Toot Toot!!

I opened my email this evening to find that Scrapbooking & Beyond wants to publish one of my layouts. For those ladies who saw the layout of Maddie with the umbrella, where I made the flowers with all the brads...yep that's the one :) It will be in the Summer 09 issue, that just sounds so far away!!

Attached is my layout of Alex's last birthday for the Scrappin' Sports & More sketch challenge we had this month. We were to finish the sketch in one hour or less. Okay, it was done, not counting the adhesive and printing of the photos. For me, that's really good. I used the Cuttlebug Happy Birthday embossing folder on the striped paper.

Something Creative to Share

Finally, I have created something for me, not for a client :) I fell in love with the Fancy Pants tree & owl, they are so cool. Apparently everyone else loved the tree too, because when I went to my LSS yesterday, they were sold out. I added some Little Yellow Bicycle flocked goodies I had from CHA. The papers are Scrappin' Sports & More.

Speaking of creative, Helmar adhesive is having it's first Design Team in the US. They have some really great product. I was lucky enough to get some through a friend. Anyway, if your interested in applying, check out Tracy's blog with all the details. http://www.tracywburgos.typepad.com/

Seven More Games....

Maddie's first time in goal :)


Last time in his Gators uniform. Victoria's new desk...didn't Mark do a great job on the wall?

Before....old patio door

New, beautiful wood patio door with built in blinds!
Before
After...my scrapbook room

Yes, between the 3 kids, we had seven games this weekend. Madalyn was in a soccer tournament and played two games Saturday & two games Sunday. This was the first week she played in goal and she did really well. I'm so proud of her. Her team came in Third, so not bad. Victoria had two soccer games this weekend. She got to play on Saturday night on the High School field under the lights. Unfortunately, my pictures didn't come out too well :( Alex had his final football game as a Gator. They were undefeated this season, so needless to say he was happy.

Last week, we had our new windows and patio door installed. It looks Wonderful!!! It's amazing that in four days, all windows were cut out, installed and then framed out with wood trim. The downside, I need to find all new window treatments. The wood is just too beautiful to drill holes into, so I'm on the lookout for alternatives.

Mark finished painting Victoria's bedroom last week. He says never again will he paint multi colored stripes on a wall. The desk was from our recent trip to IKEA. Love that store. We still need to put of shelves and pictures, etc. but at least the painting is done.

On the scrappin' side of things, I've been working on a scrapbook for a client. I have 10 pages done and 3 more to complete in book number one. She wants books two & three completed before Christmas :)

Same Old Same Old

Yep, not much new going on. Weekends are filled with sports. Weekdays are spent working way too many hours recently :) Attached are a couple of things I created lately. Actually the snow ball I created last month, but never posted it yet. I've been working on albums for clients, so not much time lately for fun scrappin'.

Fieldtrip to the Little Red Schoolhouse

This trip is one of the biggest highlights of Third Grade. They used to have to wait until April or May to go, but the past couple of years they moved the field trip to September. Madalyn was so excited. Doesn't she look like she would fit right in on Little House on the Prairie? The outfit was made by my mom 4 years ago when Victoria went. They have to pack lunch based on what they would have eaten back then, wrap everything in waxed paper and drink from mason jars. It is such a great trip.

An altered item & more sports photos :)

Victoria had a great run on Saturday morning, coming in 16th in the 7th & 8th girls grade 2-mile run and 2nd for St. Michaels School. We don't have her official time, but we know she was in the 13 minute time frame. Her team also played their best soccer game Saturday. They totally dominated the first half with at least 20 shots on goal and would you believe, not one went in. We ended in a 2-2 tie, but I was extremely proud of the team. Victoria played 60 of the 70 minute game, which is good since the high school girls coach was watching the entire game. Maddie's team did great this weekend too. They had their first win Saturday, over a team we haven't beat in the past two years. (I really love that we beat them because they have an obnoxious coach who yells all the time. Nothing worse that a woman screaming on the sideline) She scored her first goal of the season too. I saw her score, but no picture :( Sunday Maddie's team ended in a 5-5 tie, but I missed the game because Alex was playing at the same time. Mark said they all played great. His team won their football game on Sunday, so it was a great sports weekend.

On the scrappin' side, I finished up an altered wooden star ornament for Victoria's room. It is about 7" tall. I wasn't sure I was liking it at first, but I like how it came together in the end.

More Soccer, What Else!!!

I spent last weekend and Tuesday night watching Victoria play soccer. Tournament was good, with all the teams being nearly equal. Well, all but one. There was a nasty team there from St. Louis. The girls held onto jerseys, arms, whatever they could....did body slams to our players, cussed up a storm, calling our girls nasty names....and where were the refs???? Good question....very lacking with the calls. In the game were we played this team, we had 2 girls end up with buckle fractures of their wrists. Now they are both playing with casts on for the next 6 weeks. As bad as that was, it didn't compare to the last game on Sunday. That is when hurricane Ike made his way through Cincinnati. The officials made the girls play the first 10 minutes of the game, even though trees had fallen around the park, the porta potties were blown over, the trash cans blew over spewing trash through the air and across the field. They could hardly open their eyes for the through ins, of which there were many since the wind just blew the ball off the field. On the way home, they were saying we were experiencing 60+ mph winds. Crazy I tell you! They finished the game with a penalty shoot out. The ref had to kneel beside the ball to try and block the wind. As soon as it would die down a little he would lean back, blow the whistle and make the girl kick the ball. What a lot of pressure for 12 year old girls.

On Tuesday, we played Perrysburg, who we had just beat 2-0 in tournament. Well, with one player out due to injury, one getting hurt during the game, 4 players coming directly from either cross country or volleyball, we didn't do so well. We ended up loosing 4-0.

On another note, Madalyn has become obsessed with dogs. She was at the neighbors house 4 times today, so she could walk their dog, Snickers. Sorry, Maddie, no dogs in our house anytime soon, just too busy!!!

Sunday Games

Hey...put your arm down

Alex was double teamed by really short guys.....
Tackle and fumble...WooHoo great job Alex :)
And he was also double teamed by some really big boys...that's awfully close to a face mask!
Getting around those big boys....

Today Maddie had her second soccer game. Unfortunately, they got beat bad. I lost count how bad. Anyway, I was able to come see so I got a few pictures :) Next it was off to the football field for Alex's game. They had a better outcome scoring 3 times to none. We can't really call them official touchdowns yet, since they don't play on a full size field and don't officially keep score. The other team had really, really big kids and really short ones. Alex is the second tallest on his team and they had a couple of boys nearly a head taller than him. He had an excellent tackle early on in the game, causing the boy to fumble the ball. So his team is now "un"officially 2-0 for the season.

Today I finished up one more school layout. I almost forgot I was doing the first day for all 3 at the same grade level. It's one of those layouts, that I don't really like at all, but at least I can say it's done.