That time of year again...Back-To-School

What an exciting day!!  The first day of school.  When I was a kid, I loved the first day of school.  I always looked forward to it.  Of course I looked forward to seeing all my friends, but I really enjoyed most of the subjects.  I loved History and Geography.  Today, I'm really not so great with dates and some history, but I still love it!!!  But Geography has never left me.  Tonight I was reading a paper that Ryan filled out and it had info about himself.  What color hair he has, what color eyes.  He wrote, "Hasl" or something like that...HEHE, he has Hazel eyes.  But anyways, it asked something like what subject you look forward to learn the most.  And he wrote "Math".  I was so proud to see that.  I hope he excels in math.  He always does soooo good in it.  My mom and grandfather were like whiz-bang mathematicians, so much I think they took my part....LOL  ;)  But anyways, that was really great to see.

They said they had a GREAT 1st day back to school.  :)

We started our day off by getting up and watching a cartoon while I made blueberry pancakes.  Gotta start off the day will a full tummy to fuel those little brains.  They got themselves all pretty and handsome and we loaded up with our overly heavy backpacks and extra bag of supplies.  Off to school we went.  This year was the first year I was pretty much in and out of there....compared to previous years.  This makes Ryan's 5th year of school....Pre-K thru 3rd now.  And all the previous years I would hang around for a good few minutes and watch him as he got his day started.  I'd help with his supplies and all that good stuff.  This time....  pshhhhh!  I showed him his room.  Helped him find and empty desk and that was that.  :(  How sad.  I think all the students were glad to see me.  ....they like me...lol  ;)  HEHE  Some I hadn't seen in a few years, because they haven't been in his class the last several years.  But his teacher came back in the room and I asked her if I could take a picture of the two of them.  And she was all excited about that.  She suggested where to take it....  along her Olympic Medal display.  She told me she was hooked on it the last 2 weeks, I said ME TOOOO.  lol  You'll see that pic at the end of this post.  So then I was off to Saira's room.  I had already dropped her off at her room first.  The parents were instructed to pull all their childrens supplies out and put them in the proper assigned location for each item.  That made it easier on her to put them away later on.  After I did my duties, I asked if I could take their photo too.  And so we did that.  I told them bye and took a couple of pics of Saira as I was leaving.  What a quick morning, I tell ya.

I didn't really do much, except for come home, eat my breakfast, make coffee, have a few cups, watch tv, fiddle on the computer and talk on the phone with everyone.  Then it was time to go get the kids at 3:10.  OMG, what a terrible/crazy line of cars at the school.  Craziness I tell ya, craziness.  I swear, those parents don't know how to form one line.  And I hate those parents that park on the side and walk up to get their kids.  UGH, so annoying to have those cars stuck in the way.  We didn't get back home until 3:25.  It doesn't take but 3-5 minutes to get from my house to the school for heaven's sake. 

So then, it was rush time.  Time to eat our snacks as fast as we can, get dressed for TaeKwonDo and head out the door by 4:00.  My son is the slowest clothes changer I know...LOL  But anyways, we made it to TKD right on time.  Once that was over, we had to go straight to football practice.  He changed into his football gear there at TKD, they all looked at us like we were goofy or something...LOL  On my way to practice Chad calls me, and says he's stuck in traffic and won't make there on time and asks for me to fill in for him.  ....say what?  Me??  ...yeah, ok, I'll fill in.  I'm now Coach Jayme.  Woo Woo....LOL  "down.....set...HUT!!!"  I was impressed with the boys, they actually listened to me.  I wasn't very nice either.  You can't be nice...LOL It's football.  I did a good job I thought.  ;)

Our day finally ended around 8:30.   And I have to tell you, I hate football and baseball season.  It means my kids don't get to bed on time.  Bed time is at 8pm here at my house.  But after being Mom, Bus Driver, Chauffeur, Coach and then mom again...shesh, I was pooped.  LOL  I'm going to bed early tonight.

But here are the few pictures that I had taken today....

