Long day...

I'm so tired, this is going to be a short one. We had Ari's 15 month check up today, he's being referred to a speach therapist for an "oral aversion" with food. The pediatrician is concerned about the lack of "big people" food that Ari eats and wants to have him evaluated. It caught me a little off guard and I've been a little bummy all day. I know he's going to be fine and our pediatrician is only doing his job, I just want my little guy to be perfect you know. I'll keep you updated! Ari now weighs 23 pounds and is 30 inches tall! He's a little on the short side but I like him that way, just means we have less pants to buy, hehe!

Other than that it was a very blah day. The weather is positively miserable. It was cold, cloudy and rainy all day. I've had a headache I think partially due to my stress this morning and the weather. I'm going to take a hot bath and curl up in my comfy cozy bed! My flannel jammos are totally calling my name and I have a few magazines that I forgot to read. Matt is feeling a tad bit better today, he's on Tamiflu, his fever is broken. Now he's just dealing with tons of congestion and drippiness. His poor eyes are swollen, red and watery. I haven't seen him this sick in quite a while. Ari was given a preventative perscription of Tamiflu so hopefully he can come through all of our sickiness without catching it himself! Our trip to Charleston is less than a week away, yay!!!

Matt picked a random number from my blog comments this weekend, the lucky winner of my RAK is JENN Z!!! Jenn, email me your snail mail and I'll put together a little something for you. Congrats and thanks for stalking me ;) Hehe... Oh, and *so, so sorry* that I have yet to respond to your email, I promise, promise, promise to do it this week. Promise!!! I have a few questions for you anyway!!!

Well, that's all folks. Sorry for the boring-ness. Just not much happening around here. Ari and I are having lunch with our good friends Alice and Charlie tomorrow and I'm taking my camera. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and I can get some decent shots of the little guys. Goodnight, sleep tight!

I have a sickie in the house

Matt tried and tried to stay healthy while I was fighting my upper respiratory ickies. He was succesfull, that is until he went to work and his crew had the flu. Bummer. Needless to say, he's not feeling too hot. He's been running a fever of 102.5 all day and just lies on the sofa like a bump. I feel so bad for him, I can tell he really feels bad. To make matters worse, the cable box is on the fritz so he can't even watch tv. We've been watching DVD's from our "library" all day.

I'm pretty much back to normal. I still have the froggies in my throat but the inhaler works pretty well for that. I'm super tired today I think because I've been chasing a cranky toddler all day. Ari has a giant case of cabin fever. He was so used to being able to play outside every day last week, it's only been in the mid 40's for the past two days. No fun. He has his 15 month check up tomorrow and is due for another shot, really no fun.

I have a few more scrappy things to share with you, unfortunately it will have to wait. The gallery isn't open yet but you're definately going to want in on this challenge. The manufacturer is one of my all time faves, they never let me down. This kit was no exception! I'll leave you with this frame I altered today. You should have seen how ugly it was before, all white and blue and ick. Look at it now, it's perfect in the living room!



Well, I'm going to go be lazy with my husband. Ari went to bed at 6:30, I couldn't listen to him whine anymore. I feel like the only words out of my mouth today were "how are you feeling" and "Ari, NO"... sheesh. Oh, and be sure to leave a comment on Friday's post for a chance to win a little something from me. I'll draw the winner tonight before bed!! Enjoy your evening!

This is gonna be a long one...

I've come to the conclusion that it's not as easy to update the ole' blog when the weather is near 80 and sunny! I'd much rather be outside or *shock* cleaning my house. They're something about cleaning when the weather is nice, I open all the windows and let the fresh air in! Makes everything all bright and yummy! Anyway, due to the lack of prompt updates this one's going to be fairly huge. I have a ton of pictures to share, my poor husband begged me all week to upload pics and I just ran out of time. Of course, he'll be home today so there's no point in hurrying now...

Well, how about I start with my scrappy creations with the Crop Addict April kit. This kit was SO much fun, lots of scrappy goodies from American Crafts, Dream Street, Bazzill, May Arts ribbon... the list goes on. These kits are seriously packed and they sell out pretty fast so if you want in on the fun be sure to head over and nab one before they're gone! Without further adeiu...







I had fun working with this kit. I had a little creative block for a while since I was sick (it's really hard to scrap while you're sick, btw) but I like the end results! I thought part of my creative block could be the fact that my scrap space was a complete black hole, so disorganized and cluttered. I found some new wire baskets and splurged on the clip-it-up and it has made SUCH a difference! Even just looking at my clean, organized space has my creative juices flowing! What do you think???






I love it! I'm sure it won't look that good for long but I'm really going to try to keep it nice. There are just a couple other things I want to get but I need to work in my new space to see how it will all play out, know what I mean!?

Can you believe that my little guy is 15 months old today! Seriously, where has the time gone?? We had to run outside today because my neighbors little dog was loose and pawing at our fence. I was going to keep her in our yard because I didn't know if they were home, her name is Charlotte and she's a little black schnauzer puppy. Ari saw her, pointed and said "dog", it was the cutest thing! I'm so amazed and proud that he recognizes things and is learning new words. Now if we could just get him to eat "people" food... We're still plugging away at that. He has his 15 month check-up on Monday, I'll be sure to let you know the latest statistics! I'll leave you with these pics of him playing the other day, he looks like such the little man! I have to finish cleaning my house, Tara and Hannah are coming over for dinner tonight and we're taking the kiddos to the playground as soon as Ari's up from his nap. Enjoy your day, I know we will!!!






