Emmie's To Do List

Gina was looking for a chart of sorts to help Emmie be more responsible. Its not finished but this is what I came up with. I was thinking instead of trying to print it out maye have it printed at Sam's club or something. Then Put it in a frame and use a write on wipe off marker for her to check off the items when she is done. Let me know if I am headed in the right direction. Also what you want on her list. I just made up a few things so you got the general idea.

Nate's Ring

So today Nathan came home with this big old envelope. He was all excited because they got their order forms for their class rings. That's right you read that correctly! Nathan will be ordering his class ring next week. Where has time gone? It starts with the ring and then its all a big whirlwind and before you know it he will be a senior! Ugh!
He was so very proud of the ring he chose so I thought I would share it with everyone.






On the one side he has the school mascot the Wildcat and the other he has the trombone and his name. Now the middle will be customized for him and will say Kittanning Senior High School and class of 2014. All in all I think he made a good choice. He is so excited to order it. I can remember ordering mine and being excited so I guess all is good!

Family Tree

AJ has been working long and hard on his family tree for school! Tonight we took all of the information that he gatthered and put it all together for the final project. I think it turned out pretty good!

The Boy's of Fall

School has started and the kids seem to be pretty happy with it so far. Unfortunately due to my surgery I was not able to be home for the first day. However, my wonderful hubby made sure to get some pics of the boys for me! Nate is starting his sophomore year at KHS and AJ begins his freshman year. Two kiddos in high school boy are they making me feel old!

My favorite time of year is here. Well almost. I love Autumn! The colors the smells everything! Part of the whole experience in our family is football season. No, no one in the family actually plays football, but Nate is part of the KHS marching band. I just love that he enjoys this so much and I really love watching them. I got a few pics off of the KHS band site of Nate so I thought I would share them.

The Kittanning Senior High School 2011-2012 Marching Band

So there you have it for now. Im looking forward to getting to see Nate in the half time show. I havent made it yet. I have been working on trying to get healthier so I can. I am also looking forward to his Band Fest coming up on the 21st. Should be fun.

College Bound

Shes all grown up and off to college! Jess moved into her dorm room at West Liberty. I guess that makes it official she is now a young adult. Well I guess technically tomorrow (her 18th birthday) it will be completely official. We are all so very proud of her! Her classes start on Monday. Good Luck Sweet Pea! We Love You!
(photos are from her mom's fb)

Cupcakes! Epic Fail! (maybe)

I don't understand why I feel the need to complicate everything! Never was I taught that normal wasn't good enough but for some reason I feel that I have to go out of my way to make things extra special. Usually ending in either something fabulous or an absolute mess (most of the time both!) Nate has a bake sale tomorrow for baseball and I wanted to make him something awesome! I had seen these cute cupcakes in a jar online and though hey that's cool. So I set out to make these cool cakes! First of all I swear it is the hottest day of the summer by far so who in their right mind wants to bake. So I wait until it cools off a little this evening you know like around 9 to start these things. First I find that the cake mix I bought was funfetti so it had sprinkles in it....crap! That's not what I wanted at all! So I stuck the cake mix in the sifter and removes said sprinkles. OK cakes are baked! Now they need to cool..ok...I got that! I need my icing bags and tips I will go and find those....yeah good luck with that. I ended up after about an hour of looking high and low going to moms (its now almost midnight) for her coupler. I found a tip here that would do. OK back home, cakes are cool lets cut them out and put them together. Uh huh good idea unless the icing is just pouring out of the bag. So we stick the bag in the fridge and wait. Eventually this is what I came up with.

Oh wait that was my mess! Oops.Here they are...kind of cute huh? So now I put the lids on......to plain!So I tie on a bow and whip out my silhouette machine (thanks mom) and cut out some stars! Sadly I only ended up with 8 jars. I just didn't have the time to try my hand at round 2. But hey 8 is better than 0 right?

So if your out and about stop by Foodland between 10 and 6 and help support the Senior League Boys go to the State Championships!

Guess what?!?

I actually scrapped! I know right! You guys probably thought I forgot how. Well you see I decided a few weeks ago to leave the Creative Teams that I was on and concentrate on scrapping for myself. Its been a while since I didn't have to worry about deadlines and was able to just relax and enjoy scrapping. Don't get me wrong I loved it, I just got too busy with other things to be able to do both. So now maybe I will actually get to use some of the million kits I have! Anyway here is my latest page.

Hopefully I will be back soon with another new one. Check back often!