Thursday, March 22, 2007

new blog

I'm moving here- http://amberley.blogsavy.com/
We'll see how it goes, I wasn't happy with the Blogger templates. Check it out!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

blog challenge


2peas Sunday blog challenge:

"The board game on which I could score SERIOUS CASH if betting were involved is ______. "

Boggle! I absolutely love board games, so I had to answer this one. Boggle is not my favourite game, but I usually do pretty well at it (*wink*wink* mom!).

Yesterday, was not a good day with the little kiddos. They were both crabby and whiney all day. Don't really wanna go there right now, but hoping today will be better!

Happy Sunday!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

24

My three guys! So cute!
I was so sick yesterday, feeling better today, but very tired.
Check out my flickr pictures, click on the badge in my links column. I did a bunch of digital altering and they turned out pretty cool, I think. Take a look!
There is a challenge on the 2peas site called All About Me- This weeks prompt is age.
I am 24 and my birthday is in a few months. I think about all I have often. Here's a little rundown:
I finished grade 12 in 2000. I needed one more OAC credit to graduate (in Canada we used to have gr13, until a couple of years ago. It was called OAC). I didn't want to go back to school for another year or even a semester, so I went to summer school. That decision really changed my life.
I got a job in a different city after I finished summer school and moved in with my Grandma. I met my now husband right after I moved here. We became friends and started dating after a couple of months. We only dated approx. one month before we were engaged and we were married within 7 months after that. I had just turned 19. Sometimes I wonder how much we really knew each other at the time, but I don't think that was the point. We knew we were meant to be together. We knew that God planned it, and that was enough. We loved being together, and still are together almost all the time!
Perry just finished Police Foundations at college when we got married. We moved into an apartment, and stayed there for less than a year. We bought our first house when I was still 19. We started to have weekly Bible Studies in our home, shortly after we moved in. I got pregnant after almost two years of being married. I was 21 when Ethan was born. About 4 months later, I was pregnant again! Gavin was born when I was 22. Perry felt God was telling him that being a police officer was not what he had in mind for him and our family. He bought a franchise within the grocery industry and started the new job shortly after Gavin was born.
This last November, we moved to a bigger house and we love it!
I married my best friend. I know some people think we have an odd relationship, because we are literally always together. We like it that way. We have never 'fought'- seriously. We have arguments, and I know we can annoy each other at times. But we would never, ever yell at each other, never call each other names, we have too much love and respect for each other to do that. We have been married almost 6 years and I feel like the most blessed person in the world. What else could I want? Really? 24 and I have all this.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

self protraits, weather, sleep, etc.







Trying out the self portrait thing. I am never in pics, I need to hand the camera over more often! I have seen so many pages where people journal about themsleves and I have no pics of myself. So, I took some myself!
Did I ever tell you my family is secretly a bunch of green monsters?
What a week! Saturday was our first really nice day, Perry and I took the kids for a walk. It was sooo nice to get outside! Sunday and Monday were pretty nice, too. But, Tuesday was over 70 degrees! It was a record around here and it was so gorgeous! I had the windows open, the kids played outside, I swept the back porch. I love the spring and the feeling of happiness that comes with it. Then Wednesday, it rained a bit, but was still fairly warm. Today I woke up to snow! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted! It won't be long before the nice weather is here to stay.
Last night I worked on a mini album I'm doing. I got two Deck of Me cards done, finally! I will scan them tomorrow. Trying to find time to get the CPS card done. And I haven't done any regular 'booking (as my husband has been calling it, lol)! Wish I had more time...
Good news- Ethan slept until 6 today, 6:15 the day before, and the two days before that were 5:30. Still early, but it's great for me. I don't mind getting up at 6am, even 5:30 is better then 4:30! So, if he keeps this up I will find more scrapbooking time because I will be able to stay up a bit longer. I think it is because of Daylight Savings time that he's sleeping in, and now that I've thought about it was about the time that Daylight Savings ended last year that he started to get up so early.
Happy Thursday!

