A Small Scrap Of Our Life

Midnight Scrapping P365 Week 49

2010-12-04T14:37:00.001-07:00

Wow! How did we get so close to the end of the year? Here is week 49 in the P365 series from my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping.

Click the Preview or HERE to download

To get the psd format of click HERE. While you’re there, be sure to check out the other great templates and kits at Midnight Scrapping!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Happy Turkey Day Freebie from Midnight Scrapping

2010-11-25T16:38:00.002-07:00

Hi All!

Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!

My good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping has a fun template for you today…

Click on the Preview of HERE to download

Just the pspimages are in this download, to get the the original psd files, click here. While you’re there, be sure to check out the other great templates and kits at Midnight Scrapping that she’s created.

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 week 46 plus….

2010-11-12T22:30:00.000-07:00

Hi all!

Hope everyone had a great week!

I have the pspimages to 2 great templates from my friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping!

First is this weeks P365 template….Week 46…

Click the Preview or HERE to download

Next is the 2nd template that has been inspired by her adorable new puppy, Sadie

Kit: When Friends Meet by Sara

Font: Lainieday

Click on the Preview or HERE to download

To get the original psd format of these templates, head over to Midnight Scrapping. While you’re there, be sure to check out the other great templates and kits that she’s created!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping {i}NSD pspimages

2010-11-08T18:00:00.001-07:00

Hi all!!

Hope you all had a great weekend and a fun {i}NSD!!

Here are the pspimages to the great templates that 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping created for you, sorry it took me so long to get them posted!

Click on the Preview or HERE to download

You can get the original psd format of this template HERE, while there, be sure to check out the other great templates and kits at Midnight Scrapping!

Happy Scrapping!!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 Week 45

2010-11-04T12:00:00.000-06:00

Hi All!

Did everyone have a good Halloween? We had beautiful weather for our trick or treating, and the kids did pretty well.

I have the newest week from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping P365 series….

Wow! We’re at week 45 already? Where has the time gone?

Click on the Preview or HERE to download

If you run into any trouble downloading, please let me know!

To get the psd version of this weeks template, click here to head over to Midnight Scrapping. If its not up yet, check back later today. Don’t forget to check out the other great templates and kits while you’re there!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 Week #44

2010-10-28T20:29:00.001-06:00

Good evening!

Hope you’re all having a good week so far. Tonight I have the pspimages to Midnight Scrapping’s P365 template series. We’re on week 44, the new year will be here before you know it!

Click on the Preview or HERE to download.

To the get the original psd format of this template, click HERE. While you’re there, be sure to check out her other great templates and kits. Please note that she will be retiring templates #1 through #100 on November 1st, so be sure to get them while you can!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping Sadies Template #1

2010-10-26T14:48:00.001-06:00

Good afternoon!

My good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping has asked me to host the pspimages of another fun template!!

This one is called Sadies template, it was inspired by her new “baby” ;o) Sadie is her family’s new puppy, a 9 week old English Springer Spaniel.

the kit is Mr and Mrs add on by Nibbles Scribbles, the Alpha is called Elegance by Misty Cato Designs and the font is Pristina.

Click on the Preview or HERE to download.

Please remember that these are pspimages only. If you would like the psd format of the template, please click HERE. Don’t forget to take a look at the other great templates and kits that she’s created!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 Week 43

2010-10-21T13:00:00.001-06:00

My good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping has another great P365 template for you. We're up to week 43, that means we’re only 9 weeks and 2 days from Christmas…. I guess I miscounted the weeks when I posted week 42 lol.

Here is the new P365 template!

Click on the Preview or HERE to download the pspimages only. You can find the original psd files and many other great templates and kits at Midnight Scrapping.

Have a great day and happy scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 template Week 42

2010-10-14T21:27:00.004-06:00

Good evening!!

Sorry its taken me so long to get this up! My good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping has another great P365 template for you. We're up to week 42, only 10 weeks left, are you ready for a new year?

Click on the Preview or Here to download

Remember, this file contains the pspimages only, to download in the original PSD format, head over to Midnight Scrapping and to get this weeks and find the links to early P365 templates, as well as other great templates and kits!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 template Week 40

2010-09-29T23:00:00.002-06:00

Hi all!

Hope you're having a good week so far.....

Tonight I have the pspimages for 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping Project 365 week 40..... Holy cow week 40 already!?! That means only 12 weeks left in 2010, where as the year gone?

I hope you enjoy this weeks template!

Click on the preview or HERE to download

To get the psd format of this weeks template and more great templates and kits, head over to Midnight Scrapping and see what else she's created.

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping P365 template Week 39

2010-09-23T12:17:00.003-06:00

Afternoon all!!

Hope you are having a good week.....

My good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping has asked me to host the pspimages to her P365 week 39 template. Its another great looking template, hope you have fun scrapping with it!!

Click on the preview or HERE to download

I just had to do a complete restore on my computer, so if you have problems with opening the file or with the images, PLEASE let me know, so I can get them fixed ASAP...Thank you!!!

To pick up the psd format of this template, or many other great templates and kits, head over to Midnight Scrapping and see what else she's created!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Midnight Scrapping Project 365 week 36

2010-09-02T17:20:00.004-06:00

Evening all!!

Sorry it's taken me so long to get this up....

Here are the pspimages to Midnight Scrappings' Project 365 week 36 template.... its another beautiful template!

Please click on the preview or HERE to download

To see the rest of the great templates that my good friend 3s_enough has done, head on over to her blog Midnight Scrapping. In addition to the great templates, she has also done some great kits!

Happy Scrapping!!

Michele

Speed Scrap at Midnight Scrapping!

2010-08-21T17:42:00.003-06:00

Evening all!!!

Do you like speed scraps? For day 3 of her challenges 3s_enough over at Midnight Scrapping is hosting a modified speed scrap! The first instructions will go up 8pm central time, hope you stop by, she has a great set of 12 brag book pages as a prize for completing the speed scrap.

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Are you looking for a challenge?

2010-08-20T18:56:00.003-06:00

Because my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping is celebrating her 3 year Blogaversery!!

Tonight is her 2nd of 6 challenges and for participating, you get this great gift:

Click on the image or HERE to go to Midnight Scrapping and see what she has in store for tonights challenge!

Come help celebrate!!

2010-08-18T06:24:00.003-06:00

My favorite blog is turning 3!!! My good friend 3s_enough a.k.a. Midnight Scrapping is celebrating her Blogaversery by having a week full of challenges! Her first challenge will be posted at 8pm central time on Thursday the 19th. She has lots of great gifts in store for the completion of the challenges, so come check them out!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Another great template freebie....

2010-07-21T15:11:00.005-06:00

From my friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping! She created this template while scrapping her new SUV that she calls Big Blue:

The Kit she used is Cozy Atmosphere by Verna Karolyi Designs,

Alpha is from the Kit Snowy Night by The Scrappy Kat,

and the font is Pristina

Here is the layout I made using the same template:

I used pieces from several Designers that all contributed to the Zippity Zoo Da Blog Train. The background paper and journaling mat are from SAHM Scrapper, the chicken wire and flower are from Tricia's Treasures, the giraffe button is from Mom 2 Moo, and the "F" and "G" alpha are by Designs by SnowLady. There are a total of 7 designers that contributed the blog train, the full list can be found HERE.

Now that you've made it this far, here is the link to 3s_enough's template!

I am hosting PSPimages only:

Please click on the Preview or HERE to download. You can find the PSD version and many other great templates and kits by 3s_enough by visiting her blog Midnight Scrapping.

Have great evening, and happy scrapping!

Michele

A few layouts and a Freebie....

2010-07-14T14:15:00.007-06:00

Good evening all!! Wow! It's been a really long time since I've posted lol.

I'm posting tonight with a few layouts, and the links to a great template my friend 3's Enough at Midnight Scrapping has put together, and asked if I could host the converted pspimages.

She called it a "spur of the moment" template and just calls it House Template lol, although her reasoning behind that is good.... her photo at that inspired it, is one her daughter snuck of her working on putting up siding...

The kit she used is Dream a Little Dream by Doreen Stolz

Here is the layout I put together. It's the first picture that's been taken of my sister and I together in several years...

Word Art: Elegant Word Art by Bethany

Kit: Romance Kimeric Kreations part of the Summer Surprises Blog Train

Click on the preview or HERE to download

This download contains PSPimages ONLY, to get the original PSD images,

please click HERE to go to Midnight Scrapping.

This download will expire on July 31st, so get it while you!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Cozy Christmas....

2009-12-15T20:45:00.001-07:00

Good evening!!!

I hope you're all doing well. It's been a while since I posted last, but I'm here this evening to share a small kit that I've worked on with my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, and her friend Simona a.k.a Light Mistress at Light's Digiscrap World.

We've each came up with a piece to Cozy Christmas. Here's my offering:

My little bit has 5 papers and 11 elements. You can click HERE or on the preview to download.

I hope you can use it, I made this layout of Nathan, using a card template from 3s_enough:

Here is what 3's_enough has put together for you, aren't the ornaments great?

You can click HERE or on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping to pick it up:

Simona has put together a great paper pack for you as well:
Don't the papers look great?
You can click HERE or on the preview to go to Light's Digiscrap World to pick this great
paper pack up:

If any of other ladies haven't gotten their links up yet, please check back later to pick up their great offerings as well.

I hope you all have wonderful and safe Christmas!! Happy scrapping!

Michele

A word art for you.....

2009-10-03T09:33:00.006-06:00

Hi All!!

Boy, have I been a bad blogger!!! Things have been going, going, going around here. School got off to a running start, and then cold season hit our house early.

But since it's been so long since I posted, I wanted to share a word art I made from a saying on my nieces' t-shirt:

click preview to download

I made this layout of Brianna with it:

The template I used is from my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping. The template was a limited gift for completing her blogversery challenges.

I have soooo many layouts to share, that I have no idea where to start lol! I'll save them for another day though.

I hope you can use the word art that I made! You can click on the preview above or HERE to go to 4shared to download.

Happy scrapping, I'm off to see if I can catch up on some more layouts, have a great evening!!

Hugs,

Michele

Looking for a challenge?

2009-08-21T12:19:00.006-06:00

Good afternoon!!

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, school started last week, and so we've spent the last few weeks trying to get ready for that and we squeezed in one more camping trip.

Have you been to Midnight Scrapping lately? She's celebrating the 2nd anniversary of her blog today!! To do that, she's running a "use it" challenge that will run through midnight on Sunday the 23rd. For participating in the challenges, you can get up to 17 never released templates! Here are the 3 different items that are to be used for the challenges.

There is one mini-kit:

And 2 word arts:

For the complete rules and all submit and deadline info, click here or on any of the previews to go to Midnight Scrapping.

I've already started working on my layouts, good luck to all who participate!!!

Hugs,

Michele

Good Evening!

2009-07-26T22:10:00.004-06:00

Hi All!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend in your part of the woods. Things were fairly quiet here. Had a lot of sunshine and some evening showers, the kind that seems to blow out all the stale air from to much sunshine and leaves everything feeling fresh and clear.

I don't have anything new to share with all of you this evening, except for a few layouts that I'm playing catch-up on from not being able to scrap for almost 2 months...lol

Tonight I'm sharing Dustin layouts, because it doesn't seem like I share all that many of him. Granted he doesn't get as many photos taken of him, but he never seems to be around when I drag the camera out...lol

This first is of him and his baby brother taking a dip....

