I'M BBBAAAAACCCCKKKKK!!!!

Oh my word!!! Ok- to say that this trip to CHA was fun... would be a HUGE understatement! It was so incredibly fun- I think I had too much fun! So- here are the pics to prove it and the story that goes with it. I'll try not to make this one too long- but some pics require a bit of an explantion.

Trip started out good- forgot how much I hate descending in flights.... but I got over that. Got to the Disneyland Hotel and got to our room... let's just say- it's completely "magical". I don't ever remember hearing one word so much in my entire life. Enough to make me puke really. So we had a nice room- had glow in the dark pixie dust on the walls- and princess beds.... completely magical. (barf)- We went to Disneyland on Friday. WE must have been the hottest girls there- cause' we got free cokes from one of the guys in bakery- must say, it was one of the best cokes I've ever had!
Well- these are a few pics of the Disneyland parade. Didn't know that McDreamy and McSteamy worked at Disneyland did ya?! And I'm not gonna say anything about Pinocchio. (sp?) i think the pic says it all.

We went on Saturday afternoon to help set up the booth. It was fun meeting everyone that came. Help to get all the product up and about 5 hours later- it was complete. I had to take home a box of my stuff and come up with a make-n-take. I guess the picture explains how excited I was to do that one.

Now- if you are planning a trip to Disneyland- plan on going to a grocery store or bring your own food- cause' they are gonna rip you to shreds with their food prices! We ordered room service and split a meal a couple of times- here we are on the phone just waiting to order it..... seriously took 10 years for them to just answer the phone! I must admit though- it was some really yummy food!

And here are pics of the booth- of course... i'm only going to show you the pics of my product! Don't they all look fabulous?! I was VERY excited with how they all turned out. Do'nt they look just awesome?!

i have to break this up into 2 posts.... so the continuing saga appears above this one!

The REAL Story

Alright......So if any of you have seen Jamie's blog (at right)- you've seens al ittle snipet of pics from our goodbye party for Roxann. Well.... Leave it to me to tell the REAL story about what happened there. You can also reference back to our Christmas party. OK- let's start at the beginning. Roxy's hubby went and had to get a job in Kansas.... yah- what was he thinking?! so obiviously- ROxy has to pack up everything and move out with him. We had anice little goodbye party for her... let her know how much we love her. We had planned to have 2 pages done to go in a little album as a little gift to send off with her. Of course I wasn't done with mine by the time she got there- but it got done anyhow- here's the pics of the first page of all of them. I may need to explain- some of them need no explanation. 1- My page... i'm the only cool one with rockin pics with this girl... it's cause' she loves me the most! 2- Loverly Kristine..... one of kristine's many faces she makes quite often! 3-Jamie's page.... self explanitory. (maybe you should ask her how she got this shot?!) 4- And then Suzy Q's page..... she found this cutie patootie story and anrrowed it down and made this cute page out of it! If you can read it.. it really is sweet. Oh,.... and this is a pic of ROx when she found out she was getting something from us..... does her face say it all? It's like she was scared er somethin?!
enough said on that. SO now we'll get into the juicy parts... hahahahha- we can't have a TRUE party with these crazy girls without Margaritas and daiquris. Well.... the store they usually buy them from, doesn't allow "take out drinks" anymore- which was a HUGE tragedy! SO they had to settle with the bottles that Roxy is sporting here. Yah... this is a very becoming pic- this is Roxy in true form. Honestly- the girl doesn't drink- so it's pretty funny when she does! Rox... does Ike know about this?!

Here are the pics of us girls with Roxy as she read each of our pages. You know... Roxy is a BIG BABY!!!! She started crying even before she opened the book! SO of course, she made cry baby Kristine cry- and then they tried to get Jamie to jump off the cliff with them- but that didn't work... Jamie ran away as fast as she could! Suzy doesn't have an emotional bone in her body- she can't cry... (it really does take A LOT to get her to cry) - and me.. well- I didn't even want to go there.. got to maintain my MO and be the tough one. Had to save it for when I was all by my lonesome- no one knows I cry..... ;)

The part really was a lot of fun. Most of us (ahem) actually got some work done and made some pages. I won't mention any names though. Here's a pic of a true Roxy face... man I'm gonna miss this girl!And this is a not-so-typical face of Roxy-poos..... don't shoot me girl... had to do it! Caught this moment when she was reading my page of course. ( maybe it was someone else's... but I'm sure it was mine!) Let's just make sure we never see this face again eh?!

