Busy Weekend!!

Wow..we've had a whirl wind weekend!! When Tony's off it's go go go.

On Friday night the girls and I went to see the Field Army Band and Choir preform and following the performance was a great fireworks show. Gigi and Lexi loved it. The were worked up for a good 2 hours because of all the boomers.




On Saturday (4th of July) Gigi and Lexi was in a local parade for cheer leading. It was Lexi's first cheer leading event. She had a blast throwing candy out at the town, plus she got to spend time with her friends. After the parade we hung out with my SIL and her kids. We all rode together to see the fireworks. All the kids had so much fun at the park, where we ran into more friends. So there were even more kids to play with. Whoo hoo.


Sunday was an official day of rest..we did nothing. Woot Woot!!

Monday...we went to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. We all enjoyed the museum, it had everything from gems to dinosaur bones.



(our shutter bugs) Lexi had taken over a 100 pics between the past two days and deleted them all by accident. She wasn't too upset, but I was completely shocked when I only uploaded 9 pics.


Tuesday we went with my SIL and nephews to the Cleveland Metro Zoo, the kids had a blast looking at their dinosaur exhibit and their animals. We didn't even get to see the whole park..who knew the zoo closed at 5pm? Luckily we have Zoo Passes..we will definitely go back.





(all the zoo & museum pics are sooc)

My little Lexi lost her camera at the zoo and she was so so so upset, but luckily some nice patrons turned it in and we picked it up at lost and found. I think she'll be more careful now with it.

Well I better get busy editing pics...I have tons of scrapping material now. I hope everyone had a great weekend!!

Love and Hugs!

Some Scrappiness!!

I've had a blast scrapping the past couple days. It's been fun. I just adore playing with new papers. I've scrapped a few events from the last couple weeks. I finally got around to editing some pictures. Whoo hoo

Here's a few LOs I've made the past couple days. I tend to use challenges as inspiration, they help me fill my books. I particularly love sketches...I didn't use them in the past, but now I seem to do mostly sketches.

This layout was done for Mix it Up, you need to use 4 manufactures, 4 pictures, flower and hand written journaling. The pictures were taken at the local flower garden. This LO is also going to double dip for ScrapJazz's July Challenge.


This LO was done for 52 sketches. I think it turned out cute. Lexi liked it. :)


I did this LO for ScrapJazz as well. The title had to be the same as a TV's shows title. I picked Charmed.


This LO is a double-dip as well. I did it for ScrapWhisper, the title had to be "one of a kind" and I used a sketch from Capture These Sketches.


For this LO, I also used a sketch from Capture these Sketches. It's a new sketch blog..so far they have some really cute stuff..check them out!


I hope everyone has a safe holiday weekend. I know we are looking forward to fireworks the next couple night. I'm hoping to get some good firework pictures. I've been reading about DSLR firework tips. Hopefully...I'll be posting some awesome pics.

Happy 4th everyone!!

Yey!!

I should be able to post things more often!!! My laptop is being repaired whoo hoo!!!

The girls and I have had a busy week. Pictures soon to come once I do a major editing session.
Sunday--swimming with cousins
Monday--swimming with cousins/strawberry picking..well more eating for them
Tuesday--Daddy was off and we bought a few flowers to plant
Wednesday--we went to see Transformers 2...it was pretty awesome. It's was incredible on the big screen.
Thursday--Michelle came over to scrap...later we bought the finishing touches for the flower garden
Friday--Meet Chris at the Butler Scrapbook store and once Tony got home we went to see fireworks in the next town over.
Saturday-- ran a few errands then had a picnic at the lake.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a day of rest. :)

Here's a couple layout I did when Michelle was here.

This one was for Scrap Whispers...it was a no cardstock challenge.

This one was done for 52 sketches. I flipped the sketch because I cut the paper wrong.


I hope you have a fabulous weekend. See you soon with a bunch of edited photos. :)

love and hugs!!!

It's the weekend

It's after mid night so it's officially Saturday. We were trying to figure out what to do tomorrow. I think we've settled on making cupcakes for Father's Day and going to the flower garden.

Even though it's been summer here, Monday we actually got to experience it. We went to the beach and had a blast with my Mom's Group. I'll add pictures later...I need to edit them. :)

I did go to Scrappy Thursday at CJ's. (check out her Quad Dip)

Here's what I created:

This is for BASB..it's a monochromatic challenge, I inked white thickers green.


This LO I did for Got Sketch and ScrapWhispers. The sketch was number 85 over at Got Sketch...They have such fabulous sketches over there. The title was the ScrapWhispers part, the title had to contain consecutive letters. Hence, Gigi Has It (GHI).


This Last LO was for 52 sketches. It was fun to make..I sewed that black circle by hand..I must learn how to use my sewing machine. :)



I hope you all have a fabulous Saturday...

Love and Hugs!!

New LOs

Here's a couple new LOs

I did this one for Mix it Up.


I did this one for Scrap Jazz...I'm not in love with it but it's done and in the books. :)



I hope you all have a great weekend. I'm counting down to Trueblood.

Love and Hugs!!

Schools Out for Summer!!

So it's been a while since my last post....but we are fighting over the computer and I don't get enough time to update my blog when Tony's home. I'm married to a gamer...but it's just not him, I play games too. If you are facebook you probably play or atleast heard of these following games.

mafia wars (it's like crack)
vampire wars (almost crack)
bloodlines (it's just pissing me off today...I'm tired of being attacked.)

enough of game chat.

We've had lots of fun since school let out!! Oh, Gigi got straight A's this semester. (whoo hoo) We've been to the lake and the girls had a blast, went to a birthday party at CJ's and everyone had fun.







We've also gone to an animal park too. At the animal park the girls got to feed all sort of critters. They made friends with deers, kangaroos, llamas and a buffalo (gigi didn't like him). Lexi's favorite animals were the horses and ponies. Here's some of the pics from the park.



While we were there a fawn was born. I watched the doe wash and take care of her. It was so amazing to be there to see it's first steps as well.




Here's a couple LOs that I've made. The first one is for 52 sketches and the second is for a challenge at scrapjazz.



I hope you all have a great week!
Love and Hugs!!

Nice and Quiet

We had a lovely quiet weekend!! We just hung around the house and pretty much did nothing, but I enjoy these quiet moments. I love to snuggle with my girls, even when Lexi is sick. I slept on the couch with her last night. She's looked so pitiful.


We did do the flower petal chart that Ali had on her blog this weekend. Here's Lexi's list of things she loves or things she's good at doing.
Daddy
singing
Mommy
caterpillars
butterflies
dancing-ballerina
coloring
Ponies
planting seeds

Here's Gigi's List:
scrapping
bees/butterflies
solos
music
flowers
dancing
caterpillers
singing
coloring

Here's a couple LOs, I did during the week.

I did this one for Got Sketch


I did this one for 52 sketches.


I hope you all have a great week!!

Love and Hugs!!