Almost...

TWO MORE BOXES AND MY SCRAPROOM IS UNPACKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We drove down to Cinci last weekend and bought another Expedit at IKEA (along with some really cool wicker baskets that fit in the cubbies) and my scraproom is finally coming together. I will (hopefully) get the other boxes unloaded this week and be operational by the weekend. WHOO HOO!!! I can't wait to scrap again!


So... Yesterday was my Birthday! 36. WOW. I remember when my Mom was 36 and I thought she was SO old. WOW. Crazy that I am that old. I don't feel it, for sure.

So my awesome husband.. Let me repeat. MY AWESOME HUSBAND!.. went to Archiver's and bought me pretty much the entire Basic Grey OLIVER line (and some really pretty blue Prima flowers!) for my Birthday.



How freakin' awesome is he? I mean, really. How many of your husbands would go buy you scrap stuff? My guy is one of a kind. I love him SO much. He really made my day :)

Well, it's time for bed. I have such a busy rest of the week.
I hope you all have a great week and send me some positive vibes so I can get this scraproom complete this week.
Byeeee :)

My Review of Sierra Playset

Originally submitted at Toys R Us

The Sierra Playset has all the features of many more expensive playsets and is a great value. There's a raised fort with wood roof, end gables and even a chimney! A raised sun porch is the perfect platform for checking out the yard from above and launching down the super safe speedy slide. Two ...

Sierra Playset

So far, so good.

By Jenny B in Indy from Fishers, IN on 7/26/2010

 

5out of 5

Pros: Fun, Easy Assembly, Sturdy

Describe Yourself: Novice

We bought this same set (two weeks ago) at another dept store on clearance for four hundred dollars less than the original price on here.

My husband and his friend started putting it together Friday night. They worked 3-3.5 hours each Fri, Sat and Sun night and then my husband did a bit by himself on Sunday.. labeling and putting together the ladder and rock wall.
So far my son can swing, glide and slide. The rock wall and ladder are up. All that's left is the roof (which will take some time), picnic table, monkey bars and toy box. So, should be done in about 4-6 hours when they get to it this next weekend. Maybe less?

My husband said so far there has been no splitting wood, no missing pieces/hardware and the instructions are great.

So overall, we are having a great experience with this.
I will update once it's COMPLETELY done.

(legalese)

It's SLOWLY getting there...

We still have a garage FULL of stuff. But here's what's been done so far in the Living Room:



Dining Room:


Scraproom (I love love LOVE the color of my walls!):




Hubby is going to IKEA in Detroit next week to get me another Expedit (smaller 4x4 this time) and the table that goes with that line. Hopefully once I have that I can get the rest of those boxes unpacked. I need to SOON.. I have some DT work I need to start on.

Well, back to more unpacking.
Have a great weekend!

Oh My Good God!

I think it might just take WEEKS to get this new scraproom unpacked!!
We started moving 9 days ago and I JUST NOW got my computer hooked up! Yikes!



Stay with me.. I promise, I'll be back and hopefully with some cute projects :)

For now, here are some NON SCRAPPY things that have been going on (other than the big move):

Caleb turned four on June 27th.
We took him to Monkey Joe's to bounce and had pizza, his favorite. It was just us three and it was probably his best birthday yet. I'm glad I didn't go all out again this year and do a party. I loved the intimacy of it just being us three.




On June 30th he was diagnosed with PDD-NOS, aka Pervasive Developmental Disorder.
The way it was explained to us is that he has some signs of being on the very LOW end of the Autism spectrum and with help, he can actually grow out of them because he is lucky in that his only problems are with communication and he keeps saying new things day after day (with less Echolalia).
SO glad to have some answers.. finally :)

Then my Mother in Law (aka Mimi Marsha) flew in from Houston to help us move. She was a huge help. She helped me clean the new house from top to bottom and Caleb was just in love with her. Here they are playing out in the new backyard.



And then just a random shot of him in the new backyard. He is out there at least half the day and just loves it. Thank God for fences and big yards! :)




"See" you all later, I have some Facebook catch up to do :)

Two Weeks...

My scraproom is 3/4 of the way packed and in two weeks, we are moving.
New city, new (and old) friends, new scraproom, new everything. Can't wait!! :)

Stick around... I'll be back ;)

Our New Home

So God blessed us once again and we were able to finally find an awesome home in THE best school district in Indiana. Well, TECHNICALLY it's the second best but, who cares, LOL.
It's a MAJOR step up from the school system we are currently in :)
The school Caleb will go to is a four star school, so are the intermediate, junior high and high school. And the city we are moving to has been named one of the best places to live in the Midwest several times in the last ten years :)
So we basically went from one of the worst to one of the very best.
THANK YOU, GOD!!!

You don't know what a load this is off our backs. For months now whenever Doug was home we would spend hours down in the Indy area looking for a home. And just never found the right one - until now :)

Here are some pics. Most of these are from the realtor, but the two outside pics I took the other day.

