BLOG CANDY WINNER

And the winner is SHARI !!! I had written out all the names and placed them on slips of paper. As I was taking them to my son to draw a name one slip of paper fell to the floor -- so the person laying on the floor was Shari!!!! (giggle - I know funny way to pick but it works) So if Shari will post what item she prefers the stamp set or acrylic album I'll see that she gets it. Check back in a couple of weeks - I plan to post another blog candy soon. Thanks for playing! Amy

PIGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE THESE PIGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My cousin has these pigs in a fence right below our yard. When I go out to do the dogs, and its dark out, these things scare me to death!!! They sound like bears. Honest. Now, in the daylight, they sound like normal, everyday pigs. But at night, when I have to walk allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way out to the dog shed, in the dark, by myself... they are way too big and they sound way too much like bears. These aren't even the biggest ones- they were shot this winter cause they kept gettin out of the fence and into our yard. O, and they stink horribly. But for some reason, when we have company over, they want to go look at these things-like they've never seen a pig before.

Building a Fort

Clayton and Shalene decided to clear a spot out in the back yard (woods) for a fort. They started clearing away brush and they even cut some wood and nailed the pieces together to make little benches for inside. When Steve got home he started helping them out. So the chain saw is now cutting the old deed trees down and Clayton uses his hand saw to cut all the branches off.............Clayton LOVES this kind of stuff!!!!

The work is still in progress as we post!!!! Check back in a day or so for pictures of the finished project. Shalene has landscape plans when they are finished building. (Posted by Amy)

Lego Fun

This is the Lego set that Clayton got for his birthday gift. For 2 days we didn't see much of him....kindda quiet in the household!!! So, my 8 year old son read the crazy looking directions (kindda like a map????giggle) and built this police station.
This is the back view. The cops have an office ( computer )and snack room (water jug & table-- coffee maker and little cups) You can also see the police car and truck parked in the garage.

Here is the car, truck and motorcycle along with the police dog. You can see the cell with the prisoners in (they even have little commods in the cell) Down to the hand cuffs.

This is something Clayton really loves to do - build with LEGOS!!! I really don't think I could have done this! (posted by Amy)

OK, so it's been like five days since we posted anything. Mom keeps tellin me that I need to put something on, and there were a couple of people that asked me why we hadn't posted in 'forever'. Its hasn't even been a week! :)

So I found this pic on the Internet. I have absolutely NO idea how he did this. lol. That has to hurt.

BLOG CANDY!!!!!!

For all of you scrappers -- I'm offering my first blog candy!!! The winner will have their choice between the SU stamp set titled "Sincere Salutations" or an acrylic album. I will be picking a name in the afternoon of March 13th!!! So all of you who reply to this post will have a chance to win one of these items. (Remember, I will only be drawing names from those who posted to this post!) When you post please tell me what your favorite brand of paper is at the present time!!!! I know hard decision ........ GOOD LUCK!!!!!
(Posted by Amy)

Suprise

Shalene & Susie went to school together last year and both are now homeschooling....Susie moved a way and they don't get to see each other a lot....well, we surprised her with a visit this past Sunday. You should have heard the Squeals that we heard when Shalene realized Susie was her suprise visitor. (posted by Amy)

Another creation

Here is the next creation I have made for the next class I will be teaching at the store. This is an accordian album using TONS of bling - glitter paper -- and flowers.
The album unfolds into many different pages and flaps. This is a lot easier than it looks -- and it suprising how many pictures you can put in this little album.
Those of you scrappers may want to keep watching this blog -- I'm hopeing to have some blog candy soon!
I got this idea from Carole who works at sharinmemories.

(Posted by Amy)

Clayton's big day!

Clayton new exactly what he wanted for his birthday -- specific soda, chips and veggies & dip -- So he went grocery shopping to pick stuff out. He also want "dirt" for his cake!!! So here is Clayton with his dirt. (posted by Amy)

Happy Birthday, Clayton!!!

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Claytons Birthday

Clayton's birthday isn't until tomorrow, but we celebrated tonight. We went to KFC (that's where he picked) and then went bowling.

