Long Time No Blog!

Well I am WAY behind in blogging! Just a bit crazy around here, lots on my plate and on my mind! and NO creative juices to even scrap something~ or create something! SIGH! Well nothing I like anyway! I need to get past this, I have LOTS to use , because there is LOTS more I want! (shhhh dont tell Steve that part! LOL!!)

So this was my week to host the challenge at scrappersXchange it is a fairly simple one, pop on over if you have time and take a peek!! You could win the drawing for a prize!!! :) The layout I shared here is my take on the challenge!! You can see the sketch and details over at scrappersXchange!!! :)

Oh today is my Aunt Nancys birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANTZY NANCY!!!! :) She is gonna go to VEGAS with us! I so cant wait!! Have I mentioned that trip yet! Steve, the kiddos, mom, and aunt Nancy and of course ME! are all going to celebrate my BIRTHDAY!!!! (and going on the record no matter WHAT anyone says it is my 30th! You got that! LOL!!!! I so dont want to be 40! so I am gonna turn back the clock to 30 for a few years! I can do that right! :) ) anyway! We leave April 4-9th! I cant WAIT!!!!!!

That really is about all I got!!!! Thanks I am off to do some cleaning while I WAIT for the washing machine repair person... DARN machine breaks at least once a year, we are so getting new ones next year and NOT this brand.. they are only 5 years old and the machine has been worked on at least 8 times! CRAZY I tell ya! BUT it is all under our service contract so it is free! PHEW!

Ok I am off! Have a GREAT day!!!

Red Velvet LOVE! :)

YUMMY! We made red velvet cake for the 2nd year in a row! (it is now a tradition offically! LOL!) I couldnt find my 4 small heart pans?? I only found 1! HMMM I wonder if my helpers played with them, and left them somewhere, when you find spoons and Tupperware bowls in the garage it is a high possibility here at our house! :) ANYWAY! this year my mom gave me the CUTEST little mini heart cake pans (cupcake size!) so I used those, and my mini muffin pan, plus the one heart pan I found! It worked perfect! We have LOTS left over and I ate less! All of that is a GOOD thing! :)
After dinner and red velvet, we watched a movie! It was a FUN night!! I got LOTS and I mean LOTS of photos! Just sharing a few in the above slide show! I cant wait to get them all printed up and scrapped!!! :) I have some FABO. Valentine papers I bought.. now just to DECIDE which ones to use! That is the good thing about being YEARS behind.. I have plenty of photos to use them for! :)

The kiddos are on mid-winter break! YEAH ~ there is gonna be no hustle and bustle to get out the door on time for the next 4 days! I love that!!! I even got to sleep in til 8am today! Which is GOOD for me! :)

So do you have webkinz in your house?? I have a confession to make... I am ADDICTED to the cash cow games! I play everyday....:) Justin wants a webkinz... so then I will have to play for both kids... hee hee! :) Today Amanda came down and wanted the computer, UM NO! this is moms time and I need to play MY game before she goes on! that is soooo BAD!!!! :) but it is just to fun to stop! LOL!!! I hope they have that game in VEGAS when we go in April!! :) I will kick ASH at it!!! HA HA!!!!

Well that is all I got! HAPPY FRIDAY!!! It is supposed to be fairly decent weather this weekend here in WA. state... in the 50s WARM for this time of year! :), I hope it is I feel like a PICNIC..... :)
Thanks for stopping by~ have a GREAT weekend!!!!!!

Happy Hearts Day!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!!! :)

Hope your all having a GREAT day!!! Ours has been busy busy!! School today had grandparents day this morning, so I helped there, then I snuck the kiddos out of school at 11am to have lunch with Tutu (my mom!) , now I am off to the parties at school!!! :) Then coming home to clean, and the kiddos and I are making a FANCY dinner and dessert for us all! Steve hopefully will sneak out a bit early... I want that RED VELVET CAKE YUM!!!!

Just a quick couple photos to share! My favorite VALENTINES! and one of them with the teacher gifts!!! The little cute package idea came from Angie at 2SCDs for their Dec. crop... I loved them! I had hoped to let the kiddos make them but we were a bit behind last night with homework and finishing valentines, and Amanda wasnt feeling so well so I put them together! the kiddos made the cards! Luckily my girl was all well today, she didnt want to miss the FUN today!! YEAH!!!

