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!!!

Getting Back to Normal

I think life is finally starting to get back to normal. I am starting to feel human again and Landon is such a good baby that I know I am so lucky. He sleeps good at night. I usually only have to get up once in the middle of the night depending on when I put him to bed. He is so amazing! I can't even imagine life without him now. He wasn't exactly planned, but I am so glad he is here. Hayden has been in school for a couple weeks now and seems to be adjusting well. Hunter is in 7th grade now and likes it alot. He had a skateboarding accident a couple of days ago and broke his wrist. I am getting kind of tired of doctor's appts. Hensley will start preschool next week. She has really enjoyed having my mom here. I don't know how she will be when she is gone. She is a good sister though. I so far only have one page done of Landon. I have been spending most of my computer time downloading new baby kits, I guess it is time to start putting some pages together.

1st Day of School

So school started today. My stepson started Jr. High and my 6 year old Hayden started 1st grade. I've already been nervous about him going all day, you know the usual. So I take him this morning. Just a waddlin', and he was completely fine but I just felt so sad leaving him there. I know it's the hormones but I just wanted to cry but I didn't because I knew that would be worse for him. I watched the clock all day and was excited to go to the bus stop and get him. The bus shows up, kids get off, No Hayden. I call the school, he's still there, somehow he ended up in the parent pick up line, which I guess that is better than getting on the wrong bus, I just felt so bad for him. He seems fine to go back tomorrow. Anyway, I didn't think it would be this hard for me. Kindergarten wasn't even this hard, but he was only half day. Oh well, I guess I can't keep him home forever. I just have 2 more days until my C-section, I'm excited but scared. I haven't posted a page for a while. I worked on this one today while I was waiting for school to let out!

Dr. Appt.

Well, I went to the doctor today and he checked me and I still haven't dilated at all. I'm pretty sure this is why I had the 1st emergency C-Section to start with, I don't think I do dilate. I never got past a 2 with Hayden. So it looks like I will be having this baby next Friday, which is fine. I still have to get Hayden to school on Wednesday. I would feel bad if I couldn't take him to meet the teacher or to his 1st day of 1st grade next week. I can't believe he is going into 1st grade, that makes me so sad. Hensley will start preschool in September! I am excited to get this baby here and move forward with life. I feel like I have been in limbo for months now!!!

So stir crazy!!!

I am so stir crazy today! I'm even sick of the computer! I need to have this baby and fast! Anyway, only 9 more days left and then I'll probably be wishing for some down time. I have Hunter and Hayden ready to start school next week except the socks that I ordered them are too big, you'd think that I could order socks but I guess not! I'll have to take them to the store and exchange them. Maybe walking the mall will put me in labor, one could only hope! Here's my newest page.

I got the template from Simply Sarah blog!!! I am so addicted to templates right now!

I've joined the world of the blogger's!

I have been playing around with the whole blogger thing for months and never do anything with it, so here goes! Be patient! My whole interest in blogging is the scraper's blogs! I love looking at everyone's pages and reading their daily stories! So here is a couple of my favorite layouts that I have done recently and hopefully I can contribute to the scrapper blogger world!

Credits: The only element that I used that

wasn't mine was the stacked photo effect

from Jen Caputo. I duplicated the photo to black

and white and then added the color!

Font: CK Bella

This is my favorite kit from Shelle by Designs

Magnolia Kit

Font: Lucinda Handwriting

The Template is from HappyScrapGirl