Thursday, December 28, 2006

ahhh a moment

(warning.. a long post ahead!!)
I finally have a moment to breathe and to post an entry. Things have been crazy busy as usual. LOL and to think I thought I might actually rest this week!!

Christmas was wonderful and of course we all went way overboard. I realized this year that we went above and beyond in our gift giving. I'm not sure what we were thinking. Not that I would get rid of anything, just that it's way too much. I have a 20 month old child who needs/wants nothing. That's crazy. Even my extended family went nuts for Ellie this year.

DH was very good to me as well. He bought me some clothes, actually a couple of shirts and then the same shirt in a different color! This is such a man thing to do. We were joking about it and he called it the "Noah's Arc of Ann Taylor Loft" 2 of everything.. LOL. Needless to say, the pairs will be going back and traded in for some pants. And this is pretty cool, anyone who knows me, knows that I am a complete salsa nut.. well he bought me salsa of the month club. So every month I will get 2 salsas from all over the country. Coooooool huh! Then I got a tripod. I casually mentioned I wanted one and now I do. I did take some cool pics of the tree with it:

Now what's very cool about this pic is that I took it using my manual mode.. no automic on this one! LOL I'm getting very excited about exploring my camera, which is just a simple sony. But hey it has to have some potential right???? I'm actually in the market for a new one, but I have to wait until the new year.

In fact.. head on over to Mydigitalmuse.com, they are started a book club on this book: Understanding Exposure I'm looking forward to it.
As far as scrapping goes, I am officially on Sara Amarie's creative team. She saw the wonderful post by Amy Knepper about her retirement and team, and asked me to be on her team. The rest is history :) I officially start in January. She was selling at PDW, but since they closed, she will be starting at Oscraps.com in the new year.


I'm also on Kimberly Geswein's guest creative team for January... I am so excited about this! She has some awesome fonts and templates. In fact, my header is made with one of her blog templates :) Her stuff can now be found at mydigitalmuse.com

Here is a page I finished:



This is from Michelle Coleman's Merry Little Christmas Kit at scrapartist. I spent way too much money there during their 12 days of xmas sale.

And one last thing, here are the 2 things I made which will be available tomorrow at the digiscrapshak:



and if you made it this far.. thanks!

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Merry Christmas!!

Here is the card we sent out this year!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

One More Day!!!

One more day until I am off of work for a full week!!!! Yipee!!! Can you tell that I am excited? I have most of my shopping done too, just one more little thing to pick up and then after that it's all about relaxing.... LOL right!!!

I got a page done today:


and since I'm feeling lazy go HERE to see the credits :) Other than that, Ellie is still doing good. Her shiner is getting better and the swelling is starting to go down. She is still silly as ever. She has started doing this funny dance when she hears music playing, I swear it looks like "go go" dancing with her arms going up and down. I'll have to get a video of it, because it's hillarious! Ok with that I'm off to bed!

Monday, December 18, 2006

RAKS Add on!!

Hey everyone!! So check out this amazing add on kit at Scrapdish!!! I just love the colors this month!! You can find it HERE!



Isn't it great!!!! And look at the fun thank you card I made to give to parents/kids :)

Sunday, December 17, 2006

The Update

Well it's all over now and thank goodness! I was a long hard day for Ellie.. she wanted NOTHING to do with the nurses or doctors. If they even looked at her she screamed. My husband Jeff kept a running blog of the day and emailed it out. Here it is:
6:00am - Well the morning started off great Ellie was in a great mood and played in the car all the way to the Hosptial unaware that something ominious was approaching..

6:30 - Admiting took forever, we visted three waiting rooms in the journey to the pre-op

7:30 - Preop blues set in with Mommy and Ellie figured it out she was not going to Daycare today. She typically enjoys electro gadgets, but not today and particularly not the ones that had to touch her (pulse/ox/temp). She did get a lovely orange gown which I think of as a precurser to a straight jacket. Positive side our Dr as it turns out 5 years ago seperated conjoined twins in Denver so Mom felt much better.

8:00 - scratch what I said about Mom feeling better because this is where it all fall apart. It is go time both Mom and Ellie are crying and in a humane way the pryed her away from mom and took Ellie screaming down the hall. Weird silence sets in as her muffled cry fades away and you realize you can't be there for her now and it feels empty.Tick tock it is all a matter of waiting now.


9:30 - Mr. Little congratulations it’s a ….eewww tumor, growth weird thing that had hair growing out of it. Initial prognosis is it is not an evil thing, but pathology results will be run non the less and the doc described how big this thing was - lil bigger than a marble and very fleshy hard mass. The surgery went fine and there we no complications so a good sigh of relief, now the wait till we can see her and feel her stare of what did you do to me.