Poor baby!!!! Just breaks your heart doesn't it? WE continued to have a really fun night. Got a nice picture of all of us. Aren't we just a bunch of babes?! Then there's the not-so-cute one....... just keep in mind that this pic was taken after several drinks. (just for the record..... Suzie and I don't drink- so... we have no excuse for our behavior!)

Yah- I know we're cool.... just don't go being all jealous about how cute we all are k?!

WEll..... the party was a huge success.... we all had a fun time. The store wreaked of alcohol, we laughed and cried, got some pages done, and had a nice hang over the day after. Roxy is now gone. Don't know when we'll see each other again- very sad.... she was seriously a wonderful friend. For those of you who knew her.... I'm sure you'd agree at how awesome she was. (is this a freakin funeral or what?) One last thing to share.... this picture.... I"m not gonna say a word. The phrase "a picture's worth a thousand words"... well- this one's worth at least double that!

Doing it... AGAIN!!!

I find it pretty funny that whenever I pull out my wedding album- I always sit and marvel at how BAD it is! I've done (scrapbooked) my wedding album twice already. Now.. given- times change and so do styles, but there are pages I've done 3 years back that I still like. I don't know what it is- but for some reason, I feel like my wedding album MUST be kept up and look nice at all times. SO... that being said, I've done it again! Well- not all of it. I've decided to take pics off the pages and re-do them... but only when a call for a magazine or contest calls for wedding pages. I'm slowly getting more pages done. THere's a CK call out right now for wedding pages, so of course- i take full advantage of that. I've done 2- one is already below in my Feb Kit pages. Here's one I did the other night. And yes- that's me and my hubby.... look so young right? if you take a look at us now, you'd defintely be able to tell that we've had 3 kids and years of no sleep!!! Anyone else feel the same?

I'll have to scan in some pages that are done according to my style 4 years ago and compare them to now. And for my mom and dad... I'm sorry your album looks the way it does.... I'll do it over. Eventually. :)

Happy Birthday Baby

I haven't had time to post this until now- but my baby turned 1 a couple days ago and it's such a sad sad time! Time flies by and I can't believe it! So there's obviously a nice story going with these pics- so I'll be the narrator... just imagine you can hear my voice in your head!

We day started off pretty well. Typical birthday day. We were all being extra nice and spending most of our time playing with the baby. I went to pick up the cake at the store that I had made. First of all...... when your child turns one...it's a cardinal law to have chocolate cake for your child to dig in to. I ordered a chocolate cake... did I get a chocolate cake? NO!!!! She had white cake with vanilla frosting....strike one. So i blow it off- 'cause what am I gonna do? We go through the day just playin and having fun. I go to lay her down for a nap, during this time of "sleeping", I hear this faint whopping cough coming from her room. Strike 2. It comes time for dinner, so we eat and prepare for her little party. I went to get the gifts out of the car to wrap. I come inside and after frantically running through the house trying to find wrapping paper, the only thing I have is leftover Christmas wrapping paper!!! Strike 3. So now she has a bright pink and yellow cake, a cough, and red and green plaid presents. She's ONE... what's she gonna care right? Well.... little do people know that it doesn't matter what she wants.... all I can think about is how nothing matchies in the picture so how am I going to scrapbook it?! Sheesh! We sing Happy Birthday to her, I unwrap her gifts, because she can't, and then we set the cake in front of her. It was really pretty funny, she looked at it like it was a piece of chikunk ready to eat her alive..... ;) She slowly got to the point where she was poking her finger in the cake and then just dove in. And she was the one to decide when she was done eating it by throwing the whole thing on the floor. The pictures really explain it all! For a first birthday- it was a lot of fun. My baby is now 1 and isn't really my baby anymore- time for another one? NOT!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday Baby!

