FOBTY 4/10/09

You Are an Easter Egg

You're so sweet, you don't need candy. You much prefer the taste of artificial coloring instead.

What Easter Candy Are You?

FOBTY 4/2/09

So for today's FOBTY, we're supposed to talk about 5 TV shows that we've seen every episode of. Well, to be honest, there is only 1 show that I've seen every episode of. I've actually seen every episode multiple times!! Sex and the City is my all time favorite show and I could watch those episodes over and over again!! Let's see...4 other shows I would love to see every episode of would be.....hmmmm....Friends, the Office, Tori and Dean - Home Sweet Hollywood (yes, I do like that show...*sigh*), and Everybody Loves Raymond.

FOBTY 3/26

You Are Facebook

You are social, outgoing, and excited to connect to your friends. You are interested in your friends' lives, and you enjoy adding your opinion to the mix. While you enjoy sharing online, you don't want everyone to know your business. You value your privacy. Your life is an open book to those you know but not to strangers.

Are You Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter?

FOBTY 3/19

You Are Vanilla

You are a delightful, friendly person. You are optimistic about life and people. You are enthusiastic and energetic. You enjoy everything you do. You are cooperative and flexible. You get along with people from many walks of life. You're not a show off. Instead, you're more likely to help other people shine.

Are You Chocolate or Vanilla?

FOBTY 3/12

My favorite Girl Scout cookie is the Samoa. I normally do not love coconut, but the combination of chocolate and caramel with the crunchy cookie makes the coconut very bearable for me. :) I always look forward to my niece selling cookie every year so I can get my paws on some more cookie goodness!! :)

FOBTY 3/5

Tulips Say You're Very Positive

You are very popular and universally admired. You are often hopelessly in love, and you connect to other people easily. You are a naturally cheerful and upbeat person. You have an amazing smile. You have a fresh perspective on things. You have a different way of looking at the world.

What Do The Flowers You Pick Say About You?

Some of my favorite pages

I created this weekend!! Oh my!! I was on a kick this past weekend!! I did six pages!! Some of these pages are my favorite pages I've done!! Most of them were created using Kristin Cronin-Barrow's beyond gorgeous designs!! I CT'd for her about a year and a half ago and had to step down because of busy-ness in my life at the time. I hated that I stepped down and I have truly regretted it since!! *sniffle* I had a whole stash of kits of hers just waiting to be used - I was just looking for the perfect photos!! Here's what I came up with!! Have I mentioned that I *heart* these pages?? LOL!!

This one uses PlaytimeUsing Forever Friends
This one is using Love is in the Air and I had so much fun scrapping Carrie and Dave!! They're so cute!!

And finally one of my most favorite pages!! I have always loved this picture of Libby but never found the most perfect kit to scrap it!! I have to say I love love love this kit with the picture!! Some of my favorite pictures of her were taken when she was around this age - which was 2. I can't believe it's been almost 2 years!! *sigh* I used Where Flowers Grow

Yep, it's me again :)

I'm finally getting around to doing a blog post!! I can't believe it!! If I didn't have arms on my chair, I would probably fall off, lol!! This is just going to be a scrapping post, but it's a wonderful scrapping post (lots of eye candy) so here we go :)

Lots of new releases this past weekend at the Sweet Shoppe!! Libby, Shawna and Susan put out this sweet little boy kit (LOVE these colors) called About a Boy:

And here's my layout:
Libby also teamed up with Eva Kipler to bring a fun, whimsical kit called Miss Ladybird's Tea Party:
My layout:

Manda was a VERY busy gal last week with THREE new kits released!! They're all so fun and I just LOVE how my layouts turned out with them!! First she teamed up with Dani Mogstad. Such a cute kit all about splashing around in the rain!!
And my layout:
Then she paired up with Robin Carlton and created this gorgeous kit:
And here's my layout :)
And finally she paired up with Melissa Bennett and Eva Kipler and we get this fun kit:
And my layout:I am just so in love with that picture of Libby from last year - so sweet!!

