Saturday, June 30th

When the Cat is away the Mouse will play, or in my case when my husband is gone I scrap! I got a lot of layouts done between yesterday and today. I've had a wonderful time creating. Next week we have a huge harvest ahead of us, so most of my time will be spent shredding newspaper, kindof hard to do that and scrap at the same time, so I'm glad I got to mess around with some of the stuff I downloaded this week.
All the credits can be found in my gallery at DSS (link with the links on the right of the blog).

Saturday, June 30th

Here's a little freebie for you!



http://www.4shared.com/file/18925040/a0c2fb12/Michelle_Squires_Butterflys.html

Friday, June 29th

Man, the month of June has just flown by! Crazy isn't it.

Chuck and Shayla have headed up north for the Farmer's Market tomorrow morning. So, I've been trying to scrap a bit. My flow of creativity is ebbing. However! Starting on July 16th is the Amazing Race . ..digiscrapbooking style . . .starts. I've teamed up with a friend from DigiScrapShak (LuAnn). We will be using my blog for updates, so keep an eye out for what we design! I'm excited. Lots of fun rewards from all over the digiworld!

What does school start? The girls are already getting bored and fighting with each other! Driving me crazy. Oh, but we did get the goat home finally. Our next door neighbor has a dog run she doesn't put her dogs in, and generously said yes to letting us keep Cookie Dough in there until we can get a dog run put in our yard. Cookie is still a bit leary of us, however, she did come up and sniff at Stacia's outstretched hand this afternoon.

Wednesday, June 27

Hi everyone. Well, things are going pretty good at our house. We are getting ready to do a casting harvest the first of next week. Things are going well at the Farmer's Market! Stacia went back to the doctor yesterday and he still wants her in PT for 3 more weeks and another follow-up with him in 3 weeks. Still no trampoline for the girls. They are pretty bummed out!

Joshua is really starting to talk up a storm. This morning he saw his sisters with toast and brought me a plate and said, "toast". So, of course, I fixed him a piece of toast.

The weather has been hot, but we are adjusting. Thank goodness for central air!


It's time to post my CT layout for http://www.digiscrapshak/. I was assigned Junianas Designs. I picked her Fresh Summer kit. The photo collage template is by my friend Tanja (Samanta0505). You can find it on her blog.


This bathtime fun layout I made with the help of Shayla. She did a pretty good job telling me where to put everything. (Credits can be found in my gallery at DSS)

This layout is a scraplift off a layout at DSS. The kit I used was the June Mega Kit from DSS. You can find the link to the scraplift in my gallery.

This layout I did for a speed scrap. I used the June Challenge Reward Kit from DSS.

This last one you'll have to look at my DSS Gallery for the credits.

June 22nd Again

I wasn't going to do this until next week sometime, but what the heck, I might as well share it today! My good friend Becki has been on a quest for Birthday Freebies (if you have any to offer her please tell me about them in the comments). Anyway, it seems like I find one and I'm all excited to share it with her and she already has it! So, I decided to make up a simple little kit for her . . .one when I showed it to her she couldn't say, "oh, I already have that." Yep, she loved it! I hope you do to!
http://www.4shared.com/file/18450757/1b927689/michelle_squires_becki_birthday_kit.htmlo.

Friday, June 22nd

Happy Friday! Not much going on here. Chuck and Stacia are up north staying at my parents. Chuck had to pick up piano parts from his supplier last nght and deliver some worm castings, so he ended up staying two nights up north rather than coming home to just turn around and have to drive back up again this eveing. He and Stacia are planning on helping Grandpa weed his garden. Tomorrow he will be at the farmer's market in SLC. He did really good on sales last weekend, so we are hoping for weekend sales at least compatible to that.

Last night Makiya went with the achievement day girls to see the Mormon Miracle Pagent. She loved it (although she has seen it before). She got home about about midnight last night and boy was she tired. Shayla and I stayed up and watched the space shuttle and international space station float by way up in the heavens.

Joshua actually stayed asleep until 8:00 this morning. That was nice, but then the phone rang and that was the end of that! Oh well.

I've done a few layouts the last couple of days. You find the credits at my gallery at DSS. The link is with all the links on the side of this blog.

Phat Friday at http://www.digiscrapshak.com/

Here's a Friday Freebie. Enjoy!http://www.4shared.com/file/18421593/b9529287/michelle_squires_cardboard.html

Wednesday, June 20th

I can't believe how many of you have downloaded the farm stickers. Thanks so much. They were so much fun making!

Here are my CT assignments from www.DigiScrapShak.com This first one is done using a kit by Helena Montiero, it's her Happiness Kit. It was a lot of fun to use.


