3 Little Scraps

Moved!!

2010-11-15T04:07:00.000-08:00

Check out the new blog HERE
http://demeyersphotography.blogspot.com/

I heart faces week 38

2010-09-20T10:00:00.001-07:00

It has been a long time since I have done anything with my blog or photography. Two weeks ago I started my photography class and have learned so much so far. And I am loving the homework. My two younger daughters went up north to the cabin with my husband last weekend. My oldest decided to stay home because she had a birthday party to go to (my niece Taylor's). I had to work, but I did get to spend some time at my brothers house with his beautiful girls. Which worked out well as I got a little Photography class homework done. My kids get a little sick of me snapping pictures of them but I know I can always count on my niece's to mug for the camera. This is Ray, isn't she the cutest! This is my entry for I heart faces week 38 challenge "Smirk".

Make sure to check out all the amazing entries by clicking the button bellow.

Thanks for stopping by :)

I'll still here.

2010-09-06T07:14:00.000-07:00

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time. I should have a lot to share soon. I'm going to try and get my etsy store back up and running. It might take me a while with school and work. I'm starting my photography class on Friday and am so excited about that. So coming soon (I hope) lots of great photo's, cards, and my usually personal stuff.

I feel like we are turning a new page in our life, everyone of us is starting something new tomorrow.

So here is to new beginnings.

Frankenmuth

2010-06-22T07:19:00.000-07:00

The Lightning team had a tournament in Frankenmuth last weekend. It was a blast. Last year we got up at 4am to get ready and get to Frankenmuth by 7am both mornings. This year we stayed at the Bavarian Inn. Which made it so much nicer, especially because the girls had such a busy schedule. 1 game Friday evening and 3 games Saturday. As always Dan took some amazing pictures of the games, and I took some mediocre pictures of the team having fun and doing what these wonderful fun loving girls do in there down time (when they are staying in a hotel with 5 pools and an arcade). I don't usually share a lot of Dan's photos because they are his and he really isn't into sharing his work, which is such a shame he really rocks the camera. BUT this one is my favorite. Even though Alyssa ate about two pounds of dust, when she slid into home.
And this is Rebecca's awesome double.(also shot by Dan)

Dan got so many great shots of the team, I can't wait to hand out the CD's to all the parents.

Now for my mediocre shots. These were all taken at the Inn.

The Lightning team families always have fun when we get together for a little R&R. Bree and Ash rocked out at karaoke.

The dads even got in on the fun, Dan and Steve rocked the Nascar game.

How many softball players can you fit into one photo booth? 3 softball players, one little sister and one big brothers. LOL.

This was the last tournament for NB Lightning now begins the All Star season.

I heart teenagers

2010-06-21T13:33:00.000-07:00

We are celebrating teens at I heart faces this week. I have been trying to get the perfect shot of Alyssa (my 13 year old) and I've got some really good ones, but I chose this one because it is just so her. She is fun and funny and always happy.

Check out all the beautiful teen photos at I heart faces, just click below.

All about Babies. . .

2010-06-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

This week is all about babies at I heart faces. Unfortunatly I don't have any baby pictures. ( And no time to get a good one of my adorable niece Sophia. I do have this picture of Bubba (black) and Betsy (brown). Bubba is about 3 years old but Betsy is still a "baby" she isn't a year old yet.

This week I heart faces expanded the challenge to include baby animals and I'm so glad they did. Make sure and check out all the amazing baby photos her -->I heart faces.

School is OUT !

2010-06-11T21:17:00.001-07:00

Today was the last day of school, pheeeew. It has been a busy week and I am exhausted.

To start everything off this girl turned 13. Wow time flies, it seems like only yesterday I was rocking her to sleep. (Brianna made the tissue paper flowers, it's her new favorite thing to do and I have to admit they make me smile.)

Then it was honor awards night. (This pic is as good as it gets, I just couldn't get a good one.)

Dan and I had parked and were walking up to the school for Rebecca's 6th grade graduation and saw our niece lauren waving at us from the cafeteria. Lauren is so funny she always makes us laugh.

Rebecca hugging Mrs. Goldstein, we love her. Alyssa had Mrs. Goldstein for 5th and 6th grade and Rebecca had her for 5th. (all the teachers line up to tell the students goodbye) We all have our fingers crossed that Bree gets her next year too.

Alyssa got her track medal.

Then Brianna had her 4th grade graduation, I know what your thinking because I was thinking it too. 4th grade graduation? that's a little much.. But I get it now because in our school district the 5th and 6th grades are in a different building. So the kids are graduating from the lower elementary to the upper elementary.

We really have been blessed with good teachers this year. Mrs. Eaton is such a wonderful person. (please say a prayer that Dan's neck brace can come off soon thats him in the background)

We loved all these balloon things.

Thanks for stopping by ~Angie~

This shot...

2010-06-10T04:42:00.000-07:00

We all know that Dan is the sports photographer, but at one of the resent games I wrestled the camera out of his hands and captured this shot.

He can capture the action, I'll get the emotion.

I'm working on my editing skills, let me know what you think.

~Thanks Angie~

Play

2010-06-08T04:20:00.000-07:00

The week 23 challenge at i heart faces is PLAY. I love this picture of Bree playing third base.

Please check out all the amazing entries at i heart faces.

Thanks for stopping by ~Angie

Rebecca's Helmet

2010-06-06T17:16:00.000-07:00

You may remember this post with pictures of Alyssa and her helmet from last year. This weekend was Rebecca's helmet game and here she is . . . .

Photography

2010-05-24T08:32:00.000-07:00

I am obsessed with Photography. So when my friend Robin invited me to become a fan of Iheartfaces on FB. I was really geeked about it. Every week Iheartfaces has a photo challenge. This weeks theme for the challenge in YELLOW, and here is my entry.

I'm looking forward to next weeks challenge. Check out Iheartfaces at http://www.iheartfaces.blogspot.com/

I'm back

2010-05-16T10:30:00.001-07:00

Things are returning to normal, well as normal as it gets for us. My last post was April 26th. Not a lot has happened since then. Except . . .

my husband is doing 110% better! :)

ANd

She turned 10.

We finally got to go to one of her track meets.

People often mention how fast she is, but I never realized how truly fast she was until watching her with the other runners.

Not a lot to post about but it's been awhile so I thought I'd get ya all caught up. I will be posting again soon, this week we have softball, softball and more softball also Alyssa's first semi-formal dance and Bree's concert.

Neglect

2010-04-26T04:29:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago Dan brought up the fact that I have been neglecting our Camera. It's true I had been leaving it zipped in it's bag for weeks without letting out for air. So I decided to give our Cannon some love and take more pictures. So I thought I would share some of my favorites here on my blog, because I will be neglecting my blog for a while.

Bex right before a scrimmage.

I call her my little Bee.

Sometimes Cookie will sit pretty for me...

but not for long...

Our pear tree, it's right on our property line but I call it ours.

You may notice their are no pictures of Alyssa. She has an insane schedule and it seems like she is only home to sleep. She is up at 5a.m. every morning and on the bus by 6:30a.m. in school until 3, then right to track practice until 5:30, then she has a whole 30 minutes until softball practice which lasts until 8p.m. She loves every minute of it. (Crazy girl)

Thanks for stopping by.

She is almost 13.

2010-04-22T05:29:00.000-07:00

So I decided I need a layout to show that she will always be my baby.

FOREVER MY BABY

A recent picture of her and her new born picture, my how time flies.

feeling sentimental

2010-04-07T09:29:00.000-07:00

I recently read a blog post that my friend Angi posted about a vintage print that hung on her Great Grandma's wall. She asked readers if there was a vintage print, or a wall hanging that meant something to them. At the time I really couldn't think of any, but at Easter we found out that Dan's older brother and his wife are going to keep bees. Some people were a little freaked out by it, but I was and am so excited. When I was little my Great Grandma kept bees, I was so fascinated by the bees and I loved her bee boxes, to me they seemed magical. You have to admit it there is something fairytale-ish about the bee boxes, a queen lives in them. :)

My Dad was a photographer for a while and I was his biggest fan. He took a picture of my Great Grandma's bee boxes and I loved it so much that I had it blown up and hung it on my bedroom wall. I love the shabby chic look of the old weathered bee boxes, and at that time GG had passed. She lived with us the last couple years of her life and she truly had become my best friend. I loved listening to her stories about growing up, she was such an amazing person. I still miss her and think of her often. But that picture my Dad took captured not only the beauty of the bee boxes, to me it represented my GG. I haven't seen that picture in years and wonder if it is lost somewhere at my parents house or if it is just lost forever.

I also think that my obsession for photography was born with that picture. It was so much more that just an image on paper.

I found this picture of bee boxes on-line, but they aren't my GG's bee boxes. I just wanted to have a pretty picture to go with this post.

It's April!!

2010-04-01T04:13:00.001-07:00

It's April and you know what that means!! Creative Scrappers Birthday Bash begins today!!

This is going to be a very inspiring month with 30 new sketches and 30 reveals. I am so excited to be participating in today's reveal. Here is what I created using a wonderful sketch by Lady Grace Belarmino.

HER COLOR

Make sure to check out today's sketch and reveal HERE.

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

2010-03-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago Bree and I stopped at the dollar store. She found this very cool top hat head band. A split second after she asked if I would buy it for her I was planning a photo shoot.
I changed everything to black and white except the hat and her eyes. I haven't altered the color of her eyes at all. All my girls have those amazing blue eyes just like their daddy. The top hat reminded me of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. We had so much fun doing the photo shoot and I got so many great shots. I wish I could share them all right now, but I will share more soon.

