Challenge Results

So I didn't get everything on my "To Do" list done yesterday because just as I started to upload pictures to my blog, Sam came into the room where I was and said that he thought Gus got out again. Now, this was around 9pm. So we head outside and we are looking and calling for him. I probably walked/ran 2.5 miles. At 10:30 we were all (Sam, Jess, and me) back at the house and still hadn't found him. We could hear him every once in a while but he's so dark that in the DARK you couldn't really see him or know where he was.

So Sam and I got in the car and drove around a little more. We drove to the Elementary school that is right by our house and saw some eyes but when we drove closer and shined some light on them, we found that it was much larger than our small little Gus. We turned the corner in the parking lot and there he was, running around the school. I opened the car door and he came running. He was all wet and shaking. That little stinker! Then we get home and not 5 minutes later it was pouring down rain. We were like, "See Gus, you could have been trapped out there with all this rain!" I wish he would gain a few pounds so that he couldn't escape under the fence.

For those of you who know him, you know how scared he is in just everyday, normal life. We are wondering what makes him so bold and brave to wander around the neighborhood at night with strange animals!

Now, on to the challenge! There were some great results this time around! Thanks to all that participated! This first card is mine. I had fun creating it. It is a 4x4 square card!

Here is a close up.


This card is Jean's. I love it! So cute and lots of details!

Then we have Jessica's card. She embossed! I haven't embossed in a while...but the white looks so good on the chocolate chip cardstock!

And this final card is from Kathy. She used her craft ink spots to color this chipboard star and embossed over the top with clear embossing powder. So cute!

Great job with the challenge everyone! I think it's funny that no one used Red, White and Blue! But that's ok! More challenges to come! I will post one sometime this weekend, so keep a look out! AND...I will be posting more scrapbook pages tonight! Hope you all have a great Thursday that feels like a Friday!!!

To Do Tonight

1. Finish my challenge card!

2. Take pictures of my scrapbook pages that I created last Friday and post them here.

3. Order some pictures.

4. Learn more about Decor Elements so that I can apply mine to the wall.

5. Relax!

Friday's 10 - Things To Do This Weekend

This Friday's post is all about my "to do" list this weekend:

#1 - Leave work in 45 minutes and go home to pack up my scrapbooking stuff! YEAH! I'm going to crop with my church buds tonight. It should be a fun time! I haven't scrapbooked with them in 2 months! I will miss you Jinny! I will also be creating a card for my challenge that I posted in my last blog entry!

#2 - Drive by Sonic on my way to church...I will need a Diet Cherry Limeade for this event that will last until midnight! (I wish I still drank caffeine! Darn!)

#3 - Clean up the clutter around the house on Saturday! It's seriously a pit! Hope to get up and get going on that in the morning hours.

#4 - Watch my netflix movie, Georgia Rule. I'm excited about it!

#5 - While I watch my movie I will be updating and buying music for my iPod!

#6 - Catch up on all of the TV that I have missed watching this week due to our new obession with playing RockBand!

#7 - Practice my mad drummin skillz on RockBand!

#8 - Going to the drive-in on Saturday night to see Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda. Kinda excited...I can't lie!!!

#9 - Watching the little kiddos in the nursery on Sunday morning after we attend service. Gotta love those little 1 year olds!

#10 - Make a cake for my Father-in-law's Birthday/Father's Day celebration on Sunday afternoon. Can't wait to go swimming in their pool!

So what are you doing this weekend?

Updates and a Challenge

Hello Faithful Readers! I just thought that I should give you an update on things in my life currently.

It has been exactly 18 days since my last Diet Coke and I'm still alive! Can you believe it. I am not drinking any caffeine! (On a side note...did you know that Sunkist/Diet Sunkist has caffeine in it? I tried that as an alternative in the beginning and was reading the label and there was caffeine on the list of ingredients. Just a note to those of you who have kiddos. Not all orange sodas are created equal!) But I am not without a carbonated beverage...I just like the fizz! I am currently drinking a Fanta Zero orange flavor, ZERO calories. It's actually very yummy and tastes just like the real deal to me! I am also started drinking Minute Maid Light Cherry Limeade. It's not cardonated and at only 10 calories per can, it's a refreshing beverage as well!

