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Where I've been...

Well, school started for me in August and has been consuming my entire life. I have been in school for almost a month now. Crazy how fast the time has gone, but feels like it hasn't. Since starting school a few years ago I haven't ever taken this large of a class load. It is only 12 credits, but feels like 18 or more with the amount of time I am there and the amount of work required. I ended up NOT quitting my job and sometimes wonder if I made the right decision. I am only working on Mondays since I am in class every other day. I was also elected President of our class and that will end up taking some of my time as well.I have made some great friends so far and can't wait to get to know even more of them. There is a total of 24 in our class and every single one of them are wonderful women.
This weekend I attended the Utah Dental Hygiene Association (UDHA) convention and got to mingle with the girls even more. I stayed the night in a condo with two other girls on Friday and a lot of fun was had. After the convention on Friday night we hit the outlets and shopped until they closed at 9:00 then decided we should go to dinner. After dinner we went to the grocery store for water, junk and oatmeal for breakfast. We were laughing so hard we were crying at times in the store. I'm sure people wondered what we were on. When we got back to the condo we chatted and around 2:00 Trish and I decided it was finally time for bed. We had to go to the convention again in the afternoon.Cameron got glasses earlier this month too. I think he looks very cute! His prescription is just a bit stronger than mine which isn't very strong at all.Hockey season starts tomorrow. Cameron is on the same team as one of his former classmates so he is happy. His team is the Penguins...which is the favorite NHL team in our house, who by the way, won the Stanley Cup this past season!

The pictures from my camera sure look grainy on here, but if you click on them they should look better.

Well, I better get studying. Work tomorrow will come too soon and I won't have much time to study. That's what's been going on in my world lately. Hopefully it won't take me this long next time to update.

Just some new pages

I've been working on some pages. I will add credits later.



I just realized that I put different years on the next two layouts. They were taken the same day. Gotta fix that one!

Long time

So, it's been over a month since I have updated or posted anything at all. I am sorry! I hate when I go to blogs that haven't been updated...come on people I want to know what's been going on in your lives. Well, I am one of them.

I had my school orientation at the beginning of the month. I am so excited to finally start my classes and be on my final destination of being a dental hygienist. Classes start on August 26th and can't come soon enough. Here is a list of my classes this semester....I've never taken more than 2 at a time (well, I guess I took 3 once, but one was online and EASY):
Intro to Hygiene (Theory)
Head & Neck Anatomy
Dental Anatomy
Dental Radiology w/lab
Embryology/Histology
I am a bit lucky in that we are starting out the year slowly with only having classes M-Th. I was worried that I was going to be there M-F from 8-5. This semester I only start at 8:00 one day and I will be able to get Cameron off to school on the other days. I was pretty worried about him having to get himself off to school.

Yesterday I got together with Shannon to do a little scrapbooking. I did two digital pages while I was there and then later in the evening I made a little avatar of myself for a message board I am on.I hope to get more pages done today, but I need to head to a bakery for some eclairs, clean house then go to a Bastille Day party tonight (thus the need for eclairs).

I haven't posted a book list in awhile. Here's what I have read so far this year.
Secrets of a Shoe Addict - Beth Harbison
Shoe Addicts Anonymous - Beth Harbison
Dead Until Dark - Book 1 - Charlaine Harris
Living Dead in Dallas - Book 2 - Charlaine Harris
Club Dead - Book 3 - Charlaine Harris
Dead To The World - Book 4 - Charlaine Harris
Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar Mysteries #1) - Harlan Coben
Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar Mysteries #2) - Harlan Coben
7th Heaven - James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Plum Spooky - Janet Evanovich
Pretty in Plaid - Jen Lancaster
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
They Did It With Love - Kate Morgenroth
Chasing Harry Winston - Lauren Weisberger
Pagan Stone (Sign of the Seven Trilogy, Book 3) - Nora Roberts
8th Confession - James Patterson
Mommy By Mistake - Rowan Coleman
The Shack - William P. Young
The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz

Cameron starts 4th grade on July 27th. Where does the time go? I can't believe he is going to be in 4th already. He is a bit bummed that he didn't get the track (year-round school has different tracks for all the kids) he wanted, but he will be in the same class as a few of his friends. We kept him pretty busy this summer with hockey camp twice a week. He improved a great deal over the 6 weeks. I can't wait to see him play on a team again later this year.

Michael had a bit of a scare a few weeks back with a partially obstructed bowel. We thought he was going to need surgery, but the doctor had him go on a clear liquid diet for a week and the obstruction cleared itself up. We are thankful that he didn't have to undergo abdominal surgery as this is something can reoccur from that surgery.

As I type Michael is up in Alaska salmon fishing with his dad. Fun times! He has hopes of bringing home 50 pounds of fish. Eeewww! I am not a big fish fan. Cameron and Michael will be enjoying the salmon though.

I hope I don't let this blog go for so long until my next post, but until then....have a great day!

Really?

