It happens to us...

If something doesn't normally happen, it will happen to us! I always know it when I hear the words "well the odds are it won't happen." Well I guess we are the evens because Brodey got chicken pox from his vaccination! In the doc's office he says "well the odds are it won't happen. I've only seen five cases since I've been here." I said to him "well I can assure you if the odds are it won't happen, it will. So I'll just expect that Brodey will have the chicken pox!" I actually reminded him of that yesterday on the phone! LOL It's just a slight case. He only has about 15 on him, but I can't take him around any other kids. So sad because yesterday was his very first birthday party! I was so excited to take him and it just couldn't happen! Ah well! It won't be the last birthday party I'm sure!

Oh! I am so excited! One Page at a Time has asked me to extend my deadline with them and be on their design team another term! SO very excited about that! The are THE best company to work for! As a matter of fact! They are looking for 4 new design team members!!! Go HERE if you are interested in designing for an awesome company with even more awesome kits!!!

The May kit is up a Addicted Scrappers!!! Let me tell you!!!! IT ROCKS! I have never used the Hambly Screenprints/rub-ons before and I'm so excited to use them!!

I took my sister's senior pics this week. I posted one above. So sad she is graduating! I don't know what I'm going to do with myself when she isn't here! Boohoo!!!

My MIL came this weekend and (as usual) I tried to stay home and scrap and it didn't work! I have to be out of this house or here by myself to get anything done!

Well I'm going to go feed my son breakfast! I'm going to attempt to get a page done today! Haha! We'll see!
Have an awesome Sunday!
LUV APRIL

So many pages...so little time!

Well I actually got to scrap this weekend. Not a whole lot, but a little! It was SO nice to get away and just laugh and have fun! (Even though "away" is about two and a half miles down the road!" Hehehe! I went to the crop for about 4 hours on Saturday and about 3 hours yesterday. I got 1 and a half pages done. Literally! Isn't that pathetic! I posted the one I did finish above! I have to admit, though, yesterday I was helping several other croppers with what they were doing. So, I wasn't just chatting the entire time! ;)
I have so many layouts I need to do! LOL I also have so many layouts to scan in! The only reason I got the one above scanned in is because I had to use it for my Scraplift Challenge at Just 4 Keeps!
Oh good news! I had several more layouts accepted into the Basic Grey and 3 Bugs in a Rug online galleries! That's exciting!
Oh!! I also got my May kit in for One Page at a Time!! IT IS AWESOME! It includes a ton of the new Sassafrass Lass paper and they even had them make acrylic stamps to match the paper! How cool is that!?!?!
My May kit for Addicted Scrappers should arrive soon! From the sneak peeks we have gotten it looks awesome! Can't wait for that!!! It has been so fun working for them!
Well Brodey is ready for his morning nap! I might actually take one with him today! Hehe!
Talk to you later!
LUV APRIL

I've been gone...

I've been gone! It's so good to be back! I might actually get some scrapping done this weekend! Yippee!

Brodey has never been REALLY sick before in his short little life. Never. He has never thrown up or had diarreha once. Let me tell you he made up for it this last week! LOL Last Thursday he had his 15 month doctor's visit. Everything went fine. He was pretty ticked off that he had to get two shots and they pricked his finger, but other than that he was acting normal! I had driven a Mercedes to test drive to the doctor's office and he fell asleep on the way back to the dealership to return the vehicle. Not five minutes after we got back into my vehicle, Brodey pukes ALL OVER the place. I mean ALL OVER. I had to pull off the interstate and the poor thing was so scrared! This was the very first time he had thrown up and it scrared him! I felt SO BAD! I get him cleaned up and changed into some other clothes and he does it AGAIN on the way home! I am freaking out calling the doctor's office! The only thing that's going through my head is he is having some freak reaction to his shots! (Probably not even possible but if you are a mom you get it!) I was FREAKING! The nurse reassures me that it is probably just a virus that's been going around. I'm like fine.
We finally get home and I get him changed and he starts throwing up all over again. Oh and all over me. I'm the mom that doesn't really care. I'm like okay I'm already covered in puke. Go ahead and finish on me. So this goes on several more times and I called the nurse again. She tells me what to do to help him not get dehydrated and gives me the on call doctor's numbers and all that.
LUCKILY he only threw up a few more times and he had potty issues the rest of the weekend. I felt SO bad for him! He was sick until Monday when he threw up again. I called and told them I wanted to bring him in and they checked his blood and confirmed that he had a virus like the nurse said. Thank goodness! He is SO much better now! He only lost 2oz and he looks normal now! He looked so sad all weekend! It's nice to have my ball of energy back! LOL

