What have you done?

I am going to change the color to red for everything I have done. If you want, try this on your own blog....here we go.....

1. Started your own blog

2. Slept under the stars

3. Played in a band

4. Visited Hawaii

5. Watched a meteor shower

6. Given more than you can afford to charity

7. Been to Disneyland

8. Climbed a mountain

9. Held a praying mantis (Not by choice)

10. Sang a solo

11. Bungee jumped

12. Visited Paris

13. Watched a lightning storm at sea

14. Taught yourself an art from scratch (Constantly doing that)

15. Adopted a child (I had started the adoption process on two little girls, but things fell through)

16. Had food poisoning

17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty

18. Grown your own vegetables

19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France

20. Slept on an overnight train

21. Had a pillow fight

22. Hitch hiked

23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (That's the best!)

24. Built a snow fort

25. Held a lamb

26. Gone skinny dipping (Yes I have but I'm not telling with who, or when)

27. Run a Marathon

28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice

29. Seen a total eclipse

30. Watched a sunrise or sunset

31. Hit a home run

32. Been on a cruise

33. Seen Niagara Falls in person

34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors (Yeah, Nebraska . . . my family is from Nebraska) Whoo hoo!

35. Seen an Amish community

36. Taught yourself a new language

37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied

38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

39. Gone rock climbing

40. Seen Michelangelos David

41. Sung karaoke

42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt

43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant

44. Visited Africa

45. Walked on a beach by moonlight

46. Been transported in an ambulance

47. Had your portrait painted (Yeah in 3rd grade in water colors by my friend Gwen) :)

48. Gone deep sea fishing

49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person

50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling

52. Kissed in the rain

53. Played in the mud

54. Gone to a drive-in theater

55. Been in a movie

56. Visited the Great Wall of China

57. Started a business

58. Taken a martial arts class

59. Visited Russia

60. Served at a soup kitchen

61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies

62. Gone whale watching

63. Got flowers for no reason

64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma

65. Gone sky diving

66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp(I scrapbooked my mom and dad's Poland album, it was like I was there)

67. Bounced a check

68. Flown in a helicopter

69. Saved a favorite childhood toy

70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial

71. Eaten Caviar

72. Pieced a quilt

73. Stood in Times Square

74. Toured the Everglades

75. Been fired from a job

76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London

77. Broken a bone

78. Been on a speeding motorcycle

79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person

80. Published a book

81. Visited the Vatican

82. Bought a brand new car

83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible

86. Visited the White House

87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

88. Had chickenpox

89. Saved someone’s life

90. Sat on a jury

91. Met someone famous

92. Joined a book club

93. Lost a loved one

94. Had a baby

95. Seen the Alamo in person

96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake

97. Been involved in a law suit

98. Owned a cell phone

99. Been stung by a bee

100. Read an entire book in one day. Give it a try!

Leave me a comment here if you do post it because I would love to see other peoples' answers!

Tim got home last night

I was expecting him about 8 and at 6:45 he snuck into the house, he was walking into the family room before me or the dogs even realized he was there!

I screamed "Oh my God!" and ran to him. The dogs all started barking and jumping! We were all thrilled to see him!

So we ate dinner, and just chilled. I think between working so hard in New Mexico and that long drive he was exhausted. Plus he has been sleeping on his friend Jim's pull out sofa bed in his Motor home . . . so Tim's back has been hurting.

He laid down in our bed and sighed with happiness!

I laid down beside HIM and sighed with HAPPINESS!

Today he has some errands to do, and I will go toodle around with him, probably most of the time wrapped around him like a CHERI~COAT!

I have just one thing to say . . .

TIM IS COMING HOME TODAY!

Scrapbooking today

I always feel as thought I've accomplished so much when I get a day to scrapbook . . .

So here are the layouts I created today.

This was Tony's first Halloween, he was still such a tiny baby that I don't really count it, but Alex wanted them to both be bunnies . . . so they were.

This is me and Jaqui, her dad did a photo session of us, before my wedding . . . this has always been one of my favorite pictures from the wedding.

I Accidentally double exposed the film, so there is this great picture of me and Jaqui, and then in the background there is a wedding picture from my first hubby's best friends wedding . . . I think it looks pretty cool, especially the stained glass light coming in on to me and Jaqui. this photo was taken on my wedding day before we started getting ready. I think I have some cool stickers to put on this lay out too . . . I didn't do it yet . . . so it looks a little on the plain side.

