Daddy's Shoes and other ramblings

Megan Jo, my sweet little 3 1/2 year old, is an absolute Daddy's Girl. And to prove it, here is a picture I took the other day of Megan's shoes. She put shoes into Daddy's shoes. She has done this before with her shoes, with mine too, but I just thought that this was too cute this time around.

We went to my nephew, Alex's, football game over the past two Saturdays. Dan took some pictures on his 35 mm camera that I am still in the process of developing. I will get those posted soon, but here are some I took with my digital camera, so they are not that great.

Alex is the superstar of his team and plays the entire game. Alex's dad, JD, is also one of the coaches for the team. The past two games that we have been to, they have lost, but AJ sure plays his heart out and loves football...

Megan and Dad - front row seats Coach Dad Team Huddle

KaMbRiN jO

These pictures of Kambrin Jo, who just turned one, were taken a few weeks ago. I think she is just the sweetest baby girl ever, not to mention that she looks just like her Momma. I scrapped this page this morning and had fun working on it.

I have been downloading all sorts of freebies today and have to tear myself away from the computer for awhile to go to my nephew's football game.

Trying desperately to decorate...

Since we moved in to the new house, I have been racking my brain to come up with decorating ideas. I have tried bribing two incredible ladies (you know who you are) to come and help me... I am stuck. I don't know what it is. I am just not coming up with any cute ideas... Whitey has been kind of enough to not only buy me a cuter than hell flag, but has been emailing me cute ideas, some that I did steal...

But, here are some pictures of what I have done. Although, it's nowhere what I am envisioning, it's at least something...

Kitchen

The pesky plant shelves that I am so stumped with...

Family room Shelf in the girls bathroom

Plant shelf along the stairs to basement Shelf in master bath My old vintage window - find at Re-Creation in Roy (thanks to Jenn and Whitey for turning me on to this store). I spent way too much there and could spend lots more. I have big plans for this window.

My flag (thanks again Whitey) is above my bed with some stars found at Ben Franklin

Tagged by Whitey...

So, I am surfing around my favorite bloggers and I come across Whitey's blog

http://whitey-skunkhollow.blogspot.com/

and find that I have been tagged. Thanks, I think. :)

These are the rules which need to be passed on:
1. Link to the person who tagged you on your blog.
2. Post the rules of the tag on your blog.
3. Write 6 random things about yourself.
4. Tag 6 people at the end of the post.
5. Let each of the people know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let tagger know that your tag entry has been posted

Lets hear 6 strange things about you!

I don't know how strange these are, but here goes...

1. Thanks to my mom and grandma, I love all things old. Antiques, shabby chic, old bottles, old windows, barn wood, crafts.
2. I would love to retire and move to the middle of nowhere Montana or ColoradoI
3. I have been offered jobs in Durango, CO and Glenwood Springs, CO with my company
4. I am terrified of moths
5. I really dis-like the damned kids who whip around on their 4 - wheelers in our new neighborhood, and yes, JD, I know I live in Weber County now...
6. I secretly despise cartoons

I don' t know that I have six people to tag, but here are my tags...

Kassie Jo
Nicole
Kari
Kacy

New Haircuts~~

Earlier this month, the girls got to see their favorite hair-dresser, Kacy Jo. She does my hair too and I love the way she always styles it so cute. The girls love to go get their hair done, almost as much as I do. Anyhow, just a few weeks ago, they both hair cuts and styles. I scrapped a page of their fun little dos.

Thanks Kacy Jo for always taking such good care of our hair. :)

Sturgis 2008

Last weekend, Dan, JD and Jason went to Sturgis. Here are some their pictures that they brought back.

The bikes at Yellowstone Lake

In Yellowstone Park, a herd of buffalo decided to migrate across a bridge while they were riding. Dan snapped these photos of the huge creatures. Dan estimates that they were no more than 8 -9 feet from the buffalo.

Close up of the buffalo

The buffalo within feet of the bikes

Jason, with one too many drinks in his system. Help me...

Jason and JD in Sturgis

The road to Mount RushmoreA bridge on the road to Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore

Crazy Horse Monument
JD, Dan and Jason in Yellowstone Dan, JD and Jason at Crazy Horse

My first grader ...

Ashley started school a few weeks ago. She is loving first grade. I am really behind on scrapping and have only now done a page with her first day of school picture. It was such a fun morning. She was really nervous. Being at school all day took a really big toll on her for the first few days, but she is doing better.

She'd come from school totally wiped out and pass out on the couch to sleep for several hours. But now, she seems to have adjusted just fine.

She loves school and her teacher. She is such a super - smart little girl. She loves to learn and read. I love watching get excited to go to school.

The Pizza Pocket Chef ~

Tonight, we had pizza pockets for dinner. This is one of the girls favorite dinners. Ashley has become a pro at making these for us. She rolls out biscuit dough on a cutting board and lays the flattened dough on a cookie sheet. Megan and I then fill them up with tomato sauce, cheese and all of our favorite pizza toppings. Once they are filled, they are closed up into a pizza pocket and baked til done.

These are some pictures I took of my little chefs making dinner. Ashley gets really into it and gets flour EVERYWHERE, but it is fun to watch her get excited about making dinner.

The men - folk (Dan, JD and Jason) are in Sturgis this weekend, so it's just me and the grills. We are trying to take advantage of our man - free weekend. :)

Chef - in training - Ashley

The fruits of her labor

Megan in deep thought of what toppings she wants to add...

This is another page I scrapped tonight with some more of the free downloads I have been finding. I am trying to get a bunch of pages done so I can have a reason to get them all printed, but find that one page is taking me all night to do. I am too picky and cannot get the right look I want from the first try. I have to cut and paste and re-do this and change that... well, you get the idea. I will just have to quit being so damned picky. . .

Happy 1st Birthday Kambrin Jo!!

My cousin, Kassie Jo's, daughter, Kambrin Jo is turning 1 on Tuesday, August 5. She is such a cutie pie. She is Kassie Jo's spitting image. We had a party at Kathy and Brent's house (Kassie's in - laws). They have an above - ground pool that the kids swam in today and had a blast.

We had cupcakes and home - made cake batter ice cream, which Kassie specifically asked me to make. I of course, obliged, but it is a good thing I love her so much, cuz it was a pain to get it made this morning (last minute). haha

The kids swam and then broke up a pinata. We had lots of fun today.

Kambrin Jo and her birthday cake

Ashley in the pool

Megan in the pool

My new find ...

So, I have found this really great website that finds all sorts of free digi scrap downloads. It is called DigiFree - here is the link - http://digifree.blogspot.com/ and I am loving it.

There are some oddities on this site, I think people who are just starting out in digi probably are trying to get their names out there, but I have found some really fun stuff on there too. You have to sort through a lot of stuff, I think today alone, there were over 3400 different choices... Yeah, a lot, I know... but, if you have the time to browse thru, it is worth it.

One great find was this fun little window embellishment, if you know me, you know I like all things distressed and shabby. So, this was too much fun. I probably got a little carried away with the embellishments, etc, but I had fun. I even tried to rectangular tool on Photo Shop, which I have been a little reluctant to use, and took the flowers from another page and added them to this. I think it still looks a little crude, but for my first effort, it's not so bad...

:)