMAIL.COM FOR A SPECIAL SURPISE IN THE MAIL FROM MISS BELLA. (mommys too)
YALL ROCK! GOt a BUSY DAY TODAY. IT IS USSUALLY Playgroup but since they are going to the beach and well I will internally combust if I get in direct sunlight for over 10 minutes.... we took a pass this time. SOOO I told Bella we would do something special..err now tryin to think what we are gonna do but we will do something. Daddy is suposed to be home early so maybe he can go have fun with us!!
Ill be on later.
BE sure and check out our newsletter at TREASURES TO SCRAP. It is really good! GOt some cool info in there this month. check it out and CONGRATS KIDDO'S!!

OK OK I DID THE TAG hehe

OK here it goes: My bud Leslie tagged me for this and to do the 7 things. and 5 to 10 ways I come up with things to put on my blog... since I already did the 7 things I will do the 5 ways I come up with things for my blog rofl.

1. BELLA.. she is my biggest inspiration for everything. SHE IS SOOO FUNNY and cute. yes I KNOW everyone thinks THEIR child is the funniest cutest thing ever. MINE really is hehehehe. OK kidding. SHe is the cutest child I HAVE so there. We started this blog to update family and our friends all over the country (since we moved) with updated photos and happnings so I woulndt hve to send out 500 emails and it has evolved from there.

2. Family "happnins".. anything that is going on in the family that warrants notation. AND A FEW THAT DONT :)

3. NEWS.. world events, happnins or anything that bears repeating (an a few that might not hehe)

4. Scrapbookin'~ well this is the main thing that goes on in my life so it is the main thing I blog about. I put up the latest layouts I have done for my family to see and (you know I Scrap in triplicate so each gramma gets pages) I write about new products new events and any cool thing I think yall, my pals would want to know about. IF ya didn't I figure why the heck would you be reading my blog.. hehe
5. Pimpin my Treasures~ Yup, I pimp for Treasures To Scrap all the time. ANy time we have an event or new thing going on You will know it here On my blog. SHe gets in new cool products (she just got in those prima sprites and omg I have to have them) WHehew thank you Tracy for sending em to me.. YOU ROCK SISTA!

6. Accomplishments and set backs. It is a tough world out there and we make strides in both directions with my health. If you don't see a post for a few days my family knows it must be a bad week. My health can go from good to not good at all so fast with this crapp that it gets scary sometimes. BUT Thank GOD we are still here and cruisin along. I love my friends and family and thank you all soooo much for all your prayers. HOPEFULLY SOOON I can get out in the world again. (shingles keep coming back and going in as soon as we think im over it they come back so Im still on restrictions for now. NO GERMS PLEASE hehe)

OK so now I tag LETS SEEEEE.. ADRIAN, CHERYL, Greta, Elizabeth, Tracy, Di, Robin and all My Treasure friends :)

let me know when ya got cha tag up :)

A HAPPY SCRAPPY WEEKEND

SO how was your weekend? DId you get alot scrapped? There was soooooooo much going on this weekend with National Scrapbook Day. LOTS of fun for lots of scrappers. Here are a couple pages I did Between the carpet flood cleaning (don't even ask) and the chats, and the contests at Treasures.This was the BLING IT ON challenge.

THis was do a page about hair and I incorporated the pastel colors challenge in with that. The page and journaling is about when BElla cut her own hair and the arrows are pointing to the CHUNK she cut. Miss Melissa made her promise to never ever cut her own hair again.
This one was to alter monograms. This photo is of Bella and of her cousin Brelynn. They are so cute!! They had so much fun this day at the Pumpkin Patch. We dont get to see them as often as we want to :( The other challenge I incorporated was stitching and ribbons. (I used doodlebug rub on stitches)



ANd this one was for the Brad Challenge. SO I DID get a few pages done whehew. NOT as many as I wanted of course but on well.
I hope you got to have a scrappy weekend as well.