So we had a wonderful day back to school...a little busy at the end of the day, but it was a good day.  :)

Layouts from the Retreat

Like I mentioned earlier, I made 10.  I was proud of that.  Because my goal was to complete the vacation album.  :)

This first one was pics from my birthday this year....at my '2nd Party' as the kids called it...LOL I used Scenic Route papers with Scenic Route alphas, stampin up buttons and a ribbon from one of the ladies from the retreat.  :)

This 2nd one, I've scrapped the pics before.  But I put the layout in my 'whatever' album...lol  I made this one for Saira's album.  The pics are from Christmas '03, her 1st Christmas.  The pics crack me up becaue if  you look carefully, you'll see how she gets more and more into her brothers face.  LOL I used Daisy D's papers here

Again, this is her first Christmas...  my how time goes by so quickly.  And it was really neat to experiance the 2 Christmas' with Ryan and Saira.  His first, he was just 2 1/2 monthls old.  Were as she was 11 months old.  And able to enjoy her Christmas.  :) I used Daisy D's paper here with stampin up buttons.

See?  LOL  he was my little bitty guy, not knowing what was going on for his first Christmas.  I used stampin up papers here and bazzill card stock.

I guess I was tired of working with baby pictures...LOL  These St. Patty's Day pics are from this year.  It was a MAJOR windy day that day.  It was practicly knocking us down.  So I made it a quick photo shoot...LOL

More St. Patty's.  Check out the wind blowing through her hair...LOL  I used Bazzill bling CS, American Crafts ribbon, fancy pants chipboard, doodlebug glitter, some misc. green paint, and a pre-made journalling block from one of the ladies at the retreat.  :)

Yep, more St. Patty's.  :)  I used Bazzill CS, stampin up PP's, MM's buttons, and Creative Memories title sticker.

Love this one.  :)  I used Bazzill CS, MM's alpha's, Crate Paper PP's and tag.  These pics are from the last crop I went to in May for National Scrapbook Day.  Had lots of fun there with Kim!!

Haha, this one cracks me up....  or should i say...  quacks me up...ROTF!!!!!  Anyways, this is my brother.  And I'm pretty sure the little duck belongs to his step daughters...LOL  He's so goofy!!!  I used Crate Paper PP's and some misc. cardstock as well as stampin up cardstock, MM's buttons, and Thickers.

I'm not to thrilled with this page.  I think it's mainly just the photo.  I didn't like my wedding pictures.  But as you can see we were tickled pink to be married.  ;)  I used Crate Paper PP's, Bazzill CS, MM's flowers, SU buttons, Pink Paislee alphas.

Thanks for looking at all my LO's.  :) 

A Layout Before the Retreat

I did this layout earlier this month and forgot to upload and share.  ;)  I love this one.  The pics are from a night when Chad and I went to a crawfish boil at a coworker of his.  We had a great time.  Ate our weight in crawfish, had some drinks and then we went to chili's.  I had dessert, but Chad and his friend had a regular meal...LOL  And we had some more drinks. 

Supplies:
Bazzill CS
Misc PP
stampin up button and MM's buttons
target ribbon
MM's flowers
Tickers
don't know who makes the tickets... ;)

Busy Life

Sorry for not blogging in so long.  Shame on me!!  I guess life here in my house has gotten rather busy.  Last week I was going to the College for 4 nights to get my Substitute Teaching Certificate.  I had so much fun going to that class.  The instructor was a laugh a minute, she was wonderful!!!  I actually wouldn't mind going to her class every day.  ;)  Let's see, what else...  July 30th Ryan started doing TaeKwonDo.  He's already gotten his 2nd stripe, about to get his 3rd and will test for his yellow belt on Sept. 20th.  He loves it!!!!  This week we started football practice for him.  And now school starts on Monday.  The kids are excited and ready to go.  We have all the supplies and clothes as well.  Ryan starts 3rd grade and Saira will be in Kindergarten.  I'm pretty sure Monday will be a bittersweet day for me.  I'm excited that she'll be going to school all day, but at the same time it's rather sad.  :(  She's my baby, and growing up so quickly.  I'm sure I won't cry at school.  I don't like to cry infront of people...LOL  Especially her.  ;)  But I know as soon as I get going down the road I'll cry my little heart out. 