Robin, Zoe and Fee teamed up with one of the most gorgeous kits I've seen!!

Christy paired up with Kristin CB this week for a fun family game night kit:

Darcy came out with 2 new awesome new products this week as well. You can find those fonts on all of my pages here :)
I also did a few non CT pages too. I'm completely in love with Traci Reed's designs. I told her that when I see them, my heart goes pitter pat. LOL!! After you see some of these pages, you'll know why!!

I'm so happy with how those layouts turned out!! <3 Well it's time for me to wrap up this image intensive post up, lol. Claire Bear turns 3 months old tomorrow - I can't believe how quickly time flies!!

FOBTY 2/19

You Are a Humanitarian

You're so intuitive, it's like you have a sixth, seventh, and eighth sense. You connect with others freely and easily - and you tend to have many best friends. Warm and caring, it's hard for you to close your heart to anyone. Affection is like air for you - you need to give and receive it to survive. Your strength: Your universal compassion Your weakness: Your unpredictable mood swings Your power color: Mauve Your power symbol: Butterfly Your power month: February

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

FOBTY 2/12/09

Your Word is "Love"

You see life as possibility to form deep connections with a few people. Relationships are the center of your world, and you always take time to bond with those you love. You are caring and giving. You enjoy helping those you love. And when it comes to romantic love, you feel passionately ... even in a very long term relationship.

What's Your Word?

So I've decided....

....that I am going to use this blog as my scrap blog (mostly). There will still be a few things on here that make it personal, I'm just going to try to keep it separate as much as I can. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to make this a really personal blog when I have my project 365 blog which has become more of a personal blog for me. I'll share creative team info and all of my layouts here. :) Speaking of layouts, I have been getting so many done lately!! It's so nice to be able to scrap every single day during the day!! Naptime is awesome for scrapping. Well, unless I'm insanely tired and then I try to nap a little!! Being the one that gives Claire her last bottle of the night and then waking up in the middle of the night really tires me out!! Then since she's been stuffed up lately, she's not sleeping as late as usual. That's okay though - I wouldn't trade this job for anything in the world!! It's late tonight so I won't be uploading any layouts. Hopefully tomorrow I will!! Night!! And happy February!!

Birthday Girl x 2

This is for you, Carrie!! I know you've been wanting me to scrap this picture since we took it, so here you go!! I hope you like it!! :) Love you!! <3

Two to go!!!

Two more days to go!! I'm just so excited!! Nate and I are going out to dinner on Friday night to celebrate!! It's really strange to think that I won't be waking up at 5am everyday to get ready for work. I won't have to work any more weekends. I won't have to worry about traffic. I won't have to worry about driving in bad weather. I won't have to wake up on Sundays and completely dread Monday. With the good comes the bad though. It's definitely going to take some getting used to the fact that Nate and I won't be carpooling to work anymore. We won't be able to see eachother throughout the day like we do now. It's kind of bittersweet that the place that we met, the place that started our story is over for me. That's okay though. Being at home with our babies is better than anything and a decision that I would never in a million years regret. We can still talk and email during the day and I'm thankful for that. I know most couples don't have as much exposure throughout the day as we do, so it's something that we'll just have to get used to too. People have always asked us how we can stand to drive in to work together, see eachother at work and drive home together and not get sick of eachother. We've always wondered how we could possibly get sick of eachother. We think that we've been pretty lucky these past seven and a half years to have had the chance to spend so much time together. Even during the morning commute when we're not all that talkative it's still comforting just to be together. I will definitely miss my time with him.

I can't help but feel like this is the start of a new year to me. It's a fresh start for me and I couldn't be more excited. I can't wait to be able to have a routine that the girls and I can get into. It's so difficult when you're working full time and parenting to keep up with the household duties like you should. It's hard to keep up with laundry and it's very easy for the house to get messy and unkempt. I can't wait to be able to clean whenever I want and not have to spend so much time on the weekends cleaning the entire house. The weekends will be the time that we get to spend just relaxing with Nate. I think of all of the fun things that I can do with the girls when it gets nice. I am just so thankful that I get this opportunity to spend so much time with my babies. What an awesome gift!! I definitely am blessed!!