Bella is playing over at the neighbors so WE have not drawn for the Prize yet. WE WILL Announce it tomorrow in my next entry WHO WON THE KIDS CHALLENGE WHEHEW. ALL THE PAGES LOOK AWESOME. IM GIVING YOU ONE MORE DAY iF ANY MORE KIDS WANT TO PARTICIPATE.

Happy Nat'l Scrapbook Day and say hello to:

TREASURES NEW "DEDINE TEAMS MEMBUR" BELLA!! Tracy asked BElla yesterday to be on the design team. SHe is taking this VERY SERIOUSLY. THe first thing she said when she woke up today was that "she had PWOJECTS to do and she was CWAPPIN wiff miss Twacy all the day" She had soooo much fun doing the kid challenges and kid scrapping today. SHE INSISTED she wear this dress to scrap. SHE LOVESSS this dress. SO HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY. YOU WOULD THINK it is a huge holiday around here.
so as my friend Heather said "Did the scrappy fiary-clause bring you anything?"
IM sorry I almost spit on my screen when I saw her say that. NOPE didn't bring me anything but we are we having fun. We have had a HUGEEEE weekend crop at TREASURES TO SCRAP and it will continue on tonight as well. SO MUCH going on. very fun stuff lots of challenges. EVEN for the kids. BElla did some challenges today as well, for the kids challenges. Here are her pages:
THis one was to scrap your favorite book or movie, she also did the stickers on it for hte sticker challenge and has her father and herself on it with her CINDERELLA castle playing. (scrap your parents) so she covered several there. SHe loves these epoxy gel stickers also that are princess. HER favorite is the crown and the mirror (are you not surprised? ha)


This one the challenge was to use flowers on a page and a shape so she put lots of flowers and made her favorite shape and oval, also scrapped her mommy on this page with herself so there is the mommy part of scrap mommy and daddy.


The last one was to scrap your school... well she isn't in school so we chose sunday school. DOnt you love the stamping she did here with the beautiful stampin up noahs ark stamps? her favorite.


SO that is what she has gotten done for natl scrapbook day. I will wait till tomorrow and show mine on my blog. Being I am just now really getting to start scrapping, Had to finish my challenge samples and get them up but WE are having a blast YOu should come say hi and have fun with us too at "TREASURES TO SCRAP"

"cwappin" challenge for a RAK

BELLA IS OFFERING A NATIONAL SCRAPBOOK DAY CHALLENGE. IF You have a child that likes to scrap.... ON National Scrap book Day (tomorrow) have them make a page. GO UPLOAD IT TO THE GALLERY AT TREASURES TO SCRAP AND LINK IT ON MY BLOG IN THIS POST RIGHT HERE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A RAK. SHE WILL DRAW NAMES TO SEE WHO WINS. AND THE CHILD and MOM WILL GET A SCRAPBOOK RAK FROM ME AND BELLA :)


We are having a HUGEEEEEE National Scrapbook Day weekend crop at Treasures to scrap.
LOTS of fun prizes to be given away also. We have a big crop and scavenger hunt tonight that is gonna be SO MUCH FUN and we are giving away tons of prizes and Raks!! Belal is all excited about scrapping this weekend, SHe even made some pages this morning. SHe was having too much fun working in HER scrapbook of her favorite people.




She found some pictures that I had printed off that were just a tad blurry for my taste and I let her work with them. I think she did a fantastic job. What do you think. You can go to the gallery and leave her some love. We posted them at Treasures in the gallery and challenged to see other kids pages they did.


BE sure and link back here and show us your childs pages. YOU COULD WIN A RAK PICKED OUT BY BELLA!!!!

Bella - nese?

