Challenge Catch Up!

OK Guys I have quite a few LO's to share tonight cause well I had to finish up my challenges at SSD tonight for April. I am happy to say I finished them and will be receiving the 40% coupon! Go Me!!!

First off I had my Emmie doodle tonight and decided to do an all about Emmie page. All of the questions you see were answered by her. And to make it right I actually took her picture while she was here so it was all current. Look at that smile, I would like to say she is a natural, but well I think Gina just has her well trained!! LOL

(Credits: "Whats Your Story" by Heather Rosselli)

Next We have baby Vinny. Just look at that face! It like him saying what is that thing she's holding. Someday he will figure out its a camera! LOL So in the journaling it tells about what he might be thinking about all those crazy people always taking his picture.

(Credits: "Chillaxin" by Scrapkitchen, Eva Kipler, and Melissa Bennett)

The next two are Emmie all prettied up. One in her Easter Dress and the other in the adorable dress his momma made for her. Again she is such a doll. I love her so much! (I love Vinny so much too, and the Boys!)

(Credits: "Emma's Garden" by Scrapkitchen Designs)

(Credits: "Bug Out" by Melissa Bennett)

I hope you all have a goodnight. I'm gonna crawl in bed and watch Grey's Anatomy now. And I am sure we are all saying an extra prayer for our Papa right now! We Love you Daddy! Get Well Soon!

Did Another LO!

Nate has been playing baseball now for the last 6 years. I was a little nostalgic so I put a grouping of all these pictures from each year.

Here is a page of my sweet adorable niece Emberly. Isn't she a cutie!

Happy Anniversary

Today's the Day I married my Best Friend........Seven years ago! Honestly, I Can say I love him more today than I did that day, and that's something I never thought could be possible. We have had our share of ups and downs but we have always stuck together cause true love conquers all. We had such a simple but beautiful wedding and I could not have wanted more.

I Love You Alan! Happy Anniversary!!

Remember When?

Hey Look who it is! It's Blue Dinosaur! Look how little my AJ is too!


Here is another blast from the past, not quite as far back but still several years

(Credits: "Zoom" by Penny Springmann available at SSD)

Our trip to "Fun Fore All" for Father's Day several years back

Hello Sunshine

I can hardly believe this weather! It is so beautiful! For the latest FOBTY Challenge at the SSD we are supposed to tell what we have been doing that is "Green", Well I have to admit I am not the most environmentally cautious person, that I need to improve on, but I do Digi Scrap so therefore I am saving trees right? We do recycle aluminum cans (my son has been big on this lately)

Moving on! I have a couple of LO's to show off (cause I know some of you only look at the picture's not mentioning names MOM and GINA) he he he just kidding so here you go

(Credits: "Pop Goes the World" by Dani Mogstad available at SSD)

(Credits: "Still One of the Gang" by Lauren Grier, Shawna Clingerman, and Micheline Martin and is available at SSD)

My Son's a Teenager!!!

13 years ago today was one of the scariest days of my life. I woke up having no idea that I was about to become a mother, I still had six weeks to go. But I did, at 10:19pm I gave birth to a beautiful 6lb 8oz 19 1/2 inch baby boy whom I named Nathaniel Cole. He was premature and had to be life flighted very quickly to Pittsburgh where they took extra special care of him. After his visit there he was sent back to the hospital he was born in until his heart rate stopped dropping. Finally on May 14th we were able to take our little man home. I was so happy! Its hard to believe that he is 13 today! WOW a teenager, where has time gone? from this

Here he is eating his birthday cake on his 4th birthday (same age as Emberly)

and here he is now! Look how handsome! I know the days ahead are gonna be bumpy, but things started out for him rough so he will be just fine!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATE!!

Happy, Happy, Happy

Happy Earth Day! and Happy Birthday Uncle Mike! and so you don't feel left out Happy Birthmonth Mom! Wow that's a whole lot of Happy huh?
I know its supposed to be spring but man am I cold today! I even have my jacket on in the house. Brr.
I have two new pages to show off the first is of my boy's birthday. I went in with my sister and her husband, and my parents and got them the XBOX 360 that they have been drooling over. They were so happy!
The next is Emmie at her very first soccer game where the Yellow Jackets (that's her team) won 8 to 0 that's all for now. Have great Evening and stay Happy!

Quickie!

Emmie Doodle is such an adorable little dancer check her out in her adorable dance outfit.
Back to the Laundry! Later Gator!

Some Stuff!

For this weeks FOBTY We needed to tell what we just can't give up, even in these economic tough times. I would have to say that it would be my Digi Scrap supplies! I just cant seem to put a spending freeze on this, partly because there are so many amazing things coming out constantly and well the fact that I have an addiction problem.

So Do you have anything new for us to see you ask! Of course I do!

(Credits: "Pet Names" by Penny Springman available at SSD)

(Credits: "Little C' by Melissa Bennett available at SSD)

(Credits: "Sleepy Sheep" by Christy Lyle available at SSD)

So thats what I have for you, for now. I need to get my sister to send me some pics of Emmie and the boy's birthday. hint hint! So now I am off to go eat my fabulous Chicken Quesadilla dinner.

Special Day

Good Morning! In a little more than an hour at 7:53am to be exact 12 years ago at that moment I would have been delivering this precious little boy

Allan James 6lb 13oz. 21.5 inches

He had a little bit of a rough go of it, his lungs were underdeveloped and he had to be life flighted to Pittsburgh where they could care for him better. He stayed in the NICU for a few weeks and on May 2, 1997 he came home. He was the absolutely most loving baby, and a good baby too. Not too much has changed in the past twelve years. He is still the most caring and loving child, and so far pretty good. Of course he still has been having a rough go of it. Because of his premature lungs he suffers from asthma and this year has been especially hard on him.

