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I'm back!

Here is my project for the week. I am starting to work on valentine's for Ashleigh's class, This will be for the boys. It is a sucker holder. The spaceship was cut with my cricut using a file I found online (Sorry I can not remember where to give proper credit) The alien was stamped and then colored with Stampin Up markers and punched with the Stampin Up 1 3/8 inch circle punch.

The trip to Missorui was nice but I was glad to be home. Not a bad week, the girls had tumbling and Emily has mastered her round off. It amazes me how fast the girls pick things up when they have a good coach. This will be Emily's first full week at tumbling due to weather and holidays.

Oh that was the other thing that happened this week, Stampin Up was running a special connected with the recent leadership conference. My Stampin Up demonstrator could offer free kit to someone and that lucky person was me! I am going to try my hand at being a demo again. I miss it and think it will help boost my creative juices!

Til next time......

Christi

My first crafty post of the year

in keeping with the plan here are a few message boards that I made. One for Haley and one for Ashleigh.

Wow has it really been 2 years since I have posted anything here?

I decided to try and start blogging again. I want a place to showcase my crafts and share stories of my crazy family so I decided to check in with the old blog. Dec 7 2008 was my last post, wow! I promise to try better to post. Not that there is anyone out there to hear me but this is better than talking to myself where people can see! lol My goal is to post once a week and to post a project at least once a week. So maybe 2 entries a week unless I am really on top of things and have pictures ready to post when I post! yeah that probably won't happen.

We started the week off with a severe weather day. The base and the schools were closed so the kiddos and I had a lazy day at home. Well it wasn't all lazy. I did finish Ashleigh and Haley's message boards. I plan to finish Haley's night light tonight. So we can take them with us this coming weekend when we travel to Missouri to visit.

The girls also start tumbling this week so I will be spending 4 evening a week at the armery, yeah fun.

I guess that is all for now. I will be back later this week with a post so I can share the girls message boards and Haley's night light.

TTFN

Happy Sunday

I know your shocked to see me back so soon:) I promise to be a better blogger and to share some of my projects with you. I finished a Christmas Countdown calendar today. I wish I could take credit for it but I actually saw it in a newsletter from Scrap etc in Birmingham. They were offering a class and since I couldn't make it I decided to give it a try. I am not real good at mixing patterned papers but I figured what the heck. I cut everything using my Cricut and used George and Christmas Cheer cartridges. Let me know what you think.

I am also working on ATC's this week. I have become addicted to those cute little suckers. I have a couple of Christmas ones to do so I will try and post those to before they go into the mail.

Remember that awesome tulip Chandelier I linked to in my last post? Well I won it! How awesome is that. I can not wait for it to get here and be added to my scrapbook room.

If you haven't been following it Tim Holtz is a little over half way through his 12 days of Christmas tags. I am in awe every day at the things he does. Go check them out if you haven't already. http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

I guess that is all for now. Have a great week and I will see you soon:)

Christi

The day after

Wow it has been 2 months again. I always have the best of intentions and then fall through. I am going to add updating my blog to my weekly task list and see if I can get better at it.

Yesterday was Black Friday and there was nothing I had to rush out and get first thing in the morning so Ashleigh and I did not leave the house until almost 8. I did not buy one single Christmas gift but did pick up soem things we needed.

This morning am I am crusing the internet and I came across this cool site. These calendars would be a great gift for anyone in your life and look really cool. So check them out. http://talkottown.blogspot.com/2008/11/etsys-keeping-me-awake-give-away.html

and while your there check out the pink blingy chandelier. I definitely need one of these for my scraproom! http://talkottown.blogspot.com/

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got some of their shopping done. Today will be dead here so might go out shopping again. The iron bowl is on and everybody and their mother will be glue to the tv:)

Happy Labor Day

It is hard to believe it is September 1st. This year has really flown by. Before I know it Halloween will be here and then Christmas.

The school year is going well for the kiddos so far. Ashleigh brought home signed papers yesterday with her first official conduct grades of second grade and she had A's in both classes. I am soooooo proud of her

I have decided this weekend I wasnt to redo my scraproom. It has been a while so I need to rework things. I have decided to go ahead and unmount the rest of my stamps. I had started the process a while back but when I became a Stampin Up demo I stopped. I have about 75 sets I want to unmount, then I will coat the back with Aleene's tack it over and over. It is way cheaper them ezmount. Then I will store them in page protectors in 3 ring binders. My goal is to unmount 5 sets a day and more when I can.

