Little things keep us so busy!

Did you ever stop to think where did this day go and it was just filled with little things, crazy things? Lately that is how my life has been, so filled with little things that I never find time to just relax, enjoy my patio and scrapbook.

I really feel overwhelmed with little things and need to find a way to get rid of some of them I guess. It might help me physically too! Not sure how to do it but maybe I will have to get more organized and maybe say no more, don't know but that is what my thoughts are today!

I made a card for my daughters and sil's anniversary I wanted to share! The anniversary was yesterday.

The card is made with/on a transparency. A little tricky but sure was fun and my dd loved it~

Tooting my own horn!!!

The layout I posted below in the last post called Remember When, Well I posted that layout on The Scrap City Forum and it was chosen as Layout of the week! How Cool is that! Especially since I am really new to that site!! THey also featured it on their blog! Check it out! The Scrap City Blog Just had to share!!

Remember WHEN!

This layout is for my Dad! This is my dad's favorite photo of me!
I was in a stash swap and Norma Kennedy sent me the most awesome papers and embellishments and I used them to do this layout! I know that the quote doesn't show really well but it say:
Where We Love is Home.
Home That Our Feet May Leave, But Not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Special Times

When I saw this paper from Daisy D's I knew it was the perfect scrapbook paper to use for my grandparents picture as they loved roses! My grandfather planted many rosebushes in his yard. They were his pride and joy! This was an old Polaroid photo that I enhanced and improved greatly while visiting my mom!

I also did this layout for a challenge on three sites one for a challenge where the technique was to do tearing on a new site I just started called The Scrap City and another was for the Challenge on the 2 Sassy Scrappers blog
and the Scrap 4 Life Technique challenge handstitching!

Thanks for looking and check out my favorite sites!

Just a two page layout

Wanted to share a two page layout I did of my great nephew while I was in S.C. with limited supplies! This is Scott!

WHOO HOO I have an announcement

I was asked to be the JULY GUEST DESIGNER ON 2 SASSY SCRAPPERS. I had the privileged of working with their Bo Bunny Teen Chic Kit this month.
I made several projects and still have a lot left over!!!







this is a bank!!!






Well I was going to share some photos of my challenge I posted for the guest designers monthly challenge but blogger is acting up and won't let me so I guess yo will have to go see it at the 2 SASSY SCRAPPERS SITE!

Back Home!

I am home again! Thank you to all that prayed for my dad! He still can use lots more prayer, his road to recovery is long, and he is getting a bed sore on his heel also!

My trip had some great points! Spending quality time with my mom! (spending time with my dad too but it was not really quality in his condition, and well you know what men are like when they are sick!!!)

Just watching the hummingbirds with my mom was a joy!




We took apart the old nasty photo albums and worked on getting the photos into "Acid Free" albums and I took some old photos and worked on the computer correcting and enhancing them. When my aunt saw them she suddenly produced some old old family photos and I really got to enhance some! I scrap a few so far but can't wait to scrap them now that I am home and have all my supplies!!!

I also took mom shopping to get a supply of groceries built up in the cupboards and the freezer. We went to sams and she used the electric wheelchair just so she did not tire out so easy! It was fun! Glad my uncle could stay with my dad for us to do it! Just tasting the samples with her was fun! While we were out we went to the dollar store and she bought frames for the photos I restored and enlarged. I altered them for my mom and she loved them!




I got to see my grandson, son and dil who live down in S.C. twice while I was there and that was great too! THey live about 2 hours from me! Britton my middle grandson (8 days older then my youngest grandson is a sweetie!) He called my mom and me, grandma and grandma! LOL


The first Saturday the came down my niece and her boys came over, and my nephew and niece in law and their boys came over also so I got to see and enjoy more family!



It was great to see My grandson with my parents too~ So many children never know their great grandparents!



