Look Who's TWO

My son's younger cousin, turned 2 recently, I couldn't resist scrapping that sweet birthday girl smile!

Everything is from Fallen by Jessica Gorny

font is DSP Cybergram

Paper scrapped gift

I know it's hard to believe. I've had the stuff to make this since I came back from IN/KY back in August. The picture is my cousin Sandy and me standing in what is left of a carriage trail on what was once land owned by my 5x great grandfather (Sandy's 3x great grandfather).
This is a gift I'm going to send to my cousin Sandy.
The background paper is paper salon. the frame is K&Co. the round stamps are Sandylion clear stamps. the larger journaling block is by Stampabilities. I used brilliance Ink in Cosmic Copper. and I used a Marvy scalloped circle punch. on the two little leaves are the month and year the photo was taken.
Top circle has out names, middle circle says where we are, and the bottom one says, Cousins, Friends, Family Historians.
The quote on the journaling block says "to forget one's ancestors is to be a brooke with no source, a tree with no root. ~Chinese Proverb"
This is relevent for us because we are the ONLY ones in the family with an interest in researching our family tree. It was quite an experience to stand there in that carriage trail, to see what was left of the tracks worn by years of use, and to imagine what it must have been like to live the way they did, to have to travel miles in a wagon on such rough terrain, to be so far from town.

Farmer Aidan and his Girlfriends

Farmer Aidan

This is his "costume" for Halloween this year. We went from him wearing the same clothes, along with his toolbelt and hard hat (so he could be Bob the Builder) to being a farmer.

Credits
Autumn Mix by LaWanna DesJardinPainted Burlap-Alpha and Extras (red) by LaWanna DesJardinFont- DSP Cyber Gram

I got accepted to another CT

for Merkeley Designs., which can be found at Merkeley Designs and at Oscraps.



She's got some awesome stuff in her shops, I love her "A Big Alpha" which I used for the "1941" in the layout below.






The picture is my Great Grandfather. That's him behind the bar in his Saloon (one of many businesses that he had).


Credits





Blueberry Mountain (short stack) paper pack by Merkeley Designs
A Big Alpha by Merkeley Designs
Binder Clips Altered by Merkeley Designs
Purty Curls by Merkeley Designs
Sepia Stamps by Merkeley Designs
Spectrum Flowers by Merkeley Designs
Fonts MS Serif, Calligrapher, and Sylfaen


Credits
We only have a handful of pregnancy pictures, most were lost during my hard drive crash. This one is a scan of a really bad copy, but it's the only one from the end of the pregnancy, and a bad picture is better then no picture.
Blueberry Mountain (short stack) paper pack by Merkeley Designs
A Big Alpha by Merkeley Designs
Binder Clips Altered by Merkeley Designs
Purty Curls by Merkeley Designs
Sepia Stamps by Merkeley Designs
Spectrum Flowers by Merkeley Designs
Small Packages-Notepaper3 by ksharonk Designs
Font Arial

3.92

That's Ian's final GPA! It would have been even higher if we hadn't been without internet for a week during a 2 week long class. Ian you rock! I am so PROUD of you!!!

Ian "in the classroom"

Just another day in Paradise

Things are going ok here. I am, as per the usual, feeling overwhelmed about the things that need to get done, and trying to find balance between the things that NEED to get done and the things I WANT to get done. I was going to make baked ziti today, I had just finished boiling the noodles for it and was in the process of draining them when I spilled the darn things all over the sink! To my credit I didn't burst into tears, lol. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open. I cleaned that up and just boiled another kind of pasta with some broccoli, and some baked chicken. I was so annoyed with my self. Part of the reason for that is my poor little guy is sick again, just a cold but he's miserable, and didn't sleep well, and was up about 2 and half hours earlier then normal. I'm waiting for him to crash. It's probably going to happen soon, and I'm going to have to crash with him, because I just know he'll be waking up a bunch during the night. So anyway, I had to take a tired and listless little manto Sam's club and the grocery store with me. then I filled the truck up. came home and unloaded it all. didn't have much time to get dinner made before Ian had to get up for work and then I botched the first batch of noodles. so you can see my day's been a bit tiring. BUT. I'm home with my little man more, and that's a good thing. We're acclimating pretty well, we just need to get more a routine and we'll be moving right along.
So here's to many more days in paradise- maybe minus the flubbed noodles and the sniffles.