I haven't had time to scrap at all. (Oh poor me right? Haha!) MIL is coming tomorrow! THANK GOODNESS! I need a break! I plan on scrapping all weekend if I can! Eric has been obsessed with finding the perfect new car lately and it's been time-consuming! I think we have it narrowed down to two now! So hopefully we will have a new car within the next couple of days! Phew!

Oh yeah! I got my scanner fixed! FINALLY! The sad thing is I haven't had the time to scan anything in! LOL I think that will all change now that Brodey is better!

Okay. I gotta go! Brodey isn't wanting to sleep in his bed so that means the end of my computer time! Boohoo! Hopefully my next post will contain some scrappy pages! The photo in this post is of my sister before prom! So purdy!

Goodnight for now!
LUV APRIL

Oh my.

Oh my have we been busy. Easter was Sunday and Brodey was the best little egg hunter ever! We have been practicing for a while around the house! We couldn't let the big boys show us up!! ;) Everyone made hats! They were awesome! I WON!!! I was so excited! I posted a pic of my hat in the last post! I won an Old Navy gift card! Fun stuff!

My birthday was Monday the 9th! I am 28 years old. Wow that is almost 30! It was a good birthday! We went out to eat and I test drove some cars! Now sure what I'm going to get yet! I'll let ya know when I do! Hehe!

My 10 year high school reunion is this summer! I was the senior class president so I get to put it together! It's so fun to reconnect with everyone! But gosh it's time consuming! Totally worth it, though!

One of my oldest and dearest friends is in town! I haven't seen her in years! She lives in San Diego and I've known her since I was three! LOVE her!

Car drama today. My sister's car went dead and it wouldn't start yesterday. She knows how to jump it, but it was POURING down rain! LOL I was like NO WAY am I doing that! Eric went and jumped it last night and she kept it running for an hour and it still wouldn't start. GEEZ! So she had to take the Hummer to school today and my Dad had to come up and figure out what was wrong. Luckily he did and I'm glad that's over! Taxi cab I am not! Haha!

On top of all that...my scanner is screwed up. Brodey likes to push buttons and I think he finally pushed the wrong one or ones. I have to call Epson tomorrow and hopefully they can help me out! I have layouts I need to share with the world! LOL Yes, I could take a pic, but I hate to do that because scans are so much nicer! :)

It's been almost four month's since our house flooded and JUST NOW are the gears turning on the woodwork being fixed. Drives me nuts. I hate dealing with that stuff. Sorry to sound gripey, but I have to let it out somewhere! ;)

Okay this post is really just fraction of what's been going on lately! Probably boring, but that's life. Hopefully I'll get to scrap some time soon!! Gosh you know I have enough photos to keep me busy!!

Okay I'm going now. Tomorrow Brodey has a doctor's appointment and I have to take my cousin's senior pictures order to her in Norman! Another busy day!!
Goodnight!!!
LUV APRIL

What the snow?

Yes. It is snowing. Oklahoma is wonderful like that. LOL Last week was so hot it was shorts and flip flops. This week it's sweatshirts and gloves. CRAZY! But I gotta admit I love it! Mother Nature loves to mix things up a bit for us Okies!

I guess that means Brodey will be dressed for winter. I have what he is going to wear planned and it does look a little springy...even thought it's thick pants and a sweater! Hehe! I have been tanning and I have to admit I'm disappointed that I will not be able to show it off and wear a skirt like I had planned! Ah well!

