So Lazy!

I am having such a lazy day today. These days are nice sometimes. My 6 year old is home from school sick, he was up all night. Now he has quite the burst of energy, him and Hensley are driving me nuts!!! So in my laziness this morning I scrapped a new layout and then turned it into a quick page for a Quick Page contest at ScrapMatters.

Credits: Brown Eyed Girl Kit from DesignerBrittney available

at ScrapMatters.

Font: LD Hand

Christmas Pictures

Pictures went so good today. My husband had almost talked me out of getting all the kids pictures taken but I decided to brave it anyway. They turned out so cute, I can't wait to start on my Christmas Cards. After we took them to see Santa and then when we came home we put up all the Christmas decorations. I love Christmas lights.

Isn't this just the cutest picture? I have to brag but I think he is just the cutest baby ever. But seriously, would you even know if your kids weren't cute. HeHe!!!

New Tempate

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Mine was really nice. Kind of makes me feel bad about my previous blog posting. I did not go out this morning! The last place I wanted to be was at stores on the busiest shopping day of the year. I am going to attempt pictures tomorrow. I really want pictures of all the kids. I don't have any with Landon and the kids. We have Hunter this weekend so we will see how it goes. Hensley does not cooperate for pictures.

I made a new template that I wanted to share. It is very simple but you can add a lot to it.

Download Here

Here is my layout

Credits:

Snow Wonder Kit by Ellie Lash

Font: CK Bella

Black Friday at ScrapMatters!

Don't forget to stop by ScrapMatters for your Black Friday shopping!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Quick Blog!!!

Another quick blog! I am so excited!!! I found out this morning that ScrapMatters newest designer is Ellie Lash from SugarSnapScraps! I have been stalking her blog for a couple of months now and she is an awesome designer! She started designing for Scraphead and now is at ScrapMatters. I can't wait to start scrapping her designs! I will be back tomorrow for some store news about Black Friday!!!

Excited for the Holidays!

I absolutely love the holidays. As soon as Thanksgiving is over I start decorating for Christmas and all that fun stuff. Thanksgiving is an ok holiday for us. My husbands family is a little, oh how do I say it nicely, dysfunctional! Ha Ha, not trying to be mean but I am just surprised sometimes by how they act. My parents are very quiet people and we never fight about anything. My husband is a sweet heart and so is his dad but throw his mom, sister and my nieces in the mix and they are just not happy unless there is some drama going on. They even will make stuff up if it's been a little too quiet and peaceful. My step-son is just as bad. The older grandchildren will have a contest to see who can feel the most sorry for them in their hard hard lives. Everything can be going along just fine and then my step-son will tell my mother in law that he is going to live with his mom because he has it too hard at his dad's house. We are so mean, we make him do chores, and he has brothers and a sister he has to deal with and if he gets in trouble he is disciplined. I know, someone call CPS. Didn't mean to go on a rant, just thinking about Thanksgiving. Last year we didn't even eat until 7pm. Juice was spilled in the oven so we spent a few hours outside because the smoke alarms were so loud we couldn't stand to stay in the house. It is kind of funny to think back now, it's a good thing we live in Arizona or it would have been kind of cold outside. So I guess we will see how it goes. I guess I kind of got off of my original subject. It is kind of different here in AZ though.The weather is still really nice so you have to remind yourself that it is Christmas time. There are Christmas lights on Palm Trees and Cactus. Growing up in Utah, it was so cold and every year we would go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City and walk around and then go across the street to the Crossroads Mall and shop. I still can't stand the cold, but snow is so pretty. ScrapMatters has a new Christmas Kit in their store called Holly, Jolly, Ho Ho Ho by Andilynn Designs. I used it on my Blog Banner. I absolutely love this kit. I love the Holly Berries and the little tags that say Naughty and Nice. It is such a fun kit.

New Template

Just a quick blog since it is late. I have extended a challenge to my Digital Scrapbooking Group on Cafe Mom to create their own template. So I wanted to display my template and make it available for download for those who are interested.

Download Here

And here is my page

Credits:

Summer Brights Kit from Andilynn Designs

Available at ScrapMatters

Exciting News!

