Mmm... Crate Paper!!

The manufacturer sponser at Crop Addict this month is Crate Paper, YEAH!!! I seriously had SO much fun with the Sweet Branch, Katlin and Static lines, here are some of my creations. I did twelve layouts and four projects so it's going to take me a few posts to show you everything, but here's a start! You should head over, the winner of the challenge gets a yummy prize pack from Crate Paper themselves!!! Check out the gallery at the very least, it's FULL of awesome inspiration...

What's with this weather??

Seriously, I took a nap this morning becuase we had plans to go strawberry picking with Michelle and Ella and I kept hitting the snooze button (my bed felt SO good, I didn't want to get out), the last time the snooze alarm sounded different. I got up and came downstairs and realized it wasn't my alarm, it was the tornado sirens! No joke, I turned on the tv just in time to hear the weather man tell me to take cover, the tornado cell was headed pretty much straight for our town! Not such a good way to wake up, the sirens woke Ari up too and he was NOT happy about it. Thankfully I bought him a new toy yesterday so he was easily distracted!

Anyway, strawberry picking didn't happen. We figured it was a little too soggy to trapse through strawberry fields and I was nervous since this mornings storm just appeared out of nowhere! I thought after that last storm that we were done for the day but just as Ari was waking from his afternoon nap it started storming again. My yard has a river in it! At least my flowers are thriving, April showers right!

Ari and I are just going to chill the rest of the day. Matt gets home tonight and has five days off, I cannot wait! We're back off to Florida Thursday though and I still haven't unpacked from the last trip... it is the end of the month though so you know what that means. Layouts are up at Crop Addict for the May kit! I really pushed myself with this kit, I made 5 layouts and an album of our trip to the zoo! I'll show you the layouts today, I need to make a slideshow of the album so you'll have to wait until tomorrow! Head over to the gallery at Crop Addict to see the other designer's creations...

I'm SO not a morning person...

Which I already knew... if I had any doubts though today solidified that for me. A few days ago we had Ari's appointment with the speech therapist to work on his food issues. While we were there they looked in his ears and did a tympanic membrane vibration test. Long story short, his right ear has abnormal fluid build up and they said we needed to take Bean to his pediatrician. So, that's where this morning comes in. I called for an appt. and they told me to come in at 9 this morning. They have weekend hours until noon, I said great, we'll be there. I get there, sign in and the somewhat rude desk girl tosses a paper at me and says, "you have to sign this too." I read, it says I understand I'm being charged an extra $65 since it's a weekend... I sign, I mean I'm already here right... dragged out of bed hours before I would have liked. I tell her they should really tell people on the phone about the extra charge before they come all the way here and she says, rudely again, it's a five year old policy and they just assume everyone knows. My lack of morning person-ness is really starting to become evident now and I tell her does it look like I have a five year old? No, I'm a new patient, you should tell people. Duh.

Anyway, we go in and the doc looks in Ari's ears and tells me Yep, there's fluid. What do we do?? Nothing. Have a good day. Seriously, that's all. I'm a little peeved at this point, I feel like I seriously wasted my whole morning and about $100 to be told something I already knew. What's the freakin point?? Couldn't I have just waited until his next check up to be told something I already was told by another doctor??? Whatever.

I'm so over all of this, doctors are at the bottom of my list of people I want to be around right now. Good thing I have a fresh batch of muddy buddies ;) Today is looking pretty lazy. I was supposed to have some people over for dinner but I'm really not in the mood to clean my house. I think I'm going to go back to bed while Ari's asleep, I feel like I need to start this day over again... maybe I'll get up on the other side of the bed!

A little trophy for me

My good friends Jen and Amy, as well as my other good friend Jenn have awarded me this:



It's the Arte y Pico award for being an outstanding contributor to the wonderful world of blogging. Thanks chicas!!! The idea is to pass it along to five other outstanding bloggers that I feel make our little bloggy world a better place, so here goes...

Michelle
Chrissy
Virginia
Debbie
Deanna

Alright ladies, the trophy is yours now!!!

I'll be back later today for some scrappy eye candy, stay tuned...

We're home... finally!

I am SO exhausted! But we made it, Ari is napping and I'm about to join him but I have been itching to have some computer time so here I am!

Most of you may know but I was out of town for a week! Last Wednesday I went to Nashville, TN for the Scrap, Etc. 2008 Event! I was so incredibly lucky to be invited by Virginia to help out and being that I fly for free and all it was fairy easy for me to arrange it. Matt was off Thursday and Friday and his mom came to stay with Ari Saturday! I had such an amazing and exhausting time, I met many new friends and a few older friends too! We had classes with Heidi Swapp, Gretchen McElveen, Jenni Bowlin, Vanessa Hudson, Wilna Furstenburg and Angelia Wigginton! I seriously thought I was going to have to buy a box to mail my scrap goodies home but me being the master packer that I am managed to fit everything in my roller board and carry on!

Since I was Event Staff I shared a room with some of the other "employee's" and it was too funny. I remember waking up at like 4 in the morning thinking that my roommate had rolled over. I was sort of annoyed, I mean, how hard does one need to roll to get comfy in bed?? Come to find out it was an earthquake! I was really groggy, obviously one doesn't roll hard enough to shake the whole room. Hehe...

I left the Event Saturday to fly back to Charlotte, pick up Ari and head to dad's! Nothing like a little beach vacation after a nice scrappy retreat! Sunday we hung out on the boat and Monday we hung out with Matt! He just happened to have a Panama City Beach overnight, it doesn't get any better than that! Here are a few pics from the trip. I'm going to go take that nap now...

OK, so no pictures. They have failed to upload twice and I'm tired of waiting... later, I promise.

Hmm, let's see...

There really isn't much to report, it's been sorta lazy over here the past few days. I'm so unbelieveably tired and don't really know why, maybe I'm not caught up from the Charleston trip last week. I took a nap with Ari today, well not actually with him, just during his nap if that makes sense. I ran a few errands with Tara then Bean and I came home. I'm trying to tie up all the loose ends before leaving Wednesday for my super awesome secret trip. I am getting my hair cut tomorrow, and a pedicure!! Michelle is going to watch Ari for me in exchange for some scrap supplies, hehe. I have some other things for her that she doesn't know about yet (well, I guess she does now considering she reads my blog pretty much every day)!!

Well, I guess I'll leave you with some pictures. I meant to add more yesterday but my dad called for a video chat so I ran out of time. Oh, by the way, web cams rock! I can "see" Matt while he's at work and he can see us! Dad got one too so he can watch Ari run around like a mad man every now and then. It really makes up for the distance. We're going to see him Saturday too, I'm looking forward to a little ocean and sunshine!! Ooh, I almost forgot. Ari was bad today. He bit me, hard. Hard enough to break the skin and leave a bruise (through the shirt I was wearing). He was mad at me because I wouldn't let him push random buttons on the DVD player, when I picked him up to go upstairs he chomped right on my arm. He did time out and got a nasty look and lecture from me but I'm not sure what else to do about it. He is teething, I don't know if it was just one of those things that he didn't really realize he was doing, he's been chomping on all sorts of things lately (including his shirt sleeves which is driving me batty because he's stretching them out and almost tearing them). Either way, it's bad and he needs to know that. He went to bed early tonight, I couldn't take the meltdowns any more. We're smack in the middle of terrible two's. I know it's early but that's exactly what it is. I won't bore you with the greusome details. Here's those pics I was talking about, mostly from our various adventures last week.