In Lieu…

Of a post in which I tell about my busy (albeit probably boring to anyone else) life, how bout I just share this really cool sale:

And here’s a layout I made using Cara’s newest kit called Sweet Summertime…go go go…50% off is a GREAT DEAL!

(PS: Oops, I just realized this newest kit is not officially released until tomorrow…but since most of you won’t read this till tomorrow anyway, I’m going to go ahead and leave it up…lol.  =)

Credits:
Template: All About Hope #1 by Lilly Lane Market
Kit: Sweet Summertime by Sweet Tomato Designs
Fonts: Mufferaw, Pea Stacy Doodle Script by kevinandamanda.com
Photo Action: Heartland by Pioneer Woman

And here’s a little tidbit from my busy (albeit boring) life: Swimming lessons for K-man were a dismal failure.  He sat on the side of the pool or stood in the water the whole time and the “teachers” didn’t teach and the kid didn’t swim.  I’m not sure who was more at fault but we’re not going back tomorrow.  GRRRR.  I had to control my temper today.  I will teach the kid to swim myself in our own pool.  FOR FREE.  If I’d had swimming clothes on today, I would have jumped in the pool and started actually working with the group of kids myself so they could leave and actually be a little closer to learning how to swim.  GAHHHH.  Dear heavenly father…perhaps I shouldn’t talk about it…I’m getting het up again.   

On a completely random note, the Munchkin is out of state for a week with Mawmaw and it’s very quiet here.  Another completely random note: the K-man has gotten hooked on ol’ Tom and Jerry.  I LOVE Tom and Jerry.  WHY don’t they make cartoons like THAT anymore? 

Another completely random tidbit: it’s past K-man’s bedtime so I need to go away now and put him to bed.  =)

See ya’ll. =) 

Ahh….

CHOOO! 

And that has been the story of my life for the last couple of days.  Feels like my eyelids and sinuses are about three times larger than normal.  It’s the strangest thing though…I walk by the mirror and they don’t LOOK like they’re three times larger than normal.  LOL

I took one of those fizzy alkaseltzer cold and sinus packs last night around 10:30 and it knocked me OUT.  KC woke me up this morning for church and I tried to get up.  I did crawl out of bed long enough to look at the shower and moan and then go back to bed.  LOL  It was like I was in this horrible fog and my eyes wouldn’t stay open.  I did keep them open long enough to get the dogs walked and the kids dressed and fed but as soon as KC left I went back to bed and slept til noon.  And then I got up and showered in time to meet my dad for lunch for fathers day and came back home and went BACK to bed and slept til time to get up for church again.  Most of the fuzziness in my brain was gone by then…I just don’t know how I could sleep that much and still be tired. 

I really have no other news….it’s been busy but I haven’t felt like saying much lately…lol.  Still don’t really, but I figured I’d better get on here and say something or else be guilty of falling into that slacker blogger category that seems to be taking over the blogosphere.  haha.  =) 

Anyway…later.  =)

Handyman Honey

Last Saturday…we went looking for yards on sale (lol) and then when we got back, we had to work around the house for a little while before going to our afternoon of parties. 

It was hot.  It was especially hot for poor KC up on the roof up there.  And I (standing on the deck underneath him waiting for him to need something and wringing my hands and worrying that he was going to fall off) was cooking but couldn’t complain because it was about 4 times hotter up on the roof and I wasn’t even doing anything strenuous like putting in an attic vent. 

So then I climbed up on the roof to take a picture of him.  I am so not a sissy…but I didn’t like it up there.  We kinda have a tall house.  But he did good…got it in and working like a charm.  That’s my honey. 

And oh…PW’s MM has nothin on my baby. ;-) WHEW!  Be still, my heart!!!!! ;-)

Mmmmm hmmmmm!  Okay…that’s it.  That’s all I wanted to say.  ;-)

A Night Late

But better late than never, right?  =)  Here’s those pics of the K-man on the killer backdrop.  Now I wish I had taken time and put clothes on us that were more appropriate for a photo shoot…haha.  Please excuse his favorite Spiderman shirt and not really matching sweatpants…he was comfortable…even if the outfit didn’t really go with the backdrop.  haha. 

