Mohawk Lake

We discovered this little lake about a block or so from our house and it's so nice! it's so quiet and peaceful. There's absolutely nothing there, no ducks, no walking trail, no park, nothing. but it's a very nice walk and there's ample amounts of fish, frogs, snakes, and flowers to keep us occupied!

Today was such a beautiful day out that we took a walk over there to just have fun and get out of the house. Here are a few pics to document it all. And they need narrating...... so here's your warning. hahaha

Pretty flowers and more pretty flowers and yet.... more pretty flowers! ;) (have i mentioned how wrong i think it is that it's THIS warm and THIS green already?)

Then we have the uncooperative, cute kids.

QUICK! I spy with my little eye..... 2 small frogs! looks like a big nasty dooky that they're sitting in, but it's not. rest assured that it's just a pile of moldy mud. hahahaha

Rick was so proud of himself. He caught this shot. he claimed to have seen a snake but no one else saw it. then i handed the camera over and walked off and look what happened! cool right?

And aside from the pasty white legs, can you honestly tell that i have a massive belly in front? that's what i thought...... ;)- gotta love me my girls though. they are just too cute!

very nice to get out, like i said. We did happen to have a mis-hap with Mia stepping into a pile of fire ants and geting bitten (poor thing) but luckily dad, the hero, came to the rescue and she walked off with only 3 bites. needless to say, she was traumatized and refused to walk on her own the rest of the time...except in this picture of course.

Hope you had a wonderful Sunday as well!

Pink Paislee in da house (again)

had a little time to throw this thing together today. must say that it didn't come together easily, but i love how it turned out. I'm truly in love with this new company..... you'll definitely be seeing me use their product A LOT! Check out their totally cool site- tons of inspiration there.

Maybe one of these days I'll post about my circus of a life that seems to be moving forward without me! um... maybe it's a good thing i'm staying busy so I don't give in to that circus?! ;)-

ANNOUNCEMENT:

A Scrapbook Boutique is opening it's doors this coming Thursday!!!! First day of open business is Thursday, April 24 from 10-6. However, if you want the good deals and the freebies, I'd wait until Friday-Sunday to come..... which will be the GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION! Linda Coleman (the owner) has some serious fun stuff planned and I must add how fabulous the store is looking! There will be classes, make-n-takes, freebies, crops, and FOOD the entire weekend! This will definitely be something you don't want to miss. I'll make another post about it next week to remind ya'll in the area. Classes will be posted in the next day or so, so be sure to spread the word about them as well. Check out the site to see all the information going on!

Piggy Tales Loving now!

Well.. double post for me today! aren't you lucky?!

Today i got my Piggy Tales assignment done. I totally didn't plan on having the whole thing done, but I lucked out and finished it! SOOOOO.... i'm totally scrapped out right now. I'll take a break tomorrow and then I'll get back to work on Friday. I don't think i've scrapped so much in a week in my life! But it's all good- look how many pages i have to show for it! :)

These projects are all using the new released Piggy Tales product. The cool thing is that they are all recycled papers and embellishments! cool huh? The first 2 are more "off the page" LO's and the 3rd one is a "card" i made using one of their sliders. The little "window" that has the trains on it, slides over to the opposite side to reveal writing underneath. They really are a cool product. So now that you see this delicious new stuff.. hop on over to their site and order some of it!!! Toodles for now... i'm off to get me a much deserved smoothy. ;)-

More Prima Loving!

Ok- so in my midst of projects on the list..... was this last line of Prima. I was able to get 2 LO's done from it. Now I admit... they aren't my fav- but they turned out ok.

Stay tuned for more... i have about 10 million more left to complete. ;)-

Fancy Pants Projects

Here are 3 more projects I've come up with in the past couple days. The first one is a littel Kaiser wood album. Really simple, but I love how it turned out. The second is my next attempt at "scrapping off the page". I'm totally loving it right now and i can see myself EASILY doing more of these. And because i'm so addicted- I've already put a class together to teach this month!!! lol the last one is just a plain LO- cute, and i'm in love with that clear robot! I'm trying my hardest to get these assignments done- i have to send these, the prima ones i showed earlier, AND about 2-3 more off tomorrow morning! I'll post more once i get them done. Then once those are completed.... onto other projects! Love all the scrapping i'm getting done though- feels good to get so many pictures "out of the way".

