1st Layout share for the month

ok so the last post I made I was talking about the Two Girls and a Kit. Well to be honest I didn't make a kit. I started to and then just kept going back and pulling more and more scraps out of my scrap box. So what I did instead was use stuff out of my scrap box, adding the background page from my stash. I didn't purchase anything new to do any of my layouts, I just pulled from my stash. I know thats not how there thing works but it got me scrappin again,lol.

They may not be that intricate but I love how they turned out. I've been helpin my mom out with her scrappin to. Tryin to get her to use up her scraps on her layouts instead if just adding more and more to the scrap pile. Shes enjoying it to and its fun for us to do together. My goal is to have at leas It 6 layouts this month, maybe more but shooting for at least 6. Next month I'm going to shoot for 10. I'm optimistic that I can get more and more done, the more I get back into my scrappin. I'm always looking for more challenges and sketches for inspiration, so if anyone wants to share where they go for there challenges or sketches it would be welcomed to. I probably have plenty to use, lol, I have a lot pinned for sketches and inspiration on pintrest. Also thinking about trying a scrapbook kit club, if anyone has any wants to share the ones they like, Id love that too! lol thanks and Happy holiday weekend!! Hope you all have a safe and fun one with family and friends!!!

Here we go again

It looks like I can never keep up with anything lately, or for the past 6 months or longer. It seems like things just keep comin at us here.  Some good, some not so good.

We got married!!! That’s definitely a good! We got married in a small ceremony in our back yard, under a big tree, with just family. We actually got married before we had planned,lol. It just kinda came together. It was suppose to be our rehearsal, it was months in advance but it was the only time we could get everyone together before the wedding,lol.  I didn't have an actual wedding dress or my bridesmaids or anything, they were there but no one was in there dresses and my husband didn't have his groomsmen either. But it was so great!! I have some pic I’ll be scrapping before too long. But we are still planning our “Wedding” where we’ll get all or our friends and family back together, with the dress, bridesmaids and groomsmen.

So the day after we got married, our oldest was on his bike and of course didn't listen and put on his helmet and he wrecked. He came in covered in blood, he had a small gash on his head but head wounds bleed soooo much and it scared him and us to death. Then it got worse. We got him cleaned up in a matter of minutes and told him he had to sit with us so we could watch him to make sure he was ok. Well he wasn't, he started looping questions and had no clue what had happened. He lost a whole 24 hours with in minutes. We got in the car and headed for the hospital, we didn't even make it a few block before it seemed worse and the questions were closer together. So we went to the EMT station and they loaded him in the ambulance and took off. The whole situation was so scary. I rode in the ambulance with him and my husband fallowed behind in our car with one of our other children, the youngest.  They told me he had a concussion, and had to strap him down in case there were other problems. Thank the God there weren't other problems, but we didn't know this for hours! They stuck him and got the IV ready, and they had to do it multiple times and he didn't cry about it once, so that worried me ever more. He only cried when he would ask questions and couldn't remember. We were at the hospital till around 2am maybe even a little later. But when he finally started to remember things and the doctors had checked him tons, they finally let us go home. But he want allowed to watch TV, play video games, read or have any physical activity. Telling this all to a 9 year old, its crushed him,lol. It seemed to cause him to start forgetting things again when he did any of these things. We got threw it, again thank God,  and he’s great now. And always, ALWAYS wears his helmet!!

After that we all got sick, AGAIN!! I love that my kids wanna share, but some things they can keeps. Lol. My husband started a new job, planning our honeymoon, doin some DIY around the house, potty training, and getting the older ones use to their chores. The last one is probably the hardest! But they will get it!!

