October 18th, 2008
Man oh man…I am so frustrated right now. The girls have 2 main rules when they play outside. Kaylee (3) has to stay in our yard and Kristen (6) can only go up or down the street to such & such a point. Well, the girls wanted to go outside and play today and for once Kristen wasn’t grounded to just our yard so I said okay, you can take your bike, but stay around here. They were in and out all morning, Kaylee doesn’t keep her jacket or shoes on, Kristen trades sneakers with her 8 year old friend and borrows her 5 year old friend’s (a boy) sneakers, their friends leave their junk all over our yard (juice packs, pencils, sunglasses, helmets, socks, etc.), and by the time nap time comes for Kaylee I can’t find either of them…I go walking down the road past the point Kristen is allowed to be, and what do I see? Kristen on her friends bike, her 8 year old friend is on Kristen’s bike (she isn’t allowed to let other kids on her bike), Kaylee is on Kristen’s scooter with NO helmet on & no shoes or jacket on! WTF? Holy crap they are both grounded!! Kristen is grounded for a week because she knows the rules and she should’ve known to make Kaylee go home. Kaylee is grounded for the weekend because I asked her at least 5 times to put her shoes and jacket on and stay in the yard (I do that more than 5 times every day). While I was putting Kristen’s bike back in the shed she came out back and said “now I really want to live with Jessica!” She has mentioned a few times that she wants to live at her house because they pretty much have no rules at all and the kids can do whatever the heck they want. I just told her to get in the house and if she doesn’t, I’ll add another week 
So now Kaylee is taking her nap and Kristen is taking one too, just because she tired herself out from all the crying. Ugh…at some point I’m just going to have to keep them inside forever. LOL
Here are a few layouts I did since yesterday. 
Today DH had to work so I didn’t get to sleep in…well tomorrow I am gonna because I am darn tired of waking up too early! Kaylee wakes up at 5:40am on average, every stinkin’ day! I do lay in bed until 7 most mornings, but I don’t go back to sleep once I wake up because the girls are noisy and keep coming into my room. Last week DH got to sleep in 2 mornings because it was a long weekend, so I think I deserve to sleep in tomorrow instead of him, no? Anyway, I doubt I’ll be blogging tomorrow, so I’ll see y’all next week!
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October 17th, 2008
I promised a new Cheaters Challenge template the next time I blogged and since my BFF Melanie tagged me, I had to do it. LOL Click here to get it in my Playroom!
For SSD’s From Our Blog to Yours for 10/16, Tracey wants to know what type of Halloween candy we are…I was hoping I was a chocolate bar because lately I’ve been eating so much of it, I was thinking I might turn into one! LOL
Halloween Candy Quiz
You are a Lollypop
Like the Lollypop you are sweet and lickable 
Find out which Halloween Candy you are at Quizopolis.com
Here’s the tag from Mel!
Here are the rules:
- Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following questions.
- They have to be real places, names, things. nothing made up!
- You can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.
1. What is your name? Jennifer
2. A 4 Letter Word: June
3. A Boys Name: Jeremiah
4. A Girls Name: Jessica
5. An Occupation: Juggler
6. A Color: Jade green
7. Something you wear: Jacket
8. A Beverage: Juice
9. A Food: Jalapeno pepper
10. Something found in the bathroom: Jacuzzi
11. A place: Jakarta
12. A Reason for being late: Junk in the hallway tripped me and I was knocked unconscious!
13. Something you shout: Join in!
Okay…I tag…hmmm…Andy & La!
I’ve only done one layout since I last blogged, but I like it! It’s using an older Cookie from SSD and Helena Jole’s new suede lacing template that she originally had in an NDISB collab back in January of 2007. It’s only $1.60, so you should definitely get it!
That’s it for me today! Have a great weekend! I don’t think we’re doing anything special, but it’s supposed to be nice (but cool) all weekend so I’m sure we’ll end up doing something!