Oh, last weekend, I went to my first Scrapbook Retreat.  O.M.G.!!!!  What a blast that was.  It was awesome to just leave my scrappy stuff on my table and go to bed whenever.  I mean, I do that here at the house anyways, but to go some where and not have to pack it up and go back home was GREAT.  We had our food cooked for us and we even had a certified massage therapist give us massages.  She was wonderful.  It was much needed after all the scrapping we did the first day.

I will post pics of my 10 layouts that I completed.  But I won't be posting pics of the 96 7x7's that I did to complete our '07 vacation album. 

Update

All is well...  The storm did not upgrade to a Hurricane thank goodness.

Weather in the Gulf

Wow, sorry I haven't blogged much this summer. I guess the lazy days of summer have gotten me or something. It's not like I have all kinds of exciting things going on during the day either...LOL So it's either laziness or ....or.... or..... yeah, it's just laziness...LOL School starts soon enough so maybe I'll find time then. More on that later on....

but first... Lets talk about the weather.

Tropical Storm Edouard will be blowing in for a wet and windy visit tomorrow afternoon. I haven't even baked a cake for him yet. Maybe cookies will work for him. Not sure I have everything for a cake. But yes, he's coming and I don't like it. We're not leaving this time. Well, actually, before tomorrow afternoon we will probably hop over to Chad's mom and dad's. They are in a more stable house. We live in a double wide. Not Tropical Storm/Hurricane friendly. Although, it surived just fine and dandy during Hurricane Rita and it was a powerful storm. There were trees ALLLL over my yard. I'm sure some of my readers recall all of that.

Well, I hope I won't have pictures to share with you later. Meaning, I hope nothing happens. And HOPEFULLY I'll be able to log back on just as soon as it passes to update all of you. If not, don't panic...LOL... ;) My internet could go out....IF something knocks the little antenna thingy on my house (it's not a satelite, it's a little antenna) for my wireless internet.

Yet, another toothless kid

Saira lost another tooth last week. She lost it on Saturday. That kid was going NUTS I tell ya. I never saw or heard a child so extactic about a tooth falling out. But I think that tooth hung in there for a least a month. It was starting to get loose when she lost that first one. So it's been awhile. She was babying it....LOL

I think that's all I have for now. No new LO's to post for ya. But maybe before tomorrow evening I will. My scrappy mojo is coming back. Actually I don't think it was gone, I would just clean up and make things tidy over and over again and then not want to mess anything up. LOL

And then, another thing, I'm wanting to get a new cabinet for my room. But in order to do that, I have to get rid of the one that I have. So I think that bugs me, ya know? And also I have the scrapbook retreat stuck on my mind. That's Aug. 15th-17th. I'm beyond excited about it!!!!!!

;) And just so you know....Kim is the greatest!! ;)

HEHE!!!

My Name

I loved this new challenge from So Tell Me Your Story.  The challenge was to make a LO about our name.  I decided not to use a photo this time.  Kinda tired of looking at myself...LOL

Long story short, I was named after the Bionic Woman.  But my mother put a twist on the spelling while she was still out of it.  The nurse came in, asked her what my name will be...  My mom said, "Jayme Lyn" And the nurse said how do you want that spelled.  My mom sounded it out... Jay...  J. A. Y.... Me... M. E.  LOL  The nurse thought that was a little weird and she asked about my middle name.  And my mom said Lyn...  L. Y. N.  So that's how it goes...LOL

Papers: Pink Paislee

Alphas: Pink Paislee

tags: Pink Paislee

buttons: ??

Another Tooth

Ryan was working on a loose tooth last night.  It was hanging there when he went to bed.  I told him to be careful and not to swallow it in his sleep...LOL  He woke up this morning and worked on it some more and woke me up saying he lost it finally.  Yay Ryan.  He doesn't have many teeth left.

And Saira, she's been working on a loose tooth for about a month now.  I can't get her to work on it.  And it's just about hanging there too.  They could both have the tooth fairy tonight if she'd work on it.  I think she's scared of it coming out.  She's lost one before.  But then she had 4 pulled at the dentist.  So this would make tooth number 6, but number 2 on her own.  ;)

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

We have a winner folks!!!!!  The lucky scrapper is....................................











