Eye Sugery

The kids (Casey and Samantha) had their eye surgery yesterday - boy am I glad that's over with!

Thursday we went in for a dr's appt and to get their new prescription - found out that the surgery wasn't until 2:45 on Friday - YIKES! BUT we got all the info we needed - they couldn't eat after midnight - clear liquids only bla bla bla -

BUT We survived - we were at the hospital for 6 hours - but everything went pretty fast - they did Samantha for the first half hour - then Casey - then after about a half ho ur after Samantha got out she was waking up - so I stayed the whole time with Collin - whew that was fun :) He was actually pretty good though - in a good mood the most of the time - so that was nice :)

Samantha did really good with her surgery - no bleeding or anything -
Casey had some though - his eyes were irritated from the eye drops the day before so they were twice as irritated after the surgery - I felt so bad for him - waking up in a daze and all he wanted to do was rub his eyes! But we fought him off and he started waking up - they upped his medicine but he ate a ton of ice chips - drank a whole cup of juice and ate about 10 crackers - So he wasn't going to get sick -
Samantha slowly ate her crackers and juice - she wasn't too happy but she was doing ok - she gets really quiet and still when she doesn't feel well and so that's pretty much all she did -

This morning is going better - I set my alarm on my phone to wake me up every 4 hours last night so we were right on top of the medicine so they didn't wake up in agony - whew :) They'll appreaciate that later in life :) but today I already got yelled at by both of them for waking them up 3 times while they were trying to sleep :)
This morning they're doing better - they woke up early and are watching the Hanna Montanna marathon - OH BOY!! We've only seen every show 10 times!
BUT They're hanging in there - trying to get them to start eating today and back to normal - hopefully by tonight/tomorrow they'll be up and around a little more then back to school on Monday - they said they SHOULD be able to go to school but they are the only ones who can tell you if they're up to it or not - sooo we'll just have to wait and see :)

Halloween stuff

Made a alittle halloween thing

It's a chipboard with a little clip - used last years Halloween picture when we went to see the "witches" at the Village Gardens - planning a trip out there again this year my kids LOVED those witches :)




















Then went to my MIL to sew some Pillows and stuff for Christmas -
It says "Stewart's a journey to forever"
LOVE these :)














THEN went to the LSBS and got the supplies to make my halloween mummy board this was fun - we made it at Enrichment - I'm going back next week to get a few more chalk boards and stuff to make as gifts for halloween :)
The tag says "TOMB many days to count" I don't usually decorate for halloween but these were cute so I had to make one :)











This was taken at Roberts' craft store - yes I took their picture in the store display window! But I used my phone so it was fast and no one saw us (HA HA)








Made this for my inlaws anniversary - just a little match book tied to a candle :) Got the idea out of the PC magizine April 2007 issue :)
















Been trying to work on some cards and stamping stuff but I can't get my supplies out - I just don't have the time anymore :(


OH well - soon!


Thanks for looking

August Cards

Here are a couple cards I made -



This first one was for Courtney's (neice's) 2nd birthday -
I got her a "Love Bug" book with a "Love Bug" doll and made her a "Love Bug" card using my new "Garden Whimsy" set and the "Birthday Hugs and Wishes" set Samantha won as a door prize :)



This next card we made at my workshop that I hosted last Friday -
I don't have this set - but It's on my list :)




Now I DO have this "Pick a Petal" set that I really wanted - But after I got it - I had the WORSE time getting it to work for me!
So I had Jamie (My SU Demo) show us how to use this set - I like it a lot better now and I will probably use it :)




We made 2 with this set - We also had ribbon on these last 2 cards - but she thought one roll would be enough - I had 7 people show up - I also had my 6 month old baby with me and it was close to bedtime so I was the last to make my cards - but I think they look nice without the black and white plaid ribbon as well :)



This was a Hostess Gift that Jamie made for me - it includes some coupons for free paper when I roder 4 get one free - Free background stamp when spending $100 or more - 20% off my entire purchace during my birthday month ... etc - cute little things like that :) I really like this - and will definatly use them all :)

Ok I have more cards -
These I CASED from SPLITCOAST STAMPERS -



This first one was CASED by - shestampingmama
Made with "Just because" I don't know how she stamped the butterfly so perfectly onto her card - but mine was a mess - I ended up taking another stamped butterfly and cutting it out and masking it on top - so it looks like it's flying :)



This next one was cased from - Crud I can't find it..... Tracy Stamper I believe - but I'm not 100% sure - I'm so sorry!!!!!!!



