Rolling Over?

The other day my sister put the baby on his belly so she could take a picture holding his head up nice and high and what did he do? He rolled over! Coincidence? So she did it again and so did he and again, and again. So Vinny has figured out how to go from belly to back. They grow up fast!!

Well its off to work for me for now. Of course its Steeler's day at school and work so we all had to pull out our gear! I will have to post pics of the kids later all ready for the Superbowl.

Have a good one!

LuAnn tagged me with this fun challenge...


Go to your photos folder in your computer.Go to the 6th folder of photos.Go to the sixth picture in that folder.Put the picture on your blog and description of it.Invite six friends to join the challenge.Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged

This is my niece Emberly and her little friend she met while camping. They are on their way to the beach to swim and play swamp monster.

Now to tag six friends (I dont know if I know 6 people to tag) I will come back to that

Gina

Vinny Day!

So this morning my little sister had a dentist appointment so I told her I would keep Vinny over night for her if she wanted so she didn't have to rush around so early and drop him off. He was such a good boy! I enjoyed having him. It was a little odd having to wake up in the middle of the night for those late night feedings, but I'm not complaining I loved having him here! I did scrap a little this evening. I did a page of Vinny's First Bath. So here you go. "Vinny's First Bath" using Melissa Bennett's "Tubby Time"

And here is a picture of Vinny's older Cousin (My Nate) holding him. He looks at him so sweetly! Nate felt very important! AJ held him too but not long enough for Mom to grab the camera.

My Crazy Day

Wow! what a day! I get a phone call at work from my sons school right after lunch telling my that he was having asthma problems and that they gave him a breathing treatment. OK no problem I will come up and get him and see how he's doing. So I drive to the school and right before I get there I pull up behind an ambulance with its lights on. OK. I followed it all the way to guess where. The School! OK. That's not for mine, no problem. Get in the school and guess what? Yep! It was for mine! So several hours at the ER and 5 breathing treatments later we are home and he is doing much better. The problem is nothing is ever easy with my kiddo. He has a vocal cord dysfunction and acid reflux, both causing major problems with bronchiospasms and anxiety. So I have to try and keep him calm and watch his diet while he waits to be seen by a specialist next month. That is unless we have any problems tonight or tomorrow then we are on our way to Children's hospital by order of his pediatrician. I'm hoping for a good night!

After I came home and ate dinner I sat down and finished a couple of pages I had been working on of my nephew. (Scrapping is good therapy) The first one is Vinny after he had his bath and his mommy was trying to brush his crazy hair. The second are some beautiful pictures my sister got of him yesterday when he was visiting them.

It's a Grey's night so I'm hoping to get to chill out and grab a blanket, curl up on the couch and watch my shows. Have a great one!

Winter Band Concert

Tonight was my son's Winter band concert. There was so much going on around the holidays that their band decided to do their concert after they were over. It was great! I may be biased, but I liked it. I thought I would post a quick pic before I head of to bed of my handsome musician. (Yes that is a Steeler's tie he is wearing!)

As you see he plays the trombone. I was very surprised when he came home and told me that was the instrument he wanted, but he really does well with it. I am so very proud of him. Music was always a big part of my life growing up and I always hoped that part of that would rub of on my kids. So seeing him enjoying band and not doing it cause he thinks it makes me happy means a lot to me.

It's getting late and its been a long day so I am off to bed. Goodnight!

A Good Deal

So I want to Target the other day and found this adorable outfit for Baby Vinny. It was Classic Pooh cordouroy pants with a little button down shirt and sweater vest. Regular price $19.99, clearance price $4.75 WOW! Right? So I picked it up for him, along with some other awesome clearence goodies, and boy does he look adorable in it. So I did what any good Auntie would do. I scrapped it! and here it is using "Can You Dig It?" by Scrapkitchen Designs and Heather Roselli

3 Weeks Old

Oh and one more thing

What a great game last night!

What Kind of Shopper?......

Playing along with the challenges over at the Sweet Shoppe, I took a quiz to see what type of shopper I am. Well.......

