P 52--Week 12

Good morning friends! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Mine was pretty good!  I didn't get a whole bunch accomplished but I still feel good about what I did get accomplished including the scrapbook pages I'm showing you today!  A-Manda Creation has a brand new kit out called Movie Night.  It is SO fun that I tried to talk Kyler into having a movie themed birthday party but he stuck with the football theme instead.  I know he'll have a much better time with his football theme though!

These are the pages for week 12 of my P52.  I am right on track with this project and, frankly, I'm pretty happy with myself for sticking with it this long.  In between these layouts I create for the A-Manda Creation creative team as well as for things like Jon's mid-tour leave and I'm going to take on my Hawaii photos here this week.  Should be fun!

 

I went to see Act of Valour with my friend, Lori (yep, Lori and she was the first person that I met when we moved here).  Her son recently enlisted in the Army, completed basic training and moved to New York.  Lots of change for her!  Anyway, I wasn't sure how I was going to do with the movie but it was actually really good!  I enjoyed it a lot...'til the end when...well, I won't tell you so that if you see it I don't ruin it for ya. 

The photo above is approximately what the two page layout will look like together.  For whatever reason I couldn't get it exactly straight for the preview but I know it will look great all printed out!

So...I hope you have an amazing Monday!  It will be what you make it so make it a GREAT one!

Thought of the day:  If only our tongues were made of glass.  How much more careful we would be when we speak.  ~Shaun Shane

Happy Snail Mail

Happy Friday morning friends! Anyone else doing a little because it is Friday? It has been a good week off of school for Kyler but I'm definitely ready for Friday.  Thank you for stopping in today to check out the new sketch from Sketches by Carly and what I made with it.  I hope you head on over to the Sketches by Carly blog to participate!  This sketches sponsor is Carly's Digi Shop!  So, not only does Carly make up super cute sketches but she designs digi's too including the cute Snail I used on my card.

o, you know I got the snail from Carly's shop, the paper is from MME and is called Happier.  That is some uber cute paper for spring!  I think this will be fun to send to a long distance relative.  Inside it says "sending you happy snail mail."  Who doesn't like mail that isn't a bill?

It was a late night for me last night.  I was messaging on Facebook with a friend when she told me that she was in the ER with her 2 year old son who had experienced a seizure.  I asked if her husband was with her, she said no (he works about 2 hours away), so I called Todd and had him run over there and then I went to sit with her until her husband got there.  What a scary experience for them.  Hold and hug your children a little tighter tonight, k?

Thought of the day:  Being a mom is the best decision I made in my life.  Few other decisions have brought so much joy and love into my heart.

Antique Rose

Yep, can you believe it? I'm here two days in a row!  Hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday so far!  I've got another scrapbook page to show you.  I received some photos of the Victorian house that my mom and dad turned into a bed and breakfast in the mail the other day and scanned a this photo to get a scrapbook of that time started.  I used the gorgeous kit from A-Manda Creation called Timeless.  That kit will be perfect for scrapping these pages!

This is my mom and dad.  I believe they used the photo on this page on the website they had for the B&B.  I think my mom would have liked this page!  I'm entering this into Lets Get Sketchy!'s 3rd Challenge. 

Thought of the day:  Love on the ones your with as they won't always be with you.

More P52 Pages

Happy Tuesday friends! I just thought I'd stop in and show you my last two weeks of my P52 project. As we go through these longs weeks of March with not much going on it gets harder to find something to scrap about. Soon, though, things will be picking up and then I'll have all sorts of things to share!

So, during week 10 I joined a short term class at Jazzercise called Ballet Body.  It is pretty kick butt however I do find myself stronger each time I take the class...about three times a week.  My weight loss partners and I won that week, too.  And, I was elected Corresponding Secretary of my PEO chapter that week.  Both of these pages are made with Look Whoo, a new set from A-Manda Creation that isn't even out in the store yet. 

Last week was a very slow week but good none the less.  we had a new Carl's Jr open up here in town.  Todd and Kyler went to the grand opening...arriving probably at 5:45 AM!  They were giving out coupons for a combo a week for a year for the first 75 (but actually gave away 95 of them) but Todd and Kyler didn't make it into that 95 people.  Funny thing is they didn't even eat there as they didn't have the time to wait.  They went to Perkin's. 

Alright, there you have it for the day.  I hope your week is going well so far!  We are supposed to get some snow today, rain tomorrow.  Ick!  I'm so done with winter!

Thought of the day:  The phrase 'working mother' is redundant. 

St. Patty's Day

Nope, we are not Irish in this house but I am, for really the first time, having fun with St. Patty's day this year!  I'm even going to make corned beef and cabbage...a little different from the traditional recipes but I'm doing it!

I also made these super cute Leprechan hats for my "kids" (Kyler, Scott, and Ashley).  They are a new template by Creations by AR.  I will say that while I like the way this looks it literally took me 'til the third time to get this right.  I won't go into detail but, needless to say, none of these are perfect but I don't think the kids care!  I used the SVG file and cut it out with my Cricut so the actual cutting time was really nothing.  The biggest problem?  I now have two open bags of Hershey's Kisses in my craft room.  NOT a good thing.  I think I need to move them out of here!

It has been a great last couple of days for me.  Well, Thursday I did not feel well at all and pretty much sat around all day but Friday was great!  And I know today is going to be a great day too!

Well, that is it for me today.  Be prepared for lots of posts next week!  Have a wonderful weekend! 

Thought of the day:  An Irish saying for you.  May the luck of the Irish possess you. May the devil fly off with your worries. May God bless you forever and ever.