We have been spending a lot of time at home and that has given me a lot of time to scrap.
I love making my own flowers.

Mad Hatter

I do have some exciting scrapbooking news. I have been chosen to be a quest designer for Creative Scrappers in April.

Thanks for stopping by, have a very creative day!

Thanks Robin!

2010-03-09T03:59:00.000-08:00

I have been away from my blog for a while, life has thrown my family a few curve balls and kept me away .

So when I saw that Robin left me this sunshine award it really put a smile on my face.

Thank You Robin!

Now I'm suppose to choose 6 people to give this award too, but I really have to get off the computer, so I will do that on the next post.

Playing with paper

2010-02-18T05:37:00.000-08:00

I've been having a blast playing paper, ink, paint, Glimmer mist and my Cricut.

I did this one for the lovely color challenge at Noel Mignon Challenge Blog.

You know I love a good Challenge blog.

Lovely Sophia
(This one is totally my favorite)

This one is base on Creative Scrappers Sketch 91.
I went a little crazy on the Glimmer mist.

Old Soul

And I did this one just because he makes me smile and I love this picture. (he hates it though)
You Make me Smile

Thanks for stopping by.

TGIF!

2010-02-12T09:29:00.000-08:00

Don't you love Fridays? I do, usually I have a class on Friday mornings (Children's Literature we are studying fairy tales. I love it!) but this morning my class was cancelled. So I had time to do some scrappin'. Yay!! I have been wanting to do the Glee Challenge at Noel Mignon Challenge Blog. I have to confess I have heard great things about the show, but haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet. My work schedule really reeks havoc on my t.v. watching.

Check out the challenge HERE.

Here is my take on the challenge

In The Drink

Thanks for stopping by and have a sweet Valentines day! I am going to try and cook a nice meal again this weekend. This cooking stuff is kind of addicting. LOL

The Boeuf, the scrimage and a some scrappin.

2010-02-04T15:13:00.000-08:00

Sunday I made Julia Childs Boeuf Bourguignon. I was surprised that it actually turned out and was really good. Dan and the girls all liked it and there were no leftovers.

Saturday the girls had a softball scrimmage at Peroni Arena. They won, I'm not sure what the score was, but they had fun.
You can't tell in the picture but Rebecca's glasses are the same color purple as her uniform.

Here are a couple of layouts I finished recently.

YOU 2

O.k. I admit it I had a very hard time coming up with a title for this one and You 2 is not the greatest title. Other than the title issues I love how this one turned out. I need me some more of that BG paper. I love those doggies and the colors too ;)

Autumn Joy

Thanks for stopping by :)

I {heart} sketches!

2010-01-28T05:27:00.000-08:00

Working on a few things this morning before I head on out for school. And I thought I'd post this layout I created using Pencil lines sketch 170. It's not my usual style, but there is something about it that I really like.

YOU MAKE MY HEART SING

Short post today, but I'm sure I'll make up for it next week. Alyssa and Rebecca have a scrimmage on Saturday. It will be their first time playing softball inside. Their first tournament will be in February. So my blog will once again be full of scrapping and softball.

p.s. I will be working on my blog this weekend too, I have a lot of links to add and some things that need fixing.

Do something creative today, it will do wonders for your mood.

Grandpa's Birthday.

2010-01-25T09:40:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my Grandpa Scott's 80th Birthday. Grandma planned a small surprise party for him. He was home, and everyone started showing up, we didn't want to have him go away and then jump out and yell SURPRISE when he got home. That is probably not a great idea for an 80th birthday. I was able to get some great pictures of both Grandpa and Grandma, and I can't wait to get them printed and scrap them. Here is the card I made for him.

I just finished watching Julie and Julia, for the second time. I really like that movie. We all know that I can't cook very well and some of you even know what happened on Christmas day when I tried to bake an apple pie. (Let's just say that we had a flaming apple pie). I really hate not being able to cook very well, I have learned a few thinks from my SIL Nikki and there are a few things that I can now cook that involve more than just boiling water. I know that there is no way I could ever do what Julie Powell did and cook all of those Julia Child recipes, but inspired by the movie I am going to challenge myself to cook Julia Childs Boeuf Bourguignon Recipe for Sunday. I'll be sure to post pictures of it no matter how it turns out.

Speaking of posting pictures I promised to post a picture of our new table and chairs a long time ago. I'm sorry I forgot all about it until I was going threw pic's from Dan's birthday and found this one of the girls not so patiently waiting for cake and ice cream. (Please pay no attention to the coats everywhere)

On the way to Grandpa's birthday party I had to stop at the store. Dan and the girls stayed in the car with my camera.

I guess there is something funny about pork butt roast.

I'm back...

2010-01-17T09:42:00.000-08:00

I've just recovered from the longest mojo drought I've ever had. With work and school and all the everyday stuff, I need to scrap to unwind.

This layout is based on Creative Scrappers Sketch 84. I love these pictures from our hunt for the perfect Christmas tree.

Thanks for stopping by :)

It's that time of year.

2009-12-23T06:28:00.001-08:00

Winter officially began on December 21st, and we haven't really gotten much snow here.
We did have almost enough for the girls to go sledding on the 20th when we went to my Grandma's house to celebrate Christmas.

Alyssa tried going down the hill standing on the sled.

She didn't get hurt.

Yesterday December 22, was absolutely beautiful Rebecca, Brianna, Cookie and I went for a walk around the property and took a lot of pictures here are my 3 favorites.

Not much going on around here, just getting ready for Christmas. I am really getting excited about it. I won't be posting before Christmas, so I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

I'm still here.

2009-12-03T04:28:00.001-08:00

Wow, it's been about a month since I've posted anything.

Life has been very busy. Work, school, trying to make a few Christmas presents, working on the house, and I have managed to fit a tiny bit of scrapping time in. I've finished 3 layouts in the past month

I only took a picture of this one though. I've been waiting for better lighting, probably not going to happen until spring.

I haven't been taking many pictures lately. I didn't forget that in the last post I promised pictures of our table and chairs. I'll take some pictures soon and post them.

Coming clean on my obsession with Tam's blog and a beautiful weekend.

2009-11-08T16:24:00.000-08:00

I have developed a habit, when I can't sleep I come to my blog and visit all the blogs in my blog roll. If I am still not ready to hit the hay, I go to my friend Tam's blog, and visit all the blogs on her blog roll. Tam has links to some really inspiring blogs. Then if I still can't sleep, I do laundry. There is always laundry to do.

We had a beautiful weekend and Dan got a few pic's of the buck that has been hanging around our back field. This one is my favorite.

I don't know if I have mentioned it but a while back Dan and I found an old dinning table and 6 chairs at a sale and bought them. My dad has been restoring them and today my parents brought it up to our house. I am so excited, it is so beautiful. Thanks Dad!
I'll get pictures, and post them soon.

My scrapping time is still limited and I am running really low on mojo, but I have started a layout, and hope to finish it this week.

Thanks for stopping by.

November, already?

2009-11-02T19:24:00.000-08:00

Seriously where is the time going?

Dan and I have been married for 13 years. I doesn't seem like that is possible, especially since

we are so young. lol Dan and I have actually been together for 18 years, we dated for 5 years

before we took the plunge. Happy Anniversary D!

Halloween was a blast.

I have to give a huge shout out to my SIL Nikki, who had surgery the day before and still

managed to take the kids trick or treating with us.

This on is going to be my MIL's Christmas card. LOL. Dan (old man) and Kevin (70's cop).

I just threw this one in because I really like it. Kevin, Nikki and Bubba.

The kiddo's, Alyssa, Rebecca, Aleah, Trent, Bree, Rylee, and Syd.

My friend Angi posted her goals for November, and asked what everyone else's goals for

November are.

Here are some of mine.

-Clean and disinfect the house. (last week Rebecca was sicker than she has ever been in her life. So I have been wiping everything down with Lysol but I need to keep it up. Some schools close to dd's have been closed due to the flu.)

-Try and save money.

-Finish making all the homemade gifts that I am making.

-Finish Christmas cards.

-Be positive.

-Stop watching, reading and obsessing over the news, and get more sleep.

-Spend more time relaxing at home, instead of stressing at home.

-Remember all the blessings in my life and that I have so much to be thankful for.

Thanks for stopping by.

Better late than never.

2009-10-28T19:48:00.000-07:00

Here is a layout I did for Creative Cookbooking. The assignment was to scrap your go to meal. Mine is Spaghetti Carbonara. I love it and could probably eat it everyday. I used yarn for the title, it took forever and the a looks horrible. Unfortunately this will be my last layout for Creative Cookbooking. I resigned from the DT. I have a lot of things going on right now that need my time and energy.

Here are the other layouts that I have finished this month.

Relax

This one I created for a challenge and didn't have the time to upload it before the deadline. I really like how it turned out though.

Beauty

I love this picture of my niece.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bad blogger...

2009-10-16T03:50:00.000-07:00

Sorry, I've been such a bad blogger lately.

Here is what I've been up to.
I've been working on a few layouts. Here is a sneak peak of one that I did for an upcoming challenge at Creative Cookbooking.

Speaking of Creative Cookbooking, our first contest is going to be posted later today, it is awesome and so is the prize. You are going to want to check that out.

AND

Don't forget to stop by Creative Scrappers and get signed up for the 1 hour layout challenge. The challenge is Tuesday Oct. 20th at 9p.m. EST. You will not want to miss this fun challenge we are being sponsored by PINK PAISLEE!!!!!!

Operation fix up, is well underway we have a much needed new and might I add, beautiful door.

We opted for a bigger door than we had.

