#77

New Daisy Bucket papers...loooove them...so bright and fun! I love these pics of Miguel and Mikey. This is the reason I carry my camera with me everywhere...I mean EVERYWHERE. To catch moments like this. Chon is at #79...I don't think I'll ever catch up! But it's a good motivator to keep scrapping! LOL TFL :)

This makes 76

This puts me at 76 LOs for the year although this one is not for me. I had bought this really pretty frame a couple of weeks back with the intention of making a page and framing it for Miguel's good friend Juan. He is such a wonderful friend to Miguel and such a good influence and positive role model. He was the one who got Miguel into ACTS at church. His wife is a very sweet woman too. They are both such good people...so generous....I just wanted to do something nice for them :) I really hope they like it. Right now, they are in Mexico hosting another ACTS retreat, but Juan should be back to work on Tuesday so I'm going to send it with Miguel.

I went by 911 last night. Miguel took me after church and I used my free $10 plus a little more. I got some of the new Pink Paislee stuff...LOVE their alpha stickers which I got in every color they had. Also got some Luxe papers, Daisy Bucket...love those...and the Kaisercraft papers I used for this page. I only spent $25...I think I got a good amount of stuff for it. Maybe I'll get some scrapping for myself done tomorrow since I did most of my cleaning today. The other day me and my sis went to M's and we both got the Page Maps book with a coupon, so maybe I'll get my mojo going again after looking through it more.

Tomorrow is Lij's first day of school. I am so sad that I am going to miss it :( I called him tonight before he was going to bed to tell him to have a good day and pay attention to the teacher and to be himself and make new friends...I almost cried! LOL I'm such a sap! I told his dad to be sure to take plenty of pics of him especially in his uniform. He told me had made his own lunch too...sniff, sniff...I am sure going to miss him..alot. I'm so used to being a part of his daily life and hearing all he did at school and things like that. I hope it will be harder for me that him. I'm a big girl..I can deal with it, but I want him to feel comfortable and like the school. I know that he's looking forward to spending more time at his dad's and I am 100% confident that he will be well taken care of there. It will just take some adjusting. Okay, enough of that before I cry! Here's a pic of the page I did and then the page in the frame...TFL :)

Some LO's and a cute pic

This makes 75 for me! I forget what my sis is at....76 going on 77 I think..not sure. Not sure how this became a "competition" either!! We had a little cyber crop last night and I did the LO of Mikey and Lij playing in their pools. The other, I worked on the day before. I just LOVE that pic of us I took at the park. I wish the kids had been looking up and had their eyes open, but I think that was the best they could do at the moment! Also, here's a pic I took of Miguel and Mikey on Sunday. We had gone to visit my Grandma at the nursing home and were in the truck waiting for my mom and aunt to get there (didn't know they were already there!). Mikey was sitting on Miguel's lap and I got this great pic that I can't wait to scrap. I wish Mikey didn't have all that sun on that one side of his face, but maybe I can edit that somehow. Anyway...oh, I'm "attempting" to diet...my own version of the Atkins diet...cuttting out carbs, but still eating fruits and veggies...I don't think I could NOT eat fruits and veggies, I'd die! LOL Today is my third day and it's still hard to not want to throw in the towel and eat some of those Golden Oreos with the chocolate cream in the middle that are just sitting in the kitchen taunting me!! I bought them on Sunday....the day BEFORE I decided I was going to diet! Although I did get to eat a WHOLE bunch of them that night so it wasn't a total waste. I want to diet and exercise faithfully for the next two months or so..until my birthday and see how much, if any, weight I can lose...inches are good too...something...anything....It's very frustrating...especially when we are going to go "out" somewhere and I have nothing to wear..or I "feel" like I have nothing to wear that fits me right or that I think I look "good" in. I know that Miguel loves me no matter what I look like so I think this is just more for myself. I want to look at myself in the mirror and feel good about myself. Even if I never get back down to a size I would like, to at least look in the mirror and truly feel happy with what I see...that is all I want. So any encourgement is definately welcomed :) Okay, well I have about 30 mins to kill before I go get on the treadmill. I want to get it out of the way early in case Miguel decides to come home early for lunch. Until later :)

Title Change and End of Vaca :(

Okay, so you might notice that the title to my blog has changed...lol. I was just thinking how other people have really cute and cool blog names and decided to "spice it up" a bit! I thought this one was kind of funny so for now..it stays :)
Miguel's vacation is officially over. It seemed to take SO long to get here and just FLEW by! I'm so glad we got to spend so much time together and we got to do things alone and with the kids, but sad that it gets me used to having him around and then I just miss him more when he's back at work and back to all those insane hours. Last night, we got to go to the movies without the kids and watched "The Dark Knight" which was REALLY good...LOVED it! I had originally wanted to watch "Step Brothers"...Will Farrell is HILARIOUS, but we missed our showing :(
Anyway, in honor of my baby who I love so very much....I decided to write a list of reasons why I love him so much (took the idea from Erin Jo's blog)

Reasons I love Miguel :)