Oh, and if you've made it this far leave a comment and I'll send a little scrap RAK. I have a ton of stuff to get rid of from my spring cleaning, it may as well go to a good home. Don't worry, I won't send junk... it will be good!!! How about I'll pick a random winner Sunday night and send it out Monday! Happy Friday!

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My fabulous new scrappy purchases...




Where, might you ask, is this fabulous new scrap loot from? Perhaps a local scrapbook store or a fun new scrappy website? Guess what my friends... Target! Yep, you heard right... seems Target has upped the quality in their scrapbook aisle. They had the entire Making Memories 5th Avenue line, both of them! Ki Memories Pop Culture, Cloud9 and the Making Memories Animal Crackers lines for boys and girls. I was in scrap heaven! I called Michelle three times but she didn't answer, I just had to tell someone!!! I also got the All My Memories Tote-Ally cool croppin' tote... on sale for $19! I've been in the market for a crop tote for some time now, I like the size of this one and the cool little magnetic revolving base that it comes with. Now I can just pop that bad boy on the table and spin to my heart's content!

In other news: I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon, one I almost didn't make it to considering we had to drop $600 on the Vibe for 3 new tires, new brakes and some other things that I was too depressed to pay attention to when Matt was telling me. I know, you're supposed to buy either 2 or 4 tires but we just bought a tire last month because one was flat.

Anyway, I guess I should have gone to the doctor two weeks ago when I first started to get sick... turns out I have a sinus infection and asthmatic bronchitis. Nothing $30 worth of prescriptions including a new inhaler won't fix. I should be back to normal in no time!!

Anyway, the Bean isn't taking a nap so I suppose I should go get him. It's almost time for dinner anyway. Stay tuned for my April Crop Addict layouts. The gallery is up over there, I'll show you here tonight or tomorrow!

Happy Easter!

We had a super relaxing day, it was nice! I didn't even put non-jammo clothes on until my neighbor came over to warn me that the Easter Bunny was bringing something for Ari! It was so cute, I had no idea she was going to do that. He wasn't afraid at all, I was surprised! Even when she held him and gave him the chocolate bunny, look at that smile on his face...




It wasn't as warm today as I would have liked, but I heard people up north had snow, so I really can't complain. I mowed the weeds in our lawn and planted the Carolina Jasmine that I bought to camoflauge our hideously ugly mailbox. If it takes off it should be really pretty!

Other than that, we've not done much of anything! It's nice to have a relaxing day at home with nothing to do. I'm going to bake some cupcakes tonight, the ones I didn't get to last night, and scrap! I finally feel like my mojo is finding it's way back to me. I'm going to scoop it up while I can! Enjoy the rest of your weekend. We have a fairly busy day planned tomorrow. We have to take my car to the shop and I think we're going to swing by a car lot to pick out a replacement. It's just not the same after my accident and I'd rather just be rid of it. Wish us luck, believe it or not but my husband has never purchased a car before. It oughta be fun!

So, So Sorry...

I can't believe it's taken me this long to post this. Please don't hate me ;)



I may be the last person on Earth to have discovered the Google package that you can download with Picasa, Google browser, Skype and more. The little brother uses Skype to call me from Korea so I thought I'd download it, maybe now I can call him! Our plans fell through for today, I needed to drop my car off, seems we're having issues from the accident still but the body shop is closed for Easter today. Hmm, Easter isn't today... oh well. I need to go to the grocery, one cannot keep surviving on pizza and breadsticks. Actually, our plans for tomorrow fell through too... guess I'm left with not much to do this weekend. We need to mow the weeds in our yard. Yep, that's weeds... the grass died from the severe drought and our landscaper doesn't seem too interested in our business. I'm going to call some other places Monday. I know we're friends and all, but I don't have all year. I wonder why it is that nothing you want to grow can survive the drought but the pesky weeds and crabgrass are taking off like crazy. It's a mystery. Anyway, I'm off to order the groceries... anyone have any decent recipies they want to share?? Feel free to post them in the comments or link me somewhere! Enjoy your Saturday!

Seems I Jumped the Gun

In thinking I was back among the living. Well, I technically was since I did leave the house yesterday but I still feel really icky. I can't seem to kick this bug, whatever it is. I think it's a sinus infection, my head has the worst of it. I know I've been promising those pics of the album I made with Donna Downey. I did finish it and the pics are on my computer, I just haven't had the energy to make that slideshow.

My poor husband called me from the hotel last night asking if I was going to blog any time soon... talk about guilt trip. Just kidding, it wasn't a guilt trip at all, he just knows that if I'm not on the computer doing my normal daily routine that I must be feeling pretty punk! I think it really bugs him that I have to be here taking care of Ari when all I want to do is crawl in bed and sleep. Welcome to the wonderful world of "Mommy", you don't really get any time off to recover! It doesn't help that for the past two nights Ari's been waking up between midnight and 2am... I'm not really sure why, it's either his two bottom molars that are cutting through or he's sick too. I don't know which one I prefer it to be, teething does not suit him, then again I hate it when he doesn't feel well. I just need to prepare myself for a lose/lose situation!

Well, enough of my rambling (can you tell my head's not all there??), I'm going to lay on the sofa while Ari plays since he's refusing to take a nap! Have a good day, I'll work on that slide show I promise!!! Sorry...