Please ignore the mess.
The glass in the door is bubbly, which is one of the main reasons I chose this door. I love bubbly glass.

Bree, and I chopped down some of our corn stalks and picked the pumpkins that had already turned orange and did a little fall decorating. We did a little Halloween decorating too, but I haven't gotten pic's yet.

Have a wonderful day!

Hey :)

2009-10-08T04:33:00.000-07:00

The week 3 challenge has been posted at Creative Cookbooking, be sure to stop by and check it out.

Lots to blog about.

2009-09-30T05:44:00.001-07:00

I have been busy, I have gotten a few projects done and wanted to share them with you.

If you follow my blog you know that I am now part of the Creative Cookbooking DT. I am so excited about it! It is going to be so much fun, but if you have been following my blog you also know that I am not that great a cook. So I am going to let you in on a little secret. I have been learning to cook. I have learned so much from my sister in-law Nikki, that I am spending lots of time in the kitchen and loving it. So to thank her and also as a little birthday gift. " Happy Birthday Nikki!" I created this mini for her. I took a picture of the old wall paper in her kitchen and printed it out on cardstock to use as printed paper. The polka dot papers are from scrappin' sports and more, I love this paper.

Speaking of birthdays 2 of my brothers 4 daughters celebrated birthdays last week and here are the cards I made for them. "Happy Birthday Taylor and Lexis!"

To celebrate that fall is here. I slipped into some wool socks and created these 2 layouts.

I Love You

I took this picture of dead milkweed while on a walk one day, because it looked like a heart to me. I dowsed the corrugated cardboard with oriental poppy glimmer mist, then inked it.

Little Pumpkin

When I was moving my scrappin' space from the living room to the bedroom I came across this picture of Alyssa in her first Halloween costume, and had to use it on a layout.

And last but not least.

My friend Tam has given me an awesome blog award. Thanks Tam, you rock!

My instructions are to share this with five folks who I feel have become my friends.
This is going to be so hard.

Angi

Gina

Cheryl

Martha

Taryn

Here are some more specific details... Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends.Link to your nominees within your blog post. Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post. Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award

Some scrapbooking happieness!

2009-09-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

Check this out, I have been chosen to be on the Creative Cookbooking DT!
and
One of my layouts has been lifted for the Challenge U 2 blog.

:)

Fundraiser

2009-09-25T06:46:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, Alyssa is having a fundraiser to earn $ for her class trip to Washington DC. And guess what you can order on-line cool huh? If your interested you can go here http://www.midlandfundraising.com/ and see what they have. The seller ID 2no0808 if you find something you like.

A little update, and some scrapping.

2009-09-24T17:48:00.000-07:00

It's been a few days since I have posted anything, so I wanted to give you a quick update.

Today was my Aunt Joyce's funeral, and my Grandma is taking this so hard, my heart is broken for her. This week has been rough, and in this family we never suffer one tragedy at a time, my Grandma's sister Theresa is expected to pass before the end of the week.

Of course with all the sadness, God is merciful enough to throw in some comic relief. Before the funeral some of the family was meeting at my Mom's house and driving together to the Church. Dan had to be at M works early and I had to get the girls off to school. So we met at my Mom's. After the funeral Dan went right to Alyssa's bus stop, and I stopped and picked up some pizza for dinner.

I got home first and realized that I had the car keys, but not my set of blazer keys with me, and my blazer keys have the house keys on them. So I was locked out. I sat on the porch for about 10 minutes, Dan and Alyssa should have been home long before me, so I called Dan. The school bus had broken down just down the road from Alyssa's bus stop. Dan had been calling all the parents of the kids that he knew and getting permission to drive them to our house. So they didn't have to wait on the bus. Thank goodness we only ended up with three extra kids. It worked out nice I drove one girl home and the others were picked up. After having pizza of course. It was really funny, but I guess you had to be there.

This week we picked the watermelon from our garden. Bree calls this her twilight watermelon pose. LOL

We have also began operation fix up. We are going to be fixing and painting alot in the coming weeks. We are starting with Alyssa's bedroom. I'll post pictures when we get it finished. Here are some of the paint color chips and booklets we picked up at The Home Depot, tomorrow we are going to pick up a new exterior door, I am so excited.
I, oddly enough have been scrapping a lot. I moved my scrappin space into my bedroom and it is working out wonderfully. And looking at all the paint colors for Operation fix up has really got me inspired. Here are a few layouts that I have recently finished.

#1
I am loving these "Scrappin' Sports & More" papers.

STRIKE

GARDEN GIRL
For this one I use In The Garden paper from the Young and Active Seasons line. I love this paper. I also used cardstock stickers from this line for the center of the two smaller flowers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Christmas cards

2009-09-21T03:48:00.001-07:00

I'll show you more next week. I'm not sure if I like this one, but I am my biggest critic.
This week I will be working on Halloween cards. I love Halloween, and speaking of Halloween cards, have you seen these stamps from The Pixie Cottage aren't those little witches adorable. I can't wait to see what they come out with for Christmas.

Creative Scrappers is look for a new DT member.

2009-09-17T03:28:00.000-07:00

Creative Scrappers has a position open for a designer... effective immediately with Sketch number 71 - this would be until October 31st and possibility of extension if interested!!

Kristine is super sweet and great to work with. Check out all the details here.

Cards.

2009-09-14T21:26:00.001-07:00

A few new cards.

I really like how the above "LOVE" card turned out. I stamped the image twice, once on a plane piece of cardstock, and the second time on the pattern paper. Then I cut out the heart , colored in the hand and adhered the heart onto the hand where it belongs.

Thanks for stopping by.

Saturday's post and a winner.

2009-09-11T03:31:00.000-07:00

A little update on my life in general.

-The girls have went back to school. Alyssa missed the bus the first morning. Becca and Bree
missed the bus the second morning.

-Yesterday I got Becca and Bree's bus stop moved closer to our house. Not an option for Alyssa
the junior high bus doesn't come any closer.

-Dan put a new window in the barn, it is awesome, it looks right out over my little garden. (not
that I spend much time in the barn, but its still cool)

-I have went back to school, and I'm loving it.

-Dan is goes back to school on the 28th.

-I have been scrapping and making cards. I can't share them yet. I also created this. I will be
posting a tutorial next week. In real life the button matches better, it just didn't photograph
well.

And the winner of the Operation Nice Blog Hop giveaway is...

Alison said...

Cute cards.. I really like the idea of cutting out images.
I will have to try that sometime.. HUGS

Alison please me (angiedemeyers (at) yahoo. com) your info and from what store you would like the $10. Gift card.

Operation Nice Blog Hop.

2009-09-04T02:00:00.000-07:00

Hello, Operation Nice blog hoppers.

Welcome to my blog. If you just happened to stop by, and would like to join the blog hop you can start at the first blog in the blog hop, Scraphappie.

I believe in NICE, if everyone in the world was a little bit nicer, the world would be a better place. Nice doesn't have to be a big think, a lot of times it is the little things you do that make the biggest impact. Sometimes all it takes is a smile from you to brighten someones day.

I have found that when I am nice to others, I'm happier with myself.

I enjoy creating cards and gifts for friends and family, especially when there is no occasion for it.

Here is a card that I created for a friend, just because.

I was lucky enough to be given a damaged Green Eggs and Ham book, and used a piece of one of the pages for the front of the card.

Because I enjoy being nice and believe that everyone should be nice, if you leave a comment on this post between now and Saturday September 12th you will be entered into a random draw for a $10.00 gift card. If you decide that you enjoy my blog and would like to become a follower I will have another random draw on October 1st.

Here are some other projects that I have created recently, just because.

This one is for my SIL, Nikki because I knew it would bring a smile to her face. Just between you and me, I'm not happy with the journaling.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed your visit to my blog.

The next stop in our blog hop is Katieskiff go be inspired and have fun.

Psssst...

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Guess who the new Challenge Coordinator at Creative Scrappers is?

Your invited

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Who: Everyone! Scrapper's, CardMakers, Stampers & Crafters!!!!

What: Just Because We're NICE Scrapper's Blog Hop for Operation NICE

When: September 4th, 12pm EST through September 6th, 12am

Where: Your Blog!Why: To show how we are NICE!

Our weekend.

2009-08-31T04:27:00.000-07:00

We spent the weekend at Kevin and Nikki's, for Metamora Country Days. The biggest attraction at the Metamora Country Days is the big hot air balloon launch, but this year the weather was windy and rainy so the balloons didn't go up.

We had a nice time tho, and after school starts it will probably be months before we see them again.

The Candy drop was fun for the kids.
The helicopter pilot dropped loads of mini marshmallows down and the kids caught or picked up as many as they could, to turn them in for candy.

We only got to see half the parade, but I love this picture, check out the size of the "bike" the kids are on and check out the size of the bike in the clowns hand.

Don't forget to stop by Sept 4 - 6 for the Operation Nice blog hop....

If your interested in joining go to Sarahbeths blog HERE

Photo shoot.

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a few LO's to share.

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I have been busy.

I really like how this card turned out, I stamped the butterfly and cut it out and used a pop dot to adhere it. I also cut out 2 flowers from the BG paper to create a dimensional flower. I used a Fancy Pants brand for the center of the flower and stamped the sentiment on Pink Fancy Pants paper.PUTT PUTT

I created this layout for the Challenge U 2 scraplift challenge #3

HOME RUN
I had some fun with some of my journaling stamps on this layout.

SISTERS
For this one I used some Fancy Pants Christmas paper, stamps, and chipboard, the colors were perfect.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

The weekend.

