Been a busy girl

Forgive me for not blogging sooner.....last week I jammed my finger real good and haven't really been able to type. It's starting to feel better today.....that was until Karen my nail lady squeezed it! Ouch!!!

• Our weekend....we saw Shrek 3 & Pirates. Eh...they were ok. It was nice to go to the movies.
• Worked Sat & Mon.
• Scrapped Friday night....sort of......that was the day of the injury. (should have taken pics to share with those of you that haven't seen it. UGLY!)
• I've been working out on a regular basis and that feels great! My clothes were getting tight, but now everything is back to "normal". Trying to get that flat tummy for August when we rent a beach house.
• Zachary is totally potty trained! I thought this was a day that never would come.
• Austin had Open House last night. I don't like these kinds of things....so I was happy to be out of there in a matter of 30 minutes.
• I'm going to CHA.....really excited!

Well, I'll update better tomorrow.......

The last day.....

I'm sad the school year is over for Zachary. He loves his time there. But he can't wait til the fall when he is in the "Bee" class. Here's what I made for his two teachers.

Really easy and quick....they can use the giftcard spot to put a picture once they take it out.

So now that he's out of school, I won't be working on Wednesdays any more for a while.
This morning Karen talked to me about Summer CHA! Ooooooooh........I hope it works out. Ryan said to go, thank god it falls over a weekend. I've never been to Chicago, though I probably won't see any of it since I'd only be there two days, maybe 3. Cross your fingers I can go!

Watched this....

last night. {side note...does anyone remember "In Living Color"? David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans did this skit where they were two gay movie reviewers? They would say "Hated It!" or two snaps up.}

HATED IT! What in the world? How did this get so much praise??? Jennifer Hudson was good, she has an amazing presence, but Beyonce, Jamie & Eddie all annoyed me. I didn't even really enjoy the music. Such a bummer, because I was hoping to add this to my movie collection.

I'm trying to finish up teacher gifts, can you believe tomorrow is the last day of school for Zachary? I'm sooooo sad. And he will be too once he figures it out. I'll post pics later...gotta run.

Hey You!

Madonna has a new single.....you can download it for free here...http://liveearth.msn.com/
Love it!

My Brother

Colin joined the National Reserve last year August....it took him six months to go. I think he was really nervous, which I don't blame him. From what I understand he's loving it! Colin doesn't know which direction to go with his life.....actually, he'd be really happy if my parents let him live at home forever....he doesn't understand why that isn't ok.? I'm really happy that he's doing well with the reserve and I hope it has given him some insight as to what he wants to do. This is his girlfriend Andrea. I don't really know her. She lives here and he's in Georgia until mid June when he graduates. Isn't he so handsome in his uniform? I think all my brothers are really good looking guys......I guess it helps to have a cute older sister! hee-hee.....

A very Happy Mother's Day

Happy late Mother's Day to all my friends......hope you had a great day. I sure did. We had breakfast at my mom's house and then went down to Irvine Spectrum with the kids. They rode the carousel twice, played in the water in front of Target and took a train ride. I shopped at H&M and found some really cute summer clothes! The kids got new shoes at Skechers. Zachary got these : Koolers-I like them way better than Crocs because his foot won't slip out. Austin picked out these shoes Airators. I guess they keep your feet from stinking and give a little air pump in the sole. Kind of reminds me of the old Reebok "pumps". Any ways.....it was a great day and the kids were so well behaved. I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's Day.

Keeping cool.....

I took the kids swimming today after Zachary's nap. It felt good to dip my feet in the water. Zachary wouldn't get in any deeper than his ankle's because the pool isn't heated. So no worries about getting into a bathing suit today!

So I was thinking about that "tag" about random things and I did think of a really strange one that people wouldn't know about me. I love to deep sea fish! My Grandfather used to have a 50 foot boat docked down in San Diego and we would go fishing all the time. Those are some of my best memories. He ended up buying a bigger boat, but than realized he'd have to charter it out and didn't want to do that......it was a cool boat though....65', "The Knotty Lady" hee-hee....ok off to make dinner for the kiddos!