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October 14th, 2008
We had a great time at my parents house this weekend! It really helped that it was pretty nice weather. On Sunday DH & I took Kaylee to Victoria Park (a really huge beautiful park with swimming pools, large playground, waterfalls and walking trails). Kristen didn’t want to go because my oldest nephew was at my parents and she didn’t want to go without him. LOL Here are just a few of the pics we took while we were there (click to get a larger version)
We had a wonderful turkey dinner with 2 kinds of stuffing and 2 kinds of pie (lemon meringue & butterscotch - the pumpkin pie was eaten the night before LOL). The girls even ate a good share of the food which was awesome! They are normally picky and don’t eat a lot. That night DH and I went to visit my brother and SIL and just hung out for a few hours. I can’t wait to do it more often!
Here are a few layouts I did since the last post! The first one is a QP I made for Lauren from her Scary Moon Cat kit that you can buy in her store at Sweet Shoppe Designs!
I found this FAIL the other day and literally laughed out loud! I hope my delivery person never does this with my stuff!
I don’t think I have anything else to blog about, so have a great day! I’ll see if I can try to muster up a new Cheaters Challenge for next time
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October 9th, 2008
We are thinking of moving to my hometown! I haven’t lived there for over 12 years and the death of my grandfather made me realize just how much I need to be home. My whole family lives there and I only get to see my immediate family once a month, sometimes 2 months. DH has his parents here and his brother/SIL/niece, so we’ll miss the frequent visits from them, but DH talked to my FIL about it and he thinks it’s a good idea. My hometown is a nice little town that has everything you’d need and I think it would be a great place for the kids to grow up. They could even be going to school with my nephews which Kristen is really excited about. Yes, I told her even if it isn’t official and she loves the idea! We just have to visit the bank to see what kind of mortgage we can get and if it’s enough to get a house there. If we continue to live here, we’ll be spending a LONG time in this duplex as we can’t afford anything more. In my hometown, houses are cheaper because they aren’t close to the city. DH says a lot of the time he isn’t working in the city anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if we live here or there. I am so excited! I don’t want to take Kristen out of school though, so we won’t move till school is out next year. Our realtor (a family friend) came over to check out the house yesterday and she said we won’t have a problem selling this house at all and will make a really good profit off of it, which in turn will be our down payment for the next house.
Yesterday I took Kaylee to Superstore to get the girls their outfits for their portrait session at the end of the month. I’ll be using the pics for our Christmas card this year. Here are the outfits. Aren’t they so cute? Little preppy girls. LOL
I had to exchange Kaylee’s dress today because it was a bit small and hard to pull over her head. So I went up 2 sizes and got the 4T. The 3T would’ve been best but now it’ll get worn for longer.
I’m not back up to the scrapping speed I was before, but at least I’m trying! Here’s 2 layouts I’ve done in the past few days.
For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 10/9, Jaclyn wants to know what our ice cream personality is…I don’t think it got me right on a few things…I don’t have a one track mind (mulit-task ALL the time) nor am I dramatic and over the top.
Your Ice Cream Personality:
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You like to think of yourself as a fairly modest person. And it’s true that you don’t talk yourself up… but you’re also pretty happy with who you are.You are a pretty cautious person. You look before you leap, and you don’t leap often. There’s a bit of a wild child within you, but it doesn’t get out often.
You are a fairly open minded person with a wide range of tastes. You are quite accepting of unusual ideas and people.
You tend to have a one track mind. You prefer not to multitask.
You can be a big dramatic and over the top sometimes. You are bold in every way.
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I am having a sale on right now until tomorrow night!
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October 3rd, 2008
Not compared to some bloggers, but for me, it’s been a while since I really blogged. I still think about my grandfather every day and will miss his hugs.
So I haven’t felt like scrapping much lately but I am getting back into it. I have 2 layouts to show you, both being for an SSD challenge. I only got 18 points last month but I am reaching for at least 30 this month!
Here are the last 2 From Our Blog 2 Yours quizzes! First, from the 9/25 challenge, they wanted to see how fast of a typist we all are. I thought I was faster than that, but I guess 51 wpm without any real training (besides forum surfing and chatting LOL) I think it’s pretty good.
