Impromptu photo shoot and Becky babble

My little man is just to fun to have around! The girlies love him so much, at times, too much! Today he had the cutest smiles, yes, he has multiple smiles! So, I decided to take some pics. A little cropping and editing of the backrounds and these are ready to scrap! I did invite Cassidy to join, but she's been so stinkin hyper lately, she wouldn't sit still! You really need to click on the pics to see these on a larger scale. He's just so flippin adorable, I'm amazed he came from me - haha! So, yesterday was my b-day. My hubby completely forgot! I waited all day to hear those 2 words and nada! So, today I said "did you forget something?". He almost got whiplash looking frantically at the calendar (I should have written it on there) and I said "uh, my birthday!". I wish I had my camera ready, you should have seen the look on his face, complete shock! and his reply "oh $hit!". I guess I can forgive him since he's been working 12-13 hour days! Oh, and he's hot ;) My MIL took me out to eat at my FAV place, Chipolte - YUMMY!!! I've been super busy lately!! Caytlynn had a playdate today, that was fun! Tomorrow my friend Susie is coming over to scrap. It'll be her first time to my new house and to see Cullen!! Friday will be fun, MIL is taking the 2 girls - YIPEE!!!! Maybe I'll get a chance to scrap then! It feels like it's been forever! Saturday, we have a wedding, and still no babysitter - boo! And Sunday hopefully everyone will sleep all day long, including me!

My day at CHA :)

Well, I was there ALL day, yet it seemed to last only a few hours.

The first booth I went to was Prima. That place was dangerous!!!!!!!!!!!! The lovely & talented Tina Freeman helped me spend a LOT of $. Found out she lives near me, so hopefully we can get together and scrap!! I ordered all the paper collections and some coordinating flowers. by then I was WAY over my limit, but still talked myself into ordering some ribbon - YUM!! Then, I ended up in the beading and craft section (I was looking for Paper House) and wasted a lot of time there, not on purpose.

Found Paper House and got to meet the fabulous Wendy Malicho!!!! and did a make-n-take with her and got some photo time in too!!

Met with Kerry, one of the editors of Cantata books, for lunch. I am not a person to know a lot of names, but I did recognize the name Christine Brown, she was there. I guess from what a few of the other girls were saying that there were other big shots there too!! I'm not one on knowing names, but show me one of their LOs and then I know who they are, he he. The urbly talented Debbie Hodge was at the lunchon as well!

Pumped and dumped.

Met up with Debbie and the 2 girlies responsible for me getting into CHA - Tanya and Val from Outrageous Daisy. More photo time!!!

Placed an order with Maya Road, they will be our sponsor for October or November - YEA!!! Got some YUMMY ribbon!! some chipboard letters and the flower chipboard book.

The rest of the time I did make-n-takes. One from THE Karen Foster, got some photo time in with her!!












AND..... THE Stacey from Junkitz, even more photo time! Not only is she cute, but her hubby is too!

Drove home with achy knees, shoulder and back to a little boy and girl that really missed their mommy!! Although, I think Cullen missed my boob more than me ;)

becbeck out

So smiley!

My little man is so happy and so smiley! Look here, he is just beaming! Love him!!!!!!!!!

busy, busy, busy

Well, not really, but I will be! I am sooooo stinkin excited, Barb and her aunt are coming over to scrap on Wed!!! We are going to have fun, fun, fun!!!! Hopefully I can come up with something for my MMM entry. I have some done, but am not totally groovin' on them, so I will have to see what else I come up with this month! I'm sure I'll have a ton of rejects to post after I send my 5 in :) Sunday we are packing up the kids and heading out to Gregg and Julie's place. They have 2 boys. Caytlynn had one of them pinned in the corner crying last time they were here. Let's hope that she eases up on the poor guy!
So, we put a pool on the deck and the girls LOVE it! It's been so beautiful lately, just that perfect temp where it's not too hot or too cool. This pic is of Cassidy right after she fell - not a happy camper!! You need to click on it and see it full size to really see her face. Look at the compassion in Caytlynn's face, too precious! Also, here's some scrappy stuff!!! I think this pink one is one of my new favs!

Funny story and more scrappy stuff!

So, the other day I was changing Cullen's diaper. I had my 2 little helpers next to me. Cullen decides to pee pee and make a water fountain! This was the first time the girls witnessed this. Cassidy looks at me after he was done and says"AGAIN! AGAIN MOMMY!!!" I must have laughed for 5 minutes! Cassidy says that all the time when we're watching TV. I think she wanted me to rewind time and watch it again, just like we do with TV!
I took Caytlynn, Cassidy and Cullen out to my mom's camper for the day yesterday. We were in a parade! The girls had so much fun throwing out candy to the other kids. and eating it too! It was an action packed day, no dull moments that's for sure! Exhausting, but fun! Here are a few of my fav pics. I took 71 in all!
Any woo, here's some more FIber Scraps LOs! The last one is the HMITM Challenge #4. I used over 60 stickers!!!
This is the journaling on this first one: Didn't Gammer get the memo? I'm a Girl! As if the outfit "thing" wasn't bad enough, she put my bic in crooked and snapped my picture. Hopefully mommy won't scrap these.