There's A First For Everything

So I am so happy to be part of the Scrapbook Nook Design Team! I just got my first kit in the mail and the product is AMAZING!!! You get 10 sheets of paper, box of chipboard hearts, bag full of ribbon, a tube of buttons, and an alphabet set.... and all for $25!!!!! Ok, once I'm off the DT- I'm signing up for this thing. Like I said eariler- my friend is the one who puts all the kits together and she has done an amazing job.. as I know she will conitnue to do. So... here are a couple of projects I made with the product... and believe me- there is so much left over product- I can make a lot more too! PLEASE... if you are wanting to sign up for a kit club- sign up for this one. If you do, make sure you place my name on the recommendation box in the checkout! Check out their forum and gallery too.... it is stocked full of inspriation! www.myscrapbooknook.com

Cute Kiddos

I had to get these up. My kids were all sick on Christmas Eve, SO we couldn't wear our Christmas outfits, I so carefully planned, to church. Killed me- but I got over it. So we got to wear them this past Sunday- and I must admit it was one of the happiest days of my life. Explanation: ever since I found out I was having another girl, I was so excited for one thing..... the fact that I could buy matching dresses for both my girls. This is the first time I was able to put that dream to reality. SO here are the most adorable pics to prove it. My son had a matching tie with his new suit.... now even thoush I'm allowed to be bias towards my own children... who can't admit that my kids are just the cutest things in the world?! :)-

Freakin' Hilarious I am!!!!

Yup... that's what I am! I'm not afraid to admit that I think I'm the funniest person on earth. This is just one instance in which I claim my funniest person in the world claim. I have NEVER been good at wrapping presents. It's always been a huge struggle to get the paper just right and have it look neat and clean. So- this Christmas... was no different! Funny enough, by coincidence, I was working one day when my friend Kristine comes walking in and starts wrapping some of her gifts. I was watching her (unbenounced to her) and how she wrapped. The heavens opened and the angels sang.... I GOT IT!!! Why had it been so hard? So.... after I had wrapped 99.9% of all my gifts, I was able to use my newly found super human, flippin sweet wrapping skills to use on ONE gift! AND IT WORKED!!!! well- I won't go into detail of how I USED to wrap gifts...... it's a thing of the past anywho. Now, If you want lessons, I am booking my calender for this year already! ENjoy the pleasure in my goofiness. SO here are my pics- proof of what I USED to be. and of course, I had to have a treat before I started for fuel. And my husband thinks he helped by cutting tape for me. SUch a good helper... he should get a gold star!

TOOT!!!! I'm on a Design Team!!

Just heard that I was chosen for another Design Team position. It's been a while since I was on one last, but I am very excited about this one. Go to www.myscrapbooknook.com and sign up. It is a monthly kit club. Now I KNOW that this club is going to be awesome. My good, presonal friend *Lou* (blog at right), is the designer of all the kits..... and she wil do an awesome job. IF you go sign up for their kit club, before you check out, put my name that I reffered you. Seriously, it's a great deal with some awesome product! Can't ask for anything better right?
Also- if you go to Adornit's blog (again... at right) check out the Page I did for the ad going in Scrapbook Etc in Feb. debuting my open shelf line. It's adorable! I love it! only 3 weeks left until I leave for CA!!!!!

Vinyl Lettering Cont......

In response to some comments-
My sister's business is called Vinyl Impressions. She started it up just a couple of months ago. It is hitting HUGE out in the west supposedly- which is why I'd like to start it up here eventually. She is currently getting her own website built- but won't be done for a little while. In the mean time, she's decided to get a blog up and running to showcase her fonts, prices, and details. She is emailing me all the info tonight and I"ll be putting her blog together hopefully within the next day or so. I will post an entry on here once her blog is running so you can see all the goodies! Glad people are interested! makes me excited!

Vinyl Lettering.... Anyone Interested?

