Credits:
American Kit by Redju
Alphas from Traci Reed's iCandy and Stampy Foamy Messy Alpha
Notepaper/arrow from Traci Reed's Bare Feet and Blue Jeans
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Happy Birthday USA!
Credits:
American Kit by Redju
Alphas from Traci Reed's iCandy and Stampy Foamy Messy Alpha
Notepaper/arrow from Traci Reed's Bare Feet and Blue Jeans
Thursday, July 03, 2008
When it rains, it pours...literally
Right now, we have...
-Bowls and buckets holding several inches of water that leaked through our porch roof last night
-Water covering 3/4 of the floor in our basement
-A kitchen table covered with all the stuff that was in the porch
-Two kids who are so exhausted from getting up early to go to Safety City, all they want to do today is watch movies (I can't say that I blame them...it's still rainy and yucky outside).
I'm about ready to pack up the motorhome and take off for a few weeks and forget that we even own a home! You can't have a leaky basement in an RV! LOL
On a more positive note, yesterday was our 14th anniversary. We went out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Carraba's. I had some yummy ravioli, Rob got canelloni and we shared a bottle of wine. Mmmmm! Afterward we tried to go to the bookstore, but it was storming and the tornado sirens were going off. Apparently a funnel cloud had been spotted in the south end of Toledo (S. Byrne and Hill, for those of you who know Toledo). When we got to the bookstore (in Monclova), they were closed due to the storm. I've never heard of this! They offered to let us come in and stay in their break room, but we decided to just get back in the car and go get the kids, who were staying at Rob's brother's house nearby. Sigh. At least it will be a memorable day!
Tomorrow we are planning to go to our neighborhood's little July 4th celebration. It's so cute...great for kids. There is a bike parade, a clown, jazz band, face painting, games, snacks and the fire fighters bring the truck so the kids can sit in the driver's seat. We invited some friends to come along too, so it should be a good time.
Happy birthday to the USA...wishing all my friends in digi land a safe and happy holiday!
-Bowls and buckets holding several inches of water that leaked through our porch roof last night
-Water covering 3/4 of the floor in our basement
-A kitchen table covered with all the stuff that was in the porch
-Two kids who are so exhausted from getting up early to go to Safety City, all they want to do today is watch movies (I can't say that I blame them...it's still rainy and yucky outside).
I'm about ready to pack up the motorhome and take off for a few weeks and forget that we even own a home! You can't have a leaky basement in an RV! LOL
On a more positive note, yesterday was our 14th anniversary. We went out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Carraba's. I had some yummy ravioli, Rob got canelloni and we shared a bottle of wine. Mmmmm! Afterward we tried to go to the bookstore, but it was storming and the tornado sirens were going off. Apparently a funnel cloud had been spotted in the south end of Toledo (S. Byrne and Hill, for those of you who know Toledo). When we got to the bookstore (in Monclova), they were closed due to the storm. I've never heard of this! They offered to let us come in and stay in their break room, but we decided to just get back in the car and go get the kids, who were staying at Rob's brother's house nearby. Sigh. At least it will be a memorable day!
Tomorrow we are planning to go to our neighborhood's little July 4th celebration. It's so cute...great for kids. There is a bike parade, a clown, jazz band, face painting, games, snacks and the fire fighters bring the truck so the kids can sit in the driver's seat. We invited some friends to come along too, so it should be a good time.
Happy birthday to the USA...wishing all my friends in digi land a safe and happy holiday!
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Welcome to...The Party Bus!!
Well, we did it. We actually went out a PURCHASED A BIG HONKIN' RV!! It has been quite a process since Thursday...
By Wednesday we had our choices narrowed down to two, both available at a small dealership in Flint, Michigan, about 2 hours north of us. They were both really well priced and looked like they were in great condition, so we decided we'd go up on Friday and probably buy one of the two. Thursday night I was so nervous/excited that I didn't sleep at all, except for about 30 minutes around 6:30am, which let me in a daze and almost hallucinating. We took the kids over to my folks' house and headed north. All the way up I was so excited I could hardly stand it.
We looked at the older, less expensive model first. Right away we knew it wasn't for us...more wear than we expected and just generally not a good feeling. Then we looked at the newer, more expensive model. Of course that was the one we loved! We took it for a test drive and the whole time I felt like I was going to spew. The enormity of the purchase was starting to sink in and I was freaking out. I had run all the numbers but since we are so conservative with our money, I wasn't sure. We had to go to the bank to get the bulk of the cash for it, so I figured we could talk it over on the way. Our GPS unit, Gustav (yes everything has a name), led us to the address but alas, no bank. After asking at a gas station, we tried a second location but nope, no bank (it no longer existed). I was really freaking out now! I thought God was trying to tell us something here. Finally, on the third try we found our bank, went over the numbers again and realized that our payments were actually going to be less than I had figured. Hallelujah! All systems go!!