The template is from my good friend 3s_enough, and it's her

Template #187. The kit I used is from Take A Dip by Digi-Designs

by Nicole and the Word are is from Bethany

at Elegant Word Art by Bethany.

This second one is of him playing catch in the backyard. I was surprised that I was actually able to catch him in the air when he jumped to catch the ball! And of course Nathan had to sneak into the middle of the game and do a little "Nah-nah I got the ball" taunt...

The template is also from 3s_enough, it was her June Participation

gift for submitting a layout to her. I used pieces from 3 different kits for this one.

The kits are He's All Boy, from myself and 3s_enough; Spring Training

from Miss Erins Scraps and Take Me Out to The Ball Game from

TLC Creations.

And lastly, one that I made just for me....lol

The template is 3s_enough's Template #152; the kit I used is called

Simplicity by Daniella Peuss - unfortunately I can't find the site for Daniella that I got

this from, so if you know where to find her work, could you leave a comment or email

me please? The word is from Elegant Word Art by Bethany.

That's about all I have to share right now. We're starting the count down to the first day of school...2 1/2 weeks and it's back to school for the kiddies! Even Zack! He was able to qualify for the school districts head start (preschool) program, because he has a slight speech delay. Mainly he has problems with his enunciation, but it's enough of a problem that he needs more help to correct it than I am able to give. We learned when they took his tonsils and adenoids out in February that he has a small notch in the back of his pallate. The ENT said it wasn't enough to require a surgical fix, but it seems to be big enough to cause problems with his speech :0(. But all that aside things are going well for our household!

Have a good night, and happy scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

Happy Birthday to...

2009-07-17T09:04:00.006-06:00

My Mom!

I love you mom and hope you have a wonderful day!

Hehe...sorry, had to get that out of the way! Sorry I've been away for so long! I finally got my new power cord, and have been trying to get back into the swing of things with my scrapping and other stuff.

We've been busy around here in the mean time! Going to the park, the pool, and we've even gone camping! I can't believe we're already half way through summer break, in the count down to when school starts mid-august. I don't think the kids are ready to back, but I'm ready for them to go....lol. Don't get me wrong, I love my kids, but after having 7 kids in the house all summer, it's been an interesting venture to say the least.

I have a few more layouts to share with you today, and a surprise at the end if you make it that far...lol

This one is of Dustin and Nathan playing peek a boo on the play area here....

The template is from my good friend 3s enough at Midnight Scrapping. Its Template #174, and the papers I used for the mat and the text boxes are from He's All Boy.

This next layout is of my kiddos and my niece and nephew playing in the dirt at our campsite at the lake....

The template is also from 3s enough, it's the landscape version of Template #134. I used one of the photos that I took for a background. Its the first time I've tried that, and I thought it came out pretty well.

I said I would have a surprise for you if you made it to the end, so here it is.... If you liked the papers and such that I used in my moms birthday layout at the beginning of my post, I made a page kit out of it as well. It's not much, there are 3 papers, 3 elements, and a word art in 2 different colors.

You can click on the preview or HERE to download it. I hope you can find a use for it!

I better go get started on the list of errands I have for today. Have a great day and Happy Scrapping!

Michele

I think I've fixed it! New link to He's All Boy

2009-05-30T13:27:00.005-06:00

Hi All!!

I want to thank everyone again for letting me know there were problems with the file! I've rezipped it, deleted the original file on 4shared, and re-uploaded new, so hopefully everything works right now! If for some reason it doesn't, please, please do not hesitate to let me know!

As usual, here are the element preview and paper previews:

You can click on either preview, or incase my images disappear again, you can also click HERE to go to 4shared to download.

I really appreciate everyone's paitence, and for letting me know there was a problem. If you make any layouts with this kit, I would LOVE to see them! Since my laptop is still out of commision, I have yet to even scrap a layout with this kit!

Have a great afternoon and rest of the weekend!

Hugs,

Michele

A thank you and apology....

2009-05-29T08:26:00.002-06:00

I wanted to thank you all for letting me know that the rar file isn't opening for some. I am in the process of trying to fix it, but because my computer is still out of commission and the original files are on there, it's taking me a little longer than I would like. If you download He's All Boy and have trouble opening it, please email me or leave a comment, and I will either email you back or leave a comment on your blog, along with posting it here, that the link and files have been fixed.Thank you for bearing with me, and thank you again for letting me know there's a problem, I really appreciate it!!!

Michele

A trip to the zoo....

2009-05-18T10:01:00.005-06:00

Good Morning,

I want to thank everyone who left a comment here and on 4shared for He's All Boy!

Hope everyone has had a good week! Sorry I haven't posted since I gave out He's All Boy. The cord to my laptop had fried, and all my scrapbook stuff is on there, so I haven't even been able to scrap! I'm writing this post on dh's computer, because I wanted to share a few pictures.

My week last week came to a good end last Thursday.... Well some may not call it good, I guess it all depends on your patience level....lol I got to spend the day at the zoo with Miss Bri and her kindergarten class! We had a lot of fun, it was a lot better and less stressful than I thought it would be. Here's a few of the pictures.....

This is a rare one....I'm usually BEHIND the camera....

The elephant....
My monkey with the monkey's...

I still have yet to scrap any layouts using the new kit 3s enough and I did, He's All Boy. I was working on a Mother's Day page Kit, that is now stuck half finished on my computer as well. Hopefully by next week I'll be back with my computer and will have some layouts to share with you.

School lets out for the summer in 2 DAYS!!! Where did the time go!?!? Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Memorial day weekend!

Hugs,

Michele

A new kit....

2009-05-07T20:56:00.008-06:00

**EDITED 5/30/09**

Thank you for bearing with me! I think I've gotten everything fixed, please click HERE to go to the new post, with the new, fixed links. Thank you again!

Michele

**EDITED 5/29/09**

Thank you for bearing with me, and thank you again for letting me know there's a problem, I really appreciate it!!!

Good Evening all!

Hope everyone is having a good evening! It was a beautiful day here, high 70's - low 80's! I spent my evening working on yard work at my grandma's house.

Tonight I have for you the 3rd kit in a series that 3s_Enough and I are doing for our kids. The first was Brianna's Butterflies, then It's A Girl Thing, and now we have He's All Boy. It's a kind of grungy boy kit, but should be versatile enough to use for the tom-boys in your life also.

This kit consists of 19 papers, and 42 elements. The download is in 2 parts, one part here on my blog and the other is at Midnight Scrapping. You can click HERE to go to 3s_enough's Midnight Scrapping to pick up the part she has there.

Here's a preview of all the elements:

A full preview of the papers:

Here is what I'm giving here on my blog:

Click on either preview to download.

I'm sorry I don't have any layouts to share with you using this kit. I haven't gotten much chance to sit down and work on any.

I think I'm going to go for the evening, have a great night!

Hugs,

Michele

Little boys......

2009-04-28T06:39:00.002-06:00

always seem to be getting into something! And I think Zack gets into enough for both he and his little brother....lol He seems to think he's piggy bank I guess. Back in October, he swallowed a penny, so off we went to the ER to make sure it was going down and not stuck some where, and you would think he'd learned his lesson then. But Nooooo, sunday night he was laying on the floor, and I'd seen he had put some change in his mouth, I told him to get the the money out of his mouth, and no sooner did I get the words out and down it went!

Since he kind of was gagging on it, off we went to the ER again. Well this one went where it was supposed to go (well not "supposed" to, but you know what I mean), so it was a quick trip, and they even printed him up a copy of his x-ray so he could see his money.....

The template I used for this one is called Diagonal Dream by Valerie Brumfield and the papers are from a kit called Our Little Man by Kim Liddiard. Both can be found at The Digital Scrapbook Place.

Have you been by to see the new kit by 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping? She's done another great job with this one. It's fun mini-kit called Teen Crush. It has 10 papers and 20 elements. Here's the preview:

Click on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping to pick this up! I made this layout below of my niece's birthday....

I used 3s_enough's Template #181 to make it with.

I hope you've all had a good start to your week! Ours is off to a little rocky of a start, both Zack and Nathan have got runny noses, and Zack is on antibiotics for an ear infection.....I thought ear tubes were supposed to stop those?!? We actually got a little snow yesterday morning, but by afternoon it was all pretty well gone. We went from high 70's low 80's last week to only in the 60's this week. I'm ready for some warm sunshine!!

I'm off to go get kids in gear and ready for school have a great day!

Hugs,

Michele

It's A Girl Thing....

2009-04-19T19:41:00.004-06:00

Good Evening!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Ours was nice, once the rain cleared out.

3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping and I have another great kit for you! This one is #2 in a series of kits that we're working on dedicated and inspired by our children. The first was Brianna's Butterflies, which you can still get here.

Tonight we have It's A Girl Thing, inspired by 3s_enough's oldest. This fun, colorful kit has over 60 elements and 30 papers which you can get at Midnight Scrapping and 6 word art, that you can get a little farther down the page.

Here's the full preview:

The papers:

The Elements:

Sorry this kit is no longer available, but you can still get the word art below.

And the word art:

Click on the preview to download

I don't have any layouts to share tonight, haven't gotten a chance to sit down and put any together recently. Nathan spent most of last week recuperating from a stomach bug, and then Wednesday my car developed a leak from the power steering pump. So it was a long trying week!

Hope your week starts off well! Happy Scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

Twilight Quick Page #3 and a layout

2009-04-11T20:45:00.004-06:00

Good evening all!

Will have to keep this short and sweet! Hope everyone is having a good weekend and that every one has a safe and happy Easter!

My layout:
My little Zack napping away....lol The template I used to make this quick page is from 3's_enough's NSD grab bag.

Of course I made both the 12x12 and landscape page again, because I personally use more landscape pages than anything else.

Click on the Preview to Download

Hope you all have a good evening and we'll see you later this week!

Happy Scrapping!

Hugs,
Michele

Twilight Quick Page #2 and a Layout

2009-04-09T21:47:00.004-06:00

Good evening!!!

I bet you all were begining to think I'd forgotten about you! I didn't forget, just running a little off this evening, having some Internet issues, so this will be a quick post.

I promised another quick page from 3's_enough's awesome Twilight kit....have you gotten that yet? Better snag it soon! You can click here to go pick it up.

I made this quick page based on 3's_enough's Template #35. It's a beautiful template and fits wonderfully with Twilight's' theme. And of course keeping with the sleepy theme, here's my Nathan snoozing on the floor. He'd been fighting sleep for so long that day, that he finally just laid down on the floor and fell asleep.

Again, I made the quick page in both a 12x12 and landscape size, hope you can use them!

Click on the Preview to download

*Edited 10:15pm* ...I'm terrible....I almost forgot to put the link in for the download....I'm sooo sorry!!!!!

I'm off for tonight, I'll be back Saturday with my 3rd quick page. I would say it will be the last, but I like this kit so much that I'm not making any promises!

Have a good Friday and happy scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

A Twilight Quick Page and Layout

2009-04-07T15:00:00.003-06:00

Good Afternoon!

How is your week treating you? All is good here. Did you pick up Twilight yet? 3's_enough did a wonderful job on this one! If you haven't gotten it yet, click below to go to Midnight Scrapping and grab it!

I promised on Sunday that I'd have a Quick page for you tonight! Here is the layout I made using my new quick page:

Miss Bri snoozing away....lol

I've made this in both a 12x12 quick page and a landscape quick page, which is what I used to make Miss Bri's layout.

