John's Birthday and Alex's First Day of School!

Last Wednesday was John's 30th birthday! Poor guy, everyone was making fun of him so much. :) I was the worst at making fun of him, he was getting so sick of me, hehe. I tried to make his birthday as special as I could though. I surprised him with a cake in the morning at work and bought and made him lots of gifts! Here is the card and little present that I made for him. :)


Melissa gave me the idea for the "30 Sucks" tootsie pop basket, thanks Mel!

John's dad ended up giving him half of the day off of work so he decided that we should take Alex to the Oklahoma Science Museum. Alex loved it!



I apologize for the horrible photos. My camera hasn't been working properly lately and I can only get it to work sometimes. I had to use my cell phone to take pics of John's birthday. Anyways, I have a warranty on my camera but to get it fixed I have to send it in to Nikon and I keep putting it off because I constantly have new layouts and scrap projects that I NEED photos of. I have a feeling it's going to take me awhile to get it back once I send it off to them.

Thursday was Alex's FIRST day of Kindergarten! He was so excited. I was nervous. It's a new school for him and Kindergarten here is a full day of school, rather than a half day like it was for him last year. Alex is a hyper kid, and he can never seem to keep his mouth shut, hee! He had problems with it last year in Pre-K, he got in trouble a LOT for talking, although he got better about it after a few months. I knew that paying attention for a full 7 hours a day was going to be a huge challenge for him this year. And. I was right. He's gotten in trouble a bunch for talking already, hopefully things will get easier for him soon.




Photos of him on his first day. I love the last one, cracks me up!

The first few days of school were pretty hard for Alex. I think he thought that it was going to be just like Pre-K, that he was going to walk into class and know everyone but of course it's a new class at a new school with a new teacher! Thankfully a girl from his class last year is in his class but it didn't seem to help much during the first few days. He was sad after school, telling me about how no one seemed to want to play with him at recess and things like that. I was SO sad for him, and shocked as well! He's the most outgoing person I know, and ask anyone, I am NOT kidding, lol. Not getting someone to play with him is so unheard of, he's never had a problem joining in. I spent the next few days making things as fun as possible for him, trying to keep his mind off of school so he wouldn't cry about it.

This week has been much better though. He's come home happy the last couple of days babbling away telling me about his new friends and how much fun he had at recess. I'm relieved. :) Hopefully he won't have this problem again since he'll be going to this school for the next 4 years. :)

Alex and I had an exhausting weekend. We went to two birthday parties yesterday! Chelsea's daughter's was a pool party and our neighbors was a big waterslide party. Alex's muscles were sore for the first time ever last night and this morning. It freaked him out, he thought he was dying, poor guy!

My Creative Sketches- New Sketch Blog!

The My Creative Scrapbook owner, Pam has started a new sketch blog: My Creative Sketches! The first sketch challenge just went live today. Make sure to check it out, the prizes are AMAZING, I wish I had a chance to win them, lol!

Here is the layout that I made based off of the sketch:

Alex with his basketball trophy last winter. This photo of him is one of my favorites!

My First Wedding Layout and My Ring!

Yep. I did it. I scrapped my very first wedding photo! I don't have any of my other photos back from the photographer yet. I'm trying to patiently wait for them. At least I had one to scrap though, yes?

Title: We're A Classy Couple
Journaling reads: At least... we looked like it for a day!

Ha!

Zva Creative products used: CR04CA125, bulk flowers

And speaking of the wedding... one of the most exciting things that happened to me during the wedding was when John surprised me with another wedding ring while we were exchanging rings! I thought that we were just going to use the same rings that we used last year when we got married at the court house, but he got me a smaller one to go with my big one for our religious ceremony. He is so sweet! I love how they look together. :)
Before I go... check out the layout that I made for the Cricut blog last week. This one features book paper. You can see more details on the Cricut blog HERE!
Alex starts school this Thursday! I can't believe summer will be over in three days! It went by way too fast.

Vacation Layouts

I've been having fun scrapbooking lots of my vacation photos this week! I have many new photos from our wedding/vacation I have enough photos to scrapbook for years without running out. :)

Here's Alex on the beach in Bellingham, Washington. We went for our friend, Kaci's, wedding and I immediately fell head over heels in LOVE with Bellingham. I reminds me so much of Alaska! Their food was incredible. There were cute little restaurants and sandwich shops everywhere and everything I ate was more amazing than anything I had ever tasted. I swear, we ate so much there, I'm surprised we didn't all gain ten pounds! Only fallback to Bellingham was that it was COLD! I'm used to the summer's being nice and hot but it was only in the 60's during the day there. That's how Alaska summers are too but I'm not used to them anymore!

Zva Creative products used: PEB02CB103

Layout of Mom and I at Kaci's wedding. Sigghhh. I miss her SO much already!

Zva Creative products used: CRB04CA115, CRB04CA105, FL04CA135, bulk flowers

After Kaci's wedding my mom, sister, Alex and I were supposed to go to Seattle the next day to spend a couple days there as well. My sister ended up getting sick so Alex and I only got to spend a couple hours there before our flight back to Montana. I was REALLY bummed that we didn't get to go, I had our two days planned full of fun stuff to do in Seattle. Hopefully we'll get to go back soon so that we can really experience Seattle to the fullest! Alex and I just went to the beach before our flight. It was so fun! When I was little one of my favorite things to do was combing the Alaskan beach when the tides would go out. That's exactly what Alex and I did and he loved it! He was fascinated by all of the crabs, fish and snails that we found. :) We walked out on a couple docks and saw a bunch of jellyfish as well, too cool! I really miss living by the ocean!

Zva Creative products used: CR03CA120

My Bachelorette Party and Wedding Shower

My friend Sarah threw both my wedding shower AND my Bachelorette party, she's the best! :) They were both AMAZING parties, I had so much fun!

My bachelorette party was on July 9th, the Saturday before the wedding. I told Sarah to plan it for then because I knew that I would be WAY too busy the week before the wedding to be able to go out and have fun. :) The party ended up being INSANE, especially near the end. We ran into a bunch of NFL players at one bar and Macaulay Culkin at another. Now how many people can say that happened at their bachelorette party? And in Montana, no less?

Here's a quick rundown of the party:
Just the bridesmaids that were in town (Naomi, Jennifer and Krissy couldn't get here until a couple days before the wedding, since they're from out of town) came to the dinner before the party. During the dinner Sarah gave us our goodie bags that were full of bachelorette party favors, most of which were innapropriate!


Amanda, Kelly, me, Sarah and Suzy

After dinner we went bar hoppin! Other friends joined us at the bar and we all traveled around in "style" in a big van that the bridesmaids got for the night equipped with it's very own driver! The poor driver probably hated us by the end of the night, I know we must have been super loud and annoying, lol!

It was such a fun night. I made everyone take turns being the bachelorette, it was hilarious. Then I had a checklist that I was supposed to fill out, I wont even tell you what was on that checklist, but I made all of my bridesmaids complete each task on the list instead of me. Everything was checked off by the end of the night except two!

The following Thursday Sarah thew my bridal shower at my mom's house. She made SO much delicious food- and enough food to feed about a hundred people! (This is just some of it...)

A bunch of my out of town family and friends ended up arriving right when the shower was coming to an end, so the party kept on going. Even more people ended up coming over and we celebrated all night. I wish I had gotten more photos but I was too busy to think! I only have the few that Sarah took. :) I swear, the week before the wedding was pretty much a non stop party blur, but I LOVED it.