We headed back to the dealer, laid down the dough, got the grand tour of all the onboard systems, including the pooper (which is my biggest concern on the whole thing!), and away we went. We had actually rented a car to drive up there so we could ride back in the big rig together, and I'm so glad we did...worth every penny.
The thing is definitely a behemoth...31 feet long and 17,000 pounds. We managed to squeeze it in our driveway and behind our fence. I'm actually writing this from inside the party bus...we are camping out in our backyard tonight. The girls were so excited about it that we just had to try it out. It's so cool - we can put into our home electric and water, so we can run our TV, laptops, fans, etc. I know what you are thinking...that's not camping! And you're right, it's not. It's RVing!
I will post pictures later on, but for now you can check out the dealer's photos here.
Thanks for sharing our joy!! :-)
By Wednesday we had our choices narrowed down to two, both available at a small dealership in Flint, Michigan, about 2 hours north of us. They were both really well priced and looked like they were in great condition, so we decided we'd go up on Friday and probably buy one of the two. Thursday night I was so nervous/excited that I didn't sleep at all, except for about 30 minutes around 6:30am, which let me in a daze and almost hallucinating. We took the kids over to my folks' house and headed north. All the way up I was so excited I could hardly stand it.
We looked at the older, less expensive model first. Right away we knew it wasn't for us...more wear than we expected and just generally not a good feeling. Then we looked at the newer, more expensive model. Of course that was the one we loved! We took it for a test drive and the whole time I felt like I was going to spew. The enormity of the purchase was starting to sink in and I was freaking out. I had run all the numbers but since we are so conservative with our money, I wasn't sure. We had to go to the bank to get the bulk of the cash for it, so I figured we could talk it over on the way. Our GPS unit, Gustav (yes everything has a name), led us to the address but alas, no bank. After asking at a gas station, we tried a second location but nope, no bank (it no longer existed). I was really freaking out now! I thought God was trying to tell us something here. Finally, on the third try we found our bank, went over the numbers again and realized that our payments were actually going to be less than I had figured. Hallelujah! All systems go!!
We headed back to the dealer, laid down the dough, got the grand tour of all the onboard systems, including the pooper (which is my biggest concern on the whole thing!), and away we went. We had actually rented a car to drive up there so we could ride back in the big rig together, and I'm so glad we did...worth every penny.
The thing is definitely a behemoth...31 feet long and 17,000 pounds. We managed to squeeze it in our driveway and behind our fence. I'm actually writing this from inside the party bus...we are camping out in our backyard tonight. The girls were so excited about it that we just had to try it out. It's so cool - we can put into our home electric and water, so we can run our TV, laptops, fans, etc. I know what you are thinking...that's not camping! And you're right, it's not. It's RVing!
I will post pictures later on, but for now you can check out the dealer's photos here.
Thanks for sharing our joy!! :-)
Monday, June 23, 2008
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
I can't believe we are considering this...
(click the photo to see more photos)
We started talking about buying a camper a few weeks ago. After looking around this weekend, we decided we'd go for a smaller, "class c" motorhome (the kind that looks like a truck with a camper on the back). We met up with some people purely by accident trying to sell their rig, so today we went to look at it. My goodness, it's a GIANT!!! It's 35 feet long and just so big! It's in good condition and I think we may actually go for it!!!
Ironically, a friend of ours told us a while back that she thinks Rob looks just like Randy Quaid in the movie Christmas Vacation. He plays cousin Eddie, who owns the giant RV and shows up unannounced at the Griswold house. I can just see Rob now, emptying our sewage into the city sewer...ROFL!!!
Look out digi friends...I may just show up at your house in something like this!!
(click the photo to see more photos)
We started talking about buying a camper a few weeks ago. After looking around this weekend, we decided we'd go for a smaller, "class c" motorhome (the kind that looks like a truck with a camper on the back). We met up with some people purely by accident trying to sell their rig, so today we went to look at it. My goodness, it's a GIANT!!! It's 35 feet long and just so big! It's in good condition and I think we may actually go for it!!!
