So Excited!

TONIGHT IS THE NEW SEASON OF HEROES!!! If you have never watched the show I highly recommend picking it up this season. Such a good show and I am not into this genre. More on that tomorrow after I watch the first show of the season.

So yesterday we went to my cousin's 1st birthday party. She wanted to go to the Angel's game so that's where we went. All 30 of us. Actually not all of us were there but 30 is still quite a lot. It was Brendan' first game and he was SO excited. I can't even describe how excited he was. Scott already had seats to the game so we kinda went in between those and where our family sat. Our friends Joe and Shannon went to and sat in our seats down on the field level. It was perfect because the seats Scott had bought were in the 4th row in left field and it was right where the pitchers warmed up before the game. Joe and Shannon were very generous and bought the kids rally monkey (if you're an Angel fan you know what those are). Here are some shots of the day...

Not only was it a great day because we got to be with family, but the Angel's clenched the division. So fun to be there for that moment. The kids were so excited with all the celebrating. People were jumping up and down screaming and yelling, fireworks were going off. Kennedy told me "this is WAY better than watching the game on T.V.!" Here are pictures of the celebration...

and my absolute favorite shot of the day was taken by my cousin Kim's husband, Chris...

On the way home things kinda went downhill. We witnessed a three car accident on the freeway. It was scary to watch and we ended up next to one of the cars involved. It was a lady and her two young daughters. We stopped to help because she had smoke coming out of her car and she was screaming for help. We ended up staying because we got the girls into our car so they could stay warm and everyone was transported to the hospital by ambulance except the the man that hit and run. So the fireman told us we could leave after they had the lady and her daughters loaded in the ambulance. Kennedy was on the verge of tears, she was very scared. I hope that the family was okay. We got about a mile or so down the freeway and Brendan started throwing up in the car EVERYWHERE! Poor baby didn't feel good at all. So the day ended up being a bit crazy but the Angel game was lots of fun! Can't wait till next season when we can go to more games.

Memory Trends Round 2

All right let's see if I can fit this into one more post. Our next class was with Ali Edwards. So excited for this class. It wasn't going to be a project class (hopefully next time). Ali talked to us about the business side. Bringing people in to your store (or whatever your nitch in the scrapbook world is) and inspiring them and making them want to stay with you. She had lots of ideas and defin. made my wheels start turning in my head. She is enjoyable to listen to and even though I was so tired she made me laugh and enjoy the hour and a half in her talk. She gave us a notebook filled with her lecture in note form, a book about networking and the digital kit of the month from CK. It was very cute because Ali brought her husband with her and he sat and listened to her talk. I think I really enjoyed Ali's class because she seems like the kind of person you can sit down and have a beer with her and she is real. No pictures from this class since we didn't make a project and i didn't want to join the mob in asking Ali for a picture (poor girl).

Next up in the day... 3 hours with Tim Holtz. Never had experienced him before but now... LOVE HIM. Along with every other woman in the industry. He is a very energetic, funny, creative person. not knowing what to expect since this was supposed to be a spotlight session where he shared how he got into the industry and how he brain works when designing product. Since he has his fingers in many companies (designing, writing, etc) he was very persuasive and had them donate LOTS of product. I had never played with any of his product and now I am hooked. Let me show pictures first and then I will explain all we were given.

So this was the little ring tag thing we did. It was a little sample of his products. He taught us how to use everything and I learned a few new techniques. Wish I would have had time to pick his brain but like Ali he was mobbed after class to pictures.

so here was the stash we received. His distressables 2 book which is so cool. Lots of inspiration, makes my head spin with ideas. Here are the close ups of the goods...

We got to play with his new grungeboard which debuted at CHA summer and hasn't shipped yet. It's like chipboard but you can do pretty much whatever you want to it and it won't break, rip, shrink, etc. Very cool. Also got his favorite set of stamps from his line. They are unmounted rubber stamps that stick to the clear block. LOVE THEM! I have already used them on a layout. Can't wait to get my hands on more! Most excited about he tool set we got. Came with a picture distressor, cutting tool, paper piercer, paper distressor and all are retractable. The scissors that came with are also awesome. Love them more than my cutter bees and they cut through more than paper. How did I live without them for crafting? I highly recommend them.

