Exciting news

So.. not because I don't have enough on my plate, but I actually have been chosen to be on another creative team! I was surfing around on The DigiChick when I saw that Heather Roselli was doing an application process for people to be on her creative team. I read it a few times over a couple of days and then on Monday I decided what the heck I should apply and see what happens. I filled out the first set of questions, gave links to my galleries and then what do you know she asked me to be in the second round. During this round I had to answer some more questions about her kits, what I liked/disliked and make 2 pages using 2 of her kits. The first one I did was with her "Cute Christmas Kit".. which IS very cute!!

This is Ellie with Santa on our vacation. Font is Leftovers. Then the second kit I used was "Falling Snow Kit" which was a bit more challenging since we dont' have snow here in AZ, so I came up with Ellie in her PJs:

So then I received an E-mail from Heather and she invited me to be on her team!!! Yeah!! She has great kits and I really like the colors of them. I honestly didn't think I would get picked, but I"m so glad that I did!

So now I have NO excuse not to get my gazillion scrapbook pages done! LOL Rakscraps is looking for element team members. Check it out! I have made a few pages/elements, but I am by no means ready for an element team... which is a true bummer because I just love that place! How fun would that be!!?? Maybe next time around. I need to learn how to do brushes, etc.. a little better. Though I do think that Mrs. S should definately try for it.. she makes some great kits for the mega member raks!

Homefront news.. Ellie was great today. I really think she just had the flu bug and it's on it's way out the door!! Ok I'm rambling!

Getting better!

So things at the home front are looking up.. Ellie is looking good.. still going to the bathroom quite a bit, but not bad. They said it could last up to 10 days... UGH! But she is eating and drinking and looks good, so I'm a little less worried.

I finally think my antibiotics are kicking in! Fingers crossed.

Ok check this out.. Grey's Anatomy soundtrack! I wonder if it's any good?? I love the show.. so maybe this will be good too.. I'll have to listen to the little trial songs :) Let me know if any of you have it already and like it!

DH made me start to watch the movie "Blue Velvet". Ok he didn't make me, but it was on in the bedroom as I was going to sleep.. I only made it through half and I have to say I don't get it.. what a weird movie! He swears it's a cult classic and I dont' know why?? Maybe a cult, but by no means a classic! He has weird taste.. but I love him anyway!

Oh my good friend Tiffany is now a digital scrapper too!! She is hooked and even started uploading pics at Rakscraps! Her screen name is Ainwena! Way to go Tiffany!!

So far I'm failing in my resolutions.. (see them below) but like I said I'm doing ok with #3! But in all seriousness, I didn't go to WW because of Ellie being sick and me being sick.. good excuse??? There is always next week!

The flu has arrived!

Ok this may be a little graphic, and maybe an overshare... So last night I'm feeding Ellie and all of a sudden I notice she is going to the bathroom... next thing I know, MAJOR blowout! Which proceeded to happen about 6 more times. But now there is blood and I'm super worried so I call the doctor, they tell me to keep an eye on her and if she sleeps let her and then to give her some pedialyte if she wakes up.. so all is going well and she falls asleep by 7:45. Then at 9:45 I hear some weird noise and then she starts crying.. I go into the room and I swear it was horrible.. my sweet little angel threw up everywhere! It was a mess. Jeff picked up all the sheets and I gave her a bath at 10 at night. I took her out got her dressed and then she proceeded to throw up about 6 more times... UGH!!! So by now I'm totally freaking out and call the doctor again.. who knew that babies throw up until it is all out, so you get a lot in a short amount of time. Thank goodness they enlightened me on baby throw up! She finally fell back to sleep and didn't wake up until 5 am, I gave her an ounce of pedialyte (which stayed down) and she went back to bed till 7 am. So first thing this morning we headed to the doctor and I have to do some funky chemistry on her poop for the next 3 days.. I tell you that is love! Only a mother can collect samples out of a diaper and not gag. In a nutshell the doctor is worried she may have a bacteria infection.. but they can't treat it until they know what they are dealing with, hence the chemistry experiments.... The word E-colli even came up and I about had a heart attack! Today she acts fine and is crawling all over the place.. just a little tired, but still smiling away.. I guess this is the beginning of a limetime of worrying about my child. Me, I still feel like crap! I went and got some antibiotics yesterday, and I think they are just starting to kick in! Needless to say my house is on quarantine!!! Ok.. sorry for the graphic nature of this blog, but I had to fill you all in on my lovely past 20 hours!