Click on the preview to download

I hope you like the quick page I've made, I've made two more that I'll be giving out on Thursday and Saturday, so be sure to stop back by! Have a good evening and happy scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

A layout and a link to an AWSOME new kit...

2009-04-05T21:40:00.001-06:00

Good Evening all!

Sorry I've been MIA for so long. The kids were out on spring break for a week and this last week was spent trying to get back into our routine, so it's been a little hectic around here.

Yesterday was fun day....NOT. Had to take Zack into the ER because he stuck a round bead in his ear and I couldn't get it out. I called the doc first in hopes that I could just take him in there and they could do it, but no dice, they said to take him to the ER. So off we went. They got it out with no problems. I would have tried to dig it out myself, but since they put tubes in his ears back in February --yes I know, I didn't get anything posted about that....bad blogger....lol-- I was afraid I'd do more damage than good.

But on to my layout.... I made this layout of Brianna snoozing with the awesome new kit from 3's_enough at Midnight Scrapping:

The template I used is also made by 3's_enough, it's her Landscape Template #9 and the word art is from Elegant Word Art by Bethany.

And on to the kit....
3's_enough's new kit is called "Twilight". I think it's totally AWESOME! I love the colors in it! There's a total of 32 papers and 60 elements.

Here's a preview of the papers:
And the Elements (not all the elements are shown in the preview):

You can click on either preview or here to go to Midnight Scrapping and get the links to download this beautiful kit!

I've also made some quick pages from Twilight, that you can come back and pick up starting on Tuesday. Hope to see you back then!

Happy scrapping,

Michele

A layout, a link and a quick page...

2009-03-15T22:31:00.004-06:00

Good evening all!

Hope everyone had a good week, and a great weekend!

My good friend 3's enough at Midnight Scrapping has put together another fun kit! My little miss Bri got chance to name this new kit and she called it The Color's In It. Click on the picture below to go to Midnight Scrapping and download this fun little kit. It has 10 papers and 19 elements:

I made this layout of my beautiful little niece from the kit:

And I've turned the layout into a quick page:
Click on the preview to download

Happy Scrapping!

Hugs,

Michele

Another great quick page from Midnight Scrapping

2009-03-09T22:20:00.000-06:00

Good evening!

Hope you are all doing well and made it thru your Monday!

I wanted to share the link with all of you to the beautiful quick page that 3s_enough made with Brianna's Butterflies:

You can click on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping and the link for this quick page.

Hope you all have a good night!

Happing Scrapping,

Hugs,

Michele

Oh wow! I was given 2 awards!!

2009-03-09T14:38:00.006-06:00

Afternoon!

How is every ones week starting out? Hope all is going well! I was so very surprised over the weekend to be given not one, but my first 2 awards!

Thank you to both wonderful ladies for giving me these!

This award was given to me by 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping.

The rules are to pass it on to three people. Leave messages for those three on their blogs and a link to the person who gave it to you.

I'm passing this onto:

Toucan Scraps and News

Elegant Word Art By Bethany

Jeanette at Easy Custom Blogs

This one I received from StarLady's This and That.

"The PREMIO DARDOS AWARD"

acknowledges the value of every blogger shows in their effort to transmit cultural, ethical, literacy and personal values everyday.

The rules are:

1. Accept the award, post it in your blog together with the name of person granted the award and his or her blog link.

2. Past the award to 15 other blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgement.

Remember to contact them to let them know they have been chosen for this award

All the blogs that I'm passing this award onto, I'm passing on because of the hard work that you put into the making of the digital scrap booking items that you choose to share freely with the digital scrap booking world. That is the personal value that I feel you all pass on everyday.

I'm going to try and pass this on to the full 15, although it may take me a day or two...

I'll have to finish the last few in the next day or two...

I'll be back later this evening with a layout or two. have a good day!

Hugs, Michele

Brianna's Butterflies, a layout and a quick page

2009-03-05T20:45:00.001-07:00

Good evening!

Hope you're doing well! I have a layout, a link to a great quick page by 3s enough, and a new kit!

The layout is of Miss Bri and her 'do for crazy hair day at school:

The template is a fun one from 3s enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's Template #168. The papers and elements are from the new kit I'm releasing tonight Brianna's Butterflies, you'll be able to see that and find the link a little farther down in the post.

Next I have the link to the great quick page that 3s enough has put together using Brianna's Butterflies, you can click on the picture to be taken to Midnight Scrapping for the link to it.

And last but not least.....

I started working on this late last summer, but hit a creative block. I was fortunate enough to get back on track again after some help from 3s enough. I'd like to thank her for her help, she's been a great friend and I really appreciate it!

Click on preview to download

This kit has a total of 14 papers and 34 elements.

I hope you like this new kit! I would love to see anything you make using this kit or any of the other freebies that I've offered on my blog. You can find my email address in the about me section on the right side of the blog.

Please remember... no hot linking! If you would like to share this with others, please share the blog not the files!

Happy Scrapping!

Michele

Summertime Friends Quick Page #2

2009-03-04T20:30:00.001-07:00

Good Evening!

Hope everyone is having a good week so far!

I've made another quick page from Springtime Friends, the newest kit from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping:

click on preview to download

Here's a preview of the full kit:

Click on the preview to go to Midnight Scrapping and the link for Springtime Friends

This is the layout I made the quick page from. The pictures were taken of Nathan late last summer when he was learning to stand:

Thank you for stopping by! Stop tomorrow, I'm releasing a new kit that I had started last summer, and with the help of my good friend 3s_enough, have finally gotten finished!

Have a good evening!

Hugs,

Michele

Quick Pages and Layouts

2009-03-01T20:45:00.002-07:00

Good evening!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Ours was pretty quiet.

3s enough over at Midnight Scrapping is releasing a new kit tonight! It's a beautiful kit in greens and yellows, with ladybugs and butterflies that makes me wish for spring! Here is the preview for Springtime Friends:

This kit has 10 papers and 28 elements. Click on the preview to be taken to Midnight Scrapping to get the link to the kit.

I made this layout of Nathan with her kit:

The pictures were taken back in August during one of our thunderstorms.

I've also made my layout into a quick page, you can click on the preview to download:

Did you notice the blinkie I've got on right side of my blog? I'm proud to be the first CT Member for 3s enough and Midnight Scrapping!! Thank you my friend for asking me to be on your CT!!!

I hope everyone has wonderful evening! And please remember no hot linking!! If you'd like to share these with family and friends, share the blog not the files please!

Hugs,
Michele

I recieved a layout!

2009-02-28T09:54:00.005-07:00

Good Morning all!

I was sooo excited when I opened my inbox this morning! I received my first layout submission for the Adore Challenge!

This layout comes from Jinnie, celebrating the adorable Gingerbread's 1st Birthday!

It looks like fun was had by all! Thank you Jinnie for sending this in! I'll have your gift to you in the morning!

There's still time to submit your layout for the challenge, you have until midnight tonight. All links will go out in the morning.

I also have a layout of my own to share...

It Bri's 5th year in pictures:

The template I used is another great one by 3s enough, it's her Template #139. The papers and elements are all from my soon to be released kit Brianna's Butterflies.

I hope you have great day! And Thank you again Jinnie for the wonderful Layout!!

Hugs,

Michele

Better late than never....

2009-02-16T23:10:00.004-07:00

for Christmas pictures that is....lol. I finally got Nathan's first Christmas scrapped! It's only taken me a month and a half. Boy and I thought I was slow getting Bri's birthday pictures done. All of the papers and elements that I've used in these three layouts are from the Holiday Traditions kit that my good friend 3s enough asked me to work with her on. All three templates were also made by 3s enough. I'm her first official CT member!!!

This one was made using her Project 365 week 4 template:

This one is using Template #127
And last but not least, this is using Template #145:

I got all of these done tonight, and I think this is the most scrapping (other working on kits) that I've done in awhile. I go through the kids' folders and see how far behind I am on getting their pages put together that I feel like I'll never catch up!

We've got a lovely stomach bug going around our house today. Dad woke up with it this morning, and now I think poor Nathan has got it too. I'm hoping that Zack will be missed by it, the poor little guy has been through enough in the last few days. He got his tonsils and adenoids removed on thursday, got tubes put in his ears, and had a small cyst removed from his neck just above his collar bone. We were just supposed to spend thursday night at the hospital, but by friday afternoon, he wasn't drinking enough for them to feel comfortable letting him go home. But by early saturday afternoon -- what a way to start valentines-- we'd gotten him to drink enough for them to spring him. So far he's done really good drinking enough to keep from getting dehydrated, but if he gets this pukey bug too, I'm afraid he'll stop that all together. I hate to think of what getting sick would feel like on his poor little throat!

Well I think I'm off for tonight... Don't forget to send in your layouts using the new Adore kit to get the add-on gift that 3s enough and I have put together! We'd love to see our kit in action!

Have a good night all!

Hugs,

Michele

A few layouts and a challenge...

2009-02-15T19:22:00.010-07:00

Hi all!!!

I have a few layouts to share tonight and a challenge if you're up to it!

3s enough and I would love to see any layouts using the Adore kit. Those of you who submit a layout using Adore to either blog will receive this Add On for participating! Contest runs from Feb 15 to Feb 28 at midnight. Links will be sent out on March first(Sunday) via return email. You can find my email address in my profile to the right. We look forward to seeing your creations!

Here's my layout using the Adore Kit and 3s enough's Template #138...

Here is the preview for the Adore Add-on Gift:

The add-on includes:

5 Papers
2 Torn Papers
4 Word Arts
14 Elements

Here are a few layouts that 3s enough has done with both the Adore kit and our Add-on Gift:

This one is made with her Template #12

And this one is her soon to be released Template #165:

This layout I made using the add-on and 3s enoughs' Template #158...

I hope I get to see what you've made with our Adore kit!!

I'll try and post tomorrow with a few more layouts. Have a great night, and I hope to see your layouts!!

Hugs,

Michele

Adore Mega Kit

2009-02-08T20:42:00.012-07:00

Hi all!

My good friend 3s enough over at Midnight Scrapping has asked me to work with her on another kit! We put together a Valentines kit that we are calling Adore.

My baby boy turned 1 a little over a month ago! ....Yes I'm a bad blogger....lol 3s enough challenged me to do a layout using both her double Template #13 and Adore. Here's what I came up with:

You can see the layout 3s enough put together as well as several other layouts she made with Adore, here.

All together this kit contains 32 papers, 70 elements and 9 word art! You can get the papers and word art here, and 3s enough will be giving the elements.

Here are the elements that 3s enough will be sharing on her blog Midnight Scrapping:

Click on the preview to be taken to 3s enough & Midnight Scrapping for her links.

The word art and papers are in 2 seperate downloads, so please remember to get both!!!

Here is the word art:

Click on preview to download

Here are the papers:

Click on preview to download

We hope you enjoy scrapping with this as much as we've enjoyed making it!
If you have any problems with any of my links, please leave me comment or email me at shelemcbee at msn dot com and let me know, so I can fix it as soon as possible!

Please remember.....no hot linking, if you like to share this kit with you friends and family, please send them here!

Thank you!!!

Hugs,
Michele

Link to Holiday Traditions Add-on

2009-01-05T08:00:00.001-07:00

Hi All,

I promised the preview and link for the rest of the Holiday Traditions add-on that 3s_enough and I have put together, here it is!

I also want to add a thank you to The Scrappin' Cop for her gingerbread man template, I don't remember if I remembered to thank her in my TOU.....

