Some New Layouts and Life in General

So we have been just floating around now that summer is here. Ashlynn is in a Science Summer School program, Brooklyn is in Gymnastics and Kaylin is in Soccer. Now Brooklyn and Ashlynnn like their activities and well Kaylin yeah she is not liking soccer. I mean she loves soccer but she hates it that that coach is not paying attention to her all of the time so refuses to play. ahhhh She is such a stinker!

I am going to be busy this week as I am starting to watch 3 little boys part-full time during the week. THey are 4 almost 3 and almost 2! I will have my hands full that is for sure. But I already have the daily schedules planned and activities to keep them busy. Next weeks theme is Transportation and we will be focusing on vehicles and methods of transportation.

I have also been busy doing some layouts and cards. Here are few of the things I have been doing.

Can You Help A Fellow Scrapbooker?

Help this fellow scrapbooker win the wedding of her dreams! It is such a sweet story. I just keep voting and voting. I hope that they win!

Click on my title to follow the link to the page and VOTE NOW!

http://photocontest.freedom.com/cbs12/dream-wedding/profile.php?itemid=65

My First Veggie!

I was touring the garden as I usually do everyday. (I mean c'mon is not that big!) and I found this cute little green pepper:



I was so excited! Ashlynn was not home as she was at her friends house. The Green Pepper plants are her babies since she is the only one that likes them. So I took pictures. When she came home I told her to go check on her plants and she comes back and is like they are fine. WHAT??? I told her to look all over the plant and pick up the leaves. So we went out there and she finds the pepper and is like "yeah, so" What a little booger! She didn't care that there was a pepper. So much for mommas joy for the 1st veggie! Anyway, I was still really excited even if she wasn't. My tomatoes are climbing over the cement rounds and are doing well. I am only getting one cucumber plant so far out of the 13 I planted. Hopefully tjhey will be showing up soon!

Some New Cards

Now I am not much of a card maker so here is my shot at making some. I was RAK'd (Random Act of Kindness) some awesome Bella images from some awesome ladies online! Here are a few that I did.





This one is an image RAK too. I love the little birdie!

Holy Moly I was Living In A Nightmare!

OMG! Let's just say that I am lucky to be alive! Yesterday around 2pm I ran to Walmart which is about 6 miles in the next town over. Well on my way back I knew it was going to storm by the look of the sky but I had NO idea what it really was going to do!
I got on the freeway and 1 mile into it it started pouring. So I was driving about 40 MPH while everyone was whizzing by. All of a sudden the rains were so hard that it was a complete whiteout and the clouds and rain were swirling around us. The car in front of me stopped and spun out as I went around it to avoid it. I got back over in front of it as to avoid anyone running into me. It was so surreal. The girls were in the back saying things like" Wow look at the clouds swirling around!" I was just like BE Quiet! I was so freaking out. I was able to make it off the ramp and headed home to see on the way all of these trees down and streets flooded.
I got home and went right to my neighbors house to see what happened there because we had branches everywhere. She said that it got really windy and raining and hailing.
So almost as soon as we got home the power went out. Then storm after storm came rolling thru, it was just a really bizarre day.
So I kept contact with my cell phone with dh and my sister was watching the news for me. I also had my dh's wireless pager to find out what was going on.
So the reason why I am glad to be alive......[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25126341/]Two Semis Blown Over On I-43 Near Mukwonago - News - MSNBC.com[/url] I was about 1 mile from this being me. ONE MILE! That is how strong the winds were! It has just been crazy around here. I packed up all of the big meat items and milk and went to my sisters. Dh got into town and went right to the Fire Station to standby for the 1,001 calls for wires and trees down.
So anyway, sorry that this was so long but I was shaking considerably. Thanks for listening if you made it this far!

Letterboxing

We went on a letterboxing expedition today. It was a lot of fun and was totally FREE!

We found some clues off of www.letterboxing.org in our area. The one we chose was through a county park that should have led us to 6 boxes. The kids got pooped out after 3 so we may go back and find the rest some other day. We only found small (micro) boxes and then last one was supposed to be the bigger box.

Here are some pictures:



Here are the kiddos ready to hunt. Look my nephew Riley even has his walking stick! LOL


Here is what we found:


We had tons of fun with this and will definately do it again!