2009-08-24T22:47:00.000-07:00

We had a great weekend. We stayed at Kevin and Nikki's house all weekend. We had a very relaxing Friday and Saturday.
And Sunday we were up bright and early to be a Selfrige Air Base for the Air show. The weather was cold and wet, but the show went on and it was awesome. There is nothing like feeling the thunder of a jet in your chest. If you don't know what I'm talking about you need to go to an air show. Seriously, I don't know what it is but I find jets and most aircraft....ummm... not sure of the right word.....sexy!?!? There is just something about them. When I was growing up along with the NKOTB posters I had posters of F-14 Tomcats on my bedroom walls and aircraft from world war 2 (courtesy of my Grandpa).

Thanks for stopping by, and I'm still working on getting/finding all the links I had when I switched my blog over to a 3 column.

Funny Girl

2009-08-21T06:19:00.000-07:00

This layout is based on Creative Scrappers Sketch 65 by Deb Harter.

Papers: DCWV

Alpha stickers: Colorbok

owl sticker: MAMBI

Belly Rub

2009-08-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

I created this layout based on Creative Scrappers Sketch 64 by Lady Grace.

I love this picture of Abby, one of Grandma B's dogs. That is how she greets everyone.

She runs up to them then lays down for a Belly rub.

Thanks for stopping by...

Still...

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working on getting all my links back up.

I love sketches.

2009-08-13T06:05:00.000-07:00

I would be working on my blog today, but I am way to inspired by the latest sketch from Creative Scrappers...Check it out...HERE.

Time to change it up a little. . .

2009-08-11T21:23:00.000-07:00

I'm changing up my blog a little. You will probably notice a few changes when you stop by.
So while I monkey around with some settings and stuff. I thought I would post a little how to.

ummmm...not really a how to, because everybody has the ability to do this, but sometimes we

need a little encouragement (or maybe that's just me).

As you probably know my husband has been laid off for the past month. I am trying to watch my spending, and so my scrapbooking budget is pretty much non-existent. But I'm not complaining because 1). It is awesome having Dan home more. 2)I'm the Angie that just won a giveaway on Ali's blog. and 3.) I am feeling more inspired and creative than ever.

So here is today's encouragement. . .

I LOVE all those shaped papers that are available now. BUT I can't justify spending $1.00 or more for a piece of paper. So I have begun to make my own.

1. Choose a piece of paper. This one is from DCWV.

2. Pick your shape and draw, free hand or trace it on the back, then cut out.
3.(Optional) Add those little touches. Here I spritzed it with Glimmer mist and then used my button hole punch to Punch holes to thread ribbon threw.
4. Add your pictures, embellies and journaling. And your done.

I hope I have encouraged you to have some fun and create your own shaped paper. If you do give this a try please post a link in the comment section, I would love to see what you create.

PLEASE READ

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If you have a dog, please take a minute to read this. To read click HERE.
Our dog Cookie just recently started having seizures. Flea's are prevalent in our area, I
never knew that a dog could get them from just going outside, I thought that they had to
get flea's from another animal that had them. When we found out our dog had flea's our vet recommended Front line, a day after his first dose Cookie had his first seizure. 3 months later after Cookies second dose he had another seizure.

I've been scrappin'

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SMILE ALYSSA
CHOPSTICKS
This one is based on Creative Scrappers sketch 61

LUNATIC

LOVE

this one is a little older, but I never shared it.

Chillin

This one is based on Creative Scrappers sketch 58

BFF'S

Yep, that is my dog and his best friend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hiya !!

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I'm back! Not that I spent much time away from the cyber world while we were computerless, but now I can be on-line at home, instead of work. I have some pic's to share and some lo's. But I have to wait until we have everything all set up on this new computer. YES! I scrapped a bunch! Funny how there is more time for scrappin' without Facebook and all the other sites I visit daily.

Speaking of great sites I found a really great one. It's just getting started and I think you will love it. It's Craftforum.com check it out and get registerd. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

also

I would like to just mention...I did it again...I entered one of Dan's pic's into a contest. So if you feel like taking a peek click HERE and if you are a member feel free to vote. Thanks.

Thanks for stopping by...

and I promise (especially now that softball season is over) more scrappy stuff coming soon... maybe even a little giveaway. ;)

Bitter sweet weekend....

2009-07-26T13:01:00.000-07:00

Bitter : Our computer died and we probably lost most of our vacay pic's. (but I uploaded some
to walmart, so all is not lost) ~You probably won't see me on line much~

The softball games started at 8a.m. and ended at 7:30p.m Saturday.

Sweet: NB 12u softball (alyssa's team) took first place at the Mayville tournament this weekend.
Coach Scott, got a little emotional handing out the trophies, it was a rough season with
injuries and drama. The girls played great and pulled threw all the adults BS to be a
super team. A few of the adults could have learned a thing or two from these girls.

NB 10u softball (Rebecca's team) took third place at the Mayville tournament this
weekend.
The girls played great and did an awesome job. Coach Dave got a little emotional to,this
will be the last year for Rebecca and a couple other girls in this division.

Here is the quote of the day from coach Dave: "Hit the shit out of the ball. . ." Ya gotta love coach Dave. :)

OKay Here is a little cheat sheet, of the past seasons teams and coaches. Because I get asked about this a lot and it is confusing for people. I know my Scrappin' friends might not be interested in this, but I have some family members that get confused.

Alyssa's teams
NB lightning fastpitch tournament team - Coach Scott, Coach Steve, and Coach Chad
Summer Rec. (this is the team Dan coaches) -Coach Dan, Coach Doreen
NB All Stars - Coach Doreen, Coach Steve, and Coach Scott

Rebecca's teams
Summer Rec. - Coach Honicutt
Summer Rec. (Dan had her fill in for a girl that broke her leg in the beginning of the season) - Coach Dan and Coach Doreen
NB All Stars - Coach Dave and Coach Mary

Brianna's team
Summer Rec. - Coach Rhonda. Didn't want to leave her out.

We are officially on a break from softball (kinda). No (official) practices until Sept. and no games until next spring. :)

But the big talk at our house is what will Rebecca do, she will be old enough to try out for the NB lightning team in Sept. Coach Dave and 2 of the other softball Dad's asked her if she was going too, but she hasn't made up her mind yet. Whatever she decides, I'm proud of her.

I have 5 scapbook pages to post, when our computer is fixed.

There's no place like home...

2009-07-22T06:42:00.001-07:00

Vacation is nice, but it's always good to come home.

Here are a few pic's from our vacation.

DAY 1

Our first night there, we unpacked and then relaxed around the campfire. This year we were all able to get campsites right next to each other.
DAY 2

The kids found the sand.

We spent some time at the marina, coast guard station and the beach.

Played Volley ball.

DAY 3

Day 3 was Kevin (Dan's brother) birthday.

canoeing

Then we all went to the indoor pool at the campground.

DAY 4

Rebecca turns 11.

putt putt

Alyssa's hole in 1

After putt putt we went back to the

campground and Aunt Denise and Uncle Bobby brought the girls all gifts.

t-shirts and paint to paint the t-shirts.

Uncle Bobby and Aunt Denise helping the girls wash off the paint.

Day 5

Day 5 was a good day. We went to the Light house museum park with Kevin, Nikki and all the girls. It was one of my favorite days, but somehow I managed to loss all the pictures from this day. :(

Day 6

Hiking with Grandma's at the Petrogliphs. Unfortunately the hiking trails were the only thing open. The Petrogliphs were closed due to Michigan budget cuts.

Day 7

Family Reunion on Lake Huron. (I lost some of these pictures too). I didn't realize all the pic's didn't upload and I deleted the SD card.

I have finished 5 layouts this week and will be posting them next week. I'm waiting for some sunshine to get a good pic.

SOFT????ball....

2009-07-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

I mentioned in the previous post that Rebecca's first All Star game was Friday night, and she had 3 Saturday and Alyssa had 2 game Saturday. I was wrong Bec had 3 games but Alyssa had 2 double headers.

Rebecca's team did great, they won 2 and lost 2, and ended up in 3rd place in the tournament!!!

I don't know what to say about Alyssa's team, they are great girls, and have great coaches, I just don't know what went wrong Saturday. The bad luck began Friday night while we were at Becca's game some of Alyssa's team got together some practice. And one of the girls ended up with a fractured wrist. Saturday our team had to be at the tournament early, one girl (and she is such a little sweetheart.) and her mom (another sweetheart) stopped to get some hot chocolate. The girl spilled hers all over herself and ended up burning her wrist, thankfully it wasn't very bad. During the game we had two girls collide, they smashed there heads together, it was awful to see. One girl didn't get up... she was taken to the hospital right away. The other girl got up and played the rest of the inning, but after she sat down she was feeling sick to her stomach and was having blurred vision, so she was taken to the hospital. The first girl ended up with a broken finger, and the second has a concussion. Later one of our girls was hit with a ball while batting, and had to have a runner put in for her. Alyssa was hit in the face with a ball, but didn't even flinch.

Then after Alyssa's games were finished we were watching Rebecca's team play and Alyssa says mom look, and she opens her mouth wide and puts her tongue threw an opening that was not there before. "I lost a tooth." she says to me.... I guess I just couldn't comprehend what happened.. so I asked her where it was, her response "I spit it out by first base." Another mom who had two daughters playing that day just sort of looked at her then looked at each other.