Hugs,

Michele

Holiday Traditions Add-on and a layout

2009-01-04T21:34:00.005-07:00

Hi all!! Yesterday was Nathan's First Birthday!!! I can't believe he's one already, it seems like just yesterday he was born and we were bringing him home. We didn't really do much. We're going to have cake and family over next weekend, to space out a little bit from Christmas. I put together this lay out of his first year:

The template is from my friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's her template #142, although I did add a picture space to get all the photos in that I wanted. The paper in the background is from Ashalee Wall Design's Dirt kit.

I made a few extra word art as an add-on to the collaboration kit that I did with 3s_enough:

I did 3 additional word art, each one is in done in both silver and gold. If you'd like these, click on the preview to download. I occasionally paste the wrong link in, so if you have any trouble with the link please email me at shelemcbee at msn dot com.

You can find the previews and download links to our Holiday Traditions kit here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. 3s_enough will also be releasing an add-on on her blog, I'll add the link and preview for that when she does.

I think I'm off for the night, Nathan is sleeping soundly, now I just need to get Zack to bed. Have a good night!!

Hugs,
Michele

Holiday Traditions Collaboration Kit

2008-12-21T15:25:00.015-07:00

*I have fixed the download link, I'm sorry it didn't work!! If you're still having trouble getting the link to work, please leave me a comment or email me at shelemcee at msn dot com*

Hi All!!

I am sooo excited to be posting this today!! I was asked by my good friend 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping to help her make a holiday kit.

Here is what we've put together:

Here is the paper preview:

Here is a preview of the elements:

Full Kit Includes:
22 Papers
6 bows
6 ribbons
8 ornaments
2 metal swirls in both Silver and Gold
3 page borders
5 light bulbs
5 strings of lights
2 candles
4 tags
1 piece of tape
2 stockings
2 suckers
2 frames
2 clips
7 word art in both Silver and Gold
4 word art in both Red and Green
1 holly leaf

Here is the Preview of my Part, which is Part 2:

(To Download, please click on the preview)

Here is the preview of Part 1 that 3s_enough will be sharing on her blog:

By clicking on the preview, it will take you to Midnight Scrapping, where you will find the link to download part one.

We hope you enjoy using the kit that we've put together, and please remember no hot linking!! If you'd like to share the kit with some one please send them here!!

Hugs,

Michele

All went well...

2008-12-12T08:06:00.003-07:00

with Nathans tube surgery. We went in on the 10th. Got to the hospital at 6am for his 7:30 surgery. They took him back about 7:25, and we got called back to sit with him while he woke up about 7:45, and were headed home by 8:15. He's doing well so far, not really too much pain. He had some balance issues before, couldn't sit on the floor without falling to one side or the other every few minutes, but almost all of that is gone now. He's walking a lot straighter now, doesn't fall as much, is trying to run every where! He was also having trouble judging where corners and doorways were, but hasn't run into one since he got home, unless one of the big kids are being too helpful. I think we made the right decision as far as having the tubes put in, now we just have to wait see if the constant ear infections go away.

On other news, Brianna has finally lost her first tooth!! It was so loose when she pulled it that it didn't even bleed, which was probably a good thing...lol. Now the one that next to it is starting to wiggle, so we'll see how long that one takes.

Zack goes back to see his ENT at Children's next month, to have the cyst on his neck re-looked at, and to see if the spot his pediatrician noticed at his check up last week is what she thinks it is.

Dustin is getting excited for Christmas break, although I'm not sure I'm ready for it...lol. 6 kids home with my all day for 2 weeks should be interesting.

I think that's all for now, I don't have any new layouts to share today, I've fallen even farther behind with my scrap booking from all the appointments we've had the last few weeks. Have a good day!

Hugs,
Michele

Ear infections

2008-11-21T08:20:00.006-07:00

Seem to be running rampant in my house this winter...

Nathan was put on antibiotics Tuesday for his 4th one since the 27th of September. He went in Friday to see an ENT about getting tubes in his ears. So they did their tests, and he'll be getting tubes on the 10th of December. They did a hearing test on him also, and he has so much fluid behind his eardrum that they get no movement on one of the tests, so they said at this point he does have some hearing loss, but the tubes should reverse that.

Zack went in on the 4th because of ear pain and drainage, he had an infection with a slight rupture of the ear drum, and Wednesday off and on he said his ear hurt, and Thursday night he was telling me it still hurt and about 9 that night he woke up crying because of it, so I took him in to have it looked at, to try and catch this one before it ruptured too. He's got another ear infection already, so I guess I'll have to watch and see how many he gets in the next few weeks.

On top of all that Zack and Nathan started running temperatures Saturday night, the tylenol would bring it down, but when it wore off their temps soared right back up. Zack's temps were getting as high as 103.8, so he spent the morning sleeping. Thought his temp finally broke about noon time, but by 2 it was right back up. And then about 6:30 this evening, he was in tears again, this time with a sore throat. SO back to urgent care we went. The good news is that his ear infection has cleared up with the antibiotics, but he has yellow spots in his throat so he either has a viral infection or strep. The rapid strep test they did came back negative, but they're sending it to the main lab to do a culture just in case the antibiotics made the rapid test negative. They said they would call me with the results from that in 48hrs or so.

Took Dustin in for his orthodontist evaluation, and they said they can give him room for all his teeth to come in right with braces, and shouldn't have to pull any. So they submitted their evaluation to the insurance and now we just have to wait and see what they want to pay for.

That's all the recent news at our house, and here's a new Layout that I did for Midnight Scrappings' recent challenge....

I used the kit she made for her challenge, and put together this one of Zack and his "car"...

All papers and frames came from the Birthday Challenge Kit.

I better go, Zack is getting cranky...

Hugs,
Michele

Oh what a week...

2008-11-15T08:40:00.005-07:00

Going all the way back to last Friday....

Brianna was picked as one of her schools' October students of the month! Here's one of the pictures I took then, I'm in the process of making a layout of it, but haven't quite gotten it done...

We're so proud of her!!

And then to this week.... Finally got Dustin into a dentist on Thursday, he had this spot on his gum, just below where the gum meets the tooth, that I wasn't too sure what it was. So off we go to the dentist, and low and behold, we learn that the spot is actually a tooth trying to come in, and the dentist says that he doesn't have the room for it. It's one of 4 teeth that have yet to come it and the dentist says there's no room for any of them. They're recommending that he got see an orthodontist. So 4 phone calls later, I finally find one that takes the insurance he has and that can get him in before January. This coming week looks like it's going to be jam packed... Monday I have to drive to Cherry Creek to get a copy of Nathans birth certificate for the insurance, Tuesday Dustin has another dentist appointment to get a cavity filled, and Wednesday we go to the orthodontist. I'm hoping nothing comes up for Thursday or Friday!

On to my layout... Midnight Scrapping has a four part challenge going thru the 20th. This my submission for the first part of the challenge:

(I used 3s_enoughs' birthday challenge template 1 and made the papers myself. Fonts are Australian Sunrise and A Yummy Apology.) We went to the Bass Pro Shop last weekend with Amy and her family, so that the kids could see Santa before it got too crazy. This store is HUGE!! They have a rock climbing wall there, and after seeing Dustin and Billy climb, Bri decided she wanted to go too. She made it all the way to the top!! I'm not sure how high the wall is, but she did great! There were 3 kids in line in before her, all were older, and they only made it halfway up.

I'm off for now, will try and get back tonight or tomorrow to post my second submission to the Birthday Challenge. Have a good day!

Hugs,

Michele

Nathan got

2008-11-06T07:02:00.004-07:00

a clean bill of health at the doc yesterday! I took him in yesterday to have his ears rechecked and to get his flu booster. The doc looked in his ears, and said that there was no infection in them any longer, but the right still had fluid in it. They're going to leave it be for a few weeks and watch it. She said if he got another infection or the fluid was still there after about 3wks, then they'd send him to see an ENT about tubes. So we'll wait and see what happens. Although Zack wasn't so lucky about getting a clean bill... He starting telling me Monday night that his ear hurt, and when he woke up Tuesday morning, you could see where fluid had been draining from his ear when he woke up. He was too cute though, when he came out of the bedroom Tuesday morning, he said his ear hurt and asked me to put a band-aid in it. I took him in to the doc, and he has an ear infection now, and she also said that there was a small rupture in his eardrum, which is why there was fluid draining from it. This has just been a bad season so far for ears...

On the plus side, Nathan is walking!! Well a few steps at a time anyhow. The farthest he's made it so far is down the hall from the living room to the toy box by the kids' bedrooms. I have a few small video clips that I took with my digital camera, but will try and get a better one to post later today.

I'm still working on my Halloween layouts, and will hopefully get them posted soon. I'm off for now, almost time to get the kids ready for the bus. Have a good day!
Hugs,
Michele

Remember my camping trip?

2008-11-03T07:12:00.003-07:00

Oh back in August? I finally, got a page done for it....lol

3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, is doing weekly challenges. This weeks challenge was to use any of her retiring freebies or new Halloween templates or kit. So far I've used her Whale Watching kit and with her Double template #3. Tonight I'm going to try and sit down get some Halloween pictures scrapped.

And the news around my house.... Nathan took his first steps on his own over the weekend!! He'll take 4 or 5 steps now and then he realizes that he's doing it on his own and falls down. It's pretty cute. He gets a little braver by the day. I've been trying to get a few pictures of him at least standing on his own, but he sees the camera and drops to crawl and charge for it.

Well it's about time to take one of my charges to the bus for school, have a good day!!

Hugs,

Michele

Finally finished...

2008-10-30T06:40:00.007-06:00

Brianna's birthday page(s)...

3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, makes these great double templates as well as her regular ones, and I have several, but this is the first time I've used one, and I think I did pretty good. It's Double Template #8. The papers and elements I used in this I made from scans of some of the drawings that Amy made to do her paper scraping with.

Tomorrow is Halloween and Dustin and Bri are sooo excited! Zack right now could take it or leave it, I don't think the whole dressing up and going after candy thing has completely sunk in yet. I think by next year though he'll be as caught up in it as the big kids are. Hopefully I'll have pictures and/or some layouts posted this weekend of the kids in their costumes, will have to see how motivated I get...lol

Well, I'm off for today, need to get the laundry finished that I started yesterday. Have a good day!

Hugs,

Michele

Well I have pictures....

2008-10-28T18:52:00.007-06:00

But I haven't gotten the layout finished yet, so I'll have to wait to post that. Bri first said she wanted a Princess cake, but picked out one with just Ariel on it. But she liked it, so that's all that counts....

The doll with the crocheted dress was made by my grandma. My one also, but I didn't get pictures of it, so I'll have to post those when I get them taken. All in all she had a good birthday.

Today was a busy day for us, Nathan had his eye appointment today, which went way better than I expected. I took him in because of a clogged tear duct that had been bothering him since he was about 3 weeks old. But, thankfully it seems to have cleared on it's own, so they didn't have to do anything for that. They said it should stay clear, but should it clog up again, they said to bring him back and they would reevaluate it then. They did do a complete eye exam on him, including dilating his pupils, so he is still not seeing quite right now.

I had to take Zack in for a blood draw yesterday, because the last 2 times they checked his iron level with a finger stick test, it was low, so they wanted a full blood count to check and make sure he wasn't anemic. The doc called me back on that today and said everything was normal on his regular blood test, so that's plus.

That's all that's gone on in our world today, it was a busy one, but I got allot done. Nathan is about ready for bed, so I'm off. Have a good night!

Hugs,

Michele

Does it ever stop?