And mostly a good sport, too!  =) 

And here’s a random picture of him in the pool.  Just for kicks.  LOL.  Don’t you love his pink pool floatie?  Oh yeah…I photoshopped it…never mind.  hahaha. 

Anyway…we are brown indians now…yesterday was the only day we weren’t in the pool this week.

Yesterday I ran around in circles…felt like I was chasing my tail.  Ever have those days?  I cleaned up one thing and in the middle of it, saw something else and picked it up and took it to another room and saw something else to clean.  So then I went to get the cleaner and remembered the laundry was still waiting to be put in the washer so I stopped to do that and then picked up the cleaner and couldn’t remember what I was heading to clean, so I put it away and then…………well, you get the picture.  Basically everything you’re NOT supposed to do when you’re cleaning. 

Today was better.  I didn’t do anything except sleep in and then go to the pool.  Except then the bus ran ten minutes early so I wasn’t up at the road waiting on it (not that I would have remembered anyways since I didn’t realize it was that close to school dismissal time…).  But the good news is I was outside by the pool so I heard the brakes on the bus and quickly ran dripping up the hill to watch Munchkin walk home.  LOL.  So that wasn’t better.  And ah, yes, and she didn’t stop talking all afternoon….oh boy, is it going to be a LONNNNG summer.  Lord love her…*sigh*  But ANYWAY!

Okeydokey…I’m going to bed now.  Night.  =)

Hey, hey!

Look…I did it…I came back within a day.  LOL!  Laughed at some of the comments on the last post…yes, they do have that “senior pic” feel…we were playing with the posing on the backdrop to see if it would work well for those types of pictures.  Unfortunately, I am more close to the wrinkled senior type now, than the fresh out of school senior…thank you, dear forehead squint lines…hahaha. 

Anyway, here’s the ones I took and edited of my friend.  Meet the Jules of Jules Photography:  ;-)

This one is my favorite I think.

But this one looks really moody and I kinda like it even though she isn’t smiling.  LOL!

I like this one, too though.  What do you think, Jules…did I pick the ones you picked or did you like different ones? 

Anyway.  It was fun and I’m pretty sure the verdict on the new backdrop is: AWESOME!  At least that’s MY verdict. 

;-)

Maybe I’ll stay on this little roll, and come back later tonight with a few that I took of K-man while he was being our little sample model.  haha. 

Wow…

Been a wild week for this chick.  I’ve had a friend over every day so far for all kinds of things.  Swimming, scrapbooking, playing with our cameras….and so on…which is LOTS of fun, but doesn’t equal much computer time (or cleaning house, but we won’t mention that part…lol).  Tomorrow will be my catchup….

But tonight I was going through the pictures we were playing around and taking yesterday…here’s one of me and my monsters.  Photography by Jules Photography and edited by yours truly. ;-)

And I seriously don’t know what Jules did here but this picture is crazy funky.  LOL.  I’m pretty sure she probably couldn’t get this exact picture ever again, because I’m sure if I had taken it, I would never be able to do it a second time either.  LOL.  I look kinda ghostly.  This is me haunting my kids in the future.  HAHA!  JUST KIDDING. 

We took lots of pictures of each other on her new backdrop and then K-man showed up and we stuck him on it and just snapped for awhile…haha…none of us were dressed for photos (oops-haha).  Oh WELL.  I’ll come back and post the ones I took when I get another chance.  It was fun though, and her new backdrop is KILLER.  I’m gonna have to get one of those, too!  =) 

Here’s a couple that she took of me that strangely enough, despite not being at all prepared for taking pictures of each other, I kinda liked.  LOL.  And not saying it was strange because it was her photography, just strange because I generally hate my picture.  lol. 

And this one was when we decided to get goofy….hahaha….yes…US…GOOFY!  IMAGINE!!  Haaaahahaha! 

All the pics in this post were taken by Jules Photography and edited by me.  =) 

Next time: pictures OF Jules by ME.  hahaha. 

Gotta run…it’s getting late already.  =( 

BOO.