I made out hats yesterday! At Easter this year we are having a hat contest. I made myself one and Brodey one! That's why there is a photo of my hat in my blog entry! LOL It was a ton of fun!

MIL is coming tonight! Maybe I'll get some scrapping done and get to alter a huge "B" I bought today at Just 4 Keeps! I also teach a Techinque Tuesday class tomorrow! It will be fun! As soon as I'm done with that, though, it's off to Holdenville!

Brodey is asleep and I'm going to attempt to put him in bed so I can get a start on my scrappin! I may not be able to update once I get to Holdenville so if I dont' post have a wonderful Easter!
LOVE APRIL!

I'm back!

Hey all! Sorry I took such a long vacation from my little blog! I've been busy!

Ally's had a ton of senior crap going on. It's so sad. She keeps saying that she is going to be so sad when she moves out and will miss Brodey so much! I'm like I will miss YOU!!! It will stink to not have anyone to go tan with. Go to the mall with. Go to Target with. So sad!!!

Besides my sister graduating I have two first cousins who are also graduating. One lives in Noble, OK and the other goes to Heritage Hall in Oklahoma City. Busy busy.

Brodey took his Easter pics today! So cute! He took some with the live bunnies. He have it a little pet, a little squeeze, and a little kiss and he was over it. He didnt' want to have anything to do with it after that! LOL I thought he would be more into it but nope!

We are headed to Holdenville this weekend for Easter! I have been practicing with Brodey hunting Easter eggs! He is getting pretty good! He is the youngest by four years so I have to have him prepared! LOL I can't wait to see my family! We always have an awesome time! I'm just sad when they go! Boohoo!

Well this was a short entry! Brodey's bedtime! Hopefully I will be able to update more tomorrow!!!
Nice to be back on here!
LUV APRIL

Good times. Bad times.

Well I feel bad saying it but I had a great time today under not so great circumstances. My grandpa(my dad's dad) had surgery today. Pretty major surgery. He had bone spurs that were putting pressure on his spinal cord on the front and his muscles had (literally) grown into his spine in the back. The surgeon said it was the worst spurs he had ever seen and he had never seen muscles do that before. He was in surgery from about 2pm to 8:30pm. That's a long dang time. We sat in the waiting room pretty much the entire time. I have to say it was great. Aside from worrying about him. Lots of family was there and they were entertained by Brodey. We laughed, joked, and talked about memories. It was so fun. He is fine tonight. He will have to do some physical therapy, but he will be fine. So glad.

I am loving the new Scenic Route papers! I had an idea in my head for a layout last night. Brodey wouldn't stay in his bed so I edited the photos with him on the Boppy. I printed them and put the layout together this morning. I love it. It may not be the best layout I've done, but I love the journaling! I posted it above!

Brodey is starting to say "Gigi". That's our black Cocker Spaniel's name. It's so cute! We go out to throw the ball to them and he will say GIGI!!! Oh he is so much fun! LOL

Not much else to report! We should sleep well tonight! ;) I might try to put Brodey in his bed and get some scrapping done but I won't get my hopes up! LOL
Goodnight!
LUV APRiL

Oh WOW!

WOW!!! My friend that works at Just 4 Keeps sent me an IM this afternoon letting me know that the new Scenic Route goodies were there today! When I was about to leave the lawn srpay guy came. I was like okay here's the check GOTTA GO! LOL I bought every single thing that came in! I LOVE IT! The layout I posted above I did as soon as Eric got home from work! Haha! He (thankfully) took Brodey with him to look at gym equipment with Dr J and to get dinner. I am so happy with how this layout turned out! I can't wait to show it to Ally! She is in Holdenville right now on Spring Break.

Brodey slept from 11am to 2:45pm today. He has had the worst allergies. He and Eric played outside with the neighbors and when he came in his poor little eyes were all swollen and he had the little red bumps on his face. :(


I bought Brodey THE cutest Easter basket at Hobby Lobby! They were on sale and he picked out the one that is a frog! SO cute! He is really into little cars like Hot Wheels and his Little People animals. He cracks me up because he always wants to draw and when he does he gets really close to the page like I do when I scrap! Eric's like "you're a bad influence!" I just LOL!