After I made this one like hers - my husband said he really liked it - so I decided to change the stamps around and the colors around and make it a little different -

SO there you have it - My cards from August :)


I should be getting my NEW stamps from my workshop the end of this week - I got some good ones :) Loads of Love and accessories (FINALLY) - I got the PUNCH BOX with the blank cards :) Simply Said (FINALLY) - Then 2 packets of fun paper to play with :) I'm excited to play with those!

I'm also working on a little ..... chipboard type booklet - I've stamped all the stamps I own (SU!) onto 4X4 peices of paper and making a little book so I can bring it with me to show everyone what stamps/inks I have :) It's still in the works - so next time I'm uploading something I'll be sure to add that :)

Well we're off to finish school shopping today!
Have a Great day!
Thanks for looking!!!

And the rest of June

June was super busy for me because we went to Lake Powell!
I had so much to get ready for I didn't have time to do much else-
lets see -

Cory's and Marla's and Sheri's birthday were in june -
We went to willard Bay to go boating - the water was so low it was scary to bring the boats in the water - but we did put one in and had a nice day :)

Cory and I had our 11th anniversary - went to the Crab Shack for dinner - YUM!

Went to Walmart and got rid of all the kittens but one - that last one is the hardest - no one wants him - he's kinda fisty and hisses whenever anyone goes out there - so we may have another cat hanging around :(

THEN
Went to Powell and had a blast!
First night there - Collin's head started to swell - so we took him to the ER - he said he hit his head - but ummmm I was holding him the whole day - there was no way he hit hhis head without me knowing about it!

Friday at Powell we just hung out and played all day - Marla got sick and she got a hotel room - Sheri and family decided they had enough camping and wanted a room too so they stayed til bedtime then left -
OH And Casey and Cory and Jesse caught a cat fish - yuck

Saturday Debbie woke everyone up bright and early to enjoy the SMOOTH water - she said you can tell when everyoen's getting old when they sleep through the best water :)

Shane and family left in the evening - we did smores and peach cobbler - YUM! Oh and they cooked the cat fish too - blach!
Then everyone said it might be best for me to sleep in the spare bed at the hotel for Collin's sake - I didn't really want to but I did - we slept great!

Sunday we got up and Will was on his way up to the hotel with the flu - so that thing was HORRIBLE!
Glad we didn't get it!

Packed up everything and hit the road - finally got in at 9:30 Sunday night - whew :)


monday we weren't convinced about Collins' swelling head - so we went to the Pediatrics and he wanted a C.T. scan - So made the appt for the 5th (today )

Tuesday - happy 4th of July (happy birthday Kadie! I'll send your your gift on the 16th!) we watched fire works on our lawn from accross the lake - they were tiny but the kids loved it. So all's good. Nic was over and Casey found Cory's stash of flowers from like 2 years ago - and they had fun lighting all those too :)

This morning we got up and went to the Primary children's hospital and got Collin's C.T. Scan - they wouldnt' tell us the results we had to talk to our dr - so Cory dropped the kids and I off at home and went to pesture the dr until he called over there with the results - Sure-nuff' Collin had fractured his skull! YIKES!
We think it was about 3-4 weeks ago when he fell off Samantha's bed - She loves to take him in there to play with him while "cleaning" I didn't see it happen but I heard him crying - but all my other kids had fallen hundreds of times when they were babies without any problems - well no not really hundreds of times but every kid hits their heads at some point in their life - ok so mine did two or three times or so, but we had no reason to think anything was wrong. I kept him up for 3 hours - his eyes seemed ok , there was no bump at the time or anything - sooo I don't know -
BUT we went back tot he dr's this afternoon and he said there is a small fracture - but there is a little bleeding under it - so I guess that's why it was swelling up - the swelling is way down today - so hopefully that means the bleeding stopped.

