Happy Leap Day!

We get an extra day this month and today is it!

What are you going to do with your extra day?

I am going to go to the doctor to make sure my sickies are just what I think they are. Then home to work on swap stuff that I have to mail on Monday and work on a little talk I have to do Monday night at my team meeting for my jewelry business.

I would love to work on some of the house work I have let slide since I got sick a week ago but I didn't want to push it.

Enjoy your extra day today and do something fun!

I am back and little family review

I have been so sick the last few days. I had a cold/flu like sickies since last Friday. But I am feeling much better today, not 100%, but better.

I have worked on few digi LO's over the past week. I have been trying to work on my swap stuff but with being sick it has zapped my scrappy mojo. I am hoping it comes back this weekend!

I took Ty for his 2 yr appt. He is growing so fast! He is 36 ins and 25 lbs. He is starting to use more words and that makes life so much easier.

Matt is doing well and looking forward to our mini vacation in March.

Dad's eye surgery went very well! He is seeing better and will have the other eye done in about 6 months or so.

James is doing well in Washington. He is almost done with this semester and is all ready to go next semester. He will be coming to visit in June for a week. Which is cool because Matt, Ty and I are going to take a little road trip to Balitmore.

I am going to leave you with a few digi LO's.

Some new LO's

I have been scrapping both traditional and digital. I have been having so much fun doing both! Paper scrapping give me paper and glue fix and digi helps me scrap when I want without making a big mess.

Here a few digi:







I want to retake the pictures I took of my latest paper LO's before I post.

It feel good to get back in the scrappy grove.

It has been awhile

I have not had the time in the past fews to post.

We have been busy getting dad ready for eye surgery in 2 weeks. So lots of doctor appointments. We have been working on picking out new tile and paint for the bathroom remodel project we have scheduled to start the begining of March. We have also been busy with working on getting the house refinaced to one of the new lower interest rates. We are going to consoldate our other debt. So now we are only going to have one payment a month and it 4 hundred dollars less then what is going out now.

So with the refi almost complete we can cross off one of our goals for 2008. Next on the goal list is to declutter and organize each room in the house. we are going to room by room declutter, paint and organize. I know it is going to feel so good to get it done!

So for the dinning romm is 90% finished. All that is left is to put some china in the corner hutches. I also reoganized the coat closet. We now can fit coats, shoes and the vaccum in the closet!

The guest bedroom has been an on going project for the past feew weeks. I have been going through boxes and coming up with a plan for storge of office supplies and my scrapbooking stuff. We are trying to get the most that we can out of the room.

I am hoping to remove the wall paper and paint the livingroom in April. I would like to add an Expedit from Ikea for Ty's toy storge in there.

Enough about the house. I went to a weekend crop in Jan and I got 12 layouts done! I was so happy to get so much done in one weekend!

I will post them later. I am also hoping to post some Ty birthday parties as soon as I upload them from the camera.

Hope you had a great weekend!

Happy Birthday Ty!

Tyler Turned 2 yesterday!

He is getting so big so fast.

We are going to have little Birthday party for him on Saturday so I will post pictures then!

Happy Holidays!

I can't believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve.

Where has December and 2007 gone?

We are ready for the big day. Gifts are bought and wrapped, cards mailed, menus planned, and the camera is ready to go.

I pick up James from the airport tomorrow night. He is going to spending a week here on the East Coast. Then back to Washington for school and he is going to look for a new job. Right now he is working overnights. He wants something to work better with his school schedule.

I am looking forward to the New Year. I am hoping 2008 is a great year for us. Matt and I are writing down our top 3 goals for 2008 in a few different areas of our lives. I think listing only 3 will help us reach our goals.

I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year!

I am going to leave you with another picture of Ty and the Christmas Cactus.

Check out my Slide Show!

Thanks Stacy I got it to work!!!!

Well I finally got a slide show. Now I have to figure out how to move it to the right side of the blog. Any suggestions???

That's my son

So Tyler has been all about climbing lately. He moves his ball pit over to the bay window and uses it to climb onto the window sill and sits down and watches the world go by out back.

Here is how I found him this morning while I was getting his breakfast ready.



He thinks there is nothing wrong with sitting in my Christmas catcus or climbing up into the window.

Wildlife

I have found myself getting more and more interested in wildlife photography.

Here a few pictures I snapped at work this weekend.







This is the rocking chair I want so bad. It is so comfy!




Thanks for looking!

