Week 3

Here is our layouts for week three. Leah rocked out the messy layout for the second challenge for week 3. and i had modem troubles this week so i was so glad that it was a one person layout.

Challenge was to figure out what was passed down to you, from whom, and memorialize it. There are so many choices here - what speaks to your heart the most is the one to choose.

Leah's- Our Sweetness

Brandy's-Patience

Thursday's challenge was to create a "messy" style layout. Please use a solid paper and only 2 patterns for any paper extras. You must use at least 15 elements and no more than two elements can be from the same designer. Please do not use the same element repetetively more than twice as this counts as your two items per designer. Use this roadblock to challenge your creativity and to think outside your normal scrapping box. The messier the better and please feel free to use more than 15 elements as that is the minimum requirement only. We would also love to see some fancy title work (an alpha used for your title work can be considered one element) and there should be at least a tiny bit of journaling. Include dates, location and names somewhere on the layout.

Leah's- Strong Girl

Happy Friday the 13th!!

Well lets see it's friday and here are my plans for the weekend:
Today-going to walmart and getting some stuff then dinner with my MIL and (soon to be)FIL. then watching Pursuit of Happyness
Tomarro-We have MIL's wedding. then prob nothing. will watch the dvd if i dont tonight.
Sunday-we have friends over for dinner and cleaning durring the day.

Well here is my answers to Laurens blog post on Sweete Shoppe Blog:
question #1 who’s your dreamy dreamy steamy hottie (and hubby’s don’t count) don’t just answer.. post up a picture, I need eye candy!
Well anyone that knows me it's no big secret. i have two yummys and just happen to have them in the same picture:

Yummy yummy yummy!!! hehe. two goofballs how could u not love them?! and for those that don't know it: John Cena in the white/camo jersey and Ben Rothlesburger in the orange shirt. Yum.

question#2 what is the goofiest thing you’ve said/done this week?
Hmm owen gets me to say all kinds of goofy things like "dont put that toy in the milk!" or "no you cant stand in the fridge with the door shut" or "no taking a nap doesnt mean hiding under the table" but he is a goofy boy so goofy things are to be said.

question #3 If I (or some random other person, as I can’t really answer this properly otherwise haha) walked into your house RIGHT NOW, what would embarrass you the most (be it an item, a mess, your fridge.. whatever)?
Probably my bedroom as it is still a big jumble of a mess from moving ugh!

question #4 what creepy things do you have living (or growing.. ) under your bed (due to lack of cleaning of course )?
Nothing because we have no bed frame. lol with the window by the bed the frame would make it too high lol.

question #5 have you ever done a drive by fart in the super market? Did anyone notice?
ME?!?! Never! I’m a LADY. hah --->good one lauren!

question #6 Finish this sentence… If I were a duck__________.
I’d sing a lil song that went.. ooh I am a duck , quack quack quack, I have a beak, and I go clack clack clack, oh I think I am yellow, but maybe I’m brown.. I’m not really sure because I can’t see all around. Ooooh I am a duck, quack quack quack.. ---> i like Lauren's song lol

question #7 google it … dude do it! ” your name is” __
Brandy the Chihuahua is so small, she's not allowed on her owner's sofa .

question #8 what colour are your underwear?
Black

question #9 if you could be with anyone right now, who would it be? why? (I’m not talking dirty here people.. stay with me, focus! lol)
hm...probably lauren cuz she makes me laugh lol and then the two crazy boys can run around and have fun lol.

question #10 close your eyes, what do you see? (well, not SEE see.. obviously, work with me, it’s 230am )
white swirling lights lmao!!

What a month it's been....and a toot!!