I went to tell Coach Morgans wife, and she was so upset, it turns out that while I was watching Rebecca's game one of our NB mothers decided that if her daughter didn't play a certain position, then she was pulling her from the team and we would have to forfeit the next days games (Sunday). WTH???????????????? First of all the coaches are great and really support the girls, it's like we are all family...second of all that little girl loves softball just as much as Alyssa and if I all of the sudden turned into mama bitch and pulled her from the team, it would kill her.... So after learning that I was PISSED. We got home late last night and went right to bed, because despite only having 8 players our girls deserved to play, and they did play. The other teams may have had more players, but our girls had more heart and despite the bad luck of Saturday, we came in 2nd place. WAY TO GO NORTH BRANCH!!!!!

NB All STARS 12 AND UNDER TEAM

Coach Doreen giving Alyssa her trophy and a hug.

NB ALL STAR 10 AND UNDER TEAM

GOOD JOB GIRLS!!

1 last post before we leave....(probably)

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Just in case you haven't heard REBECCA RAWKS!!!!!!!

Last night was Rebecca's 1st All Star game................................................

It's back to the softball fields today. Bec has 3 games and Alyssa 2. So this may not be the last post before vacay....

July 4th weekend part 2, and I was tagged.

2009-07-08T06:14:00.000-07:00

What is the 4th of July without a parade? We went to the 4th of July parade Saturday morning, and as always the fire trucks were my favorite part. The parade was pretty much the same this year as last year. A few of the girls friends were in it, and Brianna's softball coach, Coach Rhonda was in it and waved to Brianna and that made her day.

On the way home Dan took all the back roads. Which where filled with mud puddles because it had rained all week, but I think he did this on pupose.

Good thing, I had my window up..

After a nice swim in the pool, we went to Todd and Janna's, and I forgot my camera.

I had to work at early Sunday morning, then met Dan and the girls at my parents house for my Dad's birthday cookout, again no camera for that :(.

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I have been tagged by my friend Angi...so here goes..

8 favorite shows. (I'm not really a t.v. watcher, I work 2nd shift when all the good shows are on. So here are the shows I try to catch up on online when I can.)

1. Ghost hunters

2. Weeds

3. Grey's Anatomy

4. Desperate House Wives.

5. Eli Stone (I know it's been cancelled but I loved that show)

8 things I did yesterday.

1. Hugged my kidos

2. Lots of Laundry

3. Did the dishes

4. Went to work

5. Paged Dr.s

6. Came home and watched a movie with Dan.

7. Messed around on the computer

8. Email grandma

8 things I'm looking forward to.

1. Vacation (only 5 days away)

2. watching Rebecca play in the all star tournament this weekend.

3. watching Alyssa play in the all star tournament this weekend.

4. having Friday off work

5. my garden producing veggies.

6. spending time with Nikki

7. Going back to school

8. eating breakfast. lol

8 people I will tag.

(no time to tag people right now, I'll be back later to do it, sorry)

Busy...busy...busy...(4th of July part 1)

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I haven't been scrappin', I haven't been bloggin'. I have managed to get a little facebook time tho. And I found some of my cousins, how awesome is that!?!:)

Happy Be-lated 4th of July everyone. We started celebrating Friday. Nikki, Kevin and the girls came up. Then my parents and my brother and his family came over. Kevin made a ladder golf game and brought it over. We all had a lot of fun, here are Dan and Alyssa playing.

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I love this pic, of Kevin, Dan's brother and Lexis, (my brothers daughter). I haven't uploaded pic's from the 4th and 5th yet, so I will post about those another day. I hope you all had a great weekend.

For those of you who arn't sick of hearing about softball....

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This one is for Coach Honicutt...

HOMERUN BABY YEAH!!!!!!!

Rebecca finally gave her coach the homerun he was waiting for. Proving that she will play just as good for him as she does for her dad. And this was after playing half a game for Dan's team.

Before the game Rebecca reminded me of the number 1 rule she has for me. "No yelling or Cheering." (I embarrassed her @ the other game) I took these pictures, why are there only these ones? Because after she ripped it. I was jumping and screaming "Go baby Go!!! Yeah!! That's my girl Yeah!!!!!" Then as she was rounding 3rd I remembered my camera. And I only got a couple of funny looks. The parents of the girls on Rebecca's team, aren't as rowdy as the ones on Alyssa's team, but that's okay. I worked hard to become the most embarrassing mom in the world, I'm not giving it up.

Here are some pictures of Alyssa's game. I mentioned embarrassing Rebecca. . . well it was HOT, and the girls on Alyssa's team are usually cheering on their team mates but they were just sitting there, I wanted to get them a little pumped up for the game so I said if you girls don't start cheering, I will. They all just looked at me, so I stood up and walked over to the fence and started cheering..."Brandy is a friend of mine.... Rip, Rip...she can rip it anytime... rip rip..." They joined in after that, good thing too cuz I couldn't remember the words.

There she goes stealing again. And there's Dan.
There is Rebecca, she isn't as comfortable with steeling bases as her clepto base stealin' sister. Alyssa was first at bat and Rebecca was last. They made it all the way threw the line up, and Alyssa was 10th batter, bases were loaded and she got a GRAND SLAM!!! (and I didn't get a picture of it. :( )

Brianna was with her Aunt and Uncle at her game and she got some great hits. Way To Go Bree!! Brianna has been playing catcher and first base all season and kicking butt at it. No softball pictures of her (until I get them from Jesse). But she is so darn cute, here is a picture I took between games last weekend in Frankenmuth.

Homerun !!

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Thursday night I came home from work, and as usual got the play by play of the days softball games. A girl on the team Dan coaches broke her leg earlier this season and Dan put Rebecca on his team to fill her spot. Here is the story I came home to as told by Dan...

"The bases were loaded, we were down by 3, Rebecca was last at bat. Rebecca hit a homerun and won the game."

Here it is as told by Rebecca..."I got a homerun and won the game. I was last to bat, then I had to go over to the other field, and my team was first at bat, and my coach said I saw that hit you made for the other team Becca, I want to see you do that again."

I guess the coach of the other team got really mad. He didn't believe that Rebecca was only 11 or 12, which is the age group for the team Dan coaches. When he found out that she is only 10, he was still mad but he shut up and resorted to kicking and throwing things.

We were so proud. But you know we are her parents so that's to be expected. But then when we went to Alyssa's fast pitch tournament this weekend. And some of the other parents and coaches were coming up to her telling her what an awesome play that was. If they weren't there they would say that they had heard about her awesome hit. It was a really good confidence booster for my shy little girl.

Alyssa's fast pitch tournament team, the "Lightning" played their last tournament of the season, this past weekend. It was in Frankenmuth. The girls did a good job, they held their own against one of the toughest teams out there. In the end they lost 3 games and won one. The girls played really well. I am especially happy that they won the last game, the team we played were very poor sports. The pitcher was hitting with the ball and laughing. They were taunting our pitcher, even though there was a no taunting rule, the umps refused to enforce it. In the end I think our girls just got pissed and decided to kick butt, and that is exactly what they did. We (the parents) got a little pissed too, and cheered as loud as we could to drown out the taunting of the other team.

Dan has been taking pictures of the team all season and has really got some awesome pictures. I can't post this without mentioning Big Vic's awesome fly to third base, Dan got a shot of her 100% air born as she leaped to third to get there before the other teams third baseman. I would love to post that picture here, but I don't have her parents permission. Your going to have to trust me, it was an awesome play and an awesome picture.

Here are a couple of pictures Dan caught of Alyssa. Doing what she loves to do, stealing bases. She gets into some trouble for it tho, because she doesn't listen to her base coaches, if she thinks she can make it, she goes. (She usually makes it, but when she doesn't she gets into trouble.).

I have Monday off, so I can go Alyssa's and Rebecca's summer rec. games. So I will probably have more pictures to add. I am going to try and get some scrapping done too.

Bad Blogger...

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Yep, that's me. I've been a bad blogger. Sorry. We have been so busy. Softball is in full swing. We have games every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday some Fridays, and tournaments on the weekends. (Well Dan and the girls do, I'm usually at work :( ). One of my co-workers asked me the other day, when softball season ends? Um. . . . it doesn't. Brianna's last game is Monday. One of the players on Alyssa's summer rec. team broke her arm and Rebecca has been subbing, but for her regular summer rec. team they have 4 more games. Then we get to Alyssa (lunatic) her summer rec. games end at the end of June. Her fast pitch tournament team's last tournament is this weekend, but they will begin practice for next season early in Sept. The summer rec. all star team will begin practice sometime in June and the games will be in July. (Oh yeah, speaking of summer rec. Dan peeked at the list for Rebecca's age group and she made the all star team this year.) Dan has been taking pictures at the tournaments, he is now the unofficial Team Lightning Photographer.

I haven't had time or mojo for scrapbooking. But today my wonderful, wonderful, awesome friend Tam sent me an awsome box of scrapbooking stuff!!! I can't not thank her enough. THANK YOU TAM!!!!!!!!! Now I feel like scrappin' ! THANK YOU TAM!!!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Who needs Seaworld....

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I can watch a Dolphin show in my own back yard. Rebecca was teaching the Amazing Waldo how to move across the water using his tail. LOL!

The last day of school / Alyssa's Birthday party.

2009-06-09T05:22:00.000-07:00

Last Friday was the girls last day of school. To celebrate Alyssa's Birthday she was having 5 girls ride the bus home with her and spend the night. We also invited some people over for a cookout in the evening. Here is how Friday went...

7:30 a.m. got some bad news that would prove to throw me off the rest of the day. (nobody died, I'm just not ready to share the news yet.)

8:00 a.m. Take the girls to the bus stop.

8:05 a.m Get a call on my cell, that my niece Taylor is sick and won't be coming to the party.

8:08 a.m. The girls get on the bus and I head to Lapeer to get groceries.