1. The other day, we stopped at a fruit stand so he could buy a lemonade and he came back with a big cup of fresh canteloupe for me...and I didn't even ask for it :)
2. He took me to eat puffy tacos on Friday because I had been craving them after watching Bobby Flay Throwdown!
3. He brings me fruit from work because he knows how much I love it.
SIDENOTE: Why do the reasons listed so far all have to do with food?? Hmmm.....
4. He supports my scrapbooking obsession...I mean hobby!
5. He sleeps on the couch when he knows he's too tired and is going to snore or just so me and Mikey can have more room on the bed.
6. He lets me shower him with affection...when I know he secretly hates it!
7. He thinks I'm beautiful even though I'm not a size...well, you know what I mean..! LOL
8. He LOVES my cooking :)
9. He follows my crazy "clean" rules.
10. Because sometimes...he surprises me.

Some LOs and more family fun :)

On Wednesday, me and Adriana went to 911 to scrap. I ended up doing three LOs..that's all I had packed and got done pretty quickly too! I didn't buy that much stuff either...some Jenni Bowlin papers, one of the MM Halloween diecuts, a Scenic Route paper, a HS stamp, and 2 Melissa Frances ticket books. Only spent $15..I think that's a record! Miguel took the kids to Kiddie Park that day because Mikey had been saying he wanted to ride a roller coaster. I don't know WHERE he got that idea, but Miguel said he had FUN! Lij looked a little bored on some of the rides! LOL I guess it's geared more towards smaller kids. Here's some pics :)

Family Time

Miguel has been on vaca since Saturday so we've been spending time as a family which we hardly EVER get to do. At least not this much time. On Saturday, to kick of his vaca, we went and ate at Cheesy Jane's....I really like it there. The kids got milkshakes or malts..whatever they are and they loved them! That night, Miguel and I left the kids with my mom and went to a Birthday Luau party for one of Miguel's ACTS brothers. That was really nice!! It was decorated really nice and Juan and his wife were there. We had a good time. On Sunday, we inflated some pools we had gotten the kids and let them splash around for a couple of hours while we sat out and watched them...and I took lots of pics! :) Yesterday, we took the kids to the zoo and had a nice picnic in the shade :) Which was very nice after walking around in the heat! The kids had a blast though...so did we!! Today, we just hung around at home. I did my cleaning and got on the treadmill and we just did stuff inside. We got a bit of hard rain in the late afternoon. The kids were playing outside and Miguel was doing stuff in the yard when it just CAME down!! Crazy Mikey just RAN out into the rain and got all wet! Wish I'd had the camera with me!! Tomorrow, I'm going to 911 with Adriana...a little..and I do stress LITTLE vacation for me :) Here's some more pics of our family time :)

Four days....

It took me four days to finish my book. Granted it was only about 340 pages, but still. There were a couple of nights where I stayed up reading until like 2 a.m. after the kids had gone to bed so that probably helped! First of all, WHO doesn't watch Oprah?? Gina??!!? LOL Just kidding :) :) I don't watch it regularly either...just when something good is going to be on. So for those of you who are wondering what this book is about, without giving anything away, it's about one woman's year long spiritual journey. I really loved it for lots of reasons. One being, that alot of the things she said or talked about, I could relate to in certain areas of my own life. Another being, that I just loved her witty and sarcastic humor. It was a really good read and I'm kind of sad that I'm done with it, but now I'm passing the book on to my sis. Hope she likes it! If anyone knows of any other good books, please share. With all my scrapping obsession...LOL, I forget how much I enjoy reading :) That's all for now :)

I am in LOVE!!!!

With this book!! I had been wanting to read it ever since I saw the Oprah show about the book a while back. I had made a mental note of it as one of the books I wanted to read. Yesterday, the kids and I were waiting for Miguel at Target while he went to donate blood and I found it. I picked it up read the first page or so and was immediately HOOKED! I was kind of weary about paying $12 for it since the last book I bought..."A New Earth" was a total BOMB!! And it "seemed" so interesting when I saw the Oprah show about that book too, but boy was I wrong! I know alot of ppl read it and raved about it and how it changed the way they saw certain things, but I did not like it...at all....I felt like I was reading some book for school with alot of BIG words. Not that I don't understand big words...lol...it was boring me...it did not hold my attention. ANYWAY...I am sooo loving this book. And the writer whose witty, sarcastic sense of humor reminds me of me. And while I'm on that subject, so many things I've read have just "hit home"...BIG time! I can TOTALLY relate. Some things she writes about describe things I've experienced or am experiencing right now to a "t" and that's kind of freaky and reassuring. Anyway, I'm like on page 90 or something and just can't put it down. I'm thinking I will probably finish reading it this week. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

I'm at 70 now too!!

This makes 70 for me. TFL :)

This makes 69 :)

Here are two new LOs. It's on now, Chon! LOL I was thinking of staying up ALL night last night and cranking out the LOs to catch up to my sis, but I fell asleep! LOL I worked on and off on one of these LOs yesterday and then I worked on the other here and there today. The second one is really simple, but I still really like it! They are both "lifts" from 2 Peas. TFL :)