ever have one of those months that just seems to be one thing after another?! boy has it been here. First my FIL (well soon to be) had a heart attack the last week of march. Come to find out it was caused by his gall bladder removed. so then on the 1st of April (also his b-day) they do the surgery to take it out. it goes good, until his lungs collapse and they get them back up and he spends a week in ICU....oh and him and my mil are set to get married this saturday so she is so stressed out. then it seems that no matter how much we save we just cant get ahead. last week we only had 5 bucks in the bank. then AFTER pay day it was 4 bucks. then jeff comes home and says "something hit my car and the drivers door wont open. i have to climb through the passenger side to get in." Ugh come on! of course being jeff he then decided, that he didnt wanna do that anymore and insted of having it looked at by his brother, bends it open as far as it can to squeeze in. NOW with the door shut you can LOOK into the spot where the door is being pushed out . And the on the night before easter about a 2-3 hours after we are over there to dye eggs, mom calls and says they are rushing my grandma to the hospital via ambulance as she says her chest is tightening and she cant breath (back up info on my grandma she has enphazima and has an oxygen machine at home to use and a nebulizer that she uses and has been under quite alot of stress latly due to mom and sister l-o-n-g story) and so that gets me freaked out and i cnat go to sleep til she calls back. she finally goes bout 1am and says they said she was trying to have a heart attack at her house and they stoped it, and then i guess she tried to have another one sunday morning. They kept her overnight and sunday as well. It was really really just not right having easter dinner at her house (per her orders lol) Something that if god forbid happens, we wont be able to keep having holidays over there because it will just not feel right. so Mom called this afternoon and said that she thought they said Grandma had Gastric Reflex (which i've never heard of) or acid reflex she couldnt remember at the moment. Then today i wake up wash out a sippy for owen and i look down cuz my feet are wet and there is just bunch of water pour out of my cupboard under the sink. i open it up to find 1-3inches of water and a pipe that unscrewed it's self. that was how i felt. thankfully owen has been sooooo good today. it really helped. and that they showed us how to fix it should it happen agian (all it needed was to be pushed up and something else that jeff knows how to do) but i am just ready to hide under a rock until it gets better thanks for reading if u did.


but on to my toot!! another on Di Hickman's blog:


Credits Here

Happy Friday!

well not much planned this weekend gonna go get oj's easter stuff here in a bit and sunday will be busy though. 2 dinners and something in the morning here for oj. otehr then that really nothing just scrapping. i need to get caught up lol. well here is my from your blog to mine:

Your Spicy Score: Medium

You are hot enough to make a lasting impression, but you strike a balance.You know when you're being too fiery, and you also know when to bump up the temperature.Naughty and clever. Sexy yet down to earth. You know how to work both sides of your personality.Men find you hot yet approachable - the perfect combination!

How'>http://ynr.blogthings.com/howspicyareyouquiz/">How Spicy Are You?

Toot Toot!

So excited, On Di Hickman's blog today is my Layout Titled "Future". I used the lovely kit Garden Party by Zoe Pern. It worked awsome with the photo of Owen. And I'm So excited to be doing some Layouts for her with her and Lucy Chesna's Templates for April. But Cant share them til they go up on the blog :P

Here is her blog:
http://dihickman.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-layout-sketch-1.html

Happy Saturday!!

Well it's been a groggy icky day here today. but i'm so happy to annouce that my sister had her baby yesterday. She named Her Sarah Marie Inez Taylor-lang. and she weighted in at 4lbs 13oz. and is just beautiful!!

that is really my big news for this week lol. but now on to the Sweet Shoppe blog for friday. Getting to this a day late, but here it is:

Amazon or brick and mortar?
-Walmart is where i get my books from. dont really have the money/time to go to the big book chains.
Bookmark or dog ear?
-book marks of some sort lol
Alphabetize by author or alphabetize by title or random?
-Neither
Keep, throw away, or sell?
-Keep.
Keep dust jacket or toss it?
-toss it
Read with dust jacket or remove it?
-remove it
Short story or novel? Novels.Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
-neither
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
-Chapter break
“It was a dark and stormy night” or “Once upon a time”?
-both
Buy or Borrow?
-both
New or used?
-More likely new, but I’m not opposed to “used”.
Buying choice: book reviews, recommendation or browse?
-browse and recommendations
Tidy ending or cliffhanger?
-Both are good.
Morning reading, afternoon reading or nighttime reading?
-Nighttime, right before bed.
Stand-alone or series?
-I like both
Favorite series?
-Gossip girl/it girl
Favorite children’s book?
-give a mouse a cookie lol
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
-not sure
Favorite books of all time?
-Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite as a child.--i agree
Least favorite book you finished last year?
-um the davinci code (wasnt my type of book)
What are you reading right now?

-it girl book 2-notorious

What are you reading next?
-Dean Koontz's- Odd Thomas

Happy Friday......well saturday

Well not really a whole lot to post on today. but i thought i'd do the sweete shoppe's from our blog to yours challenge and tell u alil bit about our hole in the wall city of Rockford Il. here is where it is located at:

We are also the home of former Destiny's Child Singer Michelle Williams:

We have some beautiful gardens and a petting zoo as well. we are about 30minuets outside chicago so we are easily accessable to the zoos there too. We have an amazing water park Magic Waters. it's always packed though so we dont go to often. lets see, here is one of my FAVORITE local fast food place Beef-a-roo. this restraunt chain is so neat because there are 8 of them in rockford(and smaller surrounding cities) and they are all different themes. here they are:

Well it's not much but thanks for touring rockford with me :) have a nice weekend!