I really need to be better about posting blogs. I have fun news today though. I applied for the CT Call at ScrapMatters and found out today that I am a new member of their Creative Team! I'm very excited. They have a new, fun site that I am excited to be a part of. They have some really fun challenges going on. I am really excited about the Digi Journal Challenge from DesignerBrittney. She has a fun template to go along with it and some awesome ideas. I really need to get going on it. There is also a fun template challenge from HappyScrapGirl and I received a template for a Birthday Card for participating. I will show you both of the templates as soon as I scrap mine.

Landon is doing much better. He still takes the medicine but doesn't throw up anymore. He is sleeping really long stretches at night so I've had quite a few nights that he has slept through the night. He is sleeping in his own room now, my baby is getting so big.

The kids had a lot of fun on Halloween. Hayden was a pirate, Hensley was a Pirate Princess and Landon was a Pea Pod. Hunter was with his mom that night and I guess hung out with friends. I have not scrapbooked my Halloween pictures yet either. I am so behind!

So, I will try to be better about keeping up on my blog!

This is my layout for the CT Call

Peace and Quiet Mini Kit from ScrapMatters

LD Journaling Font

This is my template layout

Template from DesignerBrittney - Tears, Tape and Stitches Template

Kit by Designs by Shelle - Primavera Kit

Blogging

Have you ever just spent the whole day surfing all the scrapbook blogs! I think that it is one of the funnest things to do! I have not been on the computer for a while, life is just kind of busy! Today I dedicated to wasting time on the computer and thoroughly enjoyed it! I stopped off at Happy Scrap Girl and Ikea Goddess to download a few freebies and then wandered on over to Simply Sarah and had forgotten all about her calendar freebie. I had downloaded January before my computer took a dive and then when I had that figured out my baby got real sick! So anyway I spent almost the whole day catching up with that and was introduced to a few new bloggers!

I am excited now to unzip all my treasures and hopefully start scrapbooking again! Landon has been sick for about 3 weeks now and last week started vomiting every bottle back up! I took him to the doctor and they had me take him to the hospital for x-ray's to see if he need surgery. Luckily he didn't need surgery and they put him on Zantac for acid reflux and he also had an ear infection. The sad thing is he is such a good baby that he wasn't even that cranky, so I didn't know he was that sick! He was even sleeping good! I even had one night that he slept through the night last week. He seems to be feeling better so I think the medication is working. He is 2 months old today! I took him in for his well check and they gave him 5 shots! Poor baby just can't get a break!

Everything else is going well. School is good for the kids and Hensley is ornery as ever. She likes preschool though and the break has been nice. My kids are out this week for fall break.

I did the baby's birth announcements a couple of weeks ago and still have not sent them out! I procrastinate so bad!

Oh well, I guess it is good that I am so busy now, I feel much better!

September is here!

I have to say that I love September! It is also a little bittersweet though because I love September in Utah. The air starts turning a little crisp and the leaves start changing. I really miss fall. There really isn't any season changing here in Arizona. The temperature drops from the 100's to the high 90's. I couldn't wait to get out of Utah 10 years ago and now it makes me sad to know I can never go back, besides visits. Anyway, enough of that! I have a few things that I want to make mention of, hopefully I will remember them all. First, I have a Digital Scrapbooking group over at Cafe Mom, it has turned out to be a great group. I have Weekly and Monthly challenges and there are a lot of great and helpful people. The link is on my sidebar. This months challenge is an ABC album and the weekly challenge is back to school pages. Check us out and say hello! One of my group members is HappyScrapGirl and she has a freebies blog, her link is also on my sidebar. She also has a great template for a chore chart! I am excited to get mine done. I am going to make one for my 3 year old and 6 year old! I'll show you as soon as I am done with it.

When I was checking my email today I got my weekly email from Sweet Shoppe Designs and they are having a really cool challenge! It is called Stand Up and Scrap. To register you pay $10 and then can download their mega Stand Up kit. All the proceeds go to the Alliance for Climate Protection. I thought that it was cool. Check out their kit and challenge information at their blog.

http://www.standupandscrap.blogspot.com/ It is a 6 week challenge!

OK, last but not least! Last week on Cafe Mom the weekly challenge was a puzzle page. I played with this all week and came up with a few pages. I also have one more page from one of my group members but I am still waiting for her to approve me to post it. The challenge and tutorial is still available on Cafe Mom!

Kit is by Eve Recinella

Flowers by Isabelle Kit

Kit at Scrap Girls

Precious Boy Kit

Template by Kim Liddiard

Here is the puzzle page by Beckag99, she is in my group at Cafe Mom, I am completely impressed by this page!!!