He started today

Ryan finally starts his new position today as a manager. It's really exciting for him and he's so happy. The bummer part is that he has to change his hours back to 8:30-5:30 :( Which means he'll be home so late. He works out at work, they have a super fancy gym there, so he's gone before anyone is awake. And now he's playing softball on Wednesday nights. Ugh......we'll see how things go over the next couple of weeks. We might have to change some things around.

Annie & Joann always do a "grateful" list at the end of their daily blog which is so sweet. Today I thought I'd do a little rant...... enjoy!

1. Can it get ANY HOTTER? Ugh......I didn't turn the AC on yesterday, but today I had too.

2. Can gas be any more expensive? Hello......$73 to fill my tank up last week....makes me not want to leave my house.

So maybe I only have two things :) But I am grateful for naps......

Funny things Zachary has said over the last couple of days....."pissed out" instead of "pooped out" and instead of "goodbye" he said "peace out" to his brother this morning when we dropped him off at school. Man I love this age. Peace out.......

Happy late NSD!

What a day yesterday! I had the best time with my friends scrapbooking all day long! I'm still so inspired that I'm setting up shop right now to scrap the rest of the day. Ryan left around 1pm for L.A. and he'll be home tomorrow night. He has some presentation/training thing he's putting on......and then Tuesday he starts his new job....exciting! Any ways.....with him gone (and Austin at his dad's) I thought what the heck? Might as well scrap some more....I don't have to cook dinner, we're going to my mom & dad's and tomorrow both the kids will be in school....oh my! It's like my own National Scrapbook Days! Have a great Sunday....can't wait to watch Desperate Housewives and Soprano's tonight while scrapping!

7 Random things about me.......

Annie tagged me....and let me tell you, this is SO hard for me! Well, maybe not.....let me give this a crack

1. I am allergic to chocolate. Yep.....gives me headaches, stomaches, and bad dreams. Though I absolutely love chocolate and don't usually go a day w/o eating it.

2. I am extremely self conscious. I would give anything to have better hair, bigger hands and be taller.

3. After my divorce I met a guy and dated him for a few weeks. About 6 months later I found out he was going to Federal Prison for robbing a few banks!

4. I cannot stand it when things aren't organized....

5. I own 19 pairs of jeans...some are capri's, but they're all denim. My husband said I am not allowed to buy any more....I can't help it! Also, a white shirt of any kind is a staple in my wardrobe. I own way more than 19 white shirts/short/long/tank.....I won't even tell you how many. I have a white sickness.

6. I check everybodies feet out.....I have a foot thing.......I believe if you wear open toe shoes your feet should always look presentable. If the polish is coming off, take it off....plain is better.

7. I love open toe shoes. Unless I'm working, I'm usually in some sort of sandal, flip flip thingy.....again...... I won't go there with how many shoes I own.

I'm sure there are more things.....thanks Annie! That was fun. Now I'm tagging Debby, Jennifer, Christine and Illyse.

Lov'in my new hair!

I was a nervous wreck this morning.....I'm such a freak about my hair and going to a new hairdresser made my stomach hurt so bad! I am a very picky client. My hair sets my mood and the blonder it is, the happier I tend to be! So Holly is adorable...teeny tiny little thing. When we spoke on the phone I told her I chopped all my hair and now it's short and want to go back to longer. She agreed....she told me I'd look "sexier" with it longer. ;) Now the color is different....kind of darker, but a lot of that "golden" color is gone. When it would be around week 7 it became brassy and it would drive me nuts, I think she took a lot of that color out. Next time (which I'm so going in 6 weeks) she'll put more blonde in just in time for summer. So here's what it looks like.....and let me tell you.....she is fair at what she charges! So worth it!