So again, I’m going to try and get full forced back into my scrapping. I have so many pictures and so many memories to scrap, and I soooo miss it! I was on youtube today and to be honest that and pintrest have been where I've been, instead of scrapping. But once of the channels I subscribe to: Amanda O’Banion, Had a video about Two Girls and a Kit. So of course I clicked on it. And I love the idea her and Carrie had.  They put out a “recipe card” that you can print or see on their blogs or their pintrest board. I've  been in much need to get back into my scrapping as I've said, So I’m going to give this a try. I love the idea so much, so here goes nothing! I’ll post what I pull together for my “kit” and then I’ll post the outcome of what I make too! Anybody else that needs some mojo might wanna go check them out and see if this works for you too!

outdoor, tree, rustic.....

Soooooooo we've decided on a few things, lol.

We want an out door wedding, we do know and agree on that. Nothing too big, family and close friends. We want it to be a little rustic, being that we want it outside. I have used pintrest, sooooo much and its been a big help. I have found so many things I would have probably missed. He wants me to have what I want and Im well on my way to that. We've picked out our wedding party, narrowed down wedding colors, started picking music, we have our song, and I've picked one for me and my dad to dance to. That's something I've always wanted, for me and my groom to have a dance and for me and my dad to have a father daughter dance and it looks like I will actually get it this time!

 You'll have to go check out my pintrest to see some of the stuff were thinking about, i have a ton of scrapping, crafting , DIY and other stuff, but I do have my wedding possibilities board too.

wedding planning, and a lot of info about me.....

I got engaged December 27th,2013. Its a little over a month since he purposed and were kinda thinking of trying for a wedding May-June 2014. lol We have everyone telling us were crazy. They think were going to fast and settling cause we wanna get married. Were not what you would call traditional at all really.

I've been married previously, I was with my ex since I was 17 and we got divorced 9 years later. We were separated for 2 years prior to the divorce. I can say I never thought I would get divorced, anyone who has gotten divorced probably never thought it would happen either. I did try to save my marriage but in the process I sacrificed who I was. I changed to try and make him happy, to try and save our marriage, but in the process I lost myself. I will never do that again. But I did try everything including counseling, but he didn't want to be there anymore and said so, I'm not making someone stay where they don't wanna be. It wasn't good for our kids or us, and yes we had 2 handsome little guys.

 I really never thought I'd get married again after everything that happened in the past. But I did find someone. I met him at work, knew his family and we became good friends. He had a daughter from a past relationship,she is so beautiful and sweet. I wasn't looking for anything when we met, I was trying to make sure that me and my boys had what we needed and trying to make sure I was happy again with life , with me, kinda getting to know myself again. And I was loving it! When I was at home me and my kiddos played a lot, and jammed out to music, something we'd always loved doing but didn't do so much towards the end of the marriage. And we got dirty a lot!! It kinda felt like they were getting there childhood back at this point. There boys, there suppose to get dirty! Play in the rain, puddle jump, play in mud and grass!! We were having a blast! And then at work I was completely me! Out spoken, talkative, goofy me. Me and him became good friends, our kids played together. We had a lot in common with our pasts. We just clicked.

We've been together for 2 years and have a daughter together. Like I said not traditional. Hes been telling my family and me since about 3 weeks into our relationship that he was going to marry me one day, I always just laughed it off. He had started talking about marring me again shortly after we found out we were pregnant with our daughter, I told him again that I didn't know if I'd ever get married again and that we already had a lot on our plate with 3 kids already and another on the way, I said why don't you wait a year after our daughter is born to ask me again to make sure you still want to be there and that you have an out if you don't. He told me he wasn't going to just wait cause we had another kid coming, that he was going to continue to ask me over and over again till I decided I was I was ready, that it was my choice. It was talked about off and on forever and yes our daughter is over a year now. I honestly thought he was going to ask on Christmas, but he didn't and to be honest I was a little disappointed, and it kinda caught me off guard that I was disappointed the way I was. I felt mopey and down, and again this caught me off guard. I realized I was ready,I knew I was happy with him before this, but I was ready to be his. We'd been threw quite a bit, dealing with ex's, combining our family and adding to it. We've had our disagreements, arguments, ups and downs and were still together. I am back to me and he embraced all of me happily.

