it's happening

I got a call from my doctor's office yesterday....Tricare approved me to go to the surgeon!! I am so stinkin excited I can't believe it! I go for a consulation on the 10th and then I am sure that there's a whole slew of things I have to have done before I can have the surgery done, but man I am happy. I thought for sure that Tricare wasn't going to approve me so I am really stoked!!

I just finished up a lo. I had fun making this one. I used papers from the spring fling kit from http://www.addictedscrappers.com/

i have to go feed my piglet princess so thats all ya get for now!!!

xo

jenn

here they are....

Here are the pages that I submitted during the DT competition at scrap4life.

The first week our challenge was to use glitter and this is what I did

week 2 was use clear embellies. I love the colors on this one!

week 3 was use a combo of b/w and color pics and create a handmade embellie. i made the oreo and added the glitter crumbs below it.

week 4 was the final week and we had to use blue, orange, red, green, and yellow on our lo and focus on our journaling. this is one of my very favorite pages this year.

I also forgot to post that last month during the c'mon get lucky cyber crop I was the overall winner! I also won the february contest by making these cards

Thats all I have time to post for now. Sophie is screaming her little brains out, so I must attend to the princess!

what the...it's April already??

Seriously where did the time go?! Well in this post you will find 2 things. 1 good 1 crap. So because I always like to end on a good note, I'll give ya the crap first! Be prepared I fear this is going to get long!



So as if the last 2 weeks weren't crappy enough with all the sickness we were dealing with, DH called me with the worst news EVER. A little backstory first. DH is stationed in MD, in a crap hole place that's not worthy of raising children at all, so in August I moved back home and I am living with my wonderful in-laws. Well Sean is up for new orders in November of this year, so we thought that we'd be ok with having to live apart for a little over a year because we'd be able to see eachother throughout the year and then move back in together the end of the year. However he found out that he's going to be deployed. Because his current location is considered land duty he has to go on sea duty and there are only 2 ways to do that and 1 of those he's not eligible for. So he's gonna be deployed. They told him it's going to be a one year deployment unless there is some random act of God and he may be able to slip into a 6 month. When he told me I thought he was totally kidding. I kinda laughed a little and then he said no babe I'm serious. Then it hit me and I had to hang up the phone. I cried and cried and cried and cried some more (you get the point!) I just have no clue how I am going to deal with this. He is my balancing act and these months without him have totally sucked. So for now I am going to wallow in my sorrow. I will be happier about it at one point but for now I grieve! Ok well I just thought how am I going to be happier about this? The answer is simple....more moolah! Which will mean more scrappy stuff!!!! Which will lead me to my next bit of news..



I made the team at www.scrap4life.com !!!!! I am so out of my mind excited! I can't believe I made their team and I am seriously totally grateful about it! I was reading the post this morning and I had to stop mid scroll and breathe. My heart was beating so fast and I felt sick to my tummy. But I scrolled on and I read my name!! I had to go back a few times and read it to make sure that my name was really there!! LOL! I am honored to have gotten to know all the girls that were trying out and all the regulars on the boards. Jodie, Angela, and Nancy are the coolest chicks around and I am so friggin happy to be workin with them! Jodie's kits are ALWAYS packed to the brim with stuff! I LOVE them! I need to go look and see if I am allowed to post my pages now. So I'll be back later to post some work! Thanks for reading and listening to my whiny butt.

xo
jenn

i love mondays.....

I freaking woke up sick this morning....and not only me but Sophie too. I can deal with being sick. I hate it but I can deal with it, but my poor tiny little 4 month old baby girl can not. I really think it's not right that babies this young can get sick. It's frustrating and irritating because I can't give her anything and it breaks my heart. I am cranky and tired and this will be a short post...but I do have good news today.

