THANK*YOU!!

thanks everyone for the well wishes for my bella*boo! i'm just ready for the 12th to get her so i can find out what comes next. boy do i hate to wait :) i'll keep ya updated.


oh

i wanted to share some other scrappiness that i have been working on lately. i don't know why, but i scrap in some major spurts. i'll scrap like crazy and then you won't see anything from me for weeks. totally annoying.

anyway

this is another mini (told ya i was hooked) that i did on sunday and believe it or not, it got me on the catwalk which is so cool.

i take a ton of pictures of nature related items. have no idea why since birds scare the shit outta me and its always so hot outside, but when something catches my eye, i've gotta snap it. so this is an album devoted to a few of my faves :)

























(excuse some of the wonky pics, but i scanned em and well transparency doesn't scan well :(

then this next lo i did for the design experiment. you were to do a lo on comfort and believe it or not, this is what comforts me. i know noel will totally agree with me on this ;) oh and a lot of the goodies i used on this page came from the picnic basket kit over at noel mignon.




can you believe how much i've been scrappin'?
oh and i've been cross stitchin' up a storm as well. i'll have to post pics of those too. nothing like the kiddos being in bed, jb on the tube, and doing a lil xstitching :)

{deep sigh}

heaven!

MY POOR BELLA*BOO

bella has always had sinus problems and lately her eye has been really gunked up and i blew it off as that. we had a slight change in our weather last week and everyone has been complaining of sinus problems. well monday when i got home for work, i noticed this pink skin hanging on her eyeball {insert gag and freak out on my part} after having the pediatrician paged, i explained to him what was going on and he advised that she needed to come in yesterday morning. so after running from one doctor to another doctor and then being referred to now a third doctor that only comes into town once a month, i found out that bella has a papalloma on her eye. and it has to be surgically removed.
{sniff sniff}

i won't know more until we see the lid specialist (umm hello...doctors specialize on the eye lid only???) on the 12th of next month.

poor lil thing. the only good thing about it is, that it doesn't hurt or bother her at all which is a saving grace for me.

has this happened to anyone else's kiddos???

my poor bella boo!

DESPITE....

...my mood today, i'm feeling quite creative.
and thanks to that creativity, i've been able to catch up on some challenges :)


category stories


syc


challenge over at studio calico


for the new challenge blog the story matters


and a lo just cause

now off to work on my next mini :)

MORE MINIS!

i am officially hooked on minis and spend most of my day daydreaming of all the different minis i wanna make.

so b/c of this, i have made two more in the past week!

the first one is for the current noel mignon challenge. can you believe that i really have never scrapped christmas???

oh the horror!

but as i've mentioned before, i'm more of an "everyday scrapper" and find it hard to scrap events. but not anymore!!!!

(ps...i scanned these so due to the raised embellies on the pages, the color is a lil off)

this mini was made with a bazzill acordian mini that i got when aimee got rid a ton of her stuff :)











almost everything used in this mini came from the fab*boo kits from noel mingon

the next mini was actually inspired when i went downstairs to have lunch with michael and he had this nifty lil card that he got in the mail from the national forensic academy. i had already taken the pictures in the beginning of the year and knew when i saw this that i had to have it. since michael was just going to throw it away, it was mine. i'll have to remember to tell michael never to throw away his mail again ;) on the cover the stickers and mikey's picture are covering up the details for the event that was on the card...lol.

i did this one last night.

i'm not pleased with every page b/c i think they are lacking in some goodies, but damn, the scrappy industry only makes so many crime scene related goodies...lol.

but mikey LOVES it so that is all that matters :)

YEAH, I KNOW....

...i suck!
BIG TIME!

i've been reminded by a few that i haven't blogged in like...well forever. i apologize. a lot going on (again...aren't i always saying that???) and to think that school starts in three weeks...eeek! i'm so looking forward to it though.

anyway, this post is really to kind of just let ya know that i am a live and to post some pics of something that has been keeping me busy.

the ever fab*boo jennifer, the owner of our fabulous lss gave me a bunch of elsie's forrest line to create something that she can teach a class on. as soon as i saw this line months ago, i knew i wanted to do something with the pictures from our boyscout camping trip at the beginning of the year.

so i decided to make a mini.













and these are the insert pages that go in the lil pocket you see above





i'm so thrilled about this mini and now i can officiall say that i'm hooked on minis and spend the day daydreaming about different ones i wanna do...lol.