Next, for the 10/2 challenge, Libby wants to know what our favorite fast food joint is. My favorite is McDonald’s, but I can usually find something that I like at any of the fast food places around here. I love to get a Big Mac meal with a chocolate shake! Yummmmm…
I think that’s it for me right now…I’ll see about making a new Cheaters Challenge soon!
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September 26th, 2008
My grandfather lost his 6 month battle with lung cancer in the early morning of September 19th. He will be forever missed by all who knew him. He was many things in this world…son, husband, friend, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, nephew, uncle, great-uncle…but he was more than just a title. He was a man that was worthy of envy. So many people would be lucky to be the person that he was. Always happy and energetic, my Grampie was a bright light in my life, although I never told anyone. I think about him all the time and hope that he is at peace now and will drop down from Heaven to visit us every once in a while. I miss you Grampie and always will.
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September 17th, 2008
DH’s staff party on Saturday was pretty fun! The weather wasn’t that great - drizzling a tiny bit, but there was a good turn out and there was face painting and a bouncy castle for the girls to do (although Kaylee didn’t want to do either). There was hot dogs, hamburgers, chips and the owner even brought it freshly made french fries from a chip wagon (20 boxes!). Kristen spent most of the time with a bunch of girls her age. She just loved her newly painted face and didn’t want to wash it off that night! LOL
Yesterday I got this gorgeous necklace in the mail. One of the women in my mommies group has breast cancer and one of the other members said she’d make a necklace for whoever wanted to buy one, in honor of Beth. The clear bead is for Beth and the 2 little pink ones are for her 2 children. I don’t normally wear much jewelry except for the stuff I never take off, but I couldn’t pass this up.
I only have one layout to show you right now. For some reason I haven’t scrapped much in the past few days. I am really pleased with how this turned out. I’ve had these pics for a while now and never got around to scrapping them, then I got the Beep Boop 2 scoops kit from Lauren & Kristin and the colors were almost perfect for them! I just had to darken the blues and reds a bit. I hope my FIL likes it! This is his plane that he built himself!
I’m starting to think about Christmas already…ways I can save money on gifts like Air Miles points can get me gift cards for some people, my Pampers points can get me 25 free photo cards, etc. What do you do during the holidays to save money on gifts? I already got my ILs present, but I can’t say what it is because my MIL reads this sometimes.
There’s a new Cheaters Challenge up in my Playroom at JLD! Check it out here! There’s a new incentive to do the challenge too…I will randomly draw 3 names for a $5 GC to my store for those who participate and post their links in the thread!
That’s it for me this beautiful fall day! (I know, technically it’s still summer, but it feels like fall!) It’s supposed to be generally nice up until at least October 1st. I’m happy about that for sure! Have a great day!
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September 12th, 2008
It’s been a week since I last posted! Yikes! Monday I took Kaylee to get her 3rd year photos taken and she did really well! At first she didn’t want to be there and didn’t want to sit down, etc. but the photographer was really nice and got her to sit down on a little bench and got her to smile. We were out of there in about 10 minutes! That has NEVER happened before…Kaylee has always been difficult to get professional pics done. Like we’d spend an hour at the photographers and only get one semi-okay pose and she wouldn’t even be smiling. This one was great! I had 8 photos to choose 3 out of! Here’s the layout I did of the pics (which we got back the next day BTW…really quick turn around)
Tuesday marked our 8th anniversary (next years will be 09-09-09 & it’ll be our 9th anniversary…no wonder my favorite number is 9 LOL) Since I ordered 73 layouts from Scrapbook Pictures just last week, I told DH not to buy me anything. But he did buy me a really nice card! I got him a movie (Stargate: the extended edition) just because I ran across it in the grocery store the day before. I had bought him a new sheet set the week before so we really didn’t have a lot of money to spend on each other. We did get Chinese take-out though and it was really good. There was enough that I didn’t have to cook supper the next night either! Over all, it was a nice anniversary.