Today begins the last challenge for the DT call at http://www.scrap4life.com/ and I actually made it!! I am in the running with 10 other women and I have never been so nervous. Seriously I wasn't this nervous when I had kids, got married, had to have gall bladder surgery...none of that was a nerve racking as this. I really want to be a part of this DT because I totally LOVE the site which makes it even harder for me. Ok so thats the only bit of happiness you get from me today. I'll come back asap and post some more stuff. Thanks for reading!

xo
jenn

a big huge yuck and a great big WA-friggin-HOO!!

Ok so first off I haven't posted in days because James has been sick. Took him to urgent care and he's got strep. UGH! He's 2.5 for crying out loud! I seriously hope that this doesn't become chronic for him like it did for me. He really doesn't seem to be getting better yet and it's killin me. He's not sleeping well, he keeps puking (and for those that don't know me I can't deal with puke, it makes me wanna do the same) and I have yet to throw up....thank heavens! Sophie has been doin ok but everytime James wakes up in the night it wakes her up, a major setback to sharing a room but we'll survive! So if you are the praying type keep him in your prayers and for that matter throw my sanity in there too! I know that every time I pray I beg Heavenly Father to send mine back to me! lol!



And for the big wahoo.....I made it onto round 3!!! I was so stinking excited. The challenge this week at http://www.scrap4life.com/ 's design team call was to create a page using 4-5 photos (b/w and color mix) and create a handmade embellie. The last part threw me for a loop. I was totally overthinking it and killing myself! But I got the page done today and I think it turned out great!!! It's below for your viewing pleasure!! (well at least I hope you like it!) Notice the crumbs under my "cookie?" I love it!! =)



Short post it is because I have children waking up..........try to be back sooner than later!



xo

jenn

wish me luck

So I just found out that I could post my entries for the DT contest call over at S4L. So below you will find my round one entry and my round two entry. I will find out tomorrow if I will be moving onto round three!! Keep your fingers crossed!!! Week 1 we had to use glitter. Week 2 we had to use transparent items. I'll make a real post tomorrow!

Week 1

Week 2

the bunny.....

James LOVES him! View the picture below and you will understand what I'm talkin about!! He's so dang cute! I was totally excited and didn't want to leave. I was amazed because he HATED Santa! So I paid the horrendous 13.95 for one picture, but it was totally worth it! I have managed to scrap 2 pages for the DT entry at S4L this week but I don't like how either of them have turned out so I'm going to make another one. I'm not positive what I'll do but I NEED to do another one that I am happier with. I have an idea in my head and as soon as I am done here I'm headed out to put it on paper. Pending Sophie's sleeping status. Speaking of the diva, she's gettin over her ear infection, so thats great. We've been on the hunt for green Easter clothes, which is a giant pita when trying to match 3 people. I swear I wish some years I could just opt outta Easter at my parents! My mom has this crazy matching thing and if I showed up in a different color I'd be disowned! One day I'll live far enough away that I won't have to come! lol! Sean is glad that he is not here this year!!! NOT FAIR BABE! Speaking of Sean, he's getting ready to go on a mission. He's so excited because this is his first real one. It's nothing big. Its just a "flyaway" but he's mostly excited because he'll be albe to sleep in a hotel room because the base they are flying to has no barracks! He hasn't slept in a "comfy" bed for months.....since like June of last year. I can't wait for him to come home! He may be able to come around my bday but we still aren't sure.

I went to my doctor today so that I could get a referral to go see a surgeon. Bet you are wondering what for right??? Well I found out that Tricare (military ins) will pay to have lap-band surgery done. I have researched this for about 3 months and decided that I want to go through with it. According to my doctor I am 200% over my ideal body weight. Now I am going to put down on paper my weight and I don't want any of you to gawk at this number. Boy this is rough all I have to do is press 3 little numbers!! Ok I currently weigh 256 pounds. I KNOW I KNOW thats HUGE! Trust me it's appaling to me too. I have progressively gotten bigger since Sean and I started dating in 2002. I lost about 20 pounds before we got married so I could fit into my dress better, but since then I hav gained every year. Even with doing Weight Watchers I would gain weight. It sucks because I have no self control. It's really bad. So I know that for me this is going to be a good option because I won't be able to over eat. If I do I'll be sick. My mom had it done about a year ago and has lost about 80 pounds. I have talked to a few people that have had it done and had nothing but good things to say. I still have to wait for Tricare to approve everything but because of all my stats my doc said that I should have no problem getting the approval. I already have an appointment scheduled with the surgeon I chose on the 26th! So needless to say I am pretty dang excited!