Too bad that the downside to this whole thing is that my house is being neglected. I totally should have taken a before and after pic of my bathroom today. I decided that I'd be more productive and scrub the sucker til it shined. Well... 3.5 hours later....... it's shining all right- but i darned near killed myself in the process! hahahaaha- Rick will be cleaning the bathrooms from now on. ;)-

Pregnancy Funny

When you get pregnant, you usually want to read up and sign up for just about everything regarding pregnancy and new baby. Of course... i'm one of them as well. I go online and search for the best sites and sign up for newsletters and want to find out every little bit of development that goes on at each point of the pregnancy.
I typically save the good sites and use them with each pregnancy. (because you know.. in my head, i KNOW i'm having more kids.... lol)

so.... when i found out I was prego with this kid, (back in November) I went on the search again and ended up finding a site I had previously signed up for in the past. You go in to enter in your information to find out the due date. Well... when i logged on, my "information" from my last pregnancy popped up, because I hadn't updated it since Mia. I ended up copying and pasting the information because it was so stinkin funny. So... here's the info that was given to me upon logging in the first time to this particular site:



Today is Monday November 12th 2007.
You conceived on Thursday April 28th 2005 and your due date is Thursday January 19th 2006.
928 days have passed since the conception,and you are 662 days past your due date.
You are 134 weeks into your pregnancy,and you are 94 weeks past your due date
You are in the 3rd trimester.
349% of your pregnancy has passed, there is -249% left to go.


How funny is this? Think I may be in trouble if this were acutally the case. And believe me... if this were all true, i would NEVER have kids ever again. :)

Prima Projects!!!

So Kim sent me home with the newest Prima product to make some displays for the Scrapbooks 'n Stickers store. Honestly... this line, i totally wouldn't have chosen myself to use at all. BUT, that's the glory of being on a design team. You're handed product, whether you like it or not, and forced to create with it. And through my years of experience, I've come to learn that even though you don't like it at first site, if you actually play with it, YOU"LL LOVE IT. So here are the 3 projects I came up with for this line. I used a smidgen of Fancy Pants product on them as well, but 99% is Prima. the Windblown LO is actually an "off the page" LO. first time i've ever done one and I absolutely LOVE how it turned out. It's on the top of my favs list right now!!!

The other hanging project is using the new wood product from Kaiser, teh Australian company. You can get all these products on Kim's store site- so check it out!

Holy Swampage Batman!!!!

So guess what?!?!?!?! Check this out!

Yah.... so count- that would be 3 AWESOME design teams for me! Being that 2 of the are manufacturers now.... I have massive amounts of cool product being sent my way! Am I going to be swamped with projects? probably. Is it going to be too completely cool? um... HELLOOOOO!!!! Check out their stinkin cool product- it's to die for!

very excited...... to say the least! ;)-

St. Louis and The Best Idea EVER!

Ok- so I was off again last weekend to CKC in St. Louis. Actually, it was in podunk Collinsville, Ill. , but no one knows where that is. It was seriously 1 street off the highway with some resteraunts, some hotels, and a convention center. that's it.

BUT.... aside from the size of the place, the convention center was so nice! Compared to our crap shoot of a place in CA just a few weeks ago.

CKC is seriously amazing. Setting up the booth and just the 2 days of constant sales and people was just too much fun. Not getting sick this go around was the best part. It makes such a difference when you're feeling well. (go figure)

So all in all, it was great. My classes went really well, and I'm proud to say that I had MORE than just 1 person too!!!! lol- Actually, my first class had 27 and my second class had 37! It was such a blast teaching to that many ladies.... i think i'm brave enough to want to see what teaching 50 would do to me! :)

But here's the picture i caught on my camera the very last night there. We had just gotten home from a later dinner at Applebee's (um.... SO eating there like once a week from now on!) and had just gotten out of the shower when i had this epiphany of a LO i could do (which will come very soon!). Let me just say, that after 3 days of working 15 hours straight, going back to the hotel and working another couple hours on projects, and only getting on average 3 hours of sleep a night, you're pretty dog tired by the time the last night hits. not that it's not worth it though- which is why i'm totally going to keep traveling with Kim. It's just too fun to NOT do! And BTW.... hop on over to Kim's site-- it's seriously one of the best. her kit club has just been re-done and you get enough supplies in there to make 3 double page LO's. It's totally cool.