So here is my boy now (well on Easter) almost a teenager! Time flies, it seems like just yesterday I was bringing him home from the hospital. He has gone from a blue dinosaur, Winnie the pooh, batman loving toddler to a Crazy video game playing, bike riding, soccer playing, brother harassing pre teen. I Love who he is! He makes me proud! And no matter what he will always be my baby!

Happy Birthday AJ!!!!

Tax Deadline Day....Oh Yippee

Just a real quick post before I go and watch American Idol with the hubby. I got one LO done today (the rest of my after work time went to finishing taxes) so here you go

hope you like it! Have a great evening!

Need a Laugh?

So I was meandering around the world of Facebook when I came across this picture one of my friends had. OH MY HECK!!!!! Thought you guys might need a good laugh so here you go!

Don't you just love it! Oh yes Gina that is you right behind me!

I did one more LO last night, it was for the journaling challenge at SSD. I had to write a Haiku (or well try to) so here you go. Oh and isn't his outfit just awesome! I wonder where he got such cool clothes! wink wink!

That's all for now! I really am going to get some laundry done! Or at least that's my plan!

The Easter Bunny has left the Building!

I hope every one's Easter was fabulous! I know mine was pretty great! Unfortunately my boys were at their Dad's for Easter Morning so I don't really have the all dressed up for Easter pictures of them. By the time they came home they no longer had their church clothes on, and well they looked like they do everyday!


I hosted Easter at my house this year and it was really nice! I invited my Grandmother over and she was able to come so that was very cool! Kimmy and I made homemade pierogies (YUM) and we had ham and all sorts of other good things. WE made these cute little Easter Egg lollipops out of cake balls and decorated them. They turned out so cute
Of course since they were an Easter Treat we made them out of Carrot Cake! What better way to suck up to the Easter bunny than with a treat made out of carrots, right? We had a lot of fun making them too.
I only have one LO done from all of the Easter pictures and its of my sweet nephew Vinny


Just look at that face! Is that not the cutest face! WE all know he is too young to understand what Easter is about or even who the Easter Bunny is, but his face says it all! WHOA! is that stuff for me?
I had to take AJ back to the DR.s today and they put him back on the prednisone. they just don't want to take chances and let things get worse. Then Alan came home from work sick, and shortly after that the nurse from the High School called and sent Nate home sick. I just can't win here!
Well I'm off too go do something, not sure what yet, but I'm sure it wont be too terribly fun probably dishes or laundry! YUCK!

Candy?

I took a quiz to find out what kind of Easter Candy am I? You will never believe what it told me

You Are an Easter Egg

You're so sweet, you don't need candy. You much prefer the taste of artificial coloring instead.

What Easter Candy Are You?

Well I really do love Easter Eggs! In fact I was pretty sad when I realized my boys would be at their Dad's and I wouldn't get to dye eggs with them this year. I still want to dye them I just may have to do it alone. I'm just glad it didn't tell me I was a peep! I really really dislike those things!

Thats a Wrap!

Every year for Easter my sister and I make Chocolate candy for the kiddos. This year I decided to order some cute new molds, one of them being a little chocolate bar with a bunnies on it. When we made them we thought oh how cute, but how are we going to wrap these. So I got out some Aluminum foil and some digi scrap supplies and here is what I came up with. Using Penny Springmann's "Celebrate Life" kit with the "Easter Add On" and some Name badge printer labels

Ta Da....Instant Adorable Candy Bars

I thought they turned out pretty cute, much better than just plain aluminum foil anyday. Well Happy Easter to all. Take care and enjoy your Families!

For Gina!

Here are a few pages I did today, as I was trying to get better. I am doing better, not perfect, but better.

Check out the Hat!

(Credits: "Happy Dance" by Eva Kipler at SSD)

Is this not the cutest hat ever! I love it! I want one for my very own! Really! So not much new here. Still sick most of us, well all but Nate! It's pretty bad that you miss school when your home bound. But AJ did just that. He and I slept till almost 1 this afternoon. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

Hippity Hoppity

I really hate being sick! I try to feel better but NO! I really hope we can all get rid of these nasty bugs so that we can have a healthy Easter. Speaking on Easter does anyone have any good recommendations on what we should have for dinner? So I'm sure your all not here to hear how miserable I feel right? You wanna see if I have anything new to show! Well I do! A few things first we have my March Month in review page

(Credits : "Hello Birdie" by Melissa Bennett)

Next I have a scrapbook page I did of Mr. Vinny and his first visit with the Easter Bunny! Pretty Exciting!

(Credits: "Bunny Trail" by Dani Mogstad")

Next is something pretty cool I have been working on. Kim and I made our Easter candy last night and I made this cute box to put them in. I am still trying to work out the little details but here is what I have so far.

That's about it in an egg shell. Not too much exciting. Hopefully we can all get feeling better. They say rest is good for healing! That's a good idea!

FOBTY Challenge

TV Shows that I have seen every episode of or obsess over! Wow lets see

1. GREY'S ANATOMY - Everyone knows not to call or visit, even the kids know not to get sick or need me for at least that hour (alright I'm not that bad) I Love this show I even have them all on DVD so I can watch them again and again!

2. ER - I have loved this show from the very beginning, I am so sad that it is ending tonight :( Even through the years I have been a faithful follower of the Dr's at County General!

3. BROTHERS AND SISTER'S - I love this show! I started watching it by a fluke and haven't been able to stop.

4. AMERICAN IDOL - hubby and I watch this together. It's our quality time!

5.. GEORGE LOPEZ - I go to bed to this religiously


So There you go! It's interesting to see what every one's can't miss shows are.