I didn't say anything to him about how I felt, but there was some stuff going on the next couple days and I guess I didn't catch it. He had been really quiet and jumpy. Well he came home on the 27th, said his hi's to all of us and then had the boys got to there room to make sure there chores were done. He walked them back there and was back there for a bit and came out, the boys stayed and cleaned. My sister had come over before he ever got home and we had been just sitting around talking while I was cooking dinner and the kiddos were playing. Well they boys came out and called me to come check their room, I was in the process of stepping over the baby gate when my oldest son pointed behind me and Stacy was down on one knee with a ring in his hand. It was so sweet and unexpected, caught me completely off guard and I started to cry. I of course said yes!! And was soooooo happy.

Turns out he had been talking to my family about asking asking me, he had asked my dad for permission, he  had also talked to the boys and asked there permission to marry me and had them involved by calling me back to check there room so he could get in position. It was just sweet. My sister new too and was taking pictures and videoing it lol. It was awesome and made me so happy.

I know the pics aren't the best but I love em!! Now were in the process for attempting to plan a wedding in 4 months, lol. We may be a little crazy but were happy and doing things the way we want to! I Will keep pics posted of what were thinking of and if anyone has any suggestions or anything to say I'd love to hear from ya!

Insperation and procrastination

Its already January 15th and I haven't posted anything on here yet, lol. I have had sick kids yet again and my little girl turned one this month as well, so big so fast!! I have been scrapping.... but I think I've been spending more time on pintest and youtube than actually doing my crafting. I get so caught up in watching videos on techniques and for inspiration that I just put what I have to do to the side. I love the videos though, so much out there and then watching all the videos on everything from CHA2014 OMG loving it!! My wish list has started and grown sooooooo much!! lol Not only all of that, but I'm now also planning my wedding!! Sooo excited!!

So the begging to my new year has been quite busy! and I don't think its going to slow down anytime soon! lol I have to get it together and get more organized, so much to do, planing a wedding, organizing more, more family time, de-cluttering, eating healthier, getting healthier, less stress....

feelin frazzled

Its almost the end of the year now and I started this blog months ago and have barely been on here. Things in my life with family, my life in general, everything has been a little crazy. I have been crafting off and on but no where near as much as I want to be. It feels like everytine I turn around somethings happeing to keep me from it. We've had sick kids so much already this fall its crazy, issues with my ex, family coming to live with us and moving out lol.
I think I spend a ton of my time online watching youtube videos, looking at blogs and for insperation...pinterest and such lol. I have found so many things I wanna try scrappin and craftin and so many diy home things that I want to do to inprove our house lol. I think I just get over whelmed with everything I wanna do with the kids, house and crafting that I just kinda give up. I think I just need to calm down and slow down and take everything in stride cause really there's no other way to do it...I need to stop stressing and see what happens then.
I am so ready for thanksgiving here in 2days...and the kiddos are out of school after today for break and can't wait! Were under winter weather advisory but we'll be ok since we'll all be together. I hope that you and your family and friends have a very wonderful and blessed thanksgiving with the ones you love!
I will leave you with some of the pages I've done....happy thanksgiving or gobble day as my kiddos call it!!

a sketch and LO

Scrapbooked my youngest boys 1st day of kindergarten...I'm in no way caught up on scrapping but it felt good to do this LO with him only being a little over a month in to his first year. I actually used a sketch from inspired blueprints. Here's the sketch if anyone else wants to use it too. Your should definitely go check out there blog and see all the wonderful things there design team come up with, their own interpretation of it.

And here is how I used it for me, my interpretation of it.

Wow kids grow up so fast. My mom use to aalways make comments like that and I'd roll my eyes and be like yeah whatever, but wow was she ever right. They get big to fast, :-( it makes me sad but happy at the same time. I get there not my little babies anymore but I get to look forward to all the great things to come in the future!  Well I guess off to more scrapping!