I've been double tagged

by Meghan and Lissa
Here's the deal:
7 Random Facts I must post.So read them, comment on them & then check to see if your name is in the 7 I tag. If it is, list 7 Random Facts about yourself & pass on the tag to 7 people.

1.I just ate pancakes and eggs for dinner (you asked for random, lol).
2.I love reading, I've got so many books I could use a couple more tall bookshelves. Ian is in the same boat. So is Aidan. We could so totally open the McBride private library, lol.
3.I've read all of my books, multiple times. And I usually finish a book the same day I start it.
4.I have the best in-laws in the world. I get along better with them then I do my own family. :)
5.My youngest brother in law turned 16 yesterday. he was 6 when I met him!!
6.My babay is going to be 5 in a couple of months..AHHH! where does the time go?
and last but not LEAST!
7. Ian just finished his last class TODAY!! As soon as the figure out the grades for that, I'll be the very PROUD wife of a college graduate! It's been a long 4 years. But I'm so proud of him, he's worked so hard.

now I'm supposed to tag 7 people, but I think most everyone I know has already been tagged, and I don't know 7 people to tag. But I'll tag the people I know anyway, and if they've been tagged more then once, as Lissa said, just considered yourself extra loved.

1.Abby
2.Tara
3.Laurie
4.Julie
5.Torreh
6.Jodi

Trick or Treat LO

I used a template by SStanton (there was no TOU, this was part of the file name) as a jumping off point.

Everything else is by LaWanna DesJardin.

Stitches- Bittersweet Autumn kit

Purple Glitz Alpha

Everything else is from her kit Moonlit Magic Fonts- Calligrapher and Arial

2 new digi layouts

Well, I was going to upload to new pages I did , but blogger won't let me! oy.
So here's what you can do if you want to see them, click on one of my gallery links, and you can see them there, one is called "Magical" and one is called "Autumn Romp". I'll try to upload them here again later.

ETA: Here are the LOs. Details below

Autumn Romp

Did this for the Hawt Mama Template challenge this week (10/19/07)

I used LaWanna DesJardin's kit Bittersweet Autumn. The r, m, and p are done with the socket font, and I covered them (masked?) with the burlap circle from the kit so they would match.

Fonts- Socket and Arial

Magical

Started out with KimB's Pretty Twisted Template.

I used LaWanna DesJardin's kit Moonlit Magic

Font - Arial

Blog Action Day

October 15th - Blog Action Day, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone's mind.
In its inaugural year, Blog Action Day will be co-ordinating bloggers to tackle the issue of the environment.

We all know we need to do what we can to help the environment right? I can't help but think that if we don't step up and try to undo some of the damage done that there won't be a healthy world for our children. What do you do to help the environment? Our neighborhood doesn't do recycling at the curbside, so that's not an option for us. But we do help out in other ways. We've switched to reusable bags for our groceries. They totally rock. I've got five "String Bags" from ResuableBags.com. We used to average 10 plastic bags or more a grocery shopping trip, and you several trips in and out of the house to unload the car. Now I use my 5 String bags (they can hold like 40 pounds a piece, which you know those plastic ones could never do) and I only make one trip into the house because they have these longer handles that I can swing over my shoulders. If I had tries to get in the house in one trip with the plastic ones my fingers would be numb and I'd need someone to open the door. So we save on plastic bags and a little on heating and cooling with the cut down on the numbers of times we have to open the door. We also cut back on the number of plastic bags and the amount of tin foil we use, but using Wrap-n-Mats for my hubby's lunches. We know it's not much, but it's something, right?

So tell, me what do you do?

Love her voice

LeAnn Rimes and Brian McFadden

Baked

We went apple picking a few days ago, so we had apples we needed to use up before they went bad. So today we made homemade applesauce, which was way yummy. We made apple oatmeal cookies, half with walnuts and half with raisins. They were fabu! soft and chewy just the way I like my cookies. We made apple spice cookies. which were so-so. They taste good but they're WAY to soft. and last we made apple muffins. OMG! they are sooooo good! did I mention that the muffins are awesome!? not to sweet, but so moist and yummy! sigh I love baking. tomorrow we;re making an apple bundt cake and apple bread. can hardly wait. yum-O!