2008-10-27T20:36:00.003-06:00

And off we go with round 3....

Had to take Nathan back to the doc again today, because he started getting really fussy Saturday, and last night was a very long night. He was also pulling at his ears....again. So off we went, and he has another double ear infection. He just finished his antibiotics from the one we went in for on the 16th, so evidently they didn't do any good. The good news is he isn't running a temp, but the bad news is that he was up fussing about every 45min starting at about 1am. So needless to say, at this point I'm running on empty.

I feel like such a bad mom, I have all the pictures from Bri's birthday party on my computer, but haven't gotten a chance to fix them so I can upload them here. Hopefully I'll get that done tomorrow evening. Nathan has his eye appointment in the morning to have his tear duct checked, so hopefully all goes well there. He (of course) hasn't had any problems with it since I made the appointment, but I guess I'll have it checked anyway, because with the way my luck runs, I cancel it and his eye will get all goopy again.

I did get a few layouts done that I would like to share. They're made from scanned pictures that are my grandma's taken in the 1940's.

This first one is the pictures taken when my grandparents graduated from high school. Both the kit and template I used are made by Renae, it's her template #38, and the ribbons and papers (which I recolored to match the pictures) are from her kit Nature's Gift.

This one from pictures that were taken just before my uncle left to fight in WWII, so year is approximate, my grandma couldn't remember exactly what year it was. The kit and template I used for this one are both from Renae also. It's her template #42, and the mats and papers are from her kit The Humid South.

I'm in the middle of working on a LO for Brianna's birthday, I'm using templates from 3s_enough over at Midnight Scrapping. I hope to have it done sometime tomorrow and post it along with the birthday pictures I've promised. For now though, I think I'm off to bed while Nathan is still sleeping comfortably. If tonight is anything like the last few, he'll sleep good till about midnight or 1am, then it's in fits until about 4. Have a good evening!

Hugs,

Michele

Here we go again....

2008-10-16T21:20:00.009-06:00

Well we were starting to get better. Brianna's ear infection has cleared up, Zack is walking allot better, hardly a limp at all. Nathan on the other hand.... He started getting fussy yesterday afternoon, when he woke up from his nap about 4pm, dad went to pick him up (I was headed out the door for Dustin's parent-teacher-student conference), and he had thrown up all over his bed. Some how he managed to only get it on his arms, none on his clothes. He threw up again when I was feeding him his dinner, and then as he was drinking his bottle around 8pm, he lost about 6oz of the 7oz he just ate. He felt really warm, and this afternoon (hasn't thrown up again thankfully) his temp was up to 101.4, and he's been tugging on his ear since yesterday. So off to the doctors office (again), the nurses stop me in the hall to ask about the other kids, if that gives you any idea how often we've been there in the last month. His temp had only gone down a degree from when I gave him some Tylenol 1 1/2hrs before going in. The doc checked his ears, and sure enough, his right ear drum was red and bulging (as the doc put it) again. This is his 2nd ear infection in the last month, and we're barely into cold season. I'm really hoping that this round of antibiotics clears every thing up, and it doesn't come back.

On a brighter note, Brianna has been estactic all day long, because she finally has a loose tooth! She's wiggled the darn thing so much today, that she was saying it hurt a little bit ago. I finally told her to leave it alone, and it would stop hurting. Now we just have to play to waiting game for it to come out.

I finally got a LO of Zack's birthday scrapped...it's only taken me 6months...lol

The template I used is from JustRenae, it's her template 56, the paper I made using a paint stroke overlay by Deb over at The Scrappin' Cop.

This one is one I made of Nathan, he was just hanging out while the bigger kids played at the park...

The template I used for this one is from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's her LS template #087. The paper I made using another one of Deb's overlays, you can find that one here.

There is no school tomorrow, so counting to 2 kiddos I babysit, I will have 6 children in my house tomorrow until my mom comes to get 3 of my 4 for the day. So I think I'm going to head off to bed, so I can try and be half way awake and coherent when the 2 get dropped off dark and early at 6:15am. Have a wonderful night!

Hugs,

Michele

Today is....

2008-10-13T11:12:00.005-06:00

Miss Bri's Birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my princess! She's been waiting for today for the last week, everyday she's asked is it my birthday yet? Since her birthday is on a Monday, we won't be having her party till this weekend, but she seems ok with that. I wanted to share the LO I made from her newborn pictures with you. Bri was born 5 1/2 weeks early, but weighed just over 7lbs, they told me if she's have went to term, she would have been close to 10lbs!! Even for as big as she was, she had the typical problems of any preemie...was put on oxygen within a hour of birth, trouble coordinating her breathing while eating, and various other things. She spent a week in the nursery because she couldn't maintain her blood sugar (it was only 13 when she was born), kept forgetting to breathe, and had a bad case of jaundice. I had her home a week, and while going from my mom's to my grandma's, she stopped breathing completely, so she got her first ambulance ride (I should say rides) to our local ER, then when they were going to send her home with just an apnea monitor, she stopped breathing again and was sent to Children's hospital for a week. She had a virus similar to croup. Thankfully she's grown into a very healthy little girl.

But here is my LO:

The template is JustRenae's template 8 and word art by JustRenae ; Paper from Baby Elizabeth by Meryl Bartho at DSP; Font A Yummy Apology.

Nathan is ready for a nap, so I'm off for now.

Have good day,

hugs,

Michele

Oh what a day...

2008-10-07T11:53:00.002-06:00

It's only noon, and we've already had a weeks worth of drama...lol.

Nathan and Brianna had a doctors appointment at 9am this morning. Nathan for his 9month check up and Bri, who escaped the strep Zack had, did end up with an ear infection. Nathan is doing great, ears are all cleared up, he weighs a whopping 22lbs 4oz and is 28 3/4in long/tall. He's had a blocked tear duct since he was about 3 weeks old, and today they referred him to an eye doctor to see what they want to do about it. His appointment for that is in 3weeks.

Now to the drama part of my morning...... Zack was being a boy, kept putting a penny in his mouth, told him to get it out before he swallowed it (can you tell where this is going?). So he takes the penny out, and is carrying it around in his hand. I'm trying to get things together to take Bri and Nathan to their appt. And here comes Zack crying "I swallowed penny mom, swallowed penny". Luckily, it didn't get stuck, and he was breathing ok, so off to the ER we went, to make sure it was going down like it should. So a hour and one x-ray later, he gets the all clear from the doc, the x-ray showed that it was in his stomach already, and not to worry unless he started having stomach pain and/or vomiting, which would mean it was stuck somewhere in his stomach or intestines. So barring that happening, he should pass it in the 3-5 days.

I'm sincerely hoping that the remainder of my day is a quiet one! Have a nice day!
Hugs,
Michele

Today

2008-10-03T12:07:00.003-06:00

My little Nathan is 9 months old!! I can't believe how fast time has gone by! He's crawling and pulling himself up on everything, and we have recently discovered that he LOVES graham crackers and club crackers. He is also trying to drink from a "big" cup. Whenever Zack leaves his where Nathan can reach it, Nathan grabs it and has a taste of whatever is in it. I put together this LO of Nathan this morning:

The template I used is courtesy of Just Renae, it's her Template #46. The paper I made using an overlay by Gunhild Storeide and Gloria at Moo Too Designs.

I'm off to finish getting my grocery list together so I can go brave the Friday crowd at Wal-mart. Need to get my grocery shopping done, go birthday present hunting for the birthday party we are going to this weekend. Happy belated birthday wishes to you Ryan!!

Have a good day and a great weekend, if I don't get back to post this weekend.

Hugs,

Michele

I'm on a roll...

2008-10-01T22:45:00.005-06:00

I was bit by the scrappin' bug this evening, and sat down and made 2 pages this evening!

This first one is of Nathan and big brother Dustin. I don't often get pictures of Dustin, because he always seems to be somewhere other than where I am with the camera. He was trying to help cheer Nathan up during one of his bad moments with his teeth a few weeks ago, by giving him a shoulder ride. Poor little dude was so tired that all he would do when Dustin tickled his feet was smile and usually he laughs this big belly laugh...

The template is by 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's Landscape (LS) Template #8; the word art is from Kim over at Kim's Scrappin'; and the papers are by ME ;o) (I'll get the hang of this designing thing yet...lol).

And next I FINALLY got a few of the pictures scrapped of Bri's first day of school. She's only been in school almost a month and a half.....(told you I was slackin' on getting my LO's put together)

Both the template and papers & elements are from Renae. The template is her Template #26; and the Kit I used is her My Precious Zoey.

I don't have much news today, everyone is still on the mend. Nathan almost has his 4th tooth in, you can just see the corner of it poking through on the bottom. And you can also see the little bumps of all the teeth that are just waiting to break through.

I think I'm going to head to bed, have a good night!

Hugs,

Michele

A better day today...

2008-09-30T21:10:00.003-06:00

We're all finally on the road to wellness...YAY! Zack and Brianna still have a cough, but neither are running fevers, so I think they're over the worst of it. Nathan is starting to eat baby food again (hasn't eaten more that a few bites in almost 2 weeks), he ate a jar and a half of pears for dinner, so I think he's feeling a lot better too. I've gotten lucky and the 2 kids that I babysit haven't gotten sick so far, so I think maybe it's on the way out of my house.

I took Zack back into the doctor yesterday because he was still limping from falling off the bunk bed, and they decided to send him down for an x-ray, just to check things out. Finally got a call back about them around 5:30pm, and he got the all clear on that. So the doc is going with a bone and/or muscle bruise. Said to give them a call if he's not better in 2 weeks. I am sooo hoping he's better before then. It hard to watch him try to run after the big kids, but can't because it hurts. He's been a trooper about it though, he hasn't complained that it hurts, but you can see when he walks that it doesn't feel all that great.

I forgot to mention this the other day, but I am now the proud Aunt to beautiful twin girls, Lily and Ivy. My brother and his girlfriend welcomed them into the world last week. They were scheduled for a c-section on Oct. 2nd, but decided they didn't want to wait that long. Both were healthy, one 5lbs 3oz and the other 5lbs 13oz, both just over 17in long. Mom and babies are doing great, they were supposed to come home last Thursday (yes, I'm a bad sister and haven't called to check on them). That gives me a total of 4 beautiful nieces, and 2 handsome nephews. I'm hoping to get up there in the next few weeks to visit, and of course take lots of pictures!

Think I'm going to go play with my PaintShop and see if I can get some scrapping done, have a wonderful night!
Hugs,
Michele

An update on Nathan...

2008-09-28T15:11:00.002-06:00

Well, I got poor Nathan into the doc yesterday morning. The good news is that it probably isn't strep, the bad news was that the drainage from his upper respiratory infection gave him a double ear infection. I'm hoping that the anti-biotics they gave him will also help clear up what every is causing the respiratory infection.

Zack is starting to get better, but now Brianna is coughing and says she has a sore throat. I guess if she is still hurting tomorrow, I'll call the doc for her. Their doc is going to be sooo tired of seeing me by the time my kids are done being sick.

Hope everyone has good rest of the weekend, the Broncos lost to 0-3 Kansas City today, so that was a bummer of a game....Oh well, there's always next week!

Hugs,
Michele

My poor little guys...

