Poor

Lam always makes the comment that we're dirt poor jokingly but after reconciling the checkbook, this may be the first time I'll have to agree, our balance is at an all time low. So many big bills have hit all at the same time: the mortgage, home r/e taxes, insurance and I paid the majority of our car loan a couple months back so that's what really contributed to the change in addition to the huge CC bill from Christmas. The good side is it's all paid off & tomorrow is payday but I've got to really start budgeting our expenses so we can build up our savings again. So depressing...

Guess I'm going to have to stop taking on-line classes for a while and maybe even skip my kits. I had some other thoughts i wanted to blog about but this is such a hard realization to take in.

Party Preparations

I'm trying to decide where to have Kenzie's 3rd b-day party. I think we're going to get her a big trampoline for the backyard. During the summer, there's not too many things for them to do outside unless we take them to the park or swimming pool. It's only 2 1/2 weeks away, I made some calls to pump-it-up and we're considering having it there. I'd rather have it at home but don't want to cook for 50 and feel bad about asking mom & my aunt to cook like they did for her 1st and 2nd birthday parties.

Micah is forming words into sentences now. Kenzie was holding a box of bagel bites on the way to grandmas yesterday and he pointed to it saying "I want to eat" and this morning I was putting my pantyhose getting ready for work and he repeated "Hose". He's also loving to take showers recently. Too much. Everynight he'll try to pull his own shirt off and drag either Lam or I into the bathroom.

I'm going to take Kenzie to the Wichita Dance Academy tomorrow night for a trial run of their ballet and tap classes to see if she likes it. Some fun activities the kids have planned - Arianna has a birthday party this Sunday at the bowling alley and we're taking the kids to see Sesame Street Live in a couple weeks. It'll be good to get out of the house on weekends. Hope the weather cooperates and start warming up but today it's forecasted freezing rain.

I heard from my sister yesterday after her 1st doctor's appt, I'm going to be an auntie around Sept 24th. I'm so happy for them, I remember how excited I was with my first pregnancy...I have 2 full scrapbooking albums to show it and this was before the birth!

Taxes, taxes...

and more taxes! I spent 6 hours filing income taxes yesterday and I'm not even halfway thru the family's yet. I did finish everyone's that had already given me their info but still waiting on the rest of them.



I only had time to srapbook one layout on Friday night. I haven't even touched my new Scarlet Lime kit yet, I so need to sign up for another crop.

Kenzie & I dyed easter eggs yesterday, she wanted to color eggs after seeing the photos from last easter in her scrapbook. Micah is being a pill lately! I'm having the hardest time getting him into the carseat & he'll cry the whole ride home.

Two more

"The booster" layout is a free cosmo cricket kit I rec'd from the Scrap-room for being January's Diva. What a great prize!

Happy Valentines!

Micah was up at 5am this morning so I finally had time to upload my layouts. The first 3 layouts were from February's TSR kits, a scraplift from "Viki Boutin and Brenda Carpenter (love their work). And the last two are sketches from NYCScraps, Scrap your everyday Life class #9 and #10.

My dear husband just sent me an email at work wishing me a happy valentines and attached the confirmation # for my gift....I'm getting my camera flash, whoohoo! He just ordered it last night according to the date on the receipt but can't fault the man, at least he's making an effort and I've been wanting one for the longest time. We went to the mall last night and got the kids some candy and clothes. Kenzie, a purple addidas outfit and Micah a green jacket.

Ssshhh... shooting in process

It's nice to have an office with four walls and a door you can close, I'm the only one with an office, the others in my dept are in open cubicles. If they only knew what I'm doing on my lunch break behind my closed door. I set up my camera on a stack of books, set the timer and am taking a dozen shots to get one decent one for the layout about me & my work I have in mind for Debbie's Scrap yourself class. :) The sample class handout is available, class starts March 7th! Check it out here

Sayings

Just trying to jot down the things my kids have been saying lately, I need to keep a pen and paper handy because there's more than this but I forget already!

Micah @ 16.5 mos- Night night, pepi (pepsi), candy, Daddy (finally), boot boot (vacuum), bubble, light, molk (milk), juice

Kenzie- "I don't love brother, I want to throw him in the trashcan"; "Momma, why brother not talking to me?" ; "my nose no work momma, I can't breath", "Yucky tucky"

Scrappin - I finally got time to work on a layout last night sometime after 11pm. I finished my sketch #10 for scrap your everyday life at NYCscraps and then started digging into my FancyPants kit from the scrap-room. Hopefully my picture order from scrapbookpictures.com comes in the mail tonight so I can add them. Gosh I miss being able to print my photos from home, when Lam messed up the computer with his downloads, the print function on my PSE 5.0 is not letting me select quality print photos. Wish I was a computer guru to figure it out.