Pumpkins and Scarecrows

Okay, so this year, Miguel did not bring home his usual "army" of huge pumpkins!! :( Which I was very sad about because I didn't get to take pics of the kids with them and had already told my sis and others to come take their pumpkin pics here. He did bring home a lot of smaller pumpkins that we had lined the walkway with. Anyway, I had also not gotten my scarecrows for the front lawn either because I just kept forgetting and then when I finally did remember, there weren't any left in the stores! :( This past weekend, me and my sis went and did some shopping on Saturday and we went to Big Lots where I was sooo happy to find that they had a ton of scarecrows and they were HALF OFF so I got a couple! YAY! I had also gotten some stuff on sale at Wal Mart last week and made a really pretty fall wreath for my front door. Anyway, I took the kids out front today after Lij got home from school and took some pics of them and they didn't come out half bad! At least I got my fall pics and the scrapbooker in me is satisfied :)

A couple of pics of me and Miguel on Saturday night. It was our date night! :)

I Did Some Scrapping Last Night

Last night me and Adriana went to Scrapbook 911 to check out the new Creative Cafe. I was just DYING to see it in person after seeing all the cool, tempting pics of it on the blog (thanks Gina :) ) And it was even better in person!! I was DROOLING over all the awesome new stuff!! I could have bought one of everything there, but I controlled myself and only spent about $30. They were having "Happy Hour" when we got there and a woman was making a super cute card! We didn't participate, but hopefully someday soon, we can. I just shopped...as always...LOL I picked up some of the cool felt flowers, notebook papers, 12x12 sheets of cs stickers and punch out journaling spots from the Creative Cafe stuff, and then I picked up a bottle of the Prima Pressed petals which I just LOOOOVE!! Had I known that after I paid, I would only be $10 away from my free $10 credit, I would have definately picked up some more of that Cafe stuff and then used my credit right then and there!! LOL :) Me and Adriana came home and scrapped for a few hours. She did two LOs and I only did one! I sat there for the longest time not knowing what to do with this cool picture my sis took of the kids walking at the park. I eventually just looked in one of my mags and lifted a cute LO from an issue of Memory Makers.

The second LO I did today and that was a lift also off of the Creative Imaginations Creative Cafe website. I really like the way that one turned out! And I got to use some of my new goodies!

BTW, Lij said Ms. Acosta loved his poster and put it up in the classroom :)

He Makes Me So Proud

Yesterday afternoon after Elijah finished his homework, he tells me...
"There are alot of rumors going around the classroom, Mom and I told Ms. Acosta that I'm going to do something about it." I ask him, "What are you going to do?" "You'll see", he says. So he asks me for some "big paper" and his markers and goes to his room to work on his "project". A while later he comes to find me in our bedroom and he has written the lyrics to that "Don't Laugh At Me" song ( I forget who sings it) and has drawn cute little pictures to go along with the lyrics! He said he was going to tell Ms. Acosta to put it up in the classroom somewhere. I told him that it was great and that it was a very nice and thoughtful thing to do for the class. He wasn't finished with it so he went back to work, but with dinner and bath and getting ready for the next day, he didn't get to finish it. When I went in to say goodnight to him, he asked me to wake him up early and I asked him for what. He said he didn't finish his poster and that he wanted to finish it up in the morning because he promised Ms. Acosta he would have it for her today. ( Sigh...already he is being a man of his word!!) So I told him I'd wake him up at six a.m. when I get up and I did. And he sat at the kitchen table eating his breakfast and finishing up his poster. I wonder what his teacher is going to say about it. I wish I'd taken a picture of it. He's so creative, but that's not the reason I'm so proud of him. Sometimes it kind of annoys me that Elijah is so sensitive...sometimes OVERLY sensitive and takes everything to heart, but when I think about it...I'm kind of that way too. I'm kind of a sap I guess....okay, I am! LOL But what I love about Elijah is that he is so caring and compassionate and genuinely cares about other people's feelings and wants to DO something about it. It's also when he does things like this that I see him come out of his shell some. I think he overcomes his shyness in his quest to do "what's right". THAT is what makes me proud. I know that Elijah is going to grow up and do great things. He's going to change the world...I just know it! I just hope that this cruel and sometimes unpredictable world doesn't change him and that he is always this sweet, loving and compassionate soul that I just ADORE :)

Air Show

So, Elijah spent this past weekend at my sis's house. She hadn't seen him since the summer when we celebrated his birthday at my mom's house w/ a cake and presents. Lij goes to spend time with his dad every weekend so after getting the OK from him (hi Gilbert :) ), she picked him up on Friday night. They always go out and do errands and stuff, plus he gets to play with Matthew and Victoria so I'm sure he had a great time. On Sunday, they went to an air show at Randolph and my sis got these super cool pics of Lij that I can't wait to scrap. There's ALOT of pics of him, GILBERT!! LOL Happy now??? Just kidding :) I will make it a point to post more stuff about Lij so you can come here and see what he has been up to during the week when you don't get to see him :)


These first two pics were taken at some park my sis took them to...not sure what it's called.



These were the pics from the air show! How cool that Lij got to sit in a real plane!!

