The Good....and the Bad

Let's start with the good! My mother-in-law is buying us a new TV! Woo-hoo!!!! Our TV sucks sooooo bad it's not even funny anymore. When we won it two years ago we thought we were the luckiest couple. Well.....not so much anymore. The thing sucks. Half the time we can't get it to come on and the other half we have to leave it on F-O-R-E-V-E-R! So we're getting a 37" flat screen LCD, something, something, blah, blah, technology. I so don't understand, but I'm thrilled none the less!


The bad. Why is it after 9 years of being divorced he can still get under my skin? I won't go into details, but it always has to do with money. I'm so tired of it and I will be resolving this issue on Tuesday. Enough said.


Well, I hope everyone has a Happy New Year and is safe. Austin is with his dad until Monday. Kind of bittersweet because I've always been with him to ring in the New Year. I can't wait for Monday because I get to scrapbook with my friends all day! First time this whole Christmas break. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Ok, so I'm really late on that one. We've been so busy it's insane! Today I have a little free time before running off to a birthday party and getting my haircut again. More on that later.

My sister flew in on the 22nd from NYC and just left last night. As typical sisters that we are, we got into it the first night. My sister got a phone call while we were shopping that a friend wanted to go out. Well, being that I'm not "fun" I was ditched and off she went. Not a good thing. So I kept my distance all week. What a bummer, cause I was really looking forward to spending time with her.

December 23rd-two packages arrive; 1. a gift basket that has a bottle of Don Perignon, Godiva Chocolates and a bunch of other posh stuff. 2. a gift from his friend, an authentic 49er's Jersey! That made his whole day. Later that day we had Christmas dinner with my dad's side of the family. That's always fun. The kids decorated a gingerbread house, so cute!

December 24th- Austin left with his Grandma for the day (my ex's side) and returned later that night. He had a great time and was really excited about all his gifts. It's also Ryan's birthday. We did a few small things in the morning and then had lunch at the Yard House. He was wearing his new 49er's Jersey because the game is on later. I suggested he stay for it and walk home since we live just a few blocks away. He did just that.

Christmas-a total whirlwind! Had an awesome time, everyone loved their gifts.

December 26-shopped with my mom. What's the day after Christmas without a little shopping? We've done it for years and I love it!

December 27th-took the kids to see Night at the Museum. It was really good and a film for the whole family! Had the 2nd part of my Michelle Hill class. Super cute album, can't wait to put my Christmas pics in it!

December 28th-Took down the crib and changing table and put two twin beds in the boys room. What an all day event! I love the way it looks, but I still need to get some storage ideas since I no longer have the crib to shove things under and the changing table to stack stuff on. Dinner at Souplantation with my family. My sister loves this place and since their isn't one in NY she enjoys going when she comes to town.

And that brings me to today. We have a birthday party at Hullabaloo's and then I have a hair appt. I'm not digging my blunt bob. I'm going to have her put more layers in my hair. I love the length and look, it's just too straight for me. Well, have a nice weekend, hope I didn't bore everybody....that is if anybody reads this? :)

Notice anything different???

Saturday night my husband had his Holiday party at the Irvine Marriott. It was decorated really pretty, but the food was awful! It kind kind of had that buffet taste to it. Blah! The kids stayed the night away so afterwards we went and saw Borat. Very interesting. Not as funny as I expected. I suppose that's because they've shown all the funny parts on TV. After the movie we're walking to the car and guess what I do? Fall. Yep, and HARD. My knee & side of my thigh are all bruised and I scraped my hands pretty bad. My shoe got stuck and I just ate it bad. I'm so sore and it's made it hard to sleep.

Friday I took the kids to Disneyland. I love when it's decorated for the holidays. They had such a nice time and finally got to see Santa. Austin asked for an electric guitar. Oh boy am I in trouble! Zach was really quite and didn't say much. I was surprised he jumped right up on Santa's lap. It was really chilly and I couldn't shake being cold all day, so I left at about 8pm. I had enough of being cold.

Well I guess were on the countdown to Christmas now. Seven days and counting.