I can't believe it's been over a month since I updated the blog. I haven't done too much during that time either.

My grandfather passed away Memorial weekend and I went home for a few days with Cameron to hang out with family and friends.

Cameron is officially out of school as of yesterday. He will start 4th grade on July 27th. He is currently in a hockey camp so he doesn't forget how to do stuff. He is always very sweaty when he is done with the camp for the day. Cameron was in a cute play at school and played a pirate. He does such a good job with talking in front of a crowd and singing. He was also in the choir again this year and enjoys that too.

Michael is on an adult hockey team that plays on Thursdays. He is loving it too. Their team was undefeated until this past week when they lost to a high school team.

I'm not doing too much this summer. Just working and hanging around the house until I start school full-time in August. I can't wait! I just hope the two years goes by quickly.

I'm hoping to get some digi scrappin' done this weekend. We'll see if I succeed.

Disney pages and some misc. ones too.

I have been working on some pages lately. Most of these layouts are done using templates so I can finish quicker.

My plan is to have a Disney book made. Some of the text looks blurry, but it doesn't when blown up.Here are a few other layouts that I have been working on....

Fantastic stop motion photography

Digi Scrappin'

Made a few more pages today. I have more to make, but ran out of time.

This was from October 2007.
This one was fun since it was of a girl!!! This is a sister of one of Camerons friends.

Dusk (Twilight Spoof)

Scrappin' again

I was playing around with digital scrapping again tonight. Here are my creations:Template: Pattilicious 2 by chrissyw @ Elemental Scraps

Paper kit:Hugs & Kisses Collab. @ Little Dreamer Designs

Samplepack3 template by ChrissyW @ Elemental Scraps
Grandmothers Grace kit by Megan Turnidge @ Elemental Scraps

Template: Jael'icious 4 by ChrissyW @ Elemental Scraps
Paper kit: Lucky Bum by ChrissyW
Font: Tommy's First Alphabet

More layouts

I've been having fun again....here are some layouts I did today.

Template: Challenge Freebie @ Elemental Scraps (Chrissy W)
Digi Kit: It's My Day @ Elemental Scraps (Chrissy W)
#9: Jolly Jingle kit @ Little Dreamer Designs (Lori Barnhurst)

Template: Jael'icious pack @ Elemental Scraps (Chrissy W)
Digi Kit: Lucky Bum @ Elemental Scraps (Chrissy W)

Template: Freebie #47 @ Moriginals
Digi Kit: Candy Cane @ Little Dreamer Designs (Heidi Larsen)

Digi Scrappin'

I spent some of my morning working on a few layouts. I used templates for these three pages and can I tell you it is SOOOO much faster to use a template. These templates are from No Reimer Reason and Moriginals. We went to see Pink Panther 2 this afternoon and went out to lunch at Red Robin. The movie was pretty funny. We wanted to see Coraline, but it was pretty much sold out for the time we wanted. Cameron and Michael took off this evening to go ice skating so I am doing more digi scrappin'.

Disregard the way this looks

I am trying to change the blog and I can't get the size of my image correct. Hang in there...I know I am.

What can I say...we've been busy

Ok, not too busy that I really have anything to write about.

I started a new semester of school on the 16th. I am just taking Communications and it is just on Fridays so it isn't too bad. I've had this entire week off and had all these plans on scrapbooking. Did I do it? Sadly, the answer is no. I got a Cricut Expression for Christmas and finally took it out of the box this past Saturday. I still haven't tried it out. In case some of you don't know what it is it is used for paper crafting and cuts out shapes and letters. It is really cool.Shannon and I went out to dinner and to see Bride Wars last weekend. It was a cute movie and it was great to spend some time with a great friend.

I started knitting again at Christmas time. I made some very cute wash cloths for a gift and kept making them. I have a drawer of them all to myself now. I love washing dishes with a fun new wash cloth each day. I was checking out Ravelry for new patterns the other day and came across this really cute baby hat. I decided I was going to try to make it. Well, I made it last night and it is super cute...here it is:Well, enough about me...here's what has been going on with the rest of the crew.

Cameron has been having fun in hockey and is improving each time he is out on the ice. Guitar lessons are going well for him, however, I have a hard time getting him to practice each day. He does it, but he complains each time. Cameron has been out of school since December 19th when we left to go to Seattle for Christmas. I can't wait for him to get back. I do like having him home, but I also like my days off to be just me at home alone...doing just what I want to do. He will go back on Wednesday. Hooray!

Michael is going to start the adult "Learn to Play" hockey in March. He took up ice skating when Cameron started hockey. He really enjoys it and has all the hockey gear already. He goes to a drop-in hockey on Saturday nights. The first night he came home from it he was sore and could barely walk up the stairs. He said he was the oldest person there...most of the people were 15-16 years old. He has made some good friends from going with Cameron to the hockey practices that are drop in too.

So, that has been us in a nutshell. Sorry it has taken me awhile to update the good ol' blog.