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!!!

A little share!

This is the frame I made for my grandmas birthday gift!! She LOVED it! I LOVED it! I am making myself one! Ok 2 I have a snow one in the works, just looking for the PERFECT embellie! HOW can it be my room is OVERFLOWING with goodies and I think I need to buy something else! LOL!!! I will share when I finish! They are SAYING snow this weekend! I hope so~ well for one day anyway! I will get a new photo for the snow frame AND my santa hat photo for xmas cards! :)

So I dont have ANY idea why the photos below arent showing up~ showing the altered boxes... they were so cute! I hope to work some up next week!!!

I am off to get the kiddos!!! Have a GREAT day~ Thanks for stopping by!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!

I LOVE this idea!!

For a blog challenge at 2Scrappy Chixs we were to find something in the gallery that inspired us and share it! Well Mary did the CUTEST altered cereal box! and Joni did another! I so am gonna LIFT these ideas! We dont have cereal very often, BUT I do have lots of other boxes, what a GREAT way to recycle, and just in time for the holidays! You always need some boxes, and this is like another gift in itself!!! :)
I will share mine when I finish them!!!

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

SNOW!

SNOW tonite! Can you BELIEVE that!!!! The kids are soooo EXCITED! Amanda snuck out in it! :) They want a snow day tomorrow! I want a PHOTO day! :) Santa hat photos in the snow again! Could I get so lucky as to 2 years in a row! YEAH!!!

Today was a FUN day! Justin and I had our Mom and Me Birthday Fun Day!!! We went shopping! He spent one of his gift cards, we went to the Olive Garden for lunch! His favorite place! He always picks there!!! It was a GREAT fun day with him!!!

Off to make dinner! Have a GREAT week!!!!
Happy Holidays!

My Justin is 11 today!!

HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY JUSTIN!!!!

I cant believe our boy is 11!! Where did the time go?? If you know you should tell me ~ because I have no CLUE! :)

He is having a fun day! He got a new digi. camera from us, and from Amanda the electronic battle ship game! He was EXCITED for both!!!

He wants to have my FAMOUS! (ok famous in our house!) turkey sands for lunch! and for dinner California Burgers! HMMM wonder if I can get Steve to fire up the BBQ for them! I figure YEAH I have to make homemade guacamole! :) he can do that!!

Tomorrow is his birthday movie! Fred Clause! I cant wait!!!

Just wanted to share a layout I did real quick today of the birthday boy and his new camera!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUSTIN! WE LOVE YOU!!!! XOXOXOXOXOXO

Hope you all had a GREAT Thanksgiving! We sure did!!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope you have a GREAT day full of family, friends, fun and GREAT memories!!!

I am so thankful for all the great friends I have met via the WWW ~ it makes my day to sneak online and visit! :)

Well I have worked out, said Hello!!! and now it is time to get things going! Dinner is at our house! YEAH!!

Have a WONDERFUL day~ Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Justins 11th Birthday Party!

The BIG birtday party! :) Was ALOT of fun!!! I still cant believe he will be 11! it doesnt seem possible!!!

So for his party he wanted carrot cake for the birthday cake~ so I made my very first one! It was pretty good~ he was happy and thats what counts!!!
All his friends but 2 were able to join us! He got LOTS of fun things! As I type he is working on a lego set from Tutu! He has 3 or 4 more to go he got, he is gonna be BUSY today!

Just wanted to share some photos I got! (or my friend Deanna got~ our family photo! Thanks Nana!)

So later after the party my mom looked at my machine... STILL no light but it works! HUH! I thought that black switch for the light was also power... so when you click it on for the light it wont sew, BUT if you click it off, it sews, minus the light, I had NO idea! My friend Joni mentioned it should work I was like it doesnt, BUT I was always clicking the switch! SO I am a HAPPY GIRL! I can still stitch~ I will just need to put a flash light by the project! :) My new thing I have learned for the day, the light switch on the sewing machine is NOT on and off also~ it is just a light! YEAH!!!!!

Hope you have a GREAT day! Steve and I are Xmas shoppen ~ Tutu is watching the kiddos! YEAH!! I cant wait!
Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Photo Share! :)

The 2007 Fellas Cake Bake - Cub Scout FUN! :)

Well here are the FELLAS! with their cake for this years Fellas Cake Bake! Justin decided on an iPod... since you have to name your cake.. it became iCake! He has such fun doing this with Steve! He has won 3 awards now out of 5 years doing it! This year he won Judges Choice ~ he was so EXCITED!!

There were some GREAT cakes~ and since no one could decide on one they wanted, other then our cake.. that was the one we won back! Figured it was the last year so WHY not! We are going to use it for 1 of the birthday cakes at his birthday party! How nice is that, he made his own birthday cake! HA HA!!

Dont think I am that mean~ I did make him the carrot cake for the party too~ that is what he wanted! :)

Have a WONDERFUL weekend~ thanks for stopping by!

Layout Share!

Thought I would share a layout I finished up yesterday! I am so BUMMED because I cant finish side 2! My sewing machine decided to STOP working right when I finished my stitching on this side! SIGH! So now my mom is gonna look at it this weekend, I HOPE she can figure out what is wrong! If not I WILL be asking SANTA for a new one! (I have been a good girl~ I hope he listens!!!)

So of course NOW every scrappy vision I have has sewing on it! Go figure! LOL!!

This is from our trip to the pumpkin patch this year!

Have a GREAT rest of the week! Thanks for stopping by!

Our Living Room~ Before and After! :)

Our new living room!!!

Finally we have it almost all together! I thought I would share some photos of it! I still have a few things I want to do yet, but it is almost there! It is ready enough to have a PARTY in! :)

I really love how the whole room came together it is my favorite room at the moment in the house, ok right next to my scrappy room~ BUT this room is CLEAN! AHHH we love to sit in there! :)

The stone that is set in our tables almost matches the stone set in our floor in the entry way.. it wasnt planned but was cool to figure out! :)

Steve thought of the COOL black word family with photos all around it! I had another idea, a mirror or a photo frame with words in it.. I LOVE how this truned out!!

That bowl with the candle in it I have had for 4 years! It was the first piece I ever bought and that was ALL the living room for awhile! I knew I wanted red accents! I am so HAPPY to have it all out now! YEAH!!

See those black shelves under the photo~ those were our hardest thing to find! We either found, 1 in the size we needed or 2 that were way to long! I suggested getting white and painting them... so after 3 weeks of looking we found a set, Steve got them, and PAINTED them! :) We now have 4 other white ones! LOL! I LOVE how it all came together!!!! :)

Hope you had a GREAT weekend!! We are having a dinner party tonite! YEAH!! I need to get ready for that! Thanks for stopping by!!!!