Where did they go....

Where did they go? ......The two cute snuggly boys that I once had?

Although twins were alot of work , they were very cute and huggable.

Now they have disappeared and are now replaced with TEENAGERS!

Ohhh these are some trying years, I am thankful they could be worse but

I wasn't prepared for teenagers... is anyone though ?

They often ask why don't you scrap pics of us anymore all you do is pictures of Kailtyn....

hmmm check these pics out would you want to scrap them? I will just so I can rememeber this phase....

I can remember the torcher every morning can be getting them up and out the door to school... the sound of the shower constantly running and the overdose you can get from the cologne fumes.... thats if I don't drownd in the piles of wet towels and clothes on the floor.....

oh then its the question... did you get your homework done? this brings on groans and eye rolling.... sometimes if they speak instead of being PLUGGED into the iPOD... I hear the NEW language.... Whats up dawg? ... words like gangster, pimpster, cracker and other words I am thankful Kailtyn isn't draggin into her Christian preschool..... sometimes one son thinks he's of another race... or is being discriminated against because of his brown skin.... I am constantly turning off MTV but who knows how much they are watching at Dad's house....

I still have faith someday maybe I'll get a glimpse of those sweet boys even if I have to wait for grandchildren.... then it will come around ;)

when will this PHASE end? I believe

altered clock projected

This was such a fun project. I bought a genric CHEAP clock painted it with the MM paints. Decided on one of my favorite paper lines... Crate Paper... just love the thick paperbag type of paper feel this brand has..

Granite this item doesn't have any pictures on it to make it scrapbooky.. but I could easily remedy that...

while making this my head was spinning with ideas of other versions of this... got thing I bought a couple extra clocks....

I'm thinking of making one to help Kailtyn learn to tell time.... going to into the paper stash vault to find the right paper.... tata for now....

got milk ?

Okay, I'm back to baking ... now I have a new oven..

I was inspired by Heidi Swapps blogs.. she disclosed HER choc chip recipe

Yes I have become a blog addict...

however my choc chip cookies seem to be one of the only ways to get

my teenage boys to be NICE again.... ahhhh those teenage years.. I think I'll be making lots of cookies just to get them to stop and talk to me! and even nicer give me a hug without a whole big scene.

Are Heidi cookies better than the traditional recipe ? well the jury is still out but the cookies jar is half gone..

Maya Roads Flower book

Everyone that scraps with me knows my L-O-V-E of chipboard!

So of course I love Maya roads new line and I can't wait to get my hands on the new items released at CHA last week. So .. while I was trying to get some scrapbook pages done last week I ran across this little chipboard flower book..so checkout what I created this saturday hiberating in my scrapbook..

of course I don't have the journalling done or title but I got pictures and embellishements in!

it was fun .. alot of cutting paper to fit the flower shape of the book and I got it painted.

I'm already on to something new so I'm not sure when I'll get the journalling done on this project... isn't that status quo for me (huh shauna?)

Spring green

The first sign of spring... I couldn't believe my eyes this morning... new GREEN buds on our new trees we planted last summer at the end of our new concrete patio...

February usually bring the cherry blossoms by Presidents Day weekend.. guess its not that far away...

We have had the coldest and driest winter on record since 1889. Snow pack is at 60% so the media is going at it painting the picture of the summer drought.

Personally I hope the dry weather holds out.... and the morning frosts.. well it makes me feel like home... but I'm using a credit card to scrap the windshield.. ugh!

Valentines Card

Okay I'm kickin it into high gear for Valetines Day.. for some reason I'm in the mood for RED.

Then again I always start out excited about a holiday .. get grand ideas but then things get in the way...

so this year at least I got Sean's card done first! Next is the gift.. a canvas I'm thinking....

Back to Dancing.....

After watching our dancing sugar plum fairy dance all over the house since we went and see the Childrens Theater co put on the Nutcracker I was finally able to get her into one of their dance classes.

Since losing one daycare boy I am left with one family:one little girl (3) and a boy 18mos....

this allows me to be more mobile... so I talked with the parents and got Kailtyn and Sam into a morning class.

The two of them are so adorable... they have one class half tap and half ballet..for 3 & 4 year olds so I got them in and the first class was wednesday. I was nervous about the Tap portion because last summer I had Kailtyn in a different dance studio and she hated the tap part .. it was too loud and she would cover her ears and want to go home... this time it was different I happy to say because the instructor makes them sit in chair and wait their turns instead of randomly tapping all around waiting their turns...

so it looks like we'll be liken Dance and the first dance recital is in June.. I can't wait!

