Weekend in the Country

This past weekend we took the girls and went on a weekend get away in the country at my sister-in-law's company's hunting ranch. It was a great weekend and the girls enjoyed their time playing with their cousins and being spoilled by their aunt and grandparents. We enjoyed our time there to. Keith got to go hunting Saturday morning and I went to sit in the stand with him that evening. My first time to ever sit in a deer stand and boy was it boring...lol! We didn't see any deer even after the feeder went off. We saw a few deer on the way back to the house, but no luck getting one this time.

Today we had lot of rain here in Houston, thankfully are part of town wasn't too bad. I have officially lost my umbrellas and I prayed we would make it to school and back without getting wet. Thankfully, both times for drop of and pick up we didn't get too wet.

Long, long day!

Today was Allison's first day back to school after the Christmas Break. I expected the day to start out rough and it did. For some reason, I guess from excitement, Allison woke up at 3:45 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. She tried then came back and crawled in bed with us at 5 a.m. I got very little sleep. She was in a great mood though and was ready for school by 6 a.m. so I curled back up in bed for another hour while she watched cartoons. After she went to school Maycie and I went back to my bed to relax and stay warm since it was a cold morning. When we got up we went to pick up my mom for her doctor's appointment. It was a nice visit with my mom today. Allison got home from school and went to the dollar store with my mom. I managed to sweep and mop the floors today and tidy up Allison's room and move some furniture from Maycie's room to Allison's room. All and all today was a pretty productive day. Oh we managed a trip to Wal-mart too.

Last Day of Christmas Break

Today was Allison's last day off for Christmas Break. We've had a great 2 weeks. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow morning and getting up early to get her ready for school. Keith has also been off almost the entire time and goes back tomorrow as well. Today I treated Allison out and kept to my promise of taking her to see Alvin and The Chipmunks:Chipwrecked. We had such a great time on our little date. The movie was probably the best one they've made so far. So funny! I'm sure gonna to miss her company this week as we adjust to live with her back in school. It will be much quieter for sure. At least I have Maycie to keep me company during the day.

Here are some pictures from our day.

Happy New Year!!

I have been such a bad blogger. This year I am going to make a resolution to "try" harder to post at least once or twice a week. I'd like to do this mainly to recap my week so that when I go to scrap those all important moments in life I can have something to go back to and remember everything for the date. I've been working so hard with my 6 year old daughter to write in her journal for her first grade class and while helping her I've realized I really need to work on a journal for myself since most of my scrapbook layouts 'lack' journaling. So here we go.

Today: January 1, 2011....
Today started out with snuggle time with my Maycie bug. I love these mornings and her snuggling close to me after she wakes up and we lay back down in my bed for awhile. Allison woke up excited this morning telling me all about her night after she went to bed and her opening her window blinds so she could lay in bed and watch all the fireworks going off outside on New Years Eve. She described every color she saw and then decided to draw a picture of them and write in her 1st grade journal. After breakfast we went outside to let  Allison ride her bike. Maycie tried riding her tricylce too. It was a beautiful day. After riding her bike we went to Keith's parents house and ate lunch. A little ham, black-eyed peas, & cabbage for our New Year. Keith and I then took Maycie to have her stitches out. Maycie didn't let the nurses hold her down, she had to be restrained...lol. It really only took a few minutes, but being so young and after the trama of having the stitches put in the other night I think she just wanted nothing to do with the ER. After that we came home for awhile and let Maycie nap. Allison made a pot holder with her new weaving kit and Keith finished taking the tree down. When Maycie woke up we took the girls to the park and out to eat at Little Mexico (Allison's favorite). Today was a great day, minus Allison's hour or so of whining about everything, I think she was just really tired this afternoon.

Pinterest

OMG. I signed up for a Pinterest account and am so addicted. If only I could find time to do half the crafts I've pinned on my bulliten board..LOL!

However, I did get a scrapbook layout done yesterday using My 4 Princesses Designs newest kit Periplum and I found the inspiration from a layout I saw on Pinterest.

Here is my newest layout, love the colors in this kit.