I have a new obsession. Somehow I have cupcakes on the brain. I decided a couple of weekends ago I wanted cupcake stamps and went on a search for some. I found this set at ac moore on sale because they are closing the store.
Then I found these online:

So if you see any cute cupcake stuff send me a link:)

Diet is still going good. I am closing in on my first major goal. As of this morning I am 2 pounds away! Yea Me lol only 32 more pounds to go now. I hope to start running this week and that should help get a bit more off.

That is about it here, back to work and school tomorrow. It will be hard because we have done absolutely nothing this weekend. But nothing is sometimes good.

TTFN

Christi

Week 1 Down

The first week of school has been great! Hold onto your hats my friends, Ashleigh has not gotten a conduct check in almost 2 weeks! Woo hoo WTG baby girl. She told me the other night 2nd grade was really easy. Craig is adjusting to Emily crash landing on his planet and has even tried to be friendly to her (i.e. sitting next to her on the bus) to which she says ruined her life. Don't worry he assured her, it will help you be more popular because I am one of the cool 8th graders. God help us all! LOL





Check out http://www.unkit.blogspot.com/ This is my friend Sudie who is putting together something different. Most definitely the way to go if you like monthly kits. I just got done playing with the August Disney kit and will share pictures as soon as I can. The kit and the idea for what to do wiht your kit are awesome. Stop by and say hi and tell her Christi sent you.





Weight is going down, down, down. I am 4 pounds away from my first major goal! Yea me 31 pounds and 35 more to go. I will have to post some picture soon. It is nice to put clothes on and them be to big, it has been a while since I have had that issue.





Here is my new desktop at work, I saw the saying on a t-shirt in a catalog. I went online and found the picture and think it will be just perfect for my desktop at work. If only it would scare off some of the interruptions! LOL

Have a great week and do something nice for yourself, you deserve it:)

TTFN

Christi

Happy First Day of School to you:)

Happy monday, first day of school day around here:) We got up bright and early this morning and put on our first day of school outfits, packed our lunch boxes and headed back to school. Ashleigh was super excited, Emily was super nervous and Craig was just well not sure about his sister invading his space. Never mind they will probably never see each other, she was still coming to his planet. They were very nice to each other last night trying to help each other pick out what to wear and giving advice. Is it possible, could we be wandering into that undiscivered terrirtory I like to dream of called getting along? I highly doubt it but a mom can dream can't she?



The parking situation at Dalraida this morning was a nightmare. I am not sure hwo the genius is who decide to rework their parking situation and car pool drop offs but they should be shot. They have fenced off a whole parking lot so you can not get into it at all. They are supposed to start construction soon and I am guessing they thought they should make life hell now and not wait. Even the buses were having a hard time because there was no where for them to turn around. So we will have to deal with that but ti will all work itself out.



We are just excited to be back in school and on a steady schedule. The kids love summer and they love spending time with their grandparents but the gas has killed me this summer. But Craig needs the guy time with his Opa and his Opa needs his kid fix. I am so thankfully for all the help Oma and Opa give me during the summer, I do nto know what I would do without them.



That is about it for here. I have been working on some projects but I can not show them to you yet. They are for a friend of mine who has a cool scrapbooking kit going on. Check it out at http://unkit.wordpress.com/ She has a very cool idea and I can see it really taking off. The August kit was a Disney kit and since we just got back from Disney I had a few pictures I could out together. So keep an eye out and I will try and let you know how that goes.

Talk to you soon.

Christi

Hello again:)

Pam has been on me to start blogging again, so here I am. I did not realize until I came to actually do that that it had been 3 whole months since I have blogged! Yikes. I promise to do better. Life will calm down when school starts and I will have more time. *(Is there such a thing or is it a Urban Legend like the Lock Ness Monster? LOL)

Let me see what I can do to catch you guys up. Sadly Emily did not get into Baldwin Art Magnet. She got wait listed and is in the 16-21 group. She could possible get in up to 4 weeks after school starts. I think she has gotten used to the idea of going to Floyd and is actually looking forward to being with all her friends again this year. Craig on the other hand is not to keen on the idea of her invading his territory.

Notice anything missing? My baby has lost her 2 front teeth. It is funny how Mother's gauge when they children are no longer babies by different events in life. For me this is it. This means she is a big girl and moving on in the world:(

The kids and I took our first family Vacation in June. I finally took a whole week off work and we went to Disney World! I am not sure who enjoyed it more them or me. We had a whole week with the Mouse and all his pals. We rode every ride at Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot that we could possible ride and some we rode 2 and 3 times. We ate lots of yummy food and just had an awesome time.

Here is the family with Goofy. This was the only Character picture the kids managed to drag me into.

Here is a picture I took of the kids our first Day at Disney. We were waiting to go into the Haunted Mansion.

