One Weekend, Two Shots

Now that 2010 is over I have begun putting together my One Weekend album. I decided to keep it simple. Its just a 6x6 album. Each picture has its own page and a tag for the date. (So Saturday and Sunday's shots would be on opposing pages) I included little inserts (bookmarks, large sized tags, journaling cards, ect) in between to record any journaling, story or thought behind each picture. I am pretty excited, its coming along really well. I'll post some more pics when I'm done so you all can see how it looks!

50 Things about me!!

Just for fun, I received this questionaire email from a friend and thought I'd share my answers with all of you.

1. What color is your toothbrush? green 2. Name one person who made you smile today? Surprisingly, Lucas! 3. What were you doing at 8 am this morning? Finishing breakfast 4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Blog hopping 5. What is your favorite candy bar? Anything dark chocolate 6. Have you ever been to a strip club? No way 7. What is the last thing you said aloud? I know. 8. What is your favorite ice cream? Starbucks, Caramel Macchiato 9. What was the last thing you had to drink? Chai tea 10. Do you like your wallet? Yeah 11. What was the last thing you ate? Dinner; Roast, carrots, mashed potatoes, yummy 12. Have you bought any new clothing items this week? Not yet, plans for a new sweater before the weeks out 13. The last sporting event you watched? Idk, its been awhile 14. What is your favorite flavor of popcorn? Kettle corn

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? I don’t text 16. Ever go camping? In August 17. Do you take vitamins daily? Just when I feel a cold coming on 18. Do you go to church every Sunday? yes 19. Do you have a tan? usually 20. Do you prefer Chinese food over pizza? NO 21. Do you drink your soda with a straw?' sometimes 22. What did your last text message say? See #15 23. What are you doing tomorrow? Uh, working 25. Look to your left, what do you see? The dining room 26. What color is your watch? black 27. What do you think of when you hear Australia? “32 wallaby way sydney” 29. Do you go in at a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? Depends on my mood but usually go in 30. What is your favorite number? 21 31. Who's the last person you talked to on the phone? My dad 32. Any plans today? Biggest Loser and bed, the day is practically over 33. How many states have you lived in? 2 34. Biggest annoyance right now? coworkers

35. Last song listened to? Back to December by Taylor Swift 36. Can you say the alphabet backwards? Really slowly 37. Do you have a maid service clean your house? muuuuuuahaahhaha yeah right. 38. Favorite pair of shoes you wear all the time? Love my boots! 39. Are you jealous of anyone? people that dont have to work and still have everything they could ever want. 40. Is anyone jealous of you? maybe... 41. Do you love anyone? yes 42. Do any of your friends have children? yes 43. What do you usually do during the day?work 44. Do you hate anyone that you know right now? Hate is a very strong word. . . 45. Do you use the word 'hello' daily? No not really 46. What color is your car? silver 47. Do you like cats? Love ‘em 48. Are you thinking about someone right now? duh 49. Have you ever been to Six Flags? Yeah, I love amusement parks 50. How did you get your worst scar? Sliced my leg on a broken tv antennae

Plans for 2011

Happy New Year all!!



After participating in the One Weekend, Two Shots journey I have decided to try Becky Higgins project Life! I am going to try to record my family's life (the ups, the downs, big events, and small random moments) by taking a picture everyday for a full 365 days!! It seems like a huge undertaking but I can't wait to try!

I ordered one of the older kits during the Black Friday sale since I didn't want to spend too much money on a project I wasn't sure I could complete! I just love the kit too, it is so easy and organized. I'll probably post my pics once a week, so please feel free to stop by and check my progress as the year goes by.



Thanks for stopping by! I hope you're all having a fantastic 2011 so far!!!

Christmas!! Day 25!

As I mentioned before I got a little carried away taking pictures and have almost 200 just from Christmas Day!! I photograph everything:) The hard part is always deciding which pictures to print and use. As I have been putting my album together I have switched a few things around and had an extra envelope that was not used on a previous day that I will be utilizing for day 25! I think I am going to put together a mini album featuring the hightlights of the entire day. (at least one picture form all of our Christmas visits) For now I will share our favorite gifts.

My sister's favorite happens to be the scrapbook I made her. I had no idea what to get her so simply relied on my hobby to pull me through! She joyfully exclaimed "It's all about me!?" when she pulled it out of the box!! I laughed as I brethed a sigh of relief! She can be picky so I wasn't so sure that she'd like it. She had me in stitches with her comments all the way through the book! It was a simple All about me alphabet book, easy to make when time is not on my side. She made it to page 'Y', before asking Is this an alphabet book? LOL, she just got caught up looking at pictures I'm sure she forgot I had taken!

My favorite gift? A remote control Black Widow spider. There is something about receiving toys for Christmas!! Makes me feel young. As odd as it may seem, I just loved it!!! I have always liked spiders, so when I saw this in the ToysRUs toy catalog, i jokingly said that would be so much fun! Christmas morning I scanned the gifts under the tree and didn't see any "spider" sized boxes. Oh well, I'm too old for toys anyway. However, much to my delight the box was not the expected shape!!!! Guess they were heard me after all, I was so excited! I played (and annoyed all) for so long I wore out the batteries!

DD: Day 24

I know I am way behind but this week has been crazy like for me. I took SOO many pictures Dec. 24-25 that sorting, printing, and posting has been quite a lengthy process.

There are many Christmas Eve traditions here at our house. One of which is my sister and I wrapping all the gifts we bought and placing them under the tree (yes before Santa comes). I look forward to spending that time with my sister making sure we got everything for everyone and laughing at each others wrap jobs. She of course is a professional, having done gift wrapping while she worked at Macy's.

DD: Day 23

It's the night before the night before Christmas!!!! Yeah! I was totally in the christmas spirit today (to the extent I think I was drivin g everyone else crazy!!)

I only took this one shot today. Its our company at our Christmas luncheon today. I just love this picture!

My boss' 6 year old son (pictured in the front) came into my office at about 1145 asking "Do you want to go to lunch with me and my dad? If you do you need to sign my paper and be in the parking lot at noon!" He carried around a sheet of notebook paper that each employee had to sign, if your name's not on the list you can't go he informed me as I signed. About 5 minutes later he came back in and informed us "We are leaving a little behind schedule. We are leaving exactly. . .right now!" We all started cracking up at the matter of factness in his mixed up statement, but promptly shut down our computers grabbed our stuff and headed for the parking lot. Each year our boss takes us to the country club for a Christmas Eve luncheon, but there had been a lot of rumors and grumpy attitudes coming from upper management that it was not going to happen this year! I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was carrying on his little luncheon tradition. The picture was taken after lunch at the country club. Many coworkers complianed at the idea of having to be a part but everyone participated and several asked for a copy. I am so glad it all turned out so well!!

DD: Day 22

Christmas cards!! Of course I had to dedicate a page to all the beautiful cards my family has received. I snapped a quick shot before grabbing the stack out of the mailbox! I love getting the mail this time of the year!!


PS. To all my wonderful crafty friends, THANK YOU for all your amazingly gorgeous cards, I can't decided if I want to include them in my album to look at each year or hang them on my inspiration board!! You are all so very talented!!