Ironically, a friend of ours told us a while back that she thinks Rob looks just like Randy Quaid in the movie Christmas Vacation. He plays cousin Eddie, who owns the giant RV and shows up unannounced at the Griswold house. I can just see Rob now, emptying our sewage into the city sewer...ROFL!!!
Look out digi friends...I may just show up at your house in something like this!!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
The summer vacation {lack of} routine
Ah, summer. How I used to look forward to it as a kid. I remember waking up in the morning (early of course, since we weren't allowed to sleep in!) and thinking that my neighborhood had a different look to it. I don't know if it was the colors, or the height of the sun in the summer sky, but everything had that "summer look" to it.
My neighborhood where I live now has that summer look too, but now as a mom, somehow summer is a bit more challenging. We are in our second week of no school, and I'm still not used to the lack of routine. I'm a person who needs to get up and go somewhere every morning in order to function properly. On the days we don't have this, I often give in the to urge to sleep late while my kids are in bed with me watching cartoons. The rest of the morning is spent trying to catch up and eat breakfast before noon! LOL
Summer does have its fun points though. My girls are enjoying doing several pages in their kindergarten workbooks every morning. They are loving playing outside in the backyard, digging for worms, getting into mischief with the hose and picking strawberries from our little garden. They also love to watch the various creatures that thrive in our yard...Mrs. Squirrel, Chippy the chipmunk and Queen Bumble, the bee. Heidi has developed a fear of bee hives (since we have found several small ones started in our yard) and was recently worried that one was in her bed, under her covers.
Even though it seems like summer will be long, I know in reality it won't be. July 4th will be here in just a couple of weeks! They will be going to Safety City for 2 weeks, and between a couple more trips to Cedar Point and a jaunt to Chicago to visit friends in July,it will go quickly. Then all too soon my babies will be turning six and starting kindergarten. Where has the time gone?
{Okay, end of sappy lament}
My neighborhood where I live now has that summer look too, but now as a mom, somehow summer is a bit more challenging. We are in our second week of no school, and I'm still not used to the lack of routine. I'm a person who needs to get up and go somewhere every morning in order to function properly. On the days we don't have this, I often give in the to urge to sleep late while my kids are in bed with me watching cartoons. The rest of the morning is spent trying to catch up and eat breakfast before noon! LOL
Summer does have its fun points though. My girls are enjoying doing several pages in their kindergarten workbooks every morning. They are loving playing outside in the backyard, digging for worms, getting into mischief with the hose and picking strawberries from our little garden. They also love to watch the various creatures that thrive in our yard...Mrs. Squirrel, Chippy the chipmunk and Queen Bumble, the bee. Heidi has developed a fear of bee hives (since we have found several small ones started in our yard) and was recently worried that one was in her bed, under her covers.
Even though it seems like summer will be long, I know in reality it won't be. July 4th will be here in just a couple of weeks! They will be going to Safety City for 2 weeks, and between a couple more trips to Cedar Point and a jaunt to Chicago to visit friends in July,it will go quickly. Then all too soon my babies will be turning six and starting kindergarten. Where has the time gone?
{Okay, end of sappy lament}
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Kit for a Good Cause
Traci Reed, for whom I CT, was able to share this fantastic kit with her whole CT so I've had a chance to play with it and I can tell you it's awesome and HUGE!!! Here are two pages I made with it:
Monday, June 16, 2008
Father's Day wrap up & new project
Father's Day
Happy day-after-Father's-Day! We had a great day yesterday. After church (where we got to sit together as a family...doesn't happen very often, between me singing on the praise team and Rob running the power point for the service) we had lunch at one of our favorite local eateries, Dave's. Then we took a trip up to Cabela's, which is about 30 minutes north of us. I figured it would be a great thing to do for Father's Day. Funny, about 5000 other people had the same idea! LOL It was great though. The girls were really into all the "killed animals" this time and loved the aquarium too. We had hoped to look at campers (yeah, we're nuts...actually considering buying one) but they don't carry them any more. Oh well. Still fun!
On the way back we stopped at this place called the Jerky Outlet, where they have every kind of jerky ever created, and you can sample everything along with flavored popcorn, cheese, and even flavored peanut butter! Rob grabbed a few bottles of locally made wine from St. Julian's Winery and then a yummy coffee drink from The Coffee Beanery...mmmm! We stopped at All American Coach but they were closed...bummer! It is rather amusing to climb up on the bumpers of these giant vehicles and try to peak in the windows. Here is the kind we are considering:
Best & Worst Project
I'm a big fan of Ali Edwards and her focus on pictures + words. My mom gave me the idea to ask the girls about the best and worst parts of theirs days when I was putting them to bed each night. I loved the idea and decided to keep a mini-book/journal for them. I'm doing one for me too. I think it's easier to journal when you have a prompt. The book is very simple:
Girls' pages:
I look forward to accumulating lots of pages for these books!
