My weeks are like this....

Have you noticed how one minute it is Monday morning and then the next minute you wake up and it is Thursday morning?

My sister dosen't blog or facebook, but she sent me this in an e-mail this morning, and it described my feelings exactly, so I'm posting it.

Here's the pictures from the post---Waaaayy back on Monday!!

This is a mini album made from a coffee container from Caribou coffee.
Isn't it just the cutest thing!




















Thanks again Cyndie, it's just wonderful! I love it!

By the way--Keep those suggestions coming for a new blog name! (See previous post) I'm compiling a list! Thanks for your contributions so far!

Scrapblog albums!

I'm so excited! I 've done several different scrapblog albums, but I finally sent off my order to have them printed earlier this week! They are super fast because I got two out of the three I ordered, today!
This one: (below)
and also THIS one!
The other one I ordered is my 52 weeks one that I posted HERE
I wanted to add a couple pages to it to finish out my year, so I finished that up before I ordered.

Wedding day memories

**Edit note--I finally got the album to post. It's still not exactly right, and I'm leaving the individual pages on here also so they'll still be here after I remove the completed album.**

January 22 was our 33rd anniversary. I have very few pictures of our wedding day, and what I have are very poor quality. I've never had much inspiration to scrapbook them, so they've sat for all these years. Since we've had two of our kids get married this last month, and plenty of pictures to take, edit & scrapbook along with the fact that the digital scrapbooking bug has bit me pretty good; I spent the last two days scrapbooking our wedding photos.
I'm really bummed because the scrap-blog site I use has not been working right, and I could not get the whole book to open like it should, so I've finally given up and downloaded the pages & posted them individual. Because of the amount of pages, I'm posting them small. To see them better you can click on each page to enlarge them.

2009 52 weeks challenge scrapbook project

One of my projects was to make a scrapbook from the pictures I used in Carin's "mom's in the photo" challenge from last year.
I took a few liberties changing things around a bit, and also added a couple additional pages.
I want to thank Carin again for a wonderful and very fun challenge, I honestly didn't think I could do it. In looking back on my photos including me, I went quite a bit over the "required" one a week!

(If you have a hard time seeing the pages, or would like a closer look, here's a link)
http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=1543447

Pictures on pages

So if you're a regular reader of my blog, you will remember THIS.
Sorry there's so many pictures here, Maybe I got a little carried away on the scrapbooking thing? Also for those of you wondering why it took me SO LONG to post these, (besides scrapbooking them first!) It took a while to steal the additional *dumb* pictures off of other people! lol! (Thanks you all....Megan, Ryan & Mark!)
The first page is of Miss Jessi....She wasn't here of course, but I couldn't resist doing another page with her & posting it. She's just so cute!! Obviously if you want to see the pictures, you'll have to click on each one, as I had so many that I needed to post them small.
Anyway, we had a great time. A very loud, fun, & crazy evening and a great weekend. Sorry the rest of you all missed it :*)

Our scrapbooking weekend

I didn't get very many pictures, because my batteries died. Of course. Why can't I remember to always have extra ones with me.
I'm hoping to get more pictures from a friend who took lots.
We had a nice large room to scrapbook in at the scrapbook store, the B&B was delightful. 4 of us girls chose to sleep in the attic, a big spacious "rustic" room. 5 beds, table, lounging space...It would make a fun girls get away place.
I didn't get any pictures of the 2nd floor, but it was lovely. 2 bathrooms, a lounge room with fridge, coffee/drink center, sink, chairs, desk. 4 bedrooms.
The first floor had another bedroom & bathroom, the hallway, sitting room & dining room pictures are all taken there. These are the girls that stayed at the house, there were 6 more that were with us different times during Friday & Sat. The 2 gals together are the hostess & Roxie, our scrapping friend who organized the weekend.
Saturday for lunch we went to a unique place about 5 miles in town, a reservation only lodge place. Delicious soup/sandwich/drink/pie & Ice cream. All homemade. A husband & wife own/run it. The lodge sat clear up on a hill, and you could see out the large windows for miles! If I end up with pictures that Roxie promised me, I'll try & post them later.

On a different note, it's been raining for far too many days the last 2 weeks. This morning some of that ucky white stuff that came down in the night stuck to the ground. The grass is very very green , the leaves on the trees are mostly brown & blaugh because we've had too much rain and not enough sun for them to turn beautiful colors. So, to make up for that I found the pictures I took in 2004 of the awsome colors and made a new header for my page. Take that you ugly rainy cold & windy day out there....I'll look at my pictures & remember how it CAN be!

People we have known & loved...

Places we have been,
How beautiful in memory
To see them all again.

I doubt that I can convey why the visit from our friends last week was so special, but here's a little glimpse into the past.











Now you all (if anyone actually reads my blog anyway...) will have to wait a while for the next post. Tomorrow I'm going out of town with some girl-friends for a 2 days scrap, we're going to stay at a B&B tomorrow night & eat at a "really cool" place on Saturday. Maybe (?) I'll get pictures...I've realized it's not good to promise things on my blog! LOL!!
Leon's been gone on jobs all week long, & I'm in severe need of some kid-free time, although the thought of them home without me & him "in-charge" is enough to make me quite nervous. NOT that he has a problem with it mind you, but...well just watch THIS and you might get an idea of what I'm referring to. He very much fits the mold!