10:00 a.m I get home, put away the groceries, do a little cleaning. Make a pasta salad for the cookout, and a grape salad (a recipe one of the other softball moms gave me.)

11:50 p.m. bottle of sunscreen randomly explodes. (weird, right?)

12:15 p.m. I go back to the bus stop

12:35 p.m. My girls get off the bus and only 2 extras. The other girl who was coming to the party got sick at school.

12:38 p.m. Drop all the girls off with Dan and run to the store for sunscreen. (Rebecca is super sensitive to the sun, without sunscreen she can't even go outside.)

12:58 p.m. Get to the store, walk past the bakery. And think OMG CAKE!!!!!!!!! I had totally forgotten about a birthday cake. Stand at the bakery for 10 minutes and try to decide on the cake Alyssa will hate the least. In the end I decided on this bird house garden cake, because I thought the big green cabbages were neat.

1:30 p.m. Back home.

4:00 p.m. One of the girls Alyssa has over to spend the night gets sick.

4:20 p.m. Girl goes home

5:30 to 8:30 We eat, have cake and ice cream, and Alyssa opens her presents.

8:45 p.m. Alyssa gets sick, and almost everyone leaves. Except Alyssa's two friends, they stay and sleep in the camper with Becca and Bree, while Alyssa sleeps inside.

And that is how we have spent our summer so far. To make it up to Alyssa for having such a crappy Birthday, we are having a girls day out Thursday. We are going shopping and to lunch, but we have to be home intime for me to go to work and for softball. ~Calgon take me away~

Congrats!!

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To Alyssa...

Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Ham and Mrs. Anderson with Alyssa.

She graduated 6th grade today. Way to go baby!!!

Lots to blog about.

2009-06-01T20:58:00.000-07:00

Friday was Grandpa B's birthday. We held a memorial service for him, and afterwords had a luncheon in the garden at Suncrest where Grandpa had lived for the past 6 years, after his stroke. We had a bunch of balloons, and everyone wrote messages to Grandpa on the balloons and we let them go.

See the orange balloon, that looks like there is something attached to the end of the ribbon? That is my Mother-In-Laws balloon, Alyssa's balloon popped right after she had written her message, so Diane (MIL) tied Alyssa's popped balloon to her balloon and saved the day... cuz this little girl was really missing her Great Grandpa
After the luncheon, we went to the cemetery and buried the rest of Grandpa's ashes. Grandma B, gave all the grandkids some of Grandpa's ashes in these nice little stainless steel containers. Then it was ....

Softball time. This weekend was the first tournament for North Branch Lightning fast pitch team. Unfortunately I had a raging headache, Dan was exhausted, and Alyssa was way off her game.

The Lightning lost Friday, but rallied and won their first game Saturday.

Not a great picture of Alyssa but, she's about to knock one out of the park. Okay, maybe just to the outfield.

Between games we had a few hours, so everyone brought a dish to pass and we had a cookout. And since Alyssa's birthday was exactly one week away Saturday. . .

We got our little lunatics helmet airbrushed. She picked out the design and decided to go with Lunatic (one of my many nicknames for her) instead of Alyssa. By the second game Saturday our girls had the most colorful, kick butt helmets at the tournament.
I just wish we would have won, but we lost game two Saturday.

It looks like she is going to catch it right? She doesn't, it hits the tip of her glove then it hits the ground. So I said "Oh shoot" (no really I said shoot, instead of shit. Hard to believe but true.) then I closed my eyes (because I am a dork) and missed the whole awesome play. She scooped the ball up in her hand and gunned it to the first baseman and they got the runner out.

Because we lost one Saturday, we didn't have a game Sunday. So Kevin and Nikki came up and brought me my baby's. Becca and Bree stayed with them all weekend, they had a great time. We are still finding it hard to live so far away from them. It's only an hour, but it is such a big change from having them only 10 minutes away. We use to see them 3 of 4 times a week, now we are lucky to see them 3 or 4 times a month.

Kevin and Nikki had bought all the kids kites.Becca didn't even see me coming with the camera. Not the best picture of her, but when you have a kid that refuses to let you take a picture of her, you take what you can get.

It was cold all weekend long, but Syd and Bree, still managed to enjoy the weather.

Bead Trends.

2009-05-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

Okay gotta do this before I forget. Life is getting crazy, but I'll post about that later. Here is my first paper Mag pub. This project is on page 16 and 17 of the May Bead Trends.

lots of random inking and stamping and glimmer mist all over this old canvas covered book.

School Spirit Cup!!!!

2009-05-23T07:26:00.001-07:00

So proud of you North Branch!
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/video?id=6827653

It's true about the tractors too.

DeMeyers: the reality show

2009-05-20T08:46:00.000-07:00

I was just reading (in line at wal mart) that Kate, of Jon and Kate + 8 earns about $75,000 per episode. I don't even earn 75,000 a year, not even in two years. So I was thinking (even though I've never seen the show) our life has to be at least as interesting as theirs (maybe). We have a pretty good cast of characters and the things that happen to us on a regular basis would make for some pretty good comedy.

Me the, ditsy, always on the edge of losing it, can't remember anything, cusses like a sailor, Mom. (it'd probably have to be a cable show)

Dan, the neat freak, always in control, calm and collected, fun, good natured, goofy Dad.

Alyssa, extremely competitive, full of drama, know-it-all (sometimes).

Rebecca, sarcastic, witty, funny, quiet yet grumpy (sometimes).

Brianna, neat freak, non-stop talking, ditsy like her Mom (sometimes).

Add to that, that Dan will be unemployed as of July 17th. Softball will be kicking up a notch soon, where I'm sure my eldest will say something snotty to at least one ump. I am being tested for adult ADHD, Plus we have a steady flow of characters in and out of our house all summer long. Snipe, Booger, and Sea Monkey just to name a few.

But Wait there is more act now and I'll throw in footage of our wedding ceremony where I stop mid sentence because my mind totally blanks and I forgot what I was saying and have to ask the judge to repeat it. Plus the reenactment of Brianna winning a burping contest at church. So network execs don't hesitate call now and have the DeMeyers show airing by next season.
That's right The DeMeyers we put the D in Dysfunctional but we do it in a loving way.

Okay so I'm trying to be funny, but if funny doesn't work, Micheal Moore could always do a documentary on us, it could be called It sucks to live in Michigan. I have to admit I do like Micheal Moore's documentaries. I've heard some people say he is just trying to make trouble, but it seems to me he is just pointing out the trouble that is already there.

Thanks for stopping by, if you have read all of this post then I'm shocked. This has been one of my strangest ones yet, but this is the junk that is on my mind. I mean what does Kate Gosselin got that I don't got, besides 8 kids and a $75,000.00 an episode show.

The proper care and treatment of an older sister.

2009-05-19T20:22:00.000-07:00

Becca and Bree ganged up on Alyssa the other day. I can practically hear all the giggling (especially from Alyssa) that was going on, when I look at these.

I have some layouts to show you, I'll try and get them up loaded later this week.

We'll be alright.

2009-05-13T19:38:00.000-07:00

This morning there was a meeting at Durakon Ind. where Dan works and it was announced that they would be closing. (Oddly enough the plant in Mexico will remain open). Initially the employees were told that they would have a shut down to co-inside with GM's shut down in June and July (lier lier pant on fire). HERE is the article that was in today's paper. We will be alright tho, I think we are ready for a change.

My Mothers Day Post.

2009-05-11T09:16:00.001-07:00

I hope all you lovely Mothers had a great Mothers Day yesterday. I certainly did. We had a cookout at Ohmer park, with my Mother, Mother-in-Law, and 2 of my sisters-in-law Jesse and Nikki. It was to celebrate Brianna's Birthday and Mothers day. We had planned on playing a game of softball at the park but the field was taken, so we came back to our house and set up the bases and had a game. I didn't get many pictures but here are a few of my favorites.

Brianna likes to swing, but she likes pushing people on the swings too.

This is the only Mothers Day-ish shot I got. My Sister-in-Law Jesse and my niece Lauren.
This one makes me laugh, Dan is always giving the girls a hard time about waiting for a good pitch. Yet he swung at this one, way above his head.
We have two pitchers in the house this season, Rebecca has started pitching and really seems to enjoy it. And that is me on first base.

Thanks for stopping by.

My review of The Shack.

2009-05-06T03:27:00.000-07:00

I have finally finished reading The Shack . It is an amazing amazing book. Yes it warrants 2 amazings and probably more. I read it because my dear friend Taryn said it is a life changing book and she is so right. I won't reveal the plot, I hate book reviews that reveal the whole book to you, but I will tell you that it will make you cry and it will make you laugh. I highly recommend this book to everyone. The Shack is about God, with out being religious, or preachy. I know some people have an issue with God appearing as an African American Woman, what gets me, is that the people that have an issue with that are some of the most religious people I know. I was raised Catholic and in Church aren't we taught that God can do anything. So what is the problem, why would God not appear as an African American Woman?

This book really touched me deeply. But I was going to keep that to myself, I was going to maybe do a post about the book something short -Read The Shack it good- But yesterday I went into work and my friend Fran was working with me. It's always a treat to work with Fran, her and I share the same views on so many things. And she had just read The Shack and she had this light in her as we talked about it. The book touched her so deep, and she read it because of what I had said about it. Fran is making a list of people to share this book with, I'm a little less giving, you'll have to get your own copy. I'm keeping mine. I saw how this wonderful book affected Fran and so I decided maybe I can convince some other people to read it.

9 years ago today.

2009-05-04T21:28:00.000-07:00

The world got a little bit brighter.