We are doing the Photo a day challenge at TREASURE TO SCRAP all the month of May. This is in honor of National Photography month. WHO KNEW! SO in honor of Thursday here is my photo. THis is a daily routine thing at the Jones's. Most of you that know us, know that Bella has her own little language she came up with. She can come up with the craziest things to call stuff like the benadryl little travel thing it is a tube and it comes out like liquid to go on bites and stings.. she calls it "butt makeup" Now how it got labeled that I have no clue. Maybe it reminded her of make up and she had a skeeter bite on her butt or something I have no clue but when she says "I need the butt - make up" we know just what she is referring to.
We have a refiderfader at our house too. Which is perfectly ok with me. But, the one that just tickles me to no end is "honey chocate milk"
YEs there is a story to go along with this.
WE make her some chocolate milk (ovaltine) every morning with breakfast. Sometimes if the mood strikes.. we use strawberry nesquick.. we call it... PINK HONEY CHOCATE MILK. IT all started about a year ago. John was making her a cup and said "Honey, do you want some chocolate milk?" and she said "yes" so she stood there watching him make it. she asks him "when ewe put da honey in" John just looks at her like she is on fire cuz he has no clue what she is talking about. Well she gets all bent out of shape cuz he forgot the honey. SO that started the "Honey Chocate Milk" we put 2 scoops of regular ovaltine chocolate and one MAGIC spoon of HONEY CHOCLATE (another scoop of ovaltine) and mix it with her milk. Well that did the trick she hushed. SO That is what it has been called in the Jones home from that day forward.
It also tastes better if it is in the pink dora cup. WHY.. cuz IT JUST DOES is what she told me as if THE THOUGHT of putting it in any OTHER cup would be breaking some scientific law of nature. I Think she even rolled her eyes. YES I am looking SOOOO forward to the teen years.

ON another note.... AFTER you have had your Honey chocolate milk fix. HEAD on OVer to Treasures TO Scrap. We have HUGE festivities going on getting ready for National scrap book day. WE have challenges and prizes and contests. LOTS OF PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY. SO be sure and stop in and say HI. You wont regret it!

photo a day

PHoto of the day. YOU KNOW it is national photography month. SO at TTS we are taking photos every day. Here is mine.

TREASURES TO SCRAP

WE are proud to announce CRAF-T as our product sponsor for the Month of May.
COme check out the fabulous designs in the TREASURES TO SCRAP gallery using Craf-T products.(which can be purchased in the Treasures TO Scrap Store online!)
Here is a sample of how to hand tint a photo with Craf-T chalks: CHeck out our newsletter for the complete article.



Products seen on these pages can be purchased in the Treasures to scrap store online!
Cosmo cricket's DUTCH GIRL and HALFWAY CAFE lines were perfect for these photos.
For more information on these products. BE sure and check out the online store where there are tons of awesome products!

ahhh if life were just this simple

Take a little time to enjoy the simple things in life. Go ahead and run through the sprinklers.

HAPPY DANCE

My pal susan got some stamps for me at her micheals cuz ours sucks. AND OMG THEY ARE SOOOOO STINKIN CUTEEE! THey are the little bitty new clear stamps that are acryllic I JUST LOVE THEM! THANK YOU SUSAN YOU ARE A ROCK STAR!!!! I cant believe how fast they got here!

GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS

SO what do you want first the good news or the bad news????
HUH? well if you want the good news first... keep readin. IF YOU want the bad news first.. skip down to where it says *bad news.
K?

THE GOOD NEWS:

MY blog is up to 52 in the top scrapbook blogs YIPPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! That is totally all because of you guys who read my blog. Thanks SO MUCH!
THis blog originated because we moved to ALabama with the baby (as if we would leave her behind ya know) and all my family is there and JOhns family is well.. ALL OVER THE GLOBE! SO it just made it easier for family to check here for new photos of the baby and see what all was going on instead of sending out 5 milliion emails. SO it has kinda grown from there.

SO .. THe bad news..
WHich IM sure alot of you will be going HUH? and what.. but it is kinda a big deal well NOT Really but I worked hard.