Ok off to scrap. Now here's James!!!

Ok I need you to go look....

at Scrap4Life. Go to the gallery and go into the DT entries week 1 and find my page.....titled Precious Miracle Baby and tell me what ya think. I'd show ya here but I'm not allowed to post it until the contest is over. I have such a hard time posting work and I always need someones opinion! Thankfully I have a great sister that is a great scrapper, well I have 2 but I only called one on this particular project. My sweet Sean tries to offer help but ya know asking a man about a scrap page is kinda like asking them what shoes look best! lol! Ok so tell me how it looks and be honest! If you have some constructive critiscm that you think might offend...don't worry just tell me! Gosh I am being awfully insecure! I am usually not this bad but because its for a DT entry I get all FREAKED out!

Other than that Sophie is feeling better. Much better! She was happy and full of smiles today! I love that! She is so cute!! She's starting to laugh and oh my heck it's adorable! I love babies laughing!

I am gonna try to go get some more scrappin done while she's sleeping. Here are a few other things that I've done over the last month....sorry most of you have probably already seen these because I post all my work at all my fave online galleries! But just in case someone hasn't seen some stuff....here ya go!

poor baby

well here i was thinking that my children were being whiny and rotten for no reason. Well James has allergies and the doc gave him a prescription for some meds, and he's doin better. But poor baby Sophie has and ear infection and possibly a uti. Poor thing was whiny and crying and wouldn't sleep and it was killin both of us. But the doc gave her anti-biotics and today she's better already. She's not 100% but she's smiling today at least, and sleeping!

I'm totally bummed cuz I haven't been able to scrap at all this week and I really wanna get something done. Over at SO I keep missing the sign up threads for the Lucky 13 contest because I hardly ever get to go online. You should check out the challenges over their http://simplyobsessed.biz Click on the SO anonymous link and join the mb, you will be glad you did! Scrap 4 life is holding their DT contest search and I really need to get a page done for the competion and I'm hoping I'll be albe to create something tonight for it! Sus has awesome kits this month and I had a super hard time choosing. Visit her homepage at http://www.addictedscrappers.com to see both of the kits this month. Can you guess which one i chose?? Speaking of kits I got my one from SO yesterday and all I can say is YUM! Althougth TI papers always smell funny to me! But the paper is awesome and i can't wait to dig into it! I'll be getting another kit today from S4L and that one will be yummo too, has the BG two scoops papers in it! I'm gonna have a good weekend for sure!!

OOH I am getting a clip it up thanks to Diana over at SO! I am so stinking excited! I have always wanted to get one but could never justify the expense! So hooray I am getting one!!!

Alright Sophie's crying and James needs lunch so he can have a nap today! I'll be back later to post some LO's and cards!

xo
jenn

She's 3 months. =(

I can not believe that she is 3 months old already! She's getting so big. time goes by way too quickly!! speaking of the princess she's waking up! so for now enjoy these pics! will update again later.

xo jenn

time moves so quickly

Geez it feels like it was just yesterday that it was Valentines day! oh well what can ya do! Well I found out what the rest of my gift was from Sean. He got me a beautiful ring, its got a heart shaped pink sapphire and then diamonds around it, and also an "S" shaped necklace that goes from diamonds to dark pink sapphires. Its so pretty, but I dont have it yet! UGH! He was supossed to have it and the shipping company called him and told him that the shipment was going to be delayed. Well he got a call yesterday that said he should have it by the 26th. Grrrr! Oh well what can ya do?!