It's done & over

My birthday. Phew....it's over. I'm happy to report that I love my gifts. I got a gift certificate to our gym, which will either buy me A.) 2 sessions w/a personal trainer, B.) 5 sessions with a group trainer over 5 weeks, or C.) 8 sessions with a group trainer only lasting 3 weeks. I'll figure it out and book it for the new year. Can't wait, our gym is also being remodeled and getting new equipment. **LOVE, LOVE the new Gwen Stefani CD** My kids gave that to me. I also got a few small things that make me happy......like MAC's VIVA GLAM HOLIDAY LIPGLOSS SET. http://www.maccosmetics.com/templates/collections/collection.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CATEGORY20045

Today I finished up Zachary's teachers' gifts. I'm so happy that's done. I hope they enjoy them!

Ok, now for the important stuff........ NIP/TUCK......Oh my! I am SO happy Christian is no longer with Michelle! Woo-hoo!!!! The way the show ended made me soooo happy! I was wondering where the show was going considering they just finished their 4th season. Great show by the way, so well written. So my doctors are setting up a practice in Beverly Hills. If only it were real! I'm still crossing my fingers on that Ebay auction. Maybe a big windfall will come my way before it ends tomorrow!

Tomorrow is a mellow day for us, Story Time w/Ms. Lin and then Zach has a follow up appointment at CHOC. Have a great day tomorrow!

I'm 35

Wow. Who would have thought? 35 just doesn't seem befitting to me, I'm more like, 22! I'm in a funk, it could be the age. It really has been bothering me for sometime. But 35 is my year, I just know it! I have plans/goals for the next year and really want to see them through. Well, I'm off to help my dad with his ipod and teach him how to download music. We bought for him for his birthday.....that was back in JULY!

Christmas Tag

I saw this on Erika's blog, so I thought it would be fun to do!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Sits them under the tree
3. Colored lights or white lights on tree/house? colored this year, I prefer white, but Ryan took the kids to buy new ones because all my old ones were pretty burned out.
4. Do you hang Mistletoe? no
5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually I start the first weekend in December
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Candied Yams...mmmm
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Breakfast w/Santa and then going to my Grandparents house to decorate their tree. Does anyone remember Buffums? That's where breakfast was.
8. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, but only from family that we don't see often.
9. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think I was in Junior High. I finally realized I was getting everything I asked for.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? My poor tree.....since my divorce way back, my tree is very girlie. Lot's of pink/silver/gold/white/frosty/glittery. Now it's a mish-mosh of ornaments, homemade school ones, baby's first, second, third, etc.....I guess what a tree should look like.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? True Cali girl.....HATE IT!
12. Can you ice skate? I don't know? It's been about, oh gosh, 23 years since I last ice-skate.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? No, but I do remember crying when Santa would bring me exactly what I asked for. I'm such an emotional person.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being with my family and now enjoying it through the eyes of my children.
15. What tops your tree? An Angel my Grandma bought me. She got one for all the girls.
16. What's your favorite holiday tradition? I love baking, going to Disneyland, playing Holiday music every chance I get.
17. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Both!
18. What is your favorite holiday dessert? My Aunt's peppermint bars. Starbucks has something similar, but my Aunt's are way better!
19. What is your favorite Christmas song? All the songs. I love my Frank Sinatra CD and my Amy Grant one the most.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? Pass
21. What is your favorite Christmas special/movie? National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation! I do like the newer version of Miracle on 34th Street. We must own a dozen Christmas movies.

My Christmas present

I found what I want. Ooooh if money soooooo weren't an object or if I hadn't taken that NYC trip....or maybe I'll work partime to pay for this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200054952519 What dream come true!

I changed my blog layout a little, hope ya'all like it. I'll work on adding more tomorrow!

Random Stuff

Not much really going on, but I wanted to share that I did find out more about my friends' boyfriend that died. Apparently he took his own life. He had been clean & sober for years and in the last year slipped and was doing drugs again. He & my friend did break up and he couldn't deal with the pain. It's really sad and unfortunate because there is help out there and he just couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. So sad.

I've been working on a few little projects for the kids teachers; mini holiday albums. I finished one today and started a second. Hopefully I can crank it out and be done with that one this week sometime. Zach's school gets out next week, so his last day is Dec 13th. Austin's isn't until the 21st so I have more time.