Guess what Sam brought home last night?

That's right...we now have RockBand for Wii! We spent last night playing away. We started a band, The Rydenz (yes...with a Z). I really enjoyed playing drums at first a lot and then I started on guitar and I really like that too. If I knew any of the songs, I would sing but I'm still learning! We played for about 2 hours last night. It's a lot of fun!

Now on to the STAMPING CHALLENGE!! Your next challenge is to create a card or scrapbook page that must:
*Contain stars and stripes.
*Use a tool that you haven't brought out in a while (or that is new to you)
*Use brads
*Use ribbon or twine
You will have until the end of the day on Sunday night to send me your creations. Just a reminder that there are no colors mentioned so don't think that you have to use red, white, and blue just because I said stars and stripes!

Happy Stamping!

Yesterday = Bliss!

So the day started just like any other Sunday. We went to church here...

We did not have to work in the nursery today! It felt kinda weird! We volunteer there 2 Sundays a month and it feels like lately with vacations and stuff that we were always going to church and then working in the nursery. Today it was nice to be headed home around 11am.

We then went to Chipotle for lunch! YUM!

After lunch we got home and took a 2 hour nap (the dogs joined us)!

We then woke up and headed here...

The Gardner Aquatic Center! We chilled in the pool for about an hour.

We then headed home to take another 2 hour nap (the dogs joined us). It was then 7pm! WOW!

We spent the rest of the night watching The Office on DVD and I did get to spend some in my craft room too!

It was just a nice relaxing day with the family!

Craftiness

Hey everyone! I just finished being crafty this weekend I just wanted to share my card and scrapbook pages with you! It felt good to be crafty and I can't wait until Friday when I get together with my church buds to scrapbook again.

We had a 1st birthday party to attend on Saturday afternoon. It was a frog themed so I just had to use the Unfroggettable stamp set! You can't really tell from the picture that I took but I put googlie eyes on the frog. The tiny ones fit perfect!

Then on Saturday night I scrapbooked at my house with Colette and Margie! It as so much fun. I started our cruise scrapbook. I got this really cute patch and adhesive ribbon and appied it to the front of the album. It turned out really cute!

Here is a close up!

Here is the title page. I didn't had much...just a picture and some chipboard letters. Love it!

Layout 1 of the trip. This is our plane ride out to LA. I haven't rounded corners of pictures in a really long time but I have to admit that I like the way it looks.

Check out that cute little paperclip. It has an airplace on it!

Layout 2 of the trip. These are the pictures as we leave the port in LA! I still need to journal. Sometimes I leave journaling blank and take a day down the road where all I do is journaling. I need to have one of those days soon!

This is my favorite layout that I made last night. I just love this paper combination! I'm lovin the circles lately!

I love the simplicity of this layout. I wanted to go simple with the great pictures that I had!

Close up of the letter tiles.

This is the first layout of Day 2 on the trip. I love the Stampin Up In Colors. Too bad we will be loosing them soon!

Don't you just love the close up of my flip flops?

So I'm hoping to get some more scrapping done this week! I will have more pictures to share soon!

Cute Puppy Pics and Crafty News

On Thursday, we had another storm. So after the storm I noticed that the sun was shinning and there was a pretty rainbow in the sky. I went in the backyard to take pictures and of course the puppies followed me. So I got to take a few pictures of them as well. Here are the best ones!

This is Gus. He is afraid of my camera but for some reasons today he wasn't that bad. So I finally got a really cute picture of him! Isn't he just adorable?!

And here is Chloe. She is more likely to stand still for me long enough to snap a great picture but I just love the lighting on this one! The sun was still shinning bright after the storm and she paused before going down the deck stairs. Isn't she cute?!

I have noticed that I have posted anything crafty for a LONG time! But you are in luck because today my freinds are coming over to scrapbook with me. I should have a few things to post tomorrow! So come back and see what we have created!

Right now I have to go clean my craft room so that we have a space to scrapbook tonight! HA! I will post before and after pics of that as well! Hope you have a great day!

IL Wedding Trip

First of all I would like to say congrats to my cousin Christopher and my newest Cousin-in-Law, Hillary! You make a beautiful couple and I'm so happy for you!