Our Tree is up!

Friday we got down to business and got our decorating done inside.

Here is the tree.




This where the stocking are going to hang, but not yet because Ty likes to pull them down.



Finally here is our family picture we are sending out for our Christmas card.




When I get the decorations for outside I will post a picture.

Thanks for looking!

Like father, Like Son

Tyler LOVES trains just like his daddy.

We have Thomas the Tank everywhere in the house. So while we were away we have Thomas the Tank all over the house at my aunts. She even went out and bought more Thomas stuff and track so Tyler could play.

He are a few pics of Ty tinkering with Thomas.






I thought I had some pics of Matt tinkering with his trains but I don't. So you will have to wait for those.

I am going to try to get a few pics of Matt and Ty playing Thomas together.

Thanks for looking!

One crazy weekend

I picked up Matt at the airport and was in and out in record time.

Got out to Sayre around dinner time. So we checked in and ran to our friends house for pizza. The kids ran around like 3 nuts. Which Ty needed after the 4 hour drive. We head back to the hotel and went to bed around 900 because we were all so tired.

Tyler slept like a champ. The noise drunk people did not wake him. The alarm from the stuck elevator(sp) did not wake him. The drunk people at 2am did not wake him. But Matt I wake up every time he heard anything out of sorts.

So Ty was up at 730 and so were we. Matt showered first. Then I took Ty in with my to shower. We get out and I give Ty to Matt to dress. Ty jumps off the bed and runs into the bathroom and locks himself INSIDE. I get dressed Matt gets the maintenance man. While this is going on I hear a crash. I just know it is the glass from the vanity. Then I hear the scream and then the cry.

Now I am standing at the door pleading with a toddler to open the door. I just know he has cut him self some how. So Matt comes in then the maintenance man and then Ty opens the door.

I walk in and there is blood everywhere. I pick him up and look at his feet. He has about 7 cuts bleeding on his two little feet. I get him in the tub to rinse and check for glass. Matt starts cleaning up. I get his feet wrapped and in his socks and call our friends to see if they have a first aid kit. They do. So we finish packing and check out.

We cleaned his cuts out some more and my friends sister checks him out(she is a nurse) and he was fine. THANK GOODNESS!!!!

SO now comes the drive home in the what we thought was just going to be some flurries. Nope it started to SNOW once we got on the Turnpike. We couldn't even see the lanes in the road and no one was going over 30 MPH. Once we got past the Pocono Mts we were fine.

It took over 6 hrs to get home. NOT fun with a toddler.

So that was our fun weekend.

I am so happy to be home!!!!

We are not planning much travel in the next few weeks so we can recoup.

WOW

I have not blogged in like 2 weeks.

SO what have I been doing the past two weeks.

I spent a week in Washington state. I went to visit my aunt. I helped her with her grand opening show for the jewelry we sell. I also got to meet some gals from scrapgal.com .



It was great to meet these ladies in person. I hope to catch up with them again the next time I am out west. I am hoping that it I can make it work out so I can crop with them!

Ty did great on the plane both ways!!!! I was so happy he did not freak out on the plane. Here are a picture if him on the plane and one of the two of us..




Once in Washington Ty did not believe is sleeping.

So this is how we spent most nights.




The flight back was one of the most turbulent flight I have ever been on. We bounced and shook for over 2 hrs of the 3 hr 40 min flight.

I am still trying to catch up on sleep and resting my banged up bones.

Halloween Fun

On Tuesday at 4:35 I decided we had to carve a pumpkin for Wednesday night. So off in the car Tyler and I went to find a pumpkin. We found a pumpkin finally at one orchard. It was not the prettiest in the back but it carved up nice.

Matt and I working hard.




Here is our fine work.



Tyler loved being a firemen. He had his costume on for 2 days. We had playgroup one day and then Trick or Treat the next.

So here is our little fireman.

Family Fun Afternoon

Yesterday when Matt got home he wanted to go to the park for some family fun time.

Boy did we have fun. Tyler loves going up and down the slide. I got some really cute pictures of Tyler at play. I also got a cute one of Matt and Tyler coming down the slide. I love watching the two of them play together. I see so much joy in Matt's eyes when they do thing together.

If the weather holds out we may try to head to the park again today. We have get Tyler tired during the day so he sleeps at night. So far the playground is working.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.


Matt and Tyler going down the slide


Tyler just looking as cute as every.