Weird Al Concert

I just realized I never posted about this after the the concert. Aidan LOVED it. I wish I had taken the camera with because lots of people had theirs and I would have loved to have captured his expression throughout the show. His little face was just LIT up! I mean he just hd the BIGGEST grin on his face! Once again there were no bad seats. Aidan was really cute at one point in the show. Al was singing his parody of "smells like teen spirit" (that song by Nirvana, at least I think that's the name of the song, lol) anyway he's singing and he's got on the blond wig like the lead singer from that group had his hair (Curt Cobain? sp? can you tell I suck with names?) and Aidan says to me "I don't think that guy down there is weird Al ". LOL. I tried to explain to him that AL was just wearing a costume, with a wig, but he was convinced that that wasn't Al during that song. He recognized him for every other song though, including the one where he's got on the fat suit for his paradoy of "Bad" by M. Jackson. It was awesome. I hope Al tours again because I think he'd love to go again.

Played with paper

and other stuff, lol. made a few cards. yes real, hold in your hands cards. my paper pals can pick themselves up off the floor now, I told ya'll I didn't go completely digi. I can't give up paper! they're not the best cards on the planet but I was really just playing around with my new stamps.that and I'm a little rusty. my little guy was practicing cutting and pasting next to me.

so the cards weren't getting my full attentions.

Pardon the so-so scans, but here they are.

I'll try to tell you what I used on each one in case anyone is interested.

Credites for Witch on broom card;

orange and black pigment inks. the pumpkins are a wood-mounted stamp by Stampabilities.

Witch is a clear stamps from a set by Westrim. I was going to color the moon in, but I was too lazy.. :)

Have A Spooktacular Halloween is from the Stampendous clear Halloween set.

Scarecrow card:

Sunflowers, pumpkins, and scarecrow are all by Great Impressions (wood-mounted) stamps.

Give Thanks is from a Fiskars clear stamp set. and I used some Marvy pens to color everyone in.

Ribbon is from my stash, there's no telling where it came from, although I suspect that I got it from my Abby. :)

Eat Ham card

Turkey is a wood-mounted stamp by Inkadinkado. I just thought he was too cute. I tried my hand with water color pencils on him. and I used my new scalloped circle punch my Marvy Uchida (love those punches they totally rock!) The ribbon is from my stash I've got it in a couple of color combos and I think it came from Michael's.

Trick or treat bag is from the same clear set as the witch above. and that's the same pumpkins from the other card as well. I may ink the edges of this, it looks too plain right now....

I'll post the christmas cards I made a couple of weeks ago in another post soon.

I cooked!

Alright now! Very funny! You can get up off the floor and sit back in your chairs now. I really did cook, honest! Yes, I can wait while you mark your calendar. I made Chicken Fettuccine in Alfredo sauce from scratch. Mhhmmm, I did and it was good too! Then I made dessert, which was chocolate cinnamon bread-pudding. Complete with home made whipped cream! The baby and I thought it was awesome. Ian isn't a big fan of bread pudding (even though he ate a big helping, lol). I've even got plans to cook again tomorrow. We'll see how I feel after work. I'm on for the next 6 days. So I'm thinking I'm going to be worn out.