Next week I turn....gulp.....35. I told Ryan this year we switch ages. He's turning 32 on the 24th. He made a comment about this lady looking "old", she must of been 40! GASP! Oh no he didn't!!! I was really apalled, but mostly teasing him that he could think 40 is old when his wife is practically 35. I really thought I'd have another baby by now or one brewing, but it just seems like were so stuck in a rut. We didn't expect to be renting as long as we have so it makes it hard to make that leap to have another child. So our goal is to be out of this place in the Spring/early summer. I don't care if we rent again, just a bigger place would be nice.

What's on everyone's Christmas wish list this year? I would love a new paper trimmer, a personel trainer and Julian McMahon. :)

Some sad news.....

Today has been one of those days. It first started with a disagreement with Ryan then my "terrible two" Zachary having a melt down at the library, then a phone call from my mom about my Grandma having another mass of cancer and then an email from a friend that her boyfriend died. My two year old and my husband aren't really anything major but it just seemed like things kept getting worse today. As you all know my Grandma has lymphoma. Well, tomorrow was to be her last treatment of chemo. She had tumors throughout her whole body and last week the Dr. wanted to do a catscan. Well, they found a mass in her colon. It's cancer. So a week from tomorrow she goes back into the hospital to have it removed and then has to stay in for a week. I'm hoping she'll come out here to recover. (she lives in Palm Desert) I just want her to be healthy so bad. She's such a fighter, I know she'll be fine.

Matthew Zorovich was 38 and had one daughter, Izabella who just turned 3. My friend Annette was dating Matt and was madly in love with him. The kind of love that you think only happens in the movies. I don't know all the details but I'm torn if I should call her.( I did email her) We haven't really talked much in the last year. We used to work together about 8 years ago and became friends instantly. We both left that company and lost touch. About 2.5 years ago we ran into one another at Disneyland and were elated! Kids the same age again! Her daughter Zoe is about 6 months younger than Austin and her daughter Izabella is 4 months older than Zachary. We started hanging out again, talking on the phone, but as time would tell we mostly just communicated via email. I've met Matt a few times and he was so charasmatic and kind. I'm absolutely heartbroken for her loss.

With that sad note, I'll take my achey body to bed now. I took an "Abs Express" class night...ouch!

Rainy Monday

It seems to be our first official winter rain today. The weather has just been miserable with all the heat right up until a week ago. But today it is a nice brisk 58 degrees! I have a sweater on....a sweater! And I got to use my raincoat for about a whole minute when I took Zachary to school. Speaking of Zachary, he's back home. Tummy ache. It seems to be going around. My stomach feels icky today too. I thought about decorating for the holidays today, but with two tummy aches, it's gonna have to wait.

Yesterday I scrapped with Illyse & Christine at the Red Bee. I completed four layouts in about 6 hours! I'm so happy!!! I had a ragging headache when I first showed up and thank god Christine had Excederin....I forgot I had some at home. Well, once it was gone.....I was ON FIRE! So some of these are kind of basic, but I'm just really glad to have them done. I had been saving the Basic Grey Paper forever, so I'm really happy I got to finally use it. Have a great day!

The Chicks Rocked!

The concert was so awesome last night! Aside from being nervous about being in downtown LA by myself all my nerves were gone once the concert started. I was sad to see it end but it was such an amazing time. I had the best seats too. I thought they were going to be up above, well they weren't. They were on the floor about 4 rows up off the right of the stage and about 40 rows back. I also was sitting with "industry" people. My whole section was empty for the longest time and then this group showed up with passes hanging around their neck. Someone said that it was the cast of "HEREOS & The UNIT". Which I did recognize two people from their commercials. The Asian guy and the Cheerleader. I was disappointed because a lot of them were rude. Talking a lot and getting up to be with one another. Then I over heard some say they didn't even know what the Dixie Chicks sing? They all had back stage passes which made me want to throw up. They so wouldn't appreciate meeting them. And one more thing.....they just sat there during the concert. Because none of them knew the music, they just sat there. Sad, someone else would have paid to sit in those seats and had an amazing time. Well I still had an amazing time all by myself.

Almost Turkey Day!

