That Look

Just wanted to drop a note to say hi and to post one of my recent scrapbook layouts I have done. Been wasting too much time just sitting on the computer doing nothing important after I catch up on my blog reading that I have not had the chance to scrapbook much this week. I did finally get all of my stuff unpacked from the overnight crop 2 weeks ago! There is the first step!

This page is a fun one of Lexi in her first 2 months of life. She sometimes gave us this "I can take on the world and you" look that always cracked us up! Used another set of Autumn Leaves journal stamps that I love and the real fun Scenic Route arrow. It had a pattern on it that I could not use so I just turned it over to the white side and journaled on the arrow. I have loved this Basic Grey paper but could never figure out just how to use it. I'm happy!

So enjoy your weekend to all! Luv ya!

26 hours

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That's how many hours my mom and I had the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows book before we finished it. It was a wonderful weekend - my mom and I waited for our ticket number at barnes and Nobles (19) and then shoppped and ate dinner before heading back to B&N for the potter festivities. It was so much fun to people watch! Especially seeing all of the amazing costumes. The two best hands down were the Sorting Hat which was unbelievable and the Hagrid. Hagrid actually won the contest. I did not manage to get a picture of the one month old baby in its' stroller that had on glasses, robe, scar and mini Hedwig - he was adorable! (Congrats go out to my girlfriend Shaye's son Simon for getting Honorable Mention at their release party in Indiana! (www.smarterthanpancakes.vox.com)






I started reading the book outloud to us in the car as soon as we left the store at about 12:12am. When we got home - I read until about 5am and mom read some then slept an hour then read then slept, etc. Again my fabulous hubby tried to curtail the kids so we could read until he needed to go into work for awhile. But more or less, mom and I sat around reading all day. The kids loved their day of computer and TV! Then when the kids went to bed - it was our key quiet time to read again and by 2 a.m. Saturday we were done and spent the next half hour discussing it before bed. It was so much fun getting to spend the weekend with Mom and sharing in the mania of Harry Potter and getting to discuss chapters and events all along the way in the book. I have learned though that my mom reads MUCH faster than I!! Thanks mom for a wonderful time! I love you!!

So onto my thoughts - WOW did she jam pack this one with information and new characters!!! There were times my head was spinning. I do think it was a great book!!! and i did Love it!- but I think just because it is over (and I am sad) that it will never be the greatest and I think she was a little bit more 'brutal' with the characters than I had wished she was! But I do think it was wrapped up well and that I do not think there is much left unanswered in my mind from the series. It has been a wonderful ride and I will miss the anticipation of more to come.

Be sure to email or call me if you want to chat about the book in more detail (I ecpect to hear from Shaye and Kaylee soon!!)! I would love to since I can't say much at home since I expect it will be about another 2 years at least before Todd gets to this book!

Hope you have a great weekend! Off to actually communicate with my family since I basicly was in my own (or Harry's) little world yeasterday.

Luv ya all!!

It's finally here!!!

I bet you know what I will be doing all weekend after hanging in line with my Mom, friend Becky, her daughter and her mom and several hundred of my 'closest' friends!

Scrapbook zen

My hubby is wonderful! He was willing to hang with the kids for part of the weekend so that I could get away and do a 24 hour crop. I managed to get about 3 hours of sleep but had a great time chatting with new and old friends and scrapping!! I didn't get a huge amount done but I managed to get that zen type quality that comes from scrapbooking. I loved it!

One of the pages I did get done is the 4th One Little Word Challange - NEW. It was due a week ago so I missed the deadline but I had to do the page because once I sawthe word - I knew exactly what my page had to be about. Todd and I had just celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary in May and had gotten some pictures taken for the ocassion. We danced to the Disney song "Whole New World" from Aladdin on the night we started dating (at a wedding we were in) - so it was appropriately our first dance at our wedding. This was my way to scrap our anniversary picture next to our wedding picture. I love it! And I got to use this fun new paper from Deja Views!

Have a great week! Mine will be a fun one full of alot of activity. Tomorrow night we are making our much anticipated trek to see the new Harry Potter movie! I can't wait!

It has been awhile since i have blogged so I got this idea from some of my friends blogs to just let you know that I am still out there.

Some things on my mind

*I wish my scrap area would remotely stay uncluttered so that I would get the desire to scrap. I know it will take me a good hour and half to just pick it up before I can even get to scrapping.

* Why does making 12 little cupcakes seem so difficult on some days? - no butter - got some - accidently left it out all night - go buy more butter - chocolate cake mix expired a year ago - go buy more choc cake mix - realize don't have my decorating supplies - call friend to bring over - etc...

* Boy this summer is going fast! I thought I had all the time in the world to get ready for Logan starting school, going to the pool, losing weight...

* When am I ever going to get started on painting the kids bathroom? I have had the paint for a month!

* Why when you mop the floor - two hours later the kids spill the nastiest stuff on it so then you figure why ever mop?

* I need to get out of my scrapbooking rut of same ol same ol..

* I am praying every day that Lexi finally starts talking in a way that we can understand and that there is not something more to it...

*Why is Webkinz just so much fun for grownups to play??? If only we could truly earn money that way!!!

Okay - so that is some of the things flying around my head this beautiful Monday morning. I hope you and yours have a glorious day! And I hope I can get these crazy cupcakes done!!!!!