Kids are doing well. I started putting Sophie on her belly to sleep and that seems to work SOOO much better! I haven't been able to scrap for the last few days but I did manage to get 5 pages done so far this month. Plus a bunch of cards. Speaking of cards over at www.simplyobsessed.biz they are doing this event called card carnival. basically we are doing a card a day, and its great fun. there are different challenges for each day. I have fallen WAY behind on it, and need to get caught up. Maybe this weekend I'll get to play. Oh and this weekend over at www.scrap4life.com they are having a "feel the love" crop. I can't wait to see what they have in store, their crops are always the best! OOOH ya know I think it's already started! I must go check that out. Over at www.addictedscrappers.com Sus just started somethin new...she will be doing a card kit every other month. Kandis....aka pickleballchamp is the designer for it and man that girl can rock some cards! she's amazing with them, so of course I had to buy the kit and subscribe! i am such a kit junkie!! they are tons of fun though. I love that I can effortlessley put together a page....well i dont have to think about what all i will put on the page anyways. that parts easy! the hard part is the layout and the pictures!

Alright its 12:23 and I need to get to bed. james will be up before i know it and I'll be cranky because I didnt get enough sleep. Someone please get some scrappin done in my honor! thanks!

xo
jenn

Happy love day

Well in honor of Valentines day I decided I needed to post. Well alas Sean has surprised me. I didn't think that I would be getting anything from him for Valentines day. Well so far I have gotten 2 things of flowers. He got me some daisies that are wild and crazy colors, but sooo up my alley! Then I got another delievery and this time it was Lillies. Both of them are my favorite flowers. And here I thought he wasn't listening to me! I got a note with the lillies that said the rest of my gift would be arriving tonight. UGH! I hate waiting but I am so excited that he is doing something for me when he's 2300 miles away! Thats so fricken awesome!!

Today I decided that I wanted to make an outfit for Sophie, so tomorrow I'm heading to JoAnns to get some fabric and we'll see how I do! I'll be sure to post pics of it when I get it done. I haven't been able to scrap at all this week and I'm dying. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get some time in.

Sophie is starting to get a schedule and I love it! She's sleeping regularly and she's also awake and playing. Its so much fun! I need to post pics of her sitting in her Bebepod, she looks so dang cute!

So heres to all of you today. May you feel the love tonight.

xo
jenn

ok its monday

ok i made a promise to myself today. I made a list and I said that everything on that list WOULD get done today. So this is the last thing on the list, I think I may become one of those list makers!! lol! As I sit here on the couch with my perty new laptop, Sophie is here sleeping on the couch next to me and I LOVE it!

So I got one cuz we got our taxes back and Sean said if we got over a certain amount back that he would get me one. So wahoooo!! I was so excited to pick it up and I'm totally stoked to have it. So I've been able to do all my food tracking, picture editing, message board updating and myspacing and I feel like life is normal again! LOL! I have missed not being able to get everything done because I have to get off the computer to take care of kids or so that someone else can use it. This is just about the largest purchase we have ever made. The only thing larger has been cars. One day it'll be a house.......but we won't get into that tonight.

Sean is doing well. MD sucks for him and it sucks having him so far away. But its all for the best and November will be here before we know it. Speaking of November, this year is our 5 year anniversary! Thats soooo crazy and soooo exciting! We think that we are going to try to take a trip back to Sedona. Thats where we went for our honeymoon only when we went we had maybe 300 spending cash, if that. So we'll see if we have the money and if we can find someone to take care of the kiddos for the weekend

James is doing very well. He's got a huge vocabulary now and learns new words everyday. I need to pull out the video camera and film him. He says oh my gosh all the time and its so funny. He's started to line things up freakishly good too. He's pretty anal about it and whatever he's lining up or stacking has to be perfectly even. I was a bit concerned that it was a sign of autisim but my doc has said that he talks too much and is WAY too social to be autistic. Thank heavens! Thats something that I fear the most and I would hate that to happen to one of my children. I feel so awful for people that have to deal with the rotten disease and don't know how they do it.