Is everybody ready? I'm not. I need to start chopping veggies for a dish I'm bringing to my mom's tomorrow. The thing is, I really don't want to right now. I'm in such a funk. I just realized I forgot to subtract 3 checks in my checkbook and if that's not bad enough, my credit card payment came back because DUH I forgot to put a stamp on it. I have never done that before. Not a good thing, it's due tomorrow and I'm sure they charge to make a payment over the phone. Ugh. You'd think staying home you could manage to stay on top of things. So I suppose with that said.....I shall now go chop an onion, a bell pepper and a carrot. You're probably wondering what I'm making. It's a corn casserole. I so love this dish. If you need a new yummy dish, I can send you the receipe. Have a great day!

It's been a week......

I've been so busy that I haven't had the chance to update this. Zachary is sleeping so I have some free time to update this......we just got home from Oak Glen. It's so pretty there with all the fall foliage. The only bummer is that apple picking season ended two weeks ago. But we made it a worthwhile trip. We sampled some apples, apple butter, apple donuts, apple cider and I bought an apple pie! The kids got to pet & feed some deer....or I fed the deer. Zach was a little afraid. Next year we'll definitely go early to make the most of the trip. Oh, and on the way back we stopped at Collective Journey. Wow! That's one heck of a scrapbook store. Got a few goodies, but not too many.

My cousin Stephanie is here from Seattle. On Sunday we went and picked her up from the airport and took her to my Grandma's. We stayed and visited for a short while. She'll be here for 9 days. It's so nice to have an out of town guest.

I got to scrapbook on Saturday afternoon at Oasis. Man I love that place! I finished four layouts and four really nice ones that I love! Here's one of them. On Sunday I'm scrapbooking at the Red Bee. I sooo cannot wait! If you see Christine, tell her congratulations, she made the design team for the Red Bee!!!! Yeah Christine! I think she's more excited that she'll get to go to CHA.

I know this is all over the place, but I'm trying to keep it short. :) Friday is THE CONCERT! Woo-hoo!!!! It so sucks I'm going all alone, but that's a true fan. Hopefully people won't think I'm weird if I ask them to take my picture. Dixie Chicks here I come!

Happy Monday!

That's a joke. It started off that I totally overslept and made my son late for school. I know, bad mom. I didn't even get the chance to shower because my day was crammed packed and I needed to run errands and get back by a certain time. So I washed my face, fluffed my hair, through on sweats and left. Dropped Austin off.....then dropped Zachary off....whew! Now to Target, Henry's and Stater Bros. I volunteered to make dinner for Courtney in my MOMS group who just had a baby. It's a really great program, Helping Hands, but sometimes I think I am an over acheiver and should keep it simple. I made salsa chicken, (it cooked itself) guacomole, spanish rice and baked cookies. (not from scratch) It's bad because I snack as I'm cooking. She & her husband were really happy to see some good grub. I'm pretty pooped and my hands are all dried out, but I sure do hope they enjoy their meal.

I could have kissed the mailman today! I ordered Vixen via Ebay on Nov 1st and the seller did not respond to any of my emails and I was stressed out! Over $100, I don't usually buy big ticket items, but this was such a smokin deal. It showed....thank goodness.

My weekend was pretty busy. Friday I took the kids bowling with my MOMS group and then out for Pizza. Then Steph & I scrapped at Oasis. I begged Ryan to get off work early so I could have the whole day. It wasn't hard, he was really pulling some long days the last few weeks. Saturday we had soccer, then another party. I ditched the party because Zachary was sleeping. Hit the Red Bee & Michael's to use my coupons. Stayed up entirely way too late Saturday organizing my paper and watching SNL. Sunday I had lunch with Illyse & Christine at Panera's, did some shopping, back home to grab the kids and head out to Chuck E. Cheeses for a birthday party. Yeah, I didn't have to make dinner!!!

So here are a few layouts that I did.

Zachary's Birthday one I need to put the "Who, What, Where info on the blank spot on the first page. I want to do it on the computer though, so it may take awhile! I saw a LO similar to this in Ali's book. I really like the way it came out.

Hungry for a Tangerine?

Looky looky what came in the mail today!!! Yipee!!! I've been selling crap....I mean stuff on Ebay so I could buy some new QK fonts. I have Vixen on it's way too. Sometimes Ebay is worth all the trouble.

Tomorrow I'm scrapping at Oasis all day with Stephanie....and maybe somebody else if she can sneek away :) Have a great Friday and I'll be posting some layouts on Saturday!