Oh...... and this is a picture of our feet/legs. notice the red spots and the swollen hairy legs? yah- that would be the beating up we go through every show as well. hahahahahaha- i know we're so funny, we can't help it! ;)-

And one last note: supposedly people think i'm huge in this pregnancy. I lost count the first day of the show with how many people approached me and asked when i was due and when i told them, they would gasp and tell me that i looked like i was about ready to pop. Yah. um....... ok then! good thing i don't get offended at stuff like that. I know that I'm not "fat".... i'm actually losing weight in my body and getting a basketball of a belly. I'm telling you right here and now that this kid is going to be the biggest one out of all my kids though. Just a hunch, but for those of you who know me and have seen me lately, you'd probably agree. hahahahaha

Ok... so now i'm back and starting a new adventure. aka..... kids on spring break. yah.

After today, Rick and I had this idea of how to help us cope through these times of non-school. I had to share because I'm always up for advice and help with kids and issues facing parents. SOOOOO.... what I love about Hailey's school is that they "grade" the kids on behaviour as well as on school work. Every child in every grade is given a folder with a calendar for the month inside it. Each day, the kids are graded on how they behave in the classroom. There are 4 "levels". Top level is a blue star (the best behaviour), second level is a green smiley face (good behaviour), third level is a yellow straight mouthed face (behaviour needs improvement), and the last level is a red frowning face (not acceptable behaviour). It obviously works in the school here, so why not apply that to home? I'm proud to say that my daughter has only ever had 2 yellow faces and only a handful of green faces..... 97% of the time it's a blue star.( yup... proud mama :)

with that being said and explained, we kept wondering why the kids behave the way they do at home when their teachers say they are just fine and behave wonderfully at school. granted.. i'm sure almost every parents goes through this. So tonight for family night, we decided to do our own behaviour chart. Rick put together a chart and we all sat around and colored it. I then printed off a "calendar" for each child and hung it on the wall. They were each given a circle with their initial in it as well. During the day, rick and i will take that circle and move it up or down according to their behaviour at home. When the end of the day comes, whatever their circle is on, is the permanent "grade" for the day and that is marked on their personal calendar. At the end of every week, if they maintain blue stars and green faces, then they get a special treat. If they continue that good behaviour and get all green faces and blue stars the entire month, they get to go to the store and choose a new toy. if they get ANY yellow or red faces, it's over. They don't get rewarded at all.

I know that this will work with hailey. Kayleb.... i'm worried about still. He sees hailey getting praise for her blue star accomplishments every day and has become accustomed to telling me that he has also gotten a blue star at school every day too. hahahaha

But he's a boy and a monster and he's been copping a major attitude lately and i think this is the key i need to get that under control.

So there ya go- a picture and story for what may be the best idea ever for us! hope you can use it too!

April Kit LO's

Here they are folks. I've only been able to do 2 LO's so far- have a huge, WONDERFUL project that i have in the plan- but i don't know if i'll be able to get to it tomorrow or if it will have to wait until next week. But it's really fabulous and I can't wait to get it together.

Ok- so seriously, I've done these 2 LO's using only 3 sheets of paper.... so this kit can go a long ways and it's too cute to boot too! SO GET IT NOW!!!!! :) you like? i absolutely love them. they turned out better than i thought they would. :)

I'm back on!!!

the My Scrapbook Nook Design Team that is!!! guess there's been some people dropping out and my friend needed some help, so she handed me some free product and asked me to be back on and voila! Here I am again!

I must say... i felt completely empty not being on it for these past 3 months, so i'm very happy to be up and running again on it!

So.... with that being said- I got my APRIL KIT today!! OH MY WORD. ok- ladies.. for those of you who are in llluuuuuuuvvvvv with the new Pink Paislee company- this kit is chalked full of it. It's seriously one of the best kits ever! So here are some views..... PLEASE go get one now because they are almost sold out and will be shipping anyday now! and tell them i sent you...... :)

so be lookin in the next couple days for my projects- I'll have them up here by Tuesday! YAY!

Pulmonologist Update:

Ok- so my last post i mentioned the apt. i had the other day. Roxy got on me for not sharing information, so i'll fill ya'll in. Not that is't THAT exciting... but it is a story none-the-less.

I've had asthma for literally as long as i can remember. BUt it's only affected by major excercise and allergies. It's not one of those things that i have to inhale medication just to walk down the street. Anyway- since i've gotten older, i've had to use the inhaler less and less. To the point that the ONLY time i've gone to the dr to get one is when i'm pregnant.