I am NAUGHTY.  In so many different ways…lol.  Like how I haven’t blogged in….um…I’ve lost track. 

And we will stop there with my naughty list.  LOL. 

I really want a Dr. Pepper.  I might as well give in…you know…while I’m being so naughty.    Except…I’m not in the mood to climb the stairs to get one. 

Anyway, yes, I’ve been gone.  I’ve been kinda, just a little bit….uh…busy.  The pool guys finally came and installed our pool liner.  We spent a week filling it up.  I cleaned out a bunch of landscaping where the patio is going to eventually be.  We’ve been swimming.  Munchkin has only a week of school left.  I decided to rearrange rooms and of course, it would be too easy to swap rooms on the same level, it is way more fun to climb two flights of stairs with the contents of each room.  I’m a third finished.  The one third being the contents of one room is moved up two flights.  The second third is painting the two rooms, and the third third (lol) is moving the other room down the two flights.  Who needs a gym and stairstepper?  LOL.  My garden grew wayyyyy out of its box and I can’t figure out how to make it stop growing already and just start producing some FRUIT!  We cleaned all the bushes growing through the fence around the pool…that was a job.  Went to Winston for a friend’s high school graduation.  Birthday party and graduation reception today, and installed a roof vent/fan to try to lower the electric cost of this house (well, actually, KC installed it…I just stood on the deck and wrung my hands and prayed he wouldn’t slide off…being that we have a three story house and he was on top of it, it would have been ugly).  I could SO keep going.  Summer is in with a BANG. 

Oh yes, and I joined another creative team…probably shouldn’t have, but it was irresistible…Sweet Digi Scraps has some really funky kits that are just my flavor.   Here’s one I did with her new kit that released today:

Kit: Taste of Summer
Font: frazzled

Sooooo.  Anyway.  Just a little bit of why I haven’t blogged in awhile.  I’ll try to do better, but I make no promises.  That way I won’t be naughty (again) and break them.  ;-) lol

Goodnight. 

It’s…..

Bambi and…Thumper? 

They were in my backyard the other day.  I went downstairs to walk the puppies the other morning and looked out the big window, there was this girl and then a couple seconds later, hippity hop hopping across the yard, comes little bunny and stopped right behind bambi there to eat grass. 

They stayed there forever so I went to get my camera and when I stepped out the door they heard K-man hollering and got that deer in the headlights look and then turned and moseyed back into the woods….and then I realized….bambi and thumper had another friend…see that other one over there on the left?

 
K-man was all ecstatic about the deer in the backyard.  Let’s call daddy and tell him about the deer!  And the rabbit, let’s call him, please, let me call him!  HAH.

So when Daddy called at lunchtime, K-man was falling all over himself to answer the phone and tell daddy all about it.  LOL! 

Totally made his morning!

Newsy News

WELL.  For starters, I am back before another weekend passes.  HA! 

Secondly, I have more pictures from last weekend.  I didn’t forget!  LOL. 

I did a speed scrap last night and put a few of the pics from last weekend’s trip on it…

Turned out pretty neat, I think…I used Raspberry Limeade by Sweet Tomato Designs and speaking of Sweet Tomato Designs, she’s got some news for you….

Check her blog for more details.  Awesome deal if you catch it tomorrow and Sunday! 

And that’s it.  Yep.  That’ll do it.  Savvy?  LOL

Guess What Day It Is…

Not Wednesday, but in case you didn’t notice, Wednesday is almost here—aGAIN!!  As K-man so stated the other day, “Dear Heavenly FATH-er!”  LOL.  And that’s what I did, too…to which he replied, “I told you to stop laughing at me! Don’t do it a-GAIN!”  (He likes to accent random parts of the words.) 

ANYWAY!  May is over half gone and I’ve blogged twice.  Is that awful or what?! 

I actually have a good reason this week…we went to Ohio last Thursday through Sunday and I didn’t take my computer so no internet access to speak of…and then yesterday was unpacking and laundry a-GAIN!  LOL. 

