Water bottle hickeys and toilet paper rolls.

I honestly can't leave this kid alone for 5 seconds! Yesterday he somehow managed to get enough suction on a water bottle on his bottom lip to give himself a hickey. This picture is from day 2 of the water bottle hickey. Hopefully it fades before he has to go back to school on Friday. I've never even heard of this happening, but you can see it on his face, plain as day just below his bottom lip. Perfectly round.

I also noticed this morning that every roll of toilet paper in my house is missing the cardboard tube in the center. (I will spare you the picture of a toilet paper roll) We keep the extra toilet paper in Canyon's bathroom. He has a big empty cupboard under his sink. The carboard tubes are gone out of those as well. E.V.E.R.Y. O.N.E.

I have no idea what he has done with these tubes. I can't find them and he isn't talking.

Oh, a boy is a joy!

First day of school

I can't believe how much Marissa has changed in the last year. I desperately miss the sweet little girl that she used to be but I am enjoying watching her blossom into a beautiful teenager.

My little buddy is a kindergartner this year. No tears from Mom this year, he actually had a longer school day last year when he was in preschool. Next year, when he goes all day I will definitely be bringing Kleenex when I take him to school on the first day.

I am taking a Pink Paislee class in a couple weeks at Archiver's in Minneapolis. I bought this specific shirt to match the layout that we will be doing in the class. I actually got to the store, and then remembered that I wanted it to match. Luckily Kendra has the internet on her cell phone and could send me a picture of the layout!!

Typical Canyon style.

Out For Publication

Maybe its good for me to take a scrapbooking hiatus! I get to use an "Out for publication" banner for the first time ever!

Here is a link to the original post . I will post a link to the pub as soon as it is up!

If this is going to be a regular occurrence for me, maybe I will have to scrap an "out for publication" banner of my very own! :P

Toot!

Check out who won the sketch challenge over at the Paper Poppy blog. http://paperpoppykitco.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-have-couple-of-winners.html

Yea me!

Now, off to build some railings :P

What I've been up to

I haven't been scrapbooking lately, I haven't been anything lately, except working on this deck!

When we bought this house we loved that it had all these wonderful decks. We knew the decks weren't in the best shape, but we would soon find out, under all that snow, they were actually in terrible shape.

The house actually has over 2600 sq feet of deck, we could never afford to pay someone to replace them. Last summer we began the adventure on our own. We were only about 400 square feet into the project before we ran out of motivation, so this summer we decided to hit it hard. We actually have about 1700 square feet finished except for railings, light poles and stain. Woo Hoo! Maybe someday soon I will actually have a life again, although I won't have any money to live it. (haha)

This is standing out the deck door looking down. Please ignore all the junk, and those unbelievably ugly valances that I pulled out of my grate room and just threw out there.
If you were to turn to the right instead you would find the miles of unfinished deck, so we won't go that way!
If you goes left it goes around a corner...
to this. JT is quite proud of those stairs, as he should be, they look beautiful, still missing bottom step.

This is the second level of deck, you can see a little step up in the picture. If you were to go to your right you would see another set of stairs to the upper level. It isn't done, so no picture.

To the left is this shed and a little walkway of deck to another deck that is 23x14. I should have gone over there and taken a picture as there is a huge pine tree growing thru the center that we framed around, I guess I was being lazy.

And here is my beautiful railing that we put together last night. I just love it! The tall pole will have a light on it when it is finished. We have lights every couple of 8 ft sections.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the pictures of our summer project. Hopefully before to long we will be done!!

Mike Wiezowski

Can you believe it? I posted!



I haven't been scrapping much lately at all. I've been cleaning and cleaning out! The clutter in my house has been threatening to smother me and I had to get rid of it. I am still working on it. My closet is next. I still have clothes from high school in there! There is no way that I will ever get back into them, I don't know why I have waited so long!





I used a sketch for this layout. This one is from Paper Poppy Kit Co.


I used one of my all-time favorite lines, October Afternoon Night Light. The stickers are EK.

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Happy Father's Day!

My kids wanted to make Father's Day cards yesterday, so I let them loose on my scraps and my cricut. Here is what they came up with.

Marissa


Canyon

inside of card

Aren't they sweet?!

Happy Father's Day!!

School

I am missing school already.
I couldn't wait for summer, I was actually counting down. Thinking about lazy days with my kids at home, running thru the sprinkler and trips to the pool made me smile.
Canyon has been out of school for a couple weeks, Marissa 3 days and they are driving me crazy! Fight, fight fight, that and making huge messes is all that goes on around here! What day exactly does school start again??

Who would have thought that these 2 lines of paper would work together? Not me, not until I saw it done over on The Scrapbook Diaries.