You Are a Discount Shopper

You love to get things as cheaply as possible. You live for sales. It's partially because you like to save money, but it's also because you like the thrill of finding a fabulous deal. Of all the types, you tend to shop frequently but rarely by. You keep an eye on prices. Brand names are not that important to you. You know how to have style without collecting designer tags.

http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofshopperareyouquiz/">What Kind of Shopper Are You?

We all knew that one was coming! Hey I am proud to say that I love a good clearance sticker. Some of my favorite things I have gotten on Clearance. So if you wanna know what kind of shopper you are go check it out.

Sweetest Heart

So here is the newest Kit by Penny called "Sweetest Heart" it is a collaboration with her and Brandy Designs, one of her CT members. It is really a beautiful kit to scrapbook that special someone in your life.

Here is another LO I did using this amazing kit called "My Funny Valentine"

My niece Emberly is such a little ham, she has some of the craziest faces. These are some of the amazing pictures her mom took of her last year for Valentines Day.

Tonight was our family craft night and we decided on our project for next week. They are these really cute flowers made of fabric. I will have to post a picture of how they turn out when we are done. It's really nice getting together with my mom and sisters and doing stuff like that. We have a good time and its neat to see how different each others projects turn out.

Well its snowing like crazy outside again, I am beginning to wonder if it will ever warm up. I think its time to go find a warm blanket and curl up under it. Have a good night!

The Man I Love

Sometimes I get so carried away scrapping all of the kiddos I forget about the wonderful man that I have who lets me scrap all the time with very little complaint ( well most of the time anyway ) So tonight I felt the urge to scrap about us. For our anniversary one year he bought me this Boyds Bear that said it all " We may not have it all together, but together we have it all" That's so true! As long as I have him and the kids in my life there is nothing more I could possibly want. So here is my LO of us. Using Penny Springmann's "Love You!" kit

photo's by Cherished Photography

Well that's it for tonight besides the start of American Idol, however hubby got bored with it and watched the Penguin's beat the Flyer's. Go Penn's!!

Organization Take 1

Well It was about time I did a little organizing in my Digi Scrappin supplies. I spent all evening yesterday organizing and getting rid of things I no longer needed, and I must say it looks good and I freed up 18GB of space. Now I have to back it up. But one thing at a time.

One of my favorite Designers teamed up with one of her CT members and will be releasing a fabulous new kit on Saturday. In between loads of laundry I got to scrap with it, and WOW! So here is a sneak peek at Penny Springmann and Brandy Designs new kit (comming soon to SSD)

Well better get back to the laundry, sadly it does not wash itself. Have a Good One!!!!

Let it Snow

Over the weekend we got probably 7 plus inches of snow. So far the most this season. Of course the kiddo's were wishing that it would have been during the week so that they could perhaps get a day off of school, but they enjoyed it. I finished a new LO late last night its of my sweet, goofy Niece Emberly enjoying the snow.

I used Karen Lewis's "Cold Play" kit from the DigiChick and one of the cookie exchange templates from the Sweet Shoppe

On a side note the Steeler's kicked the Charger's butt's last night! Go Steeler's!!

Good Luck Guys.

Family Tree

I am so excited about Penny Springmann's new kit "Family Tree" it is just so beautiful! The colors the elements, EVERYTHING! let me just show you

and here is what I have done with it

I used a template from Free Digital Templates for this 2008 Year in review page. What a great way to use some of those pictures you never got to do much with and remember the highlights of the year.

Midnight Project

Have you seen these adorable little matchbook albums? I was thinking matchbook size but no they are about 4 inches, a nice little brag book size. SO my little sister was having a bad day so I thought maybe I could cheer her up and make her something (sorry If your reading this before I give it to you) I found this cool little hybrid project over at Peppermint Creative and decided it was a cute idea. Here's what I ended up with.

my photo's aren't fantastic but you get the idea. It really turned out cute! I hope she likes it.
now off to bed with me. Goodnight

New Years Resolutions and a Sneak Peak!