Lots going on

So much going on around here (or at least it seems that way to my frazzled self!)
My last real post I was sick with a sinus infection, for the most part it is gone, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that it trying to come back.
With the coming fall weather my little guy's nose bleeds are a little more frequent again.
Our van died. it is no more. it's not resting. it's not pining for the fjords! this van is deceased! (that's a little Monty Python humor for my darling hubby) The repairs that it was going to need this time were just to much for us. So I had it towed away this morning. That leaves us with one vehicle. We've put a lot of thought it to and I've given my two weeks notice at work (although they've offered to let me be a casual employee- which I have to give some more thought to and talk it over with Ian). Between the cost of fuel, the amount I end up spending there (because lets face it I'm WEAK and I just love scrappy stuff) and the amount I actually bring home, we're going to be better off with me not working. Plus we'll be saving money on our insurance since we've gotten rid of the van.
This will leave more time for straightening things out here at home, making this house into an actual HOME -since we don't know when we'll be able to move. It's time to make the most of what we have.
I'm looking forward to being able to get to know my little boy better and hopefully work on some of his aggressive-ness. I want to start home schooling him now, haven't had time before (not that this means he's behind, because he would have missed the cut off for kindergarten this year anyway).
I'm hoping I'll be able to cook more, and bake more, and scrap more. I need to learn a bit more about what's going to make us all happier. I have a feeling a happier momma will make a happier daddy and Aidan too.
As much as I've loved this job, it's been super stressful too. Which I honestly didn't expect. I've been working more days then I wanted to though and haven't had the time that I thought going to part time was going to get me. SO big changes are on the horizon.
We're taking the little man to his first concert tonight. Weird Al is coming through again and we managed to get tickets. He's been bouncing about for days he's so excited! Sadly though this venue doesn't allow cameras. So I'll take a picture of the boys in their Weird Al shirts and do a page with that and the tickets.
More to come soon!

Pole Dance?

I'm a little under the weather, so I thought I'd just post a little something so ya'll would know I was still here. My friend Ashley had this on her blog and I just had to share it. This just amuses me to no end.

Viewmaster Bench

We liked the Art benches so much this year and took so many pictures that I may do a mini Album of them.
Template-Pattie Knox (ADFreebie 020407) Papers and Prongs-LaWanna DesJardin’s Spring Fling Swirls and stitching -LaWanna DesJardin’s Retro Funk
JenniferMTrippetti_SweetiePea_Stamps(Date) Font Jester

Where were you?

What Love Is

Template by Michaele Burkhart (jburkhart)

Faith True-Love Word Art

Serenity Kit by Ashley Bailey

Faith True-Barcode Personalities

Rachel Martin-Grocers Labels

Victoria Feemster’s Junk Drawer Stars

Font-Boulder

Twister Bench LO

Picture is of me and my little guy enjoying the art benches on Oak Park Ave. The theme for this years benches was Toyland. The one we're sitting on in the picture is a "Twister" one.
I used Template 21 by Lindsay Jane Designs, made some minor changes to it to suit my page.

I used LaWanna DesJardin's awesome kit Oopsy Daisy.

Fonts used are Celtic, CK Print, and Boulder.

Adoption Day LO

This is a page done for the challenge posted here. Journaling around the page reads: Funny story about that day: Before the judge sat down, he told me "What a pretty dress you're wearing." I apparently told him his dress was pretty, too!

This page is what inspired me. I keep seeing these clean and simple styled pages, and think how stunning they are.
I used Bubba Boy Freebie by ksharonkdesigns.
The alpha for the title is by Laura Deacetis and is called "In My Backpack Alpha II".
The font used is Jester

Where oh Where did the rest of August go?

Cripes that flew right on by didn't it? I mean I haven't posted in like 2 weeks! I've just been running and running and running it seems. I posted a layout below, hopefully I'll get the chance to unwind a little next week, and then I can update some stuff here. Everyone here is doing good. Ian now has 2 classes left. The last one was a real pain in the butt because we had no internet for about a week (which is part of the reason why there were no new posts from me). It's odd not having access to the net, makes me feel disconnected from the rest of the world, lol. Don't want that to happen again. Any way Ian's last class was only a 2 week class...and one week of it he had no net, soooooo you can imagine how that went. I'm sure he did ok, but it'll suck if this one class brings down his average. He's excited that the end is near! I, of course, am so proud of him I could burst. I am well and truly blessed. He's just the best.

That's a picture from our picnic at Brookfield Zoo. The whole trip was a surprise. It was wonderful to spend the day with boh of my guys.

More to come soon!