And this is my favorite non kids picture I took while we were there. I think I was as excited to see the Tree of Life as I was about the whole trip. It was definitely not a disappointment.

I guess that is about it for this post. I will be around more often. Til then TTFN:)

Hello Hello Hello ))))))))

Is there an echo in here? LOL Sorry I have been busy with life and without internet for almost 2 whole weeks. I tell you I need a 12 step program when it comes to the internet. Phone I could do with out and I was telling everyone I could live without TV but well that was a big fat lie! I could not live without Big Brother and Survivor and Make me a Super Model and all those other reality shows I watch.

Still going to the gym although I missed about 2 weeks of that, but I am back on track tonight was my 4th night this week. I am also still tanning and have achieved a nice toasty color. The girl at the tanning bed tried to broil me last night. I usually go for 15 minutes and that was what i told her I wanted but obviously she knows more then I do about what I need to she put me in for 20l. I stuck it out but boy it was hot.

I will post some pictures this weekend. Emily got her hair cut and it looks real cute. We are still waiting to hear about Baldwin and should know something within the next 2 weeks. I had a date on Saturday and I think it went pretty well. He was very nice and took me to eat Japanese food. So we will see how that turns out.

That is about here for now. I will post again soon:)

Christi

Good Sunday to you:)

It was a pretty good weekend, My friend Kim and I went on a field trip yesterday to tattoo parlor. Pardon the tan lines:)

I have been wanting a new tattoo for a while and finally got one:) It hurt like hell but was worth it.

Then last night I went out with my mom and some of her friend to celebrate my moms 51st birthday. We had a good time and drank a little to much, ok a lot to much:) But we had fun and the band was awesome.

Emily finally has her audition for Baldwin Arts magnet this coming Saturday at 7:55am. So keep her in your thoughts. I know she will do awesome but I am sure everyone else who is auditioning will also:)

Still sticking it out at the gym. I can not remember if this is week 4 or 5, but I feel like my body is starting to crave going to the gym. Still tanning too as you can see from the tan lines:)

Talk to you soon.

Christi

That is all for now.

Day late

I did not get to post last night because the kids and I were getting picture taken. Craig spent the weekend with his dad for some guy time so the girls and I made a weekend out of it. Saturday we went and had our toes done and had dinner, did some shopping and just enjoyed being together.

I made it to the gym 5 times last week so still going strong. My final weigh in for scale back alabame is March 8-14

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from last night.

That is all for now. Have a great week:)

Christi

Happy Sunday

Well after all the excitement of last week I have very little to share. I made it to the gym 6 times this week! Yea Me! LOL I even did a little running on the treadmill today and I do mean little.

Ashleigh went to a dress up birthday party today. Of course she was so excited to get to dress up for the party and we went through a couple of different costumes before I threatened to just leave her and go by myself. So she decides to go as a dancer with a leotard and a skirt and 5 minutes after we get there she ditches the skirt and just runs around in her leotard. Of course if you know Ashleigh you know if we had let her she would have probably opted to just run around in her undies. Thanks for the invite Pam and Happy Birthday Jonah!!!

A bright spot to my week was that SURVIVOR stared on Thursday night. I was excited to see some of my favorite players back this season. I really hope James is a bit smarter and not as trusting this season! I think if he and Ozzie were to team up they would be a force, but I have a feeling a pretty little thing might be the down fall of my man James this season:( Man oh man am I glad they got rid of Johnny Fairplay on the first show!

OK off to try and catch Brothers and Sisters, my mom said they have a new one on this week.

Later:)

What a weekend

Man what a weekend. The girls and I went Friday night to see Hannah Montana 3d and it was fun. It is a definite see and you only have 1 week so hurry up! Fly me to the moon which is about 3 little flies that go up on the space shuttle, and Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendon frazier.

I also joined the gym this weekend. We have a new Planet fitness and for $20 month I get unlimited use of the equipment, unlimited visitors and unlimited tanning. It is kind of nice walking in and the girls behind the counter are normal sized woman. I have never been on to tan but I decided to try it out. I made my first trip to the gym today and hit the treadmill for 20 minutes, the bike for 10 and the tanning bed for 7.

Other then that we just hung out and watched movies. We are not big on Football. So skipped the Superbowl.

January 31st was my last official day as a Stampin up demonstrator. I am sad to be out but also a little glad. I get to scrapbook and make cards for me now. It is tough always having to be creative for other people. Kind of takes the fun out of it. So now I will be joining workshops and have some fun. Of course I placed one last really big order to get all the things I just had to have before I lost my discount.

