Where to Start?

Geez a lot has happened since my last post. I guess first off I would say that the March for Babies that I did was so fun. Had a great time doing something like that with my mom, sister and Best Friend. It was such a great cause and we are gonna do it again next year.

Second: Well I finally turned 30!! I had expected to go out to Morton's for dinner with Jeff, me and Steph and Jason. Well that was all a farce! Steph had planned a surprise party for me. All my favorite girlfriends were there and there were plenty of Martini's to go around. I severely paid for it the next day but it was so worth it. I will never forget that night for as long as I live. Here are some pics from my party.


Me and My Best Friend Steph

Me and some of my Favorite girls ever!

My Ginormous Martini

Ali and KP

Mar, Carol and my Mom


My Sis and Me


And my awesome B-day cake!

And nothing better than reliving my youth at 30! Could Madonna and the New Kids on the Block not come back at a more perfect time? Yes I am a fan of both and have been forever. I can tell the concert tickets are gonna get costly this year. I have not been so giddy over something so stupid in so long! LOL Do you think I am too old to plaster their posters all over my room again? Hmm, not sure Jeff would appreciate that so much. Maybe I need to turn JJ on to them so we can plaster the posters in her room instead of the Disney Princesses LOL. Ya Right!

SO here is to Hangin' Tough! Hahaha!

March For Babies

That is what I am doing this weekend. How about you? I will be doing the March Of Dimes, March for Babies this Saturday. I will be walking with my Mom, Sister and Best Friend Steph. I am thankful everyday that I was blessed with happy and healthy babies. I know that is not always the case. I have had enough friends and family who have lost children or had children born with severe problems that I am doing this for them. If you would like to learn more about the March of Dimes, March for Babies or to help sponsor please check out the following link.
http://www.marchforbabies.org/npealer

Happy Wednesday!

14...

That happens to be the number of days left until I turn 30! Wow, seems like not that long ago I was fresh out of high school. Ok maybe it does a little bit. I have a couple friends who DON'T let me forget how old I will be. Stephanie loves to remind me that I am older than her by 6 weeks. WHATEVA! And then of course there is Ali. She has a birthday 2 DAYS after me but she has decided that she is not gonna celebrate until I catch up with her. So I took a page out of something that Sarah told me.... I told Ali she can be 35.2! HAHA! Yes I just told the whole word Neener Neener! LOL Love Ya! But Alas turning 30 does not bother. I will be bothered I think the day I have to start wearing Depends undergarments LOL.

Any way.... On to Scrappy news. www.scrappinwithgrace.com is having A Spring Fling Crop this weekend with a chance to earn 25% off products in the store as well as a Crate Paper Prize package. We will be getting in new lines of Crate Paper and one of my new Favorites Pink Paislee!

You still have until Sunday to enter into our Crate Paper contest for a chance to win a Crate Paper Prize Package. Also our May Guest Designer Challenge is running now through April 28th.

Come visit me at www.scrappinwithgrace.com

Happy Scrapping!

Happy Birthday!

Just wanted to start out by saying Happy Birthday to my lil sis Katie. She turns a whopping 24 today LOL. I hope you have a great day.

So I meant to blog about this the other day and forgot.. obviously LOL. Well Jeffrey's team won their first game of the season the other night. My little man made the last out of the game. You have to remember my son is on 7 years old , but he is a ball player through and through. SO anyways... he was playing at the pitcher position when a line drive tagged him in the ankle. He dropped to the ground for a minute in pain and then realized that the runner was headed to first base. So what does he do? He grabs the ball and throws it to first base FROM HIS KNEES and gets the kid out! YES I am a proud momma! It is amazing to me how much more competitive it is this year compared to last. I am sure I look crazy in the stands shouting with excitement but I can't help it.

Well I have a Layout to share with you. Yes I know shocking really! LOL. Maybe tonight I can get some more scrapping done. Anyways I started this layout about a month ago when I went over to KP's house to scrap. It just makes me smile to look at it :) I have never been very good at multiple or layered flowers and that was my goal with this LO.

I hope you are all having a great Friday and will have a great weekend!

Our Kitchen is done!!

Ok well it has been done for about a week or 2 but I am just now getting the chance to show you guys. Here are the before and after pics

I am in love with my kitchen all over again! I just have not had the chance to use it much. Our bathroom is almost done. I am waiting for Jeff to paint it. Other than the kitchen update we have started baseball here. Jeffrey had his first game of the season on Saturday. It was a great game. Our team is about a year younger than the other teams. We lost by one run. As Jamie would say, Darn it Sauce! Oh yea I almost forgot to mention that I am going to do the March of Dimes, March for Babies walk on April 26th. I am doing it with my Mom, Sister and Best Friend. Haven't done much scrapping. I miss it. Hopefully I can get some scrapping done this weekend! Hope you are all well! HUGS!

Wow I am a slacker!

Ok I have lots to catch up on so fisrt....

We have a new contest at www.scrappinwithgrace.com
Tthis month we would like to see you spotlight our sponsor by creating layouts, cards or altered items using Crate Paper Products. All you have to do is upload them into the Crate Paper Gallery

The Rules:

Layouts must be entered by the deadline April 27th 2008 midnight CST.
Your projects MUST show off Crate Paper's products
You can enter as many projects as you would like
1 winner will be selected based on the overall design and creativity

Winner will be announce on April 30th 2008


We are also looking for our May Guest Designer

April Shower's bring May Flowers right? So for our Guest Designer Challenge for May I would like you to create a floral Layout.Layouts must include5 or more flowersat least 1 Floral Patterned Paper5 or more Buttons RibbonHere are your requirements:-1 layout entry per person-deadline is 4/28, so we can announce on or before 4/30.-upload your entries to the May GDT gallery here: http://scrappinwithgrace.com/Gallery/MayGDT
*Please submit an original design for this challenge*
The Guest Designer will be working with products from our May sponsor, PINK PAISLEE

So I hope to see some of you over at www.scrappinwithgrace.com

Once a Week

That seems about right. Well I had a great time hanging out with KP and Charissa at the crop last friday night. I got to play with the new Honey Pie Line from Cosmo. Haven't finished my project just yet. Maybe this weekend. But the line is Super cute!

Well I gotta say nothing better than listening to outdated music while on hold with insurance companies. Especially for 5 to 10 minutes at a time. NOT! Or how about those heavy breathers on the other end? Yes I sat here yesterday listening to a rep breathing into the phone while I was waiting for her to look up some info on a patient. Could she NOT hear herself? I mean really this is the worst of my job so for that I am thankful. LOL.

Well the Last Scrapper Standing contest is in full effect at www.scrappinwithgrace.com

The entries have been fabulous. I challenged them to do a Monochromatic LO in green or to recycle something in their lo. Some people have managed to do both. This week is gonna be so hard voting.

On another note, we are gonna remodel our kitchen next week. Well we are gonna at least redo the counter tops. I cannot wait. I will have to remember to take before and after pics. Also we are completely redoing our guest bath. So the house will be an chaos next week while the kids are out of school. But there is never a good time to do that sort of thing.

Well I hope you all have had a great week!