This heat is something else

Is anybody else just sick of it? It makes me want to do nothing. I took Zach to the park w/my MOMS group and the kids were just sweating like crazy. We packed up early and left. I couldn't even do household stuff because I just couldn't stand the heat. I've been watching a new show on Showtime, Dexter http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do it is really different, but such a good show. We have "On Demand" so I've been catching up. I also rented "Akeelah & the Bee." Haven't finished it, but it's good too. Hopefully it's not too hot tomorrow, try to stay cool everyone!

Layouts

I have to say that when I scrapped on Saturday by myself I got a lot done. It's amazing what a nice huge area and an ipod can do for inspiration. I wanted to share a few that I really like, some I still need to journal, but I'll share what I can for now!

I have a small confession

I am totally in love with another man. Julian McMahon. He's on Nip/Tuck and my obession is getting worse as there are more and more seasons. I downloaded some songs to my ipod from the show and while I was scrapbooking yesterday I was secretly wishing he'd come in and whisk me away! Then my phone rang and it was my husband. Oh well, a girl can dream. So I told Ryan about what I was listening to and that I was day dreaming.....well, he made fun of my Julian and said he was 50! No he isn't. I'm SO happy to find out he's 38! So there is a slim chance since we are in the same age range. Back to dreaming.......oh and the music.......the show's original soundtrack and then a song called "Strict Machine" from Goldfrapp and a song called "Diferente" by Lunatico. I'm terrible at linking music I'll see if I can do it later. Really different stuff. Enjoy my "McDreamy"!!!! :)

***I found a link to one of the songs http://www.gotanproject.com/ Enjoy! Here's another artist that's on the album. It's very South Beach/Tropical/Vaction feeling to mehttp://www.bebelgilberto.com/index.html You can sample some of her songs there or on itunes. Again, enjoy!

Finally Friday

This week seems to have been so busy. I'm so glad it's Friday. Friday always means there is a scrapbooking day coming up. Ryan knows how much I need that day. I'm going tomorrow to Scrapbook Depot. I can't wait. Austin does have a game, however, he sprained his ankle Wednesday night and he's out of commission for any sporting events for the next week. Per the doctors orders. Ryan has a "big game" to watch Sunday so he'll be gone doing the guy thing. 49er's game, it's all foreign to me. So he's more than happy to let me escape tomorrow.

Halloween recap; it went really well. We trick or treated at my parents house and the kids really had a good time. I need to upload my pics, maybe this afternoon. Zachary had a mustache & beard...it was so cute! He couldn't believe people would give him chocolate. He so is my boy, loves the chocolate. Austin pooped out, wanted to quit early on, but Zachary wanted more chocolate. Austin isn't into sweets. Sometimes I wonder how we're related!?!

Ryan has a dinner tonight so I'm thinking about taking the kids to see Open Season. Borat opens this weekend. It might be a family affair. My dad & brother want to see it, so I'm thinking Sunday I'll have to find a showing for us to go to. Looks really funny. Well I'm off to run errands and meet Christine for lunch~happy Friday!

We still have a mouse!

Ryan discovered yesterday that the little rodent is not gone. Today he took his car in and the immediately switched it out and gave him a new one. I guess since mice carry all kinds of diseases and who knows what else, they didn't want him to have any problems. The car is going to be fumigated and then sent off to auction. Apparently it's "normal" to have cars that are sitting to get mice, but not an active car. The only thing we can figure is the few times he's been at the airport this month maybe it crept in? Strange.

Austin had an amazing soccer game Saturday! He played most of the game and his team won! He's getting so much better. A lot more confident. Unfortunately he does not want to play basketball or baseball. I've asked him and we've talked about it a lot. He said he's just not interested. He just wants to play football. Maybe next fall I'll let him play. My rule was 10 years old (which it would have been fall of 2008) he can sign up, but I really want him to be active. Here's a few pics from his game.
Blogger is giving me a bad time again, so I can only post the one pic.

Party Time!

