I am tirrred!

But I have lots to do! I've been doing chores like crazy tonight and I'm STILL not done! That's what I get for bein lazy! lol. John and I are going to have our friends Brandon and Liz over for dinner tomorrow and of course my house needs to be spotless! I hate when people see my house messy. Sarah came over today and I was rushing around trying to clean things up, she kept yelling at me to just sit down because she didn't care if things were out of place, lol.
Guess what?? John told me yesterday that he wants to move in with me!! EEE!!!! I didn't even say anything to him! He just told me he's been wanting to move in together officially for a long time, but didn't want to screw his room mates over. I'm just so stoked, I'm glad we'll actually be living together and not blowing a bunch of money on unnecessary rent. We'll see what happens though. We either need to boot one guy out of his house that doesn't even stay there anyways, or we need a new place all together.
Couple new layouts that I made yesterday. I've been using lots of the Magistical Memories chipboard that the amazing Toni Rivera sent me, she's so awesome! I just bought lots of cute stuff from her Etsy too. She makes some cool stuff, can't wait to get it! :)

I Love the Holidays!

Hi All, I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving! Mine was a little different than I thought it was going to be. So, my mom made us miss our flight to Michigan Thursday morning. Alex and I met her at her house at 5 in the morning, and she STILL wasn't ready! My sister and I tried to rush her along, but we still didn't make it to the airport in time to make our 6:20 flight. Ughhh, I love my mom, but she is late for everything, even important stuff like plane trips. 
Besides that whole fiasco though, this weekend has been amazing. John, Alex and I have spent so much time together, I love it! :D I've been starting to drop little hints about us moving in together though. He and I "live" together, but we don't. He lives in a house with his two room mates, and I have my own house. He stays at my house every night, even on his days off, he's here, not at his house! Of course, I love it, I love it when he's here. BUT, it's pretty pointless that he's paying rent at his house. It's like he's paying $300 to store his furniture every month. AND I have to pay allll my rent at my house for us both to live here, not cool! lol. It's just getting really expensive for me to pay for all three of us to live here by myself. We're moving to Oklahoma next year, and I told him that we should probably live together officially before we leave. He's just having a hard time because if he leaves his house he'll stick his room mates with all the rent, plus my house is too small to fit all his furniture in here, so we'd have to move. AND, I don't really want to move out of this place into another place in Billings, so much work!! lol. And I like my little house, I've lived here for a year and a half, and it's so cute. :) Together he and I have enough stuff to fill a whole big house, which will be great when we move to Oklahoma, but not now. Ughhh, sometimes these things can be so complicated! lol.

Anyways, the above layout is for our first challenge at Style's the Word. Go check it out! All the gals on the DT are great and oh so talented!
I'm off the scrapbook, I have lots of stuff to do today!  Here are a few pretty pics of my tree. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! :) I have to leave home at 4 in the morning tomorrow to fly to Michigan, ugh, way too early! My mom decided at the last minute that we were going to go have thanksgiving with my grandparents and the rest of my dad's family in Michigan. She forgot to tell me about it until a couple weeks ago! I was planning on having dinner with John's family, since we spent last thanksgiving with my family, but I had to change my plans. I'm really really excited to see my dad's family though, it's been over a year since I've seen them! I'm just not looking forward to the nice long plane ride with Alex, wish me luck everyone! :) haha. He doesn't like it at all when you try to get him to sit still, I know I'm in for some BIG temper tantrums! I'm keeping him up really late tonight so hopefully he'll sleep the whole ride there. :)

I decided that I'm probably not even going to sleep tonight. I'm usually up until one or two anyways, and I haven't even packed yet.

Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone!

Yay for New Scrappy Stuff!

Hi all! So... I haven't updated my blog all week. I just didn't really have anything exciting to say! lol.

I got my Love, Elsie, Zoe and Noel stuff in the mail yesterday! FINALLY! I was sooo excited! lol. Dani and I stayed up late last night playing with all of it, and tonight we're going to play some more! :D John was hogging the computer last night so I didn't get a chance to scan my layouts, but I definitely will this weekend.

I just got even MORE inspired to play with the Zoe line when I took a look at the Red Velvet Art Kit Club blog this morning. They also put up the sneak peak for Decembers kit. I WANT it! lol.

I have lots of fun stuff coming in the mail soon too. I just ordered a bunch of stuff from Jenni Bowlin Studios and Elle's Studio. AND, my sweet friend Kristen just told me that she sent off a big package of new May Arts ribbons to me too! Yay, lots of fun new stuff! :)
Tomorrow my friend Sarah and I are going shopping for christmas decorations for my house. It's the first year that I have my very own house to decorate! I bought a tree last week, but I hardly have any decorations or ornaments. We're going to Hobby Lobby that just opened up in Billings 2 weeks ago. Everything is STILL 50% off!

OH, and Simply Obsessed just put up December's kit. I love it and can't wait to get it! It's full of American Crafts and KI Memories, yummyyy!

