March LRS Layouts...

Here are the March LRS layouts I said I would post :) ....

Thanks so much for looking :)

Nikki

Working on the blog....

AH! LOL, I am just posting a quick up date. I have been working on the blog the last two days lol, I found a cool blog template site and was helping my friend Anna ( ;) ) find a template for her blog and started playing lol, before I knew it, I was 6+ hours into it LOL. I am almost done ;) Then I will post my layouts.

Nikki

43 weeks old, and some randomness...

I decided to get alot of my housework done last night before bed so I could have a "free-ish" day. If you call having a sick child home from school a free day lol, for the most part I got to read some, did a little laundry and I edited a few pictures. Getting ready for my DT assignments from LRS for April, the kit should be here within the next week or so, now that our spending budget for anything extra is pretty much gone since Dustin quit his second job, I can't afford to get the add-on's that go with the LRS kit so I will just be working with the main kit, it's been a LONG time since I have worked with just the main kit, no addons, I can't wait to get started. On the kit note, I did get two layouts picked up for ST using two months of kits from LRS, I was excited about that :) They will be in back to back issues (July and Aug).

So now that Austin is in Little League, it gives me a chance to get in more of a workout during the day. While he is practicing or playing a game I walk with Adriana Isabella around the park. Friday I walked for...

lol yep I had my camera with me that day lol, I was taking pictures of Adri at the park and took a picture of Dustin's watch I keep with me while I walk, I use the stop watch feature, it comes in handy. I love that if I have to stop I can click it off and when I start up again I click it to start right where it left off.

Here are some pictures of Adriana, that I took at the park that day. She is now 43 weeks old. I just can not believe that! My baby will be ONE soon (shock!). She is doing great! Still a bit anemic but is taking her iron/vit meds and will go back for another blood test at the end of the month. She is eating real rice,real banana's and the baby food jar kind ALOT! It's her favorite. She waves hi to everyone and will way bye bye too (she even says it). She claps her hands together and says yaaaaay. She says so many words now, Dada, Mama, star, nana (banana), naw naw naw (which means no, and she only says it if we put her in her chair and she does not want to be in it.), hi, bye bye, ah-oh, and a few more. She is so smart! She is starting to put shapes in the right spots, she loves music so much and dances to it. She is almost walking now, she will stand up without holding on to anything and try for the first step but falls. I think she will have it down in a couple weeks. Her hair is growing so fast. I have to cut her bangs every couple weeks (as you will see in these pictures she was in need of a trim across the front of her eyes lol, which I did today, she can now see without hair being in the way lol).

Okay here are those pictures...

Okay well I have a couple emails to send off and one more load of laundry to fold so I should be going. I will post my LRS and CX assignments from March tomorrow :)

TTYS,
Nikki

Happy Birthday my first born!

It was Austin's 7th birthday on the 27th. We did a little party here at home for him, but his real party was saved for today (Sunday the 30th). He got some awesome gifts from his Grandpa Mike and Grandma Robin at his game yesterday (Mom you will have to send me some of the pictures you took of austin with you and his birthday bag next to the car). He got a Wii, a star wars action figure and some awesome shirts and swim trunks from them.

Today we went over to Grandma Karen's house and had a nice party there. There was yummy food and this nice spongebob icecream cake. Even his great grandparents (Jim and Fran) where there. It was very nice. He got some neat things there, some Starwars lego ships, a wii game for his wii he has at Grandma Karen's house (for when he goes over there on the weekends) and a couple other things I can't think of right now lol.

I visited with Kate for a while (Dustin's sister (almost 16) and she lent me some new vampire (YA) books (Vampire kisses) and the Nora Roberts Vampire (circle) trilogy; and I got my New Moon book back from her. She had spring break last week so she got to read the whole book and now is starting on Eclipse. I told her she needs to read the Cassandra Clare series, City of Bones and City of Ashes, I just finished them and loved them so much! They remind me of the Twilight series.

Okay well I better get off of here and get to bed. I am very tired from the day! TTYS

Nikki

Opening Day

Today was opening day for Austin's little league, second year. We were at the park pretty much all day. We had family members from Ireland visiting my parents for the last three weeks, they were there to watch Austin's first game, my parents and Dustin's mom. It was really nice to have everyone there. Anyways I am going to keep this short and share some pictures from the day...

Adriana Isabella with my Dad, her grandpa Mike.

Aidan playing on the baseball field...

And here are a couple of Adriana Isabella on Valentines day that I forgot to upload lol. The lighting was so off here on this first one, the sun was shining in through the window when I was photographing her, but I loved how cute she looked in this picture...

I am so loving all that "CHEESE" in the second to the last picture of her lol, when she really smiles it lights up her whole face! Okay I am off, I am so tired from the day. TTYS.

Nikki

Some new layouts

I thought I would get on and post my CX assignments I finished and said I would post for you to see. I have a little free time right now, Dustin took the boys out for a hike and Adriana Isabella is sleeping in her room. I am also taking a small break from working on my LRS kit projects to post to my blog :) I thought if I took a little break and got online for a while I could get back to it with a fresh mind lol. I am feeling a bit lazy and would so like to be laying in bed with the new book I am reading (I saw it on the new realeases shelf at barnes and nobles, it's a vampire book of course (Hunting the Hunter by Shiloh Walker), it's pretty good so far. I will have to post a few of the books I have gotten/collected LOL from B&N the last few months in my next post, I got them to read to tide me over until the new Stephenie Meyer book "The Host" comes out. I can't wait!)

Okay back to my two new layouts, This first one was a neat challenge for all 20 CX DT members to do. 20 takes on 3 products, Bumblebee sugar coated glitter, circle embossing folder and the smitten white paper ribbon. This was such a fun layout to do and I got to use alot of the new MM Garden party line, which I just LOVE so much!

My second layout was a community scraplift, we had to pick a community member from CX to scraplift. I picked Stacy Armstrong and this layout...

and here is my take on her layout...

I am now working on my LRS DT stuff and hope to get my assignments done this coming week, here is a sneek peek at the kit (all new Winter CHA stuff)...

I will see if it is okay to post a couple teaser pictures of my assignments when I finish. Okay I better get back to my layout. TTYS.

Nikki