It was a joy to come home and be greeted with load of kisses from my other two grandsons, Jason and Noah! I most defiantly felt missed! OH of course hubby had some kisses in there too! The boys were insistent that I rode in the back seat with them right in the middle!

Thought I better update!!!

My dad is not progressing as well as expected so I had to change my flight and I am staying longer in S.C. I am concerned as my mother's breathing is not doing so well also! So please pray for both of my parents!

I have helped coach both my niece and my nephews wife on how to start a blog while I have been down here so it will be nice to be able to see photos of my great nephews! I did scrap a photo this morning of my great nephew. My nephews wife Mica started scrapping at one time and so I used some of her supplies. I am trying to upload it and when I succeed I will post it!

Thanks for all the prayers so far! and thanks for those in the future!

My Dad is doing well!

Thank you for your prayers! he is still in a lot of pain! My mom's breathing is another story! this is rough on her! But again thank you all for your prayers!

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hey here is a cool photo that is a blast from the past! I am scanning alot of my mom's old photos! this is me and my big brother.

Well I made it to S.C.

I think I am already missing scrapping! they just delivered the hospital bed for my dad for when he gets home from his surgery and I was making the bed and thought oh I like these sheets together, one was striped, the other flowered. I told my mom they matched good even though I was thinking humm if they were pattern papers, I would put them together on a layout!

My second flight was not so good! I won't share the miserable details but I sure hope the fly back is better!

Here is a layout I did before I left! Inspired by an ad challenge by Jen on Memorable Seasons!

I have awesome News!

I was chosen to be the July Guest Designer for 2 Sassy Scrappers!
I cannot tell you how honored I feel! The blog entry that Lora wrote about me has made me walk around my house today like a peacock strutin his feathers! 2 Sassy Scrappers Blog

I can't wait for you to see what I did with the July Kit.. but hey I can't tell you about that yet because shhhhh it is still a secret. You will just have to come back and see!

I will however leave you with a card that I made from a sketch from 2 Sketches for 4 You.

Wow I am being a bad blogger!

This is bad! I usually keep up more often on my blog!
So here is some of the latest news! Jason is all done with his baseball games! just in time too because he has been quite sick with his asthma!
Our pool is open! YEAH! it is hot and humid here! I am going to like having my own pool! Decided that after one day of the pool being open!
I have to go down to South Carolina because my dad is having major back surgery so pray for me! I hate flying and especially flying alone and pray for my dad's surgery Please!

I had 4 cortisone injections in my shoulder and back because they feel that the shoulder is helping to throw off my neck and neurological problems, and somehow they did not put my latex allergy on my chart and the doctor used latex gloves and I have some major welts on my back and shoulder STILL and the shots were friday! I am using benedryl cream and it seems that I will think they are getting better and then boom they look worse!

Oh forgot also that on friday I got to watch my grandson pitch for a baseball game! that was a great experience! He did very well, his first year every playing ball and he is pitching! He started out the year going out for tee ball and they moved him right up to farm league and all year he has either played shortstop, first base or pitcher! GO JASON! OH by the way I am his #1 fan!

that is about all the news for now!

Pet Peeve!

My challenge on MEmorable seasons this Week is to Blog about a PET PEEVE something that really irritates you!
But then follow it by Blogging about something besides family that makes you smile!

My Biggest pet peeve is people who lie! I really have a huge problem with this! Especially when their lies hurt other people! Just recently this happen in our church and I was amazed that the people doing this could continue to pray and look up to God! I just don't understand why people do this and sometimes People will lie to you when you know you can prove them wrong! Makes no sense! Guess their lives are really dull!

Something that makes me smile is when someone smiles at me or when someone is just pleasant to me on the street who does not know me! that seems to be getting more rare each and every day! I really feel we need to support each other more today then ever before and even a smile can make a difference in someones day!

A few of my latest designs~

Jason behind the wheel or should I say

Camera!!!