Legos, Legos and more Legos. That's all he wants.

OK, I know that it's Clayton's birthday and he's supposed to be the center of attention, but... I did feel pretty good about my score. lol

Genius

Here is my little genius doing his homework!!! Clayton had a pair of very dark sunglasses on and decide to punch out the middles. Note the books he is working on: Civics, Spanish & Street Law/Criminal Law. (Posted by Amy)

Birthday Gifts

Alyssa loves getting her picture taken. Above you will see one of her mall purchases!!! A new shirt!! Surprise -- more clothes!!
Shalene & Clayton made Alyssa wooden letters to put on her wall. They painted, glittered & blinged these. They turned out really cute.

(Posted by Amy)

How many of me?

Check out this site!!! You type in your name and find out how many people in the US have the same name as you. Kindda scary!!! More than one me????? Enjoy!

http://howmanyofme.com/

(posted by Amy)

Feb. 26th -- Happy Birthday Alyssa

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Okay - so Alyssa is not happy that I have posted this......she will live. Thats what moms are for !!!! Right???? I mean I could say some embarrasing things right now -- like when she was a little munchkin she wanted to work in "waste management" or should I say a trash collector - she thought it would be neat hanging on the back of the truck!!!! Now remember she was a litte "peanut" (well grade K or 1 ) when she thought this job was for her. She has changed her mind a couple of time since then.

(Posted by Amy)

Birthday Shopping

Alyssa is having a birthday this Tuesday!!! She will be 15. Well instead of us doing the shopping for her she decided that she wanted to do the shopping. Here is Alyssa shopping at AC Moore - she loves to do crafy projects and so we shopped. However, I love going here too so I didn't complain. I got some scrapbook stuff.

Well, Needless to say -- I spent a lot of time standing outside the dressing room door!!! And running for different sized stuff. I do this ALL the time. I had some other pictures of the dressing room but Alyssa wouldn't download them for me and I didn't realize that until I started posting.
Alyssa's choice of eating - Olive Garden. Steve tried the fried squid--sorry but that just isn't for me.
And one of the FAVORITE stores............note I said ONE. We had to check out Maurice's, American Eagle and Old Navy.
We had a good time today. But Steve, Shalene & Clayton ended up going out to the van while Alyssa and I finished shopping. They really went by the quote "shop till you drop"

(Posted by Amy)

Concert at SU

The first chair violinst -- This is Margeaux, she is the girls violin teacher. Really a sweet person and Shalene & Alyssa have learned a lot this year taking lessons from her.
We braved the bad weather Friday night and went to the SU concert. (Alyssa didn't seem to appreciate the Betthoven music!!!! Grumbled a bit until she got back in the van to listen to her mp3 player!!!) Anyway, WE enjoyed the concert -- tons of stringed insturments!! The guy sitting behind Margeaux was hilarious. (entertained all of us throughout the concert) He was very expressive in his playing.

(Posted by Amy)

This was in between pieces when they were tuning and practicing.

Believe Album

I made another Bo BUNNY album in blues, orange and greens. This doesn't have pictures in it yet but I plan to put pictures of Clayton and Steve. It says I BELIEVE in you!!!!
The patterened star has pop dots on it so its raised. (Actually all 3 of those stars are layed and pop dots used!!) Plan to put a pic or journal on the blue star.
This folds out (pull the ribbon tab) and you can put 5 pictures on this.
Little tabs that pull out to journal on. Note: this doesn't show all the pages just gives you an idea as to what it looks like.
The blue strip will have journaling. Note -- the 3 acrylic stars. Have you figured out that I'm am enjoying using "bling" at the moment. I really enjoyed doing this album. The colors were really fun -- digging through pictures now to fill the album up with my two men!!!!

(Posted by Amy)

Love Album

Here is the album I did for our Valentine photos -- Just showing you one picture on this. Used the BO BUNNY album. (posted by Amy)

I couldn't get a good clip, everybody kept standin in front of me. So this is the best I got. The guy at the end of the clip in the blue pants, his name in Travis and every time he tried to get on his donkey, it bucked him off. :)