2008-09-26T22:01:00.007-06:00

Zack and Nathan have been sick ALL week. Nathan was first, he finally got his 3rd tooth in over the weekend, but on Sunday started coughing so I took him in to see the doc on Monday. They said he had an upper respiratory infection, probably viral, but not much they could do. Poor little guy has been miserable all week, it gets really bad about 3am, when he kind of wakes up and starts fussing, but isn't really awake. Then this evening when he woke up from a 3hr nap (that was the first clue) and was really hot, so I took his temp and it had spiked to 102.2, gave him some Tylenol, checked it again an hour later, only dropped to 101.9. So I called the on-call number for my ped's office, and when they finally called back, told me to just watch him and give the office a call in the morning to see if they wanted to do a throat culture.

The throat culture was suggested because when Zack woke up Wednesday morning he had a temp of 102.3, so off to the doc we went, and after checking his ears and such, they did a throat culture on him, and it came back positive for strep. Zack has just had a bad week, Tuesday evening, he was climbing on Dustins bunk bed, and fell off the top of it, and landed on his hip. So I had the doc check that out while we were there, because Zack was limping on his right side. They said that he probably just had a bone bruise and possibly a muscle bruise, but if he was still limping on Monday to let them know and they would have me take him in for an x-ray. They said that if he did have a hairline fracture it wouldn't show up till then.

Brianna has also had a sore throat and slight cough, but hasn't run a temp with it, so hopefully she'll miss out on it. Dustin hasn't had anything, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way.

In the midst of all this chaos I call home this week, I do have a layout to share with you:
This one is of my boys. The template is from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping, it's Template #59. The papers are from Dirty Grunge Rock Star by Lori at Scripity Scrap.

It was one of the 4 pages I managed to finish last weekend. I wanted to try and get some more done this weekend, but with all my kiddos being sick, I haven't gotten that far. Bri and Dustin are at my mom's and Zack and Nathan are resting comfortably (for now, keep your fingers crossed that they have a better night), so I may get something scrapped yet.

Have a good night!

Hugs,

Michele

Only one thing to say this morning.... ;o)

2008-09-22T00:03:00.004-06:00

GO BRONCO'S!!!! LOL. Sunday football is sooo much fun at my house, especially when my hubby and I are rooting for different teams...

In honor of the Bronco's win over New Orleans, I made two LO's with 3s_enough at Midnight Scrappings' Bronco's fan kit....

The first if of Zachary when he was about 9 months old...

And this one if of Nathan, the pictures were taken in July, so he was about 6 months old....

Both of the templates by 3s_enough also.

I am pretty proud of myself... After not getting anything scrapped for almost 3 weeks, I sat down and did 4 pages this weekend. 'Course I still have an unknown amount to do still, a little progress is better than nothing....lol.

I hope everyone has a great day, I better get to bed, so I can get up for my daycare kids since it's Monday already...where did the weekend go? I'll try (keep your fingers crossed) to post tomorrow(well I guess it's officially "today" now) with some more LO's and how our weekend went.

Hugs,

Michele

What a day

2008-09-15T21:59:00.003-06:00

it's been today. Nathan finally got the top tooth in that was bothering him, just to turn around in the last day or two and start working on some more. Two more teeth to be exact, I thought one was hard on him, these two are a killer.

His day went like this... He woke up about 6:30am, normal for him. And proceeded to stay awake until almost 12:30 and then only slept for about 20min, this is not like him. Normally he'll go down about 10:30 or 11 and sleep for almost an hour. He fought taking another nap all afternoon, finally gave in about 4:45, and woke up (thanks to his brother and sister) about 20min later. He finally gave in to bed about 8:30 which is almost 1 1/2 later than he usually goes to bed. The last few nights have been tough too, his teeth are bothering him so much that he'll only eat a few bites of baby food before he starts fussing and spitting it out, so he's only been sleeping 3-4 hours at a stretch at night, normal is 5-6. Think I'll be headed to the store tomorrow to see if I can find some of the Hyland's teething tablets, they worked well with the other kids, hopefully they'll work with Nathan too.

Zack, Bri and Dustin have all been doing well. Dustin brought home his first progress report a week ago Friday, and had A's in 4 out of his 6 subjects. The other 2 weren't that great, but he'd turned in what was missing in those 2 classes just before the reports were printed, so we won't know what those have been brought up to until this Friday. Brianna got her first taste of homework today. She brought it home Friday, but spent the weekend with my mom, so we didn't get to work on it till tonight. She brings the folder home on Friday, and we have until Wednesday to send it back. Zack is being his normal rambunctious self. He's walking with a slight limp at the moment because he some how managed to run the arch of his foot over with Dustins' desk chair, and cut the arch of his foot. Leave it to a 3yo to manage that....

I think that's all the news going on here at the moment, I hope to get back to posting more regularly soon. Still trying to get into a routine since I started back to watching my friends 2 kids.
Zack is telling me he's ready for bed, so good night all!
Hugs,
Michele

Another Word art....

2008-09-15T15:00:00.003-06:00

Good Afternoon!! I only have a few minutes before I head out to get Bri off the bus, but wanted to put this up before I forget...

I'm still playing with the papers on the new mini-kit I've been putting together, it's called Brianna's Butterflies. I was a little burned out on that, so I started playing with this word art....

I started with just the square one, but wasn't sure I liked it, so came up with the oval one too. I zipped them both together in one file, you download them here.
I hope you like them, and can use them!

Have a good day!
Hugs,
Michele

Nathan news, and I made a word art.....

2008-09-10T19:06:00.007-06:00

Nathan got his second tooth in!! Finally....LOL. He's been struggling with this one for about 2 weeks now, and it finally broke through a few days ago. Now you're really in trouble if he manages to get your fingers in his mouth.

I've really been struggling with the new kit I've been trying to get done. Every time I think I'm done, I decide I don't like this or that, I think I've changed how the papers look like 5 times now...lol. I think my problem is, that since I'm still learning how to make the kits, I have to rely on several different designers CU friendly products, and get frustrated with my lack of knowledge and experience. I know it will come with time and practice, but patience has never been one of my strong points....

I did get the word art made that I've been playing around with for the last few days. Anyone with small children, will probably agree with this......
My Zack and Dustin definitely fall into this category. If you can use this, you can download it here.
The fonts I used are Hurry Up and Austrailian Sunrise (although I modified it a bit to make it come out the way I wanted).
Let me know what you think of it, your comments about my work is always greatly appreciated, good or bad....

Have a wonderful evening, I think I'm off for the night. Hopefully I'll get motivated to get some pages done one evening soon. I'm still trying to find all the credits for the pages I have done in the past, so I have sooo many that I don't yet want to post because I can't give proper credit.

Hope everyone has a great night!!
Hugs,
Michele

Look what Nathan can do....

2008-09-05T08:18:00.004-06:00

He's learned in the last few weeks how to pull himself up to stand with things. He is getting sooo big! I can't believe he's 8months old already, where has the time gone?!? Now if he can just get the hang of getting back down when he stands up...lol. He still has a tendency to fall down instead of leaning over and reach for the floor with one hand. He's slowly starting to walk along the things he pulls himself up on, so I think he'll be walking before too long. Still waiting on the tooth though.

My mom and I took Bri in for a haircut yesterday. She said she wanted it short, so this is what she came out with:

It's a pretty cute haircut, and it doesn't knot nearly as bad as it did long, so that's nice when it's time to brush out after her shower.

That's all that's going on here at the moment, I'm wishing I could crawl back in bed. It's grey and cloudy outside, only supposed to be in the low 60's today, so it would be good napping weather. But that isn't going to happen, so guess I'll try and get motivated to finish up the laundry, and maybe get the new kit I've been working on for the last week and a half finished. I have 5 papers done for it, but am stuck on the elements.

Hope everyone has a great day!!

Hugs,

Michele

Hi all!!

2008-09-02T20:47:00.002-06:00

I finally got rid of the cruddy, run down feeling that accompanied whatever it was I had, now I just need to get rid of all the crude that has settled in my chest, will the fun ever stop?

Bri is still loving school, they have picture day tomorrow, and just sent the order form home today. How's that for communication? Would have be nice if it had come home, oh say last week sometime!!!! Oh well, atleast we didn't miss it.

Nathan is slowly but surely getting another tooth, sure wish it would come in soon. Luckily this one doesn't seem to be bothering him as bad as the first one did. He does like his frozen teething toys though.

Don't have too much else going on around here. Starting to get cooler during the night, but the days are pretty nice. It was like switch was flipped with September rolling in. It was in the 80's here on sunday, then only in the 70's today and for the rest of the week.

Since I haven't shared any LO's lately, I have 4 for you today, one of each of my kiddo's that I made for my mom to hang in her locker at work:

All of the templates that I used below are from 3s_enough at Midnight Scrapping. I'll put the names of the templates I used below each LO, but I'm putting the link to her blog here.

This one is LandScape Template (LS) #2; Papers and ribbon are from Jamie Rousselle's Nature Boy and the word art/label tape is from Joshies Pocket by Becky Soto, both can be found at DSP.

This is Panoramic Template #1; Papers and ribbons from With Love by Julia P. Word Art is by Brooklyn

Template is LS Template #3 ( The original template only has 2 frames, I added one...); Papers & ribbons from Moody Blues by Shabby Princess. Word Art is by http://dranet.blogspot.com

This one is Template #35; Papers & word art from Laura's Lullaby by Kelly Meaux and Jamie Rousselle at DSP.

Again all templates are from Midnight Scrapping, and you can find the link to her blog above.

It's time to go try and get my last resister into bed and asleep, have a good night!

Hugs,

Michele

I promised pictures...

2008-08-30T19:34:00.004-06:00

from our weekend camping, and am just now getting them posted. I'm such a bad blogger.... I'm finally almost over my head cold or whatever it was I brought home with me, now it's just lingering allergies.

I didn't get to many "camp" pictures, but I did get some pictures of the kids playing along the beach of the lake we went too....

Brianna has been having great fun at school. She looks forward to going each morning, the first thing she asks when she wakes up is if it's time to go wait for her bus yet...lol. They're already selling things, she brought home an order form for frozen cookie dough, and discount cards for McDonald's, Subway, and Black Jack pizza. I'm sure Dustin will be bringing something home soon for him to sell. His teacher said at back to school night that they would be doing various fundraiser through the year to help with the cost of the outdoor ed trip they will be going on in the spring.

Hope everyone had a great week!! Incase you missed it, my wonderfully talented friend Renae gave out the last two links to her wonderful new kit "Nature's Gift" today,

it's a beautiful kit, and you can get it here. Not only does she make templates, but she does such beautiful kits!!!

Have great evening everyone!!

Hugs,

Michele

Hi everyone!

2008-08-27T11:40:00.002-06:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. We went camping last weekend, and I came home with a head cold, so I've been fighting that for the last few days. Yesterday was the worst, and today I feel a little better.
The kids had fun over the weekend, so that's what counts. I'll try and get back later today or this evening and post some pictures.
Have a great day!
Hugs,
Michele

My little girl started school yesterday...

2008-08-22T08:04:00.004-06:00

Hi all!

We had such a busy day yesterday! Brianna had her first day of school and she was soooo excited to start! I took her yesterday so I could get some pictures.

She can't wait to go back today. Zack seemed to do ok with her being gone. Although when I got back to the car without her, he kept asking where she was. Hopefully she'll have as good of a day today.

That's all I have for today, I'm starting to work on a new kit, but haven't gotten much done. Hopefully I'll get some time to get it done soon. Hope everyone has a great day!!!

Hugs

Michele

I'm sooo Sorry Deb!!

2008-08-20T07:16:00.003-06:00

For putting the wrong name on when I credited you for the overlay I used to make my papers.

