A GOOD day...

Well, I didn't get any scrapping done today...not enough time after I finished my cleaning, but I did get back to my working out after my weekend off and managed to run 13 minutes non stop!! WOOHOOO!! It was at 4.3 and I'm not sure if I could have gone longer...I didn't want to overdo it. But I'm so happy. It's alot for me. I'm still trying to find my way as far as trying to find my speed and build up my endurance. I don't really know what I'm doing right or wrong because I've been doing this for almost three years now and still haven't gotten where I'd like to be. And haven't really lost as much weight as I want to either. But before I get on a down slide about that....I did a good thing today and I'm happy about it :)

Please don't go....

I'm talking to my scrappy mojo! LOL I scrapped another LO today. I had this sitting on my desk halfway done since the last day I scrapped...Thursday...Friday...not sure...I was a bit stuck on it. I finished it today and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Not sure if this scrappy roll I've been on is about to end since I had a bit of a time with this one, but I sure hope not! I love scrapping daily..it's my destresser, my little vaca. I'll enjoy it while I can! TFL :)

I forgot to post that this puts my LO count at #98! :)

Owl RAK

Since there were only 5 comments on my owl post, if you posted a comment and would like some owls, please email me your address :)

It's STILL here....

My scrappy mojo that is! Oops, I don't want to jinx it! LOL I scrapped TWO LOs today. The first was pretty simple and quick and it was another lift off of Michelle's blog. I really love her style and her choice of color combos. The second one was a lift from Sasha Farina's blog. I saw it and IMMEDIATELY fell in love with the colors in it!! For some reason, I am really loving the bright, bold colors right now. You have to check her blog out! I just found it recently, but I am visiting it every day for inspiration...love her style! I have links to both hers and Michelle's blog in my PLACES TO VISIT section. So this puts my LO count at #97. Wow, that sounds like alot of LOs! Hard to believe I've done so many already!

Oh, just something I wanted to document. Mikey has this thing where he says "Yes, sir" and does this like "salute" thing. I'm sure it's something I taught him. In fact, I just remembered that I taught him to do it to Miguel and to say "Yes, sir, Daddy" and to salute him. But I don't think he gets the distinction between "sir" and "maam" because he does it to me ALL the time. He did it to me today when I was getting him off the potty and I told him " Just so you know, Mikey...I'm not a 'sir'" And he says, "yes, you are sir, MISTER!" So now, not only am I a "sir", I'm also a "Mister" LOL I feel so not "girly" LOL Here's my LO's..tfl :)

BTW, there's a glare on one of the pics in the second LO that's not there IRL :)

A forgotten LO

Chon brought it to my attention that I never uploaded a LO of Mikey I did last week I think. I totally forgot about it. I mean, I thought I had uploaded it already, but apparently not!! So, this puts my count at #95. I wanted to scrap right now, but I'm sleepy...zzzzz....I tried to get Mikey to lay down with me to take a short nap, but he wouldn't. I guess I'l just watch some TV or something. Maybe tomorrow. TFL :)

This has to end sometime.....

My scrappy mojo can't last forever! LOL I have kind of been on a scrapping kick for a bit now and I'm wondering when the mojo is just going to decide to up and leave me!! I found this awesome looking LO that just inspired me with all it's bright, fun colors on Michelle L's blog and just knew I had to lift it. I didn't copy it exactly, but I did get the ideas from her LO so I need to give credit where credit is due :) It always confuses me exactly what "lifting" means. I mean, if you don't use the exact same things and title, ect..is it still a lift? I'm curious what everyone else thinks. I always tell where I lifted from because it makes me feel like a cheater to be claiming someone else's ideas...even if I didn't copy exactly. Anyway, I believe this puts me at #94. I have some more pics printed out on my table that I want to scrap. They are of Mikey and Lij at Kiddie Park when Miguel took them on his vaca. Yep, I still have pics from WAY back then! I'm not the kind of scrapper who tries to "catch up" with their pics, but I just feel like I have so many good ones that I just want to work with, but don't always have all the time I'd like. What a bummer that I can't just scrap the day away! Well, thanks for looking at my LO! Night!

Owl how to....

There wasn't much to making the little owls. These were the basic shapes I drew for the bigger pieces of the owl.