Here is the Periplum Kit

You can buy it HERE for 50% off at $1.50 until Monday, 10/10/11

Dressed Up Fun

Last month my oldest daughter had a sleep over with her 2 bff's. That night we gave the girls make-overs and had them dress up in pretty dresses. Allison loved it and was all into it, which is odd for her. So after taking a few pics I've made a new layout for her scrapbook this year.

For this layout I used Sweet Princess by  My 4 Princesses Designs

Find it Here

New Endeavors in My Life

I have been neglecting my blog for so long. Life has been hectic and I've been taking on more and more responsibilty lately. All for the good though, I'm finally enjoying what life is throwing my way. So what are the new endeavors in my life you ask? Well I've decided that I'm going to start getting more involved in different things going on in my life. I've joined the steering (leadership) team in my MOPS group after being in this MOPS group for 4 years and I'm loving it. I'm also getting more involved in my daughter's elementary school, by joining the yearbook commitee this school year. I'm enjoying so much by getting to go to my daughter's school and take pictures of events and just be involved.

So what have I been doing in scrapbooking lately? I've finished my youngest daughter's first year scrapbook album and make a lot of amazing layouts using the great products from my CT's.

Right now you should go over to Scrapping Artistry's Blog for lots of freebies and a chance to win MyMemories Software.

Maycie Grace's First Year Digi-Scrapbook

Click here to view this photo book larger

Freebie Friday

I have been so busy this summer I haven't had a lot of time to do much with this blog or scrapping. Since I've been slacking I thought I'd offer some QP's I made using some great kits from the CT's I scrap for. Hope you enjoy, and be sure to check out the designer's shops for some other great kits and sales going on right now.

First a QP I made this week using Robyn Pali's new kit Elegance. This is a great kit that can be used in many ways for different pages. I love the color palette she used it's so versatile.

Get it Here for FREE

Buy the entire kit in Robyn's Boutique for 30% off

If you are looking for something a little brighter & fun for summer check out Robyn's kit Beautiful

And here is my QP Freebie using this kit.

Also new in My 4 Princesses' Boutique is her kit Serendipity

Get it for 30% off today

Here is my layout I made last week using this great kit.

Forever Sister's has also opened their boutique at Divine Digital be sure to stop by and get 50% off



Crazy Couple of Weeks & New Scrapping Layout

It has been forever since I've been here and boy it's been crazy around here. First, Friday two weeks ago I noticed we had water under our laminate wood flooring in my hallway when I went to bed that night. So we turned the water off that night (being it was 11 p.m. and no way to find the source that late at night) and went to bed. Saturday morning I woke up and the water had spread into my bedroom and livingroom area along with the hallway. So we started searching for the problem. After a complete day of searching and cutting holes in some of the walls in my guest bathroom we found the problem was a plugged up p-trap for our a/c unit. The builder had plumbed the secondary overflow tray incorrectly and caused the water from the plugged up primary pan to leak down the pipe into my guest bathroom and run under the wall going into my hallway and livingroom. BIG MESS!!
Here are a few pictures of the damage:

Bedroom

Livingroom

Livingroom again

We finally have everything dried out and my flooring is replaced in the livingroom, but my bedroom is still in need of new flooring since we used everything good in there to fix the livingroom.

I haven't had much time to really sit down and just blog. We have been going here and there a lot the past 2 weeks. I'm so exhausted, but it's really been fun.

Yesterday I sat down and actually scrapped a page for my CT teams and so I wanted to share that with everyone. I have a QP I made last week, but haven't had time to upload it for downloads. I hopefully soon will be able to get to that it is on my desktop computer though and I'm not there right now. :)

For now I'll just share my zoo layout using My 4 Princesses Designs kit Zoo-tastic and a template by Robyn Pali Designs Template Set #1.

Here is the preview of the kit. Click preview to buy it in her store at Divine Digital.

Preview of the Template Set #1 from Robyn Pali Designs found at Divine Digital (click here to buy)

Also Robyn is having a big July 50% Sale in her Boutique be sure to check it out

(click preview to go to her store)

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend celebration!