May 31st CT Assignments

Here are my CT layouts for the week. This first one is done with a kit called Sides of Life by Junianas Designs.



This kit is Serenity (perfect name) by Andrea Designs.

Thursday, May 31st

Wow, can't believe May is over already. It seems like is should still be March! Except for the weather feels like the end of June early part of July.



The girls and I (along with the much unneeded help from 22 mo old) got our garden planted. We planted corn, green beans, carrots, cantalope, pumpkins, zuchinnies, spinich and lettuce. This is the first garden I've planted in 22 years! The girls were excited to plant, I'm sure the weeding won't be as exciting.



Joshua and I played outside for a bit with his bouncy ball. He sure throws that thing good!



The girls are doing their reading. I'm such a mean mom! I'm making them read Monday-Friday for an hour before they can watch TV, play with friends of have their 1/2 hour of computer time. On Monday we are going to check out the bookmobile that comes to town. We haven't used it before, but the girls could ride their bikes to where it parks each Monday and pick up a few books.



At 12:30 today we're heading over the the park for the free lunch at the park that is sponsored by the US Dept of Agriculture. We're going to try and go a few times a week this summer.

Tuesday, May 29th

Love to digiscrap?
Love to gab?
Wanna try both at the same time?





On a more personal note, Stacia had the pins removed from her arm today. Wow, what an experience. I watched the doctor pull them out. Stacia went white as a ghost and just about passed out. We start physical therapy tomorrow for a few days to get her elbow moving again and she goes back for x-rays again in 2 weeks. No more cast (she kept it . . .yuck) but she has to be extra careful the next few weeks.

Friday, May 25th - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Here are some layouts I did last night using DigiScrapShak's May Mega Kit. I think I've done 5-6 layouts with that kit and not used the same thing twice (well, except the little tag I used to write on in these three layouts)!

May 28th, Freebie

Makiya drew up some doodles last night. My first attempt at cleaning them up. You can download them here . . .
http://www.4shared.com/file/21831931/f51c49be/Doodle_Flowers_-_makiya.html

Please, please, please, if you take this, leave Makiya a comment . .thank you!

Thursday, May 24th

Tomorrow is the last day of school! The girls are getting a bit antsy to be done with it. This week had pretty much been fun and games. Who wants to do school work hehe.



I've done a couple of pages with my CT assignments. You can see the credits at: http://www.digiscrapshak.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=6187




This next one is a picture of my paternal grandparents.

We are looking for lifeguards over at DSS. If you are interested in help out, please let me know. You would be required to post about 50 posts a week, 7 of which need to be thread starters on the message board. You'll be rewarded generously for your efforts.

I'm waiting for Joshua to go down for a nap (in about an hour) so I can go out and play in the worms. We need to deliver castings to a piano customer tomorrow and also another one on Monday, plus I have to mail a pound of worms to another customer on Monday.

Wednesday, May 23rd

Hi all! Chuck and Stacia left this morning at 5:15 for school. They are headed up to Salt Lake City to the Clark Planitarium for a field trip. Chuck called from Nephi (about 1/2 way point) and said they'd made it to the bus fine and other than a lot of noise, things were going great. I hope they have a wonderful time.



I've spent the last couple of days deleting stuff off my computer. Mostly scrapbook stuff I would probably never use. I cleared up almost 3 gigs of hard drive space! This morning I scrapped my CT assignment and read books to Joshua. He went down for an early nap.



Only today, tomorrow and 1/2 day Friday left of school for the girls. They are getting excited to be done.



Okay, so here is the layout I did this morning. The kit designer is Valorie Brown. It is available at www.DigiScrapShak.com for $5. It is so loaded with stuff.

Monday, May 21st

Well, I hope everyone had a nice weekend. We had a pretty good weekend. Saturday we rented a few DVD's. Ant Bully, Opal Dream and The Work & The Glory III. All were very good family movies.

Saturday night I put Joshua to bed, but about 1/2 hour later he woke up screaming. He screamed until 11:00 (3 hours). I finally took him over to the hospital, but by the time we got there (all of 10 minutes) he was acting just fine. He wouldn't suck his pacifier, leading me to believe he had a sore throat. The ER docter looked in ears and throat, his throat was a little red. He told me to just interchange Tylenol and Motrin. Ugg. So, home we go and I put Joshua to bed (midnight) and he slept until 4:30, started to whine, so I got him up, gave him some more medicine and held him for about 1/2 hour. He went back to sleep and slept until 7:00.

