Just a short post

Just a short little post here today. Nothing big going on over here, just normal everyday stuff. Tonight Kyle and I are going with my sister and her husband to a Boat Show in the next city over. We will do a nice dinner out there and just scope out some of the new cool boats that are out there. We do not have a boat (well, my hubby does have an aluminum fishing boat - LOL), and I don't really ever want one. My husband would love to be a boating family, and we do live like 10 minutes from Lake Michigan, so in theory it sounds great. Me personally I am all about the camping - a little more space, a little more comfortable - I think you can use a camper more. Have I convinced you yet, because i have not convinced my hubby yet - LOL. Anyway, so we are going to dream at the boat show tonight.


As for the weekend, there are really no plans. I really need to clean the house and maybe I can convince hubby to either help or to take the kiddos away making the job easier, we'll see. I did finish up a LO that I will hopefully have time to post tomorrow. I used Audrey Neal's Her Way kit that she put up this week at the Lilypad. I am so fortunate to be on some great creative teams, and I try my hardest to do my part for them! Anyway - I can't post it on here yet b/c I am writing from work briefly.


Anyway - have a great day everyone!

S.W.A.K.

Happy Valentines Day everyone! I hope your day has started out fabulous and I hope you have gotten lots of hugs and kisses already today! My DH left a sweet sweet letter this morning - 2 little pages - I will for sure be making a LO of it so that some day our kids and grandkids will be able to see how romantic their father and grandfather is/was! I need to make him a little card again with his three valentines on the front like I did last year - he just might be getting it late - LOL! I have to head into work this afternoon so the day will be busy for me! Tonight we are having a yummy dinner here of a roasted chicken, dinner rolls, some veggies, and maybe a drink or two!

It is still absolutely freezing here - below zero temps last night, but the sun is out so it does look beautiful out! I can't wait for spring though just to open windows here and kick all the sickies out of everyone's houses! There is just so much sickness going around in our community - yuck!

So, in the digi world there are quite a few sales going on! Dawn has some valentines goodies on sale over at her boutique. The little glitter goodie I made above is made with Dawn's stuff! I also got an email from ScrapArtist too about a sale. That is all I can think of off the top of my head, but I am sure there are more! I am almost finished with a LO I worked a bit on yesterday, but not finished enough to post or show! I did a LO as a challenge over at the Lifts with a Twists site - loved Dani's original LO and all the LO's that people have been doing for it - they all pop out at me in the gallery! I will be sure to show it off soon!

OK - so again, Happy Valentines day - I wish you all a little bit of love today!

{S.W.A.K.}

MandaKay

Selah got her cake!!!

So this weekend was pretty quiet, but I found success in have a little tiny party for Selah! She got to eat her cake!!! And boy did she ever LOVE it! It was the cutest and funniest thing I have ever seen! She had no hesitation at all! Here are some fun pictures!

If there is one thing I hate about blogger, it is the way the posts and pictures always show up all eskew! Anyway - here are the untouched pictures. She pounded that whole piece of yummy cake - didn't leave one stinkin piece - LOL!

Day off tomorrow - gotta clean a bit and maybe scrap a LO or two! No big plans for Valentines Day - we don't really celebrate it much b/c it is a hallmark holiday. Braelynn isn't in school yet so there is no hype with her either! Maybe I will make some heart shaped jello jigglers.

BTW - I did get Braelynn into the mornings I wanted for three-school!!! I waited in line for 4 hours, but I got the schedule I needed due to days I work! So all systems are a go for Braelynn to start school this fall - wow - that is so crazy!

OK - I am finishing up watching the 2-hour "24" show tonight - phenomenal show!

Just some new LO's

Credits can be seen here in my DST gallery! Had a lot of fun creating these LO's in the last week or so!

We are going to have a fairly laid back weekend here. Tonight we are going to a chili dinner with my husband's sister's family at our local highschool. Tomorrow during nap time I am going over to a neighbor's house and I am going to help two girls learn some of the skills of Photoshop and digital scrapping! Then at night we are going to head out to Toys-R-Us (about a 45 min. drive) and Selah is going to get a few new toys as birthday gifts and then conveniently Krispy Kreme is right next door!!! I am sure we will do dinner also at a nice kid friendly restaurant! Sunday is always kind of busy with all the church activities in the morning and lunch and all that good stuff. This sunday though for lunch it should be just us - Kyle's parents are gone and my parents will just be getting back.