This last picture is of my wall. Yes my son is removing my wall paper. So That means the living room moves higher on the rooms that need to be redo list. We are currently looking for a contractor for the bathrooms. We are going to update the kitchen ourselves and now the living room. I have no idea when we are going to start up stairs. I have to take wall paper down in one room and paint the other two.

Oh the joys of home ownership.

Oh what a day

Well I started off yesterday like it was a normal day. It was state holiday so I had to work. I get to work start working on projects and I get a call at 10 am from dad's aid. He had a seizure and was about to start another one. His aid had already called the paramedics and they were on their way. I closed up the office and headed to the hospital. When I got there he had a third seizure in the ambulance an the way there. There were 4 nurses, 3 doctors and the ambulance crew. He was still pretty out of it and twitching. I sat with him for 2 hours while they ran tests. Everything came back within normal range. So they admitted him.

I truly have no idea how my dad deals with this time and time again. I pray that the doctors can come up with a better treatment plan for him. I know this is hard on him. He had just got out of the hospital on September 26 and now he is back in.

The last year and half had been so hard on all of us. I know he wants to live because he keeps fighting. Please say a little pray for my dad.

The YMCA and Weight Watchers

So I am back on the weight loss ban wagon.

I joined Weight Watchers this week and I joined the Y last week.

I am going to weigh in on Wednesdays and I am hoping to hit the Y 3 days a week. I am so happy that I have made the decision to get healthy. I know this is not going to be easy. I have a lot to loss and it is going to be a long road. But I have a great support system. Matt is so supportive and helpful when it comes to the whole we need to find a new way to eat. Plus Tyler is going to eat better. I hope he grows up to be a good eater of a well balanced diet.

Here is a picture of Tyler at the Train Museum last week. He was all over the new kid play area with Thomas wooden rails and GeoTrax. It was a challenge to get him out of the room.

October is here

I can not believe it is the 4th of October already! Where does the time go?

So I have been busy planning my next few months of show for Silpada. This is a busy time a year for shows and orders being placed for the up coming holiday season. I am trying to get a few more shows booked so we don't have to worry about spending money on Christmas this year.

I am also hoping that we get out refinance done before December too. I would love to have our credit cards consolidated and money put away for retirement by the end of the year. I would also like to get our household on a budget. I would like to start 2008 with a fresh financial start!

I have also started a new business venture. I have a travel website. You can book flights, hotels, rental cars and all-inclusive vacations all on my site. So if you know anyone who wants to go on a vacation please direct them to my website.


I did not make it to round 2 for the scrapping challenge at Ilove2create.com. But I have a great time with round 1! Here are my cards from my last challenge. They are not as great as I would have liked and they are all basically the same but I was not in the creative mood with my sinus/ear infection. But I am going to use them for my Silpada mailing.

Bad, bad blogger

I am such a bad blogger lately.

We have been so busy. Dad came home from the hospital on Wednesday and he is doing great! It is amazing how when your meds are off you are a different person. Tyler has had a cold all week. So he has not been sleeping well so that means we don't not sleep well. I have a sinus and ear infection and feel yucky.

I also joined the YMCA this week. My friend Erin and I are going to start going on Tuesdays and Thursday while her daughter Ellie is in school. The Y has a baby sitting room so that is where Ty will spend his time.

I am hoping I feel better tomorrow so I can take some time and play with Tyler outside.

I also have to get some cards out to ladies I meet at vendor event last weekend. I like to follow up with a note and then in a week or so a phone call. I am hoping to get some more bookings on the calendar before Thanksgiving. I am also working getting a travel store set up online so we can make a little extra money.

I am leaving you with some of my latest creations. They are for the Scrappin Survivor contest over at ilove2create.com.





Hope you are having a great weekend!

What a week so far

So I most of spent yesterday sitting in the ER with my dad. His meds were all out of whack. One of his levels was so high it was toxic. So he is going to spend the next few days in the hospital so they can get his levels back within the normal range.

Yesterday I had to get 2 layouts uploaded to ilove2create.com by 11:59pm. I am participating in a Scrappin Survivor challenge.

Here are my first two layouts:



Tomorrow I am heading to my cousins house for some family time and a trip to the mall in King of Prussia.

Friday I have to take Tyler down to his nana and pop pop's house for the weekend. It is going to be a fun ride down because it is NASCAR weekend here. So lots of busy traffic.

So in between all that running around I have to clean the house, go to work, cook and work on my next layout for the challenge. I may go to a crop on Friday.