Ok I must run to the school! I PROMISE to have more photos to share! A fun one of the kiddos I got today and of COURSE are YUMMY red velvet cake!
Have a WONDERFUL day!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!!!

Some stuff to share!

Hello! I just wanted to share a few things today!!!! This is what I did with the kit from my friend Vivs store scrappersXchange if you have time take a peek in her gallery there is some beautiful work, and some FUN challenges... be sure to join the gallery so you can share YOUR work, and join in the FUN and possibly win a GREAT RAK!!!

About the goodies I shared! That LO, and Card are my first hybrid! YEAH! I am pleased! The LO, is done with one of my fav. photos of the kiddos at the moment! (I change alot! LOL!) the card is just one version I made up for Valentines Day! The others are just a bit different, I will share when I get them scanned! I have a VISION for mine! Yep I make myself cards too! :) The cute box is just a paper mache box I covered....

Today I am jam packed, need to get stuff finished up for Valentines Day, and go to the school to do Raven Racers! plus CLEAN the house, and get all the laundry put
away, and I STILL need to get a card or 2 made! :) I will do it! I WILL!!!!

Hope you all have a GREAT day! Thanks for stopping by!!!!!!

Happy Monday!

Ok so I know you were all just in such SUSPENSE all weekend werent ya! LOL!! so my news is this, and REMEMBER it is not probably that big of deal to anyone but ME! LOL! Ok on with it!!! So this new little place I like to visit Itty Bitty Scrap Shack has a new thing~ they are spotlighting a member a month and WHO did they pick as the FIRST ONE! Yep ME!!!! I was so EXCITED!!! I have never been picked for anything like that, so it made my whole week when I got the email asking if I would do it! HELLO! YES!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! and Tiffany (the owner of IBSS) made a blinkie just for me! Ok it will be for all the spotlite members, but for the moment it is just me! :) So that is the 1st thing..

The second has to do with that YUMMY photo I shared! My friend Viv at ScrappersXchange asked me to do some stuff with that part of the kit (it is really about 3 times that big, I know because I subscribe to it! LOL!) but this part of the kit she asked me to work with, I am so honored, she has a FAB. Design team there and I am excited to be a part of some of the kit for this month! PLUS I will be doing some challenges for her at the gallery pop on in, my friend Em has some fun challenges this month!! Pop on in and PLAY! You can win a GREAT RAK!!! :)

So there ya have it! My FUN news! I am off now to get some stuff done with that kit since I PROMISED I would do that today! I have some ideas so I HOPE they come out on paper like they are in my head! :)

Have a GREAT day~ THANKS for stopping by!!!!!!

Happy Friday!

Happy FRIDAY!! :) Hope you had a GREAT week!!

I have been having some FUN with all my digital scrappen stuff I have!Between, my books, a video clip I found and a good friend Sharon I was able to get some of the basics down, enough to use some of the goodies I have!! and now a MONSTER has been RELEASED! :) all from the enter key! (that was where I was stuck! NO MORE!) this is a photo I took yesterday~ the kiddos were so GOOD! I wanted to get some Valentine card photos, and hello they just were FABULOUS and did everything and I asked and MORE!! They had their own ideas, and I ended up getting 25 photos, all I wanted was 8, but I am NOT gonna turn them down when they want to ham it up and have FUN for me! :)

I have some fun scrappen things coming up!! I need to get working on some projects! By monday I can share it all! :) Oh so secretive, not super big news, but I was HAPPY to be asked!!! :)

So we have a busy busy weekend planned! but it will be fun! I think the last of our free weekends was last weekend! (SHHH Dont tell Steve or the kids! we are busy! LOL!)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a GREAT weekend!