i also created this lo for her



and her's some more los i've been working on















so see, i've been busy but i hate when i get this far behind but oh well. i'm not making any more promises to update every day b/c every time i do, well shit, i don't.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!

happy birthday to the man who has given me more than i could ever dream of.
the man who loves me when i'm being a bitch.
the man who understands my moods.
the man who believes in my dreams more then i do.
the man who is such an excellent daddy.
the man who owns my heart.

i love you baby!
more than candy!
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MAY RECAP!!

may kinda flew by and left me in the dust. cannot believe how fast the year has gone.

so many things wonderful things happened in may but i was just too busy to post em.

bella graduated from preschool



i can't believe my baby is going to kindergarten. totally crazy. she graduated preschool at the beginning of the month and i was so proud of her. this past year she has learned so much including how to sign which has made me so happy.

for the ceremony, she had to give a lil speech with a friend of hers about holland. they were so stinkin' cute. they signed some words, sang some songs, and threw their caps in the air when it was all done.


my lil dutch girl

they also did a lil slideshow video of pictures that were taken throughout the year and towards the end of the year, they had the parents take a pic with their child and then the child said what they were grateful for from their parent.


bella said "thank you for making tomato soup and grilled cheese for me". eeek! too cute for words

bella turns 5

bella's 5th birthday fell on mother's day this year. she also happened to be born on mother's day. the day she was born, i had told myself that whenever her bday fell on mother's day for the rest of her life, i would take her to tea and do something special with her. just her and i! well since one of the tea places closed down and i knew that the other one would be packed, i made our own lil tea party.

but wait!

i'm getting ahead of myself.

early that morning, bella and i were served breakfast in bed by michael and mikey. my camera battery was dead or i would have pictures. we had michael's famous pancakes and bacon. it was delish. bella especially loved the breakfast in bed.

then it came time for our special tea around lunch time. since bella's room is a lil on the dainty-vintage side, we had it in there and listened to classical music (which i enjoyed more than her...lol)


the spread



yummy "tea"

then my mom came over and we gave bella some presents and had cake :)



it was a nice day and it was especially special since it was our first mother's day/birthday since she was born. i thought about that special day all day long.

that next monday, being the awesome mom that i am, i took cupcakes to bella*boo's class and they all signed "happy birthday" to her as they sang it.



mother's day present

as i was walking to put my breakfast in bed dishes into the sink, i saw this lil beauty sitting in the kitchen.



my new bike that i love oh so very much. since i have received it, mikey and i have been on many bike rides. now i just need to find a lil basket for it. preferably vintage :)

goodbye second grade

its hard to believe that i can say that i have a child that is getting ready to go into the third grade. i remember third grade and i loved it ooooh so much.

we were invited to attend mikey's award ceremony and i was pleased (and surprised!) to find out that mikey had made a & b honor roll all year long!!!



we also discovered that mikey had grown 3 inches this past year!
that is just crazy!
i can't believe it.



this was such a cool project that his teacher did. which made me realize that i should have thought of this last year when we moved into the house. but this year on the anniversary of the move in i am going to do markings on both the kids on the inside of the pantry door and do it every year till we are showing their children :)

boy scouts memorial day activity



have i ever mentioned how much i love that mikey is in boyscouts?
well if i haven't lemme just gone now and say that i love that he is in boyscouts!
the people there are so good and so kind hearted.

they decided this year that they were going to go to the va and place flags on the graves. there are over 17,000 at our va and believe it or not, with the people that were out there (not just boyscouts) it was done in like 15 minutes.

i was honored and touched that we got to be a part of this.
it was amazing.
to see all those flags blowing in the wind.
to explain to the boys what it meant to do this.
then the boys started going around and shaking the hands of the fine men and women of the military and telling them thank you. oh boy, i'm teary eyed just thiking about that.




bella's bday party



the last saturday of the month was bella's bday party. i was super ready to get it over with considering i had no idea how many people were going to show up b/c people don't know how to rsvp anymore (hmph!).

it ended up being small which ended up being very nice.

bella had a my little pony party so i tried to do a lil of the party favors that way.


regular ol bubbles. punched out circles from computer sticker sheets and then put a my little pony sticker on that.


lil goodie bag


so that was may!
aside from all the day to day stuff!

i'll be back soon with the things i have been creating for the month! believe it or not, i've kept up with it.
yay!