Cards

I've had a side hobby for a couple of years. Card making! My husband Cory especially loved this when he found out that I do this. I don't know if he was impressed at the creativity or the money saving. But why blame him. That's why I started making cards, to save money. My cards looked like this one a lot. (my son helped by coloring the cake) I started getting more tools that would make my cards better. I haven't taken a picture of all of my cards. I know that I've made over 30.
These two Cory helped with. He really liked embossing a card. Some times when I'm in a crunch I have him do the embossing.

I made this one at a stampin up demo. Notice a theme yet? I mainly make birthday cards. I'm trying to expand my card making abilities.

Then for my birthday (Sept. 3) I got myself a CRICUT!! I've wanted one of these machines for a while. This is one of the cheaper machines. The bigger ones can fit a 12x12 or 12x24. This one is called a Personal Electronic Cutter and holds a 12x6 mat. I've used it quite a bit! I'm so glad that I got it.
Here are some of the cards i've made with it so far. I'm still trying to get better and I think I am.







What do you think?

Pink, green, and purple

I made this for the Pink Stamper color challenge. What do you think?

raspberries

One of the best and worsts things about being pregnant is the cravings. My recent craving has been raspberries. mmm... I love raspberries! did you know that it's cheaper to buy raspberries frozen than fresh? plus you get more for you money. This is the way to go for me because i end up freezing them any way. I remember growing up I would visit a friend every summer and her grandma had a raspberry bush. I was thinking about those times while i was buying this fruit today. We were typical kids and sat by the bush and ate and ate. When we were sent out to pick some for canning or ice cream we would end up eating more than we put in the bucket. lol! I'm so excited that the house that we plan on getting has raspberry bushes.

ok.. so don't laugh at me

I'm way over due for an update! just so many things have been going on. I'm not sure where to begin, so i will start at the main events and work my way around until i know that i've covered everything. first off, i think some very exciting news happened recently. We signed the papers to buy a house! YAY!!! personally i'm excited! We feel good about everything! and in my opinion I believe that I will have the perfect kitchen! I will post pictures later. I took pictures of everything but I don't want to jinx it. no i think i'm safe with just showing you the out side. Cute isn't it? so far so good. no hiccups which we've had in the past with other offers. But on to other news. a couple of weeks ago Deven did something bad. What I think happened is typical for Deven but he did not foresee tripping himself up. He was on the couch and he wanted down. so he threw the keys onto the floor so he could play with them down there. I was finishing school work on the computer and talking to Cory at the same time as he was coming home. I think what happened is Deven's foot got caught in trying to slide off the couch the right way. He ended up rolling off and falling on the keys. The car key which is narrow is the key he fell on and it punctured his face. I know! I was mortified! I tried very hard not to panic. I know this is very graphic but I had a hard time taking the key out of his face. It was like pulling a key out of clay. I did get it out and automatically tried to stop the bleeding. I grabbed the nearest object which was a grocery ad and wadded it up. So Cory's still on the phone with me. He calmed me down and I realized that news paper wasn't going to work well. Duh! So I grabbed the nearest piece of cloth. It didn't occur to me that I could use my shirt. I thought about that later. It happened to be shorts that deven was wearing earlier. I put lots of pressure on the wound, told cory to speed home, and called 911. She was able to calm me down more and said I was doing the right thing. As soon as cory got home we rushed to the hospital by now the bleeding had stopped. I wanted to make sure that the wound didn't go deeper. It punctured his sinus cavity but I wasn't sure. we took several xrays and they ended up giving us a prescription for antibiotics and put a band-aid on him. They told me if it falls off to leave it off. They like puncture wounds to heal from the inside out. I just wanted a band-aid on so deven wouldn't play with or scratch his wound. to entertain deven at the hospital, because we were there for 2 hours and we didn't get home till 3, I played music from my phone and took pictures and a video of him. Now a couple weeks later you can hardly tell that Deven's accident even happened. Cory and I were saying talking to each other about how it would be to heal from a wound like that now in our 20's. I'm so glad that he healed up nicely. I think it traumatized me more that it did him.
I got a cute picture of Deven playing at the play ground. He was playing in the wood chips. I wasn't feeling well that day so i took him some place i knew he would have fun. That same day I found out some good news!! I'M PREGNANT!! yay! I've been waiting so long to have another baby! I was so happy that I cried! So that is why I haven't been writing. I've been busy doing other things like tossing my cookies! Oh and this video happened last month but I love it! Don't laugh at me when you hear my "motherese". One of Deven's favorite words is tickle-tickle. Go ahead laugh at me. I enjoy laughing and playing with my son!

WE HAVE A WALKER!!!

FINALLY! I've been waiting for this day forever! Here is a video that i got of him walking!