2 Posts in TWO days!!

Well this must be a record for me! 2 posts in 2 days! I had to share, my friend Sharon was such a BIG help in me figuring out all this PSE and digi stuff! (THANKS Sharon!) She has a CUTE kit and Challenge at A Peek Into Yesterday you should check it out!! I have lots to learn, and the LO is pretty simple BUT I am so EXCITED to be able to do some fun things now to the photos, and hybrid scrap them!!! I have to much FUN stuff up in my room to go all digi, but I can go hybrid!!! A monster has been CREATED I am afraid! The BEST part of all this fun stuff, no MESS! My floor doesnt get another thing added it just stays here on my computer!! :)
Hope your having a GREAT week~ I am off to finish up my cleaning, then off to the school to run/walk laps with the kids are recess!
Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Layouts to share!

I have been on a scrappy roll! and I am LOVING it, at this rate I will be caught up by the time I am 95! LOL!!! :)

The Escape layout was for a sketch challenge I do from My Sketch World
a place I do sketch challenges once a month, or at least try to! :)

The Amazing layout was for an eyelet challenge at Itty Bitty Scrap Shack the real challenge was for a card, OH NO! I didnt read carefully enough I guess!!! :) I loved these photos of Amanda they were from a boating trip last summer! She was a mess, but so DARN CUTE!!! I really like how the swirls and bling look coming from the flower... that will appear on a Layout again! LOL!!!

So all is well on the home front! Amanda is back to school! (thank you for the well wishes!) she is very glad~ she missed her friends! I ENJOYED having her home for the few days!!!

Lots to do this week, but still hoping to sneak in some more scrappy time! I just cant stop the mojo from wanting to pour out on to paper!!! I gotta take advantage of that!!!!

Thanks for stopping by! have a GREAT day!!!!!

Happy Feb. 1st!!!!!

Happy February!! Almost VALENTINES day!! I cant wait!!! Need to figure out my valentines, and work on a box for Justin! Amandas is done!! Also need to get our red food coloring for the RED velvet cake! YUMMY!!!!!

All is well here in the chicken pox house! :) Amanda feels GREAT! She has been playing our new Wii game, "Cooking with Mama" she just LOVES this! It is pretty fun, UNLESS you gotta cook fish, GROSS you gotta skin them and chop off the head! ICKY! She or I cant really do this to well~ even FAKE, it GROSSES us out!! :)

I got in some scrappy time! YEAH!!! Over at Itty Bitty Scrap Shak they had a CS challenge, do a layout using NO patterned paper! Here is my take on it, Amanda made these CUTE cupcakes over the summer! (I need to add the date so I dont forget!!!)

I hope to scrap some today, and this weekend! We cant really go anywhere with Amanda still sick, and hello like Steve would want to do something on SUPERBOWL SUNDAY! LOL!! fine with me I will have my own Scrapbook Bowl! :)

So my goals this month are TWENTY 2 pages layouts! I would LOVE to get them done and stick to the STASH DIET my friends Amy and Jen. are doing! I didnt make it last time! But there is sooo much stuff coming out I must OWN! (shhh dont tell Steve!) so I really want to get lots done! I have some projects to make for Valentines Day too~ so I figure if I do those, some cards, and 20 2 pagers that will be VERY GOOD! :)

Time to wake the kiddos! Happy FRIDAY!! Have a WONDERFUL weekend!
Thanks for stopping by!!!!

A little share!

I have been so busy SCRAPPY wise this month~ I HOPE it lasts the next 11 months! LOL!!!

I have a NEW obsession! They are stickles! Oh my! to fun!!! I found this GREAT ebay store Stampers Dream Stamps Michelle has GREAT prices and is really nice! I will be BACK!! She also has a blog with some fun stampen ideas!!! So these stickles are the cutest, little bottles of glittery fun! I have 20 bottles now, and only 2 weeks ago I had NONE!!! I used them on almost all my projects I shared, they add just the right amount of sparkle!! :)

On the home front our Amanda has chicken pox! JOY! The Dr. said that of the kids that get the vaccine (she did!) about 10% of them get the chicken pox, well there are 3 kids in her class, I think that covers the 10% for this year! :)
So we are going to have to be STUCK in the house for the next few days.... at least that means I can SCRAP! :)

It is dinner time..... THANKS for stopping by!!!!

BRRRR another snowy day!

