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!

Big Lots Haul

Well after seeing my local friend Sarah Mullanix got some Thickers at Big Lots yesterday, I ran over there pronto this afternoon to pick me up some.
They were out of the yellow Vera ones she got but they had a ton of the rose (pink) Glass Slipper ones that are puffy. Love them! Not sure what I'll do with them since I have a little boy but, I think I'll figure something out, tee hee.
I also got a Marah Johnson stamp set for $1.00 and it's pretty cool!


Here are a few other things I got there:

Scenic Route "Laurel" collection.
Can you believe ALL this was only $5.00!! There are 20 sheets of 12x12 patterned paper, chipboard circles, paper flowers with brads, 2 sheets of alpha stickers, 5 ribbons, 1 sheet of printed chipboard and 1 sheet of nekkid star chipboard.
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And here is the Scenic Route "Sumner" collection. Same exact embellies. Love it!
I am SO going to miss Scenic Route. I wish they hadn't went out of business. I loved all their lines!
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And then the rest of this stuff I got about a month ago. The 3 things in this picture were $3.00 total.


This is a boy paper/diecut pack by Colorbok. I love the papers. Some have foil, glitter, flocking.
I also got a girl kit similar to this only with a teen/rock star theme. Hot pinks and black. It's pretty cool. Both were $5.00 each.
I'm not normally a fan of Colorbok but I really think the paper in both kits is top notch. I was pretty shocked!



So, head on over to Big Lots!
TFL!!

Another Crop Layout

So this one is pretty basic using the new Sassafras "Apple Jack" line I was sent free. I won it on the Sassafras blog. I cannot tell you how PERFECT this line is for pics of my little boy.
Here is a layout of Caleb one day shy of a year old. I can't believe how BALD he is but so dang cute! :)




TFL!

Oh! I should probably already wish my Mom and Step Dad a Happy 25th Anniversary! Congrats and Love you both!
Here is a recent picture of them. Most people think my Mom is actually my sister :)