A day out with my boys

A picture of me, by myself? Now that's a rare find, lol. I'm trying to remember to makes sure I find my way into the viewfinder of my camera, it doesn't happen often because I'm usually behind it and I'm a little camera shy. This was taken this past Friday on an impromptu outing with both of my men.Journaling reads- How sweet it is to be ME! This picture was taken on a day that my darling husband decided at the spur of the moment to skip sleeping so he could spend the day with Aidan and I. We spent a lovely afternoon at Brookfield Zoo. We even had a picnic (which Aidan has been wanting to do FOREVER) It's been hard adjusting to Ian working these 12 hour shifts, him needing to sleep all day to get up for work, and not getting to spend time with him. This day was the sweetest surprise! A whole day with both of my men...I started out with a template (gift template 2) by Kim Broedelet (KimB designs)Almost everything is from LaWanna DesJardin's Chocolate Covered Cherries kit, except for the white paper which is from her Fathers and Sons kit.The fonts used are MS Serif and Jester

Flowers

from my sweetie for my birthday. Ian you sure do pick the prettiest arrangements. Love you, Babe! My Aidan's been showering me with lots of sticker pictures and coloring pages. my little artiste!

Flash Back

In honor of my 10 year reunion (which was last night-but I didn't go) and in honor of my b-day today here's a flash back. A picture of me from 10 yrs ago. This was taken before I left for Homecoming my senior year. Looking back I realize how stupid I was to think I was heavy then, what I wouldn't give to be that size NOW, lol.

Here's your total Momsense

Scrap Happy

My little guy "scrapping", he was almost 3 years old in this picture.

This is based off a sketch by Lissa Ballard, from the Sketch It! blog.

Everything is from LaWanna DesJardin's Joy of Life kit (available at scrapbook bytes), except for the orange graph paper, which is by Jessica Gorny and is from her Lush Grids:Boyish.

Fonts used are Long Island and TypoUpright BT

Doing the Penguin

I'm going to put together a book of songs that Aidan likes. The first one that came to mind is Doing the Penguin, from Sesame Street. The pictures are of the penguins from Brookfield Zoo.

I used Misty Cato's Blog Template No. 7 and her Misty Blues Kit.

Fonts used are-Arial, Adorable, and CK Holiday Spirit

Grandpa and Aidan

Journaling around the picture reads: Grammy, Grandpa, and Uncle Dan came to visit us in Illinios when you were only four months old, this is a picture of you and Grandpa getting some quality cuddle time in. You were such a good baby, you loved all the extra attention. You sure looked sweet snuggled up in grandpa’s arms!
I started out with a template from Misty Cato's Layered Templates-Set B. I used Ashley Bailey's Serenity Kit which is available at digitaldivasdesigns.com. I also used Misty Cato's Distressed White Alpha. The font used is Arial

Kevin LO

This is a picture of my awesome brother-in-law, Kevin. I started out with a template by Neverland Scraps (I fiddled with it a little bit). The kit I used is Joy of Life by LaWanna DesJardin (available at scrapbook bytes). Torn and Peeling Alpha by LaWanna Desjardin (available at scrapbook bytes)The font used is Jester.

What's that Daddy?

Aidan and Daddy checking out the camels at Brookfield Zoo. August 2005.

This is based of a sketch by Lissa Ballard of the Untamed Scrapper - Sketch It!. The sketch this is based off was made especially for my sketch challenge at DDD.

The kit use is Ashley Bailey's Safari Kit.

I used one of Gina Miller's embroidered circles (yellow). And the journaling block is from Sandra Boddington's Loopy Loop Add-on.

Fonts used are CK Print and Jester

Bright Eyes

My ds @ 9 mos.I started out with a template by Pattie Knox (freebie from 7-30-06 at designer digitals)The kit used is the July Mega Kit (free at digitaldivasdesigns). I used things from the parts by Ashley Bailey, Lliella, and Tina Campanale.The font used is American Typewriter Bold

Slide

Aidan and his girlfriends, Dana and Ashley, playing at the park.

LO credits:

Hello, Sunshine kit by LaWanna DesJardin, Available at oScraps.

Dirty Alpha by LaWanna DesJardin also available at oScraps.

Photo cluster from the Framed2 set by Misty Cato available at scrapbook bytes.