To clear things up..... When I posted on Aug 11 about My first papers, I put Lori instead of Deb. Deb is the talented lady behind The Scrappin' Cop. I'm so sorry for that, I guess that's what I get for trying to post while my kids are still up and trying to talk to me.

I'll hopefully be back later to post more.....

Hugs,
Michele

Hi everyone, I finally finished my new kit!

2008-08-19T22:04:00.010-06:00

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. I've been trying to get my new mini-kit finished. I was a little stumped on what to put in it, so it too me a lot longer to put this one together than it did my last one.

Bri only has 1 more day until she starts kindergarten, and she is soooo excited. We met her teacher briefly last Friday, and tomorrow is her back to school night (why they call it night when it starts at 2pm is beyond me.) and she's looking forward to seeing her teacher again. Every one she sees, she tells them that her teachers' name is Miss Twiss. I'll be taking lots of pictures on Thursday for her first day, so be prepared....lol

Like I mentioned, I finished my new mini-kit (as I get better, I hope to be able to put together bigger kits, but it may take me awhile). I'm not sure I like it as well as my first one, but here's the preview for Trouble:

Click on preview to download

And here's the two LO's I made of Zack in the t-shirt that inspired it...

The template I used is from Renae, it's Template 4. It actually has a lot more details such as flowers and borders, but they didn't look right with my little trouble maker. The word art is from Elegant Word Art by Bethany, you can find this word art here. The papers are by me.

This one is a scattering of 2 of the papers and some elements from my kit.

I hope you can find some use for my new kit for the trouble makers in your life!

Hope you all have a great night!

Hugs,

Michele

The view out my window

2008-08-17T09:44:00.005-06:00

yesterday and the day before, looked like this:

and that was at 9:30 in the morning!! Luckily the rain is moving out today and I actually see the sun this morning.

My LO for today is of Brianna's first 5yrs:

Credits for this go to Marlene at Sindiego's Scraps for her papers from her SweetHeart kit. The template is another of Renae's great templates, it's her Template 23. Renae also has a new kit that she's giving, it's in several parts, but here is the link to the first paper pack of Mimi's House.

Thank you to those who have downloaded my first kit, I hope you like it!!

I don't have much going today, so I'm going to see if I can get the mini-kit I started the other day finished. Hope everyone has at great day!!

Hugs

Michele

My first Mini-Kit...

2008-08-16T11:56:00.007-06:00

I finally am feeling brave enough to share this! I finished it the other day, and did the last fixing last night. It's my first mini-kit, called Little Brown Puppy. I made based on a shirt my grandson had on in a picture, and I didn't have anything in my "stash" that I wanted to use with it, so I made my own....

Here's a preview:

(drop shadow for the preview only)

Click on Preview to download

This has 4 papers, 3 frames, and 6 elements. I hope you can find a use for it! Please let me know what you think of it.

Thank you to Renae for encouraging me to make this!!!

I'll be back to post more later...

Hugs,

Michele

Such a gloomy day today....

2008-08-15T20:44:00.006-06:00

weather wise atleast. It was beautiful shorts weather yesterday, highs in the upper 70's low 80's. And today I woke up to drizzle and grey, overcast skies. Didn't see the sun at all today, I was going to take a picture, but it was too depressing...lol.

Today was only the 2nd day of school, and Dustin missed the bus.... Well technically it was my fault he missed the bus. I was writing a note for him to take to the nurse, and he got outside and downstairs just as the bus pulled away. Guess I need to work on being more on the ball in the mornings, especially since starting Monday his bus will get here at 7:30 instead of 7:45, that 15 min can make or break me in the mornings. And since I'm a walking zombie until I get my first cup of coffee down, mornings kill me.

Bri had her Kindergarden assesment today. The teacher that did said she did pretty good. She can write Bri without seeing her name, but she still needs to see Brianna to write the whole thing. She counted well, and was able to recognize most of her upper case letters. What happened to the time when that's what you learned in kindergarden, not what they wanted you to already know going in? We also met her teacher, who seems like a very nice person. Bri is sooo excited, that she can hardly wait for next thursday.

In honor of Bri's excitement for the day and the dreary outside, I'll share some pool LO's that I've done of Bri and Nathan.....

Credits for "Making A Splash" go to DSP for the word art; and 3's_enough at Midnight Scrapping for both her Template #51 and her kit Pale Spring.

Credits for "Taking the Plunge" word art again goes to the designers at DSP (I can't find my file that tells me which designer, SORRY!!); the background paper is from Cool in the Pool by Jamie Heyl, also at DSP; and the template is Genie's Template #9 which she made for Sindiego's Scraps.

And this one of Nathan I made from the the Cool in the Pool Kit by Jamie Heyl (see above for link); and the word art is from also from the designers at DSP. I extracted Nathan on his tube from the original picture, because the pool water was cloudy that day, and this looked sooo much better!

Well I'm off, the big kids are at grandma's tonight, so I think I'm going to either go stick my nose in a book or maybe do some scrapping if I get motivated enough.

Hugs,

Michele

Oh what a day

2008-08-14T18:07:00.005-06:00

the last 2 days have been!! I didn't post yesterday because I'd spent most of the day trying to get school supply shopping finished, because today was Dustin's first day!!

We spent a good hour or so in Walmart walking up and down the aisles looking for things on the list. Managed to find everything but 2 or three items, which I finally tracked down at the Office Depot. Then we had Back to School night at Dustin's school. He has 3 teachers this year, so he changes class rooms a few times a day, but that will help prepare him for middle school next year. His home room teacher seems really nice, and hopefully will be a little better at letting us know when his medicine isn't helping him keep his concentration in class than the one he had last year. He seemed to be in pretty good mood when he got home, so I'm guessing his day went pretty well.

Brianna's turn is next week, although she has entrance exams tomorrow. Why a kindergardener needs an entrance exam is beyond me. I did manage to get most of Bri's school supplies yesterday too, all I need is a box of ziploc sandwhich baggies and a package of safetypins..what the safety pins are for I have no idea.

Spent today doing yard work for my grandma. I did good today, I usually only manage to get the lawn mowed, but today I got both the front and back done, and even got all the weeds pulled out front. So needless to say, right now I pooped, and am ready for bed...lol

My LO for today is the one I made my mom for Mother's Day this year. I went through all the pictures I had and scanned the ones of us together. You can tell how often I'm not the one taking the pictures, the most recent one I have of she and I together was taken on Christmas in 2000....

Credits for this go to: Meryl Bartho at DSP for her Arty QC template; and Marlene at SinDiego's Scraps, the papers and elements are from her Daughter Kit. I unfortuantely cannot give the designer the credit they deserve for the word, it's one that I picked up somewhere and can't remember where, so if it is your's or you know who made it please leave me a comment and let me know, so I can give credit!

Hope everyone has a great evening!

Hugs

Michele

My first papers...

2008-08-11T20:13:00.007-06:00

I did it!! I made my first digital scrapbook papers the other night! I was quite proud of myself...lol

I've been meaning to put together a LO of Nathan and my handsome little grandson, Wesley. There's about 7 1/2 weeks between them, and it's been fun watching them grow. Here's the LO I made...

Thank you to Renae for her Template 14, it's great!!. I got the inspiration for the colors of the papers from Wesley's little undershirt. Thanks to Deb at The Scrappin' Cop for the overlays to help me make the papers.

Here's another LO I made with Renae's Template 14, it's of Miss Bri fishing with my dad. The papers are from Marlene over at Sindiego's Scraps made the papers, they're from her Gone Fishin' Kit.

I hope you like my lo's for today!

We didn't too too much today, getting into the back to school mode. Nathan is getting better at crawling everyday, he's starting to try and sit up by himself. He kind of leans to the side on his arm. He actually pulled himself up to stand the other day, but hasn't done it again. I'm off to finish getting the kids bedtime routine started, have a good night!

Hugs,

Michele

Waiting for the rain...

2008-08-10T15:31:00.005-06:00

The weather person on the news promised rain today, and so far all we've gotten are clouds. It was supposed to rain yesterday too, and I think it did everywhere but here...lol It rained so hard in Denver, that they had to get water rescue out to save some people that got trapped under a bridge on a bike path where they'd stopped to wait out the rain.

It stayed nice enough here to take the kids swimming before the clouds rolled in (that was the closest we got to rain yesterday). Bri has taught herself to swim under water, and makes it a little farther every dive. She was so proud of herself yesterday, every time she came up for air she would ask if she did better than the time before. Zack is also getting quite brave, he's now jumping off the top step into to the pool. At first he would only do it when he had Nathan's boat, but yesterday he was doing it with just the innertube. I did take my camera, but unfortunately the batteries died just before Zack started jumping :o(. I did get a few pictures though...

Here's Bri during one of her swims:

Zack and Nathan:

And Bri Jumping in:

I got this one of Nathan this morning, think he might be a drummer when he grows up the way he beats on this table:

Here's Zack and Bri, they love playing dad's train game...

I don't have any LO's today, I need to sit down and finishing writing down the credits for them, I don't want to post any without being able to give the talented people who put so much hard work in their digital papers, elements and templates their due.

I'm off to fix dinner before the natives get restless...lol

Hugs,

Michele

Only 5 more days

2008-08-08T13:00:00.006-06:00

till Dustin goes back to school! He went in for his physical at the ungodly hour of 9:30 this morning. All is going well, the doc changed his ADHD medicine, but that's about it. After that we went to the grocery store, which was not fun. The last friday before most all of the kids go back to school and the place was packed!!! But at least it over and done with for another week, with the price of things, I have grocery shopping anymore.
That's about all we've done today, don't have much going today. The humidity is up and the barometer is dropping, so my head is killing me today. Darn sinuses anyway...lol

The LO I have today is of Zack. After a hard day playing he crashed on dad's lap...

Credits go to 3's_enough at Midnight Scrapping for her LandScape Template #3, and to Star Scraps for her Planes, Trains and Automobiles kit.

This one is of Nathan.....

The template is from JustRenae, it's her Template 15. The papers and buttons are from Jayden's Mamas' contribution to the HUGE collab kit Backyard Playground. There are over 40 designers that contribute to this kit, to many to list, but if you click on the link for Jayden's Mama, she has a list there of all the links to get this kit.

Hope everyone has a great day, I'm going to stop before blogger goes down for maintenance.

Hugs,

Michele

When it rains,

2008-08-06T22:46:00.003-06:00

it pours, but we need the rain so bad that I'm not going to complain! It's been raining here since about 5:30pm, and hasn't really stopped. When it first came through, it was raining so hard and fast that we had rivers running through the parking lot here. I'm sitting here listening to the rain and enjoy some quiet time, baby is asleep and big kids went to grandmas for the night. I'm trying to get motivated enough to try and catch up on my scrapbook pages. The last page I did for Dustin was for his birthday, and that was in Feb, so you can see how far behind I am...lol. Nathan is going to be as big of a camera ham as is brothers and sister. Here he is playing with his new favorite toy...my poor vertical blinds...

This one, I just love his expression, I caught him in the middle of saying "mum, mum, mum"

And watching the rain....

I'm off now, think I might be motivated enough to scrap a bit, well these pictures atleast....LOL

Have good night,

Hugs

Michele

My 5 min

2008-08-05T09:00:00.004-06:00

of quiet starts now....lol. I 9am, I've been up since about 6:30am with Nathan, and he just went down for a nap. Bri, Zack and daddy are all still alseep, and Dustin stayed at a friends house last night, so I'm gonna enjoy a little bit of quiet. Zack fell asleep about 7:30 last night, which isn't a bad time for him, but he kind of woke up about 9:30 and then Bri came out of her room and woke him up completely, so then he was up till almost 1am. I got him to go lay down with me about 12:30, so he was out by 1. Nathan of course was up about 3 to eat, then again about 6:30, so needless to say, I didn't get much sleep last night. So you'll have to excuse my ramblings this morning, I'm still working on my first cup of coffee, and the caffiene hasn't quite kicked in yet.