Have a great week everyone:)

Christi

Interesting conversations in the car

Every other weekend I meet the ex half way to exchange kids. If is about a 45 minute drive and boy do we have some interesting coversations in the car. Yesterday was just one of those occasions.

Ashleigh, " mom why do we have eyebrows"?
Me, " to protect our eyes. We have eyebrows and eyelashes to catch things that might fall into our eyes and cause damage that could make us blind." (heck I have no clue if this is true but I have it in my head that I read it someone so we are just going with it. I think this is how urban legends are made)

A couple of minute pass and Ashleigh says, "mom did you know you have mites in your eye brows? " Me "What! Where did you hear that?" Ashleigh, "don't you watch the discovery channel mom?" "Well yea but I must have missed the eyebrow mite program! Yuck What do the mites eat, dead skin cells?"

Then out of no where Emily, ever the straight man chimes in with " I guess the crap that falls into your eyebrows" I was very caught off guard and had I been drinking I would have spit soda out of my nose. It was a good laugh and everything I have though about it today I have gotten the giggles. So i tht I would share it with you guys. I have it brings a laugh to your day.


In other news, we go a new dog. A girl at work was moving and could not take her dog and did not want to put it in the bulliten board because she wanted to make sure it had a good home. My girl friend Pam says I have a big red S on my forehead for sucker because if someone has an animal they are geeting rid of we end up with it.

Heidi is a sweet 4 year old Jack Russell Terrier. She sleeps in a pillow case, with the pillow still in it. It is the funnest thing and I need to get a picture. The only thing you see is her head sticking out.

That is it for now. I hope you have a great week


Christi

**SNOW**

The kids have been driving me crazy all week because the weather man said we might have snow this weekend. Ashleigh ask me last night if I thought it would snow and I told her I didn't think so. It was not cold enough yet for snow. So she told me when she said her prayers she would ask God to make it cold enough to snow. We woke up to rain this morning so there went the hope of snow right out the weekend. About 9:45 am the rain stopped and big fat chunky flakes started to fall. Ashleigh was over the moon excited. The last time it snowed here was 2001 and she was way to young to remember. So this is her "first snow ever". This morning she told me she prayed last night and God brought the snow. It lasted for a couple of hours and then turned back to rain so we have no more snow:(

Here are a couple of pictures.

And my big guy with his snowman:)

that is it for here today. I took enough pictures today to make a mini album so Ashleigh can remember the snow. I will post pictures when it is done. TTFN

I'm back!!!

Woo hoo I actually made it back to post again, lol I am already doing better then I did on my last blog. It has been a busy couple of weeks for us.


I am on a team with some girl at work to do Scale back Alabama. It is a 10 week program where each team member has to lose 10 pounds. Here is a link if you want to check it out: http://www.scalebackalabama.com/ I made diet journals for my 3 team member.






We mailed in Emily's application for Baldwin Arts Magnet. We got the receipt yesterday saying it had been received. Now we have to wait for her audition date. She wants to go for Creative Arts and we are trying out for Choral music too since she is on the honor chorus at school. She is nervous but very excited to hopefully get in.


Bear Exploration Center, the girls current magnet school participated in a community service project this year with ALL detergent (http://www.gogreenwithall.com/home/) We ended up ranking one of the top 10 finalist in America! We will find out this Friday who won the grand prize which is $50,000 for our school, a green solar powered ipod shuffle for every child at the school and a year supply of all for every family. The girls are pretty excited so if you have a chance watch the Ellen Degeneres show on Friday, January 18th to see if we won:)

Emily's room is decorated in Fairies. During Christmas I signed up for a newsletter at http://www.lifetimemoments.com/ that was 30 days of Christmas gifts. One of the ideas was for Sprite Christmas ornaments. I ran with the idea and made Emily some fairies for her room. Here are just a couple of the ones I made.

That is what we have been up to. Ta ta for now:)

Let's get it started!

I am going to do my best to blog. God know's I never shut up so blogging should be easy for me right? LOL My goal is 2 blog post a week and one project post a week.

I will start out with some pictures from Christmas. This year I finally got around to taking some pictures of my favorite ornaments. I plan to make a mini album with the pictures.

The kids got a WII for Christmas and we have all been having a blast.

Ashleigh can kick some serious booty on Bowling and lets us all know just how good she is at it. Last but not least Ladies and Gentleman Miss. Hannah Montana! This was wig was a hit and all the kids took turns wearing it. Craig made sure to snatch it off because I could snatch a picture! LOL


Tomorrow I will post some of my projects from the weekend and the fairies I made for Emily for Christmas.

Til then.

Christi