We ended up all staying home from church. Chuck and Shayla both woke up with sore throats. Chuck is feeling better, Shayla is home from school today.

Last week of school! The girls are getting anxious for school to be out.

Well, that's about all that is going on here.

Friday, May 18th

Here are the layouts I've done this week.
Click here for credits.

Thursday, May 17th

I've been TAGGED! Kristen tagged me in a Random 8 game, and here I go playing along...

Directions: Lists 8 random facts/habits about yourself in a blog post.
List these directions in the post.
At the end of the post, tag 8 people to complete the task.
Leave the persons you’ve tagged a comment to tell them they’re tagged and refer them to your blog to read the directions.

1. I post on 4 message boards. One for Utah Moms, 2 LDS mom boards, and one for moms that had babies the same month I had Joshua.
2. I went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints for 18 months. I went to the California, Fresno Mission.
3. I wear a size 10 shoe
4. I was an office manager/secretary in my life before kids.
5. My favorite food is Pizza.
6. I have a cross-stitch project I started 14 years ago, that I still haven't finished, but I'm determined to get it done before Makiya gets married. It was suppose to be displayed at MY wedding.
7. I play the piano.
8. I hate cleaning toilets!

And now tags. I'ml just tagging a few friends that have blogs (only have 6 hehe). Becki, Erin, Sheila, Kate, Heather, Amanda

Wednesday, May 16th

It's been a good day today. I spent some time outside this morning weeding and playing with Joshua. I've even managed to straighten up the house a bit. Chuck has been up north all day, so I've been downloading digi stuff and made this layout. You can find the kit (All Boy) at www.digiscrapshack.com in their store. The designer is SeAScrApS.



I mentioned the other day that a very good friend of my husband called and visited with him for awhile. He wanted to see a picture of our house, so here are a couple of shots from yesterday after Chuck worked hard to mow and edge the yard. Oh, and Joshua started saying "mow" yesterday while he was watching Chuck mow.

This next picture I took while we were in Cedar the day Stacia had her surgery. I saw this house and loved it! I told Chuck (and he agreed) that I would love to paint our house this color and do shutters like this one. What do you think.

Well, I've got one more CT assignment layout to get done, hopefully tonight. I love working on the CT team at DigiScrap Shack!

Oh, and yesterday, I bought a copy of the new Digital Scrapbooking magazine. Very first issue. There are some great ideas in there!

Monday, May 14th

I've been messing around today, instead of cleaning. Made something for my digi friends. You can find the download link below the preview.

http://www.4shared.com/file/21832168/ed11fb09/Blue_Stuff.html

Sunday, May 13th

Happy Mother's Day. I had a great one. My family totally spoiled me. I got flowers, a corsage to wear to church, breakfast in bed and the cutest little puppy holding a welcome sign to set out on the front porch.


I spent the evening doing a scrapbook page. I think it turned out pretty good. The paper/elements are from the May Mega Kit at www.Digiscrapshak.com It's a huge marvelous kit. I had a hard time figuring out were to even start with it hehe.

Chuck has spent the last hour on the phone visiting with an old friend. That will keep him happy for a few days.


Tomorrow is my cleaning marathon, but I'm going to start later than normal because I want to get my flower beds weeded before it gets hot. Joshua has goopy eyes, a runny nose and a cough. I'm going to hold off until Tuesday to see if he needs to go to the doctor. Stacia is planning on going to school tomorrow, but I won't force the issue. They only go until 11:45 because the teachers are all going to a funeral for the vice principal who died last week, so I'm thinking she'll be okay. Makiya had a bit of a sore throat this morning, so I don't know what'll be up with her in the morning. I'm just hoping Joshua sleeps good tonight!

Well, anyway, drop me a quick note and let me know who's looking. Nite!

Saturday, May 12

The weekend is here! Stacia is recovering nicely. Makiya had a friend sleep over last night and she's still here. Shayla has a friend here playing and at the moment Joshua is sitting in his high chair growling. Chuck is busy repairing piano actions this morning and has meetings this evening.

We got a phone call this morning from a lady at Hogle Zoo in SLC wanting a pound of worms. They are going to start a worm bin and see how it work, and if it works good they are going to start a few more. They have so many "ends" when they prepare food for the animals that they've decided to start the worm compost bins rather than throwing everything away. Cool huh!