This is the only picture that was taken when I met my biological father's mother, my grand mother. I met her and my biological father for the first time when I was 28.

Tony when he was a baby . . . I made the Elephant embellishment myself, from my own design! I'm thinking he is pretty cute, and I'm really proud of him.

These photos were taken at Tony's 1st birthday . . . this lay out is for Alex's book so it's mostly of Alex and the things he is doing. (They were so stinkin' cute and sweet! I wish they didn't have to grow up, and they could have stayed little like this forever.)

Avery the handy man . . . I love the wood paper, and how this all just flows together . . . I have been wanting to make this lay out for him for a long time. My dad cut out the cartoon a long time ago and I have been saving it to put with these pictures!~



Former hubby #2 . . . Halloween with sparkles on his face . . . I'm still scrapping some of the pictures from my life with him . . . I'm just not planning on doing a lot of journaling (I'm really not that nice of a person, and think I would end up saying too many bad things if I did much journaling on the layout from that part of my life. . . . but it was a part of my life, and in my way of thinking, scrapbooking is telling a life story . . . he was a part of mine . . . so I guess I need to include him.

I like this lay out a lot. These are picture of me and Jaqui and Lorinda . . . we had gone up the mountain to do family pictures with me and the boys . . . and just happened to take a few with my girls too . . .

A fun day at the amusement park . . .

I didn't think I would like the color combos on this one, but I ended up really liking it when it was done, It was a simple lay out, but still nice.

What is the strangest thing you have ever put on a scrapbooking lay out? I have scrapped toilet paper, and paper towels, and now DUCT TAPE. This lay out will go in Avery's book . . . this is his best friend, he's on the smallish side, and so my boys had him stand on a chair and they duct taped him to the wall and then pulled the chair out . . . and he just hung there. So to me it was fitting that I put duct tape on the lay out.

So those are the lay outs I did today . . . it was a productive scrapbooking day!!

Scrapbooking

Its been slow in the store the last couple of days . . . so I'm bringing some of my preplanned lay outs to the store to work on! Kathy the lady who works for me is coming in today, on her day off to work on her scrapbooks too!

I love the days when I get to be creative for myself, rather than for everyone else. I have 152 preplanned pages ready to get done. So I am hoping to put a dent in those. And you would think with that many preplanned pages, that I would be out of pictures, but I still have TONS of pictures!

I have been keeping up with Tim and My album . . . and I'm fairly close to having Tony's album totally done . . . then I can concentrate on catching up Alex's and finishing Avery's, I have 2 more years to get Avery's done, (Before he graduates) So I'm really hopeful I can accomplish that.

My mom wants me to scrap all of her vacations . . . so I told her to go through her pictures and write on the back of each picture, when it was and what they were doing . . . She said to me, and I quote "That's so much work!" Hummm . . . isn't it more work to actually scrap the pages when you don't know what was really happening. I made her Poland album . . . and with as much as I love my mom and dad I didn't really want to talk to them by the time I was done with it. They didn't write ANYTHING down, not where they were, not what they were doing, not what was going on . . . NOTHING! So I had to research each picture . . . and figure out what and where, it was horrible hard . . . but it is done, and I never have to think about it again! Happy Happy!!

So I hope all of you are scrapbooking and if you aren't, at least label and dated and document what is happening in your pictures, so if you ever do decide you want to scrapbook then . .. . you will have it all handy and know what was going on!!!

Till Thursday~~~

So I want to share with you how excited I am . . . Tim will be home THURSDAY!!!!!!!! YIPPPEEE!!!!!!! I have missed him so much! So don't expect to see me from Thursday till Tuesday . . . (If I can keep him here that long- I think he is actually supposed to be back at work Monday . . . but . . . . I'm bad and will try to keep him here as long as I possibly can!)

I can't wait to see you Tim, I miss you so much!!!

Arabic???

I accidentily changed my blog language to Arabic today . . . and then couldn't figure out how to change it back . . . just so you know, the squiggly writing is nearly impossible to "READ" if you don't know what you are looking at.

I'm at the store and this computer is horribly slow, so I had to call Gennae to see if she could change it back for me.

She said she would do it . . . and a little while later I get a call from her and she was giggling, "How did you do that??" She managed to fix it for me! So now we can all read what I have to say again . . . thanks to Gennae! The goddess of the Blog!!!