Last night was the season premiere of American Idol and I have to say that I don't think that I'll be all that into it this year. I'll give it a chance, I suppose. There are just some years where I'm not all that into it. The year that Jordin Sparks won, I wasn't into it at all. Loved it last year because I just loved David Cook. This year I guess we'll see. I wish I would have watched the Biggest Loser last night. That would have been better. I didn't get to Tivo it either because one of the satellites isn't working properly…we're getting this message saying that it's searching for signal on Satellite 2. Whatever that means.

Tonight Libby and I are making puppy chow. We made some for New Years Eve and she loved it so now she wants to make it again. I do want to make it, but I always end up eating most of it by myself. Those eleven pounds that I am below my pre-pregnancy weight are going to sneak on back up if I don't watch it!!

I got some cute videos of the girls last night. I was filming Claire being cute and smiley and cooing and Libby came in the room. I asked her to sing a song. She wanted to know which song, so I asked her to sing her favorite. She proceeded to make up a song called "The love of the Claire". It was entirely too adorable and Nate and I had it stuck in our heads the rest of the night. I'll have to upload the video to You Tube later!! It's too cute to miss!!

Well I don't have much else to say. I just wanted to take a few minutes to reflect on how I'm feeling right now since this is such an emotional, life changing, exciting time for me.

Just 3 work days to go...

....before I no longer have a job!! Wheeeee!! It feels so good to be able to say that. It's hard to believe that after working for so long I will finally not have to go to work everyday. I know I'll miss the people (some of them!!) but that's about it. Staying at home with my girls is the ultimate dream and what I believe will be the best job in the world!! I didn't think it they would, but these 2 weeks have just flown on by!! Thank goodness!! I still am trying to find the time to balance scrapping/blogging and spending time with Nate and the girls. One thing I have managed to keep up with is my Photo a Day project. I may not update this blog everyday but I have been updating my photo blog nearly everyday. Hooray for me!! I've also been updating Claire's photo a day site, so I'm doing doubly good!! :) The links are to the right in case you missed them!! Well, Claire's getting a bit antsy, so I'm going to try to get her to sleep now. Hopefully more very soon!!

Happy 2009

So I ended up taking the month of December off - both from blogging and scrapping. It was a crazy month. Aside from getting used to having a newborn in the house again, we had to deal with a sick newborn for a good part of the month. Libby didn't go to daycare all that much, but somehow in the short time she was there, she managed to get RSV. RSV and newborn babies less than 3 weeks old is a pretty scary thing. She ended up being admitted to the hospital for observation and then again for treatment (breathing treatments). All in all, she was there for about 3 days. What a long 3 days that was. Spending the night in the hospital is never fun, but it's especially not fun when your child is the reason you're there. With God watching over her, Claire made a wonderful recovery. She's healthy and thriving and we couldn't be more blessed. December also brought my dad visiting from Omaha. It just happened to be the exact week that Claire was diagnosed with RSV. It was a hectic time, but I was so happy that he got to come see Nate and I and most importantly, his 2 beautiful granddaughters. December also meant Christmas. What a special time that was. Libby really got into the Christmas spirit and excitement this year. Talk about fun!! It was so special this year to have our most precious Claire with us!!

So now it's a new year and lots of new and amazing things await us. What is so exciting to me right now is that tomorrow when I go back to work from maternity leave, I get to give my 2 week notice. Yes, I am blessed enough to get to be a stay a home mommy!! Nothing is more exciting than the thought of being able to stay home and mother my 2 babies. I have lots of other things planned that I would like to accomplish this year. I am hitting the Project 365 with full force this year and also 365 Days of Claire which is well underway. I am so motivated to keep better track of my family's memories and to be able to look back and see exactly what we were doing at any given time during the year. This blog is also something that I want to maintain on a very regular basis. So now it's time for me to go eat dinner and get Claire fed. I'll be back soon!!

Happy New Year!!