10:00 - Trip the lights fantastic! So Ellie started to wake up from surgery and the post op nurse came out to get us. She is breathing and looks like our child - quick check of the ankle bracelet and yep this one is ours, but she is mysteriously calm and quiet. Why did I think that because as soon as the anesthesia wore off and she was aware and wanted nothing to do with anyone, but mom.10:05 - Will you stop poking me! Well she developed a hematoma and the swelling started, they all came to see if they needed to take her back, but the sutures held, but a little pressure on the spot and some demerol to stop the pain things seemed to calm down.10:15 - In Steve Irwin's wet dreams! … wrestling alligators sums up the fiasco that ensued in getting her ready to go home. First they had to get some stats and she reacted like a shell shocked alien probe survivor very timid and untrusting. Then the best part - removing the drip IV tube, well Ellie helped in removing the bandages, seemed like a fun game round and round and round till the IV was exposed. Think that stopped her? We had a gusher, she yanked out the IV and covered Mom, Nurse, blanket and Rae (her stuffed rabbit) in blood which was like capping an oil rig fire. She was flailing her arm around and we needed to get it contained. Amazing a little gauze some pressure and an elmo bandage all better.

10:30 - all smiles when we walked outside the hospital, it was over and she was too tired and doped up to care about anything else expect to get home and go to bed. Get home and she did the drunk walk into the house and walked right to her high chair - guess she was hungry. Well things are quiet she is sleeping and then we begin the every 4 hour Tylenol for pain ritual. No sleeping tonight, but it will be worth knowing it she is safe.

Here are some pics:

(Ellie right before surgery)


(Here we are right afterwards.. before the incision became huge and before the wrestling!)

And here is Ellie today:



Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Anxious

So tomorrow is Ellie's surgery. I know it's supposed to be an easy procedure, but I'm still nervous and anxious! In fact, all day I was in a state of denile. Oh I guess I should mention what she's having done... she is having a cyst removed off of her right eye.. in fact if you look at the picture on my header you can see the bump on her eyebrow. It started out the size of a small pea at 6 months of age and has grown ever since. We along with the doctors decided it was time to come out. Mainly because it's getting so big and I don't want it to scar. Plus the doctors said that these can become infected... so out it goes. Needless to say, as little as it is, the thought of handing her over to a nurse as she cries is not my idea of a good time.. :(
We have to be at the hospital at 6:30 am and she will have it done at 8. She can't have anything to eat past midnight and no liquids after 5 am. Hopefully we'll end up waking her up in the morning, put her in the car and head out. So cross your fingers and wish us luck!!

On a different note, I feel like I have some mojo back in the scrapping realm. Now mind you I have lost all creativity as far as designing goes! LOL Here are a few pages I have done:

(credits: Robin Cabana's new Just a memory Kit available at Scrapbook-bytes)

(credits: Jen Wilson's Kate kit, pin and overlay by shabby princess)

(credits: Peppermint Lane kit by Laura Alpuche of the Digichick)

Well that's all I have to report.. I'll check in tomorrow or Thursday and let everyone know how it went!

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

A New Look

So I updated the look of my blog..what do you think???? I was getting tired of my 'lil sweetie and decided to show off Ellie instead! :)

Thing are crazy as usual! I do have a new kit out at Digiscrapshak! Here is a pic of it:


Other than that not too much in the scrapping realm. I'm not sure if I posted this or not but we ended up dropping out of our new house that was being built :( The market is horrible right now and the value was going down, and we would have to sell our current house for alot less money too.. so needless to say it would have been a very bad investment for us. I am bummed but also feel a huge level of relief. We took our current house off the market today and I must have had at least 7 realtors call me.. they must be desperate. That's how bad the market is! I guess in about a year we will make this house into a rental. Now this may be me complaining and don't get me wrong, I love my house. But mentally I was done with it. I know that it's plenty big for the 3 of us, but I was really hoping for something bigger... I'm spoiled I know. Plus, I packed up all of my scrapbooking stuff, cookbooks, pictures, etc... and the thought of unpacking it now just bums me out. See I'm a HUGE complainer.

Diet.. so I was down a total of 18 lbs and the past few weeks I have just been dragging my feet. I think I have gained at least 3 lbs back!!! Seems like I'll find any excuse to cheat! Ugh!!! The holidays don't make it any easier too... someone please help me get my motivation back!

Ellie has a horrible cold and cough. I have a feeling I may be home tomorrow with her. She is also having her surgery next week to remove the cyst on her eyebrow. I'm not looking forward to that at all.

So in a nutshell.. I"m bummed about the house, I'm gaining weight, I'm not getting any pages done and Ellie has a cold. Could I possibly whine anymore???? Ok sorry about this if you actually made it to the end!