SNOW DAY HERE TODAY!! Oh the kids were so HAPPY to miss school, and have dad WORK from home!! (really he did work! he did take a snow break!- to sled and snowball fight! :) )

I of course had to have photos, I am DONE now, ready for SPRING! So if anyone is listening NO MORE SNOW!! (I dont think they are since it is snowing now and gonna snow all night they say!! LOL!!) As you can see from my models! they had a BLAST! See that one where Amanda is yee-hawing on Steves back, who is on top of Justin! :) I had to take it 4 times! Look how good they were for me! LOL!!! That is LOVE I tell ya, that and a BRIBE of hot choc! :)

Other then snow, all is well here! Steve and I had a DATE on saturday! YEAH went out to dinner, macaronni grill~ YUM!! and then to the casino!!! (THANKS TUTU for watching the kiddos!) Sunday we went to the new applebees that is about 3 miles from us, YUM! and today of course SNOW FUN!!!

Hope all is well with you, THANKS for stopping by!!!- I will be back HOPEFULLY tomorrow with some layout shares! I have had some SCRAP TIME! YEAH!!!
Think SPRING thoughts! :)

Happy Sunday!

Happy Sunday! Hope your all having a GREAT day!!! We have been EARLY spring cleaning here at the Johnson house! YEAH! Got in a BIG goodwill and dump run! :)
I have also got in some SCRAP time!!!! BUT you have to wait to see it all until wed! I hope to get some more done in the next couple days!!! I am going to TRY to catch up for my L.O.A.D (layout a day) challenge at BPS
I am about 9 behind! BUT I am happy with all I have got done and HOPE to catch up on a few of them this week!!!
Had a FUN on line crop this weekend at 2SCD's
! I got a few things done! Always wish I had more time!!!

I have been playing around with TRYING to learn my PSE! I did manage to add the fun frame to the above photo, well the white flourish one anyway! the rest I did at picnik my goal is to LEARN that program!!! :)

Well I am off to the treadmill! I so dont want to! LOL! then off to dinner!
Have a GREAT rest of your day! THANKS for stopping by!!!!

Lots to share!

Happy New Year! (again and again! LOL!)

I have been doing LOTS of scrappen!! TRYING to do the STASH DIET My friends Jennifer and Amy are doing! I dont think I will ever get 50 done before shopping~ BUT I have gotten 15 pages done this week! YIPPPEEE!! (7 2 pagers and I finished off the 1st page to Amanda when she was a baby! WAHHH time went to fast!) Plus I am sharing my cards I made up! 1 is a hello card for my cousin, quick and easy! The other for the AL challenge at A Peek Into Yesterday Then there is our Thank you card for our xmas gifts!! I just need to send them! YIKES I am behind! :) Nothing new I am afraid!

Steve is getting home tonite ~ he was in Vegas for work for 3 days! Everyone is glad to have him coming home! YEAH!!! We all did very well by ourselves though!! :) Hopefully he wont have another trip anytime soon, unless of course we get to go, then he can go whenever they need him too!!!

Hope all is well~ THANKS for stopping by!!!
Have a GREAT rest of the week!!!

Happy 2008!!!

Happy New Year (again!) I am finally going to give a little sneak peek at what I have been up to the last few weeks! :) and some of or decorations around the house! My friend Joni issued us a challenge at 2SCD's to get blogging again so here it COMES a big catch up!

1st lets do Marys challenge from Dec. 16th at 2SCD's
Favorite Decorations! WELL I can never pick just 1 or 2~ LOL! I took photos of almost everything, dont worry I wont FORCE you to see them all~ you can just come over next year for some Holiday Cheer and see them yourself! LOL!!! I did pick a few in the slide show below! :) I LOVE snowmen!! :) and Santas, photo frames! :) Our village this year had to be put in 4 places, it has grown so much over the years!
Ok enough here is the slide show!

Ok sorry I still shared alot!! I just LOVE the holidays! and LOVE all my stuff!! I have had some of it for ALONG time and it still holds a special place in our home!

Ok now here is some of the things that we did over the holidays! I got TOTALLY addicted to the ornaments! I had to make myself STOP doing them! LOL!! The button trees were all over this year in blogs! and the boxes I found while looking at links of links off my friens blogs! So we made them too! I have VISIONS of valentine boxes now dancing in my head! :) I have been doing LOTS of scrappen the last couple days BUT I will save that for you until another post!