Also got to play with his distress ink (love it) and the pad that is used for blending it. The new crackle paint is fun and how nice was the paint dabber (eliminates the mess of the paint and brush cleanup). Can't wait to take another class from Tim.

Last class of the day was with Becky Higgins. Now I do not like 12x12 layouts. In fact, I detest them which is why I wanted to take her class. I was hoping she would change my mind about 12x12 layouts. SHE DID! I really enjoyed working off the sketches and for once I actually liked the finished product on my 12x12. Here is one half of it while the other half is hiding behind because it wasn't done...

So Becky was super nice and the next day I was walking by the CK media booth and she was there doing a meet and greet. I had nothing for her to sign like the other people did and I'm not into taking pictures like that but I wanted to talk to her. So it was my turn and I walked up and told her my story about how i detest 12x12 layouts etc. She was so nice to talk to and we were talking about her new book. She shocked me when she said " can I give you one?" Are you serious? Ummmm..... YEAH. She wrote a little note on the cover and off I went. Read through her new sketches book and I already plan on making some 12x12 layouts. Looking forward to CHA and hope I get to see her there.

We also made a couple of cards in her class and pictured above is one of them.

So, on to the make and takes we did on the show floor. I already showed the one from Hampton Art. This one is from Studio 8 Designs. They are a new company based out of Utah of all places, imagine that!

This is the luggage tag we made at the CK Media booth. Wendy Smedley and Aby Garvey were there promoting their new book. Both very nice. Thought it was interesting that Wendy told us she was nervous about the book because some of the women in the industry were nasty. She has no reason to be nervous because the book turned out very nice and even if you chose not to read the book, the pictures alone were worth it.

Stampendous was another booth we stopped at. Made little clear pails for Valentine's Day. Had lots of cute cards in their booth. I took a couple of pictures (notice how descriptions are getting shorter and this post is turning into the longest post EVER)...

Okay, last booth I will talk about. This was the cricut booth. Those ladies were crazy loud. they were doing drawings and everybody was screaming. Megan and I were laughing. So we did two projects at their booth. The first was an altered journal that I did for Ms. K (she has already written in it) for obvious reasons...

the other was a cute mini album...

Okay my brain is officially mush and I can't talk about MT anymore. Going to sleep now!

okay let's tackle Memory Trends!

I've got lots of pictures none of which are actually from the show . Megan and I were so wrapped up in our classes and walking the floor when it was time to go home we realized we never took any pictures. Oh well, instead I took pictures of the projects from our classes and the make-an-takes we did. So here we go....

I wasn't sure if Megan was going to have a good time since she does not scrap. Our first class on Monday morning was a stamping class and although we were going on not a lot of sleep it was still fun. We made a 12 days of Christmas book that is SO cute. Melodee Langworthy taught the class for Hampton Art (who I am going to start buying from because I love their stamps) and she is SO nice! Here is our project...

Not only was the class fun but they gave us ink and the new Creative Cafe stamps. LOVE EM! I think that Melodee would say she was sick of us by the time we left because during class she showed us one of her projects for the booth. We both liked it so we went to go make it...

Hampton Art was very generous and gave us all of those chipboard flowers to go with the can. The booth had some many cute ideas that we looked at while we were waiting. While we were making our project, I asked Melodee what the project looked like for the afternoon. Megan fell in love with it so we came back to make it. First here's the cute pictures form the booth (the only pictures I took the whole trip)...

Loved the little flowers, they were made out of the chipboard flower pieces we were given. Spring bouquet?? My mind is working. When we came back in the afternoon the project was very involved. We were one of nine that were able to make the project and we waited almost hours to do it. I didn't care though because Melodee was so nice and the project was so cute. Megan really wanted to make it too. I am giving Melodee the credit for getting her interested in scrapping and stamping. We met two really nice ladies while we waited. Wish we would have had one more day in Vegas and we would have met them for drinks. They were fun! We exchanged business cards and told them to call us when they come out for CHA in Feb. So anyway, back on track here is he other project we did at the Hampton Art booth...