Movie ratings

I almost forgot.. I watched "Wedding Crashers" and "Bewitched". I almost peed my pants on Wedding Crashers. SO funny! I am in love with Vince Vaughn.. such a cutie.

Bewitched was cute, not a movie to own, but a cute one to rent.

Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired!

That how I feel.. very exhausted, but do I go to bed early?? Nope, I'm too busy trying to catch up on me time... which means scrapbooking.

I'm also tired because for the past 2 days, Jeff and I have been house hunting!! We have definately outgrown our place, so we are looking at building a new house!! It's pretty exciting and we think we found what we want. We actually had another house picked out, but it had a lottery system and we didn't get chosen for the good lots and the ones left are in high traffic area, so we decided to look at others.. so we found this nice house that actually will have a basement. Jeff is completely excited about that.. all I keep hearing is "our movie room". It's actually a cool thing since houses here in AZ don't normally offer basements, in fact I don't know of anyone who has one. So that will be pretty neat to have. There is a catch though, we have to wait for some certain lots to open so that we can get what we want. So keep your fingers crossed. The build time is 12-18 months which is perfect for us to completely outgrow this place!

Ellie's hair is out of control. I comb it and brush it down and the hair just continues to stick up on top of her head. Jeff calls it a starburst! It's so funny! In fact we had groceries delivered and the guy walked in, took one look at Ellie and said, "nice hair!" Who asked him??? LOL I'll have to get some pics posted of it.. the ones I have so far don't do it justice. I hope it will all settle down soon.

Oh and can I just say how completely relieved I am to have Rakscraps back up and running.. I do love the digichick as well, but it's so nice to have Rak back. The people there are so friendly. In fact.. i'm off to go chat with them all right now. Check Ellie's page for her latest scrapbook page!

New Year's Recap

So for New Year's Eve, Jeff and I had some friends over for dinner. All together there were 8 of us. Jeff made the most wonderful Prime Rib. Jeff is an awesome cook and it was sooooo delicious! I always kid him about being Emeril. Anyway, we had a lot of fun and drank a lot of wine!!! By 12 midnight, Jeff was a goner. Even in his obnoxious drunkenness he was cute (is that a word???). I'm so glad I got to bring in the new year with some great friends.

Oh I officially converted another paper scrapper to digital. She got ditigal image pro for Christmas and now she is hooked. She even showed me how to tag all my kits in photoshop elements, which is going to take way tooo long, but I've started. I think I already mentioned that in the past post, but I have done quite a few already.. Yeah for me, I'm getting organized (Yeah right!)

Ok Resolutions:

1. Lose baby weight and then some. (going back to WW on Monday)
2. Become more organized and tidy (my office looks like a tornado hit)
3. Scrap a gazillion amount of pages!!!
4. Work out or should I say, try to exercise, which does not include typing and/or moving a controller for video games... which leads me to this thought..

You know those dance mats that you can get and the game for play station 2.. I'm so tempted to get that. I know I would look like a complete maniac/weirdo but people are actually losing weight with it. Plus how fun would that be???

Ok I digress. So those are my resolutions, I really think I'll be able to do #3. Oh ok and the others too. Here is a quick LO I did today from a sketch on Ginger's Blog. It's Jeff and I on New Year's Eve. I figure that will be my before picture. (I'll post the next one when I'm down 50lbs!!! LOL) It's actually the very first rectangle scrapbook page I've done, and to be honest the change was nice. I might even consider doing a family album that way. I'm such a rebel! :)

I'm rambling because I have a terrible cold with medicine head. Sorry.

Happy New Year!!