This morning was errands and running around…needed an oil change, well-check for the K-man, yada yada, so I need to get busy on the house now but wanted to check in before it got to be another hump day and then another downhill slide from there….*grin* 

Here’s a little bit of our trip (with some of my old memories thrown in) and I’ll try to get more of the trip posted before the weekend.  =)   

Layout credits:
Template: Cut It Out by Tree City Studios
Kit: In This Moment by Tree City Studios
Fonts: Times New Yorker, Pea Hart by kevinandamanda.com
Journaling:
Our family of four went to Ohio last weekend and the first night there, we stayed with my childhood best friend and her family of five.  We had a great visit (as always) and then it was time to put our three girls and two boys to bed.  When we tucked the three girls into her girls' bed, I had almost instant flashbacks. 

That was totally us!  Her mom had two girls and a boy, my mom had a girl and a boy.  I was pretty close in age to my best friend and her sister was younger but we all did everything together.  I remember sleeping in the middle of the two of them MANY times.  We stayed up for hours past our bedtime, giggling and talking, long after everyone else was in bed.  And eventually, we'd fall asleep.  And then we'd wake up the next morning to go find more trouble to get into. 

As I walked past their door to get something from the room that KC and I were staying in, I looked in and saw them trying to stay quiet while they were trying not to break the staying in bed rule by doing all kinds of gymnastics and hanging onto each others legs to pick up something off the floor without getting out of bed, I couldn't get mad.  Even though it was midnight and all of them should have been asleep hours before, I just couldn't get mad.  I shushed them just like our moms did to us, and then I smiled, waited for them to finally fall asleep, and then ran to get my camera -- and my ol' pal, who came in and told me to climb up on the bookshelf to get the best shot...  just like old times!

5 / 12 / 2011

And Again…

I blinked and it’s almost Wednesday again.  *googly eyes*

So we went camping with some folks from church over the weekend…it was supposed to be the “big church camping trip” that we do every year, but because we’ve had to postpone it so many times, we just figured it would be what it would be and whoever could make it would make it.  So it was just three families.  I wasn’t mad about it.  LOL…especially since it was three families that I don’t have to have distance from in order to love them….ROFL.  Sorry…I know, I’m bad. 

Anyway, the site we ended up with was absolutely picturesque and I got a ton of good shots…other than freezing our stinkin tails off on Friday night, it was pretty fun!  LOL…Saturday night we wised up and stayed all day but then packed up at 8:30 and came home to our beds to sleep.  34 degrees on Friday night.  And all I had were some comforters and blankets.  The DOGS were shivering.  It was SO cold.

KC got up at 2am and went to Wally World to get one of those little heater fan things and plugged it into the extension cord and stuck it in the door to the the tent.  It didn’t make it comfortable by any means, but it did take a little of the shivering away.  LOL.  When you’re dead tired and you can’t sleep because you’re so cold…it’s cold.  LOL. 

But the rest of the trip was pretty fun…we tried to show the kids how to fish…let’s just say I could have guessed they wouldn’t have the patience for it.  I don’t have the patience for it and chicken liver is nasty.  LOL.  K-man had much more fun walking around with his “fishing stick” and catching leaves.  Oh well.  He pretty much had a stick in his hand the entire weekend…it was a gun, a sword, a light saber, a fishing pole, and who knows what else.  He can definitely occupy himself, that’s for sure! 

We took our bikes but K-man’s had a dead tire so his was out of commission all weekend.  Munchkin rode around with the other little girl that was there, and KC and I only rode our bikes when it was time to go to the shower house.  LOL.  There was this bike trail but I didn’t feel like trying to get the kids on it…even though it looked like fun.  Some things you’re just limited on when you have kids…

It looked cool going across the meadow though, so I DID take a picture…lol.

Here are a couple of other ones:

Then there’s another one of K-man with his never ending supply of sticks:

This one was just too sweet to pass up….K-man and KC sitting next to each other…awwww….

And then this next one, I thought was BK and TV when I snapped it and then last night when I was editing it, I realized it wasn’t.  LOL.  Still sweet though.  I won’t say who it is. 

This is funny though: see the three kids? 

They’re walking up this hill:  See those three dots in the middle of the hill in that area of grass that is a little darker green?  LOL.  This was a LONNNNNNGGG hill. 