Hope you all have a nice weekend!

Everyday Life around here

I need a break. I think I need to gather my digi glas and do the hotel thing in a few weekends! I am not sure why I feel overwhelmed but I do! Just one of those feelings we all get as mom's I guess. Anyway - life really is pretty good here.


So everyone but our family is going somewhere warm this time of year. We are having negative degree days here with windchill - finally schools are back in today and we are seeing a bit of sun!


Tomorrow I go to sign Braelynn up for Three-school. That is crazy to me! I cannot believe she will start school this fall! I am so excited. The process is to sign your kids up is a little insane. I am going to our local school at 3:30 tomorrow and sign up doesn't start until 7:00pm! Luckily I will be sitting and waiting with some friends, but talk about boredom! I will for sure be taking my new Simple Scrapbooks mag I got! Braelynn is getting signed up at our Christian School here and she will do hopefully a Tue./Fri. morning schedule since those are the days I don't work!

So my daughter Selah still hasn't had her 1 year old birthday party yet. :( I am getting so upset about it - I have a ton of presents from everyone, but I don't feel like she should open them without a party. I was going to make a delicious cake and the party got reschedules like 3 times due to her and Braelynn's sicknesses. So there is not party setup for now - b/c everyone is either out of town or going out of town. So the poor second child is getting a bum deal! (she turned 1 on the 19th of Jan.) When I have a party I am heading right over to buy some scrapping stuff from Kate Hadfield at Lilypad - her birthday little pack is so cute!

OK - so I am working half day today - this afternoon and will be busy all day tomorrow - so maybe I will check back in on Fri.! Have a great Wednesday!

New Store Opening!!!

In case you all haven't heard Miss HuniBuni has opened her own shop again!!! After taking some time off for some family issues she is back and better than ever! This LO was done with goodies from Dawn's new store:

Everything in this LO is by Dawn except for the ribbon tag which is by Amy Martin and the word Princess which is by Shabby Princess! Dawn does an amazing job on her glitters - they are so completely real looking and she is always coming up with new little shapes and ideas to make glittered! So run and check out her store HERE!!!

Well, on the home front news not a whole lot going on! We have been hit here in MI with a blizzard so we have been stuck in the house for the last 24 hours. All churches are closed today and police are urging people to stay home and watch the Superbowl! We will be staying home only because we are all recovering from the flu here. YUCK. I can only say that I wished that I was dead about 36 hours ago - told my hubby to just put me out of my misery - LOL. It was so horrible, but things are looking up now! So we might try to get out and go to lunch only because I need to get out of this house and have some good food.

A CONTEST!!!

OK - digi gals - here is a contest you will not want to miss out on! Here are the details!

Do you love word art? Would you love a chance to have your favorite quotes turned into great handwritten word art just for you? Then read on!!!!!!

beginning: Friday, Feb. 2

ending: Tuesday, Feb. 13 (12:00 CST)

winners announced: Wednesday, Feb. 14

To enter: Create a layout using a quote from one of Audrey's Wordart packs (any pack, any quote). Post your layout to any gallery and add your link to the comments section on Audrey's blog. You may enter as many times as you wish, but each layout has to use a different quote. Layouts may be any size and may use any other designer's work that you wish. Audrey's creative team will judge the entries.

Prizes:

1st place: a $15.00 gift certificate to Audrey's store and your own personalized word art pack, containing 6 quotes of your choice

2nd place: a $10.00 gift certificate to Audrey's store

3rd place: a $5.00 gift certficate to Audrey's store

Make sure to link your designs to Audrey's blog entry entitled "it's contest time!"(http://audreyneal.com/blog/?p=19)

So - hurry - what are you waiting for - this is like the easiest and best contest out there!!! I always told my sister Shawn that she needed to sell word art - because I have always felt there was not enough wordart in the digital scrapping world - well now I have it!!!

So everyone have a great weekend - we seem to be on the mend over here finally! I think we will have a low key weekend here though!