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Iron Mountain Road

This layout is a scraplift. I posted it because 1. I haven't been posting much lately and 2. I wanted to show off this Cricut cartridge that I am really loving.

The font and the blue flourish on the right are from the new Wall Decor and more cart. I didn't think I needed this cart, I have no intention of doing any wall decor, then I saw the font. I love the R!
Memorial Day weekend we took the kids up to Keystone and did the touristy thing. I didn't know that JT had never been thru the pigtails by Mt. Rushmore, so we did that and stopped several times along the way for the kids to climb on the rocks. The kids loved the pigtail tunnels and seeing Mt. Rushmore thru them. Funny, how I take it for granted having done it a million times and never would have thought they would enjoy it. How sad is it that we live a half an hour from Mt Rushmore, and Canyons knowledge about it came from Phineas and Ferb?!

Back to shuttling kids around. I am going to work on getting some original layouts done this week. Nothing is as satisfying as creating one of my own, it just takes so much longer and works my brain so much more. You know how it is, sometimes life just gets in the way.

A little more Disney

Kendra, do you know how much money I would save if I didn't answer the phone whenever you called?!


I am loving these page kits from tammi i

I added letter stickers to all them for my titles, and a Mickey head to each one, but other than that pretty much everything came in the kits.

Princess Jasmine & Aladdin

It has been quite a while since I posted. Sorry about that. I haven't been feeling very creative and I have been doing lots of page kits. That is, until I saw these butterflies. As soon as I saw them I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them...Princess Jasmine. When I started sifting through my hoards of pictures, the only one I had of Marissa as Jasmine wouldn't work. I didn't want to abandon the idea though, and I came across this one of Canyon.

Now, the question of the day.... Is this layout way to girly to have my boy's picture on it? I haven't glued anything down yet, so it can still be redone.

I asked JT what he thought. He said that it is pretty girly, but it would be one of his favorites later because Jasmine is HOT! Sheesh, Men!

So, if I have any readers left after my posting absence, what do you think?

nah nah nah nah nah Batman!

Yeah, I know it is actually do do do not nah nah nah, but it looked sillier when I typed it!

Here is my first Cricut Cake. Not spectacular, but Canyon loved it and it was fun!
Kendra helped, thank goodness! I think I would have had a dirt cake if she hadn't stacked them for me!

Goofy kid!

I'm going to need a vacation from this vacation

This picture was taken in Universal Studios, Florida. They have all these cool little word balloons around that you can stand under and take pictures.

This was only day 2 of 17 days in Florida with a 2 year old. If only we knew how true that word balloon saying would end up being!

Mother's Day

I had to demo the Cricut Cake yesterday, on Mother's Day. I whined about it all morning. Not necessarily just because it was Mother's Day, mostly because I am just whiny.

When I came home, look what I found......
Aren't they cute all dressed alike?

JT cooked for me. Flowers and candles on the table. Clean house. Kids already had baths for the night. How could I possibly ask for more?

Canyon was my waiter. He asked me "Can I get you anything else?" about 50 times. He has been dying to wear this tie since I found it in his closet 3 months ago.

I had a great Mother's Day. I hope you did too!

Test Track - Speed, I am speed

I was finally in a scrappy mood last night! I have found that if my house isn't clean (at least where I can see from my scrap table) there is no way that I can sit down at my table and scrap. I tried a couple times yesterday, but I would look around and just get aggravated. After I cleaned everything, I was able to sit down and finish up this layout I started at Michelle Chikos' retreat almost a month ago.

I found these papers on one of my Minneapolis shopping trips. They are Reminisce. When I pulled them out at the retreat I heard a collective gasp, then what are you going to do with those papers? I can admit, when I held them up they kinda hurt your eyes. :) But I think they definitely came together well for this type of layout.

I still need to add journaling. I think I will put it on this side above the pic of JT and the kids in front of the Test Track building.

The cute little cones are from the Disney Cars Cricut cartridge. Thanks Angie for letting me borrow it!

In the Test Track photo, I photo shopped two kids out of the pic. They were on the left hand side, playing on that slope right behind Marissa. It doesn't look too bad. You can definitely see the variation in the color of the slope where I took them out, I didn't do a great job on matching the colors, but it was alot to remove from a picture.

This is one of the Test Track pics that we got on our Photopass. I love that they let you include these ride pics. I hope that eventually you can add all the ride pics to your Photopass.

Not surprisingly, Test Track was one of Canyon's absolute favorite rides. We must have gone on it at least a dozen times. A few times without even getting off the ride. Unfortunately, this was the only picture of us when we were in the car by ourselves. We knew where the photo was shot and put our arms up in the air. Evidently, Canyon missed the memo!

Thanks for looking!