View of back of house/fenced in yard. Both the front and back yards are very WIDE. There's tons of room back there.
We are going to get Caleb a nice, wooden playset.. hopefully this Summer.
And there are flowers and trees GALORE back there. And a patio and paver patio.. perfect for Summer days and nights :)



Front of house/side yard. It's on a cul-de-sac too, which is just SO awesome for Caleb!
I think the front is pretty plain b/c the garage sticks out so much so what I'm going to do is buy one of those large metal barn stars and put it up on the white part above the garage :)



Dining Room - hardwood floors
Kitchen- smaller than I'm used to but workable. Hardwood floors.
The "bee room". Has handpainted bees all over it. This will be Caleb's room and while it doesn't match his current decor, I'm going to intertwine them, I think. I just can't bear to paint over those cute bees, LOL.
The living room. I loooooove the frieze carpet in there!
My SCRAP room! LOOOOOOOVE IT!! And it has a really nice sized closet.. Perfect for more storage. I think I'm going to put my chair and a half sleeper sofa in there so when guests come they can sleep in there, too. Not sure yet. It's not like we get a ton of out-of-town guests so it's not really a big deal.

UPstairs laundry room. Love it!!


The master bedroom.

Well, that's pretty much it. Other than 2.5 bathrooms.
We are pretty excited to move. Can't wait til we can get it over and done with and get Caleb enrolled in school.

Speaking of school.. Caleb "graduated" from 3 year old preschool Friday night. Here are a few pictures. I didn't get any really great ones b/c he wouldn't stay up there with the other kids, ornery boy! LOL
Sure hope he grows out of that! LOL




Have a great week!

10x10 Canvas

Caleb's last day of preschool is tomorrow. And while he's still just three and will go back next year, one of his teachers is "retiring" so the other teacher asked me to make her something.
Well seeing how I don't have much that isn't really packed up, I bought a 10x10 canvas and paper at Joann's and went to work.
I'll admit I'm not IN LOVE with it but anyone that knows me knows I hate the color purple, LOL.
Plus hubby has been home seven of the last forty two days. (but he'll be home late tonight and will be here FOR THREE WEEKS STRAIGHT.. WHOO HOO!!!!) and Caleb is Mr. Clingy lately, especially since he's had the stomach flu this week (me too).

Anyhoo, just thought I'd share. Thanks for reading me if you still are :)
(and it's not as shiny in real life.. my flash was on, sorry.. rainy day here)




Love ya,

To my readers

I know I haven't posted much. Life is crazy and I haven't been scrapbooking nearly as much as I should.
My husband started another job two weeks ago.. His DREAM job and well, he's been out of town ALOT and it's only going to get worse the next five weeks.
Let's see, He's going to Orlando, then Virginia, then Toronto, Canada. Then New York and finally Iowa. All by the end of May. Then once he's done with his trips for a while, we're going to be moving. And guess what? We still have no clue WHERE, LOL. It's tough finding a nice home to rent. It seems like everyone has lost their homes and are renting now and as soon as I find a home that is perfect for us, it's been scooped up thirty minutes before I call about it (LITERALLY).
So anyway.. I've been busy.
I can't scrap when hubby is gone. My 3.5 year old is just WAY too into Mommy's scrappy stuff.. it just doesn't work.
So....
You won't see me on here much anymore. I've been contemplating closing down my blog but we'll see. I'm not sure I'm ready to give it up altogether because once we have moved and things have settled, I'm going to be in an even better scrapbook room and hopefully have my mojo back :)

So bye for now. Please keep us in your prayers and say a prayer I get some scrapping done soon. I miss it.

Love you all and, I'll be back :),

I {heart} this boy!

These are his first school pictures (preschool). Isn't he just so cute!?
You can bet I will be scrapping these tomorrow at my crop!

Have a great weekend!

Easter 1

Before the family get-together/egg hunt (check out the mini Purdue basketball Daddy got him!):


Happy Boy!

Easter 2

My kid wanted nothing to do with egg hunting again this year. You know how much that sucks for a Mamarazzi that NEEDS pictures?? LOL
Here is as close as I got. My niece dropped an egg on the ground and asked him to pick it up. He would do that for her but not "hunt" for the other eggs, LOL.
All he wanted to do was go up down, up down on the ladder to the slide.. wth? LOL
So this was my one picture taking opportunity. What a story this is going to be for a scrapbook page, though.. little booger! :)

I hope you all enjoyed a great Easter and got better pics than I did :)

Don't push my buttons!

Okay so, no scrapping the last week. Instead, I've been organizing my buttons by color.
Man oh man, I have WAY too many! Anyone need some, LOL?? Maybe I'll do a RAK soon and give some away.. they can't be too expensive to ship, right?



I'm still not done. Now comes the super tedious task of sorting through all the super teeny tiny ones. Oh boy!
Good thing I have a 3.5 year old that loves to sort things by color! LOL :)


And I don't have room for them all so, you know what that means.. PURGE!! :)

However, I still need RED buttons.. my FAVORITE color.. yum yum Red! Seems I have a ton of hot pink, maroon, burgundy, etc. But not many true red. Ya gotta have red.. especially when it's your favorite color and you have a little boy to scrap :)

And here is a pic of my Expedit shelves from IKEA. Karla has been asking to see them so, here ya go. They are a super mess right now, time to organize again but what's the point when we are moving soon.. LOL.


Okay, off to sort more buttons.
Have a scrap happy weekend!