Here is a page I did for the year in review challenge at Rakscraps. I'm having trouble posting it on their site due to the server being slow, but I'll hopefully get it up tomorrow. I'll fill everyone in on New years later.. trying to catch a cold, so i'm off to bed!

Sweet Face

Ok here is a LO I did last night that I absolutely love.. nothing special but I just thought it turned out great. I won this kit Expectant moments at the night owl chat (at Rakscraps.com) from Amy Knepper and it is such an awesome kit.. I knew I wanted to use it really bad, so I just made the pick b&w so that all the pink & green didn't show up LOL..

Oh I almost forgot.. I also got PSE 4 for christmas.. some minor differences from version 3, but the biggest one is the ability to see your fonts your using... so much easier. I installed my one click Wow and it's working so far on this version so that good.. now if only I could get atomic cupcake to work too.

So I've been reading a few blogs today and It's amazing how many people are giving away little doodles, kits, etc on their blogs!! What a great idea. I don't have anything to give, but believe me if I did I would LOL.. I am trying to make stuff, but always get frustrated and then move on. I like the shabby look with the grunge edges and I haven't figured that out too well yet.. is it the burn, erase or sponge???? Who knows.. I will have to play with it some more.

Oprah?

So for Christmas my brother got me the 20th anniversay DVD set of Oprah. I'm not a HUGE oprah fan, but I do like her and occasionally I get a chance to see her show (of course I Tivo it.. and if I like the guest/topic I'll watch it). So anyway, I get a glass of wine and decided to put it in the player and watch part of the first (out of 6) dvds. Well it's all fine and dandy until I get to the "heartprints" section. This section is were Oprah talks about people who have really made an impression on her and then shows parts of the clips from when they were on the show... For heaven's sake, I could not stop crying! Why I didn't turn it off , I don't know. There were people struggling with cancer, a mother who lost her son, children who were sick, etc... I am a mess. So now my eyes are puffy (i'm still drinking the wine), and my nose continues to run. I hate it when you have Ugly crying face. To make myself feel better I went to the fridge and got myself a piece of pumpkin pie and loaded it with whip cream.. I mean loaded it. All better :)

A new look!

Ok so I took down the Christmas Banner and put up the New Year's one! I am so ready for a new year to start. 2005 was a very weird year for me.. really no middle of the road, just huge ups and downs! First of all my daughter was born in April! That was a major UP!! She is the best thing that has happened to me and thank goodness for her. Even when I am in a bad mood, or something doesn't go right, all I have to do is look at her sweet face and I immediately smile.

The lows.. Dad died of lung cancer, and my brother got a divorce. So did one of my best friends. Seems like everyone I know had major highs and lows this past year. Funny how that happens. So like I said I am definately ready for 2006. Ok time to get off that slump of a subject.

Ellie took a 3 hour nap today. And of course I didn't start any major projects because I was expecting her to wake up in about an hour.. go figure. I finally went in to see if she was breathing. She has been fighting a cold for weeks and I think it's coming back full force... now tomorrow.. she'll sleep 1/2 hour max LOL. I did manage to get 2 LOs done today.

Ok I"m tired.. seems like I only catch up on my blog right before I go to bed.

Christmas recap

Well Christmas is over and it's official.. my husband LOVES me dearly!! He got me a wonderful new Digital Camera!! It takes the most awesome pictures! It's a Sony Super Steady shot 5.1 mega pixels!!! Here's a pic of what it looks like

He didn't give it to me in the morning with all the other gifts, but waited until my parents were here. It was pretty funny because he gave me a new camera case and a new memory stick and told me it was all for my current camera... I thought that was a bit weird, but I went with the flow... needless to say I was so excited and suprised to see another gift waiting for me. I also got a cool new coffee maker:

Ok enough about ME!! I got Jeff an alarm clock.. I know that sounds completely lame.. but there is a reason. Jeff absolutely has a thing for lights when he is trying to sleep.. every night he makes a little cover over his alarm with all the remotes so that the light won't seep through.. I know it's crazy! So I searched high and low and found an alarm clock with a "soft amber light" plus you can hook your Ipod up to it. It's actually pretty cool. I also got him a bunch of other little stuff.