Here are some other layouts I’ve done in the past week:
There’s quite a few eh? LOL I seriously am starting to dwindle in the designing department. I’m having so much fun just scrapping! I need to get up a new Cheaters Challenge soon and maybe a new set of Scalloped Tomatoes too. Well see!
For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 9/11, they asked us How Real Are You? Here are my results:
You Are 59% Real
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You’re pretty real with people, but you can’t help hiding a good part of yourself. You’re not truly happy with who you are at times… and believe it or not, it shows.
Try not to hide parts of your life from the people who matter to you. Your friends and family are probably a lot more accepting than you realize! |
I guess that’s it from me! Tomorrow we’re going to my husband’s staff party at a park with games and food and I think the girls are getting a little gift too! Hope it’ll be fun!
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September 6th, 2008
Yep, Kristen is in 1st grade now! I don’t know how parents of more than one child do it on the first day of school…everything is confusing because you don’t know where to go or who the teacher is, etc. I can’t imagine having to get 2 or more kids to the right spots at the right time. I didn’t bring the camera to school, but here are a few pics of her I took in the morning.
This weekend there is an air show at the International Airport and yesterday they were doing a practice show at the military base that is just a few minutes away, so all the planes went over our house. The airshow used to actually be at this base but moved to the airport a few years ago which was such a bummer. We loved having the planes going over our house and having helicopters flying over daily just isn’t the same. So, Kaylee and I went out on the deck and watched the planes and I took some pics. I don’t have a high zoom lens so they aren’t as close up as I would’ve liked to get.
This month I am a guest on MandaBean’s CT and yesterday I did my first layout for her using her 2 Scoops with Robin called Gitchy Gitchy. I know it’s not a new kit, but the colors fit the first day of school pics I wanted to scrap…well, the brown did…the red I had to recolor to pink. Here is the layout I made, along with the layout using Misty’s new Richer kit that I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks, a pictrure of my husband at around 6 years old!
For SSD’s From Our Blog to Yours for 9/4, Libby asked us to do a Crayola Color Quiz! Here are my results:
Oh! Here’s a really funny FAIL for ya!
Alrighty, that’s it for me this weekend! We’re getting some remnants of Hurricane Hannah but it’s not supposed to be bad at all, just some rain..in this half of the province anyway.
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September 2nd, 2008
So Kaylee’s 3rd birthday was yesterday. She is my big girl now! (besides not being potty trained yet) :) Saturday after I got up we got on the road to the Stanley Flying Club to go to their annual Fly-In (eating lunch from McD’s on the way) where DH’s parents are members and have a trailer where they stay when they’re up there. The Fly-In is a big 3 day affair with a yard sale, corn boil, auction, cake walk, bingo, candy drop from an airplane for the kids, watching planes take off and land, etc. It’s pretty fun! So we did some things and had a nice dinner with a little cake and sang happy birthday to Kaylee, then around 7 we left for my parents house which is an hour away.
We got to my parents around 8 and since the girls slept most of the way there, they weren’t sleepy enough to go right to bed. Kristen went down at 9pm and Kaylee didn’t end up going to sleep until 10pm. They both woke up by 6:30am the next morning anyway. Why won’t these kids sleep in?? LOL
Saturday Kaylee had her party which was really fun. She was SO excited as this was her first real birthday party. She got some great presents and she especially loves her 3-wheel scooter from us (even though I have to go exchange it because the rear axle is broken), her Dora Cuddle ‘n Care dolls and the Enchanted DVD she got. She keeps going around saying “my birtday in Setember” Click on the pics to go to a larger version.
So, here are a few layouts I’ve done in the past week.
I made a set of desktops for Misty using a kit that she has coming out on Saturday. Go to her blog to get these!
For SSD’s From Our Blog 2 Yours for 8/28, Meg wants to know how well we spell:
Your Common Spelling Mistake Score: 95% Correct
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Your spelling is excellent.
You don’t fall for common spelling pitfalls, and you spell almost everything correctly.
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I think that’s it for me this time! Be back again tomorrow maybe…it’s the first day of school so I’m sure I’ll have pics to show!
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