Okay well that's all the news for today! Not much going on! Maybe that's a good thing...hahaha!
I'm going to try to put Brodey in his bed and get another layout done! HOPEFULLY!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

My poor neglected blog....

Oh my poor neglected blog! I feel so bad! This is THE longest I have ever gone without posting!
I am almost 100% better! Yeah! I still have throat issues and a major runny nose, but I feel so much better! Brodey is still a little under the weather, but he is so much better too! The last two nights I was having flashbacks from the first few months of his life! He was waking up every single hour and just crying. I thought I was going to lose my mind. He wasn't crying like he was in pain, just crying like he was restless. I wanted to cry too! Luckily he ended up sleeping pretty much the whole day and I did too! Poor Eric, though. He had to go to work!

Oh my gosh! Last week my grandmother and aunt came to watch my cousin, Jeni, play basketball in the state playoffs. They stopped by to see us and I still had Michael's Wii. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen to watch them play! They are competitive anyway, and to watch them play each other in tennis and bowling was hilarious! I really wish I had videotaped it!!! I had to call Kerry and tell her! It was great!

I had to go to Just 4 Keeps yesterday to get the brand new Daisy D's stuff! SO CUTE!!! I used some of the new stuff in the layout I posted above. It's really simple...of course! The button on the flower made the scan weird! Sorry!

I got my April kit in the mail from One Page at a Time and all I can say is I am one of the luckiest girls in the world! It is SO awesome! BRAND NEW Fancy Pants, Around the Block stuff, and TWO sets of brand new KI acrylic stamps!!! I LOVE OPAAT!!!!!

Congrats to the April Guest Design Team member at Addicted Scrappers Kathy Bishop! Her layouts are awesome so I can't wait to see what she comes up with using the April Kit!!!

Date night with Eric last night! We went to the movies and saw I Think I Love My Wife. It as pretty funny!

MIL is here today! Yeah!! That means I finally get to scrap! YEAH!!!!

Well I'm going to get busy! I have a lot of layouts in this head of mine! Have an awesome weekend and don't forget to wear green today!!!
LUV APRIL

Sick Sick Sick

OMG I have been so dang sick today! My MIL is here and it sucks so bad I can't go do anything! (On the other hand it's great because it lets me rest!) I'm just letting you know!
I have some funny stuff to post and I'll do that tomorrow! Hopefully I'll feel better! The symptoms are flu-like, so my fingers are crossed I get over it tomorrow and it's not the flu!
Okay! I'm headed back to bed!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

Four days!?!

WOW! I haven't posted in four days! Bad April! Bad!
Wow I've been working like a maniac Monday and Tuesday to get my FINAL Just 4 Keeps Last Scrapper Standing project done! We had to do a mini album for our children giving them life lessons. Man that was difficult! If you go HERE you can see all the entries, including mine. Hint mine's the one with Brodey in it! LOL It was fun to do but very time consuming!

I've also been pricing Brodey's clothes for the consignment sale tomorrow! I usually make a good amount of money and I have a ton of clothes from last summer to sell! Some even still have the tags on them! (He was too small to wear them) That is so very time consuming! You have to tag each one with a safety pin! Urg! Ah well it's worth it!

I posted the other two layouts I did last weekend! I really hope I get to crop again Saturday!!! 99.99% sure I'll get to! Yippeee!

Okay. No more news than that! Pretty boring! LOL
I'm headed to bed!!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

Wii are SO sore!!!

Oh my goodness! I have had so much fun this weekend!
My MIL and my BIL came on Saturday to spend the night! That's just fun all by itself! LOL But then my other BIL that lives here in Edmond brought over his Nintendo Wii so we could play it on the new big tv! OH MY GOSH! It was so much FUN! You swing the controller and that is how you play! We played golf, bowling, baseball, and MY fave tennis! I can't tell you how much fun we had! We even boxed and I knocked Eric out twice! LOL It was SO hard! I was huffing and puffing after that! Man I am out of shape! My right arm is so sore today I can barely move it! My BIL and Eric were the same way when they woke up this morning! Crazy!