Are you ready?????











Is it you?????

















Let's see...................













Unfolding a folded name here.....................








And is says:











JANA

Jana, you are the winner of some cool goodies!!
Thanks to the other 6 ladies who commented and left me links to those really awesome patriotic cakes.  I love them.  :)
Jana, contact me by email and we'll get that to you.  :)

Silly Ryan

At Scrapperie, not only does Sandi have the BIG monthly awesome kits, but she also puts together smaller kits.  And those can be found at the Vintage Ltd kits section at the Boutique.  This month we had a kit to work with and that's the Blue Monday kit, which is made up of Scribble Scrabble papers.  Totally cute stuff!  Here's my first layout I made, last week.

This next one is of Ryan too.  Last year in the Spring time we went up to the football field and let the kids fly their kites.  They had the most fun ever and I think you can probably tell by the pictures in this layout.  :)  Again, I used the Scribble Scrabble papers.  :)

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Don't forget, tomorrow is the deadline to comment for the RAK.  There aren't many takers so your chances are good.  I'll do the drawing on Sunday.  So if you want, spread the word...tomorrow is the deadline. 

RAK deadline extension

I know I said I'd pick a winner for the RAK on Saturday, but I was out having a 2 hour facial as well as my hair cut.  I spent the whole day with my family in Houston.  By that evening, I was sick.  I've gotten a summer cold...(geee thank Chad).  Yesterday was no better and neither is today.  UGH.  So maybe this weekend.  :)  We'll go for the 19th.  Sooooooo go leave your comment on this POST.

All About Me Challenge#1- Your Beginning

The new blog, 'So Tell Me Your Story' has their first challenge up. Infact it's due tomorrow. ;) I wanted to have it completed on my birthday, but that didn't really work out, you know how life just gets in the way. lol So the challenge was to make a LO of your beginning. I printed a pic of my hospital photo. Not sure what paper I used. It came from a paper slab from way back. ;) I used Stampin' Up ribbon, and making memories blossoms. Sorry about the blurred journaling. I felt I should blur it out this time, with all my info on it. ;)

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.....................OPPS, I noticed I didn't title my LO...LOL So I went back and did it. And to add to the info about me, I was named from the Bionic Woman. I guess my mom liked that show. ;)

And now you can see why I don't take pics of my layouts at night. Crappy pics...LOL

Picture buying fool

Yep, that's me.  I've been buying photos like crazy.  I'm trying to get tons of photos ordered for the retreat next month...  August 15th.  I'm totally jazzed about it.  Wanna go with me?  There's still spot available.  :)  :)
LOL
So I'm torn on the weather.  To be honest, I'm sick and tired of all the thunderstorms.  BUT at the same time, it's been rather nice having cloudy days.  Cloudy days mean cool house...LOL  When that sun is out and shining, UGH.  It comes through the windows full force.  So I just don't know.

Happy 4th and a Great Birthday

I hope you all had a great 4th of July.My birthday was great. Friday I was with my mom, great aunt and brother. We had BBQ, cake and ice cream. Mmm, everything was sooooo yummy. My mom got me this cool gadget. It's called a Flip Video. Super cool little camcorder. It records up to 60 minutes and plugs directly into the computer and even charges back up that way as well. This is the one that I have...

My aunt got me this little portable hard drive called 'Click Free' automatic backup portable hard drive. I swear, the lady is a mind reader. I have been wanting something to back up my photos on my computer. So YAY, now I can.

Chad got me a spot at the weekend scrapbook retreat next month. I've never been on a retreat so I'm tickled pink about that. :) And my grandmother gave me $20. I'm going to put that away for my next shopping trip. There's no telling when I'll go again...LOL I haven't adventured out in awhile now.

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Don't forget about the RAK!!!! Read about it here. You need to leave a comment on that post. And it ends on the 12th. Your odds seem to be pretty good, there isn't very many takers yet.