I was in a scrap contest at scrapstreet. I got all the way to the finals man SOOO CLOSE. BUT didnt win the contest. :( I know I know. BUT IT is ok cuz some AMAZING people won and they rock outloud so it is totally ok. No worries. I LOVE the pages I made and had sooo much fun, was greatly challenged. BUT a little good out of it. NOW I can post my layouts I did.
SO here they are for you to see :) I also want to thank all my pals for cheering me on and supporting me and helping critique my work so I could better it. YALL ARE SUPERSTARS!!

so here we go

This layout was based on the EBAY commercial WHAT IS YOUR "IT" I chose Bella and how she smiles at me as My it. I used My minds eye papers and lots of buttons and embellies. was sooo much fun!


This one was a numbers challenge. We had to use 3 different numbers on a layout. I used SEI WINNIES WALLS for my paper choices (MY FAVORITE PAPER EVER)


THis one was more of a freestyle challenge. MY FAVORITE style of scrapping :)
I LOVEd these photos of BElla sooo much. I got the idea for the butterflys from my pal CAROLE. SHe had done some on an older page I saw a while back and I remembered them and how perfect it would be. My tiny dancer and the little butterflys look like they are fluttering with her around her. Carole is such an inspiration if you havent seen her blog BY ALL MEANS RUN GO LOOK SHE IS AMAZING!!! I used more My minds eye products on thsi as well. I LOVE the colors and the fun themes of their papers they have out. I use the stew out of them!

and my last page.



THIS Page was SOOOOOOOO much fun! I LOVE these photos of Bella bug. she is such a sassy thing. I had to write an article as well which KIM JOHNSON gave me a QUICK OVER VIEW on how to digi scrap ROFL THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE KIM. AND I also got my Friend Leslie to critique me and give me some feed back on my page. SHE Is a superstar! (dont even blush you KNOW YOU ARE GIRL)
I used paper Studios pp for this and all kinds of fun bling!

ZING!!!! NO WAY!

BELLA: MOMMY!!!!
ME: YES BELLA?
BElla: giggling: KNOCK KNOCK
ME: who is there?
BElla runs off giggling...

OK.. MUST work with her on joke delivery...
Few minutes later.
Bella: MOMMY!
me: YES BELLA?
BElla: KNOCK KNOCK
Me: WHO IS THERE?
silence......
hmmmmm is she becoming A.D,D. like her mother?

A few minutes later

BELLA: KNOCK KNOCK MOMMY.
me: OK bella you need to finish your joke now..
BElla: JUST SAY WHO IS DAYER MOMMY!!!! :: noted frustration::
me: who is dayer mommy?
Bella: UGHHHHH! DAT IS NOT HOW IT GOES MOMMY
YOU SAY WHO IS DAYER and THEN I SAY NOTHING
me: WHAT? why do you say nothing.
Bella: SCMACKS HER FOREHEAD IN FRUSTRATION. CAWSE MOMMY! DARES NOBODY DAYER!!! ::giggling skips away::

NOTE TO SELF........ TODAY IS THE BEGINNING... My daughter has totally zinged me. I remember this day long time ago. With my father. Telling me jokes. Telling me NOW you have to be quick. people will lose interest. you have to think quick now and pop em with the punch line followed by "the stare" that will leave them in stitches every time.....
MY protege' has arrived... it is the beginning of a BEAUTIFUL sarcastic relationship.
BE AFRAID WORLD. BE AFRAID.

I wonder.. should I worry about myself though since I got zinged by my 4 year old?
Nah she is just advanced in her thinking THAT IS TOTALLY IT!
That is ok the day is not over. I SHALL REIGN SUPREME!

WE call this PROGRESS

I got all my paints put up and organized on my stamp shelves.I Reworked my stamps up there today.






AND I got more of my chipboard put away and sorted. Also some embellies put away in the little drawers. WHEHEW WE are making progress people!!

WHAT ARE YOU GETTING DONE TODAY, Get your organizing and cleaning your scrap room done? TELL ME!