BUT now we have to go in on monday for a rutine skeletal x-ray on collin to rule out child abuse - because NO we don't beat our kids - or throw them around or drop them on their heads for fun :) or anything like that - So get that part out of the way - then we have to get his eyes checked and make sure they're doing ok - might take Cody with us and get his eyes checked too - THEN Collin needs his 4 month shots next week also (yes he's 5 months but I was a month late getting his 2 month shots - soo yah yeah yeah)

ANYWAYS - OH the fire by my house is STILL going - not the one below from June 6th 0 the one from June 24th - they "had it out" on Thursday the 28th, but then a "new" fire started on Friday morning - and now there are 3 different fires going on up there - for over a week now and it's still gross and smokey out here :(

AND that's that-so now you're up to date -

IF you're still here reading this -here is a picture of a lunchbox tin I did last month - nothing big but.. just a little something :)


When did I make this? I think it was for Marla's - or was it for Sheri's birthday?? I made one for each of them but different paper - I think this one was Marla's -
On the inside of them has little deviders and I added a few cards I made from old swaps - they loved it though :) So yeah :)

Fire!

We had a big scare last night - my husband wants these pictures for his forum so I get to upload them here for him :)

The fire was a little less then 100 yards away from our house - Shifting winds created problems for fire crews all night. Rain was a welcome sight early this morning and definitely helped control the fire

They evacuated about 100 people from Lake Mountain and the rest of the neighborhood was on "watch" luckly everyone got to go back home and the fire was contained enough just after midnight and was fully put out this morning Whew :) it was a long night though :)

Ok on to the pictures :)

Last Day of school!

The Ammunition -



The Plan -


The Target -






GET EM'!!!!!!!!

That was our fun today :) They're still out there playing in the sprinklers - and it's not even 10:30 am!


We worked on their Teacher's gifts all day yesterday - made the same coaster pots as Christina did with her pre-school teacher - I'll be happy to say I'm DONE making those for a while now :) They're not that easy to make!




Thanks for looking :)

Pre school Teacher - Thanks

Well I got so many ideas for a thank you for my kids' teachers - I'm sure I"ll be using them all :)

I have this weekend/next week to work on my older kids' gifts - but my youngest daughter is graduating today from Pre-school - I'll be back later with more pictures :)

I want to thank Ashley for her idea though - once I read her email I KNEW this was what I wanted to make -



Then I let her decorate the back 3 coasters




I'm not a big fan of these coaster pots (read down to mother's day )
It took some time to make this one but I love it! I showed it to my sister in law and she's telling her sisters about it for their kid's end of the year gift -
luckly they're out of our district - because now my older 2 want to make one for THEIR teachehrs!

I'm still thinking gift certificate for my son's teacher whom I really want to thank in a big way - so maybe I'll put my son's picture in front with the gift card on back of the picture or something? hum - just thinking

Anyways - so that's what I did yesterday -

Working on a birthday gift pack for my step-dad - will post pictures on Saturday after I give it to him :)

Thanks for looking :)

Mother's Day gifts

Ok here's what I made -
First gift I made for my sister in laws -

I got my coasters awhile ago and I finally had the PERFECT project to make with them - I saw these mini roses at Walmart for $2.98 and thought they'd be perfect in the coaster box for my sister in laws for mother's day!

I saw SO MANY really cute boxes on SCS and thought - "HOW EASY"

HA HA! an hour and 45 mins later - I FINALLY finished ONE!
Only 3 more to go! YIKES!



Next gift is for my mother in law - she and I are planning on starting weight watchers together - just to help shed a few pounds - but it's always more fun to do with a friend -
SOOO for Mother's day I got her a subscription to weight watchers magizine -
I saw a few of those really CUTE bikini cards and had to have my try at it



I'm trying to find a really cute saying to put on the inside without insulting her or being rude - she has a pretty good sence of humor but... you know - it IS mother's day :)

Then I made alittle box to put the magizine in and made the tag with my kid's pictures





For MY mom - it's al ittle harder to shop for her - she has EVERYTHING - but she LOVES yard work/flowers - so I got her a pretty plant for her to plant in her yard - I think she'll really like that - then I also made another tag set with my kid's pictures - so hopefully she'll like that too :)

SO that's all I'm doing for mother's day - I have to make 3 more of the coaster boxes for the mini roses - yikes! I'll finish those tomorrow AFTER my trip to Archivers for the make it take it - hopefully Cory will babysit

MORE babies???

Ok so if you read down in my blog you'll see that I just finished selling 9 puppies over Easter weekend -

Well now it's the cat's turn!