I had BIG plans for all of us to make button trees this year, WELL it took all 4 of us about 40 minutes to do that ONE! so maybe next year I will start in July and get more done! :) The ornaments were so fast and easy we LOVED doing them!! Now everyone in the family can make the boxes! When Steve got home from work Amanda had to have him sit down and learn! LOL!! Of course we made our cookies and candies too! It was a GREAT holiday season, and we have now ALMOST got the house back in order! Hopefully today! We have SNOW ` I dont know if the kids will help now! They will want to PLAY! SIGH!

Sorry for the BIG posts! I had lots to talk about, and I still have even more to share but I will save that!
I will end with 3 more friends sites.. they helped INSPIRE some of my craftiness this year! Mara she made some ornaments, and some of the boxes (which I FORGOT she shared with us, SORRY Mara! LOL!), Kate she made a button tree too!! and Linda she made some cute ornaments! and shared some YUMMY recipes which I have saved to make!! YUM!!

OK the kiddos want FOOD! If you have stayed with me this LONG! THANKS! and again a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! Thanks for stopping by!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY 2008!!!!
Ok so SERIOUSLY where have the years gone!!!! I am gonna be 30 this year! (if ANYONE tells you it is 40, they are LYING!! ;) hee hee!!!!! so I am taking back 10 years who cares! :) ) Justin is 11 (is that POSSIBLE!) Amanda gonna be 8, and Steve well if I am taking back 10 years that makes him.... (shhh I will never tell he is older then me now! LOL!!!!! :) ) ANYWAY!!!! off the age topic!!! :)

We hope you have a VERY HAPPY 2008!!! We sure had a BLAST ringing it in!! We just hung out at home! (YEAH the kids still love to do that, I feel so much SAFER knowing we are all HERE!!! DANG I am OLD! :) ) We had our annual PARTY!!!! Yummy food, we did fondue (1st time for the new year! YUM!) and munchies and of COURSE dessert!! Amanda and I made up a S'More dessert!It was good!!! played a game of Monopoly Jr. (Amanda won! Dad LOST! hee hee!) watched the ball drop in NYC! then off to bed for the kiddos! I actually made it up for OUR new years! YEAH! (see not that old at all!)

Today we are going up to Bellingham to spend the day with the Holcombs for our annual New Years Day, girls SHOP! boys do what BOYS do! :) football, food, and cards! :) Should be LOTS of fun!!!!

We hope you all have a GREAT 2008, resolutions come true, GREAT memories made!!! Thanks for stopping by!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER I am gonna be 30!!! :) THIRTY got it! :) hee hee!!!
Happy New Year!!!!

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!!! We hope you had a GREAT day! We sure have! Everyone was spoiled!! and now we are waiting for Tutu to arrive so we can have dinner!!!

The kids were so EXCITED to get their DS's from us! (Santa brought them other things they wanted!) Amanda wanted to know if we could run to Toys R Us so she could get a game or 2 with her gift cards, TODAY! UM NOT TODAY! LOL! We will hopefully get out sometime tomorrow!!!

We got SNOW today! A white Christmas! Amanda was yelling and jumping up and down! It has slowed down now!! But that didnt stop her from going out in her pjs to play for a bit!!!

We hope you all have a WONDERFUL day!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Happy FRIDAY!! :) We here at the Johnson house are still BUSY BUSY!!! Lots to get done, tomorrow is Xmas at Moms house! Then sunday here with the Holcombs! Monday at our friends the Haileys! Can you say PARTY! :) and I still have to bake, finish Xmas cards, (did I say somewhere they were gonna go out early this year? I HOPE not! LOL!) and I am still making ORNAMENTS! I am ADDICTED to those cuties! I will share a photo of ALL of them later!!! We need to make a couple more!!!!!

Just wanted to share a santa photo from last week! I took this one! I am not to EXCITED about the one they took of our family, I look FUNNY! :) Good thing it is only for our books! LOL!!! I altered this photo a bit at picnik I just love that free site!!!