So i wen tto my last OBGYN apt and my dr didn't want to prescribe me an inhaler for some odd reason, and sent me to the pulmonologist instead. (yah.. don't get that. but whatever) So i head to the apt. ONE FREAKIN HOUR LATER.... i finally get into where they do this breathing test. It's so annoying. you have to plug your nose and breath into this tube rediculously and then these numbers appear. have no clue what they mean, but i usually pass it every time i do it. (who would've thunk?)
Then i wait another 45 minutes and then the dr finally comes in. Needless to say, i'm pretty pissed at having to wait so long. How is it that there's only 3 people in the office, umpteen nurses, and 3 dr's available... and it takes THAT long? ugh

anywho.... so he comes in and starts askign all these questions on my health, family history and such. then he says "you know... when you're pregnant, you typically are short of breath."
i wanted to get up and slap him at that point. like DUH! i've been pregnant 4 times.. i think i'd know. so i then say "Well... i've had asthma and i think i can tell the difference between being short of breath and not being able to breath." then he's like "yah." um.. DUH HEAD.
during all these questions... he just keeps asking the dumbest things and making me feel like i'm stupid. seriously people.... after 12 or more years of living with a condition, you'd think i've been through the process and know the difference between being able to breath and not being able to breath.
he then says "ok- let me listen to your breathing" he takes out his scope thing and listens for a whole 2.5 seconds and says "sounds good". i'm like- you've got to be freakin kidding me. Then he points to a "spot" on my collar bone and says "how long have you had that?"
me: "a while."
him: "has it changed at all?"
me: "no"
him: "do you have any more spots like that?"
me: "not that i know of"
him: " and it hasnt' changed?"
me: "no"

(um... did i miss something? was i here about breathing or a skin analysis?)

so he pulls the collar of my shirt down a little to view around the rest of my neck. yah... nothing.

Ok- skin cancer runs in my family. I think i'd know what to look for if something were out of place or "growing".

he then says "ok- well i'll prescribe you something called pro-air. it's an albuterol.. but the name is changing. Next year you won't be able to get albuterol at all."
me: "umm.... ok"
him: " they've changed regulations and albuterol isn't ozone friendly so they are switching it to pro-air because it is ozone friendly. but it's the same thing."
me: (wanting to laugh) "ok"

Seriously? Did he really just mention that albuterol is not ozone friendly? I'm afraid that all us asthma inhalerers are about to die after using an unfriendly ozone inhaler. because i don't know about you- but whatever we put in our body, obviously comes out in another way, and heaven forbid we pass some gas that isn't ozone friendly! hahahahahaha.

i was so fed up at this point. he left and i got out of there. but not until he mentioned that he wanted to see me back in 2 months. YAH RIGHT. like i'd step foot back in that office. unless i have a dire medical emergency... won't be doing THAT again.

soooooo..... i'm now safe with my inhaler, i can finally have some relief for these allergies, and now i know that i'm helping to save our ozone by breathing in "Pro-Air". lol

I just had to add.....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA- I'm totally laughing right now at the down right luck I've had.

History: I gained 50 lbs during pregnancy with my first daughter, 30 with my second, and 25 with my 3rd. Always hated it. And I ALWAYS lost weight in the first trimester... but then gained rapidly thereafter.

So I had this pulmonologist apt. today and they had to weigh me. I hate that part.. i always cringe. But i step on the scale and she starts moving the levers..... just to go over my previous weight. I sigh and say "bummer- hate that." then the nurse laughed and said that the scale was 3 lbs heavier- so i needed to subtract 3 lbs. I was like "you serious?" yah.. she was.

Guess what???? I'm 25 weeks and HAVEN'T GAINED A SINGLE POUND!!!!!! how is that freakin possible? must say that i'm really happy.... guess my body is losing weight while this kid is growing.. cause i KNOW he's more than a pound now.

But i'm totally knocking on wood right now, cause just wait.... i'm gonna gain like 10 lbs in one month- and then my butt will be as huge as the belly. And THAT would really suck.

like i said.... I'm laughing. :)-

Beach Trip!

Sadly enough.... our time in Savannah is coming to a close and we *plan* on moving in not too long.(like 12 weeks) Don't ask what our plans are.. cause we don't have any! Nothing like not knowing where your life is going and where you're supposedly going to make someone go crazy!

Anyway- that being said, we thought we'd take advantage of Rick being on Spring Break last week and take a trip to the beach. It's not entirely warm enough to really enjoy the beach experience, but it was fun none-the-less. Don't know when or if we'll get back to the beach before we move, so we thought this would be a fun little trip.