Happy day-after-Father's-Day! We had a great day yesterday. After church (where we got to sit together as a family...doesn't happen very often, between me singing on the praise team and Rob running the power point for the service) we had lunch at one of our favorite local eateries, Dave's. Then we took a trip up to Cabela's, which is about 30 minutes north of us. I figured it would be a great thing to do for Father's Day. Funny, about 5000 other people had the same idea! LOL It was great though. The girls were really into all the "killed animals" this time and loved the aquarium too. We had hoped to look at campers (yeah, we're nuts...actually considering buying one) but they don't carry them any more. Oh well. Still fun!
On the way back we stopped at this place called the Jerky Outlet, where they have every kind of jerky ever created, and you can sample everything along with flavored popcorn, cheese, and even flavored peanut butter! Rob grabbed a few bottles of locally made wine from St. Julian's Winery and then a yummy coffee drink from The Coffee Beanery...mmmm! We stopped at All American Coach but they were closed...bummer! It is rather amusing to climb up on the bumpers of these giant vehicles and try to peak in the windows. Here is the kind we are considering:
Best & Worst Project
I'm a big fan of Ali Edwards and her focus on pictures + words. My mom gave me the idea to ask the girls about the best and worst parts of theirs days when I was putting them to bed each night. I loved the idea and decided to keep a mini-book/journal for them. I'm doing one for me too. I think it's easier to journal when you have a prompt. The book is very simple:
Girls' pages:
I look forward to accumulating lots of pages for these books!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Stroll
Credits: Traci Reed's brand new Bare Feet and Blue Jeans and her Mini Hangy Thing alpha, available at SSD, font is DJB KelliJournaling: There aren’t many places in Toledo that remind me of the mountains, but this is one of them. When we bought our house we didn’t even know this was here. The girls love to take “adventures” where we walk down the wooded hill, explore the creek and finally end up at the “secret castle”.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Bug Invasion
1. Red VW Bug, 2. orange bug in the greeen grass, 3. Love for a Little Yellow Bug, 4. VW bug, 5. Blue VW, Chiang Mai, 6. Baby Blue Bug, 7. 2 cat purple vw bug, 8. Pink Bug, 9. Silver Beep, 10. Herbie the Love Bug, 11. Bug in cross filter, 12. Convertible Bug, 13. white VW beetle bug VII, 14. Mini-Bling, 15. colorful hippies, 16. Rainbow Bug
Seeing red
A bunch of cool red stuff
Originally uploaded by poopinmoose
I've seen so many people make these cool grids of random Flickr photos, so I thought I'd try it. Red stuff looks cool when you put it all together, eh?
Oh, the places you go
Saw this on Robin's blog...love stuff like this. I need to do a page about this sometime, along with all the cities I've seen...
Monday, June 09, 2008
New curtains!
Hmmmm....do you think I need some?
Before:
After:
Our old couch was navy blue and cream checked pattern, so at least the old curtains match that. But once we got the sectional, well...not good!
Before:
After:
Our old couch was navy blue and cream checked pattern, so at least the old curtains match that. But once we got the sectional, well...not good!
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Project: Breakfast Recipe Book Cover
Rob makes us breakfast every Saturday morning...it's a great tradition we've created for our family. He has tons of great recipes so I made him a simple binder to keep all of them organized.
I used Traci Reed's new Sweet of You for the alpha, fruit stickers and stuff, and Amy Sumrall's
Wakey, Wakey, Eggs and Bac-ie! for the breakfast food items. Isn't that breakfast food kit a hoot? The name just kills me! LOL
I used Traci Reed's new Sweet of You for the alpha, fruit stickers and stuff, and Amy Sumrall's
Wakey, Wakey, Eggs and Bac-ie! for the breakfast food items. Isn't that breakfast food kit a hoot? The name just kills me! LOL
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Strawberry in our garden
Strawberry in our garden
Originally uploaded by poopinmoose
We've had these in our garden for several years now, and this year we are getting a really great crop. We love to go outside every day and check to see how many ripe ones we have. Sometimes the little critters around here beat us to them.