New Oven for Trace aka Racheal Ray

I got a new oven/range!!! Our orginal came with the house and was 10years old!

The time of death was approx Christmas Day when the oven filled with gas and the igniter wouldn't light.

So my MR SAFTEY husband banded its use.

It took us a month to replace due to the hours Sean has been working.

A gas oven so not something I wanted to pick out by myself with a four yr old in tow.

So off we went on Sean's first avaible saturday to the Sears outlet center.

We decided on this range because of the dual ovens.. later realizing the smaller oven/broiler runs on electric for the oven but the broilers part is still gas...

We brought it home.. singing with Donkey Ollie all the way ( see pervious post if you missed it) and Sean had it hooked up and running that same night... its was a project he didn't have to make four runs to the hardware store for!!! His easiest project in the land of track housing here in California!

So another home improvement project COMPLETED!! yes I said COMPLETED!

now if I could get the tile work done in the master bath so I could use my two person shower OR my jet tub would be nice......

someday I guess....

until then I'll be cooking.... and this weekend we're off to get my birthday gift... my new pots and pans!!

WATCH OUT FOODNETWORK!!!

Loving is Sharing

Kaitlyn so loves Sierra ( our older Golden,6yrs) .
She was so sweet this morning when she covered Sierra with her
valued and much loved Princess blanket... stating that it was too cold.
This is one of those heart warming moments...
enjoy

Donkey Ollie

I decided I had to blog about this special donkey.. .
since i find myself singing along these songs with or without the dvd going...
thats how much we have been watching this dvd...
yeah I hear ya.. letting your kid watch dvds all day ( its not really all day) but
who could denie letting their child watch a Christian based singing donkey!!!

You think I've lost it but seriously check it out.. its very cute it was created
to thank people for donatiing their cars to charities.

Kailtyns preschool teacher gave this too her after her Christmas recitial.

We watch it everday at least once and its her favorite to bring in the car.. she did this when we had the boys with us for a 2 hour ride... they didn't want to get in the car... by the time returned home they too were singing the catchy christian songs!

I tried to find more but haven't had anyluck.. but check out donkey ollies site...

www.donkeyollie.com

ps those of you in the flat panel world... as you can see I haven't made it there yet!

Finally C-A-K-E

Yes we finally cut into the cake my dear friend Shauna brought me on Saturday..
since my guest on Saturday were more interested in finishing off my french toast casserole than Chocolate cake... can you imagine that!!!!
Gloria and Carole ;)

So when we cut into the cake of course I had help from my girl blowing out the candles.. thankfully the boys put one candle for each decade... how sweet huh? I guess if I had all forty on there I would NEED Kailtyns help blowning out the candles!!!

The cake was SOOOO YUM-O as Rach would say!

Turning Forty!!!

Ugh... with all the hipe about this 'magical" moment. I felt nothing!
I keep repeating to myself that todays 40's are more like 30's!!
Ahhhh not saying I would want to go backward by no means.

I requested the celebrating was kept quiet... what is there to celebrate?
its just another birthday... just another number!

I had a great gathering of scrappin friends and it was a great day!
I got to teach a project of mine that everyone loves and it was so gradifying sharing.

Monday my actually birthday I took off with my friend and scrappin buddy Gloria and raided some
scrap stores. I found the coolest new paper trimmer finally... LOVE IT!
and even got a lead on a teaching position... thanks Gloria for giving me that nuge!

All in all turning forty was NOT a huge event thankfully... now Fifty that may be the event forty use to be ;)

Birthday Crop

For my BIG birthday I had someof my favorite scrappin friends over
to scrap for the day. We had lots of fun talking, scrappin and eating.
I also showed my friends how to do a canvas project.
This was fun. Thanks girls for making a fun day!!!

My french dancer

Every since seeing the Childrens Dance Theaters version of the Nutcracker Kaityln has been dancing around the house. I couldn't resist snapping this pic in her pink beret dancing away.

new pixel happenings

Heres a few new digi lo I worked on this week
they are of my daycare girl Samantha... the lo are part of a christmas cd I'm making for her mom.
Next week I will be creating BOY lo... what a change .. little boy layouts that is for my other two daycare guys.
Enjoy... I used CK free digi kit.. its on their website.. check it out.. the ck Jan mag even give step by steps for new digi scrappers.. its so much fun and SOOO inexpensive....

Kaitlyns Chirstmas recital

Friday night was Kaitlyns first Christmas recital, her class sang Little Town of Bethlehem... it was too cute. The church was packed for standing room only. All the groups did so well, it was really so nice.
Kailtyns group was the last to sing and she was SOOO patient sitting and waiting for her turn it amazed Sean and I.