Based off a sketch at the Sketch It! blog

Font used is LongIsland

New LO

Butterflies

Sketch by Becky Fleck (for July double page sketch challenge at digitaldivasdesigns)

Lo Credits:

Ashley Bailey's Garden Spot Kit

Ashley Bailey's Sequins

Christy Haig's scaffold paper flowers (flower #5)

Butterfly word art by Alix West of 1Hour Scrap

Font CK Print

HP & the Deathly Hallows

Picked this up yesterday after work, finished it this afternoon. Don't want to spoil it for anyone else but I just have to say it was awesome! I was a little nervous about it coming out, was afraid the ending would be disasppointing, I just couldn't imagine how it was going to end. But it sure didn't disappoint at all. 2 enthusiastic thumbs up!!!!

We're Back!

had a great Vacation, been back for a few days already, but have been trying to get back in the swing of things here. We had a great time and boy do we miss everyone already! pictures to come soon, still need to get them off the camera. Did take a whole lot this time but did manage to get seveal cute ones.

Footage from last night's concert

Here's just a short video clip from last night's concert. The quality isn't great, but it's of one of my favorite parts of their shows. It's the Yoda chant (I don't think it has it's own name as it's just something that they tack on to the end of the the song Yoda) Hopefully you all can see it.

White and Nerdy

We went to see Weird Al last night at the Star Plaza Theater. It was awsome, this is the second time we've seen him there. He always puts on such a fun show. And the theater is awesome, there are no bad seats, you know what I mean? No poles anywhere to block your view, you can sit through the show , yes I said sit, and see the whole thing. It's awesome.


Here's a few pictures:

Long Day

Had a rough night which lead to a long day. My little guy had me up late because he was, well, barfing for lack of a better word. I cleaned him up, cleaned up the carpet next to his bed as best I could, brushed his teeth, changed his sheets, gave him tylenol since he had a bit of fever. He then proceeded to immediately barf that back up, all over his jammies this time and his sheets and me while daddy sort of ran about like chicken with his head cut off, not quite knowing what to do. So I changed the sheets, again, changed him from the skin out, cleaned him up, and fnally got him back to bed. It was probably about 1:30 at that point. So then I tried to sleep but of course I had a hard time falling asleep because I was listening for him in case he got sick again. Then I had to get up this morning for work. Lordy but I was tired. Looking forward to a rendezvous with my pillow in a hour or two. He, by the way is feeling better, although he started the day with a bloody nose and still had a slight fever this afternoon. I sent him up a few minutes ago to try to wake his daddy up, so they could play before he had to go to sleep. He didn't come back down like he usually does, so I went up to check on him and he's curled up on my pillow, snuggled next to daddy sound asleep. Poor little man must have been worn out.

Beauty LO

I took this picture a couple of summers ago, on one of our annual trips to Brookfield Zoo. It just seemed pretty to me the way the light was hitting the water and highlighting the geese. I've been wanting to scrap this one for sometime now, but didn't know how I wanted to do it. So I sat down and played with it tonight.

LO Credits:

Started out with a template from Misty Cato (blog template5)

I used Misty Cato's Starlight Whimsy Kit (from scrapbook-bytes.com), along with one of her layered tag templates (I used the one to make the file tab folder in the top left corner). The last thing I did was use the wordart (I recolored part of it) by Katie Pertiet (from designerdigitals) which says "everything has it's beauty, but not everyone sees it -confucius"

The font used is CK Print

Seesaw LO

This is a page of my son and one of the daughters of my best friend. Aidan went through a stage of calling her and her sister his girlfriends. I'll have to explain to him that it's not a good idea to date two girls at the same time (much less sisters, LOL).
the journaling reads:"I took you for a playdate with your “girlfriends” Ashley and Dana. You had a blast running around and playing with them at the park near their house. I just loved these shots of you and Ashley on the seesaw. We need to make this a regular playdate since you three always have so much fun."
I started out with a template from Kwikplates2 from digitaldivasdesigns, and I used Ashley Bailey's Wildflower Honey Kit from digitaldivasdesigns.
Font is CK Print

Aidan's 1st Xmas LO

This is a picture of Aidan and Daddy taken Xmas of 2002. Aidan was just 16 days old. He's wearing an outfit that was daddy's when he was a baby, he looked like a peppermint! He was just too sweet!