Then we went and rode go-karts! We go and do that sometimes and it's so fun! There is a place up here and used to be a K-Mart and they turned it into a NICE go-kart track! We always have fun doing that!

When we got back, my BIL and I stayed up until 3am playing! I would never get to do that unless my MIL was here to keep Brodey! We had a blast!
Then, to top the weekend off, we had a Design Team crop today at Just 4 Keeps! I LOVE the girls there and it was wonderful! I got FOUR layouts done! They are simple, but hey! That's just my style!
I posted two of them above! I really hope you like them! The one with Brodey sitting int he grass was a total mistake! I didn't realize those photos lined up until after I had them printed! I love how it looks!

Tomorrow I HAVE to price Brodey's clothes to sell at the consignment sale! Last time I made $350 and I just hope to come close to that this time! I have so much to do to get ready! Why do I always wait until last minute for that? I drive myself crazy!
Oh! Just a reminder! Don't forget to check out the contest at One Page at a Time and the Guest Desing Team Member contest at Addicted Scrappers!
I am headed to bed! Brodey is OUT after playing all day with them! Hopefully he will sleep well tonight!
Goodnight!!!
LUV APRIL

Nothing to lose!

OH! You are gonna love this! Click HERE to check out this AWESOME prize package for the How Do You Count Yourself Lucky Contest at One Page at a Time! That is awesome! One Page at a Time is KNOWN for their fab prize packs! The deadline is March 17 and you can submit 2 layouts of your choice!! GO FOR IT!!! You have nothing to lose and a whole lotta awesome stuff to gain!

ALSO! Addicted Scrappers is holding it's first ever Guest Design Team Member Contest!!! Click HERE for all the info! Their kits ROCK!!! Trust me, you want a free one! The deadline is March 14 and if you click HERE you will see the challenge info! FUN STUFF! I reall hope to see your layout in the gallery!!

My parents came tonight! Yeah! We went to eat at Bravo and it was so good! I will have an awesome couple of food nights! Hehe! My MIL is coming tomorrow to stay the night! Woopee! I get to go crop at Just 4 Keeps on Sunday and I CANNOT wait! It's a crop for the Design Team and they are the most awesome group of girls ever! LOVE THEM!!!!! It will be a blast!

OMG Brodey cracked me up yesterday! I am LOL just thinking about it! He found a sucker and took off out of the office. After a second I went looking for him and guess where he was. He was in his closet HIDING trying to suck on the sucker. WHAT!?! He's not even 14 months old! I thought I didn't have to worry about "Sneaky Brodey" until he was at least two! AH! So I said Brodey! He turned around and handed the sucker to me while he giggled his "I'm Caught" giggle. I unwrapped it and gave it to him. I just couldn't believe he did that! TOO FUNNY!

He's also in the picky eater stage. I swear the kid will have clogged arteries by the time he's three. He will only eat french fries, chicken nuggets, mashed potatos, hot dog weinies, ANY type of cheese, and oreos. How can anyone live on that??? My pediatrician was like "kids his age are very good at eating the caloric intake they require." So I called my cousin, Kerry, and asked her. She's not a pediatrician, but she does have kids. She said her's were the same way and that made me feel much better. Her kids are 10 and 5 and haven't had bypass surgery, so I think I'm in the clear!

We bought Brodey a sandbox and picnic table at Sam's tonight. SO CUTE!!! I can't wait to get it put together and let him play in it! I really think he's gonna love it! He adores being outside! I hope it warms up again!

The layout I did above is for the Technique Tuesday class I'm teaching this month at Just 4 Keeps! The class fee includes the stamps! Great deal! The photograph is of Ally and Brodey! Love it!

Okay Brodey is on the Boppy and I'm going to bed. He didn't sleep 30 minutes in his bed tonight! ARG! That means no scrapping done! I'll just have to play catch up when MIL comes tomorrow!
GOODNIGHT!!!!
LUV APRIL

I'm BAD!