They are a little "off", but I just eyed it and fixed it with the scissors when I was cutting the pieces out of the patterned paper. For the eyeballs, I just cut those out of white cardstock freehand and then drew in the "pupils" with a black Sharpie. After I glued all the pieces together, I just traced parts of it with a fine tip Sharpie marker. It just occurred to me that I could also try making some of these from felt! And googly eyes might be really cute on these too! If anyone does decide to make their own, please post a link...I'd love to see your creations :)

Some Homemade scrap goodies and a RAK :)

I scrapped a page last night. It was a lift from 2 Peas I believe. This puts me at #93!! Wooohooo!! I have so many pics I want to scrap, but never enough time or mojo. I felt like creating today, but didn't want to go through the whole looking for inspiration, picking papers and embellies and so on. So while I was browing my usual blogs, I came across Michelle's L's blog and I just loved the little owl she has in her..what do you call it? Um..."banner" at the top of her page. Not sure if I'm calling it the right thing. I don't know if she made her little owl or if it's something store bought, but I thought I'd try to duplicate one. I thought it came out so cute, I decided to make a few! I can't wait to use them on a page! So, here's where the RAK comes in. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think of them and I will randomly pick a winner to receive some of my little friends :) Going to go watch a movie now and enjoy the rest of my time with Lij before we have to take him back to Gilbert's! TFL :)

BTW, these little owls were handmade. I just drew them free hand...the body piece, the "face" piece, cut out the eyes from white cs and just freehand cut the wings too. I'll draw some out later and post pics of the different pieces for those of you who want to make your own :)

A Trip to the Circus...

We took the kids to the Shriner's Circus today. Miguel had gotten a couple of those free admission tickets for the kids so we went. He took today off because of a trip he has to make tomorrow for an ACTS retreat so he picked Lij up from his dad's last night so that we could all go. I was so happy to see Lij and so glad that I got an extra night with him! I miss him so much when he's gone. Last night after Mikey fell asleep, I let him stay up playing video games while I slept on one of the couches. He ended up falling asleep in the big couch across from me and I remember waking up in the middle of the night and looking over at him and just feeling so happy...so happy that he was home and so close by and safe...just a good, warm, fuzzy feeling. Anyway, we saw the 4:30 show. We got there a bit early and they weren't letting people in...don't know why...so we had to wait outside in the HOT sun for about 30 minutes. The kids didn't seem to mind though. And we had gotten them some of those little, red Shriner hats so their heads were a little protected! BTW, there were clowns walking around the whole time taking pics with the kids and signing their little hats...so cute!! We got some really good seats right up front. I haven't been to the circus since I was VERY little so I have no idea how many people go to these things or maybe it was just because it was still pretty early in the day, but there weren't too many people there. Before the circus...they had all kinds of fun things set up for the kids, face painting (really not FACE painting because they were doing it on the kids' arms), pony rides, elephant rides, moon bounces. The elephant rides were $10 and the pony rides were $7....so pricey!! Mikey rode a pony and both Lij and Mikey were going to ride the elephant, but Mikey backed out at the last minute. He sat there on the elephant the whole time they were loading other kids on, but as soon as it was going to move, he decided he wanted off!! So Lij rode alone. Both Lij and Mikey got "painted" too...Lij got a cool, glittery dragon and Mikey got a turtle. The circus itself was so cool. They had acrobats, and a tiger tamer guy, guys riding bikes inside that big steel circle thing (yes, that's what it's called!LOL), gymnasts, an elephant show...so many things..oh and guy got shot out of a cannon! THAT was SOOOO cool!!! It was a blast and the kids both had such a good time. I didn't get many pics at the circus and the ones I took didn't come out very well because it was really dark in there and I had to use the night setting which flashes three times and the kids would move before the third flash went off. I also got some cute pics of us together in the backyard while Miguel was cleaning up the truck before we left. Of course, Mikey is blurred out or cut off from some of the pics because he just cannot sit still long enough! LOL TFL :)

WOOOOOHOOOO...I'm at # 92!!!

Yes, I was able to squeeze in another LO today!! I had the idea to do a LO of Lij with this title for a while because I wanted to journal about how much I love the special person that he is. I am really happy with it and this one again, is all me :)
Today was a hard workout day. Sometimes it's not as hard....I can easily do 30 minutes even longer, but today for some reason...my legs were really hurting and my allergies are acting up which makes it very hard to breathe especially if I'm running...and then my Ipod went out halfway through my workout. I had to do the last of it without music :( I did finish though and did my ab exercises too. I get so discouraged sometimes, but I don't want to quit...I WILL keep going..no matter how much it hurts!

Tonight me and my friend Melissa were having such an interesting conversation about being a parent/mother and she showed me this quote which I just LOVE and know that I have to use it on a layout!!

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

So true!! You never know just how much you are going to love your kids! I mean, they are your children and of course you are going to love them, but I don't know if we are prepared to feel this kind of BIG love! It's overwhelming sometimes, but I wouldn't change it for the world!!

Hmm...what else? Not much else to report...LOL It's 12:34 p.m. and all is right with my world :) Mikey is sleeping...FINALLY...and so is Miguel..on the couch and snoring. My mom's been asleep for hours already...LOL..and I will be heading there soon too!! Good night :)