Happy Birthday Baby!!

What can go wrong will go wrong, and my first paper pub!!

2009-05-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

It seems like I haven't posted in forever. It has been one hell of a week, thank goodness it's over.

Saturday - Our transformer was struck by lightning. (Dan was at the cabin)

Sunday - I checked the basement and there was no water. (So I figured it would be OK, it hadn't rained anymore)

- Was told that our electricity would be on no later than Tuesday. (which was true)

-Took some food to my moms house to store in her freezer.

- Did some laundry at my moms.

-Dan got home, then came down to my moms house.

-We had dinner, then Dan and Brianna left and me and the other girls left shortly after.

- I pulled in the driveway and Brianna came running out of the pole barn, yelling. Dan had fallen off a ladder.

- I ran in the pole barn and there he was standing there, his shins black, blue and bloody. He said he was alright.

- We all go in the house. There's 3 inches of water in the basement. (Oh crap!)

- Dan pulls one of the basement windows open so we can hook generator up to the sub pump. The window completely shatters on him, cutting his arms. He will not let me take him to the ER.

- My phone rings, its my credit card company calling to conform the $2000.00 purchase I made on line that day. WTF!! I haven't used my credit card since before Christmas!!!!!!!

- Trying to keep a hold of my sanity, I help Alyssa pack for her class trip, before the sun goes all the way down and we have to use flash lights.

- After getting the kids to bed Dan and I go into fits of hysterical laughter, because . . . well what else could we do?

It was an awful weekend, but threw it all I kept thinking how blessed I am. I love my family and the life we have.

The rest of the week was not as bad. Alyssa was gone on her class trip until Wednesday, that turned out pretty good for her. When our we got our electricity back we learned that our Internet antenna was fried, and we just got it back today. So Dan is alive, but sore, we have electricity and now we have internet too.

Now for the excitement. (for me anyway)

Last night when I got home from work. The May issue of Bead Trends was here along with my project that is in it!! I was so excited, this is my first paper pub. I'll share the complete project later.

Scrappin' up a storm

2009-04-25T05:07:00.000-07:00

I've been scrappin' up a storm. Dan is up at the cabin, and I have had some time off work so I have been getting in all the scrapbooking I can. I've been so inspired by all the Creative Scrappers Birthday Bash Challenges. Here are a few I've finished.

MY CUP RUNNETH OVER

This one is based on a sketch by Steve Davidson. Kristine's (the owner of Creative Scrappers) husband, and the prize is anything he chooses from Kristine's Scrap room. Isn't that fun.

DADDY'S GIRL

This one is for the all stitched up challenge. I love this picture of my BIL Kevin and niece Sydney, its from thier Father Daughter dance.

MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU.

This one is my favorite so far. This is for the Simple and sweet challenge. I used hammer metal spray paint and red acrylic paint on the background. The exclamation mark is my own creation I have some pink ones available in my etsy shop and will be adding some black ones later this week.

COLORING EASTER EGGS

I am really pleased with this one too. This is for the Non Scrap related challenge. You have to add something to the layout that is not scrap related. I added this cute picture Rebecca drew.

I'M AMAZED BY YOU

I love this one too. This is for the Use it or Loos it challenge.

I have two more pages started and a wall hanging. If you haven't been to Creative Scrappers to check out the Birthday Bash, then get over there. :)

HEY DON'T MISS THE PARTY :)

2009-04-20T09:50:00.001-07:00

These are the stairs.

2009-04-16T05:35:00.001-07:00

I get a some guff about ending up in the hospital during last years vacation. It's all in good fun and I can laugh about it now. But I've decided to be brave hold my head up high and show you the EVIL STAIRS, that caused a fractured rib, bruised kidneys, a messed up back and unmeasurable pain.

Before I show you the picture you have to remember it was raining, I had my arms full, and I was wearing the cutest flip flops ever, but the had no tread. (Dan threw them away, after I fell).

Are you sitting down? Got your Kleenex ready.....

because you'll probably laugh til' you cry.

Yep, that is them (the stairs not Bob and Dan ). Because of them I found myself in a neck brace, strapped to a backboard and pumped full of morphine. I really have no complaints about the morphine.

You may see a layout about this posted soon.

Speaking of layouts here is one I finished yesterday. This is based on Creative Scrappers Sketch 46.

And don't forget the upcoming Birthday Bash at Creative Scrappers! It is going to be so much fun!!

Come join the fun!!!

2009-04-13T19:50:00.000-07:00

Seriously you won't want to miss this!

The snow is gone :)

2009-04-10T06:42:00.000-07:00

Remember all the snow from the beginning of this week (see post below). It's gone :) Yaaayyy!!!

Yesterday I filled in for the messenger at work, which means I had to go in early, but I got to leave early too. It was a nice change of pace, and getting home in the afternoon instead of at night was wonderful.

I got to spend time with the girls and Dan and two of my nieces were here. We took advantage of the nice weather and went for a walk after dinner.

I love this one, with the sky reflecting in the water, and Brianna and Sidney silhouetted against it.
And this one of Bree and Sid is one of my favorites! There is still a little bit of snow, but I'm sure it will be gone by Easter.

And here are Alyssa, Rebecca, and Aleah looking all cute, sitting on the upside down canoe.
The girls found a bunch of shells along the bank. Which they insisted on collecting.

We had a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to the rest of the Easter weekend.

HAPPY EASTER

Spring Break!

2009-04-06T06:24:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, when the weather was nice, I began planning all these little outings that we would do during spring break. I have to work every day, and Dan has to work 3 days while the girls are on spring break. So that doesn't give us a lot of time to do much. I had a photo shoot planned for today, the first day of the girls spring break. There is this beautiful spot if you travel south from our house into North Branch on the back roads, that would be a great spot for a photo shoot. I really wanted some nice spring pictures of the girls. And we had a trip to the library planned, ( I know, we are such nerds) we don't really have a lot of time during the day to do a lot, because I have to leave for work at 2:00 in the afternoon. Dan and the girls were going to get the canoes ready and do a little canoeing on his days off.

BUT

our plans have drastically changed.

Rebecca and Brianna are going to spend spring break building the biggest snowman in the world.

Brianna had wanted to make the biggest pancake in the world for breakfast this morning, but I didn't have any pans big enough.

Alyssa's plans are to finish New Moon.

My plans are to scrap. I have a couple of layouts that I haven't posted here yet.

I love this one of Dan, it's base on Creative Scrappers Sketch 45.

Out of My Mind

I used lots of paint on this, i used a little gray paint on the picture to give the edges a distressed look. I use black paint on bubble wrap so the background wouldn't be so plain and I splattered white pain all over. Alyssa was my inspiration for the splatter, we went into RUE 21 the other day and Alyssa really liked all the paint splatter looking cloths.

Here is one of Brianna.

I Love you funny face.

Have a great week and I hope the snowstorm that slammed us, has missed you.

All good things must come to an end.

2009-03-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

This is my final page for Page Plans. Chris and Lesli have decided to no longer continue the Page Plans weekly sketch blog. I have really enjoyed designing for them and wish them the best on all their future endeavors.

Locks of Love

(again I couldn't get a good picture of this )

I'll take a better picture and post it later this week.

Our Weekend

2009-03-29T19:12:00.000-07:00

I will be posting my Page Plans layout tomorrow evening, after Chris and Lesli (the owners) have a chance to post the reveal.
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We had a great weekend. My plans were to actually have a laid back weekend, that didn't happen, but it all worked out great.

Saturday we had planned to spend the afternoon at Grandma B's, and try and get our big family vacation planned. We didn't accomplish much, unless you count laughing our butts off and enjoying each others company.

Here is a picture of Rebecca and Abby.

I was having to much fun to get many good pictures so here is one I took of Grandma B sitting at the table with Deb and all the kids.

Sunday was our niece Laurens birthday. So we all met at my moms house to celebrate.

The Birthday girl

Dan frosted Bree's nose. LOL (she doesn't look to happy about it)

Like I said it was a great weekend, nothing to complain about, except for . . . . . . . .

the weather. This picture was taken from my dining room window using my 70 - 300mm lens.

You can click on the picture to see it larger, there are deer on the hill.

School Spirit.

2009-03-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

North Branch Schools were on the news this morning. Here is a link (hope it works) for anyone interested.
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/video?id=6731286

My girls aren't in it, but the boy with the cow is in Alyssa's class and Mrs. Wood is Alyssa and Rebecca's Principal.

Loving the School Spirit!!!!! Go Bronco's!!!!!

Hey !

2009-03-27T09:38:00.000-07:00

Just taking a break from Spring Cleaning. To post a sneak peak of the layout I created for Sunday's Page Plans reveal.

Have a great day!!

Check it out.

2009-03-26T08:12:00.000-07:00

This is so AMAZING ! If you know us or read my blog you know that my oldest DD and my Husband are drummers. (Not like they make money at it or anything it's just their hobby). I guess you could say we are a musical family, in that we always have some kind of music playing and a few of us have musical talent (not me). Right now I'm listening to White Zombie as I blog. We have a very eclectic taste in music. Dan is always involved in some type of music thing. At any given time you could see all 5 of us plugged in to our Mp3 players. Mine is pretty much the same music as my play list posted here. Dan's is similar although his has Celtic Women and No Apocalyptica (he says he is sick of Apocalyptica cuz I listen to them to much) (I like Celtic women although I have to be in the mood for them) Alyssa's play list is mostly Taylor Swift, Rebecca's is a little bit of everything and Brianna's is mostly Christian rock. Okay so that isn't the Amazing part. I mean, I think my family is amazing, but I don't expect you to. Anywho...
This is the amazing part http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_ma2h0idk . It is a collection of street musicians from around the world. Here is some information about it playing for change .
Just thought you might be interested.

