Hello!

Well, it has been almost a month since my last post. I have been trying to spend less and less time on the computer and doing more things around the house. This month I have read six books so far! I think staying off the computer is the key. I've been keeping a log of books that I have read this year...here it is:

January:
Black Cat by VC Andrews
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham
February:
Reversible Errors by Scott Turow
March:
Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
April:
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
How To Make Love Like a Pornstar by Jenna Jamison
May:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Other Woman by Jane Green
Mutant Message from Down Under by Marlo Morgan
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
June:
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Work & The Glory. Vol. 1 by Gerald Lund
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
Three to get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

Tonight I am going to start The Lovely Bones by Alice Seibold

I haven't been doing any card making or scrapping. I really need to set aside some time to work on some cards for my swaps at the SU convention. I only have about 50 ALMOST done. I wanted to have about 250 or so cards to swap out. I wonder if I will even make it to 100!

My parents are coming out in 6 days for a visit! We haven't a clue as to what we are going to do when they are here, but I am sure we will come up with something. They want to buy Cameron a motorcycle helmet so he can ride with Michael. I think he needs full body armor to protect him. They also want to get him some school clothes. He is totally excited about this.

Well, I am signing off to start reading.

Quck card

The card below was made using a few different sets by Stampin' Up! The gumball machine is from a new set that will be available in July called "Treat Yourself" I thought it would be fun to put a fish in the machine. The machine is alot redder in person too. It scanned pretty light.

A Happy Hello 

Been awhile!

I did the layout below a couple of weekends ago. I know that it doesn't look that great, but I can't scan 12x12 size anymore.

I've been busy around the house with cleaning and stuff. What else is new? I finally got my butt back to the gym today...it's been 3 weeks since I had gone. Where does the time go?!?! It really felt good to be back too.

I am having a Stampin' Up! thing at my house on Saturday. I hope there will be people that come...I do know of 3 that said they can make it. I still have to cut out the cardstock for the projects, but that should be pretty simple considering I already know what we will be working on.

My new SU colors should be here today at my house! I am so excited to see what the new colors look like. They will be available to everyone else on July 1st! I also ordered the new catalogs, but they won't arrive until June 29th or so.

Well, off to clean my scrap table so I can have some room to cut out the cardstock!

Daisy

Another card

This card below was a quick one I did yesterday for a swap. It scanned a LOT darker than it really is. The yellow is actually quite light. I love the colors I used for this one...very cheery!

Celebrate Today 

So cleaning was a no go!

Of course I had good intentions of really deep cleaning my house yesterday. Let's just say that all that was done was cleaning ONE bathroom out of 3, vacuuming the whole house and putting away the dishes. For some reason I was just too tired to do much of anything. I took about 3 naps and still felt wiped out after I got up from each one.

Today should be better! I have got to work on some card ideas and Michael will be working on his motorcycle so I won't feel guilty playing in my room and doing a little light cleaning today.

It is almost 7:30 and I am going to head out to the gym so I can come home and get things started.

I broke down and bought it!

Well, after much consideration I finally bought the Coach bag that Michael said I could have for our anniversary. This isn't the $300 one that I looked at before, but is the $200 one. I still can't believe I spent THAT much money for one stinkin' bag! YIKES! All I could think of was all the new stamp sets that I could be buying. However, I never really get things like this for myself. A friend told me to not think anything of it since Michael has just bought a new exhaust system for his motorcycle to the tune of $1100! I just don't see why he had to have it, but you know boys and their toys!

Today is a busy day for me! I have an eye appt this morning, then heading to the gym, then to the grocer for a few things, then home to clean my house! Oh my, you should see my house...on second thought, perhaps you shouldn't. You wouldn't believe how bad it truly is! Luckily Cameron will be at the neighbors for much of the day so I can get things done. I also have to come up with some card ideas for a workshop I am doing next week. I didn't realize that it was coming up so soon.

My new bag! 