I am getting so bad at posting! What's my deal!?! I have been so busy doing Design Team layouts and layouts for my upcoming classes that I just scrap and go to bed! BAD April! Hehe! I promise to try to be better!
Well I'm through with the Survivor Challenge at Scrapbook Chalet! Ah well! I think I should have formed an alliance with someone. Gosh I guess I suck at survivor! LOL I really have some awesome layouts from it! I would have never done some of them had I not been challenged! Plus the girls there are fantastic! I just might have to stick around! ;)
Not much going on around here! I teach Brodey new things every day! He is like a little sponge! He follows commands and two step ones! He is growing up so fast! I can tell him to pick up dirty laundry and put it in the laundry room and he does it! LOL I only have to show him once how to work/turn on a toy and he has it down! We got a new toy today at McDonald's(I'm addicted to their new strip wraps)! It's a robot and I showed him once how to push the tiny button to make it talk and he loves it! Okay enough braggin already! LOL
In 12 days Eric will be 28 and Brodey will be 14 months old! WOW! March 12th! How did we get to be 28 years old! My goodness!
Whoa the wind just came out of nowhere and scared the CRAP out of me! Sorry! Gosh it blew the Valentine's wind thing right up against the window! FREAKY!!! And yes...it's still up! Hahaha!
The layout above is for the Just 4 Keeps Design Team! I got to work with the new Blossom line of 3 Bugs in a Rug paper! FUN! Look how little Brodey was last Easter! AH SAD!
Okay. I am going to attempt to put Brodey in his bed and get a page done! LOL I am laughing to myself because I don't think it's gonna happen! I can try!
Goodnight!!!
LUV APRIL

Busy bee!

Wow! I have been a busy little bee! I (stupidly) thought I would have all this free time to myself while Eric was gone! HA!
MIL came on Friday! YEAH!! My goal was to get some scrapping done. Double ha! The Oklahoma wind was TERRIBLE and two panels of fence blew down. Fun. Eric's brother had gone to Holdenville so there was no way to fix it. I had to take the dogs back and forth to the side yard(it's fenced in) to potty. Well of course they wouldn't go. So I took them back to their room. I got soaked because it was raining and nothing was accomplished! I dealt with that all weekend. Then we went to eat, got ice cream, and I ended up going between watching The Devil Wears Prada and chatting at Addicted Scrappers! The online crop was this weekend! LOL I finished ONE layout! It's the one I posted above. The challenge was to use 10 different pieces of patterned paper! I went the easy route! Everyone did an AWESOME job! The projects and layouts are so awesome!
Saturday we shopped a little bit and I went to Just 4 Keeps for a while that night! It was so much FUN! I didn't get anything done,though! AGAIN!! Can you believe it!?! My whole goal was to get all these layouts done! Ha! When I make plans they always get busted!
Eric came home today! YEAH! I really did miss him! I don't like sleeping alone because I'm such a heavy sleeper! When I am by myself I'm always afraid I won't hear something. Eric always does because he is a really, really light sleeper. I sleep so heavily I slept through the fire alarm when I was in the dorms at OU one time. And NO ONE came and got me! If it had been an actual fire, and not some drunk pulling the alarm, I would have died!
I got to watch the whole Academy Awards tonight! It was really funny! Ellen did a great job! Whomever wrote did a great job too! Jennifer Hudson's speech when she won made me cry! Dumb I know! Martin Scorsese had the best speech, I think. Oh and Celine Dion did a beatiful job singing that song by Ennio Morricone. He is awesome! I SO miss going to the movies all the time and all the film classes I took in college. Like I said at Just 4 Keeps, that's the only thing I miss about college besides my figure! ;) Anyway, it was nice to get to watch the entire show.
Okay I'm off to bed now! Brodey isn't going back to his bed. So no more layouts tonight! Haha!!!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

You know...