I know I'm a little late with my New Years Resolution, but you know the saying "Better late than never" One of the biggest things I would like to accomplish in the year 2009 is to get myself more organized. I swear every drawer I own is a "junk" drawer. I can never find anything I am looking for. Sadly I have passed this gene on to my kids (my mom thinks its funny) Their teachers are always telling me how unorganized and messy they are. Good kids, just messy. So I decided to scrap about it . Here is my LO using Penny Springmann's "Garage Grunge"

I will have to keep you updated on how this is going. Not only do I think this is good for me, but I really want to help the boys do better too. In order to do that I should set a better example for them.

OK, I promised a sneak peak! Coming to soon to Gotta Pixel is an awesome new kit by Karen Lewis. Here is a LO using this new kit

I used the new Cookie Decorating Template from the challenges at Sweet Shoppe Designs.

I have been on quite a roll with my scrapping lately, which is good, but tonight I think I shall take a break. It's Grey's Anatomy night and ER. If you live in my house you know not to even bother trying to talk to me on Thursdays from 9:00pm till 11:00pm. So I'm off to eat dinner and get ready for my shows. Have a great night and stay warm!

New Release Preview

I have a sneak peak at Karen Lewis's new "Be Mine" kit available tomorrow at the DigiChick. It is a beautiful kit with soft greens, pinks, and apricots.

and here is a layout by me using this kit.

My beautiful niece and her friend making cupcakes together at their sleepover.

A Challenge

Wow! two posts in one day! I don't know about you but lately I have really been struggling in the Mojo department. One way to help this is to participate in one of the many Challenges out there in Digi land. Today on the Miscellany Maniacs blog we challenge you to scrap lift our fearless leader go check it out here http://pennysmiscellany.com/blog/?p=376

I lifted Penny's "First Class" LO

and here is my take on this amazing LO! "Today in the World"

I used Julie Billingley's "Yesteryear: Shabby Baby Boy" with some elements from Kristin Cronin-Barrow's "Sweet Dream"

I thought it would be cute to have a page in my nephews album that told him a little about the day he was born.

So go check out the Maniac's Blog and join in our challenge! Its a great way to help that creativity block disappear!

Happy Tuesday!

Not that there is ever anything that exciting happening on a Tuesday, I just feel like wishing everyone a good day! Not a whole lot going on today except my mother is being rotten and sucking all the goodies out of my little nephew. He went to visit Grandma at her house today and I just know shes hogging those goodies! Speaking of cute adorable nephew I have a new scrapbook page finished up for his album. Using Julie Billingsley's "Yesteryear : Shabby Baby Boy" (from Sweet Shoppe Designs) and based from a sketch by Juli at the DigiChick. Here are my sister's first "family" picturesWell, I need to return to my never ending task of laundry. YUCK! And maybe if my family is lucky I will cook them dinner! (nah hubby can do it!)

Christmas Pictures

I promised Christmas Pictures, so that's what I have been working on. For this LO I used Penny Springmann's "Cocoa Mallow Stick" kit and her Holiday Worn Overlays.

The kiddos are opening their bikes. Well at least AJ was. Nate was opening tires that he thought were for his old bike and was really disappointed when he realized they were the wrong size. After we let him mope a little while we gave him the rest of the bike that we had hidden in the dining room and he was so excited.

Here is our tree Christmas Eve right after Santa arrived

and here we are before the kiddos got home. I really love my tree its small and personal and for the last few years that's what I needed in the small space that we had. Maybe next year we will get a bigger one and I can put one in my dining room. I guess we will see what next year brings.

He's Home!

Well after a short return stay in the hospital, Vinny is back home and doing well. His Billirubin was high so he had to be admitted last night and put under the UV lights. He got to come home today with his very own blanket as a precaution and hopefully tomorrow he will get to go with out it. He is such a sweet little guy. I was working with a new Valentine kit from Karen Lewis (to be out later this month) and decided to scrap about Vinny's first day home so here he is only three days old.

Now what I really need to be doing is scrap booking my Christmas pictures, but its so hard when this precious little guy's pictures scream scrap me! So now I promise my next post will be of my Christmas pictures.

Oh and by the way HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!