Design Team Call.....

Just wanted to share for those that might be interested.
http://www.theredbeeblog.blogspot.com/

Holy smokes!

It's been a week since I last blogged! What has transpired? I worked Wednesday, took Zach to Disneyland on Thursday. (Speaking of Disneyland, I know there are some of you with passes, if you decide to go last minute, email me or call me, I'd love to meet up with anybody. We tend to go just for a few short hours because I have to get home and get Austin)....which I was dying because I over dressed the two of us....oh and Friday Mr. Zachary came down with a throat infection and was terribly sick Thursday night until Saturday. Little sleep was had. Took my car in....finally got my side mirror fixed! That little incident cost me $108!!! I will definitely be more careful not to try and squeeze by again! Birthday party Saturday....oh I worked Friday night and Sunday.....celebrated my Mom's Birthday at our house last night and today I went to the gym at 8:30 and then to park day. Whew! Busy.....Tomorrow I have a hair appt with my mom's hairdresser....I'm a little scared because I've never been to her, but my girl is just becoming a hassle to try to get in and see. Plus she's really expensive and we could manage to save a few bucks this month. I've decided I'm not a short hair person. I came this close to buying extension pieces, but Ryan really hated the idea and it's pretty pricey. So on the journey to growing long hair again.

I'm SOOOO super excited that National Scrapbook Day is Saturday! I sooooo miss scrapping once or twice a week. Well, since I haven't posted many pics lately I thought I'd share some.

Changed the video

I get tired of the same song and if you are Nip/Tuck fan you'll notice this is another song from the show. October seems so far away before the new season starts. :(

I've been great at my workouts...I feel so much better and I have a lot more energy too. Gotta get this tummy flat for that beach house this summer!

My weekend was a scrap-a-thon in a sense...worked very late Friday night....scrapped Saturday night w/Christine and then worked again Sunday and did a make & take at the store. Just a heads up......we're (The Red Bee) is going to be giving away a page kit this Friday night. I did the sample and have "kitted" the whole thing here at home. Karen (owner) is supposed to be sending out an email with the sample, hope you like it! Well, I think I might try to sneak a little scrapbooking time right now with Zachary snoozing......

Rainy Friday

I love that it has been raining all day today. Even more so, I love the comment Austin said in the car just a little while ago. Apparently he loves the rain because smokers can't smoke because the rain will put out the cigarette. He is so anti-smoking. Which is a really good thing. Ryan used to smoke....sometimes I think he sneeks one every now and again. The last time he was seriously smoking was when Zachary was born. The stress of my delivery freaked him out. Let me just say, I got to the hospital at 9pm and was a "zero" and 30 minutes later I was a "5". It was Valentine's night and everybody was out. Zach kept holding his breath and I almost had an emergency c-section.....but I delivered him 2 hours later. I think that would make me smoke too!

I've been a bad blogger the last week....between being busy and Zachary getting sick, I haven't felt up to it. Zachary has bronchitis again. I've started a new work-out routine....which has made me sore and cranky. I got my teeth cleaned Tuesday and she did this water treatment cleaning. My teeth never hurt so much! I've been lacking in the sleep department with Zachary coughing which equals more crankiness. I'm miss scrapbooking which is also making me cranky. I feel bad but I'm going away all day tomorrow to scrapbook. Austin goes to his dad's tonight....I work tonight & Sunday. That's our weekend in a nutshell.

I rented two movies today....A Good Year with Russell Crowe and the Pursuit of Happyness. I fell asleep during the Russell Crowe movie. It's really boring. Well, off to surf the net before I leave for work....have a great & dry weekend!!!!

Not much going on.....

Just regular busy day to day stuff.

My poor DH is crawling the walls though. His company offered this new job to him, but because it was review and raise time, his (money) offer got thrown on the back burnner until that was done. Well today he found out that the lady handling it in HR left for Korea for a week! He is so mad! So he can't start until they have an "official title and salary" for him. So frustrating.

