Insta-Friday

Good FRIDAY MORNING! Today I wanted to link up with Jeannette at Life Rearranged and post from my insta-gram photos over the week! I have been following her for a while and for me on Friday's it's hit or miss......and this morning as long as I'm quick I have time to post! YAY me!

I have been soooo BUSY this week! Have you? Here are snippets from my week starting from last Friday!

last friday's breakfast at work :)

My mom and I started playing scrabble on a daily basis when she was here.....now we have moved to the scrabble app and still play every day! 

I got to go to an all day crop this past weekend! I met some ladies that live in my area that do this ALL. THE. TIME. How did I not know about them? They are all so amazing!!! I have decided that I just love them and they are all soooo sweet!!!! Thank you girls for including me in your group, I feel so blessed. 

Happy mail! ('Nough said.)

We had a snow and ice storm hit in the middle of the day in the middle of the week and it was a MESS. But pretty :) 

WE ARE ON IT! Back to basics, back to budgeting, back to our goals and back to changing our lives! 

Have a great day! 

Rainy Day

Good morning y'all! I have been away from blog world because my mom has been here and I've been working and Savannah has kept us SUPER busy! Holy moly who knew one person could keep an entire family so stinkin busy! Oh well! Anyway, I will try to get some stuff posted either tomorrow or Friday because I do have some projects I made over Christmas that I have not yet posted about! AND.....dun dunna dun........ I have found a group in my community to SCRAP WITH! I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!! Saturday is an all day crop and I. AM. GOING. My mother in law offered to keep my kiddos, it's in town and it's FREE! I just have to bring my stuff and a snack food and all is good. SO EXCITED! Did I mention I am excited? I haven't gotten to scrapbook since my weekend to my bestie's at the beginning of December....I am having SERIOUS withdraws!

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday!!!!

Happy New Years Eve!

Well good morning and welcome to the last day of 2012!! Crazy huh!?! I thought I would share a quick top ten post of 2012 before the new year starts! And by quick I mean quick b/c I've got to get ready and head to work!!!! I did a lot of creating this past year....more than I think i have EVER done. My style has developed a lot over the year also and the techniques I have discovered that I LOVE or don't love.

I hope you all enjoy your new year's eve and HAPPY NEW YEAR tomorrow!

In no particular order :)

I was also blessed to be a part of a design team for a short time....twisted sketches. They were so much fun and I was so sad that Anam felt the need to stop the challenge blog. :( 

Well onto the New Year's Eve festivities....we are hanging out and playing games! 

It's Friday!

Good morning y'all! I'm sorry I've been MIA.....been busy with starting work again and holiday festivities! I have taken pictures and I have done a few crafty items! I will post some pics maybe over the weekend! I'll do my best. Won't make any promises though! I noticed a lot of people are making a top 10 list of 2012 and I have to say I made a LOT of layouts and projects in 2012 so I will try to get a list together also :)

Hope y'all have a blessed day! We are dealing with day 3 of snow and ice....I'm trying to decide if I want to try to drive myself to work this morning or have hubby take me....Hmmmm....

Saturday

I hope you are all having a happy December 15th day! Especially after the tragic events that happened yesterday in Connecticut.  How horrible and tragic for those families. I don't know about you but I know for me I hugged my kids a little tighter last night and just at the sight of them after a school day brought me to tears.  I hope that I stay in the "more" appreciative state for them and remember yesterdays events when I start to get frustrated or stressed. I LOVE my babies and my heart hurts so bad for all those families who will never see their children again.