This second one is Moonstar by Kleopatra and also available at www.digiscrapshak.com

Wednesday, June 20th

Here is the freebie I mentioned the other day. It was fun making them. (Don't forget you can click on the "freebie" lable at the bottom of this post and see all my freebies.)

http://www.4shared.com/file/18249201/1f7c6035/michelle_squires_farm_animals.html

Monday, June 18th

Here is my new kit I've been mentioning. It's vibrant! I hope you all like it. It can be downloaded here: http://www.4shared.com/file/17980302/a3c07919/Primary_Colors.html

My good friend, Becki, did this layout using the kit.

Here is a double layout I did using the kit.

I have another fun surprise coming later this week!

Sunday, June 17th

Happy Father's Day!


My husband spent 2 hours at the hospital this morning getting an infected spider bite lanced. It was pretty interesting to watch!


We stayed home from church today (except Shayla who bummed a ride off the neighbor) because Chuck wasn't feeling well. He kepts getting worse and worse, so I made him go to the hospital.


I have tried now for 2 days to get the layout I did for Stacia's birthday goat photos to load, I have finally accomplished this! Here it is. Credits can be seen at my gallery at DSS. Although, I did make the goat sticker with the help of DLTK kids coloring pages. I'll let you in on a secret. It was so much fun that I'm making up a set of farm animal stickers. They should be available here next week. AND, don't forget, I'm uploading a fun kit tomorrow!

June 16th - Freebie

With the help of my friend, Becki, I've put together some postcards. You can use them thus, or make them into greeting cards. http://www.4shared.com/file/18014085/a40e0cec/michelle_squires_flower_post_cards.html

June 15

June 15th - Stacia's Birtdhay

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACIA. She is officially 9 years old today. I can't believe it. My little girls are sure growing up.

Here are some pictures of Stacia picking out her goat. This little one here in the center of the picture is the one she picked out. She couldn't get it to come to her, but of all the little ones this one came the closest. She seemed to be the most curious and brave (is that a good thing?)
We won't be able to bring her home until Wednesday at the earliest, but she is close enough Stacia can ride her bike over and watch her. I think she's named her Cookie Dough, but who knows that might change.



Stacia was the only one allowed in with the goats (well, we let Joshua in for a minute to see what he would do) and she had a blast feeding them their evening treat.

This is a side view of the little girl Stacia picked out.

June 14th

First order of business: Please, please, please, click on these two links and pay tribute to two wonderful layouts honoring a fallen hero. I know it would mean alot to my friend.

http://www.digiscrapshak.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=19049&limit=last1

http://www.digiscrapshak.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=19048&limit=last1

Thank you!

Next, we've had a busy morning. I've been filling containers with worm tea and castings for Chuck to take up north to the farmer's market this weekend.

Tonight is Stacia's birthday/slumber party. She's pretty excited. She and Shayla have cleaned the house up pretty good. I need to mop the kitchen floor, but that's it! Good for them.

It's flag day here in the USA. Have you hung out your flag!

You're welcome to leave Birthday wishes for Stacia.

June 13th again

Well, here it is! My layout with Claudia Campbell's Boys will be boys kit. The kit is available in the store at DSS.

Wednesday, June 13th

Good morning! I got my CT assignment last night. I actually waited until I could pick up my kit at the DSS store and got my assignment done by 10:45 mountain time. My assigned designer was Denise Bailey. I have used her stuff before and everything in her kits is so nice. The one I chose last night was "What Dreams May Come." Here's the layout I did.

So, anyway, after getting this done we were able to request a second designer and this time we could actually request the designer. . how cool is that! So, can you guess who I chose and what kit I am downloading right now?! Yep, Claudia Campbell's Boy Kit I posted about yesterday. I'm sooooo excited.

BTW, DSS is currently looking for new CT's. They are awesome to work with.

Opps, nearly forgot to add this other layout I did yesterday.

I just found . . .

The cutest kit at DSS! This is definately my next purchase! Isn't it one of THE best boy kits you've seen in ages! Here's a link to buy it! http://digiscrapshak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1299

Tuesday, June 12th

Good morning everyone! Hey, I worked hard last night on a freebie that I will have available here next week! You won't want to miss it.

On a personal note, Stacia is off to physical therapy again this morning. Her arm still doesn't have full range of motion yet. She is also going over for more x-rays to make sure the brake is all healed up! The girls are pretty anxious to get back on the trampoline!

Chuck is heading up this weekend to the Salt Lake City Farmer's Market. He will be selling our wonderful Worm Castings and Worm Tea. Makiya is going with him, she's pretty excited. She loves helping him sell the stuff.

Joshua is now saying "ish" for fish. He loves going out and feeding the fish out in the pond.

We are all so excited. Our garden is starting to pop. We've found corn, beans, pumpkins and cat grass all poking their little heads up through the soil. We are soooo excited.

