Thursday, August 21, 2008

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

Monday, August 18, 2008

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. :)

Saturday, August 16, 2008

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

Thursday, August 14, 2008

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.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

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. . .


Sunday, August 3, 2008

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

Friday, August 1, 2008

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...
:)