Sophie is getting big. She's almost 3 months now and is tons of fun. She loves to sit up, so I got her a bebepod. Went on ebates and found it through babycenter.com for less than 60 bucks and got free shipping! I love good deals!! She still eats and eats and eats, but I know that one day it'll slow down and I will be able to resume a normal life and wearing clothes that dont have the word maternity/nursing on the tags, but thats a long ways off! The girl loves to smile. I can tell that I am going to get alot of good pictures outta this one and I cant wait!!

I'm doing well. Life is getting into a routine with both kids and no hubby. Its rough without him here and I cant wait for him to be home with us. I feel so badly cuz I feel like he's missing all this stuff and like its my fault. Although, I know that he'll swear up and down it's not, I still feel like it. I haven't been able to scrap at all this past week. I have 3 kits just sitting in bags waiting for me to use them. I got the one from Sus at Addicted, one from a new site called simply obsessed and one from Jodi at Scrap4life. I NEED to scrap this week! I'm gettin stir crazy! So I've been following weight watchers and so far since Feb 1st, I've dropped 19 pounds!! I love it when your work pays off. Now I need to get my booty to the gym or at least outside to work out somehow.

There are mini goals that are totaly attainable and Sean has rewards all set up for me. If I get to my goal weight by Feb1st 2009 I get a new rock if I meet it. Ok I'm falling asleep while I'm typing so that means I need to get to bed.

Scrap some for me! I'll be posting pictures of the kids and some new work that I've done.

Eat, Sleep and Scrap!!

xo
jenn

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh blogs!

Man i seriously am no good at this! oh well I try and I dabble from time to time, so its better than nuthin!

Life is crazy here. 2 kids and no hubby around.....eeek! I seriously am at wits ends on some days and dont know what to do. James is kickin my butt with this whole potty training thing. Some days he does really good and others just suck. But man he is such a smart kid. He picks up on things so fast and learns so quickly its totally amazing to me. Mostly his fine motor skills are phenomenal. I swear one day I'm gonna need his help with my work!

Sophie is adorable. I wish I could put some pics up but I'm not on my own computer right now and thats killin me! But anywho back to the princess. She just turned 2 months.....I can't believe how quickly the time goes. She is such a happy smiley girl. She really is a perfect little baby. She loves to be cuddled and I love to cuddle with her. James was never a cuddler so I missed it with him, and I feel bad cuz now he wants to cuddle. So sometimes my bed is a bit crowded at night! LOL!

We just moved out to Vail to live with my in-laws, whom are wonderful people. James is doing so much better out here attitude wise. He was so naughty at my parents house, so its a nice change. Sean and I are doing well. Much better. We have a long hard road ahead of us but we are totally ready to take the drive and live a long happy life together. We were talking the other day about our wedding day and remembering details from the temple and I was so shocked and amazed at how much he remembered. It made me feel so happy and so great because he very rarely remembers the fine details. He's gonna be up in MD until November when he has to changed duty stations, so then we'll be moving again. Hopefully this time it'll be a place that we can both go and be happy. I REALLY want to get San Diego but we'll see!

I haven't gotten to do much scrappin and its KILLIN me! I did get a page done though and its not a normal one for me, so I'm hesistant to put it out there for the world to see! I found a new site called Simply Obsessed and am considering submitting for their DT. But I totally hate rejection! But I should stop being such a baby and just go for it!

OOOOH I LOVE CAMERA PHONES! So here is a little treat of my little one! She loves her tongue! And is such a happy baby gurl!! I love it!

Well folks I'm gonna get to bed. Enjoy this little princess. I'll get some more pics up soon. As soon as i get my stinkin laptop! Hooray for tax returns!

hooooly cow!!

It has been soooo long since I have posted anything! I'm gonna just post a quick note for today because I'm not on my computer and I can't do any pics or anything like that.

So I am back home in AZ with my parents, and Sean is still in MD....and that sucks, but we'll survive.

