It's been a long time coming

My goodness, it's been a long time!! It was a busy last part of summer. Well, maybe not so much busy, but we were staying at my mom's who doesn't have a computer and I ended up taking scrap stuff over there, but never really got the chance to do anything except for one 6x12 LO that I will upload later when I take a pic of it. When we came back from my mom's because Lij was starting school, I had the job of putting all the stuff we had all taken over there, back in its proper place. Then Miguel started his vacation and we were hardly at home. We got so much done including cleaning out and straightening the garage. We got to go out ALONE together and spend time together on SO many days and nights thanks to my mommy who had also taken her vacation on those same days for that very reason...so we could leave Mikey with her. Thanks Mom!! :) We also did family stuff....we took Mikey to the zoo, Chuck E. Cheese, we went to the river. Sorry to say that Lij missed out on that stuff since he was in school. We had a great nine days together and I am going to miss him terribly because I know that I will not get to spend that much time with him for a good while :( :(

Anyway, I finally did it!! I cut my hair and donated it to Locks of Love! I was a bit scared and nervous about it. Not because I didn't want to do it. Mostly just because I didn't know how short it was going to be and if I was going to like it. But I did it and at first it was shocking to see how much hair was cut off and how short my hair is now, but it's a really cute cut and Miguel just LOVES it!! Which is the best part of it!! LOL :) He had been wanting me to cut my hair short FOREVER and this was the perfect time. I colored it too and I am really loving it! Plus it is not so darn hot with all that hair and this horrible heat!!

I finally did a LO today. Gosh, I was itching to get something done!! I am really loving the way this one came out! I hope I get some more done. I have tons of cool pics to scrap . And I just got the new CK and Scrapbooks Ect issues and saw lots of stuff I want to copy and try.

Lij is back in school, but had to be sent to another school because his grade was capped :( But guess what? The bus he has to take to the new school which by the way is not THAT far and is very nice too, stops right in front of our house!! Going AND coming...he gets left right on our lawn!! How awesome is that??!!? Now on days that are cold or rainy or whatever, I don't have to take Mikey out or worry that we will all get wet or be cold, ect. It's amazing the way God makes some things work out for the best :) :)

Hmmm...what else?? Can't think of anything else to write at the moment, but I will be back. Mikey is quiet and I have to see what this kid is up to!! LOL

MIA

Just a quick note. I've been MIA for a while....we were all staying at my mom's since there was no school for Lij, but I will be back home this weekend and back to blogging.

Another 6 x 12

Here's another 6x12 LO I did real quick today while Mikey napped. I love this pic of the kids together in black and white! And I am LOVING this new size!! TFL :)

Lost post

Okay, I can't find the post I just added again??

My Other LO's and a new "thing"

So here are the other LOs I did at crop that I had taken bad pics of and two 6x12 LOs I did. The one of Miguel I did last night and the one of Mikey I did a while ago. I am really LOVING that size!! I had seen lots of ppl doing them and wanted to try them, just hadn't gotten around to it. Well, now I think I'm HOOKED! It just may be my new "thing" for a while! I also want to try going back to 8.5x11 for a while or at least just doing some LOs in that size. I was getting a little tired of just 12x12. Well, thanks for looking :)

Crop Night

So this month's crop night was a blast! We had a great turnout--nine of us! Lots of chatting, shopping and scrapping! Actually, not much shopping. If you can believe it, I only spent $12 and that was getting some of the new BG Infuse papers, letters, and diecuts. I hit my free $10 and got some alpha stickers...can never have too many of those! And that was it! So I managed to finish all six of the LOs I packed for the night and we even had two hours left in the crop! We had to leave early though because our ride (Adriana) was leaving. We still got alot done and then my sis and I just came home and scrapped until two a.m. Good times :) Some of the pics I took of my LOs are blurry, so I have to retake them and upload them later.

