i miss these 2 siblings....photos to share....a special birthday

...yes i do!  especially our sibling brunches... we made this a monthly tradition to play catch up, hella laugh, and just joke around and yes have some serious "life" talks.  i am gonna miss doing this with them, but maybe when i come visit we'll get to do it again someday.

this page layout is dedicated to my sis, jo and bro, josh...

(supplies:  Cosmo Cricket, Studio Calico, American Crafts, EK Success, Fiskars, Aleene's, Maya Road, Ranger, Basic Grey, AMM kit, Jesse James & Co, Janlynn)

and for the sibling love deetz:

here's some of my fave photos during our road trip here and a few so far we've taken here in cali...

BJ's resto, yumm-o grilled chicken pesto flatbread pizza and a strawberry mojito...aaaahhh yeaaaah!:

Fuddrucker's resto, black & bleu burger...a second time...aaaaahhhh yeaaaahhh!:

IHOP breakfast along the way:

Oregon beach time:

home sweet home, edwards afb of cali:

a family fun trip to Mulligan's here at Palmdale:

loving cali so far.

today, is this cutie'z birthday, she's officially 10 today!

we love you and happy birthday!  lunch at red robin's and then the eclipse movie. yey-yah!

running behind on schedule

hmmm...i write out my to do lists on either paper or my nifty sticky notes app on my droid...and sh*t!  i'm kinda running behind on my to-do's today...i got so caught up on checking my finances and making a correction that i had emailed someone in error, hopefully that's all resolved.  then i got caught up on uploading and labeling my photos for my "everyday project."  hmmmm?

and now what am i doing?  realized  i haven't blogged all weekend...well i was busy having fun this past weekend.  saturday...my hubz got me some new running shoes from South Sound Running:

did a jog/walk around the lake, heritage park:

did a little bit of people watching and had lunch at chopsticks in olympia, i had the tofu sauteed w/ onions fresh salad bowl and da hubz had the wonton soup, yumm-0! we sat at the window bar, which was cool since i've never sat there before:

did a walmart grocery run:

then home and relaxed and played on our droids and then i looked through our civil wedding album:

hmmm...might have to take a few pix of it and post it here someday.

then sunday....

scrapped an LO for our Hawaii Honeymoon album (will post this one at a later date):

went for a road bike at Chehalis Trail:

we got hungry and had a slice of pizza at Vic's Pizzeria:

took one of my infamous bathroom selfies and saw their chalkboard and made my mark:

then chilled at home, did some house stuff, picked up my daughter, really missed her during the weekend, but so happy she got home last night:

and now it's good morning monday 10:54 a.m. and sh*t....i'm definitely behind on schedule.  oh well.  i'm on vacay anyway....nothing always goes as planned right?

well it's about time to put another LO... i did this for our 2nd wedding.  this is one of my fave photos of us.   i got this printed in 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10.  this one is the 5x7, mostly used red AC cardstock and then used scraps that were used for the wedding decor.  really love how this one turned out....this LO will be the last page in our wedding album:

did a lot of tone on tone deetz:

have a good monday!  tfl!

as of 10 a.m. today, i am....

....on vacation!  woohoo!  i worked for 3 hours today and it was a good 3 hours.  it was sad to say bye but i'll be visiting everyone before we really really leave.  i was there for 8 yrs and they were great, even through the bad times (b/c i learned so much from them too!).  i'm gonna miss working there but i'm gonna miss the people more. besides working in seattle, it was one of the best 8 yrs of my career.  now i'm gonna try the SAHM route (stay-at-home-mom) and it's gonna be an adjustment since i've always worked.

it will be nice actually not have "to worry what i need to do at work tomorrow" for once.  but that does not mean i'm gonna be vegan (sp?) out every single day...that's just not who i am.  gotta lot of prep stuff, take care of stuff thangs to do before the move.  i'll still be busy.

totally looking forward to sleeping in a little bit.  i usually wake up at 4:30 to fit in some exercise but i think i'll move it to 5:30 and do wateva until i drop off my daughter at my mom's for school or at her bus stop. will definitely put in a jog at least 3x a week.

yey-yah!  and of course scrap, organize, clean, watch some reality tv (real housewives of nyc, oc and jersey; million matchmaker; the hills; the city, etc), watch some on demand sex and the city.  and yey-yah...i get to cook more often now (one of my favez aside from scrappin).  tonight cooked up some spaghetti for my fam...

gotta plan the menu and experiment ya know...yey-yah!  luckily my husband and daughter are the victims, i mean, my gp's, i mean, my fans of my cooking.  heehee...  hmmmm what to cook next?

today i spent my day organizing the downstairs a bit especially my scrapbook layouts....yikes!  they were all dusty b/c they were out in the open...had to dust them off with the swifter and organized them by the date of creation...and holy 'camoley!  i had piles of them since january 2007!  i actually think there was another album somewhere hiding...didn't count them but will tomorrow.  check it out...

i usually display my most recent LO's by the dining room window sills (that's the only place to display them!).  i practically took over the dining area for my scrap stuff..

hopefully in our next home, i can do a better job of organizing and hiding my scrappy toys from public view.  my hubby had a great idea of doing a wall exclusively for my most recent LO's.  he's so thoughtful!  i love you babez!  can hardly wait!  so happy i took up this wonderful hobby and artform. 

tomorrow is a totally new day...definitely will have to do some house cleaning, call the bank, laundry and maybe take some inventory photos. 

busy life as a SAHM.  yey-yah!

well it's time to head out for now... will be blogging more often now that i've got some extra free time.  wink!