More scrappy stuff!!

Here's some of the stuff I've been working on :) :) :) Other than this, not too much going on! I've been really tired lately - go figure! Today when Cassidy took a nap, I napped too! Usually, I'm on the computer no matter what! Not today!
The first LO is for Fiber Scraps DT.
Second is for the latest dare. The dare was "I'd do anything for love, but I won't do ____". So, I read a similar quote a long time ago and thought this would be funny! I was smiling the entire time! Journaling:

He said "It's me or the scrapbooking" I snapped this picture as you left and scrapped it IMMEDIATELY!!!

It's totally fictional, even the pic is from the internet! The last one is for a contest I"m in and also for the totally cool How Much Is Too Much challenge #3!!

Sore with a capital S

Well, I'm trying to get in a little better shape and want to workout a bit more. Anything that I do is more than the nothing I'm doing now!!! So, I saw my favorite yoga show on the oxygen channel, Inhale. I did almost the entire class, the girls were getting restless towards the end, so I wasn't able to fully relax. Anyway, I didn't try to push myself very far, it's been over 9 months since I regularly did yoga! Well, today I am so stinkin sore! I feel like I got hit by a Mack truck! It will get better and I "plan" to do it more often, but WOW! I hate getting back into working out! I was going through my tivo list today and saw another Inhale recorded and really wanted to delete it! Ha! Like that would really stick it to that show :)
Here's a LO of Caytlynn when she was a little one! Made my own circle stamp for this :)

MIL's b-day present

It's a little late! At least I made her something this year! I'm so bad with dates and planning ahead for presents! UGH! I even get mad at myself! At least she should know better by now! I'm sure this will go into the book I bought for her and brought to work and everywhere else for a few days :) Kinda like a flat Stanley - lol!

Photo shoot

I don't think I could love my little man & then BAM!!! I do :) It was hard for me when I was preggo and found out he was going to be a he. I was just used to my girles and all the fun girlie stuff! And just really comfy with my girls. But, he's so frickin' awesome - love him to little bits and pieces!
So, today I was down 1 kid, Caytlynn was with Gammer, uh, YEA! So I decided to take a few pics of the little one. Cassidy was just itching to get in there and didn't want her to feel left out so I just let her do her own thing and I love how that one turned out. I don't call myself a professional by ANY means, but I think they tured out pretty cute! Especially since I just used a blanket that's about 10 years old! There's a lot more pics, but I really love these. Actually, I have 3 of them with his tounge showing great for a LO titled "this is what I think of my mom taking pictures of me" he he. And thanks to all the sweet comments about my sucky day in my last post :)

my day - ugh

I got to sleep in - yea! But, slept too late! made eggs and didn't even get to eat them since I had a chiro apt. I took the 2 youngest. after the apt I went grocery shopping, well, actually just went into Pick n save. Looked for a cart that will fit the 2 kids and all the groceries, didn't see one. asked someone to look in the parking lot. this kid(one of the workers) looks. 5 min later a lady(worker) and the kid walk by and she says that he's going to look for one. again! about 5 min later I see the kid in the store and he keeps on looking at me. (I wasn't sure if that was the same kid or not) well, since he kept on looking at me I figured it was and I asked him if he found a cart. he said no. THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW!!!!!!!! UGH! that entire episode wasted about 20 min and a ton of energy unpacking and packing up the kids in the car - double UGH! so I had to go to Wal-Mart which is further from my house - UGH! Had to hurry since my mom, g-ma and 2 great aunts were coming over. Got home and was not in a good mood, I still haven't eaten!! and still had to unload the groceries! Finally got to eat, they brought Culver's - yea! then I had to feed Cullen and since I'm nursing, i went into the computer room for a little privacy. 5 min later I heard commotion "what are we going to do?" "she has a pull up on" "this is a mess" well, I thought Caytlynn(dd) had an accident(in her pants), but didn't understand why they thought Caytlynn would have a pull up on! It was my great aunt that made such a mess and, well, I won't say anymore since it was so utterly disgusting and stinky, I REALLY want to forget about the entire experience! We had to get my great aunt to the car and my mom kept on gagging and throwing up! My other great aunt is such a trooper, she helped with the cleaning - what an enourmous help!!! About a half hour later I had everything cleaned up. My middle one who normally naps from 12-2 didn't because when we walked in after our shopping trip she was asleep, but my g-ma was talking and woke her up, so she was a pill most of the day! And the older one wasn't cooperating either!

On a brighter note... isn't this the funniest picture you've ever seen??? Cullen was 5 weeks and 4 days old here!

Lost!