Some history about our cats -
a few years ago we adopted a male wild cat - put a cardboard box on the porch and fed him - that summer we found 4 kittens hiding under our jet ski - yikes! Since they were wild cats, we couldn't catch them to give them away - but we couldn't let them starve! So kept feeding them - slowly they started dissapearing - not sure where they went, but we kept feeding them - last Summer - 2 females got pregnant - HoneyBun - is my daughter's favorite cat - she is the biggest softy - all my kids pick her up and play with her - So we were able to bring her in our garage and she had the kittens in there - Lucky - the all black female was the other one that got pregnant, but she HATES people -
After a while of her being gone - I went down to do a load of laundry and saw movement in the tumble weeds in the window well - YIKES! She had 6 kittens in there!
So we brought the kittens in the garage and left the garage door open and she ran in when she thought no one was looking - HA HA

So when the kittens were old enough - we took them to Smiths with a big KITTEN'S sign and gave them all away!

now we're down to 2 female cats - not sure what happened to the other cats over the winter but we have 2 now - these 2 cats are GREAT at going out into the field and catching mice - so they're staying here for as long as they want to -

We notice Lucky was pregnant - but she still doesn't like people touching her - but she'll tolerate it if she's eating - so my husband snuck up and grabbed her and brought her in the garage - a few days later she had her kittens - that was about April 23rd-ish she had 4 kittens - but since she hates to be around people other then when she's hungry - we gave her her space so she could relax -
honeybun - I wasn't sure if she was pregnant or not - but my husband thought she was going into heat - so we put her in the garage anyways to keep Lucky company - and keep her from getting pregnant - well guess what, she was preganent -
We were giving Lucky her space and not going out there except to give her food and water and change the litter box - a few days ago she had moved the kittens - my husband and I were the only ones who knew where they were - but she moved them - so searching around trying to find them without making her nervous - I finally saw them in a box/bin - But didn't even tell my husband where they were in hopes that she'll keep them there.
Well today I was running late and asked my little girl (age 5) to go make sure the cats had water out in the garage - a few mins passed by and she didn't come back in the house - I'm like GREAT she found the kittens she'll be moving them for sure !

So I went out into the garage and the OTHER female cat (honeybun) was inside the box hoovering over the kittens while my daughter was trying to look - I called her back in and walked out to see why she was hoovering over the box - the kittens were older so they shouldn't be so protective of them, Well it looks like the other female WAS pregnant - she had 4 kittens - I'd say about 3 or 4 days ago! THAT'S why Lucky had moved the kittens -
So now instead of 4 kittens to give away, we'll have 8 - plus my neighbor's so far 6 kittens and she still has a pregnant cat who's just about ready to pop -



Here is a picture of the kittens - you can see the older one and the smaller one - the mom is not in the picture - those are all kittens - 2 weeks and 3 days old :)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!

Mother's day TAGS?

OK I'm not sure I love this or not - It took forever to make so I'm not sure if I'll be making one for my mom, mother in law, and step mom, but I might :)

Let me know what you think -

Kadie's CARDS

Ok you saw all the cards I made for Kadie - now let's check out HER cards :)
She put mine to shame! I LOVE her style of cards! She is SO Awesome! I always get a lot of great ideas from her cards - and she uses mainly SU! stamps :)

Ok First few cards she made



I know I'm saving up to become a Demo out here - but I couldn't resist -I contacted my demo yesterday and ordered the slit punch so I could make a card like this - I LOVE IT! When you open it up it says Thank you :)

More cards she made - I think I jipped her a wedding/anniversary card - SORRY Kadie





And more and more and MORE Cards from Kadie :)






Didn't I tell you she does AWESOME Cards??
Now ok look at this card here I NEED to know HOW she did this one
Here is 2 pictures of the card - closed and opened inside -





Isn't that COOL! I HAVE to get her secret on that one I love the look! And I know a few people who would LOVE to recive cards like that :)

Ok and a few more cards she made :)
JUST FOR ME :)






And a few more cards :) I did a mother's day gift swap with a few people from my Let's Swap group - and Kadie had me - she sent me a cute little package with 4 really cute cards - they look a lot like these ones - but different papers :)






THIS Card is cool! It took me a few mins of looking it over to figure out HOW to open it! The TAG closes the card shut! You have to untie the ribbon to get the card to open - REALLY Cute and Im definatly going to be CASING this one :0 Oh i also bought the TAG punch from SU! yesterday too :)


AND That's about it for her cards - Didn't I tell you she does great work!
I wish she had a blog or something so you could see more of her work - I've known her for a long time now and just can't get enough of her :) She's a great/talented friend :)

Thanks for looking :)