And then this was the campfire before we left on Saturday night.  We did s’mores…and some campfire pies in the grilled cheese makers.  =)  Yum. 

I am just now getting all the laundry and cleaning up done from this trip.  How is it that camping is supposed to be relaxing and is really just a TON of work?  Haha.  Oh well.  =) 

Anyway…I’ve got to get moving.  I might be back before next Wednesday….haha. 

Good Night

I just posted…how is it that it’s been like five days already?  And it’s not like I’ve been that busy for the last few days either…for a change.  Haha. 

I have actually had some kinda lazy days for the last couple days…haven’t done much besides hang around the house and do laundry (hello, time to save some gas) and would you believe I’m still tired?  I take vitamins (half the time).  KC says maybe I should start exercising…I probably could go down and walk on the treadmill for awhile…but I’m never ever ever ever ever…did I say EVER? in the mood….lol.  Perhaps that’s my problem.  Anyway. 

I have lots of problems.  Most of them human.  And when it’s not the human in ME, it’s the human in the people around me.  Sometimes both. 

Something that has been on my mind lately is that people get offended way too easily.  Offense can mean several different things but the definition I’m thinking of means the state of being insulted or morally outraged.  And to offend, by definition, to cause to feel vexation or resentment usually by violation of what is proper or fitting. 

I think the issue falls in that people are insulted or morally outraged by their definition of a violation of what is proper or fitting.  In some senses, I get offended easily.  If I know someone is flat out lying to me, with the intent to mislead, that’s rather offensive.  But I think the difference is, in most cases, the things people are getting insulted over are just THEIR OPINION of what is a violation of morals. 

Oooh, person X was in place Y the other day and I’m SO OFFENDED by that…that couldn’t possibly be something a TRUE Christian would do…I’m going to tell them how much their actions offended me.  Or…person Z wore a shirt that was SO low I could see her collarbone….I am SOO offended.  Or…person A said such and such and I think he REALLY meant this and this and we need to have a meeting so we can work this out.  Or even, person B does this activity that I totally disagree with so I’m not going to say anything but I’m not going to be friends with them anymore…. 

I wish I were exaggerating but people really do get their knickers in a knot over their own convictions of moral truth. 

So you don’t do X, Y, or Z…that’s perfectly fine.

I just don’t see the point in taking everyone to task over every little thing that you don’t agree with that you decide offends you.  All that does is make people feel like they have to walk on eggshells around you or face (yet another) meeting or discussion.  Garruhmph.  THAT bothers me.  I hate feeling like I have to walk on eggshells…consequently I have some people that I avoid like the plague.  KC calls them EGRs (extra grace required)…I try not to call them anything at all because I like to stay out of calling range.  That probably offends them, too.  LOL.  It’s kind of funny, but I guess you could say that I get offended by people who get over-offended.  Teeehehe.  LOL.  I love everybody, it’s just that some of those bodies, I have to love from a distance.  For the safety and well-being of everyone involved…lol  =)  Is that bad?  If it is, just pray for me, okay?

Here, let’s change the subject before I offend someone…lol…look at these cute kids….can’t get offended over that, right? 

This is that kit I mentioned in my last post…the one that goes along with my new theme.  Raspberry Limeade…mmmm…makes me thirsty!  Such a yummy kit! 

And cute kids…did I mention they were cute?  Even when they’re being difficult on camera.  LOL!  Munchkin has this thing anymore where she puts on this weird pouty/grouchy face like she’s trying to be a grownup or something…ugh…see what I mean?!

And K-man…well, he likes to smile with his eyes shut.  And then as soon as you snap the picture, his eyes fly open, “lemme see the picture, momma!”  “SURE, buddy, but how bout you keep your eyes open so you can SEE the picture from that side of the lens?!”  LOL! 

ANYWAY….that was how the page got its title: the elusive…Perfect Picture.  LOL! 

And I think I’m going to call it a night now.  PS for anyone who wonders, NO, nothing happened, I’ve not been called into any meetings lately, I haven’t offended anyone lately (that I know of)….just been thinking about it.  LOL.