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!

he scrapped with me!!

Ok so I love my scrapbooking but my scrapbooking stuff is in our room, I've kinda taken up an entire side of our room actually lol...but my old man works all day with not many days off and so he doesn't want me sitting in the room scrapping all the time while he's home. So the other night he got home from work and I was scrapping, he'd stopped and got movies on the way home for us to watch together, so he asked me to bring some of my scrapping into the living room so we could spend time together but I could still scrap like I wanted. So I loaded some up, more then was needed of course! Lol, and headed into the living room.

I sat down and started going threw pictures to see what I was going to scrap. Well my old man saw some pictures of my oldest son and grabbed em out. I asked him what he was doing? He said he wanted to scrap too. This surprised me of course, but I was all for it. So I handed over papers and some sketchI had to help him out a little. He went threw picked a sketch and then started going threw papers. He picked out tons of great papers and started cutting them, then he stopped and was looking around, I asked him what he was looking for? He said he wanted that spong thing on a stick for putting the ink on the papers, lol. I handed it over and he went about his business. He ended up doing a great job on his! And he enjoyed it, so that made me happy. So here's his 1st LO!!

And now he's drawing sketches with and for me, its awesome to have him involved and to see why I enjoy it so much! So hopefully I'll be able to get him involved a little more often :-)

its been hectic.....

Wow.....so I was going to try and keep up with the pictuer for everyday of the month but that got thrown out the window. ...and did it ever, wow.

So school started and we were getting the schedule down, then football started and thats when more seriouse stuff started. My oldest son has allergies and bad. They had been ok so we figured we would try football. Well after the first practice we noticed welps on his legs, thats usually what happens when he comes in contact with grass that hes allergic to.so we started treating it, but every practice he went to his legs and arms got worse and worse, to the point that his welps were busting open and pussing, took him back to the doctor and he got put on more meds, insane at how much it takes to try and regulate this stuff. Well it didnt work and he started having athsma attacks on the feild. We gave him his meds and he seemed ok...the next day the school called and I had to go get him because he wasnt responding to his meds. Took him home and he started coughing to the point of throwing up and at school it was desturbing the class. He went back the next day cause he was doing better, or so we thought.  Got a call not even an hour after school started to come check on him, I got there and the nurse told mr he was retracting and that scared me. If you dont know that pretty much means hes really having problems breathing. So my mom came and picked my other kids up from me and I headed straight to children's hospital. We got there and they got him right into the er and started working on him. They gave him so many treatments that his body was shaking. We were there forever, this was the second time we had to got to children's,  but last time they admitted him and kept him in for a while. This time they let us come home, even though he was still wheezing some. The next day,back to school and a call again....so back to the hospital.  We ended up having to keep him out of school for a week to try and get him regulated on new meds so he could breath.

Its been difficult and has madr me sad to see him that way. But I am proud to report that he's doing so much better now! On top of that our 2 year old ended up with chicken pox. She scratchrd and scratched and were worried that our 7month old was going to get them, but she didnt and our 2 year old is getting better.

Since he's been home he was scrappin with me some, more so just laying on my bed and playing his ds, I guess he thinks he's getting to old and mature for scrappin with mom. But I have mannaged to get some done and will post more tomorrow :-)

I've been soo busy the last few weeks! School started, sports, sick kids and tryin to get into a routine. Its a every year thing when school starts but I guess its just been a little more with 2 going to school and the 2 at home, not a huge difference but now b:-)aby girl is crawling and into everything lol its started! But now it seems to have started to level out.So now im finally getting to get back into my scrapping, YAY!! This past weekend between kiddos runnin in and out of the house and baby girl teething on everything she can, I mannaged to get 3 LOs finnished but I have so many more to do!!

 I loved doing these layouts, I hadn't printed pictures out in forever and hadn't scrapbooked my girls at all, so now I'm even getting to play with the bright pretty girly colors.Now this just gives me more to look forward to with new pages...that always means new scrappin goodies! :-) speaking of scrappin goodies.....I went shoppin today and got some lovleys!!

I got some old and some newer....got some old pink paislee, prima, echo park, crate paper, simple stories and a few others....i so needed some girly paper! Now I can get scrappin more! I guess i need to get some more embellishments now...oooo yay more shopping 

So theres this blog....

 So I was on the net searching for random things, (spending all my time looking at random things when I should actually be doing something!), when I came across this blog that had all kinds of stuff on in from how to take great pics with an iphone, ways to improve your blog, twitter, facebook, and at the moment shes also pregnant and is blogging some about that as well. I really like her blog, Fat mum slim. She also posts a photo a day challenge.

  Ok so this photo a day challenge is something that really intrigues me. I use my phone for pictures, as most people do now, I have my digi camera and then I went and bought me a 35mm film camera too cause I still love the look of real film pictures. I use to take pictures in excess, but even though I have my phone with me all the time I've realized that I don't take pictures near as much as I use to. I'm a mother of 4,so I have plenty of inspiration and so many photo opportunities, but as my 2 oldest got older I kinda slacked off and I hate to admit that because there's still so much to capture but then the other 2 came along and I try to take more pics but it just seems like there's to much going on, but I want to make sure to capture all kinds moments with all 4 of them, So back to the Photo a day challenge, I've got it bookmarked on my phone so that I can attempt to keep track of it that way and take a picture each day. I think this is an awesome idea to keep track of things, documenting a memory a day. So......I'm going to try and do this every day, I know I'm a little late starting since its already the 7th but still going to attempt,lol.

But I love the pics that she post on her blog, the articles she writes, definitely a blog I would suggest taking a look at.....

Hello everyone!!  My blog is new as you see and I've also got a Facebook page that I'll be adding the link here soon, but I love scrapbooking, crafting of any kind, doing DIY things and any kind of crafts and fun with my kiddos! So there will be a bunch of mixed stuff here!

Well I don't know about you but I've been loving all the new scrappy goodness that's been coming out in the summer release! And I cant wait to get my hands on so much of it!! One thing I don't have to wait on is by Marion Smith, her online shop is AMAZING! You can go to her shop and she has printable kits shes designed and if you don't want a whole kit shes got individual items as well, so you can still buy a whole kit and then even add more character to it by adding some of her other items, there all so beautiful! She also has another collection that's coming out called Mad Tea Party, this is actually a real paper collection with tags and euphoria. You'd have to go to her blog and shop to check everything out, Mad Tea Party isn't available yet its still up for per-order but I'll be waiting for it!

I'm loving some of My Minds Eye Cut & Paste collection, I think I'll be getting a bunch of that collection, a little of this and a little of that. I love that they make there lines and collections where you don't have to buy all of the collections, but who doesn't want it all!, but you can get page by page and match them however you want and all there collections are like that! Love it! And then there Chalk Studio! Anything chalk is big right now as it is, the papers are awesome and I love what they say on them, you can always add so much to papers like these! The embellishments with the frames and mustaches :) There are so many more companies that I want papers and embellishments from, to may to list, but as I get them rolling in Ill post my lovely pics of the scrappy goodness! I cant wait to get my hands on it!!