This is another picture that I had to do some work on to get it to look decent, it was taken with the old camera which was going bad!

LO credits: I started out with a template by Misty Cato (it's from a challenge awhile back at sbElements, I just now got around to using it :) ). The papers and embellies are all by LaWanna DesJardin, they're from her Sons and Fathers Kit

and her Sons and Fathers Mini Kit which are both available at OScraps.

The font used is CK Holiday Spirit

Autumn Days LO

Here's a page of my Aidan from this past autumn.

the journaling reads:

What a cutie you are! The first really nice autumn day that mommy didn’t have to work we went out to play in the leaves. You had such fun running around and tossing the leaves!

The font used is Cybergram DSP

I started about with a template from the Kwikplate2 set, which can be found here and I used the Wildflower Honey kit by Ashley Bailey of digitaldivasdesigns.com which can be found here.

pictures from the BNL concert

Keep in mind that a couple of these were of the jumbo screens at the side of the stage. We had good seats but my camera doesn't have the best zoom. All in all it was an awesome time though. and it was really great to have some one on one time with my hubby, even if it was in a crowd of people, lol.

BNL

Barenaked Ladies!!!! We just got back from their concert at the Charter One Pavillion on Northerly Island, in Chicago, and they totally rocked!!! it was awesome!!! I've got tons of pictures and some video footage from my little point and shoot. This is the second time I've seen them (first time for my hubby) and it was just fantastic! I'll add some pictures tomorrow, but for now I'm off to bed!

LO- Aidan and Daddy March2006

This is my dh and son goofing around for me, aren't they just the biggest hams?

I started out using a template by Tamara Schnuller. But I added quite a bit to it

Credits:Template-Tamara Schnuller

Staple- LaWanna DesJardin (Groovy Little Christmas Kit)

Everything else is from LaWanna's Sons and Fathers Kit.

Font LongIsland

ETA: this page got picked as layout of the day at gotta pixel . I am just stunned and shocked and so very flattered!

ETA again- this page was picked as layout of the day at digitaldivasdesigns.com too! I'm so geeked about this!

American Pride digi kit

is what I used to make this layout. It's by LaWanna DesJardin. She's got some awesome designs and I'm thrilled to pieces to be a part of her CT.

THe sketch is based of a sketch by Lissa Ballard- from the sketch it! blog.

The font used on this page is DSP cybergram.

Everything is is from the American Pride kit by LaWanna which is available here.

Holy Cow, It's been awhile

Been a little bit since I blogged, figured I better get in here before what few faithful readers I have think I fell off the face of the earth! LOL.

So not too much new going on. I've taken on some extra responsibilities at DDD . I'm now hosting a sketch challenge there (featuring an exclusive sketch by Lissa Ballard- check out the Sketch It! link in the side bar for more of her awesome sketches), hosting the treasure hunt and helping moderate the forums. Speaking of the sketch challenge I'm hosting here's my take on the sketch.
(for LO credits go to anyone of my galleries listed in the sidebar, I'd love to hear your comments there too!)
The 3 lovely ladies in this page are my Ian's mom and her sisters. Fantastic genes there huh?!




I also got accepted to another Creative Team, I'm now on LaWanna DesJardin's team, I can hardly wait to get started on that! For you digi-scrappers out there she sells at OScraps and Scrapbook-bytes.
On the home front, nothing much is new, we're into hot weather now, it's been upper 80's to lower 90's the last couple of days. And it's been super windy!
We've got bunnies in the yard too (it's either more then one, or as Ian says "it's one really quick one!" He's not sure, LOL.)
My little guy is getting big, is totally potty trained, even over night! Dresses him self (and quickly, LOL) And has been going through a stage of wanting to wear a straw cowboy hat all the time, he's too funny. I'll have to upload a picture this weekend of him dressed as "Cowboy Aidan" (that's what he calls himself) I think he looks like Huck Finn.
og and we're counting down the days until vacation! NJ here we come!!!
I'm off to bed, because it is WAY past my bedtime! toodles!