My sister just started her own business doing Vinyl Lettering. I've never seen it before until she sent me a sample. It is so freakin' adorable!!!! So... I'm here to show you what it is. take a look at these pics- I've been debating whether to start up consulting for her. Would you be interested? Very easy to ship, immediate turn around times, and not expensive. Plus- you can attatch them to your walls, and when you want to remove them, you can- and it doesn't leave any residue! They can be attatched to wood plaques, tiles, glass blocks, mirrors, just about anything! self adhesive...... you can do it yourself- or purchase already done. They areally are beautiful. The Grandparents mirror is what we did for my parents for Christmas. great for gifts, home decor, military,churches, etc. Let me know if you'd be interested!

Balderdash and Bronchitis

Wow...... what a Christmas! It never ceases to amaze me how fast it comes and goes. It's always such a hype and magical experience building up to Christmas. Then it comes and never lasts long enough. The day after Christmas is usually a depressing day for me. I take all my Christmas decor down and "get back to life". No more magic.
But the point to this entry....... Rick and I got the game Balderdash for Christmas.... i must say- I HIGHLY reccommend it. It's the most hilarious game you will ever play in your life! Seriously- if you are g ame player... go get the game!
The second thing would be the bronchitis. My first daughter got it on the 23rd. went to the Dr- got the meds... loaded her up and she's getting over it. Thing is... with 3 kids, when one gets sick... they ALL get sick. So now i have 3 kids hacking and coughing up a storm. Haven't had a decent nights sleep in over a week. Feel like I've given birth to triplets and have to wake up to feed them every couple hours! It's insane! We did enjoy our Christmas though. I got fuzzy green slippers and a new purse. Seems simple things like that will keep me going through the day.
NOTE:
anyone who decides the school schedule for the year- needs to narrow the Christmas break to a week TOPS- not more.... anyone with kids in school agree? ugh.... :) I'll post pics later.

Mary Christmas?

Ok- found this cute link ( www.blessthischick.com )on another blog- had to make my own..... I think their names say it all! Merry Christmas Eve!

It's a miracle!

I finally finally was able to scrapbook! I actaully started this page a week or so ago and haven't been able to finish it until today. But just thought I'd show you what I came up with. I love these pics- they are so typical of Kayleb. Had to show off that I was actually accomplishing something in the realm of what I love!

The things children NEED

Yah.... need.... what a word. Notice how that word never ceases to "escape" out the mouths of our children almost every second of the day? every time there is a commercial on TV or anytime a friend has a cool thing... it's always "I want that." Hailey's latest comment.... "I want that... is it under the tree?" figures.Which leads me to the point of this entry. Hailey is a "good listener" at school and gets rewarded for it. We wanted to extend that into our home life since "good listening" seems to be something that was done in 1742. Enter.... sticker book. everytime we ask Hailey to do something and she does it right away- she chooses a sticker and gets to put it in a special book. She loves it. So I made this cute little Ariel book for Hailey... since she is in that phase right now. BUt what happens when you have twins.... or close to twins? everything has to be fair. Kayleb decided he NEEDED one too. OF COURSE!!!! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?! Like I could get away with making one for her and not him. sheesh!! SO I went and made one for Kayleb. Yah, so the question would be.... is it really working? Well- I'll let you know in the year 3467. Here they are for your enjoyment- nothing special... just something to show. (at least I'm not completely stopping my creative-ness right?!)

Lucky Ducky Teachers

I was so excited for Hailey to start school this year. Not because she was going to be gone all day, everyday- not because she was going to be learning- not because she was finally going to socialize with kids her age; not because I'd be back down to 2 kids- but beacuse I was going to be able to make her teacher a gift at Christmas and at the end of the year! I know.. pathetic. BUT- in my defense.... I am a huge advocate of showing our teachers how much they are appreciated. They do so much to help our children and mold their lives.... they need some praise and acknowledgment every now and again to let them know that we care. So let's just say that my childrens future teachers have no idea how lucky they are. They will be getting handmade gifts from me every year! This year- This is what Hailey's teacher got for Christmas. Cam complete with handmade bag and card too! (and don't let me fool you... the card and bag have been made for quite a while.. just pulled them out and dusted them off)

Just filled the tin with a bunch of candy- think she'll like it?

Now show your teacher you care!!!! (everybody grab hands and say "We care, We care") hahahaha-