Well it is almost time to get the kiddos to school and get all my errands done!!!
Have a GREAT day! Thanks for stopping by!! Happy Holidays!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

So we have been busy busy here at the Johnson house! Steve took today off and we got ALMOST all our Xmas shoppen done! we are down to I think 3 gifts now! YEAH! Plan to wrap this week!! Our first xmas is at Tutu's house on saturday! YEAH! Then we have another here on sunday!!!

Last weekend we had a FUN weekend.. Friday we saw SANTA!! and went out for dinner, saturday ... we celebrated Allybugs birthday! HOW can my sweet niece be turning THREE?? Time flies! Sunday was the annual mom and kiddos shopping trip! Justin and I head out early in the AM and get starbucks and then SHOP! Amanda and I head out after lunch, her treat was a blizzard from DQ, YUM! it was peppermint chip! YUM YUM!!!! SHHH dont tell I am making my own version tonite... Yeah an extra treadmill is in the horizon for me! LOL!!!!!

I have been TRYING to figure out the xmas card for this year! I have the photo just need to figure out the design! So HOPEFULLY this weekend I will have them done and out, well before the weekend since we are booked all weekend!! Be on the lookout for them!!!

This week the kids and I are gonna be doing some baking and crafting! YEAH!! I made up one of the ornaments that you see here, gonna make a few more! they are so fun and cute!!! :) We think so anyway!!!

Hope all is well with you and yours! THANKS for stopping by! Happy Holidays!!!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Happy Holidays! YEAH! I am so EXCITED for the coming month! We have so much fun stuff planned!!! :) We are going to see Santa later this week, I am taking the kids on our annual shopping trip! Xmas exchanges start next week, and then BAM one week til the BIG day!!! :) It is gonna go so FAST!!! 22 days, are you READY?!!! I am almost!! I am gonna get wrapping this week! I cant WAIT!

As you can see we got our tree! YEAH! We got a bit smaller one.. it is still 8 feet tall~ but oh I miss those 9.5 footers! But since we have FURNITURE now we cant get that big! It looks so pretty!

So at 2scrappy chixs Mary challenged us to blog about the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY of this time of year!!! So here goes!!

My good~ the OBVIOUS! I LOVE the whole SEASON! I love to see the excitement from my kids, I LOVE to bake with them, watch all our holiday movies, decorate, visit santa, read xmas stories, take LOTS of photos, make and get xmas cards! You get it I LOVE EVERYTHING! LOL!!

My bad- oh my the STRESS it causes, for alot of people! Me included, the wanting it to be PERFECT! I know I shouldnt but I do! I want it magical! So I try to do that, and in the process sometimes overwhelm ME! TRYING to get an earlier start and do more small things each day and not save it all up for one day!

My ugly... Um.. I cant type that out! :) But it is the worst part of the holiday for me! But I get through it!

That all being said I am sure looking forward to a FUN season! WE got SNOW on saturday! YEAH! I got my xmas hat photo! it stayed until yesterday afternoon~ now we just got RAIN RAIN RAIN!!! Oh well~ I guess it is a good time to start wrapping!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Photo FUN!

A little photo fun!! I just LOVE this photo of the kids! Yep same as below in the frame! BUT I had some fun with it back over at picnik this cute holly was FREE! Hello I LOVE free! Since I am still WORKING on learning my PSE 4 I got 2 years ago! :) I figure this was the next best thing to play with! :) Goal for 08 LEARN PSE! There now I can go on!! :)

Can you BELIEVE that tomorrow is DEC! I cant !!! but I am so EXCITED for it! I LOVE the Holidays!! All the FUN things we do!! The kids are so darn EXCITED for it all too!! I hope they always are this way!! and let me take them to get a SANTA photo with the family!!! Can you see my Justin 21 waiting for our photo! Really I am not worried about him... it is that cute spitfire girl... she will probably complain from 15 on~ LOL~ I will have to pay her off!!! :) That is all next week! (the santa photo, not her being 15, but I am sure it will seem that way when she gets there! SIGH!)

Hope you all have a GREAT weekend! THANKS for stopping by!! Time to get them moving for school!!!
Happy Friday!!!