Ellie made out like a bandit! She got a ton of clothes, more Baby Einstein DVDs, books, Litte touch leap pad (leap frog book thing for babies), some activity center she can crawl through, bath toys and the list goes on... it was insane. But she did help me pull paper off and enjoyed pulling the tissue paper out of the bags.. She was cute and knew something was up. She did not want to nap at all.. she knew we were all out in the living room having fun and she wasn't about to miss it.

She did survive mass on Saturday night.. we went to children's mass so it was pretty kid friendly. I have tons of pictures to scrap. I did get this one day last night:

The papers are from the Sassy Girl kit by Betty Duganitz. It was given out as a RAK at Rakscraps. It matches the picture perfectly.

December 25th

Merry Christmas to All!!!

(Ellie with Santa at Disneyworld)

Your Christmas is Most Like: A Very Brady Christmas

For you, it's all about sharing times with family. Even if you all get a bit cheesy at times.

What Movie Is Your Christmas Most Like?

How Big???

Ok check out this article: 14 pound baby

I can't even begin to imagine that! Ellie didn't weigh 14 lbs. until she was around 4-5 months! Crazy!!

Last night my family (cousins, aunts, uncles, etc..) got together to celebrate xmas before everyone left town. It was fun, but it's amazing how now the attention is all on the baby...She made out like a bandit last night, lots of really cute gifts. It' s amazing how much one child, (who has no idea what Christmas is) can get so many gifts!! It was very thoughful of everyone.. now she has to open all of ours on Christmas morning. Where I will put all of this, I have NO idea!

I'm done with Christmas shopping. I can't tell what I got Jeff since he reads this.. but I will tell later. Ta Ta for now!

The Tree is Trimmed

Ok so I finally got my tree decorated this evening. I almost didn't do it, but decided it was now or never. I really don't know why I'm in such a funk about decorating. But it does look pretty. What is it about sitting in the dark next to a lit Christmas tree?? I just love that feeling of calmness.

Almost done with Christmas shopping.. just a few more things to get. I went to Best Buy today and there was a HUGE line of people camping out waiting for the xbox 360 to be sold tomorrow morning. Those people are nuts!! I'm not sure what it would take to get me to camp out in the cold in a sleeping bag for 2 days.

I just watched "Finding Neverland" again.. and again I cried like a baby. Now my eyes are swollen and sting. I guess I should head to bed then. Jeff is getting home tonight late from Washington. His grandmother passed away so he had to fly there for the funeral. Hopefully he'll be suprised to see the decorated tree :)

Ooooh I almost forgot.. Ellie got her picture taken yesterday at Kiddie Candids. They turned out better than I thought they would. Out of the 4 poses I really do like this one seen here. I ordered it in sepia and it looks really cute. Oh and my hand isn't in the printed version :)

Hmmm.. where does the time go?

The number of ornaments my tree has on it so far....

NONE.. NADA... ZIP

oh well.. hopefully soon.. maybe even tomorrow (LOL).

But we did manage to go to the doctor for Ellie's cold.. that was quite an experience.. they got me in for after hours (which starts at 5 pm) but I had to be there at 4:30 along with the other 10 sick children. I swear if we weren't sick already, we would definately be after sitting on the sick side of the waiting room. I had to sit there for 1 hour and 15 minutes until we were finally seen.. that's nuts!! Good thing Ellie is such a good baby, she just sat there and check out all the kids. But good news is that it was just a cold, no ear infections!!

Ok, I can barely keep my eyes open! I did manage to finish a LO tonight, I'm going to post it tomorrow. It's all about Ellie's bunny Rae. She sucks those ears so much that they are actually pretty disgusting... but she loves him.
I can barely keep my eyes open, so off to bed for me.

How I love...

Grey's Anatomy!!! http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/

That could be the best show of all time.. the ending tonight was so great with Dr. McDreamy and his mean wife.. sigh. I'm not sure what it is about this show, but I'm completely hooked!