A Quick Hello

I really need to try to keep up with this more often and not just when I have LOs to post! I've been getting LOs ready and packed all day for Saturday's crop. I had most of them sketched out already, but still needed to pick papers, ect, but hadn't done it yet because I wasn't quite in the scrappy mood. Elijah has been here this week (back from being with his dad), so we've just been hanging out. I really like the way I set my tables up in my scraproom because now anytime that I'm in there, I have Lij and Mikey spend time with me in there. Lij will be drawing and Mikey will be coloring and sticking stickers all over the place and we will just talk and listen to KLove...my new fave radio station and talk and stuff...nice :) So I think I'll have some pretty good LOs to post after Saturday. We have a nice turnout this time....lots of fun people showing up....should be tons of fun...can't wait!! It's nice to get away and have some scrappy, girl time even if it's only once a month. I can live with that! Well, I just have a quick LO that I did tonight to post. All that sketching, packing up and such got me in the scrappy mood, so I just did this quick LO with a pic of the flowers Mal got me this past Valentine's Day. I used some Creative Imaginations scalloped paper scraps I had....I just LOVE that paper. I wish I had gotten more when 911 had them :( Oh well!! Take a peek at my LO and good night for now :)

What is up???

Okay, I just posted a new entry, but it's not showing up unless I click on the July link on the side? Hmmmm????


Okay, now that I published this little thing...there it is! LOL

Just An Update

I am so not good at keeping up with this! Not much has been going on here either so I don't feel like I have anything to write about! I should make stuff up!! LOL

Here are a few LO's I've done in the days since I last posted. I'm pretty happy with all of them.

A little update on my treadmill progress...still working on it every day. I don't know how, but my running consecutively thing has gone down the toilet because for whatever reason, I can't seem to get past three minutes now!! I don't know what that's about??!!?? Instead I started alternating running and walking and that (for now) seems to work out pretty good. I'll start off running two minutes, then walking two minutes then running then walking, ect. I have been doing roughly 2.3 miles a day and it had been taking me about 35 minutes to do it. Within the last two days, I have shaved five minutes off my time and have been doing it in only 30 minutes. Might not be a big deal, but a big accomplishment for me. That dress I have been wanting to fit in....fits me perfectly...except still a tiny big snug in the chest. Hmmm...I'll have to see what I can do about that. I'm very happy though because that thing wasn't fitting me good at all before I started with the whole treadmill thing. It's a size 10 which is my old size before I had Mikey. I will be soooo happy to be back in a size 10!!!

Anyway, here are the LO's.

This first one, I did for a challeng on sb.com that Pammy is hosting...the "Copy Yourself" challenge. We had to scraplift off of one of our own layouts. I used my "Things I've Learned" LO and came up with this one. I love the way it turned out and I just love this pic of Mikey on his new bike!



This was just a quick LO with a pic of Mikey and Lij. Love the way it looks in sepia.



This last one, I got the idea from the August/September issue of Memory Makers. It was from a LO on page 72. I used the same Creative Imaginations paper and pretty much the same placement of pic and papers, but changed the embellies up. I wonder if that's still considered a "scraplift"?? I am never sure about things like that. Anyway, that's all for now. Oh and if Lori gets to read this...."HELLO" :) :)

A Sad Day and Some LO's

Well, Sheba is officially gone and while I am happy that I won't be having to clean up any more cat hair and can finally use our master bathroom again, I am very sad because I didn't want her to have to go. Damn my OCD!! I know it wasn't fair to her to be in that one room and that she is probably better off somewhere else. Still can't help but feel sad. We did have her for almost a year. I just have to try to not think about it.

Anyway, I did a couple more LO's. The one about my scraproom, I did yesterday. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I used some new Daisy D's stuff I had gotten at 911 and some Kelli Panacci stuff I had gotten at HL. I was going to use it for my 5 Product challenge on my Yahoo group, but I went over on the products. So instead today, I did another LO using my Cosmo Cricket Halfway Cafe which I've had FOREVER and just opened today. I REALLY love the way that one turned out! I'm using that one for my 5 Product challenge. Since I'm supplying the prize, I can't win, but I thought I'd do it anyway.