I have one LO now, may be back later tonight with another, not sure, today is lawn mowing day at my grandma's so I'll have to see how wore out I am... Atleast on the plus side it's only supposed to be in the mid 80's today.

But I digress, here's my LO:

Yes the colors are a little loud, but I didn't have any papers that would look good with the orange in Zack's shirt, so I used the orange and blue from his shirt. The Template is another great one from JustRenae, it's her Template 7, it was with one of the layers in her template that I was able to get the crumpled effect on the blue and green.

Well, I'm off for my day of mowing, need to finish getting Nathan's stuff together, and work on waking up the kids. Guess that will be the end of my 5 min...lol Have a wonderful day!

Hugs

Michele

I missed yesterday

2008-08-04T16:30:00.004-06:00

because I usually sit down and post after Nathan goes to bed, but last night I ended up spending that time fixing my rocking chair. I have one of those glider rocking chairs that I got when Zack was about 10 months old. I'd gotten it after we rocked the one I had picked up at the Salvation Army to death. I would rock Zack to sleep for naps and bed time, and then after Nathan got here, I do the same for him. So needless to say, my rocker was well worn...lol. I had actually had to fix it a few months ago when on of the glider bearing broke, so I took the footstool apart and used the pieces from it to fix it. Well I had another one break yesterday morning, and after having a hard time getting Nathan down for his afternoon nap, I sat down last night and fixed it. And by the time my "help" (and I use the term loosely) and I finished, I wasn't up to posting...lol. Trying to get anything done with a 3yr old and a 5yr old trying to help is nearly impossible, and more help than I really wanted ;o)

My LO today is using Renae's new kit, Bold Summer. I love the colors in it. The Template is hers also, it's Template 18.

Renae has also just release a new kit, called The Humid South, that is just beautiful.

Hope everyone has a great day, it's a little humid today, hopefully we'll get some rain!

Hugs,

Michele

Not much going today,

2008-08-02T21:28:00.007-06:00

So I really don't have all that much to write about. Dustin and Bri had a great time at the tractor pulls with grandma and grandpa last night. I guess there were only 2 actual "tractors" in the event, everything thing else was some sort of truck.

It was another hot day today, but not quite as hot as yesterday, only 103 as opposed to 104...lol. We did go swimming today though. We waited until later in the afternoon to go, and of course it was sunny all day to and no sooner did we get to the pool then it started getting cloudy, go figure. Here's a Zack doing his version of a cannon ball...

Zack, Bri and Nathan....

Nathan and someone that you don't see in pictures very often (me....LOL)

and Dustin floating on the inflatible gun he won at the fair last night

My LO tonight is of Nathan and my lovely niece Jadyn. Jadyn is about 2months older than Nathan. The pictures were taken at the Father's day BBQ we had for my dad. They would sit in walkers pushed up to each and screech and babble back and forth at each, with a few odd looks through in too.

The template is from Midnight Scrapping, it's Template #93. The paper and ribbon colors are from Miss Mints Wild Weekend. I'm not sure where I picked up the word art, if anyone has seen it or if it belongs to you, please leave me a comment, so I can give you credit!!

Hope everyone has a good night!!

Hugs,

Michele

104 degrees

2008-08-01T21:02:00.005-06:00

Is HOT!! That was the official high recorded in at DIA today. You know it hot when the kids don't even ask to swimming...lol It's now just after 9pm and still in the 80's.

Dustin and Bri are having a fun evening, grandma took them to the Tractor Pull that going on at the local fair. It's their payment for 2 weeks of yard work. Zack unfortunately didn't get to go, grandma thought it may too loud for him, that and we weren't sure if he would sit still through it all.

I don't have too much to talk about today, as we didn't do much because of the heat. But I have a few layouts for you...

This first one is of Zack's first home haircut with the clippers. He was asking for a haircut, he would hold a piece of hair up and say "I need haircut dad", here is part of the process with a picture of what his hair looked like before and how short it was when all was finished:

Credits go to: Lauren Bavin at DSP for the paper and mat, they're from her Family Kit; Midnight Scrapping for her Landscape Template #5; the font is planet benson 2 for the title and ariel for the date.

The next one is of Nathan as he was working on his crawling skills, he's still working on them now, but has gotten a lot quicker over the last few weeks:

The papers and alpha are from Animal Friends by Josie Stewart at Digital Kits; the font I used on the rest is Comic sans. The template is another great work by JustRenae, it's her Template 18.

Well I'm off for the evening, hope everyone has a good night!!

Hugs,

Michele

I had a post...

2008-07-31T21:03:00.008-06:00

I sat here for the last 20 min or so typing out a post, telling about the heat, our afternoon at the pool yesterday, putting in my pictures, lay outs and credits, and I published it. Then I went in to change some spacing, saved it as a draft after I previewed it. And then dummy me, hit the delete button, and even after it asked if I was sure I wanted to delete it, I still clicked the button, and while I thought I was deleting my draft, I deleted the whole darn thing....DUH.

Here is the picture I had on there of Mr. Nathan splashing in his "boat". He loves the water so much, and in his efforts to reach it, almost tips his little boat over...lolMy LO's for today are of of Zack and Bri blowing bubbles on the deck a few weeks ago.

The template is by JustRenae, it's template 27 which you can get here. The papers are from Boy Collection by Amanda Rockwell, I'm not completely certain where I picked it up, it was one of the first kits I found when I started digiscrapping 3 years ago, so if anyone knows, please leave me a comment and let me know so I can add it on here. The font is bubble 1 which I picked up from TypeNow.

Now for Miss Bri's...

This is another one from JustRenae, it's Template 28. The papers are from a new mini-kit from Scripity Scrap Designs . I saw the colors in it and imediately thought of these pictures! The font is A yummy apology.

Now, I'm going to go and try to work on some new scrapbook pages. Have a good evening!

Hugs,

Michele

I was tagged...

2008-07-30T15:15:00.004-06:00

If I tagged you, and you came to see who I was before I got this posted I'm Sorry!!

I was tagged yesterday by Renae , now I need to find 7 blogs to tag next.

These are the rules:1. Link your tagger http://addictedtopictures.blogspot.com/ and list these rules on your blog.2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog enjoy!

Here are my 7 random facts:
1. I am a mom of 4, and step-mom of 2.
2. I'm step-grandma to a wonderful little boy.
3. I have 2 brothers, 2 step-sisters, and 2 step-brothers...although I only call one brother and one sister "step".
4. I have 2 nieces, 2 nephews, and soon will have twin nieces in October.
5. My favorite books are by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb, Kim Harrison, and recently Lisa Jackson.
6. My favorite ice cream is New York Cherry CheeseCake from Blue Bunny....YUM!!
7. My first dog was an Austrailian Shepard named Harley, that was the best dog ever.

Ok, now for mine... Some of these ladies probly get so much traffic on their site, that they may not do this, but they have some great stuff!!! (I'll add others if I can!)
http://midnightscrapping.blogspot.com/
http://elegantwordart2.blogspot.com/
http://starscraps.blogspot.com/

Off by a day...

2008-07-30T12:26:00.010-06:00

I have to edit what I said yesterday about the heat record...it's been so hot my brain is fried...lol Today is the day we tie the record with 18 days, and tomorrow we'll break it. And then friday we're supposed to be at 101. Thankfully, they got the pool fixed, was going to go swimming yesterday but someone vandalised (sp?) the heating and fitration system, again, so they just got that fixed last night.
There's not too much going on around here today, just too darn hot. The only thing I've managed to do is go to the grocery store. Do you have this problem with your Super Wal-mart? Ours is always busy, and today they had 5 of the 8 "express" lanes open and only like 4 regular lanes, and those all had atleast 3 people in line behind the person that was being check out. Somedays I spend more time standing in line there, than I do shopping!

I have 2 layouts today, the first is of Zachary;

Credits for this go to: StarScraps for the background papers, they're from her Planes, Trains & Automobiles kit. The template is another wonderful one by JustRenae, it's her Template 6.

I'm in the process of making layouts that show all birthdays up to now, I just need to get Dustin's done. The only problem with his will be whether or not I have one from each birthday because anything before his 9th B-day I have to scan.

The next is of Dustin from his 12th birthday:Credits for this go to Meryl Bartho for her Album on a Page 1_QC. The papers and elements are from Birthday Dude by Marcee J. Duggar. Both of the kit and template can be found at DSP.

Thank you Renae for being so supportive of my venture into blogging!! Renae has a wonderful blog with lots of great templates and she has started making kits also! Her first one "Bold Summer" is just beautiful, I can't wait to use it. You can see her blog here.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

Michele

First tooth...

2008-07-29T15:19:00.004-06:00

Yeah!! Nathan's first tooth FINALLY broke though today! Hopefully it stays through now, and the gums don't go back over it, keep your fingers crossed. He's been sooo grumpy the last few days. I knew his gums were swollen, and we've been trying to keep oragel on them, although he makes the worst faces when I put it on his gums. I can't believe he'll be 7 months already this week.

The hot weather we've had the last 2 weeks hasn't helped with the teething process any. We've been above 90 for 16 days counting today, the old record for consecutive 90 degree days was set back in 1901, 18 days... We'll looking to break that, the lowest high the weather people are calling for this week is like 94, and it's supposed to be around 100 on thursday, friday and saturday. Yuck!

In honor of Nathan's first tooth, I'll share a LO of him today:

Credits for this go to Renae at JustRenae for Template 32, you can get it here, aren't her templates wonderful? The paper and elements are From Funky Town by Jamie Rousselle at DSP, although when I last checked the store there a few months ago I couldn't find her kit any longer. The word art is from http://www.dranet.blogspot.com/.

Also today I finally got all the papers turned in for Brianna's kindergarden registration, she starts Aug. 21, they've already said she'll get an afternoon class which is a good thing. If she doesn't get atleast 12 hours of sleep, she has trouble functioning. If she had gotten a morning one, she would have had to go to bed at like 7pm. I have never seen a child so excited about the first day of school...lol. Dustin isn't really looking forward to it, because he'll be going to a different school for just this year, haven't quite figured out the district's purpose behind that yet, but I'm sure they have one somewhere. I think Zack and Nathan are going to be lost with both of them gone.

Off to go check how clean the bedrooms have gotten.....

Michele

Where to start....

2008-07-28T14:01:00.006-06:00

Hi all,

I've been thinking about doing this for awhile. I've been looking for an easier way to share the digital scrapbooking layouts that I make of my children and family, with my family and friends. Maybe this way it will be easier for friends and family to keep up with the ever changing world that is my children...lol

I have made so many layouts, that it's hard to decide where to start. This one is of lovely Brianna, putting up with the pictures taking that I seem to be forever doing. I never seem to go anywhere without my camera, especially if we go to the park. I think the one of off to the left is my new favorite picture of her :o)

The template that I used for this is from my wonderful friend Renae. It's Template 33, and you can find it here. The background paper and button are from It's All About Love collab freebie by Melothria at Digital Arts Cafe and you can get it here.

This probly isn't much of a first blog, but hopefully it will get better as I go.
Have a wonderful day!