I've added links to several of my DigiScrapShak buddies blogs over on the side with the links. Check them out!

Also, I'm still looking for 2 more Lifeguards. My Lifeguard team is really shaping up. If you enjoy posting and visiting with others on a digita scrapbooking site, you might want to come visit and see if Lifeguarding is something you'd be interested in.

Well, that's about it for Tuesday!

Papa Don't Preach

Here is a double layout I did with the Papa Don't Preach kit, June's mega kit at DSS. This kit is sooo awesome and at $5.98 is a steal! Here's a link: http://digiscrapshak.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1956 go buy it before it's gone!

Sunday, June 10th

Oh my goodness. I can't believe it! I got on here just a bit ago and I've had over 250 hits since yesterday! Thank you so much everyone for looking at my blog! (Don't forget to check the great links on the side of my blog!)



We've had a good Sunday so far. Went to church and had wonderful talks and lessons. Everything seemed to revolve around "if ye are prepared, ye will not fear." Big time stuff I needed to be reminded of after the week we've had!


Dinner's cooking and hopefully Joshua will take a long nap, so I can get a Sunday afternoon nap today!


The birthday bash yesterday at www.digiscrapshak.com was a blast. Lots of great gift boxes, I think everyone that bought was pleasantly surprised!


I'm still looking for Lifeguards to help me out over at DSS with posting in the forum and gallery, in exchange for product. (Like the monthly mega kit, challenge kit and coupons to the store!)


Lori is having a fun challenge over at DSS! Scrap a layout using the new Papa Don't Preach June Mega Kit and post it by next Sunday and you'll have a chance at winning coupons to the store!
Here's a layout I did with the kit. This is a picture of my husband with his son, taken years and years ago (consider his son is almost 17).

Blog Freebie

In celebration of the birthday party at DigiScrapShak, I put together a little freebie of my own.




Down load it here: http://www.4shared.com/file/17574913/babb3de5/michelle_squires_birthday_celebration_blog_giveaway.html

Saturday, June 9th

Don't forget the big birthday bash at www.digiscrapshak.com going on all day today!

Wednesday, June 6th

Well, on a personal note, our one and only car broke down on Monday. Chuck spent most of yesterday retrieving it and getting it home. We've got a rental car for a few days, but our awesome friends gave us a van they wanted to get rid of. We need to fix the door, put on two new front tires and get it registered, but it'll get us by for awhile and be cheaper to fix up than a new engine. AND, thank goodness Chuck can do the repair work himself.

Joshua is really trying to say a few words lately. Last night we had a real bad storm and it woke him up. I went in to calm him down and asked him if he wanted to go sleep in my bed with me. He said, "go." He also has started saying, "mot more" for want more, but it's hilarious because he lowers his voice when he says it. Oh, and he started saying, "cak-cak" for cracker. It actually sounds like he's trying to be a duck.

The girls are enjoying summer vacation. They're fighting like cats and dogs, but hopefully we'll settle into a routin here in the next week and it won't be so bad.

Stacia is doing pretty good with her cast off. She still won't straighten her arm, but at physical therapy this morning the tech said she is doing great and right on shedule.

Because of the broken down car, Chuck is having to put off the first week or two of the farmer's market.

My brother and sister-in-law have finally finalized the adoption of their little boy, Deacon. They are having him sealed to them in the St. George temple here in the next few weeks. They are so excited.

Well, that's the personal stuff, now for the digital scrapbooking stuff:


This is my take on the DigiScrapShak Add-On Challenge. It is the funnest scrapbooking challenge there is, if you haven't tried it, go check it out this month. Also, Lori (DSS's owner) has changed the rules for the challenges. Do three (instead of 4) and get the free kit. Cool huh?! Also, we've started a Layout of the Day. At the end of the month my new Lifeguards will choose one to be our Layout of the Month and the winner with receive a coupon to the store, cool huh?! Maybe your layout will turn up (but you have to post at DSS in order to have a chance to win).




This week my assigned designer was Michelle (not me). Chelle Belle Designs is the name she uses for her designing. I chose her Rebel Diva kit for this project. Pretty awesome kit.

Party Time!!!!

Monday, June 4th

Okay, so I have this picture that I'm having a really, really hard time scrapping. Anyone want to give it a go? Email me at ms4kidz@yahoo.com and I'll send you a .png file of the photo.

June 3rd

Here's a short little video of the girls.

Sunday, June 3rd

Last night we took a picnic to the Rotary Park in Richfield. We had so much fun. One of the challenges at DigiScrapShak is a photography challenge. The challenge was to take candid shots, so that's exactly what I did. I still need to scrap a couple more page, but here is what I've gotten done so far. You can see the credits at my gallery at DSS. See the link on the right hand side of my blog.