Would you like a happy post now? I did go to my friends last weekend and we had LOTS of scrapping going on! It was soooo much fun and I already missed her when I got home Sunday night!!!! It was definitely needed too! I made the comment to her though that I had expected to get more accomplished than what I did.....5 layouts for an entire weekend of scrapping....like literally....after dinner Friday night we got busy and you could not find her kitchen table until noon on Sunday and Friday we were up until 3am! Her husband was so kind to let me know if there was less talking and more hand working then I could have gotten more done! Bwahahahahaha! I love Alan! He is so great for Michelle and I am so happy for them! (that side note was free!) Anyway, it really didn't matter because I scrap alone all the time so it was so nice to have my bestie to chat with. Ok so here are a few pictures from the weekend....some layouts....I need to photograph the others and I will work on doing that today!!! I have had a scrapbooking hangover this week! LOL....literally Monday I could not hardly function and the rest of the week is kind of a blur....hmmm....ok here are the pics:

This is of me and my guys on a church hayride! and the banner along the bottom is actually the cover page from a halloween kit I had.....My Minds Eye I believe....:) 

Insert the mess! Doesn't it look fun?! Let me just say I am NOT a clean scrapper!!!! I make a mess as you can tell b/c this is my mess and to the right of this picture is a nice neat pile that Michelle was working on! 

And you CANNOT scrap without sweetarts! I have discovered that recently....they are so YUMMY! And buttons.....oh buttons! 

I am biased I KNOW but this is one of my most favorite layouts I have made in a while! I started with an idea and kept adding layers! I wanted it super girly and that's what I got! This is a picture we took while doing our family photos in October! LOVE my guy! 

Less than 24 Hours!

Wow! December is so busy for us!!!! I have been trying to post....just isn't quite happening! I haven't scrapped either....and I'm waiting on pictures to arrive from postal pix for my December Daily....I have been writing every night in it though. I'm hoping that at some point next week I can get several posts up for you all!

This weekend.....I have been WAITING for THIS weekend for a few weeks! My bestie Michelle only lives like an hour and a half away from me....you would THINK we could see each other more but the reality of it is we are busy wives and mamas and she's been going to school and finishing up her degree....I am SO PROUD of her for this!!!! Anyway-and I start working next week and then she will be working....and the list goes on. You know how life gets. Well this weekend we were both free and I am going up tomorrow and we are scrappin all weekend! We have planned some late night scrappin tomorrow and then most of Saturday into late at night! THAT IS MY PLAN anyway.....I am so super excited! When we lived in the same town every other Friday night was spent scrapping at my house until 3am! IT WAS GREAT! It's those times you look back on that we seem to take for granted until they no longer exist....

So I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I have planned to work on my Disney album from this summer, a daily planner I made for the new year and I've got 3 packets of pictures! So BE READY!!!! If the weather is nice Sunday or Monday on my lunch break I will get the pictures taken and some posts set up for next week.....in the mean time I'll post some pictures from the archives!

I made this with last years Valentine kit from Noel Mignon :)

Made this one for my friend Kayleigh....she gave it to her mom and dad for their anniversary :)

First trip to the dentist.....I love the simplicity of this one :) I submitted it for a design team call that I didn't make :(

I LOVE these photos! These are pictures of the first Game day of the season in 2011 with our Boyd family friends! I LOVE them soooo much and we don't get to see them nearly enough :( and we all live in the same town!

THERE SHE IS! That's my bestie! See you tomorrow!!!!!! :D 

My first Circle Journal insert

Good morning! I hope you are having a Terrific Tuesday (yes I'm that cheesy!) lol.....Anyway-a group of us girls are in a circle journal circle together....did that make any sense? A group of us from the Noel Mignon message board and I am super excited!!!!! Not sure if I ever shared my actual journal or not.....so here is the one I sent off:

I took my cue from Heidi Swapp and used file folders :) 

And here is the one I am putting into Elizabeth Manna's journal:

She asked us to journal about the day we received the journal....well...things have been so crazy around here I can't remember which day I got it so I journaled about this past Friday. It was a blessed day for our family and a changing day! I didn't have any pictures from the day and I am ok with that....I did include a receipt on the back from Sonic....because I fed a family of 4 for $8.89!!!!!! THANK YOU COUPONS! 

It's storming here so we are enjoying the change....not so much....trying to convince myself....