My recently turned 7 year old grandson Jason Loves to take pictures with his camera so lately I have been letting Jason take pictures with my camera! HE does not do bad! Hoping to turn one of my favorite past times into one of Jason's also!

Weekly Blog Challenge

On Memorable Seasons one of my favorite scrapbooking sites we have started a weekly blog challenge. This weeks blog challenge is to blog about something we did as a child that we are proud about now as an adult.

When I was young both sets of my grandparents lived about 3 hours from us, although there was a big difference, my dads mom and stepdad were doing okay for themselves and were fairly healthy but on the other hand my mom's parents, my grandma and grandpa Yager were not as lucky, they were always struggling to make ends meet and my grandfather had a heart condition and my grandmother not only was a brittle diabetic but also had a severe curvature of the spine.

Whenever we went to visit them which was as often as we could as my parents worried about them and tried to help them out, I would always notice that my grandmothers bathroom was dirty with built up soap scum and the floor was in need of mopping. It made sense since she could not get down to clean the tub or toilet or the floor since her back was so severely curved. So I would quietly go off to the bathroom and clean the bathroom as best as I could for my young age to surprise my grandmother. I can still remember how much I enjoyed doing it for her.

Now when I look back at those days, I am so glad that I did that for her. I was not able to do much else for her but I as sure she knew that I loved her!

Happy 77th Birthday

Friday was my Fatherinlaws 77th birthday and so on Memorial day the family had a picnic to celebrate his birthday! Here is a photo of my grandboys enjoying their great grandpa reading his birthday card! Jason the bigger boy his oldest great grandson just turned 7 just 70 years younger!
 

ON MEMORIAL DAY, a memorial!

IT is with a very sad heart that today I give tribute to someone who died last night Kevin Teeter from Elmira N.Y. sadly Kevin has died due to being burned severely when his home was burned and considered a total loss by someone or someones committing arson!

For many years I worked as camp nurse at a church camp for as many as 4-5 weeks of camp. Kevin was always there each week working the camp too usually in the kitchen! Kevin had a heart of Gold! I guess if I could say anything about Kevin I would say He loved God and he loved people! He loved to make people happy and I believe in my heart it was because he knew that it was what God wanted him to do! It was not unusual to see Kevin yelling "Hi to someone and waving his arms way up high so they could see him all the way across the other side of camp! I am proud to say that I was one of those people he yelled Hi to many times!

Kevin will be missed!

His family.. His sister and father are still in the hospital and are still not out of danger! so please pray for them! They are in need of prayer not only for healing but how they will manage after they are able to go home!

For more information here is a website being handled by the pastor of their church~
It gives the story from the start and updates!
The Teeter Family

A Weekend of Painting

I spent the weekend away from scrapping and went to a 3 day painting seminar! something I had not done in a long time! I enjoyed myself but I was totally drained! I think I could have fallen asleep each night the very moment I walked in the door! Then today I was so tired I slept until 9:30 this morning! I really am glad I went! Here are some pictures from the seminar! I will share pictures of the finished products when I FINISH them!! LOL! the last picture is a photo of the teacher! I am not in that photo!

Some layouts from awhile ago

Thought I would share some layouts I did a month or so ago! just had never put them up so thought I would do it now!
Endless Love is my parents and Cherish always is my grandparents on my dads side!
I need to get some photos from my mom of my mothers parents!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Mother's Day!
Mine would have been better if I could have spent it with my grandchildren and gotten to seen my oldest son but it was a good Mother's day otherwise!
I thought I would share the wonderful bouquet that my son Kevin and his wife Maria and my grandson Britton in S.C. sent to me for Mother's Day! I miss them so much! They gave me another Mother's Day gift also, they went down to visit my parents, Kevins grandparents which meant alot to Kevin's grandparents but also meant alot to me! My mom had a ball playing with Britton! She says he is a sweet boy! Sorta makes me jealous! I wish I could spent some time with that sweet boy!
Happy Mother's Day Mom! I love you!