I've been tagged :)

2009-03-23T06:07:00.000-07:00

My friend Angi, tagged me, here is what I have to do.

Go to the place on your computer where you store all your pictures and open the 4th folder. Open the 4th picture. Post the picture and give an explanation of what it is. Tag 4 people. DO NOT CHEAT!! You cannot edit or crop the picture!!So here is my picture.......

Brianna and Rebecca (you can see her hand on the back of the white horse) playing in thier messy bedroom. This was taken in October of 2008.

Now I have to tag 4 people.

The one with the naked chipboard.

2009-03-22T08:03:00.001-07:00

It's a typical me thing to do, paint and ink the card stock and leave the chipboard naked. LOL

This is the layout for today's Page Plans reveal. Make sure to check out the rest of the teams amazing work HERE.

Sneak peek.

2009-03-19T20:48:00.000-07:00

Hey... here is a little sneak peek of the layout I created for Sundays Page Plans reveal.

Thats how we roll.

2009-03-18T06:32:00.000-07:00

You will never hear me complain that my life is boring, but after this morning I may be ready for a little bit of boring in my life. Things started off a little crazy this morning. Woke up with my alarm going off way to early, as usual. Woke the girls up, put Cookie out to do his business. After everyone was dressed, I asked Brianna to let Cookie in. She goes to the door, and calls for him and nothing happens. He had run off, which is irritating to me, but causes the girls sheer panic. We all go out and call for him and he is just gone. Our house is surrounded by woods and hilly fields, so we can't see far. I round up the girls and send them in to finish getting ready for school. By this time Dan is home and decides to go look for Cookie on his bike. The girls and I leave for the bus stop early so we can drive real slow and look for Cookie. We find him at the neighbors farm about a mile down the road. He is soaking wet and covered with mud, Alyssa opens her door and Cookie jumps right in, it takes less than 2 seconds for all of us to be covered in mud. Not just muddy mud either, it's nasty, stinky, dark, mucky mud. We turn around and go home to clean up and change cloths. We end up missing the bus, and I have to drive the girls to school, no big deal. Although Alyssa is not happy about being 5 minutes late for school (when does the preteen drama end?) I get Alyssa and Rebecca all signed in at their school and drive Brianna to her school. We pull in, and their are parents, students and teachers all over the place, it's chaos. I find a parking spot and Brianna and I see threw one of the windows that the strobes are going off inside the school. Fire drill. We walk around to the back of the school where Brianna's class goes for fire drills and its the complete opposite of the front, all the kids are standing in nice neat rows, waiting to go into the school. I talked to Brianna's teacher for a minute, then head back to the parking lot. By the time I reach the car, the teachers and students started walking back into the building, and all the parents have gotten into their cars and the parking lot is jam packed with cars trying to get out (I think everyone in North Branch drove their kids to school today). Reading threw this it was a little more hectic, than it seems, and I did it all on just one cup of coffee, actually not even one cup, I forgot to mention I spilled half of it in the car. And that my friends is how we roll on a Tuesday morning. Now if you'll excuse me I have some muddy laundry to do.

Oh but firs here are some of my latest layouts.

Play

This layout is based on page plans sketch 47. I posted a sneak peek of this layout on this post HERE.
This one I did for fun, Alyssa and her drum set .

What!?! My man is manly enough to have butterflies on a layout about him! LOL. Actually this one needs something, it seems a little plain to me. Any suggestions? ;)

Thanks...

2009-03-15T22:01:00.000-07:00

I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and for leaving such nice comments here, they really mean a lot. We are going to spend this week getting back to normal (at least that is what I'm praying for.)

We did have a wonderful weekend. Friday night was spent with the softball team as usual. It's nice to get out and talk to the other mom's, I really enjoy it and it's nice to see Alyssa and Dan in their element. Even though Dan isn't coaching this team, he is still very active and helps out at practice.

Saturday we were up bright and early, to go spend the day with Kevin and Nikki and the girls, for Aleah's Birthday. And even though I called Nikki at least a dozen times Thursday and Friday about Aleah's gift, I still managed to mess up.

We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was perfect football weather. It's hard to see in the picture, but Alyssa's fingernails are the same color as the ball.
It was so great to see everyone and spend the day together like we use to when Kevin and Nikki and the girls lived close.

This week I will be catching up on all my scrapbooking, so check back later in the week to see what create ;)

A Heartbroken Family...

2009-03-11T08:49:00.000-07:00

That is the only way I can think to describe us right now. Some of you already know that we unexpectedly lost Grandpa B on Monday May 9th. Those of you that have been blessed enough to meet him in real life, will know what I'm talking about when I tell you that the world is a lesser place without him. I don't know exactly how old he was, but he had a young spirit. My daughters adored him. For the past 6 years he has lived at Lapeer Medical Facility a.k.a Suncrest. It's a nursing home (the best one in the state IMO). Almost all of those 6 years he was crowned prom king. Everyone loved him. He was the kind of person that brightened up a room when he entered it.

After I got the call from my Mother-in-law on Monday, Dan and I went to Suncrest to be with the rest of the family. We sat in Grandpa's room, and so many nurses came in to hug Grandma and tell her just how much they loved Grandpa. They told us he spent the morning making his rounds in his wheelchair, visiting the nurses and giving them high 5's. He loved his wheelchair, he especially loved popping wheelies with it, he wild get going fast then throw the breaks and pop a wheelie. To see him do it was kind of scary, but he loved it.

Here are a few recent photo's:

Halloween 2008, was the best. Grandpa, we will miss you.

Locks of Love

2009-03-06T11:05:00.000-08:00

Alyssa's softball team held a silent auction last week and we were the high bidders on a GC for All Dolled Up, a local beauty salon. So today I took Alyssa, (who has been in need of a hair cut for a while,) to get her hair cut. She has been planning on donating her hair to Locks of Love for a few weeks.

Before

After

She was so happy she said she is naming her first born child Starr, after her hairstylist. Where does she come up with this stuff.

I haven't posted a sneak peek of my Page Plans projects in a while. So here is a little peek at my layout that will be revealed on Page Plans Sunday.

And because I really like this layout of my niece and nephew, I took a better picture of it.

Page plans reveal and weekend stuff.

2009-03-01T19:43:00.000-08:00

It's Sunday and time for Page Plans reveal. Here is the layout I created based on the week 46 sketch by Lesli. Make sure and visit Page Plans to see the sketch and the DT's awesome work.

Sorry about the horrible quality of the picture.

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I had this weekend off, and what a fun weekend it was. Friday was a very big day in the DeMeyers house. It was softball sign up day. We got all three of the girls signed up.

Practices won't start for a few weeks yet, thank goodness. But coaches meetings and the draft will be coming up so Dan will be busy with all of that. This year the girls all fall into different age groups, so they will all be on different teams. Dan's moving up so he will still be Alyssa's coach. Alyssa is now on two softball teams. The regular NB summer rec. team and the fast pitch team.

Speaking of the fast pitch team, we went bowling with them today. Had a blast. I really like this team, all the parents are involved and help out and are just fun to be around. Here are a few pictures from today.

To the girls relief or maybe it was horror. I wasn't the only mom there with a camera, but I noticed that when the other moms would take pictures of my girls they got a nice smile, when I took pictures of them I got looks like this. . .
can you believe she had just gotten a strike.

Bree and Dan, so cute.

Here is Alyssa giving it her all.

We had a great time!

Watch this..

2009-02-23T19:46:00.000-08:00

My sweet friend Taryn shared this. It is so true, and really worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoGYx35ypus

I lifted my spirits when I watched it, I was sitting here thinking of all the stuff I don't have/can't afford right now. Things are getting pretty bad for us, yet we do have so much. This video woke me up to the fact that I am spoiled, I have so much more than a lot of other people, yet sometimes I think I don't have enough. And it's all just superficial things that I have been worrying about.

Please watch the video.

Page Plans Reveal.

2009-02-23T06:32:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was reveal day at Page Plans.

Here is my layout based on the Sketch by Chris Ross.

I had a lot of fun with this sketch and loved looking at everyones take on it.

The worst morning ever but...

2009-02-20T09:02:00.000-08:00

this to shall pass. My grandma always says that and now it's a phrase I repeat over and over in my head. Thank God for children because I don't think I would have even gotten out of bed this morning without them. We had to be at the girls school this morning to watch Alyssa and her friend Ashley dance in the talent show. They rocked. They were going to sing too but the talent show ran a half hour over so they didn't sing.
The little girl in the blue shirt in the background is my niece Lauren. She plays the trombone in the school band.

My Niece Taylor had a solo on her clarinet she did an amazing job.

I had forgotten how uncomfortable bleachers are, but my niece Rachel seemed to be comfy watching the show.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bonus sketch Wednesday.

2009-02-11T06:53:00.000-08:00

Page plans has posted a bonus sketch today. As always the sketch was awesome to work with and the DT did an amazing job on the cards and layouts. So be sure to go check out Page Plans today.

Here is my take on todays sketch.

Sunday!

2009-02-08T05:45:00.000-08:00

Good Sunday morning. If you read my blog you know that I love Sundays. Sundays are reveal days for my 2 favorite blogs Page Plans and Creative Scrappers. Both have amazing sketches this week. I really enjoyed working with the Page Plans sketch by Chris Ross.

I can't wait to get started on the Creative Scrappers sketch.

The sun is shinning today, that always does a lot to get my creativity flowing.

Have a scrappy day.