another digital page

more color inspiration from SPCC! (see link below). Been pretty bored today with the snowstorm. Need to put up pictures from MASONS FIRST BIRTHDAY, which was this weekend. Can't believe my little bear is ONE YEAR OLD -- more about that and pictures later... Here is a page I made from Bobby & my honeymoon back in 07. I sure wish I was in the Bahamas again right now!!!

SPCC #31

I am totally loving this blog! Of course I love it EVEN MORE since I was a *top 5* winner on the last challenge. Wahoo! Now I need to figure out how to get the "Top 5" button on my blog... Here is my last-minute take on color combo #31. Again, another digital page, this time made on plain old Microsoft Publisher! Used FREE kits by Annie Imendez (kit is called "Sampler") downloaded from Acherryontop (ACOT.COM I believe is th website). For some reason the picture shows up as having a white border, when I made it, it was not supposed to, but I guess the white looks alright too! :)

SKOL VIKINGS!!!

Wahoo! Vikes actually pulled off a win today -much to everyone's suprise, I think. Hosted a little "playoff party" today, was so nice to have a few friends over for a couple of drinks & food - definately a different kind of party having 5 little kids running around but we had an excellent time. Thanks to all who came! Mason is pooped out - no afternoon nap for him - hopefully that means early bedtime.

Here is my take on the January *jack put it together late last night.

Need to order Mason's 1st birthday supplies and finish up his invites!

Wow, 3 posts in 3 days- I think this is a record!

SPCC #30

Came across THIS great scrapping challenge page! Scrapmaster's Paradise has lots of great new color combinations and challenges each week. Here is my take on the "creamsicle bars" colors. Makes me wish summer was here! Also been downloading a lot of free fonts from DAFONTS.com .

So many creative things I want to do this weekend - work on my scrabble tile pendants for my ETSY shop, get my digal scrapping ORGANIZED, -- what I love so much about digital scrapbooking is that the backgound of the page above was originally blue and I *magically* changed it to orange. It's like having never ending supplies and NO mess! Been doing a lot more scrapping lately - I've been SUPER motivated by Creating Keepsakes lately- I know a lot of people don't like the mag as much anymore since so many of their designers have left, but personally, I have liked the past 2 issues much more than the past 3 years of subscribing. Maybe because the pages seem so much simpler... wow, got totally sidetracked!

Anyway, want to find some more "scrapping challenges" blogs, and lastly go through my scrapbook supplies. I have been anxiouslky waiting putting in my first MEMORY-WORKS order - they have a great new line called *Simple Stories* - as well as a ton of new things. I am also loving Elizabeth K (can't spell the last name) new products from American Crafts-- I SOOO hope memory works is able to carry them! (hello discount!!!)

the end of a very long week!

what a long week it has been! I'm pooped!

TGIF and TGIF even more for a 3 day weekend!

No big plans for the weekend - we having dinner tonight @ the legion w/my parents and my aunt & uncle who have never been there to eat-- they have wonderful seafood/steak dinners on Friday nights - yum yum cant wait!

In the meantime, just hanging out with Mason - I bought him a bunch of shirts @ Target yesterday -- starting to buy 3T size already (he already has enough 2T clothes!) Found a bunch of really cute/funny ones. The one he is wearing today has a bunch of marshmallows doing cannonballs into a mug of hot chocolate...i thought it was funny (so does he! :) ) Also bought a gate for on top of the stairs, and one for the bottom too as it is his "new trick" to crawl up the stairs as fast as he can without getting caught.

Saturday hoping to go to scrapbooking in Alvarado - so far I havent been able to go but think it would be a great time to get some scrapping caught up before scrapbook camp in April.

Sunday we are going to have a few people over to watch the vike's game- nothing crazy

Monday-- planning on doing nothing!! oh ya, need to mail out Mason's bday party invites...Target had NO invitation envelopes when I was there - so disappointed. I ended up buying some el cheapo thank you cards just so I can steal the envelopes-

got to go, Mason found my paper scraps garbage and is having a blast taking them out piece by peice!

laundry laundy laundry

is at the top of my todo list today-- i havent done laundry all week so there is a lot of catching up to do! for one little boy with such little clothes he sure does create a lot of laundry to do by the end of the week! also want to get all the christmas decorations down (finally!) today -- we just unplugged the christmas lights from the timer yesterday - that is what we get i guess for not putting any up until Dec. 18th!

this weekend was a busy SIOUX hockey weekend. Friday night Bobby's work hosted a suite @ the ralph and our friends Drew & Meg came up from DL for our 5th (?? losing track of the years!) annual Buzick-Barker Christmas. The tradition started back when we all 4 still lived in Gardner. Now we don't get to see them as often since we are 2 hours away not just 2 miles away. Also got to see my best friend Sammy and her husband, and their two friends Jamie & Jim. It was so great to see them again - they too have moved far away from us, so it makes getting together that much more special.

Saturday we had "family night" at the game - Mason got up on the big screen, I of course, wasn't paying attention and missed it completely. I am totally bummed, would have loved to see it. I was probably shoving my face with the sugar-coated almonds I get every game anyways...

i have also been reading a bunch of new decorating blogs to go along with my daily HGTV fix! one of my favorites is "Our Suburban Cottage" . Inspired me to paint our front entry "Organic Tea" on Wednesday- now looking for a black barn star and maybe a small bench/couch to finish it off!

time to get back to work and "being productive" !!!

Happy New Year!!!!

Hello 2010! Wow already a new decade-- remember where you were when the big Y2K happened? That was already 10 years ago! I admit I was actually a little nervous that New Year about what was going to happen. Anyways- here we are 10 years later! Bobby & I did make it up for the New Year, watching a movie. I was very proud of both of us!

New Years Resolutions.... I wonder who came up with this idea. Like why should we wait for a new year to "change" ourselves? I think a birthday resolution is a better idea. Plus it gives me 3 more months + 5 days to think of some better ones...

• quit swearing-- or at least not so much. I think I might even start a swear jar :)
• be more productive at home & work-- sounds better (easier) than 'quit procrastinating' or 'get organized'
• Run in the Meet Your Neighbor Day 5k this year-- this should also hopefully get me working out on a regular basis
• Read 3 novels -- this is quite a high goal for me actually; I havent read an entire book (not counting baby/pregnancy/child rearing) since college. I am open to suggestions on some good reads!!!!
• be the best mommy, wife, and person I can be :)

I think that is a good start! #2 and #5 are pretty generic but that's ok I think! Now off to get some much much needed cleaning done (see #2!)

Happy New Year everyone!!!!!