Sorry, I forgot to turn this one so you will have to turn your head instead.

Okay so this post is turning out to be way longer than expected and I have only gotten through ONE CLASS! So I think Memory Trends is going to be a three post edition. We'll rename this the Hampton Art/ Melodee Langworthy post. More later it's time for dinner!

Success!

After much planning and lack of sleep the birthday came off without a hitch. My girly is officially five years old. Am I liking this. No. Did she have a great birthday? Yes. She told me it was the best birthday ever so I was a happy mama! Here is what Ms. K took to school on Friday to share with her classmates. I didn't o cupcakes or cookies because 1. they ask for no food and 2. i wouldn't have brought that anyway because if every child brought some type of sweet for their birthday everyone's teeth would fall out! that is WAY too many sweets. So we brought pencils with tags tied on with sheer ribbon. I was happy with the way they turned out. The kids loved them and Ms. K said one of the little boys is still telling her thank you for the pencil 4 days later. So cute! Since i am such a dork, Ms. K took them to school in that vase so they looked like some sort of sweet treat.

So, on to the princess' actual birthday...

Ms. K's birthday party was defin. a success!!! We started out the day at the soccer field where Ms. K scored ANOTHER 7 goals!

There she is scoring one of her seven goals. We were so proud of her! Now we owe her $15 dollars for goals. (Way to go hunny, please don't tell her $1 a goal again).

I wanted to share what Mr. B does while Ms. K plays soccer...

EATS! That's all he does the whole time!

After soccer we headed to my parents to set up for the tea party. It turned out SO SO SO SO cute! I was really happy with the way it turned out and Ms. K had a great time with her friends. I thought I had taken a ton of pictures but looking back I didn't take as many as I thought (boo). Here is the set up before the party...

For the party, we set up a tent with a table and wood chairs that had sheer bows on the back. there was a chandelier hanging form the top of the tent made out of pink and white paper lanterns (so stinkin' cute!) Real linens covered by a vintage table cloth were the setting for the crystal luncheon plates. Each girl had a personalized box with treats at her seat and they drank pink lemonade with peanut butter and jelly tea sandwiches, ham and cheese tea sandwiches, scones (blueberry, caramel), lemon bread and a bowl of berries. They were so cute because they all came wearing dresses and thought they were quites fancy sipping out of their crystal cups.

My mom was very cute and insisted they have a candy table, so they did. Their eyes were so wide when they found out they could take whatever thy wanted in a bag to go home. It was cute because they were so polite about it and each put a few pieces in and they were done. So I went over and dumped more in their bags and they were beyond excited.

Ms. K had requested little cakes for everyone so that it what she got. They each had individual pink cakes with vanilla frosting and pink sprinkles.

Here is the birthday girl who is already worn out and still has one more party to go...

the second party was also very small and we just called up family to come over and have a casual meal. But what is a birthday party without a cake, so for the second time that day my children had cake! Anyone that knows me well knows I had a hard time with giving my children cake twice in one day since I am so weird about what they eat. But as you can tell I got over it. Here is the exhausted birthday girl blowing out her candles on her second cake (it was an Ariel one)...

So that's the summary of Ms. K's birthday celebration. I'll get to talking about the Memory Trends show tomorrow, I'm too tired tonight. Sweet dreams!

Where has the time gone...

Well it's 11:25 here right now and I am just finishing baking cakes for Ms. K's birthday party tomorrow. In less than an hour my girly will be 5 years old!! I can't believe it! Tonight when she went to bed I asked her if I could kiss her one more time as my four year old. She looked at me funny and said "Momma I'll always be your girl!" Okay, that works for me.
So things have been crazy as usual. I don't think I want to be the team Mom for soccer again anytime soon! Way to much time. Last week our girl scored seven goals!! Can you believe it! I took videos and pictures but have I had time to post any of them... not so much. i had to coach her game last week and I had her sit out a quarter of the game and she still scored seven goals.
I have so much to talk about and catch up on but we have an early game tomorrow and it's our day for snack and Ms. K is having a tea party for her birthday (lots of pictures to come!!) and since no boys are allowed at her tea party the family party will be in the evening. I think I might go crazy trying to get it all put together. Not only that but, Megan and I leave for the Memory Trends show in Vegas Sunday afternoon. Do I have anything ready for our trip? That would be NO! So I am going to be so i don't fall asleep helping my sweet girl celebrate her birthday tomorrow and I PROMISE I will be better about posting and will return with lots of pictures of Ms. K's party and Memory trends!