The Best I Got

Pictures that is! I was so sad that no one was cooperating and letting me take the bajillion...yes, bajillion is a word..lol...pics that I wanted. Don't they know I'm a scrapbooker and NEED a variety of pics to work with?? People...what is that room with all the paper for?? LOL SHEESH!! Anyway, Miguel was the only one willing to pose for me. Well, and Lij too..for a while. OK, I guess Mikey, as always...was the most uncooperative of the bunch!! He was NOT liking wearing his costume at first. I think he didn't like how the fabric felt and he was NOT liking the bandana on his head!! He kept taking it off!! When we got outside and he saw all the other kids dressed up, he forgot about it and left it on!

I wasn't too happy with the costume Lij picked out. His dad took him to pick it out so I didn't get a say in it. Plus the whole night, he kept complaining about how hot it was under that mask. Yep...next year, I'm dressing him like a pirate again!! LOL...JK..Ok, maybe!!

Miguel looked great! LOL I couldn't look at him and not laugh The costume he wore was one that he got for a play he was participating in for the Woman's ACTS retreat for our church. He got lots of compliments for it too!
We took the kids out for about and hour and then came back home and passed out candy. The kids got a good amount of loot and it was fun! Maybe next year, we can all dress up as a family. I think that would be pretty neat!

Can you tell Mikey doesn't like his bandana?? LOL Look at that mad little face!!

My Roman soldier :) The family...Lij...look over here!! LOL He was the Scream mask guy!

This one is NOT a scraplift! LOL

This is just a quick LO I did last night after Mikey went to bed. Pretty simple, but I like it. And I finally used my MM Noteworthy! TFL :)

A Scraplift

Ahhh....one of my favorite things to do!! LOL It's just so hard to come up with stuff on my own sometimes! It's so much easier to look at someone else's stuff and then improvise and make it my own. This is a scraplift of a scraplift. Both me and my sis saw this on 2 Peas although there it was the cover to a mini album I think. We added the pics so I think it looks different enough. Anyway, she did hers the other day, so I went off of hers. I'm pretty happy with the way it came out although I wish I'd done one big pic instead of two smaller ones, but it still looks good I think. Anyway, thanks for looking :)

I came across this picture today and it wow'd me and made me see that I HAVE lost inches and some pounds since I've been working out. I haven't lost any pounds in the last couple of months, but since I started running on the treadmill at the beginning of this year, I did drop 25 lbs. I wish I knew exactly how many inches I lost, but I didn't measure myself before I started. I think it's really obvious in my waist and stomache and yes, my boobs! LOL I just thought I'd post these two pics for fun. There is exactly one year between both pics. That first pic was our birthday last year and the second was taken today.

Another Year

Happy Birthday to US :) Yes, today I am 21...I am FINALLY legal!! LOL Okay, so I'm 36...yikes!! So glad I don't look it, but I sure do feel it sometimes. (Well, you look it...well, I feel it!! LOL Inside joke between me and my sis :) ) I got alot of scrappy stuff for my bday from Miguel and my sis. Got some neat AL stamps from HL that I wanted and some of my FAVORITE snacky, chocolate treats from my sistah...THANKS :) Miguel got me another stool for my scraproom so now my sis has one when she comes over :) He also got me some stuff at Scrapbook Heaven and gave me his credit card to shop at our last crop at 911 so I got lots of nice stuff! And just being alive and happy and so very blessed on this day and every day...well, that's the only gift I need :)
I made myself a chocolate cake w/chocolate frosting and ate some last night and a shared a piece w/Mikey a while ago along with some chocolate ice cream....mmmm....never too much chocolate!! LOL :)
I've been doing the usual stuff today...chores, cleaning up...haven't had the chance to do anything fun yet...except for update my blog. Maybe when and if Mikey takes a nap. Although, it's getting a little late...Lij will almost be home and I need to get on the treadmill. He will probably fall asleep WHILE I'm on the treadmill and then I won't get to scrap or anything :( Update on Mikey....he's feeling better..almost done with his antibiotics, but more importantly....OFF of the bottle for good!! YAY!!! He hasn't had one since last Thursday! He will ask for one and when I won't give it to him, he WILL whine for a bit, but nothing like I thought he would...it's bearable and he soon forgets about it and just ends up taking his nap ALL alone!! Forgot about that too. No more having to sit or lay with him to make him fall asleep. I guess it's easier at night to do the whole "no bottle" thing because I'm also laying with him to go to bed too so he just lays down and falls asleep. Ahhh...now we just have to get him out of diapers and out of our bed!!
Speaking of....here he comes now!! Write more later :)

SOOOOO CLOSE!!!

Okay, so last week I decided that I had to step up my treadmill time because of the whole not seeing a drop in the scale thing so for the last four days, instead of doing 30 minutes, I have been going a whole hour. Which BTW, kicked my butt the first couple of days! Anyway, yesterday I ran the first 12 minutes straight and that was ONE MILE!! I ran a WHOLE MILE without stopping which to me is a BIG thing! I am sooo happy! I wasn't even as tired as I thought I'd be! And that puts me so close to my goal which was to run a whole mile straight in 10 minutes. I just need to take two minutes off of my time..yay!! I've been averaging about 4.3 miles in an hour and burning around 650 calories as opposed to like 320 or so, so I am HOPING that I see SOME drop in pounds! Even if I don't...the inches are still coming off and I am LOVING my legs!! Anyway, here are a couple of LOs I did yesterday and today. And I thought of them both all by myself which doesn't happen often!! LOL TFL :)