Yesterday was the first in many Halloween/Harvest Parties that the kids have in the next few days. My favorite one is usually the MOMS club one because the kids are in awe and just love to dress up. Austin has decided that being a cute super-hero is no longer what he wants to be. Scary is now what I'm in for. We negotiated on the costume. He wanted bloody super scary. I said it wasn't age appropriate, so this knight idea works for the both of us. And of course we have Zurg. My boys were so hot because yesterday it was still a nice 90 degrees. I'm so sick of this hot weather.At the party we had Ms. Lin entertain the kids. I think I now know what I'm going to do for Zachary's party. Ms. Lin does story time at the Placentia Library on Thursday's. We've only been once, so this was the second time Zachary got to see her and he just loves the music and interaction. She's sooooo good with the kids and reasonable to hire for a party.


Today Austin has a soccer game. Then we might go to a Pumpkin patch later. Tomorrow I get to scrapbook with Sandra. I cannot wait to go. Have a great weekend!

I am such a sucker for a cute costume

I called my local childrens consignment store this morning looking for a denim shirt to complete Zachary's Cowboy costume. I'm in luck! They have one in a 2T. I bring a bag of clothes to drop off and get the shirt. Oh how I wish it went that way. Zachary is saying, "Zurg Mom! Zurg!" I turn around and there is a Disney Zurg costume. And in his size. "How much?" I ask. $24.99 plus 35% off. So about $16. How could I resist? It's so stinken cute! So now Zachary has 3 costumes. Good thing we have three different parties so he can switch it up!!!!

3rd time is a charm?

This blogger was making me soooo mad last night. Twice I lost my post, so will it work for the third time? We'll see.

Ryan calls me from the airport yesterday frazzeled. Telling me something very fast and I have to stop him because I could have just sworn he said there was a mouse in his car??? He calms down and now explains that there was a MOUSE in his car! He opened up his glove box to put his parking stub in there and a mouse was asleep in the napkins! He said when he shouted "Oh Sh*t!" it jumped out and ran down by his feet so he jumped out and got a golf club out of his trunk to get it out. He has no idea if it's gone and won't know until he gets back from Chicago tonight. He said that it had shredded up the napkins to either eat or make a comfy spot to rest and pooped all in his glove box. Exactly how does a mouse get in your car??? We don't live in the country? That has got to be one of the strangest things I have ever heard of happening!

Could you stand to see more NYC pics? If I had a gallery somewhere I'd just link it. But for now.......this is the famous "Serendipity". The one that was on Oprah-the Frozen Hot Chocolate. It was really yummy. Kind of tasted like a blended up fudgesicle. They did have really amazing desserts. We planned this day to have and early lunch, dessert at 3:30 and then a late dinner. It's amazing we all didn't gain 10lbs!!! Our favorite was the "Humble Pie". It was a peanut butter pie with vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, bananas and whip cream! Mmmmm, so delish!!!

Me and my cousin Jessica slurping up some frozen hot chocolate.

Even my Grandma enjoyed it!

I love a great day scrapbooking

Yesterday I spent the entire day scrapbooking at Scrapbook Oasis at their "Memory Trends" crop. I had such an amazing time and sat with my friends Christine, Illyse & Erika and talked the day away. I got 7 layouts completed!!! I'll have to share some of my layouts later. I also won so many great prizes too! Lots of paper packs, some embellishments and a cool "Bazzill Bling" t-shirt. SB Oasis always does the best crops! Thank again for a great day!


I want to share some more NYC pics. I'm terrible at posting pictures, so forgive me if they're all over the place again. This one is outside of the theater of CHICAGO. The music was so great! Now I really want to see the movie. The second picture is the view from our balcony. We stayed at The Kimberly Hotel. It was on 50th & Lexington. Or maybe it was 51st? On the 25th floor. Not a fan of heights. I just barely started understanding the way the streets worked when we left. So confusing!
Here I am in a carriage ride through Central Park. I thought it was funny that most people knew right away that I was from California! Could it be the blonde hair? Or the pink jacket? I really did kind of stick out in my pink jacket. Well I now need to start my day away, hopefully I can get some more pics up later to share.

What an amazing time

NYC was more than I could have ever expected. The food was amazing, the Broadway shows were spectacular, the hustle & bustle was over whelming, the old building were just breathtaking......needless to say I had the best time ever! I have over 100 photos and my cousin is sending me what she took so I'm sure I'll have about 200 pictures!!! I cannot wait to make my NYC scrapbook. Here are a few of my favorites.

2 more days!