Here are a few pictures of the bride and groom. They look tall because they are! Probably around 6 something! They met at a basketball clinic in college.

Here is their first dance.

This is my sleeping sister, Erica, my mom, and me in the backseat of the CR-V while we were headed to Greenville, IL. It was a cozy fit but not too bad! On the way out there we watched "27 Dresses"...such a cute movie.

This is Sam and Me in the town of Greenville, walking around the square. We ate lunch and did a little antique shopping...there were tons of places. My mom and I found a shadow box each because we both want to do this. So excited to get started on that!

Here is a fun picture that Sam and I took while waiting at the reception for the bride and groom! I love it!

Here is my HOT husband. He's trying to be tough in this picture. Is it working?

This is me and my Aunt Julie. She is my dad's sister. Aren't we cute?

A family picture. You can't tell that we are family at all, can you?!

This is my cousin Caleb. His dad is my dad's brother. It was fun to get to spend time with some of my cousins!

Here is Sam with Rachel, Mary, and Ruth (3 of Caleb's sisters). Aren't they adorable?!

Ruth and Me. I think that we look alike. Our dad's are brothers so it's likely that we look like our dad's! Don't you just love her long hair?!

This is Erica, my sister. I love this pic of her. I think Sam took it while I was in the bathroom. There were a lot of other pictures that he took but you won't see them here. He was shooting things like sugar packets! HA!

And...it wouldn't be a wedding unless there was a crazy dance picture of my husband and mom! Some day there will be enough pictures for me to make a scrapbook of just the dancing pictures! FUN!

All in all it was a good trip! :)

Friday's 10 - Road Trip!

This Friday's 10 has everything to do with all of the things I'm excited about this weekend when we road trip to Greenville, IL for my cousin's wedding!

#1 - We will be road tripping it in our CR-V! My Mom, Dad, Sister, Sam and Me in one CR-V. There are bound to be some great pictures from this trip. Stay tuned for Monday's post!

#2 - My sister and I bought a AUX cord so that we can plug my new iPod (and her old iPod) into the CR-V and listen to our music. Can't wait to use it!

#3 - My mom had this great idea to bring the protable DVD player with us so that the girls (the back seat riders) can watch some movies. So my sister and I purchased a splitter so we can all wear headphones and the boys don't have to listen to our girlie movies! Well one of the movies that I'm bringing is "Enchanted"! I'm excited to watch it!


#4 - My sister is bringing "27 Dresses". I've seen it but can't wait to watch it again!

#5 - One of my family's favorite roaptrip snacks is Twizzlers! YUM!

#6 - I have had this book sitting on my shelf for a long time waiting to be read. So when I'm not watching movies, I will hopefully be reading this!

#7 - I just got the new issue of Creating Keepsakes this week! I'm sure my mom and I will be looking at that and talking scrapbooking sometime on the trip!

#8 - When my sister and I were younger my mom used to plan a new activity in the car for every hour that we had to drive. So on the top of the hour there was always something new and entertaining. It could be a snack or a new toy. Well...one time when going to Colorado, she pulled out some pipe cleaners. We must have played with those for hours! Those were a favorite. So to remember those fun time, we bought some to play with in the back seat!

#9 - I just got the new issue of Real Simple this week too! YEAH!

#10 - And the new issue of Fitness has been waiting to be read for a while now too! (Yes, I have entirely too many mag subscriptions but I ask for most of them for gifts and then get others from kids of the people that I work with...funraisers!)

I hope that you all have a great weekend! I will update you when I return on Sunday night or Monday!

Weather and Challenge Results

So I looked outside today when the weather broke into one of the TV shows that I was watching and this is what I saw. So pretty! Mom what do you think?! (I know how you like your clouds.)

Jess...there's your house!

I just realized today that I never posted the results from the last challenge. Well I had 2 people participate (gotta love your moms)...so here they are!

This first one was hand made by my Mother-in-Law, Jean. It uses one of her new stamp sets, So Much! I just have to say that I love it so much!

And this one was hand made by my Mom, Kathy. What a great layout idea! So very, very cute!

Hope you all have a great night!