You know that if I ain't updating my blog, somethin' ain't right! LOL
My gosh. The last few days have been interesting.
First, Tuesday night Eric thought he just had to get the new tv all hooked up before he left for Vegas. He was up unil 1am doing just that. When we are all up, Brodey thinks he needs to be up too. So Mr. Brodey didn't get to sleep until 1am either! When that happens, it throughs everything off. Wednesday was terrible. He woke up at 8am, went back to sleep at 11am, and didn't wake up until 4pm. Usually when this sort of thing happnes, my saving grace is to put him on the Boppy to nurse and I at least am free to use the computer. NOPE. Not that time! He wasn't having it. The only place he wanted to be was in the recliner with me. I got nothing done. But, I would rather spend 5 hours in the recliner than the next 10 hours with a grumpy 13 month old! LOL
Then today, Eric left for Las Vegas for a dental convention.(FUN LOL) It was hell trying to get him out the door. Eric likes to be overly prepared...he feels much better when he was SEVEN pairs of shoes with him. I warned him about the weight restriction on bags before he left. So I was LOL so dang hard when he called me from the airport to tell me he had to pay $25 because his bag was 6lb over the limit! Hahahaha! Priceless!
WOW! Grey's Anatomy tonight was a super tear jerker for me! I mean good grief! Plus, I didn't even realize until Jess at Just 4 Keeps told me that there are no more new episodes until April! Now that makes me want to cry just thinking about it!
SUPER fun weekend planned! With Eric gone I will have uninterrupted scrapping! YEAH! I teach my class at Just 4 Keeps on Saturday PLUS the online crop at Addicted Scrappers is going on! FUN! SO excited!
I made it to Week #7 in the Survivor Challenge at Scrapbook Chalet! Woohoo!!! I'm having so much fun with that!
I got my March Kit from Addicted Scrappers yesterday! IT ROCKS!!! It is so totally beautiful! LOVE the browns and blues! LOVE this kit!
Okay. I'm going to bed!
GOODNIGHT!
LUV APRIL

And they're off....

Well this morning started off with a BANG! Literally! I am lying in bed with Brodey waiting for him to wake up. The Oklahoma wind is blowing like CRAZY. I hear a BANG and I hear Gigi(our female black cocker spaniel) start barking. I KNEW the fence had fallen down. I flew out of bed and took Brodey in where Ally, my sister, was getting ready for school. I run out to the dog room and as soon as Gigi sees me she gets all brave and runs out of the fence! I'm like CRAP!! I run back in, put on my shoes, and by this time Gunner(our male chocolate cocker spaniel) was out the fence. AH!!! So out the door I go...IN my pajamas...to get them. You have to know that our house backs up to this big field and ditch. It's a very, very clean field and ditch, but the field backs up to one of the main roads in Edmond! So everyone can see me in my PAJAMAS (I had on a t-shirt from Austria that has a big yield sign on it with a kangaroo that says "No Kangaroos in Austria" and some silly turquoise pants with bees on them! LMAO) in 8am traffic! AH!!! You also must know that we have the corner lot and we have the biggest backyard in our neighborhood...well probably Edmond! I run all the way over to the right side of the fence...no dogs. I run all the way back to the other side and around and there they are! FOREVER away! I yell for them and THANK GOD they come running! I pick them both up to make sure they don't run again, and take them into the house! I thought I wasn't going to make it! Gunner is SO HEAVY! Let's just say I am SO not in shape! LOL WHAT a morning! Geez! I could only imagine them getting ran over or lost! Terrible! I guess I shouldn't have posted yesterday that it was boring around here! That always come back to bight me in the ace! Haha!

Don't you just hate it when a store you know like the back of your hand completely changes everything around!?!?!?! (Well besides my LSS Just 4 Keeps! LOL When THEY move stuff around I find new stuff to buy! haha!) Our local Wal-Mart just renovated and I can't find anything! Everything is totally moved around and I hate it! It took me twice the amount of time to shop than normal! I know it will be nice when they are through, I just have to gripe about it now! ;)

So we still don't have a remote for the new tv! LOL The only two channels the tv will let us watch, before we program the cable with the remote, are local. One is a good channel, and the other is SO bad. They play shows like Matlock, The Nanny, and some stupid 1980's show called Quincy M.E. It is ridiculous! Real channels will be nice! This morning I wanted to watch Good Morning America, and I went into Brodey's room and turned the volume WAY up and turned the big tv to the same channel! LOL It worked!