I can hardly believe it....2 more days and I'll be in NYC! I'm ready to go, just need to put my clothes in my bags. I've bought some things I'll need, but nothing more comfortable than these shoes. For those of you that love CROCS I finally "get it". I found these shoes at Ross and at first I thought they were weird looking. But then I put them on and instantly knew these were a must have for all the walking that's going to be done in NY. They are soooo comfortable! They're by "Simple" and I have no idea what they are called. I've bought a few other new things for my trip and lots of magazines for the plane ride.

I'm trying to get everything ready at home for Ryan & the kids. He'll be staying home for 6 whole days! So much to think about especially since he's in Boston right now.

Today I received a small package from HSN. OOOOOOH so cute! They were selling the Chatterbox Chipboard alphabet for $14.95 in 5 colors. How could I pass that deal? See you all when I get back!

Yee-Haw Cowboy!

This seems to be the costume we've setteled on. It kind of came together by accident. I saw a pair of cowboy boots at Old Navy and had to get them. Then I was at Gymboree and they had put this costume on sale. It's too big, but Zach really doesn't care. So we had to go buy a hat & holster last night to make the outfit complete. He already has had his costume on for an hour this morning and is laying here watching cartoons in it. So goofy!

What a busy weekend

My Friday started off by picking my cousin Danielle up from the airport and going to my Grandma's for the day. We had a really nice visit and then went out to dinner. Zachary had his first Shirly Temple. He absolutely loved it! Saturday Zachary got his third haircut. Poor guy, his hair hair hardly grows. Austin had a soccer game and they won! Yesterday I went with my friends Illyse & Sandra to the Red Bee and scrapbooked all day. So much fun! Love a great day of scrapbooking.





On the count down to my New York trip......only 10 more days!!!!

One silly guy

Zachary is just so funny sometimes! He had to have a mohawk here but wouldn't sit still to let me get a picture of it. So I snuck around the corner and shot this one. His hair is so long and his mohawk kept falling over.

Zach had preschool today so I got to go scrapbooking shopping! Like I needed more stuff! Oasis has a ton of new stamps. I'll show a pic later of the goodies I got.

Were totally ON for NYC! I'm getting anxious and nervous. A lot to think about going across the country. My Grandma is doing much better and plans on going forsure! My cousin Danielle is flying in Friday from Seattle to visit our Grandma and since my Grandma can't drive right now because of her treatments, I offered to get Danielle and take her out there. It should be a fun day, even though it's supposed to be over 100!

A Fabulous Find

What a busy weekend! My MOMS club garage sale was a huge success. I worked the garage sale Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m. until 9:30. I'm not a morning person at all. I came straight home and took a nap. Austin had a soccer game at 2:45 and did really well. He's becoming more & more confident in his ability to play.

The Dixie Chicks concert tickets went on sale Saturday and because I waited, I now don't have such a great seat. When I first checked I would have been practically front row, now I'm up above but still close. I cannot wait until November 24th!

Ok, the fabulous find........I cropped Sunday at the Red Bee and while I was cropping I looked up and noticed their die cut spread.......OMG they have scalloped circles and squares! I know this seems silly to be excited about, but I almost order a whole bunch from Paper Source and would have spent a ton! Now I got to use my own paper (mostly scraps) and pick out how many I want of each! The simple things that make me happy. I also got a lot of layouts done which doesn't always happen. Here's a link to my gallery at 2Peas http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/userprofile.asp?user_id=36085 speaking of links, can anyone tell me how I change this so it doesn't actually show the link? I'm still learning.

Now for the semi-bad news. My Grandma. She has been battling cancer for sometime now and has started chemotherapy again. She's very sick from it and may have to cancel going to NYC. I guess were just going to wait and see how she does over the next few weeks.

The weather was perfect today

Cool and about 70 degrees with a grey sky and a slight breeze. I loved it. What I loved even more is that I worked out hard and I went to the the Red Bee http://www.theredbee.com what a neat store! Aisle after aisle of scrapbooking stuff. Unfortunately I didn't really have enough time to shop, but managed to pick up a few goodies. I really like this new paper by Die Cuts with a View. It's the top sheet. You can't tell in the picture, but it's textured and has glitter on it! Love the card kit. Austin made one to give at a Birthday party tonight. They are open Sunday's to crop from 11am-6pm for $7!!! Defintely worth checking out.