4th of July cards

Here's my creation for the 4th.  :)  I had gotten the stamp set from Sampin! Up.  When I saw it in the catty I just KNEW I HAD TO HAVE IT!!  ;) 

But OMG, I'm totally terrible.  I just went to the post office right now.  Gesh...LOL  Most everyone won't get them til Saturday hopefully.  My dad is in Alaska though, so he won't get his til what....next wednesday probably.  LOL  Oh well now.  hehe!!  Hope ya'll enjoy the card when you get it.  lol

Be sure and read the post below.  Find me those cakes to get a RAK.  :)

Mmmm, Birthday Cake is coming around the corner

So, I'm sure most of you know, I'm a big ol' firecracker baby, born on the 4th of July, bicentennial and everything. My birthday cakes are always red, white and blue. I think maybe twice they haven't been and I thought that was just a terrible thing for them to do. ;) I was searching the internet and this is a yummy cake I came across... Mmmm Very yummy cake!!!! Check it out, she shows how to make it too.

Here's a normal Jayme Birthday cake...

But the one in that link sure looks yummy. I might have to make it.....for extra...LOL

Find me some patriotic cakes and link them up for me. And your name will go in a hat for a RAK. We'll do this til Saturday the 12th. And be sure and tell me what you plan on doing for the 4th. :)

Presents are already coming in

My dear friend Nina made me a birthday gift this year. It's so adorable, I have it sitting here in my scrappy room. She used a Stampin' Up stamp set, chipboard letters, brads and ribbon...oh and buttons on the outside. Toooo cute!!!

~OMG~ Lots Of Layouts!

I have so many layouts to share.  So lets get started...

Last Sunday I was at Kim's house scrapping with her.  I got 4 LO's done.  But 1 isn't finished yet.  I need to title it and journal on it. 

So here is 3 of them...

This first one is my real dad with Saira when she was 23 months old.

This next one is of my step dad, me and Saira.  But he really isn't my sted dad anymore...LOL  But he's raised me since I was 5 years old.  So I still call him my Daddy.  :)  :)

This is Ryan sitting at the front door at my grandparents house.  They always kept beautiful flower gardens.  I miss that.  But the house is now my moms. 

These next 10....yes....TEN...layouts are from this past weekend crop at Scrapperie.  Wow, was it a busy weekend. Soooo so many challenges.  There were 10 more challenges that I could've done.  This first one was a fun challenge.  We had to mail about 10 3x3 scraps to another person.  And my person sent me these really cool and AWESOME papers.  We had to use 3 of the scraps and I used 4.  I wish you could feel that tiedied and marble swirl papers, they are just the neatest! ...Thanks again Jennifer.  :)

This next one we could only use cardstock obviously. I loved how this one turned out.

Loved this challenge.  I had been wanting to scrap my weight lose journey.  And this scrap from that pack of scraps that Jennifer sent me was PERFECT.  ...again...thanks...lol :)  I put a before and after pic of myself.  The after pic is like 2 weeks old now. 

The next challenge I picked was a scrap lift.  And I had to lift from Janet.  I love her pages, she always does such a great job. 

This was a progressive tag, like 'telephone'.  It was cool seeing all the layouts after we were all done.  It's so funny how it starts at one thing and ends up looking like a complete different page at the end.

Awww, I love these photos of Saira.  This challenge we had to use paint, in a free hand manor.

This challenge we had to scrap our favorite movie and for me, that would be The Unsinkable Molly Brown.  When I was about 13 years old, my mom took me to the broadway musical.  But I was already in love with the movie before the musical.  She knew I'd totally love seeing the show.  She's the best mom I tell ya.  :)

These next 2 go together.  ;)  But the first one was for a challenge to use 5 different non paper embellishments.  I used buttons, ribbons/fibers, brads, safety pin and stickles.

This one we had to recycle something, so .....lol....I recycled my many saved up Starbucks Sleeves.

And last but not least this one was for a challenge called Peanut butter cups(a color and layering challenge).  We had to use orange and brown and make 3 layers.

Well thanks for checking out all these layouts that I've been busy making.  :) 

Some more Layouts

Here's a 2 page layout....of Saira during T-Ball last year. There was a challenge at Scrapperie to make a 2 page layout and this is what I created....



While I was going through Saira's album, I found where she needed this special page put in. ;) So I printed out the photo yesterday and whipped out this layout. :)