In other news we've been so busy that I've been a bad blogger. look what we did last month.

Deven likes to watch movies from different angles.

We figured since Deven likes baths and water so much we decided to go swimming! He loved it!

We went in search for a house. Deven didn't like that as much but he smiled for the camera.

Deven found out that you can have fun with a slide many ways!

cory too! he he he

I scream! you scream! We all scream for ICE CREAM!

Deven found out what tires are and yes i let him play in the dirt while we were gardening

and we made messes!

Coupons!

So I have a new hobby/obsession. Is obsession too strong? you decide. I have been getting tired of the large sum of money we've been shelling out for groceries. My sister-in-law has some friends that got her into clipping coupons. After a while of hearing her brag about the money she was saving, i sat down with her and asked her how she was doing it. My thinking was, I'm seeing these coupons that are save 25, 50 cents, 1.00, then there are BOGO sales and ect., how much money are you saving? 2 bucks? because that's not much of a difference from 100.00 of groceries. So talking to my sister-in-law and helping her clip out coupons one Sunday afternoon, she laid out her secrets. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention because on my grocery excursion i only saved 4.95. Funny enough that was almost how much i had to pay in taxes. I was hoping to save a little bit more money than that. Well i kind of did, i was shopping at WINCO. I did how ever find a really great bargain at Home Depot! I'm signed up for their garden club and they send me e-mails with coupons in them. In their last email there was a BOGO for a rose bush! so i got 2 rose bushes for 7.95!!! Which worked out so beautifully. We decided that one would go to my mom and one to Cory's mom.
Oh and look what i got for mother's day!! it's my favorite flower! my son and husband are so sweet!

MAY DAY

Today is May 1st!! May Day, the 1st day of May! The day that you give flowers and celebrate spring/summer. Well....this is not a good may day. Where's the Sun? it's really gloomy, cloudy and windy. The only good news is my son is feeling better. Yesterday Deven was throwing up left and right. Literally! it was awful! My happy-go-lucky son was pale, sleepy, and not talking. But hopefully that is over! he's happy now and playing! My flowers i wanted to give out are not even up let alone blooming. the sun hasn't been out much. Deven and I are going to color flowers instead. so are you curious what people do on may day? it's celebrated all around the world! different cultures do different things. (some more extreme than others) There was the decoration of a may pole that you danced around with ribbon. making may baskets filling it with flowers and leaving it anonymously on peoples doorstep. Crowning a may queen and much more! It's a bank holiday in many countries. for me it's an excuse to pick flowers and give them to people.

Finish or Bust

YAY!!!! i'm so excited that something great happened that i've so been hoping for! After being away for 3 years....I reapplied and I got intoI'm so, so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm in the online program, as Rexburg is up there and i'm down here in Burley. I could do what one of the ladies in my ward is doing. She travels up to Boise everyday to go to school. Yah....NO! I love Rexburg, but i don't love it that much. I'm pretty sure my husband would have a few choice words. None in my favor. But this works! Did I mention that I'm excited! I plan on graduating in December or next April. It's been a while since I first applied back when i was an incoming freshman. you know, i don't remember it being so demanding of information. I don't know if any other married students have gone through this, but I'm pretty sure I filled out more forms this time around. I don't care though, I'm IN!!!

Beautiful Blogger

So, i was planning on doing a very important update when i decided to do my routine backwards. I usually post and then look at other blogs. And I noticed that I saw my name on my cousins page! hmm...I took a closer look and I was awarded the BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER award! yay! (j/k) Thanks Shelayna!


Terms of the award: Must list 10 things about yourself, thank the person who gave it to you and pass it onto 10 wonderful bloggers:

10 Things About Me:

1- I love to crochet! right now i have a side business crocheting baby booties

2-when cooking I make way too much almost all the time

3- I once took a snip too close to my eyebrow and i had to fill in the spot with black eye liner for a while

4- I think i'm the only one who celebrates May Day. (in a non pagan way) May Day is May 1st and it's the day when you give a flower. I'm growing flowers right now to give flowers away on that day!

5- if i don't write things down I will forget it 99.9% of the time

6- my favorite color is all RED family colors

7- I LOVE avocados! mmm

8- A new hobby i've picked up is geocaching. it's a high tech treasure hunt

9- I make homemade cards for all occasions but I always forget to take a picture of them!

10- i have a small fear of driving by semi trucks. i'm afraid that they will run me over


10 Other Beautiful Bloggers!
1-Linnie F.
2-Caiti L.
3-Cassie S.
4-Laura E.
5-Stacey C.
6-Laura N.
7- Brittany W.
8-Lisa J.
9-Laura H.
10- Jessica P.

fell behind

yes i fell behind in my blog. some one told me if i don't continue to record my history i will forget the tiny details that made the event funny/sad/happy/important. since then i've tried to be better at recording. but...with a screaming toddler that gets into everything, it's kind of hard. so i decided instead of posting a dozen up dates i'm going to categorize it. pictures i took will help out.