I'm beginning to feel lost without my TV shows, almost a withdrawl! I know the summer's going to fly by and my shows will start before I know it, but it's even missing a little more than just the show. Let me show you what I mean:



Can you say YUM? Yep, going through withdrawls of this! Can you blame me? Of course I have my totally hot hubby, but a little extra eye candy never hurts!!

Productive day!

I can't remember the last time my day was this productive! Oh yea, when I only had one kid - lol. and that's how many I had today!!! Cassidy went to the campgrounds with my mom and MIL had Caytlynn! I steam cleaned the carpet with my NEW steam cleaner :) :) :) Actually, I only did half since I got a late start. Hopefully I'll do the other half tomorrow, hopefully! My new cteam cleaner also does floors, so I cleaned the hard wood. I also had to vacuum before I did the above. And if that doesn't make you tired, I did 3 LOs and an altered beer bottle! All for a Design Team call due today! got that in and now I sit! Sooooo tired. Here's the schtuff I did today. I love this picture of Caytlynn!!!















My altered beer bottle!!!! I had so much fun doing this one, I was laughing the entire time!
















Here's Becky and me about 15 years ago, nice hair!!!!!


This picture of Caytlynn is gorgeous! Can't tell here though! She looks like a big girl!









And here's the big girl as a little baby!
These are from when Caytlynn was 9 months!

Just another LO!

Caytlynn has her big recital this weekend. Actually 2 of them, one Friday and one Sat. Right now she's with my MIL - YEA - for 4 days!!! My mom said that she's taking Cassidy on Thursday for a bit - DOUBLE YEA!! Which is the perfect day because Corey is off tomorrow, working Thurs and off again on Friday. So, this week should be semi-quiet :)

Here's another LO of Caytlynn, being the cute little girl that she is! Journaling: Cutie... with a capital "Q" Can you tell I've been LOVING my hole punch lately!!!

Rock Star LO & updates

Well, I finally became unlazy and updated my bloggy babes list with MORE cool scrappy chicks! I've been meaning to do it for some time, but just have been too lazy :D I hope I didn't forget about anyone, sorry if I did!
Here's my latest, I love this one! This is a picture of my hubby when he was a kid, trying to be like KISS - ha ha! Caytlynn cracks up everytime she looks at this picture and she says daddy's wearing make-up and laughs a bit more! It's hilarious!! It was also a lift of the winner from the 7gypsies contest at my site - Scrap-Tastic Make sure you check it out!!

Here's a few pics of the kids from the past couple days. I love this one of Caytlynn's dance class, she's in the middle and Cassidy is running by! Caytlynn is in the middle.

And here's from an impromptu photo shoot with the middle and little one! I love the one with Cassidy's little piggies in it, will look much better when changed into B&W!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Mem day :) :) :) Have a drink for me!

Pictures and some more LOs!!

Well, Sunday Cullen was baptised and then we had a party for him and for Cassidy's b-day - the big 2! After the party I went to the ER because I thought I had an infection from nursing. My day didn't end until after 10 pm! I was wiped! And the next day was horrible, I was exhausted! I'm still trying to catch up on sleep! Anyway, the party was fun and all the kids got really cool clothes! I didn't get a lot of pictures though, since I was so busy! So, Mike, I know you read this, please send me pictures :) :) :) I did manage to get some cute ones of the kids, I just didn't get any of the actual baptism since I needed to be a part of it. Here's the little man in the same baptiam gown that both of his sisters wore. His dad and uncle and a TON of other's from the hubby's side also wore it. I think about 20 or so people in all.




Here's Cassidy in her pigtails! Her eye color is really captured here, make sure you click on the picture to really see!








And here's Caytlynn with her cousin Jessie. This one is going to make for a GREAT scrapbook page!!! This picture just cracks me up! I can't help but smile everytime I look at it!









And here's some of my LOs :) Ta ta!

I'm in the Basic Grey gallery!!!

YEA! They picked one of my LOs to be in their gallery :) :) :) I posted it in my last entry, Anxious. Here it is in the BG gallery - http://www.basicgrey.com/catalog/idea_gallery_info.php?idea_gallery_id=11578
Well, here's a bunch more LOs for you! This first one is of Michelle's daughter, Cass, isn't she adorable!!!

















This second one is actually for Michelle, for her b-day - happy b-day!! She is truely amazing! Wish we lived closer so we could party and our kids could play together!

















Ok, enough about her - bwahahaha!!! Here's Cullen's birth announcement. I got the idea from another one of my talented DT girlies, Nicole, uberly talented and cool!

















This one is great because Robyn, who's another one of my DT girlies, won her a font of her own handwriting and she gave it to me! Isn't that font just the coolest! It also came with the swirl and the arrows!!

















This one is for Scrap-Tastic.com DT, Junkitz is our sponsor, I also dubbed it for Outrageous Daisy DT :) I just love this picture of her! She actually picked out the flower for me in the hospital, way to go girlie!!

















Last one here, I love these pictures, Caytlynn is so happy! Journaling: If there is joy in your heart, it will be known by the look on your face. That's enough for tonight!