Monday, June 02, 2008
The final stretch
It's hard to believe this is the last week of school for the girls. Then they will official be "big school" kids! It has gone fast in some ways, and slow in other ways. A quote that describes this perfectly is "the days are long but the years are short". I don't how this works, but it's so true. They have their little preschool end of the year program Wednesday night, and I can't wait to see what they will be doing.
This morning was a bit hectic. Gretchen was complaining of her stomach feeling yucky before we got up, and I didn't think much of it since this is a common complaint (along with many other things). So we get all ready and we're on our way to school when she throws up in the car! AACK! Yeah, sign me up for the parent of the year award. So I get Heidi to school, call off work, and take Gretchen back home. She seems to be fine now after resting for the morning. My girls are not the type to throw up often (like from excitement) so this was odd. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
I have several layouts and project I want to post but my ScribeFire is not cooperating with me and doesn't know how to post images today. Add this to my list of things to figure out!
Today's to-do list:
1. Laundry, laundry, laundry
2. Make hair appt.
3. Make appts. with "special friend" and happy pill doc.
4. Refill Rx
5. Clear snack bar counter top
6. Plant herbs in the herb garden.
Let's see if I can get any of these done. :-)
This morning was a bit hectic. Gretchen was complaining of her stomach feeling yucky before we got up, and I didn't think much of it since this is a common complaint (along with many other things). So we get all ready and we're on our way to school when she throws up in the car! AACK! Yeah, sign me up for the parent of the year award. So I get Heidi to school, call off work, and take Gretchen back home. She seems to be fine now after resting for the morning. My girls are not the type to throw up often (like from excitement) so this was odd. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
I have several layouts and project I want to post but my ScribeFire is not cooperating with me and doesn't know how to post images today. Add this to my list of things to figure out!
Today's to-do list:
1. Laundry, laundry, laundry
2. Make hair appt.
3. Make appts. with "special friend" and happy pill doc.
4. Refill Rx
5. Clear snack bar counter top
6. Plant herbs in the herb garden.
Let's see if I can get any of these done. :-)
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Deep thoughts, by Mish
This is a Circle Journal page for my friend Robin. Her theme was to do a top 10 list. I'm on an anti-paper/element kick lately, which explains the composition.
Credits: Notebook paper and stitching by Jessica Bolton, acrylic alpha by Traci Reed.
Journaling reads:
1. I read magazines backwards.
2. I would own a pair of Crocs in every color if I could.
3. It look 3 long years until I became a mom.
4. They do not sell tires here (Canadian Tire is a Wal-mart type store in Canada)
5. God rocks - these are cool (tulips are my favorite flower)
6. Whatever happened to tie dye?
7. Teeth are a little bit creepy (especially when they fall out, like Gretchen's did today)
8. T-shirts are best when being used for other purposes. (If you can't tell, I cut them into strips, tie the strips together to make yarn, and knit with it)
9. We should all mind our parents like this.
10. Bigger isn't always better (that is our house - I love it here).
Credits: Notebook paper and stitching by Jessica Bolton, acrylic alpha by Traci Reed.
Journaling reads:
1. I read magazines backwards.
2. I would own a pair of Crocs in every color if I could.
3. It look 3 long years until I became a mom.
4. They do not sell tires here (Canadian Tire is a Wal-mart type store in Canada)
5. God rocks - these are cool (tulips are my favorite flower)
6. Whatever happened to tie dye?
7. Teeth are a little bit creepy (especially when they fall out, like Gretchen's did today)
8. T-shirts are best when being used for other purposes. (If you can't tell, I cut them into strips, tie the strips together to make yarn, and knit with it)
9. We should all mind our parents like this.
10. Bigger isn't always better (that is our house - I love it here).
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
PB & J Quiz
What Your Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich Means |
 Your eating style is gluttonous. If you like something, you're going back for seconds... no matter how full you are! You have an average sweet tooth. While you enjoy desserts, they aren't exactly your downfall. Your taste in food tends to be pretty flexible. You may crave sushi one night, and your favorite childhood recipe the next. You are probably a fairly normal, upper middle class person. You don't rock the boat too often. You are a tough person who isn't afraid to live life fully. There isn't a lot that scares you. Precise and controlled, you can be a bit anal retentive when it comes to how you like things. You're definitely a perfectionist. |
Monday, May 12, 2008
Chocolate Peanut Butter & Jelly Cupcakes
I haven't actually tried
these, but I just bought the most adorable PB and J themed digi scrap kit at Sweet Shoppe Designs, and I had PB and J on the brain. Don't they sound fabulous?Layout Share
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