Sleeping with Mr. B

has been quite interesting. Mr. B talks in his sleep all the time and has to be right next to you. I mean RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! So here are some of the things Mr. B has been telling me in the middle of the night...

Momma...Momma... Momma.... I have my shoes on. (holding his legs in the air)

Momma, can I have an apple?

Momma, muffled(not sure what he was saying but he went on for awhile about it!)



I love my little man!

So I think we are having some bad luck

I don't think... I know. So this weekend was supposed to be a nice relaxing holiday weekend. Scott had three days off which never happens and we were looking forward to relaxing. Ummm.... that didn't really happen. Friday we had to get all new tires on Scott's car because he had gotten a big hole in one of them. Our air stopped working and it was 111 with 35% humidity. Scott got it working again only to have it completely stop on Sunday when it had been 112. Fabulous! Luckily my parents live close and they were nice enough to let us stay with them until we can get a new one (we still don't know when that is because everyone's air is going out because of the heat). So we stayed the night at our extremely hot house Sunday night and packed the kids up early Monday to head over to mom and dad's. As we are getting in the car I hear "ARE YOU SERIOUS!" Ummm... yeah now my car has a flat tire because it has a nail in it. Unload the kids, switch cars and we get to go sit in the air conditioning while my hubby has to get he tire fixed. Poor guy! Needless to say we were happy for this weekend to be over!!!
As I am reading back over this post it sounds so negative! Sorry for that. Long weekend...not a lot of sleep and lots of heat make for a grumpy me! We did have fun on Sunday before our air went out. We went out to my sister's house to have a BBQ (oh yeah when we got there, there were thunder storms and the boys had to BBQ in the garage) and the boys played poker while i got to visit with my Mom and sis. So fun, I love hanging out with my family and I got lucky because Scott likes to hang out with them too! Okay time to go, my timer (Brendan) is telling me it's time to get off the computer!

So I had this whole post planned...

in my head about the weather. It has been SO hot here. Try 110 for the last three days with 35% humidity. Right now it's only 10:30 and it's already 106. Our air has been working when it wants to which is not all the time. We have been spending a lot of time at my parents because you can't be in a house without air when it's 110. So last night was one of those nights. We arrived home at 9:15 to discover our air wasn't working and it was still 95 out. Way to hot to sleep there so I packed up the kids and off we went to Mom and Dad's.
Fast forward to this morning. the kids and I were saying goodbye (Scott stayed home last night so he could fix the air early this morning before it got hot, crazy I know!) and my Grandma is sitting in another room. She asks me "what is that?" I couldn't figure out what she was saying for a split second but as I am trying to decipher what she is saying I notice she seems a little blurry (I figured it was from lack of sleep). all of the sudden we start moving. EARTHQUAKE! Haven't had one in a long time. It was only a 4.8 but it really scared the kids. Brendan has never been in one and Kennedy was when she was little but she slept through it. The whole car ride home Brendan kept repeating "Momma, that was scary." It was probably a good thing it happened because I realized we have never talked to them about what to do in an earthquake. So now I am demonstrating what a door jam is and how we should go there in an earthquake. (Sigh) What a way to start the day!

Daddy Jr.

Here is Mr. B after waking up from his nap. He went downstairs laid in the chair and was watching Sportscenter. He is def. Scott's mini-me! Already in training to be a sports fanatic. When he woke up from his nap today he told me "I had a good baseball game. I played the Bluejays."
"did you win?"
"Ya, I won"
He even plays sports in his dreams.