sorry for holding out on ya. 🙂
ok, here’s the scoopy scoop.

now, just to preface, this may seem really silly but i’m SUPER excited about it.
i was asked to be a designer for a scrapbook website called two peas in a bucket.
so if you go here and scroll down, you will see my name in the list of garden girls.

yo! yo! yo! i’m so so so excited about this opportunity.

and all this time i thought i had a brown thumb!! 😉

life is like a box of free scrapbooking supplies, you never know what you are going to get (or what to do with it)!
hee. hee.

i sat down a few nights ago and decided i needed to actually use some of the supplies that i won from the HOF contest. mind you, i have mostly done digital stuff. so paper and glue is a foreign substance. a foreign substance that i am rather clumsy at putting together. but i took a deep breath, gave it a whirl and here’s a few of the results.

fun stuff! now if i could just figure out how to sew!!!! sariah i need you! 😉

but we’re missing you mucho.

so it’s going to be a refreshing 107 degrees here today. i’m so cold i think i need a hot chocolate. 😉

happy monday!

a little something fun on this fabulous friday…

found this neat project and thought
wow, if we could all be engaged in doing something to make the world better around us.
hope this makes you smile like it did me and if you are reading this right now
p.s. you are beautiful!

saw this shadow self-portrait idea a while ago and thought it was super cool.

baby “spike” is doing well.

so who would have ever thought i’d be so sad that you were gone.
we came to know each other so well. you were always there when i needed you especially during those stinky times. you let me dump on you even step on you, yet you never complained.

oh how i miss you. you trash can you.

amidst our less than stellar move to AZ, we ended up having to leave quite a few things behind because the movers did not bring a large enough truck. sadly, by the time the truck was full there was no room in the inn for the trash can. so it stayed behind with everything else until they could bring it out with another move. i waited somewhat patiently for my trash can. finding many other alternatives knowing it would soon come.

but………..when the movers finally came (a month later), my trash can didn’t. i don’t know where it ended up. maybe in someone else’s home. maybe in some lonely storage unit somewhere. maybe out there along the side of the highway just waiting for me. waiting. with sadness that no one will ever fill it up with stinky stuff again. then again maybe it is happy. maybe it is cheering along with the rest of the lost and abandoned trash cans of the world. “we won’t take it anymore! you can take your garbage and shove it!”

🙂

today is just today. not too much happening. but here are a few things making me smile.

1. love this man

2. 27 weeks

3. library day

4. finally got these hung. yippee!

5. and, of course, a little of this tonight to make me happy!

pack your bags and head to the happiest place on earth!

first, thank you. thanks for all your thoughts that lifted me. i truly appreciated it!

well, after my “crazy pregnant lady” post on tuesday i got in the shower and started thinking. thinking about ways to get out of my funk, be spontaneous and just enjoy the world around me. it began with thoughts of taking the kids on a day adventure, but where? no idea where to go around here. and then the wheels were spinning. why not a little road trip? quick. fun. close. disneyland? done! (gotta take advantage of our passes before they expire, no?!)

i presented jeff with the idea. he sensed my mind was already made up, so being the amazing husband that he is, he told me to go for it! and with that, we were gone in a few hours.

i have to say, it was just what the doctor ordered. the drive was great. the weather was amazing. the adventure was exhilarating. and i was as giddy as dallin and ella. we even headed up to valencia and oxnard to spend some time with family and friends. ahhhh…nice.

while at d-land, dallin kept saying to me, “mom, this is the place where dreams come true!” i had to smile. while it certainly isn’t the cure to life’s problems, it was a perfect dose of happiness for all of us.

feeling a need to be real today. sometimes real isn’t always easy. or sweet. it’s just real.
and that’s okay.

still struggling with this transition. tears flowing more easily than they ever have in my life. trying to be strong for my family. yet feeling vulnerable to my emotions. true, this is largely due to the fact that i am heavy with child. but for now i’m trudging through it realizing it is just a rough spot to overcome. glad these bumps don’t last forever.

the irony is i’m hoping to be the “real” me again soon.

enough of that though, here’s a happy pic for today.