Have a great Tuesday!

Back home

So happy to be home! I'm tired and had a good time....I'll post some pics later.

Is anybody going to the Autism Crop Saturday at the Red Bee? I'll be there and can't wait to get some scrapbooking done! In fact, I might finally start working on my NYC pictures! We were talking about going again next year and trying to get some ideas about when to go again and where to stay. My brother is there right now, he spent the week with my sister. He's SO lucky to have gone! So all the talk about NY got me wanting to start my album. I also bought "Chicago" and watched it yesterday. I saw the Broadway musical "Chicago" in NY and that got me buzzing.....well enough about NYC.

My friend Laura had her baby yesterday! Owen James....8lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long.....can't wait to see him! Congrats Laura, Larry and Amanda!

Happy Easter! **small edit**

I'm soooo happy it's Spring Break! I work tonight until midnight and then we're off to my Grandma's house in Palm Desert tomorrow. Good-bye gloomy weather! It's about 85-90 there.....I guess I can start that summer tan! My aunt is coming with 3 of her kids also. I *love* when we're all together hanging out! We'll probably swim a ton, see lots of movies, BBQ, go to Cabazon and play games. We have the best time when we go. I'll have lots of pictures to share......today is my Grandma's Birthday....she's 75 and beautful! She looks great and I hope to age gracefully like her. Happy Birthday!!!!

Oasis posted that they have these new cutie bags which I was salavating over at CHA......I will pass up on this beauty, but it's killing me becasue it's pink and I love it! Isn't it gorgeous?

Have a great Spring Break everyone and I'll post more when I get back......

***guess who has these bags??? Red Bee! I just about died when I went into work tonight. We sold 3 tonight and I'm sure they'll be gone soon! I did pass on this as my spring break starts now and I need some spending money.....hopefully it'll be there for me when I get back.***

Introducing.......

A.Z. I saw something similar on Elsie's blog and thought this is the cutest thing! It was supposed to be for an Easter Basket, but it's hard to hand sew something and the kids not ask what I'm doing. I'm making another one. The boys can figure out who gets what. It's SUPER easy.......I think this is my new hobby! I'm making a few to give as presents on Easter. I'll post more when I'm done.....my bunnies will be multiplying soon!

I watched TWO movies yesterday! The first one I watched while Zach napped. "Shut up & Sing". It follows the Dixie Chicks for the last 3 years from the time when Natalie Maines made the comment that she was "embarassed that the President is from Texas",, through their "On Top of the World Tour", making their new album, and then starting their new tour last summer. Which I felt like I was right there because I went to both concerts and there were A LOT of protesters back in 2003. Very emotional for me because I'm such a huge fan!

The second is the Holiday. SO GOOD! Such a chick flick! Watched it last night so I totally missed the Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars. Rent it.....it's so worth it!

By the way.....is anybody cropping tomorrow night? I would love to meet up with any of you that might be out cropping. Next week Ryan will be in Detroit again, so I'll be having scrapbooking withdrawls because my kids will also be on Spring Break. :)

New Layouts to share

I scrapped yesterday :) I'm sure I could've gotten more done....but I chit chatted with Donna & Jennifer A LOT! Here's the goods;

I got this in the mail today. Basic Grey magnets. One of mine broke! Be careful....these things are super strong and I think them pulling together so much, busted a slice off of one. Nice of them to send me 10 for 1 broken one!

And......a little retail therapy. Let's just say somebody said something that triggered an arguement last night. Still mad this morning so I took it out at the first store that opened by 9am and bought some new summer shoes! Mmmmm.....love me some shoes! Then came home and cleaned like a maniac. There are two things I do when I'm really upset.....SHOP and clean. and I mean super deep cleaning. I feel better now and my new polished sparkly pedicure will look pretty in these tomorrow at the park!