Thought I'd share a funny story and some pics from the day.

See the picture with Rick and the kids heading towards those big rocks? Well.... the water was really low. Most times we go- those rocks are covered. But not this time. Rick thought it'd be fun to let the kids climb on them. I didn't really care- harmless enough right? (like climbing on huge rocks over the freazing ocean water is harmless.... ha!) Anyway- So hailey and kayleb climbed up on the rocks to play. By the time I made it over to them, Mia had already fallen in the water and her pants/shoes were all wet. But she was standing on the beach away from the rocks. Rick had come over to stand by me to just watch the kids have fun. Well- a nice little wave came up and eliminated any possible way of getting hailey and kayleb off of those rocks without getting major wet. WE told them to stay put and to just hold on until the water went down so we could get them. Hailey of course.... was FREAKING out. She thought she was goign to die. Kayleb on the other hand, stodd there and just waited for the water to go down to get off. The water went down, Rick went up and got them off and we were on our way. I think Hailey is traumatized though..... she keeps talking about how she'll never go on rocks again. hahahaha

The cutest thing in the world happened just after this incident. We were walking back to the car when Kayleb comes up to Rick and says "Dad, you're a special Hero. You saved us."

how cute is that?!?!?!?! So now daddy is a special hero for saving the day.

I think the day was worth it. :)

On another note, I made the mistake of handing the camera over to Rick for a bit. He then snapped pics of me with the kids (which isn't bad... but he KNOWS i hate prego pics) So I thought i'd humor you all with the ONE picture that shows my belly. And yes... I'm only 6 months and I look huge. I swear this kid is gonna be the big one. So enjoy your one look at the belly... cause i won't be making the mistake again! :)-

Happy Easter!

Isn't this a marvelous day? I love Easter... it's seriuosly one of my favorite holidays. Simple, nice, and not so commercialized. I can truly sit back and enjoy the day and celebrate the true meaning of Easter and linger in that spirit all day. Can't get much better than that right? :)

So here's our day in a nutshell..... I may be biased, but I seriously have the cutest kids on earth.

and yes... they are eating PEEPS at 8 am. (thanks to the daddy of course!) Hope you've all had a wonderful Easter!

Too Funny

The other day we headed to the park after school to let the kids play. So you know those toys where there's just a "pipe" coming out of the ground and you stand at one end and talk into it and another person goes across the playground to talk through the other pipe? Well... they had one at this park and Hailey thought it was like the coolest thing ever. She thought it was magical and alive in every sense. So take a look at this picture and tell me it isn't one of the cutest things in the world!

Zutter Bind-It-All

Over this past weekend, i was literally thrown into demo-ing a machine i have never seen before in my life! Needless to say, it was pretty interesting! So i had heard and watched Roxy demo this thing, but didn't pay it too much mind-besides... i wasn't the one trying to sell it right? ;)

Then Saturday morning comes along and Rox tells me that I HAVE to demo this thing because we need to sell more. Well.... umm....... YAH RIGHT. so I ran to the booth and pulled out the machine and the "how to" booklet to see if i could figure the thing out. I guess people had the impression that I was doing a demo for them, so they started sitting down. Then the questions started coming. Enter: freak out mode. yah.... So I just started playing with it. Honestly, All I could dish out was a bunch of BS, because i honestly had no clue what i was doing. But I was doing something right.... because I ended up selling 3 of them within 30 minutes!!!! Now- it seriously isn't a hard machine to figure out. There's this guide on the side of it that tells you exactly what all the functions are, so you have to be pretty dumb to NOT figure the thing out in a short amount of time.

That being said...... i fell in love. I did- honestly and truly. besides... what's a scraproom without the latest gizmo or gadget right?! So i call the hubby and tell him about it. He actually got more excited about it than i was, so of course i got permission and bought the thing.

At the end of the show, Kim tells me to take one of the starter packets and a packet of binder rings home to make something fantabulous and put it up on my blog. Well.... I came through on the making of the thing.. can't guarantee that it's fantabulous though. :)

SO I came up with this cute little mini album using pics from my trip. I couldn't help but scrap them- so here it is! Notice the incredible binding? Yah.... this machine cuts the holes AND binds the thing together. It's seriously awesome! If you want one... shoot over to Kim's wonderful site and buy one- it's such a cool toy! so what do ya stink? :)-