This month:

Deven created several messes...This one i allowed. because i had some quick house work that had to be done. but i some what regretted it because his face went from potato santa to the abominable toddler. he got a bath on this one.Then we got into BLUE licorice! sticky all over! Deven found an old phone book and I thought he would just thumb through the pages, nope! I now have a Tasmanian devil!
We also experimented on hair cuts. I did some fancy braids when my hair was wet to see what i would look like with a perm again. i think the hair ladies would do a better job. Deven got a crew cut. so did his daddy. Deven got to see his 1st movie in the theaters! he was so excited in there! it was the perfect movie to start him on.

"will you marry me?"

Today was the wonderful day 2 years ago that i said yes to my husband when he proposed marriage to me. I really wanted to go to the spot where he proposed and take a picture. Call me nutty but the reason i wanted it today was the date marker on the photo. i know i can cheat and change the date on the camera but i wanted a picture for a trip down memory lane activity. To celebrate i want to record what happened on that day 2 years ago. I don't think i wrote it down anywhere else. oops!
March 8, 2008
Cory and I had been dating 3 months on the 8th. He had been having a hard time getting a hold of my dad to ask for my hand. Cory had got a hold of my dad's cell phone number and tried calling him that day. My dad had to work on a client at the last minute and forgot his phone at home. Cory called me and asked what i was doing and when i was going to head in to twin falls where we were going to have our date. I said "my brothers decided to come with me but i have to go pick up my brother who is with my dad and drop his phone off because someone tried calling him." Cory didn't know that i had programmed his phone number into my dad's phone at my dad's request in case he had to ever call him. so when cory called him the 1st time i saw his name on the caller id. so i got ready and as i got ready i got 6 text messeges from cory asking when i was leaving, had i left yet, what time i was getting to twin falls, am i in twin falls yet? by the 6th text messege i was thinking that cory is acting really strange. (I usually got to twin when ever and then we would go on a date. I usually took my brothers to twin and they would go to the mall or the movies and take the car and i would go with cory. ) so with my brothers in tow we were running late. I told cory that i would be there at noon. it was now 11 and it took 45 min to get there. we went to go pick up my brother from my dad's office and cory was still texting me where i was. I finally texted him back and said we were leaving. After i did that my brother said he forgot something and ran back inside. I put the car back in park and waited. Just then Cory came right around the corner! What was he doing here?!@ Once he saw me i could just read his expression,"oh great". My brothers saw too. Cory came to my door and said "I'll just see you in twin" and went down to my dad's office. My brothers all got out of the car and ran after him! when they all got back in the car they all started asking if cory was going to propose. I just said i don't want to think about it. Some how Cory got to twin before me and i left first. i gave the boys my car and i went with cory. he said that we were going geocashing. "treasure hunting" so we turned on the gps and started driving around according to where it said to go. we got within 1/2 a mile of the spot when it said we were close. cory asked if i wanted to walk the rest of the way to it. The walk was pretty! We came to this spot that look like it was carved out of the side of the canyon. It had a water fall that was fozen over and it honestly looked like we came to a ice city. cory who gave me the gps from the start because i had never used one asked how much further to go. it started to get confused. almost like i was right on top of it. so i started looking for a box or a canister or something. I looked everywhere and i didn't notice that cory wasn't helping me. I finally found the canister that was down in a hole. inside was a note that was rolled up. around the scroll was a huge ring that looked like a candy ring. I read the note which was from cory telling me how much he loved and cared for me. I looked back at him to smile and he was down on one knee holding an open ring box with a beautiful ring inside. I was still kneeling on the ground and he said that i had to stand up for this part. He asked me to marry him and I immediately said yes. We walked back up to the car both on cloud nine!

Who gave him a cookie?!

I had a special request to make Chocolate Chip Cookies on Sunday from my husband. So i made them because he rarely asks for anything. Sometimes I hesitate making sweets because I know that Cory will eat them right off the cooling rack, even the cookie dough out of the bowl! That used to make me mad but now it's just cute. At least he likes my cooking. Have I mentioned the "begging wall"? Every time i'm in the kitchen Deven knows that i'm making some kind of food. So he stands at the kitchen/living room/deven proof fence and watches me work. some times i'll give him food while he stand there. he did this while i was making cookies. Cory asked if Deven could have one. I had already made some smaller cookies for Deven to eat. and look at the result! it was so cute i had to take some pictures. At least i know that my son loves my cooking too!