Happy Anniversary

Well, today was our 9th anniversary. Since the gift for this year is leather I bought Michael some new black dress shoes. He wants some leather riding pants, but I told him to get those on his own since I would have NO clue what type. He told me to get myself a Coach bag...I think I have one picked out now too. I don't know if I really want to spend almost $300 on a purse though. There are a LOT more things I could buy for myself for that price.

We went out to dinner last night. We only went to Red Robin since we had Cameron with us. We are going to go out sometime in the near future alone though. That will be nice considering we having really done that in a long time.

UGH!!!

I just typed up a HUGE journal post and went to publish it and the server had an error! How irritating. I will try to remember what I typed. It started like this:

I feel so BLAH! If you could see my house right now you would totally understand where I am coming from. I don't have the motivation to clean my house...that is so not like me. I am normally cleaning on Tuesdays and Fridays, but lately I just look around and say, "It doesn't look THAT bad" so I don't do anything. Well, enough days of that and you can imagine what it looks like. I think I may need to get a B12 shot soon too. I just don't have the energy that I normally have either.

I would love to work on some layouts today, but my scrap table is a complete disaster from my latest card frenzy from last week. You would think I could clean up after I am done, but I figure since no one else uses this room what is the point. Perhaps after the gym today I can take care of this mess.

This past weekend was spent doing some major gardening. We have to totally redo our backyard because the dogs that we had last year decided to dig up almost every plant that we had ever planted...including an apple tree! The tree isn't doing nearly as well as the other 3 trees we have back there. We hope it will do okay once the weather is good all the time. We have only half of our yard done so far...boy is planting expensive. We spent $500 this weekend on dirt, mulch and plants and still have half left to do. We are thinking of putting in a small vegetable garden on the West side of our yard. Cameron really wants his own pumpkin for Halloween this year so we will probably attempt to grow one or two for him.

We are trying to get our yard looking good because there will be people visiting this year that haven't been out to see us yet and would to have a nice backyard to share.

Michael is pretty fed up with his job and is going to start job hunting soon. He really wants to go into pharmaceutical sales. He was interested in this before and now since he was screwed out of about 22,000 in bonuses he wants to find something else. He really likes living here in Utah so he will look here as well as Seattle jobs. I really don't mind it here in Utah since the weather is a LOT nicer than Seattle most days out of the year.

Speaking of weather...it sure has been werid this year! On Sunday it was 75 at our house and yesterday, Monday, I came home to a lawn of white! Yes, it was snowing! It was coming down pretty hard too. Today looks like it may be a pretty nice day...however, not as nice as we had this weekend.

Well, I am off to sort laundry and start a load before we head out to go to the gym.

Card Frenzy

Today is card upload day for me...or so it seems. I made this adorable card below for a friend of mine.

Stampin' Up! Something to Celebrate 

Making some cards

I have been having fun with my stamps lately! I made this cute little birthday card (first one below) for an online friend. She said it really made her day to get the card.

The second card below was made for a swap that I am doing with my Stampin' Up! upline group. I didn't have much time to make this card to get it to my friend Sherrie in time for her meeting on Sunday. So, I just hurried and made this card. I think it turned out pretty cute considering I didn't have much time.

Stampin' Up! Little Layers Plus, Sincere Salutations, Fresh Fillers and Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Swap card. Stampin' Up! Something to Celebrate

Latest layout

Unfortunately I had to take a picture of the layout because I can not stitch together a 12x12 page. I was finally able to use pink in a layout! The pictures are from my new camera and printed out on the printer my parents bought for me. They look amazing!

Cassie 

A beautiful Utah day!

The sun is shining and I have NOTHING to do. I could be working on a scrapbook page or two, but I am not. I am sitting here in front of the computer doing absolutely nothing! What a sorry life I lead!

Cameron is depserately waiting for a friend to come over. They had to run some errands and he won't stop bugging me about when they will be here.

Michael is out of town this week. His boss' boss wants to talk to him when he is in Denver. We think it may have something to do with a promotion and moving to another state. I really will miss the friends I have made here. I will keep this updated to let everyone know what is going on.