Last night we had a sitter and went to a church activity. It was a Pine Wood Derby for the adults. It was a lot of fun and there were some pretty crazy cars! Chuck made one that looked a bit like a worm. It didn't win, but he sure had fun racing it. It was fun to just go and socialize a bit and have a night out together without the kids.

Must have . . .

a friend over at my LDS Mom's Unite board posted the link to this fabulous freebie. You definately won't want to miss out on this one!

http://www.peppermintcreative.com/index.php?main_page=downloads

Wednesday, May 9th

We're home from the hospital. The surgery went well. Stacia is resting comfortably. She finally asked for some pain meds. I've posted two picture pre-op and one from after.

Joshua has learned a new word. He's walking around saying, "MINE" for everything! If it wasn't so dang cute it'd be a bit aggrevating hehehe.

Tuesday, May 8th - More

Stacia has to have surgery on her arm tomorrow. The doctor will put in at least 2 pins, then in 3 weeks they have to remove them. My mom's coming down to stay with the kids so Chuck and I can both go with her. The hospital is about 1 1/2 hours away and then we were told to expect to be there at least 6 hours and possibly up to 24 hours.

Tuesday, May 8th

Hectic day ahead! This morning at 10:00 Stacia has an appointment with an orthopedic doctor. She fell funny on the trampoline and broke her arm, just above her elbow last night. She is miserable!

Then, at 2:00 I have an appointment. At 4:30 I'm leaving for a Bi-stake Women's Conference. I'm so excited. We're doing a little service project, eating dinner and then there will be music and speakers. Chuck is in charge of the kids. Stacia was suppose to have track and field tonight, but that isn't happening now, so all he has to do is feed them dinner and take them to a 6:00 DARE program. Makiya is graduating and she was also chosen from her class to read her report. Only one student per 5th grade class was chosen. We're very proud at how well she wrote her report.

Oh, and here's a layout I did using one of the pictures I posted yesterday. I got the idea for the picture here: http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=90814&cat=all&ppuser=1325

Monday, May 7th

I've had a fun day today. It was my Cleaning Marathon Day with my friends at LDS Moms Unite. The house is nice and clean again (well, the girls are home and they've gotten a snack, so the kitchen counter is a mess again!)

DigiScrapShak is down because they are moving to a new server, so I've been messing around with extraction techniques. I found a lot of pages at Digi Shop Talk http://www.digishoptalk.com/boards/showthread.php?t=51776 and loved them all. So, I decided to try this. I have done one extraction page before, so it wasn't completely new. Anyway, I can't wait to scrap what I did today.



This last one is my favorite. I was excited I figured out how to bend the paper a bit. This is a composite of 4 different pictures.

Saturday, May 5

National Scrapbooking Day. I didn't even scrap hehe. But, I did chat with several scrappers from DigiScrap Shak. Sat in there for 2 hours this morning. That was a lot of fun.



This picture is the new mega kit available at DigiScrapShak.com http://digiscrapshak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=79&products_id=1812
Doesn't it look yummy. I can't wait to get my hands on it.




Chuck took Shayla to the Scout Extravaganza in Richfield this morning. His troup had to "flash" a signal with some cool mirrors they made. It was pretty cold, but they did have enough sun for what they needed to do.



Spent a couple of hours this afternoon sorting worms. Chuck is delivering 2 dozen worms and 40 lbs of castings up to the SLC area on Monday. We also had a call yesterday from a lady who had heard about our Castings from a friend. She and three of her friends each bought 5 qt containers. They were excited to get the castings, so Chuck and Makiya took them over to Spring City yesterday afternoon.

Promised Scrapbook Pages

Some pages I've done the last few days. You can find out more about them here:
http://http://www.digiscrapshak.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=6187



These next 4 are done with a kit by Sherri Tierney. This was my first designer assignment as a new CT for DigiScrapShak.com. You can find her Fresh Funky Fun kit at: http://http://digiscrapshak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=755

Thursday, May 3rd

Fast week! I can't believe I haven't blogged since Monday. Kind of a boring week though. I've spent some time scrapbooking (I'll post pictures soon), trying to keep up with Joshua, doctor's appointment for Makiya, track and field practice of Stacia, and being driven crazy by Shayla. . .almost 8 is such a hard age for little girls. Did help Chuck mow the lawn yesterday and it's sad to say that is the highlight of my week.

Stacia has track and field practice again tonight.

Oh, what a sad little post.