James is getting HUGE! At 2 he's 3ft and 34lbs, in the 90th percentile! Like I said HUGE! But he is as cute as ever and becoming such a big boy, which I don't like! No really its actually nice. Plus he's starting to form sentences and thats the cutest thing ever!

I'm here and alive and well alive. Sophie is coming in 4 days and I can't wait. This has been a pretty difficult pregnancy with all the sickness, but it has been well worth it! I'm totally excited to have this little one, but its totally bittersweet. I'm sad and find myself crying often because James will no longer be my baby. It's rough but I'm sure the transition will be fine! So I'll update again asap so that I can show you some pics!

Jenn

sick sick sick

I am stinking tired of being sick!! It is slowing down though, so hopefully I am getting over this garbage! I swear the things we put up with so that we can have children! LOL!! It has been a busy few weeks, with all the sickness! Seriously though, the car broke down this weekend and that sucked. But fortunatley sean knows a guy in our ward that is handy with cars and was able to help him take the car apart and fix it. Plus it only cost us 60 bucks, plus a gift card for the guy that helped! But waaaay better than the 300 that the auto shop wanted! Well we are getting ready to leave, just wanted to say hello to anyone who is reading! I go to the doc in 2 weeks and then I will let ya know if this is a boy or a girl!!

So you know how....

You promise yourself that you are going to keep up on your blogging? Umm yeah so that hasn't been me, obviously! I suck at it-really I do. But I promise to try harder!

Not much going on here, sick sick sick....oh yeah and being sick more! But it actually seems to be slowing down, so that is a good sign. I will find out in about a month whether I am having a boy or a girl, so that is VERY exciting. I will be taking bets in the near future! (LOL!!)

MD is turning out to be an ok state. The town we are in sucks, but the surrounding ones are alright. We went today and picked fresh berries from a farm, and that was great! Not something I ever remember doing, and I love the smell of strawberries!! I haven't ever made jam but I am going to try this recipe that a girl from church gave to me. I'll keep ya posted on how it turns out! Plus there are beaches here, and that in itself is worth being here! I love being able to go sit in the sun, and let James have tons of fun out there!

James is getting bigger and bigger! I can't stop him from growing, but really wish I could! Here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure!

be back soon....PROMISE!

sweet!!

Saw this on Karen's blog and had to enter!!

This place is giving away a brand new Dyson Vaccumm!! So friggin cool!! I dream about them!! LOL!! So go over check it out, and leave a comment and you might win too!! You don't even have to be a blogger member to enter your name into the drawing.

http://www.5minutesformom.com/1343/dyson/

this is a pic of the one that they are giving away!! rock on!!

long awaited picture

so again sorry that I have not posted the pic of the AS April kit yet. It is officially on sale and she has already sold all but 4, so you better go get one if you love what you see, and if you don't love it....well then your'e crazy!! This kit is packed full of awesomness. The pics show everything you get in the kit and the add on kit, which is only $4.50-total deal!! This kit is so fun to play with! I love doing boy pages with girly colors, takes me outside of my normal thinking!! Plus this is great to do my aam pages and the book I am making for my brand new niece!! There are pics of her below too!! She is such a cutie!! Ok so here are kit and baby pics!!


















This is the whole kit, and the add on. 2nd pic is a larger view of the embellies...yum!

yesterday at the park

Alright so I slacked a little, give me a bit of a break! I have been so stinking tired and so friggin sick. Things just make me wanna puke! I totally know it is all in my head, but it's just too hard to smell some things!! We went to the park yesterday and I got some great shots of James. A woman there asked me if I was a prof. LOL! I had to laugh, cuz I said nope just an addicted scrapper! LOL!! I would sooo love to be a prof photographer though!! That would be a great job, esp since I would have to buy a really nice slr! So without further ado, look at my cuteness and imagine what a girl would look like!! Oh if I have a girl it is gonna be hell! Esp. those teenage years! and if she is this stinking cute, Lord help me!!