Now, I'm off to do more online christmas shopping. I just bought John a bunch of Boondock Saints stuff, he looooves that movie and he's obsessed with being Irish, so I know that stuff will be perfect for him! Especially since he's so hard to shop for, I'm glad I got him out of the way. I want to buy Alex a cool rocking horse, but I haven't found anything online that I REALLY like for him. Anyone know a good place online to get one? I want a big one, not a baby one. He's almost two and he's a BIG and wild two year old, so I need something that will keep him entertained that he can play on for the next few years.

Here are the only three projects I made this week, I've been a slacker! My cute little halloween mini book that I made for Paper Jam Studios, you can see the rest in my gallery,

Sick sick!

Hi all! I feel bad because I haven't been around too much this week. AND I haven't been scrapping at all because I've been sick. :P I finally feel a little better today because my boss gave me some EmergenC stuff at work yesterday. It's this drink mix loaded with vitamin C and other stuff. I've been drinking it like crazy and that stuff works miracles! lol. I think I'm going to swear by it from now on and hopefully I won't get sick anymore. I need to go buy my own box of it! haha. I would definitely recommend it to anybody.
Sooo, I made myself finish this layout tonight! :) Sorry it looks a little lumpy, that big bow made it scan a little funny. It's for my DT over at paperjamstudio.com. I feel bad because I've had the kit for over a week and I've only made a few layouts. I still have to finish my mini book and card too! I'm expecting the new Love Elsie Noel and Zoe line in the mail this week, hopefully tomorrow! I've been so excited for that stuff for so long I'm sure it'll motivate me to scrap tons! haha.
I hope everyone is having a great week! And I hope no one else is sick. Drink some EmergenC to make sure you don't! :) 

I Love My Dad

My dad was killed by a doctor a little over a year ago. Isn't that awful?? He was only 50 years old, and he died because the doctor used dirty tools when he performed a simple back surgery on him. Afterwards my dad was in so much pain, he kept going back to the doctor, the doctor ran tests and told my dad he was fine and pretty much called him a wimp for not being able to handle the pain. My dad went to a different doctor after that, and the doctor saw right away that my dad's back was infected. It had already spread to his spine, and there's no way to fix that. So my dad was pretty much in pain for 5 years until undetected blood clots in his leg killed him while he was sleeping. It's a super long story, but I have been trying really hard to accept his death lately. Since it happened I have been pretty much putting it out of my mind, but this week I've been working really hard on accepting it and letting him go. Last week I kept having dreams about him still being alive and us waiting for him to die, so I pretty much saw it as a sign that I just have to accept it.
My dad was such a good man. He worked so hard and gave my sister, mom and I everything we have always wanted. I miss hanging out with him so much. He made me develop my love for hockey, the outdoors, court tv and law and order! :) He was always so supportive of everything I chose to do, and even tried to understand me when I went through my "rebellious" period during high school. We had our disagreements, but he was such a great dad.
When I had Alex my dad was thrilled! Some days I had to fight him to let ME hold Alex, he just took care of him like he was his own son. :) My dad always wanted a son, so in some ways I think I was meant to have Alex at the time that I did for him.
I was just on the internet, and I found THIS, which makes me so so mad. I read it in the online newspaper back in April when it first came out. There is an area where people can make comments on the article, and people were pretty much saying my mom was suing the doctor because she was trying to get a "free ride"!! I wanted to post a comment sooo bad sticking up for her, but our lawyer told me not to. :P My dad had been suing the doctor before he died because he couldn't even work anymore. So, after he died the trial changed a little, but we are still suing him for killing my dad. The doctor is denying everything, but things look really bad on his side, and he's been sued for wrongful practice many times before, muahaha. I just wish my dad had done more research before he went to that awful doctor!
I also found this online, which made me happier. I love that pic of my dad, it was him before he got sick, that's the daddy I will always remember. :)
From this experience, I will always be veryyy careful about what doctor I go to. It has made me a little scared of doctors, which isn't good, but better safe than sorry.
Sorry for all the whining! :) I'm off to scrap now.

Arg, I'm a Pirate!

Haha, I was a pirate for halloween, that is! This is the only pic I have of me where you can see my whole costume. My friend Sarah and I got ready together at my house and my friend Mikey took a bunch of pics of us before we left the house. Let me tell ya, that guy is NOT good with a camera! haha. All of them were so blurry you could barely see them! This was the only one that kind of turned out. I was a little disappointed, but he's such a sweet heart for trying! :)

Halloween night was fun! I took Alex trick or treating at work. Tons of people brought candy to hand out at their cubicles. They had a big buffet and were giving balloons and prizes out to the kids, it was so fun! It was great to see all my coworkers kids together, and sooo many adorable costumes!! Alex was superman this year. The only pics we got of him were in the morning. John and I KNEW we had to take pics of him before he started to eat candy, and sure enough, his costume was covered in candy drool soon after he got his hands on some! lol. I don't have any pics to put up of him yet, they were all taken on John's camera and I can't find the camera cable! :( They'll be up SOON though.

Later that night I went out to a local bar here. You had to go through a haunted house to get in, it was awesome! So many of my friends showed up, and there were some really cute and HILARIOUS costumes everywhere! Here are just a few photos that we took.

This week has been soooo busy! I'm exhausted!! I'm going to a Clintons concert tomorrow, and then I'm resting it up and scrapping for the rest of the weekend! I have lots of scrapping that I want to do, and John needs some quality time with his playstation. :)