Ok.. the christmas tree.. hmmm, it's up and it has lights on it, because it's made that way.. but nothing else. Nothing, nada, zip! But it has become a cat toy.. I swear Della scaled up the whole tree today. Needless to say the water bottle (aka weapon of choice for cats )was brought out and put near the tree. Hopefully sometime this week I'll actually get the thing decorated. Maybe an ornament or two a night... at that rate it should be done by Valentine's day. LOL

Weight watchers... what's that. I haven't been since before Thanksgiving, because of vacation.. but i'm back and I haven't decided if I should go tomorrow or not.. probably not, but I should.

Tis' the season for crowds!

So we just got back from a full day of shopping. I went with DH and baby in tow, and to be honest it wasn't THAT bad.. at first I thought things might get a little hairy as you could see tention rising with just the traffic, but once we got going it was actually ok. I think I'm officially half way done :) Of course the other half includes a bunch of more stuff still to buy... especially for Jeff (DH). Not sure exactly what i'm going to get him yet. He is a gadget guy and he has just about every gadget. I'm thinking about getting him one of those cool DVD holders/players. I guess they can hold up to 200+ DVDs. It sure would make watching a DVD easier instead of finding it in the closet with all of the other ones. Who knows, I may change my mind.

We just pulled all of the xmas stuff out of the garage, so now I have to decorate and put the tree up. I have no energy to do it... hence the procrastination of filling out my blog :)

I finished Ellie's 7 month page here it is. The kit is from the Digi Chick and it's the new "Boy & Girl" Kit by Laura and Sarah. Very cute kit. I'm sure I will get a ton of use of out it.

On a sad note, Richard Pryor died today.. I just saw the news. He was only 65 years old. I guess he had a heart attack. Bummer, he was pretty funny. I loved the movie "Stir Crazy"

Ok off to trim the tree ....

Another Creative Team!

Well more good news in the scrapbooking front. I've been asked to be on another design team!! I'm going to be on the creative team for Laura Alpuché. She has some really great stuff and I'm excited to design some pages for her. Her kits are sold at the Digi Chick. Here website is: Laura's corner

So I took a quiz on Blogthings and for some reason I can't get my results to show up.. but basically i'm only 20% crazy!! Good to know I"m only 20% crazy... hmmm if you got 90% would you post it????

Ok I love movies!! I can't get enough of them, but ever since Ellie was born my movie watching has slowly deteriorated. Not that I'm complaining too much, but I really miss it. And watching a DVD at home is not the same. The movie I really want to see right now is "Pride & Predjudice" I love the original movie (miniseries) The A&E version with Collin Firth, so I really want to see how they crammed this amazing novel into 2 hours. "Mr Darcy!!"

Ellie at Animal Kingdom. How cute is this!!! 

We survived!!

Ok.. so we made it through the vacation.

First, let me just say that I had NOOOOO idea that there were not ANY changing tables in the airplane. I guess they made 757s without them, but why?? Who's brillant idea was that? I mean they had babies back then too right??? So why am I making a big deal about this??? Well let me tell you. Ellie is teething. She decided to cut her top 2 teeth on our vacation...which in turn means she has "blow outs" and one of these so called "blow outs" hit on the plane ride to Orlando. I mean it was everywhere.. all over her clothes etc... So I head to the small closet called the bathroom and was so suprised that there wasn't a changing table.. so shocked that I got out of it and checked the other 2... NOPE. It was horrible.. poor Ellie, I made do and scrunched her poor head against the wall. She was screaming. I was about to scream too. Needless to say the ride there wasn't great. But she made up for it by being a complete angel on the way back. Even the flight attendents were impressed.

Ok enough of that.. our trip.. what can I say, we had a great time. There is so much to see and do there that I didn't feel like 7 days was enough time. The decorations were amazing. The food was great, and Ellie was a doll. She is such a trooper and was really good. But in all honesty, I'm exhausted. Somehow on our trip I got a little flu bug one day and a huge cold. So I came home with t-shirts, gifts and a major stuffed up nose :(

I now have over 150 pics to scrap... I better get started.

I'm going to load up a pic of Ellie at Animal Kingdom. I had a little cheetah outfit and of course I saw some Mickey ears to match... I had to do it. The picture is adorable :)