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Not sharing much tonight

The Scrap Treasures sponsor for July is Wubie Prints. I finished up a couple of layouts today using the Wubie Sew Cute collection (available in the Scrap Treasures store). I can't share them here but you can check out the Gallery to see all the DT creations.

I also had a horrible experience trying to trim Clark's hair tonight. I accidentally got his ear in the scissors!!! I've been assured by several moms that this does happen with boys. I took a picture of it (after it FINALLY quit bleeding), but I can't even bring myself to download it from the camera. I'm afraid I would feel sick all over again. I'm sure he'll be fine, but it upset both of us for quite a while.

My scrap table looks like a bomb exploded. With the two LO's I finished today, I now have scrapped as many pages as I did in all of 2006! But no more scrapping for me until I get some of this stuff put away. That could take all week!!! LOL

Zoo Night

It was member's night at the Nashville Zoo, which just means they stay open a couple of hours longer for members only. It was nice to go without fighting the sun and the mid-day heat. We only stayed a couple of hours...long enough to visit the elephants and the giraffes

and spend lots of time at the Jungle Gym. Picking up a family pack of yummy pork bbq on the way home put the icing on a quite enjoyable evening!

Why was I ever worried?

I guess it's normal for a mother to compare the development of her children. Addison was such an early talker. Her vocabulary at 15 months was unbelievable. Clark was no where near having the same fondness of hearing his own voice at 15, 18 or even 20 months. Clark's pediatrician reassured me at his 18-month visit that his 10-12 word vocabulary was totally normal. But recently, Clark is expanding his vocabulary daily and has started repeating everything!! It's SOOO cute when he shrugs his shoulders and says "I doen know". But I'm not sure I'm quite ready for the word he introduced yesterday.



Momma: Clark, it's time to get out of the pool and go inside.

Clark: No.

Momma: (after taking a minute to comprehend what she just heard): C'mon Clark, let's go inside.

Clark: No!

Momma (thinks to herself): Oh boy...the 2's are already starting. Life was so much easier when he just agreed with everything we told him. I'm not sure I'm ready to handle yet another opinion in this family.

Tagged on the 4th

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

I've been tagged by Linda

Here's the deal:

1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random(... hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3-tags should write a blogpost of these facts
4- at the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named
5-go to their blog and leave a comment telling them they're tagged

OK....I never think any of my facts are very interesting, but we'll see:

1. In high school, I was a majorette for the marching band and played keyboard percussion in concert band.
2. I have steel stirrups in both my ears (remember the hammer, anvil and stirrup?) I lost a great percentage of my hearing in my early 20's because the ones I was born with weren't vibrating enough. Now I have no idea if I can ever have an MRI.
3. I am a true homebody. There's nowhere I'd rather be than home.
4. Carl and I got married in a church that was built in 1860. Typical of churches in that day, there was a partition down the middle of the pews to separate the seating areas for the men and the women.
5. I have worked for the same CPA firm for 20 years!!!
6. I have two great-grandfathers (on different sides of the family) that were struck and killed by lightning.
7. Someday I want to take a train ride across Canada (or at least the Canadian Rockies).
8. I hate hot weather.

So who should I tag???? 8 ??? That's alot!

1. Jolynn
2. Denean
3. Kirstie
4. Amy
5. Julie
6. Kathy
7. Lora
8. Jenni

Divine Day!

Yesterday, we headed out to Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel for some family fun. After some very quick purchases in OshKosh and Stride Rite, we headed over to the hotel to see the mother of Addison's classmate perform. She recently changed jobs, but she was there yesterday for one last performance as Divine. If you've never seen this performance at Opryland or Animal Kingdom in FL, watch the video. It is amazing. I'm glad Addison had already seen her perform at a "private" performance for the preschool or it might have been somewhat frightening for her. Carl and I spent lots of time just watch the crowd of onlookers with their jaws hanging open in awe of her fluid movements. Here are some pics....and it's very easy to miss her in the family picture.

Another Near & Dear Layout

using the Scrap Treasures kit:

The first kit is up

at Scrap Treasures! All this for less than $20! Kits will be for sale every other month. Aren't these colors and those textures yummy? I love the velvet ribbon and the lace and the alphas and...I could just go on and on.











Here's what I've done with the kit so far. But stay tuned, there's definitely more to come!

Are you up for a Week Long PARTY????

WooHoo! The girls at Scrap Treasures are planning a fun-filled week starting Monday, June 11 through Sunday, June 17 to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Scrap Treasures Store. There will be lots of games, challenges, contests, and prizes. We even will be chatting with some real scrapping celebrities --- Tara Governo, owner of Dream Street Papers and Cindy Tobey, designer for Fancy Pants Designs.

So start cleaning off your scrap table, get those pics printed, and join us for a FUN WEEK as we celebrate the official Grand Opening. Ummm.....did I mention there will be LOTS of prizes ???? And maybe even a surprise or two.

I can hardly believe it!!!

WOW! I've been helping out at Scrap Treasures while Sunny got the site up and running and put a Design Team in place. Little did I imagine when this all started that I would be one of an awesome team Sunny has put together. I'm so honored to have this opportunity. I know there are some great things coming up in the store and in the forums!

Go ahead and mark your calendar for the week of June 11-17. It will be a week-long Grand Opening celebration with lots of challenges, prizes, games and fun. Thanks again Sunny! I'm looking forward to a very busy six months!!