Busy, busy, busy time

Lots of deadlines for things coming up. It's such a busy time for me right now - and that doesn't even include the everyday things like being a wife and mother.

So blogger will have to wait a while for an update from me.

An afternoon out

Had a ladies' lunch with my mom, cousin, and aunt this afternoon. My aunt's birthday is on Sunday so we were celebrating that. We went to P.F. Chang's and it was awesome, as usual!

Jack is spending the night with my mom tonight so I asked John to meet us at the restaurant to drop off Jack. He arrived with a sippy cup full of cherry coke! I think that's one of the reasons Jack loves spending time with his dad so much - he lets him have things like cherry coke!

John took a few pictures during their Dad/Jack time and this one is too cute not to post! Looks like they definitely had a fun afternoon!

So now I'm doing a little scrapbooking, enjoying a quiet evening by myself - no little boy to bathe, dress, read books to, lay down with (sniff, sniff!) Okay, I do miss him a bit!

Caardvarks Challenge #2

The second challenge on the Caardvarks blog was to create a card using buttons. Here's my take on it :)



It's for a bridal shower I'm going to this Sunday. So, yeah, I went a little bit overboard on the buttons... But I *didn't* go overboard on the gift, so the buttons are to compensate! ;)

Check it out!

http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/

I'm so excited! Thanks Jen and Sarah! :)

Ice Storm

OK - seriously. It was 79 degrees less than a week ago. I was wearing shorts, for goodness sake! And NOW we have seven inches ICE on the ground! Our driveway is totally hopeless. John and I were out there for about an hour and a half this morning and managed to get the cars cleared and the 3-foot entrance shoveled so we could open the side door. As for the rest of the driveway... well, it's supposed to be in the sixties come Friday - so it will have to melt then!

I didn't take any pictures. I couldn't possibly scrapbook this event without using bad language!

One good thing about this storm - I invented a new drink and I call it the "Ice Storm" (it involved mixing together whatever I could find in the liquor cabinet - and it was actually REALLY delicious!)

Here's the recipe:

1 shot of Absolut Citron
1 shot of Creme de Cacao
1 shot of Triple Sec
and a teensy splash of vanilla

Shake it up with ice and strain it into a martini glass (cause everything tastes better out of a martini glass!)

I thought the vanilla and citrus together would be nasty, but they really compliment each other!

It's 3:30 in the afternoon right now. I wonder if it's too early to start drinking...

Saturday Scrappin'

I was set to go to an all-day crop yesterday, but when I got there with my mom and Aunt Kay, there was no one there! So I called my friend, Laura, who was going to meet us there and told her that we were scrapping at my house. The four of us had a fun afternoon and I got a lot done! (three pages is a LOT for me - the slowest scrapper on the planet!)

The first page is a TOTAL scraplift from a layout on page 30 of the March CK. All of the pages were done using the Cool Blue April kit. This kit is going to be SO much fun! I'm loving those Basic Grey papers!

New header

The new header is a bit of a sneak peek for April's Cool Blue kit ;)

Blogger misfit

I just realized that I need to approve comments for them to show up. Duh!

Alright - so if you have left a comment in the past three months, it's there now!

Smile!

I made this card for the Caardvarks card challenge - which was to create a card with a photograph on it. It was HARD to find a picture that I wanted to use on a card! And now that it's made - even though I really like the card - I'm not sure if I'll ever work up the nerve to send it to anyone! Tee hee!

I used some scraps from the Cool Blue September Kit. There's one September kit left! I have been wanting to post it as sold out for a LONG time now! But that one last kit is hanging on!