Chirstmas paper candy dishes

These are so fun to make... 3 sheets of 12x12!
I made some for friends for Christmas...

Altered CD Case for Christmas cards

Altered a cd case for a few special christmas cards...
you can take the cd piece out for more room for the accordian folded mini photo album
great for wallet size photos... which you can get four wallets to a print at Costco for 37 cents!
so making these is very inexpensive, fast and fun!!!

(sorry the pics are sideways.. not sure why this happened.. as photos are orginally correct)

Altered Checkbook covers

These were some Christmas gifts I made for a friend of ine to give away for presents.
They make great gifts....

Christmas Cookies

Its starting to feel a little bit like Christmas, although we have no tree up and no shopping done. We did get some new cookie cutters to play with when we got home from our first shopping excursion to the mall this holiday.

Kailtyn and I cranked the Chrsitmas music and rolled out the dough... she was a good little helper and we had a very nice time..

the cookies were great too.. the recipe on the cookie cutter was awesome and rollled out like a dream! AND they even tasted great!!!

I'm sure Santa will enjoy them!

Tim Holtz inspired Christmas cards

I made these cards at my favorite Scrap store in Berkley.. Scrapbook Teritory...
this was so much fun. I wasn't a fan of these ink pads, my friend Gloria talked me into taking the class... at the end of the class I bought two new ink pads and add four more of them to my christmas list...
I loved blending them, like on the santa card.. it was so much fun...
and the snow flakes in the snowman card was a kick too.. not that I would make them for just anyone....

Black Friday Riding day

We didn't join the California and the nations masses and flock to the Mall to do holiday shopping, instead we headed to the local ORV park and rode for the day.

Kailtyn got to wear her stylin fox gear Daddy bought her last Christmas.. we we're very thankful that she could she fit into it!

She enjoyed playing model for mommy's camera all the while yelling to me to 'Click mommy, click" this one is definately not camera shy. She has actually taken some good pics as the young budding photographer.

Gave the new camera a workout taking pics of Sean and friends on the motorcross track.. think I'll be putting a new telephoto lense for the new Rebel xt on my list for Santa.

The weather had been great for Thanksgiving and friday. It was sunny and 65-70... better that the grey skys we had for a few days.. it was good to be outside soaking up the sun rays and working off the turkey dinner.

digi scraps

my new found love is digi scrappin...
I just love that everythings at your fingertips... papers,embellishments, photos and the ability to journal on the page as you create... LOVE IT!

Its the best timesaver to create and journal your feeling and thoughts right at that moment.. you don't have to wait for photo development .. you can even crop and ALTER the photo as your putting it on your page.

I have posted up a couple of my first layouts here .. but new stuff is coming soon.
And those of you that know my croppin stlye... yes I can distress just as well on the digi pages just wait and see!!!
AND NO I'm not giving up my supply of paper and other REAL scrappin stuff ;)

Philps Farm; Pumpkin patch

This trip to the Pumpkin patch wasn't about the pumpkins at all.. the biggest hit was seeing the farm animals. My daughter is such the animal lover. She went righ up to these turkeys to pet them. These turkeys were great. The farmer walked around the whole crowd of little kids with these turkeys.
It was an awesome experience, just loved the place. Definately going back next year.

its not all about Kailtyn...

These are the other furry children we have. Maverick is the lighter golden and is a typical adolsent male. Sierra is our sweetheart she turned five this summer, its hard to believe. They are a major part of our family and Kailtyn just adores them.

Kaitlyns Birthday Celebration

Kailtyn celebrated her fourth birthday with cake and presents..we also dined on her favorite... McDonald's chicken nuggets,, happy meal stlye of course.
She is the queen of Polly pockets and got several new additions to her kingdom.

We had a small party for her at the bowling alley . It was the first time she bowled and loved it.

First Time Ice skating....

Kaitlyns first ice experience was one to be remembered because I doubt she will be back on the ice anytime soon. She loved the ice skate itself but wanted nothing to do with them being on the ice. after snapping this pics.. she was off the ice and wanted to go home!

guess I got myself a California girl!

Its been a month

Wow can't believe the month of October has gone by.
Kailtyn is now offically FOUR going on 14 it feels like sometimes, its amazing what little ones pick up from older siblings.

Kailtyn celebrated her birthday for a whole month, saying happy birthday to everyone and demanding cake everyday! Birthday was then replaced by Halloween and Kailtyn was replaced with the Fairy Witch.