Monday, March 12, 2007

my baby :)





Isn't he so sweet?!? I just love those big lips and his big blue eyes and those chubby cheeks. I wish I could get some nice pics of Ethan, too, but he won't sit still- I've been trying to get some good ones.
Going to see my sister and nephew today. It should be fun- my mom and my brother are going too. Maybe I'll get a Michael's, I haven't been to one in probably 5-6 yrs. Anyway, I had better get ready to go!

Saturday, March 10, 2007

scrap room and some projects





Some more pics!
1. My new scraproom, not quite finished, but almost! I love it!
2. A sneak peek of an Easter project.
3. A layout I did today.
4. A project I finished today.
5. Some fun felt flowers I found at the dollar store yesterday!
Not too much time today, but have a happy weekend!




Friday, March 9, 2007

fave pic







hmmm.... do I have one? I don't know. Here are a few I love. Elsie was asked this question on her blog and asked readers to share fav's. These are from the last 6-7months. Thanks for looking!
I am going to have some time to scrap tonite (yay!) so hopefully I will get caught up on the Deck of Me challenge.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

more stuff




Here is a card I made today and a layout that I have been working on. I really like the way this page turned out.
I ordered Ali Edwards book- A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking! It should come next week, can't wait! Check out her blog - http://aliedwards.typepad.com/
Have a happy day!

cps card

Here is my CPS card for the week. A little too plain, I think, but I really haven't had much time to scrap this week, so I threw it together very quickly.
So, whenever I seem to think that my sleeping situation can't get any worse, it does. Our boys used to sleep from 6pm -7am. Then Ethan started to get up at 5:30am everyday, this was about 5 or 6 months ago. Then about one month ago he starts waking up a 4:30 or so every day. Then he starts being super difficult to get to bed. Well, for about the past week Gavin has started getting up 1-3 times in the night crying. For the past 2-3 nights Gavin has decided he also wants to be difficult going to bed. And the last three nights when he wakes up, he doesn't go back to bed easily, like usual, but he just crys and says 'stay up little bit'. I am so tired and because of that I go to bed early every night and am not taking much time to scrapbook. Sorry, just needed a little rant there for a minute. On the bright side (hopefully) daylight savings time starts this weekend and maybe that will trick Ethan into sleeping another hour? Wishful thinking? Probably.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

lots of pics






Hello! Lots of pics to share today!
1. Cookies I made last night for our Bible study- or Bible studdin, as Ethan calls it!
2. Yesterday the snow was almost gone, this morning it's a different story!
3. The view out my front window yesterday. A reminder to me of how good God is.
4. I thought M&M's were supposed to melt IN your mouth! lol
5.-7. Some pics from our yard last week.
8. A layout I did yesterday, for the Elsie Sketch 4 challenge on 2peas.
Not too much to write about today, I did the CPS challenge yesterday as well, but I need to scan the card in. And, I am so far behind in the Deck of Me challenges. 3 weeks behind, I think...
Happy Wednesday!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

almost there


Well, I'm still waiting for summer, so here's a beach pic!
We got the basement done on Wed. and it took just over a day to get the house back in order. Now I am almost finished putting my scrap room together and then I can bring in my stuff again. We found some closet doors in the basement when we were getting ready for the basement guys. I used one for desk top and bought a couple of bookshelves to put underneath, we'll be putting that up today. There were three other doors, and since my room only has two finished walls, I painted them and put them against the cement block walls to finished it a bit. I painted the walls a really bright blue. It was called Amsterdam, it looks like Robins egg blue. and I painted my old desk and the new one white, and all my shelves are white. I might get a red curtain to cover the rest of the unfinshed walls. I am so excited, I really love the way it's turning out! I can't wait to scrapbook again!
Oh and check out the side bar for a link to my mom's new blog.