Thursday, December 24, 2015

almost a year...what a record? LOL!

oh my!  it's been almost a year since my last post...  bad jenn!   life has been extremely busy.  i have been teaching more Zumba almost everyday, subbing and my own classes.   the girls' activities have also been on my calendar as well.  gymnastics, volleyball, etc.  but now i get these next 4 days off!  especially since it's my 44th birthday this saturday!  i'm so excited!

i have not scrapbooked anything not even a card for almost 5-7 months...and i'm not sure exactly when and what...i think it was my girlfriend's going away album that i made for her...and i think i deleted those photos...shoot!  (no pun intended)  but i recently got so inspired at my hubby's squadron's holiday party last week...


so i started blog surfing some of my fave scrappers/project lifers... ali edwards, amanda zampelli, rachel delgrosso...to name a few to get inspiration.  i'm also participating ali's one little word 2016 to jumpstart my creativity and to start of the new year on a good scrappy note.

after all this blog stalking... i mean surfing... i decided to do a day in the life album too....had over 40 photos but chose only 35 of them...not all of course are shown here...just wanted to show my fave layouts in the album...


i used the project life midnight edition core kit.  this is one of my fave pl kits.  I have a collection of PL kits but i seem to go back to this one (and the seafoam kit too!).  they are just more neutral in color and tone, so versatile.  plus i am changing my approach to doing PL now, more the minimalistic way.  this is not to say i won't use my other kits...wink!

so...my goal is to start focusing and doing my PL albums, and finish them!  right now, i'm still working on my PL 2013 and am doing lots of layouts for may & june '13.  i have a printer that can print photos, but it gets costly with the ink.  so whenever snapfish & shutterfly have photo print sales, i go for it!

i'm still working on uploading and sometimes editing photos for 2015.  i'm gonna be doing april soon.  yes, i'm that behind.  oh well, it will get done, on my time.  i so admire those who are doing current PL's, but...it just hasn't been that way for me with my schedule.  I haven't even done a scrap page, which i miss doing, in soooo long!  blame it on Zumba!  hahahhaha...



i have had a busy Zumba teaching schedule the past 2 months now... but it will be one class less in january 2016, a nice break (but man i love to teach!)


BUT.... i did some scrapping during the first half of this year...








wow!  only 2 scrap pages and the rest cards... pretty good for someone who hasn't scrapped in awhile.   

i traditionally do a birthday layout either the day/night before or the morning of my birthday.  and yes...i'm doing one!  i have 2 photos printed out and the supplies i plan on using for it. i plan on using about 5 different cocoa daisy kits for it.  i am thinking i'm going to keep it simple this time.  i usually go all out but like i said before, i am gonna try to be a minimalist this time, something different.  in fact, i think i may start it after this post.  lol!

for 2016 i hope:
  • to keep teaching Zumba 
  • finish up my 2013 PL album
  • start up a PL album for selene's 0 to 5 (maiya has one for 0 to 8 yrs)
  • scrap a page or a card every other month
  • keep up with my blog posts
  • pass my ACE personal trainer certification in May 2016
  • be a better military spouse (especially now that hubby has recently ranked up)
  • keep improving on being a better mom & wife too (there's alway room for improvement, if you say not so, then you're lying to yourself)
a few things i want to do next year...not a long list but these are things that do take time....and i can hardly wait to tackle them.

what have you been up to?


Thursday, January 1, 2015

out with the old in with the new...


o mi gawsh!  its a new year!  yey-yah!  i'm so looking forward to this year.  i don't make resolutions. i make goals.  hmmm what's mine?


  • complete my CEC's before the end of this year
  • new Zumba/dance routines every month, at least one
  • get my credit card debt in check, pay it down every month (if i won the lottery, this would be the first thing i'd take care of)
  • keep improving my relationships, both personal and Zumba-wise
  • make a Zumba commercial for my Zumba FB page by the end of winter or earlier (i may have a hookup on that, one of my students is into photography and videography!)
  • scrapbook at least one page per month
  • complete a few project life layouts every other week
  • do my Zumba record keeping on a regular basis


thats just a few of them...

i turned 43 this past December 26!  and i created this layout especially for this moment.... used one of the cocoa daisy kits of course...just listed my accomplishments this past year of my life.


i got these on my day too...


spent my day with these peeps, my fave peeps in the whole wide world...and we ate at Spenard Roadhouse and i had one of my faves there...









a little last selfie before the night was over....

perfect ending.

Friday, December 19, 2014

sheez...it's been way too long...

first off...so sorry that i haven't been blogging as much.  it's been crazy busy on my end....

...teaching more Zumba, sometimes i have a full week and no days off but most times i at least get tuesdays off.  then i just got hired as a zumba and dance cardio instructor with the alaska club this past november and i start a thursday night class at their eagle river location in january 2015.  i will be dropping my arctic oasis community center gig after december 31.  i had to drop one of my gigs in order to do the AK club one, so i chose this one.  AO was a great way to start my teaching career

...this past september we moved on base, onto JBER.  it was a great decision.  now me and the hubby are so much closer to our work places.  i love living on base, its convenient, not remote at all, safe, clean. just loving it.

...holidays are have come and gone and now xmas is here.  maiya will be with us the first week of winter vacay and flies out on the 29th.  but she is flying as i type this for the weekend to seattle.  (all this flying out is getting expensive and somewhat annoying because she misses some of her taekwondo practices on fridays....5 more years of this...i'm patient..but damn it's putting me into debt, which i am not accustomed to). we got almost all our xmas shopping done, except maybe a couple of other stuff for our girls we have yet gotten.  just sent out our holiday card to friends and family...



...haven't been scrapping as much as i would like and doing my project life...but here are a few that i've done...







i used cocoa daisy kits on all of them.

hoping to get more scrapping time in especially since my birthday is coming up!  woot woot!

well gotta jet and get ready for to teach my Zumba class this morning! hasta luego!

Monday, June 16, 2014

Newport Beach, OR

So grateful for waking up to this view and starting the day right with my family. 



Make up done and ready to go for some brunch...

Thursday, June 12, 2014

what happened to may?

wtf?!?!

it's already june!

i never posted anything else since our trip to alyeska.
yikes!

well here i am...
me & my girls are on vacay in WA with fam.
behind on uploading photos again.
i was caught up but since on vacay fell off of it.
and on my project life and scrapbooking.

been so focused on teaching zumba lately...
and taking zumba while on vacay + yoga.
it was time for a break from AK anyway.
nice to just do whateva, sleep in a bit, and do whateva.

so far vacay has been great...aaaaahhhh....

yoga tonight and zumba tomorrow night.
then saturday is our bbq party here at my sis's.
then the next morning we take a trip to newport, OR.
so excited about that.
can hardly wait.

don't know if i'll be sharing any photos since i've been doing it all on FB.

but here's a couple of pages i've done in the past that i have forgotten to share...









have a good one!

Sunday, April 6, 2014

alyeska resort...we are here...

spending time with mi familia for this weekend....


but before we headed to alyeska...

did an ihop brunch

anchorage museum...that was so much fun!

alyeska is so beautiful.
pizza and some wine at the hotel.
we went swimming at the hotel's indoor pool
selene had so much fun, we did too.
worked out the next morning, great WO!!!!
stayed in with selene while maiya and jesse went snowboarding.
i got to catch up on sleep...aaaahhhh.
they just got back from snowboarding and we're chill in' before date night.
gonna get ready as soon as i'm done with this post.

love this weekend.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

this is... life...

a scrap LO i did this morning using some instagram pix from last yr in cali....







use the cocoa daisy "record label" kit.

tfl!