Okay I'm off to bed! It's almost 1am and I'm tired!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

Hello again!

Sorry I've been MIA the last couple of days! When my mother-in-law is here, I take advantage!!!
I didn't get to crop on Friday night, but that's okay! I did get my layout done for the Survivor Challenge at Scrapbook Chalet! I posted it above! I'm not totally pleased with how it scanned. It kept cutting off the sides and there was paint on all four sides. Oh well! Don't layouts always look better in real life? If you click the photo, it will enlarge it and you can read the journaling. LOVE those pics of Brodey! He already looks so different and it seems like it wasn't that long ago!
Next weekend is going to be super busy! First, I teach my class on Saturday at Just 4 Keeps here in Edmond. The online crop at Addicted Scrappers will be going on that weekend too! I have a fun project and layout I will be doing! If you are going to be scrapping next weekend, you should join us! They will be giving away some awesome prizes!
Well yesterday Eric finally picked up the new TV. He paid for it two weeks ago and he just now got it! LOL My mom and dad bought our old one and they took it last week. We have been without a tv for a while so it was nice to finally get this one...or so I thought! We finally get it here and we have NO REMOTE!!! Eric's brother left it in his mother's car and she lives in Holdenville (90 miles away)! The speakers are set to off and the television controls won't let us turn them on! It's kind of funny, really. We can watch it but we have to add our own lines! Haha! Thank goodness my brother is bringing it up here tomorrow when he has to come! Brodey misses his Backyardigans! Hahaha!
MIL and I went to Burlington Coat Factory this weekend. Neither one of us had ever been there and let's just say we won't be going back. They might be nicer elsewhere, but the one in Oklahoma City is terrible. Nasty and terrible. Good thing the Dollar Tree was two doors down! LOL We popped in there to get some chip clips and they had the rhinestones I use on my scrap pages!!! I got four packages for $1 each! Yippeee! They are self-adhesive and actually stay on! I was so excited!
Well that's all. Not too interesting! That's okay by me, though! Hehe!
I'm off to bed!
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

Look what we got!

Wow I DO NOT miss homework! I had to help my sister tonight with a couple of essays and it was not fun. At all.
THANK YOU Scrapbook Chalet girls for all the sweet comments you leave me! I'm so glad I decided to play the Survivor Challenge over there! If I hadn't, I might not have found that awesome site!
I'm there for another week! It was a close call! I'm SO glad! This week's challenge is going to be fun! Can't wait to start!
MIL is coming tomorrow! YEAH!!!! That means I might get to go crop at Just 4 Keeps! So excited!
Only one more month until the Creating Keepsakes with my layout is available! I CANNOT even tell you how exicted I am! I will never be able to wait until it gets to my mailbox! I will have to go to Just 4 Keeps and BUY BUY BUY!
Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day! We didn't end up going to eat! Eric thought that a 5 degree wind chill was too cold to get Brodey out. So we ate BBQ from some place and it wasn't very good! I got heartburn and Eric got sick. Deja vu from last year...only not so bad. I NEVER get heartburn so it wasn't fun for me.
Brodey and I DID get the CUTEST gifts from Eric! I posted several pics above! He sent me a Mommy turtle and Brodey a baby turtle and Spongebob balloons! LOVED them! SO cute and thoughtful! LOVE that guy! One of the photos is of Brodey kissing his. He loved his too!
Okay I am going to bed. My brain is DONE after those two essays! Gotta sleep before it short circuits! LOL
Goodnight!
LUV APRIL

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! I woke up to a kiss!!! LOL Not from Eric! Hahaha!!! Brodey has started giving me kisses when he wakes up in the morning. Even if he thinks I'm asleep, he still plants one on me! And sometimes two, and three! He cracks me up!
I just had to post the other photos! I only posted two more! I just love that little man! He is just TOO CUTE in my book!
Okay gotta go and eat some breakfast!
Have a great V-Day!
LUV APRIL