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!